The Best Episodes Directed By Virgil W. vogel

Devon sends Michael to stop a range war over water rights.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel

Writer: Hannah Louise Shearer

September 7, 1953: A devastating drought will be the ruin of a small town unless Sam, as Billy Beaumont, "purveyor of precipitation and maker of rain," can find a way to make it rain, while keeping his family together in the process.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel

Writer: Richard C. Okie

As a duplicitous dictator courts the young people of his country, Paris poses as the son of his predecessor, a martyred youth leader.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel

Writer: Ken Pettus

Albert Zembra, head of the Mediterranean branch of the Syndicate, is dying of cancer and plans on passing his list of opium farms to his chosen successor. He plans on turning power over to Carlos Empori, engaged to his granddaughter. Paris poses as a mobster and old friend of Eve's and ""renews"" his friendship with her, while Phelps, as Zembra's rival, warns Carlos that Paris plans to take over. Barney stages a fake assassination on Zembra, thwarting Carlos' security and making him look incompetent, then Paris and Paris-as-Zembra stage a conversation to make Carlos believe Zembra will give power to Paris. Carlos helps Jim kidnap Eve, but the plan goes awry when Eve reveals she knows Paris is a fake. Paris puts his life on the line by counting on her silence to complete the plot. Eve stays silent, Carlos is set up as a traitor to Zembra, and the dying mobster turns the information over to Paris.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel

Writer: David Moessinger

Larry Collier, newspaper editor and Barney's brother, is killed while trying to establish a link between corrupt police chief Abbott and Corley, the head of a ghetto mob who masks his illegal activities with an insurance front company. Barney, set up with a past as a crooked accountant, gets close to Corley by rescuing is secretary Millie - Corley hires him on when he finds out about his ""past."" Barney plants money to make it look like Corley's assistant Goslin is working against him, while the IMF use a phony seance to convince Goslin to quit with some incriminating evidence. Jim arrests Goslin with the evidence, a codebook, and uses it to force Abbott to back him as a mob boss then bribes Corley's guard to try and kill the mob leader. Barney rescues him and Corley runs into Jim, who threatens to take him to Abbott - knowing Abbott will have him killed, Corley turns state's evidence.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel

Writer: Howard Browne

While filming aerial footage, String and Dom accidentally get footage of a mobster believed dead.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel

Writer: N/A

String is captured by Latin American revolutionaries while attempting to rescue American archaeological students trapped by a coup.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel

Writer: Robert Blees

Phelps must stop Charles Peck from using violence, created by professional provocateur Billy Walsh, to elevate his puppet, Mayor Steven Tallman to the governorship. Dana is a provocateur herself, arrested by Barney the current governor's representative. Walsh gets Dana out, and Paris is a blackmailer who convinces Tallman that Dana is his previously-unknown illegitimate daughter. Peck is concerned that Tallman (actually Paris in disguise) will confess their plans to save his ""daughter"", and orders Walsh to kill Barney and Dana. Barney stops Walsh on TV before he can blow up a crowd of demonstrators and police during a protest, and Paris-as-Tallman confesses to Peck's involvement.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel

Writer: Arthur Weiss

Hawke and Dom must stop a suspected traitor from turning an advanced military fighter over to the Russians in exchange for his son who was born in Vietnam. Things get complicated, though, when Hawke realizes that he was also involved with the boy's mother during roughly the same era as the child's birth.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel

Writer: Burton Armus

The Airwolf crew decides to help a group of Vietnamese farmers get their crop to market, after a warlord threatens their lives.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel

Writer: Dennis Foley

The Airwolf crew befriend a runaway looking for revenge on the drug runners that murdered his uncle.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel

Writer: Alfonse Ruggiero

String and a reporter friend are taken hostage by terrorists who have taken over a Christian commune.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel

Writer: Alfonse Ruggiero

At a National Air Race show, Hawke and Dominic befriend an attractive pilot racer, unaware that she's being pursued by her boss and his henchmen after stealing some tapes that can prove that a new combat jet is too unstable to be flown – something that her boss is determined to cover up at any cost...

Director: Virgil W. Vogel

Writer: Edward J. Lakso

Higgins' half brother, an Irish Catholic priest from Northern Ireland, arrives in Hawaii to confront a British officer who he claims stole an ancient artifact from his church.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel

Writer: Donald P. Bellisario