'Knight of the Phoenix' by Glen A. Larson

While engaged on a stakeout, Police Officer Michael Long is betrayed and shot in the head by his colleague, industrial espionage expert Tanya Walker. Although Michael’s life is saved when the bullet deflects off the metal plate in his skull - the result of an injury sustained in the Vietnam War - his face is horrifically damaged. When he comes to, Michael is surprised to learn that after being officially declared dead, he has been brought under the medical care of the Knight Foundation, a philanthropic organisation owned by billionaire Wilton Knight. Knight explains that he is dying from a fatal disease, but hopes that his life’s crusade of helping the helpless will live on in his new protégé. With the aid of reconstructive surgery the young officer is given a new face and identity – that of ‘Michael Knight’ – access to an advanced prototype car equipped with an artificial intelligence named K.I.T.T. (Knight Industries Two Thousand), and offered a job fighting crime for F.L.A.G. – the Foundation for Law And Government. Michael agrees, and with his new ‘partner’ he sets out to fight those criminals who operate above the law…

David Hasselhoff (Michael Knight), William Daniels (K.I.T.T. [Voice]), Edward Mulhare (Devon Miles), Patricia McPherson (Doctor Bonnie Barstow), Noel Conlon (William Benjamin), Michael D. Roberts (Jackson), Phyllis Davis (Tanya Walker), Pamela Susan Shoop (Maggie), Lance LeGault (Security Officer Gray), Bert Rosario (Car Thief), Vince Edwards (Fred Wilson), Richard Basehart (Wilton Knight), Ed Gilbert (Charles Acton), Brian Cutler (Bar Manager), Barret Oliver (Buddy), Robert Phillips (Symes), Alma Beltran (Luce), Ed Hooks (Guard), Tyler Murray (Sally), Victoria Harned (Doris), Shawn Southwick (Lonnie), Bert Rosario (Browne (Car Thief #2)), Larry Anderson (Michael Arthur Long)*, Richard Anderson (Doctor Ralph Wesley)*, Charles Napier (Carney)*, Herbert Jefferson Jr. (Muntzy)*, John Quade (Dolan)*, Sam Scarber (unknown)*, Dennis Fimple (Deputy #1)*, Bill McKinney (Deputy #2)*
*(Uncredited)

Directed by Daniel Haller
Produced by Robert Ewing

TX (US): 26th September 1982

Notes:
*Introducing Michael Knight, Devon Miles, Doctor Bonnie Barstow and K.I.T.T.

*This is a double-length episode