Knight Rider
Season 1
21 listed hours · 1982–1986 · NBC
From the desk
How this season is filed
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.
TV Flash files Season 1 of Knight Rider (1982–1986) on NBC as the first listed season of 4 — 21 listed hours, 1982-09-26–1983-05-06 from “Knight of the Phoenix” (S01E01) to “Short Notice” (S01E21). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S01E01 Knight of the Phoenix
Knight of the Phoenix unboxes the high-concept toy: scanner-bar co-lead, William Daniels' voice, turbo boost as a red-light prayer.
- S01E08 Trust Doesn't Rust
Trust Doesn't Rust treats KITT as the actual partner: the hour that makes the car's trust the show's theology, not a gadget demo.
-
S01E01 Knight of the Phoenix
A dying millionaire rescues a badly wounded undercover police officer and gives him a new identity.
-
S01E02 Deadly Maneuvers
Michael helps an Army officer investigate her colonel father's strange death.
-
S01E03 Good Day at White Rock
Michael's vacation plans in a peaceful town are interrupted by a gang of malicious bikers and a frightened sheriff.
-
S01E04 Slammin' Sammy's Stunt Show Spectacular
KITT is scheduled to participate in an auto-stunt show whose organizers fall prey to a greedy developer.
-
S01E05 Just My Bill
Michael and KITT guard a controversial senator opposing water power legislation.
-
S01E06 Not a Drop to Drink
Michael jumps into action when ranchers and politicians get into a disagreement about water rights in a desert valley.
-
S01E07 No Big Thing
Devon lands in jail on a misdemeanor, but his predicament becomes deadly when a prisoner is killed by the cops.
-
S01E08 Trust Doesn't Rust
Two small time crooks steal and activate KITT's sociopathic predecessor, KARR (the Knight Automated Roving Robot), and it goes on the rampage.
-
S01E09 Inside Out
Michael poses as a mob's getaway driver to stop a robbery and rescue a woman blackmailed into helping.
-
S01E10 The Final Verdict
A former girlfriend needs Michael's help when she is accused of murdering her boss.
-
S01E11 A Plush Ride
Michael joins a security agency to find an agent planning to kill a peace-conference delegate.
-
S01E12 Forget Me Not
Michael must help an amnesia victim recover to prevent an assassination
-
S01E13 Hearts of Stone
Michael enters dangerous territory when he infiltrates a ring of illegal gun traffickers and becomes involved in a Texas gun running war between a Mexican family and a gang of US veterans.
-
S01E14 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.
-
S01E15 The Topaz Connection
A magazine publisher's daughter links her father's murder to a top secret expose.
-
S01E16 A Nice, Indecent Little Town
Michael and KITT learn a peaceful town's bible printing plant harbors counterfeiters.
-
S01E17 Chariot of Gold
A sinister society drugs Bonnie to reprogram KITT for a museum robbery.
-
S01E18 White Bird
Michael tries to prevent a lawyer's assistant from being framed for conspiracy, but there's a complication: she was Michael's fiancée before his identity change.
-
S01E19 Knight Moves
Devon poses as a businessman while Michael investigates recent hijacking attempts against an alliance of local truckers.
-
S01E20 Nobody Does It Better
Michael joins forces with a private investigator when a man who designs video games is suspected of selling company secrets.
-
S01E21 Short Notice
Michael faces murder charges after he kills a motorcycle gang member in self defense while trying to save an elusive hitchhiker.
More from the 1980s.