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The Best Episodes of Knight Rider Season 4

Every episode of Knight Rider Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Knight Rider Season 4!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Knight Rider Season 4 Episode 2 - KITTnap
    8.0/10(87 votes)

    S4:E2

    With 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. ...

    Director:Bernard McEveety
    Writer:Skip Webster

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  2. Knight Rider Season 4 Episode 12 - Killer K.I.T.T.
    7.6/10(358 votes)

    S4:E12

    An embittered electronics genius gains control of KITT's programming and turns the car on Michael.

    Director:Charles Bail
    Writer:Si Rose

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  3. Knight Rider Season 4 Episode 1 - Knight of the Juggernaut
    7.5/10(357 votes)

    S4:E1

    KITT undergoes an amazing transformation after nearly being destroyed by the Juggernaut, a similarly powerful vehicle with a deadly battering ram.

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writers:Burton Armus, Robert Foster

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  4. Knight Rider Season 4 Episode 13 - Out of the Woods
    7.2/10(289 votes)

    S4:E13

    A family logging outfit is unable to sell its timber because the local sawmill is buying pirated timber that was out on national park land.

    Director:Harvey S. Laidman
    Writer:Gregory S. Dinallo

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  5. Knight Rider Season 4 Episode 15 - Redemption of a Champion
    7.2/10(278 votes)

    S4:E15

    When 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...

    Director:Charles Bail
    Writer:E. Nick Alexander

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  6. Knight Rider Season 4 Episode 20 - Knight of the Rising Sun
    7.1/10(296 votes)

    S4:E20

    A 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.

    Director:Winrich Kolbe
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Knight Rider Season 4 Episode 3 - Sky Knight
    6.9/10(298 votes)

    S4:E3

    Bonnie's plane is hijacked and the passengers are held hostage by an ex-intelligence agent who wants money and ""political"" prisoners set free.

    Director:Jeffrey Hayden
    Writers:Dennis Rodriguez, Carlton Hollander

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  8. Knight Rider Season 4 Episode 4 - Burial Ground
    6.9/10(313 votes)

    S4:E4

    An archaeologist excavating an ancient burial ground is kidnapped by a man who gets the oil-rich Indian land if no artifacts are found.

    Director:Charles Bail
    Writer:Michael Eric Stein

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  9. Knight Rider Season 4 Episode 7 - Many Happy Returns
    6.9/10(277 votes)

    S4:E7

    Michael'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...

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Michael Halperin

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  10. Knight Rider Season 4 Episode 9 - Knight Behind Bars
    6.9/10(288 votes)

    S4:E9

    Michael discovers that prison inmates were used to steal security plans for a hotel that is hosting a defense conference.

    Director:Bernard McEveety
    Writer:Richard C. Okie

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  11. Knight Rider Season 4 Episode 10 - Knight Song
    6.9/10(273 votes)

    S4:E10

    A 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.

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Burton Armus

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  12. Knight Rider Season 4 Episode 6 - Knight Sting
    6.8/10(291 votes)

    S4:E6

    Bonnie poses as a jetsetter to gain access to a foreign embassy planning to ship a canister of deadly bacteria out of the country.

    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writer:Herman Miller

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  13. Knight Rider Season 4 Episode 14 - Deadly Knightshade
    6.8/10(264 votes)

    S4:E14

    When 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...

    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writer:Philip John Taylor

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  14. Knight Rider Season 4 Episode 8 - Knight Racer
    6.7/10(267 votes)

    S4:E8

    Someone tries to kill Michael after he qualifies to drive for an independent racing team plagued by a series of ""accidents"".

    Director:Charles Watson Sanford
    Writer:Paul Diamond

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  15. Knight Rider Season 4 Episode 17 - Hills of Fire
    6.7/10(268 votes)

    S4:E17

    Michael 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...

    Director:Bob Bralver
    Writer:Jackson Gillis

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  16. Knight Rider Season 4 Episode 5 - The Wrong Crowd
    6.6/10(272 votes)

    S4:E5

    When 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...

    Director:Charles Bail
    Writer:Gregory S. Dinallo

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  17. Knight Rider Season 4 Episode 11 - The Scent of Roses
    6.6/10(275 votes)

    S4:E11

    After 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.

    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writer:E. Nick Alexander

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  18. Knight Rider Season 4 Episode 16 - Knight of a Thousand Devils
    6.6/10(276 votes)

    S4:E16

    After 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...

    Director:Gino Grimaldi
    Writer:Peter Allan Fields

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  19. Knight Rider Season 4 Episode 18 - Knight Flight to Freedom
    6.6/10(279 votes)

    S4:E18

    Michael is captured while trying to rescue an American political prisoner held in a country in the throes of a coup d'etat.

    Director:Winrich Kolbe
    Writer:Gregory S. Dinallo

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  20. Knight Rider Season 4 Episode 19 - Fright Knight
    6.6/10(267 votes)

    S4:E19

    Inexplicable accidents on a movie set are blamed on a legendary phantom haunting the studio.

    Director:Gilbert M. Shilton
    Writers:Leonard B. Kaufman, Jim Byrnes

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  21. Knight Rider Season 4 Episode 21 - Voo Doo Knight
    6.4/10(277 votes)

    S4:E21

    Intercepting 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...

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writers:Tim Kring, Deborah Dean Davis

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"KITTnap" is the best rated episode of Knight Rider season 4. It scored 8.0/10 from 87 votes. Directed by Bernard McEveety and written by Skip Webster, it aired on September 27, 1985. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Killer K.I.T.T.".