Knight Rider season 4
| Knight Rider | |
|---|---|
| Season 4 | |
 DVD cover | |
| No. of episodes | 22 |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC |
| Original release | September 20, 1985 – April 4, 1986 |
| Season chronology | |
The fourth and final season of Knight Rider, an American television series that ran from Sept 26, 1982 to Apr 4, 1986, began September 20, 1985, and ended on April 4, 1986. It aired on NBC. The region 1 DVD was released on April 4, 2006.[1]
Interest in the show declined, leading to its indefinite cancellation by NBC by the end of the fourth season. Hasselhoff, knowing the show was finally coming to an end, attempted to make a "series finale" and helped conceive the story "The Scent of Roses" with his wife at the time, Catherine Hickland, who played Michael's love interest Stephanie "Stevie" Mason in past episodes. The NBC network instead aired "Voodoo Knight" as the final episode of the original Knight Rider series. A new street-smart mechanic, played by Peter Parros, was added to the Knight Rider cast in addition to Bonnie. Of all KITT's features added in fourth season, the most important of them is "Super Pursuit Mode". KITT could also convert into an open car convertible This Season also marks the Final Appearance of K.I.T.T Knight Industries Two Thousand in the original Knight Rider series as the show would later be cancelled and retired.
Cast
- David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight
- William Daniels as the voice of KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand) (uncredited)
- Edward Mulhare as Devon Miles
- Patricia McPherson as Dr. Bonnie Barstow
- Peter Parros as Reginald Cornelius III aka RC3
- Richard Basehart as the voice of Wilton Knight
Episodes
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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| 69 70 | 1 2 | "Knight of the Juggernaut" | Georg Fenady | Robert Foster & Burton Armus | September 20, 1985 | 60275 60276 |
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Michael goes to Chicago on an assignment to guard a valuable isotope. Elsewhere, Wilton Knight's daughter unexpectedly suspends FLAG's operations and Michael and KITT find themselves out of a job. Meanwhile, an international terrorist kidnaps Devon Miles and replaces him with a surgically altered impostor as a plot to get his hands on the isotope. Devon's changed behavior alerts Michael's suspicions and he disobeys orders to "take a vacation" until he finds out what is going on. Clues lead to a warehouse, where KITT's molecular bonded armor is unknowingly neutralized by a chemical sprayer on a nearby street, and he and Michael are attacked by an armored vehicle KITT cannot defend against. Devon strangely writes-off KITT as a total loss, and when he answers a question Michael asks about Moby Dick wrong, Michael is even more doubtful that it is truly Devon. Seeing as KITT was nearly destroyed in the armored car attack, Bonnie cannot repair him without Devon Miles' assistance or FLAG's facilities. She and Michael enlist the help of "The Street Avenger" a friendly street vigilante named Reginald Cornelius the 3rd, or RC3, whose gang of friends take KITT to their garage to rebuild him. KITT is reborn with some new gadgets, including a rocket-fast "super pursuit" mode. Michael must now race to save the real Devon and prevent the theft of the isotope.
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| 71 | 3 | "K.I.T.T. Nap" | Bernard McEveety | Skip Webster | September 27, 1985 | 60216 |
| 72 | 4 | "Sky Knight" | Jeffrey Hayden | Carlton Hollander & Dennis Rodriguez | October 18, 1985 | 60219 |
| 73 | 5 | "Burial Ground" | Chuck Bail | Michael Eric Stein | October 25, 1985 | 60204 |
| 74 | 6 | "The Wrong Crowd" | Chuck Bail | George S. Dinallo | November 1, 1985 | 60221 |
| 75 | 7 | "Knight Sting" | Sidney Hayers | Herman Miller | November 8, 1985 | 60224 |
| 76 | 8 | "Many Happy Returns" | Georg Fenady | Michael Halperin | November 15, 1985 | 60203 |
| 77 | 9 | "Knight Racer" | Charles Watson Sanford | Paul Diamond | November 22, 1985 | 60222 |
| 78 | 10 | "Knight Behind Bars" | Bernard McEveety | Richard Okie | December 6, 1985 | 60202 |
| 79 | 11 | "Knight Song" | Georg Fenady | Burton Armus | December 13, 1985 | 60230 |
| 80 | 12 | "The Scent of Roses" | Sidney Hayers | E. Nick Alexander | January 3, 1986 | 60212 |
| 81 | 13 | "Killer K.I.T.T." | Chuck Bail | Simon Rose | January 10, 1986 | 60226 |
| 82 | 14 | "Out of the Woods" | Harvey Laidman | Gregory S. Dinallo | January 17, 1986 | 60211 |
| 83 | 15 | "Deadly Knightshade" | Sidney Hayers | Philip John Taylor | January 24, 1986 | 60229 |
| 84 | 16 | "Redemption of a Champion" | Chuck Bail | E. Nick Alexander | January 31, 1986 | 60227 |
| 85 | 17 | "Knight of a Thousand Devils" | Gino Grimaldi | Peter Allan Fields | February 7, 1986 | 60228 |
| 86 | 18 | "Hills of Fire" | Robert Bralver | Jackson Gillis | February 14, 1986 | 60220 |
| 87 | 19 | "Knight Flight to Freedom" | Winrich Kolbe | George S. Dinallo | February 21, 1986 | 60232 |
| 88 | 20 | "Fright Knight" | Gilbert Shilton | Story by : James Byrnes & Samm Smith Teleplay by : James Byrnes & Samm Smith & Leonard Kaufman | March 7, 1986 | 60223 |
| 89 | 21 | "Knight of the Rising Sun" | Winrich Kolbe | Story by : Burton Armus & Bruce Lansbury Teleplay by : E. Nick Alexander | March 14, 1986 | 60233 |
| 90 | 22 | "Voo Doo Knight" | Georg Fenady | Story by : R. Timothy Kring Teleplay by : R. Timothy Kring & Deborah Dean Davis | April 4, 1986 | 60225 |
References
- ^ "Knight Rider - Season Four (1982)". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2011-02-23.