Knight Rider (season 3)
| Knight Rider Season 3 | |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 22 |
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| Original network | NBC |
| Original release | September 30, 1984 – May 5, 1985 |
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The third season of Knight Rider, an American television series, began September 30, 1984, and ended on May 5, 1985. It aired on NBC. The region 1 DVD was released on January 31, 2006.
This season saw KITT gain a new dash and abilities, Patricia McPherson returned as Bonnie Barstow and would remain for the remainder of the series. Michael and Devon had also become close friends as well as associates by this point, trusting one another enough to work and conspire in secret together without notifying KITT or Bonnie ("Knight in Disgrace"). KITT's renegade prototype KARR finally resurfaced.
Michael meets up with Bonnie at a university research center in San Francisco to convince her to return to the Foundation. Elsewhere, a criminal mastermind named Margo Sheridan rounds up high-tech criminals, one a criminal from prison (whose escape they arrange by use of a remote control drone car), one an electrician on probation with alarm system expertise, and Bonnie's college advisor, David Halston (Jared Martin) to commit a robbery at the Federal Reserve Bank. In the process of investigating Sheridan, KITT is ambushed and severely damaged by a missile deployed from a drone car built by Ralston. Before being damaged, KITT ejects Michael to safety. Bonnie rebuilds KITT. giving him new improvements including the newly designed dashboard. Inspecting a chip removed from one of Halston's drone cars, Bonnie realizes her advisor Halston is one of the Masterminds related to several crimes that recently occurred, and is kidnapped by Sheridan's henchmen, Clifton and Turk. After Michael uses KITT to electrocute Clifton and Turk, they reveal where Halston is hiding Bonnie. When they go to that location with the Police, they find she is not there, nor is Halston. Michael then uses reverse psychology to get Clifton and Turk to believe a squirt gun he has is a pain enducer, and they reveal that Halston wanted maps of Chinese tunnels that once were in the area. Later, the escaped convict and electrician realize the direction Halston has them digging in is not towards the bank, but towards the vault of a weapons company, where Halston reveals a weapon he developed was stored, and was stealing it to sell it to the highest bidder. He kills the convict and the electrician. Later, Michael faces off with Sheridan, Halston, and his robotic drone cars that he unleashes to eliminate him.
A young beachcombing couple, John Stanton (a marine mechanic) and his girlfriend Mandy, discover a all black car with a amber/yellow scan light bar and yellow voice module called KARR (Knight Automated Roving Robot) that is similar to KITT buried in the sand. John fetches his truck and pulls the similar car which is now similar to KITT out which then activates on its own. Before taking the ride for a spin, John promises Mandy he'll take it to the police, but KARR now voiced by (Paul Frees), who blew up before the end of "Trust Doesn't Rust", reveals himself and convinces John to hide him. Elsewhere, KITT and Michael pick up a strange signal identical to one used by KITT. They track the source and find KARR alive and well. The duo give chase but KARR gets away. Later, John hides KARR at the marina while Michael does legwork around town to find him. John's boss Eddie scolds him for leaving a marina truck by the beach. He tells John he would take $10,000 down for his business. Later, Michael gets suspicious when he meets Mandy and senses she may be lying about her boyfriend who slips out the back when he arrives. Meanwhile, KARR tampers with Eddie's pacemaker. Eddie has a heart attack and while in the hospital tells John he want to sell his business to him for $5,000 down. John says he doesn't have that kind of money, but KARR convinces him to steal it with his help. KARR decides to get some parts from the Knight Mobile Unit. KARR and John Turbo Boost into the trailer and find Bonnie and Devon working on the laser used against him to stop him the first time, and John takes it. After John later modifies KARR's appearance with a black and silver two tone with amber/yellow scan light bar and yellow voice module to differ from KITT (voiced by Willam Daniels) who is 100% all Black with red scan light bar and red voice module. KARR tampers with an ATM and gives John the money. Later, Eddie recovers, and John gives him the money for his business, and Eddie demands to know where and how John got the money. John shows him KARR, and when KARR talks, Eddie is amazed, and tells John they could use KARR to get rich by knocking off "bigger targets" like an armored truck full of gold. Eddie explains to KARR that gold equals money, which means parts and a mechanic to keep KARR running. KARR concedes, but John wants no part of it and walks. KARR tells Eddie to let him go. Soon, KITT and Michael arrive, and KARR escapes once again. Later, KARR imitates John's voice to lure Mandy to get inside him and he kidnaps her. He then tortures her until John agrees to help him rob the armored truck. However, the armored truck job is a ruse to lure KITT and Michael to a ravine so KARR can finish off his nemesis for good.
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