The essential episodes of Knight Rider
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Knight Rider — each pick states its reason.
- 01
A dying millionaire rescues a badly wounded undercover police officer and gives him a new identity.
- 02
Michael helps an Army officer investigate her colonel father's strange death.
- 03
Michael and KITT guard a controversial senator opposing water power legislation.
- 04
Give Me Liberty... or Give Me Death
Michael enters a race for vehicles propelled by alternative fuels to flush out a saboteur who is putting the drivers' lives in jeopardy.
- 05
While helping a woman track her missing brother, Michael uncovers a plot to steal government missiles using the same indestructible molecular bonded shell technology that KITT employs.
- 06
KITT acts as bait at a car show in order to try and catch the thieves of a classic car entrusted to Devon.
- 07
Garthe Knight leads Michael into a confrontation by kidnapping Devon, April and the scientist Michael was hired to protect.
- 08
A scientist plans to use robots and drone cars to round up criminals to rob a Federal Reserve Bank.
- 09
KITT's evil prototype KARR returns, seeking to destroy Michael and KITT with a new laser stolen from the Foundation.
- 10
Michael goes to Chicago on an assignment to guard a valuable isotope. KITT undergoes an amazing transformation after nearly being destroyed by the Juggernaut, a similarly powerful vehicle with a deadly battering ram.
- 11
Michael races against time to find a stolen hovercraft prototype before a black-market arms dealer can ship it out of the country.
- 12
Michael investigates an open wheel race team plagued by mysterious accidents. A hateful man seeks revenge against the husband of his former lover by sabotaging his race car.
- 13
After a near fatal encounter with a criminal mastermind, Michael falls into a deep depression and wants to quit the Foundation and marry his girlfriend.
- 14
A vengeful computer expert who helped design KITT's software reprograms KITT to turn against Michael and subsequently ruin FLAG's reputation by having KITT kill everyone at the FLAG's national convention.
- 15
Michael tries to stop a voodoo woman, who is using mind control on innocent people and forcing them to commit crimes for her.
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