Michael Knight is today's hero! Driving the car of tomorrow! Together, they're the ultimate crimecrashers!
Michael Long, an undercover police officer, is shot while investigating a case and left for dead by his assailants. He is rescued by Wilton Knight, a wealthy, dying millionaire and inventor who arranges life-saving surgery, including a new face and a new identity--that of Michael Knight. Michael is then given a special computerized and indestructible car called the Knight Industries Two Thousand (nicknamed KITT), and a mission: apprehend criminals who are beyond the reach of the law. The series depicts Michael's exploits as he and KITT battle the forces of evil on behalf of the Foundation for Law and Government.
Producer: Robert A. Cinader, Glen A. Larson
Michael Knight
Devon Miles
KITT (voice)
Bonnie Barstow
RC3
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6 episodes
In the year 2000, criminals are frozen, handguns are banned from everyone--including the police, and crime is at an all time low... So why has the mayor been murdered with an illegal handgun? Rookie cop Shawn McCormick is asking these questions while still trying to learn the ropes of the police department.
Runtime: 90 minA short but amusing documentary featuring interviews with series creator Gary Larson and star David Hasselhoff. Each was interviewed separately and both talk about the process of putting “Knight Rider” together and the perks of having a massive hit television show.
Runtime: 45 minFeatures an interview with Jack Gill, stunt co-ordinator for "Knight Rider". Jack talks about the numerous stunts featured in the show including the damage he endured whilst performing the big jumps.
Runtime: 45 minAn interview with Stu Phillips, composer of the legendary "Knight Rider" theme tune.
Runtime: 45 minA featurette with several short segments on various aspects of the Pilot episode: The Car, The Jail, The Mansion and The Knight Truck.
Runtime: 3 minAn interview with David Hasselhoff where he describes being cast for the Michael Knight character; and along with Glen Larson, Stu Phillips and Jack Gill, they discuss aspects of making various "Knight Rider" episodes.
Runtime: 15 minNo overview available.
21 episodes
When a young detective is ambushed in a failed police stakeout, he is believed to have been killed. In reality, he survives and learns that his face has been altered and his identity has been changed to Michael Knight. The man responsible for this is Wilton Knight, a dying billionaire who, convinced that one man can make a difference, has selected Michael for the role as a crime-fighter.
Runtime: 97 minMichael stops to offer a stranded Army Lieutenant a lift, only to learn when they arrive at her base that her father has died under mysterious circumstances. With the events surrounding the death highly suspicious, Michael decides to investigate.
Runtime: 49 minMichael and K.I.T.T. head to the quiet backwater town of White Rock for Michael to take a well deserved vacation and do a little rock climbing, but the trip isn't quite the quiet break expected, when they find that the town is being terrorised by a rowdy motorcycle gang preparing to do battle with a rival club of bikers...
Runtime: 49 minMichael joins an auto-daredevil show whose owners unwittingly took out a second mortgage from a crook who arranges "accidents" so he can take over the business.
Runtime: 49 minMichael becomes the bodyguard for a crusading state senator who has stepped on one too many toes.
Runtime: 49 minDevon sends Michael to stop a range war over water rights.
Runtime: 49 minDevon lands in a small-town lockup on a misdemeanor, but his predicament becomes deadly after a fellow prisoner is killed by the cops.
Runtime: 49 minMichael is assigned to stop KARR, an evil prototype of KITT programmed to survive at all costs--and now on the loose.
Runtime: 48 minMichael takes on the guise of an infamous criminal to infiltrate a highly organized crime ring headed by a retired colonel, who is planning a major heist.
Runtime: 49 minA meek accountant can clear a friend of murder—if Michael can find him before he's arrested for "creative" bookkeeping.
Runtime: 49 minMichael becomes a student in a driving school for chauffeur-bodyguards to expose an assassin whose targets are a trio of visiting Third World leaders.
Runtime: 49 minMichael's only hope of preventing the assassination of a Latin American president is a girl who knows the plan, but has amnesia.
Runtime: 49 minMichael infiltrates a ring of gunrunners selling advanced-design rifles in Central America, "Corazon de Piedras".
Runtime: 49 minSomeone is sabotaging the cars in an alternative-fuel race, so Michael joins the pack to flush out the saboteur.
Runtime: 49 minThe murder of a men's magazine publisher leads Michael to Las Vegas and an expose the magazine was about to print.
Runtime: 49 minThe trail of a counterfeiter leads to a sleepy little village that not only appears to be harboring the criminal he's after but is also under the eye of the CIA.
Runtime: 49 minMichael investigates the mysterious deaths of members of an exclusive club for geniuses, involved in an archaeological dig.
Runtime: 49 minMichael tries to prevent a lawyer's assistant from being framed for conspiracy, but there's a complication; she was Michael's fiancee before his identity change.
Runtime: 49 minMichael tries to catch hijackers who are knocking off shipments carried by independent truckers.
Runtime: 49 minMichael contends with interference from an overzealous private eye while he tries to discover who's stealing computer-software secrets.
Runtime: 49 minAfter Michael unintentionally kills a cycle-gang member, the only witness insists that he recover her kidnapped child before she will help him.
Runtime: 49 minNo overview available.
21 episodes
Michael and KITT battle a KITT-like truck built by Wilton Knight's ex-wife and son.
Runtime: 97 minMichael is planted in a prison to break out an inmate wanted by a terrorist threatening to blow up a city.
Runtime: 49 minThere's thunder out of the blue when Michael and KITT square off against a futuristic attack helicopter in the hands of mercenaries.
Runtime: 49 minMichael investigates a businessman who's exploiting illegal aliens. A blind woman is the only witness.
Runtime: 49 minMichael and K.I.T.T. are about to test K.I.T.T.'s new function which should allow him to drive on water, but the test is aborted when K.I.T.T. detects an injured scuba-diver washed up on the shore. Befriending the young man's sister, Michael investigates just how the boy got wounded, and uncovers that he has been removing ancient Aztec treasure from a sunken galleon, falling foul of a determined treasure hunter...
Runtime: 49 minMichael tries to catch a Robin Hood-style cat burglar before an obsessed cop does.
Runtime: 49 minKITT is the bait in Michael's plan to trap customized-car thieves. Suspects found at a traveling custom-car show. Subplot--a couple of inept car thieves try to steal KITT with startling results.
Runtime: 49 minA computer whiz cracks KITT's programming and erases the memory, forcing Michael to battle his own car. KITT is 'boxed' for portability in another car.
Runtime: 49 minMichael battles to protect Cajun woman from her vengeful husband in a Louisiana bayou.
Runtime: 49 minMichael suffers amnesia from a head injury sustained while investigating at a dam and reverts to his former identity as policeman Michael Long.
Runtime: 49 minMichael is preparing to attend the Christmas banquet when he encounters a gypsy boy who has witnessed a bank robbery and is sought by the robbers from whom he stole a gold watch.
Runtime: 48 minA killer with a treasure map must find his victim's estranged daughter, who holds the key to the treasure.
Runtime: 49 minMichael heads for Mexico to trap a talent agent who's using beautiful models to smuggle diamonds into the U.S.
Runtime: 49 minCar club members are being blamed for a string of burglaries that coincide with their weekend visits to a coastal community. Subplot--Manny tries to sell a car security system to Michael.
Runtime: 49 minDedicated to the memory of: Marcel Rafael Marcelino who died while his father, Mario, was filming this episode. Michael races the clock to find a gang leader who's the only compatible donor for a girl needing a life-saving transplant.
Runtime: 49 minMichael and KITT are put on alert when an anonymous letter warns that a killer may strike at a Foundation sponsored motorcycle race.
Runtime: 49 minSeeking revenge against Michael, old nemesis Garthe Knight kidnaps Devon, April and a scientist to force a showdown between KITT and his new and improved GOLIATH.
Runtime: 97 minMichael is pursued by an international criminal who knows Michael's former identity and wants revenge. A woman who claims her talking teddy bear toy design has been stolen wants Michael to break in and recover it, is in cahoots.
Runtime: 49 minA Government agent, a murdered lawyer's widow and Michael seek connections between an international criminal, a stolen rocket launcher and the code, ""Boca Culebra"".
Runtime: 97 minPosing as a singer in a rock band, Michael looks for the connection between the former lead singer's ""accidental"" death and an encoded videotape found in his personal effects.
Runtime: 49 minWhile investigating the theft of heavy-duty construction equipment. Michael and KITT are pushed into a quarry and buried with tons of gravel.
Runtime: 49 minNo overview available.
21 episodes
A scientist plans to use robots and drone cars to round up criminals to rob a Federal Reserve Bank.
Runtime: 90 minMichael trails diamond thieves to the wine country of Northern California where the crooks are using a monastery as a front.
Runtime: 49 minMichael hopes to flush out a futuristic sports car by challenging its murderous owner to a street race--with KITT as the prize.
Runtime: 49 minAfter Bonnie claims she witnessed a murder, she's plagued by strange happenings designed to scare her out of her new apartment.
Runtime: 49 minKITT's evil prototype Karr returns, seeking to destroy Michael and KITT with a new laser stolen from the Foundation
Runtime: 49 minA psychologist who bought a ranch to use as a home for troubled city kids needs Michael's help to stop rustlers and keep angry townsfolk from taking her land.
Runtime: 49 minWord gets out when Michael is fired for drug possession, and a crime boss recruits him to steal a one-of-a-kind electronic key from Devon.
Runtime: 49 minA young dancer ingests a poison meant for Michael, who races the clock to find the only man with a clue to the antidote.
Runtime: 49 minAfter Michael and KITT are separated in an explosion that erases the car's memory, KITT befriends a boy being chased by thieves who think he can identify them.
Runtime: 49 minMichael poses as a mercenary to flush out the Chameleon, a master of disguise who stole a prototype jet pack from the Government to sell on the black market.
Runtime: 49 minAn extortionist out to sew up the garment industry hires a hit man with a killer car to cut his competition. For laughs: Photog and model use KITT as a model stand.
Runtime: 48 minThe "death" of a Thoroughbred racehorse is staged by its owner to cover gambling debts with the money from the black-market sale of the horse.
Runtime: 49 minMichael vows to nail the owner of a toxic-waste dump when KITT is nearly destroyed in an acid pit.
Runtime: 49 minTo catch a saboteur, Michael volunteers to drive an armor- plated limousine during a company's missile-defense demonstration.
Runtime: 49 minAn international criminal rigs the Government's space weapons headquarters to blow up after construction is completed.
Runtime: 49 minMichael enters KITT in a small-town road rally to investigate death threats received by the race's sponsor.
Runtime: 49 minA scientist's daughter is kidnapped by criminals as part of a scheme to build a hot new weapon.
Runtime: 48 minMichael takes the wheel of a big rig to help independent truckers fight a takeover by a ruthless corporation.
Runtime: 49 minMichael poses as a space-weapon scientist to gain access to a club operated by a woman dealing in blackmail and top-secret weapon systems.
Runtime: 49 minTo find stolen laser rifles, Michael attends a survivalist convention where pistols taken in the same robbery have been sold.
Runtime: 49 minMichael and KITT join a circus as a daredevil act to find out who's trying to force it into bankruptcy.
Runtime: 49 minNo overview available.
21 episodes
KITT undergoes an amazing transformation after nearly being destroyed by the Juggernaut, a similarly powerful vehicle with a deadly battering ram.
Runtime: 97 minWith Michael closing in on a master criminal who has escaped capture for years, the man and his henchmen plot to slow Michael up by trapping K.I.T.T. ...
Runtime: 49 minBonnie's plane is hijacked and the passengers are held hostage by an ex-intelligence agent who wants money and ""political"" prisoners set free.
Runtime: 49 minAn archaeologist excavating an ancient burial ground is kidnapped by a man who gets the oil-rich Indian land if no artifacts are found.
Runtime: 49 minWhen a biker gang hi-jack and steal the FLAG truck, hospitalising RC3 in the process, they expect it to be full of liquor - so are amazed to find it full of computer equipment. The son of two computer experts, himself a computer genius, is persuaded into helping the gang to use the truck's advanced technology to aid them on a crime spree. Michael and K.I.T.T. must stop the gang before they use the computers to disrupt the test-run of a new computerised vehicle that is armed with a warhead...
Runtime: 49 minBonnie poses as a jetsetter to gain access to a foreign embassy planning to ship a canister of deadly bacteria out of the country.
Runtime: 49 minMichael's well-deserved break for his birthday is interrupted when Devon assigns him to find a stolen hi-tech hovercraft prototype before a black market arms dealer can ship it out of the country...
Runtime: 49 minSomeone tries to kill Michael after he qualifies to drive for an independent racing team plagued by a series of ""accidents"".
Runtime: 49 minMichael discovers that prison inmates were used to steal security plans for a hotel that is hosting a defense conference.
Runtime: 49 minA childhood friend of RC3's is involved with a blockbusting real-estate developer, who's trying to prevent the opening of a nightclub that could revitalize RC3's old neighborhood.
Runtime: 49 minAfter a near-fatal encounter with a criminal mastermind, Michael falls into a deep depression and wants to quit the Foundation. He and Stevie are married.
Runtime: 49 minAn embittered electronics genius gains control of KITT's programming and turns the car on Michael.
Runtime: 49 minA family logging outfit is unable to sell its timber because the local sawmill is buying pirated timber that was out on national park land.
Runtime: 49 minWhen a Foundation trustee is murdered, Michael's prime suspects master magician Austin Templeton — but the man was seemingly on stage performing at the time of the murder. Michael is determined to prove that Templeton used his "magical" trickery to fool the audience and give him the perfect alibi. The fact that Bonnie, an old flame of Templeton's, was in the audience and is insistent of his innocence, does not make the case any easier...
Runtime: 49 minWhen a sports promoter who claims to have some incriminating information about a legendary boxing match is murdered, Michael investigates an upcoming fight involving a villainous promoter and a former boxing champ who is determined to step back into the ring even if it kills him...
Runtime: 49 minAfter a wanted mobster escapes an F.B.I. raid, murdering an Agent friend of Michael's in the process, Michael and K.I.T.T., backed up by RC3, follow a secret dune-buggy race in which the mobster is racing to make his escape across the border into Mexico, where a new identity awaits him...
Runtime: 49 minMichael and K.I.T.T. have the seemingly easy, relaxing job of patrolling a national park for a couple of days, when they find themselves up against an arsonist driving an All-Terrain Vehicle, who escapes over rough terrain that K.I.T.T. can't cover. As they investigate to find just who is behind the spate of arson attacks, Michael must prove the innocence of a teenage boy, a reformed vandal, who is being framed for starting the fires...
Runtime: 49 minMichael is captured while trying to rescue an American political prisoner held in a country in the throes of a coup d'etat.
Runtime: 49 minInexplicable accidents on a movie set are blamed on a legendary phantom haunting the studio.
Runtime: 49 minA powerful Japanese businessman attempts to abduct the adopted son of Devon's friend because the boy is a direct descendent of the founder of an ancient terrorist cult.
Runtime: 49 minIntercepting a robbery, Michael is shocked when one of the thieves commits apparent suicide, jumping out of a high-rise window. Investigating, it emerges that a con woman posing as a voodoo princess is using special earclips that submit the wearers to become zombified slaves to her commands. The woman plans to use her tranced henchmen to steal her some priceless archaeological finds, but in trying to stop the plot, Michael himself falls under the spell of one of the earclips...
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