Knight Rider (TV Series) Mouth of the Snake (1984) User Reviews

An episode of two halves.

[marcotiero · 6/10 · 3 February 2021]

This episode started off like an interesting episode of Knight Rider, but then they decide to make it like a pilot episode of another show has been shoe horned in and out feels like I'm jumping between 2 different shows. This would have been better off sticking to the normal Knight Rider formula, with the other show introduced like any other show, as a stand alone first, or a spin off with a popular character (like Frasier or Joey).

Not the worst of episodes (it beats "Ring of fire") but this could have been better if more focus was on Michael and KITT.

Dueling freelancers

[Calicodreamin · 6/10 · 18 December 2021]

This two parter brings dueling freelancers into the same murder mystery, one armed with his super car and the other that can somehow jump into trees and over fences.

ANOTHER GOOD SEASON 2 FEATURE LENGTH EPISODE!

[davidchisholm · 10/10 · 30 July 2019]

Season two of Knight Rider gave us three two movies and the most in one season of the show's history. The first was Goliath. The second was Goliath Returns and this one called Mouth Of The Snake is probably their best. Assured direction from tv vet Winwiche Kolbe with good stunts and action sequences. The story concerns Michael and The Foundation investigating the murder of a lawyer's husband who was investigating strange activity a the U.S/Mexico border but Michael and KITT run into David Dalton (Charles Taylor) an atheletic government agent also investigating the same crime. These two clash at first but soon learn to work together to take a criminal mastermind name Eduardo O'Brien (Pedro Armendiraz) who has stolen an advanced rocket launcher and doesn't mind using it to kill those who get into his way. This episode spends more time with guest characters like Dalton and the murder man's grieving wife rather than our main characters giving us a hint at a potential spinoff that didn't quite take off. A fun action packed show nonetheless.

Mouth of the Snake IS a Solid 9 stars for me!

[dd-66056 · 9/10 · 19 November 2020]

Truly love this particular episode because by the looks of things everyone went all out for this classic two-parter I'm only sorry things didn't work out for actor Charles Taylor like they should have.

He had the look and the ability. I feel like Glen Larson & Company didn't do enough in support of their own series and series ideas despite supposed or alleged similarities to other television series at the time.

Taylor should've been brought back to the Knight Rider series, IMO, as consultation prize as Dalton. Particularly at the end of the series run, maybe perhaps instead of Peter Parra's character R. C. which rang cheesy to me even as a kid when I truly enjoyed Knight Rider and other shows like The A-Team and Airwolf.

Mouth of the Snake

[Prismark10 · 5/10 · 25 March 2019]

Mouth of the Snake is in effect a backdoor pilot for another proposed series which never made it because it looked too similar to another series from the mid 80s Cover Up.

Charles Taylor looks like a more athletic version of Tommy Lee Jones. He stars as David Dalton, a freelance agent investigating a criminal Eduardo O'Brian who has stolen an advanced rocket launcher. He is assisted by Joanna St John, the widow of a murdered lawyer killed near the Mexican border where he was investigating people smuggling.

Dalton finds out that the criminal might also had killed St John's husband.

Michael Knight looking into the murder of the lawyer joins forces with Dalton to take down O'Brian.

This was a feature length episode with Michael and KITT taking more of a back seat. Dalton's gymnastics is interesting, almost a forerunner to Parkour. However it is not really Knight Rider.

Dalton did feature in a sort lived series called Code of Vengeance.