Knight Rider: Season 1
1982 · 21 episodes · ★ 7.4
What Season 1 of Knight Rider
The series follows Michael Knight, a detective presumed dead who is given a new face and a new identity. His mission: fight crime with the help of an artificially intelligent, talking car with its own personality.
Season 1 Episodes
1x01 Knight of the Phoenix
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.
Directing: Daniel Haller · Writing: Glen A. Larson · Starring: Bill McKinney, Lance LeGault, Herbert Jefferson Jr., Barret Oliver
1x02 Deadly Maneuvers
Michael 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.
Directing: Paul Stanley · Writing: William Schmidt, Bob Shayne · Starring: Alan Oppenheimer, Allen Williams, Ron Kuhlman, Devon Ericson
1x03 Good Day at White Rock
Michael 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...
Directing: Daniel Haller · Writing: Deborah Dean Davis · Starring: Anne Lockhart, Keith Coogan, Don Stroud, James T. Callahan
1x04 Slammin' Sammy's Stunt Show Spectacular
Michael 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.
Directing: Bruce Bilson · Writing: E. Paul Edwards, John Alan Schwartz · Starring: Eddie Firestone, Marc Alaimo, Jimmy Weldon, Lin McCarthy
1x05 Just My Bill
Michael becomes the bodyguard for a crusading state senator who has stepped on one too many toes.
Directing: Sidney Hayers · Writing: Deborah Dean Davis, David Braff · Starring: David Haskell, Bruce Gray, Carole Cook, Robert Sampson
1x06 Not a Drop to Drink
Devon sends Michael to stop a range war over water rights.
Directing: Virgil W. Vogel · Writing: Hannah Louise Shearer · Starring: Sondra Currie, Harry Carey Jr., Tom Lester, Jason Evers
1x07 No Big Thing
Devon lands in a small-town lockup on a misdemeanor, but his predicament becomes deadly after a fellow prisoner is killed by the cops.
Directing: Bernard L. Kowalski · Writing: Judy Burns · Starring: Logan Ramsey, Jim Haynie, Mary-Margaret Humes, Grainger Hines
1x08 Trust Doesn't Rust
Michael is assigned to stop KARR, an evil prototype of KITT programmed to survive at all costs--and now on the loose.
Directing: Paul Stanley · Writing: Steven E. de Souza · Starring: William Sanderson, Peter Cullen, John Brandon, John Hostetter
1x09 Inside Out
Michael 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.
Directing: Peter Crane · Writing: Steven E. de Souza · Starring: Judith Chapman, Lawrence Dobkin, Michael O'Guinne, Greg Finley
1x10 The Final Verdict
A meek accountant can clear a friend of murder—if Michael can find him before he's arrested for "creative" bookkeeping.
Directing: Bernard L. Kowalski · Starring: Tim Rossovich, Ramon Bieri, Don Gordon, Michael Masters
1x11 A Plush Ride
Michael becomes a student in a driving school for chauffeur-bodyguards to expose an assassin whose targets are a trio of visiting Third World leaders.
Directing: Sidney Hayers · Writing: Gregory S. Dinallo · Starring: William Lucking, M.C. Gainey, Wendy Fulton, Hector Elias
1x12 Forget Me Not
Michael's only hope of preventing the assassination of a Latin American president is a girl who knows the plan, but has amnesia.
Directing: Gil Bettman · Writing: Richard Christian Matheson, Karen Harris, Tom Szollosi · Starring: Reid Shelton, Judy Landers, David Oliver, Alejandro Rey
1x13 Hearts of Stone
Michael infiltrates a ring of gunrunners selling advanced-design rifles in Central America, "Corazon de Piedras".
Directing: Jeffrey Hayden · Writing: Robert Foster · Starring: Rudy Ramos, Mary McCusker, Jeff Cooper, Zitto Kazann
1x14 Give Me Liberty... or Give Me Death
Someone is sabotaging the cars in an alternative-fuel race, so Michael joins the pack to flush out the saboteur.
Directing: Bernard L. Kowalski · Writing: David Braff · Starring: Alan Fudge, Sab Shimono, Brett Halsey, Kenneth Tigar
1x15 The Topaz Connection
The murder of a men's magazine publisher leads Michael to Las Vegas and an expose the magazine was about to print.
Directing: Alan Myerson · Writing: Stephen Katz · Starring: Jack Starrett, Michael Durrell, Michael Alldredge, Jeanna Michaels
1x16 A Nice, Indecent Little Town
The 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.
Directing: Gil Bettman · Writing: Frank Telford · Starring: Eric Server, Luke Askew, John Crawford, Jean Bruce Scott
1x17 Chariot of Gold
Michael investigates the mysterious deaths of members of an exclusive club for geniuses, involved in an archaeological dig.
Directing: Bernard L. Kowalski · Writing: William Schmidt · Starring: Sandy Helberg, Theodore Bikel, Garnett Smith, George McDaniel
1x18 White Bird
Michael 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.
Directing: Winrich Kolbe · Writing: Virginia Aldridge · Starring: Catherine Hickland, Bert Freed, Don Galloway, Richard Caine
1x19 Knight Moves
Michael tries to catch hijackers who are knocking off shipments carried by independent truckers.
Directing: Christian I. Nyby II · Writing: William Schmidt · Starring: Guy Stockwell, James Whitmore Jr., Morgan Woodward, Catherine Butterfield
1x20 Nobody Does It Better
Michael contends with interference from an overzealous private eye while he tries to discover who's stealing computer-software secrets.
Directing: Harvey S. Laidman · Writing: David Braff · Starring: Tony Dow, Robert Ginty, Gail Edwards, Angel Tompkins
1x21 Short Notice Season Finale
After Michael unintentionally kills a cycle-gang member, the only witness insists that he recover her kidnapped child before she will help him.
Directing: Robert Foster · Writing: Robert Foster · Starring: Robin Curtis, Gail Fisher, Joe Conley, Jordan Clarke
Season 1 Cast
David HasselhoffMichael Knight21 episodes
Edward MulhareDevon Miles21 episodes
Patricia McPhersonBonnie Barstow21 episodes
June ChristopherKim, the Bartender2 episodes
Logan RamseyJudge Roland S. PaxtonEpisode 1
Catherine HicklandStephanie 'Stevie' MasonEpisode 1
Reid SheltonDavid Burns / The EagleEpisode 1
Sandy HelbergIrving FarberEpisode 1
Tony DowJulian GrovesEpisode 1
William LuckingRedmondEpisode 1
Tim RossovichButchEpisode 1
Eric ServerAgent LarkinEpisode 1
Rudy RamosRoberto LagunaEpisode 1
Sondra CurrieFrancesca MorganEpisode 1
Alan FudgeEd ShawEpisode 1
David HaskellBrian OwendorfEpisode 1
Bert FreedAnthony SolanEpisode 1
Judith ChapmanLinda ElliottEpisode 1All Seasons
Season 21983 · 21 ep. · 
Season 31984 · 21 ep. · 
Season 41985 · 21 ep. · Where to Watch Season 1 of Knight Rider
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many episodes are in Knight Rider Season 1?
Knight Rider season 1 has 21 episodes.
When did Knight Rider Season 1 premiere?
Premiered on September 26, 1982.
Where to watch Knight Rider Season 1?
In Spain, it streams on Movistar Plus+ Ficción Total, SkyShowtime, Tivify and AMC Channels Amazon Channel.
What is the best episode of Season 1?
According to the TMDB audience score, episode 1x01, "Knight of the Phoenix," with a 7.2.