Knight Rider
Return to Cadiz
TV Flash files “Return to Cadiz” as hour 26 of 84 in the TV Flash guide — Knight Rider (1982–1986) on NBC, season 2, episode 5, aired 1983-10-30, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E05: listed hour 26 of 84 in the Knight Rider guide, hour 5 of 21 in season 2. It aired 1983-10-30 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Blind Spot” (S02E04). Next is “K.I.T.T. the Cat” (S02E06).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
An unknown historian attempts to eliminate a diver who has discovered Mayan treasure aboard a Spanish sailing vessel that sank in 1521.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Return to Cadiz sit in the Knight Rider guide?
S02E05 is listed hour 26 of 84 — hour 5 of 21 in season 2, season 2 episode 5.
When did Knight Rider S02E05 air?
Return to Cadiz aired 1983-10-30 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Is the car really the co-star?
Yes. KITT, voiced by William Daniels, is the partner — scanner bar, turbo boost, moral GPS. Hasselhoff is the windshield; the Trans Am is the franchise.
In the series
Why this series still plays
The purest high-concept 1980s action toy — Hasselhoff and KITT chemistry is the whole meal. Glen Larson's talking Trans Am, William Daniels voicing the scanner-bar co-lead, turbo boosts as Friday-night science fantasy. Glorious sincerity, excellent car. Kit, I need you is still a prayer at red lights; later reboots keep failing upward toward the charm.
Friday night, a Trans Am, and a scanner bar that was the actual co-lead. NBC's Knight Rider (1982–1986), Glen A. Larson, sold David Hasselhoff's Michael Knight as a windshield star while William Daniels voiced KITT — the AI car that out-acted half of prime time. Edward Mulhare's Devon held the foundation's leash. **Four seasons, 84 hours of turbo-boost science fantasy.** Rex can keep the western in amber. This was high-concept action as a toy window: buddy-cop TV where the buddy had a red scanner, moral missions,…
Filed against
- David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight
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- William Daniels as KITT (voice)
William Daniels’s Dr. Mark Craig made St. Elsewhere’s dump hospital feel like a scalpel with tenure — 1980s catalog rounds, then Knight Rider’s KITT and Boy Meets World’s Feeny stretching the same diction into a car and a classroom. TV…
- Edward Mulhare as Devon Miles
Edward Mulhare kept the Foundation's manners as Devon Miles on Knight Rider — Glen Larson's talking Trans Am, Friday-night science fantasy, and the handler who made a turbo boost look like a briefing. Hasselhoff had the car; Mulhare had…