- 7.2/104 votes
#1 - Not a Drop to Drink
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/1982
Devon sends Michael to stop a range war over water rights.
Director: Virgil W. Vogel
Writer: Hannah Louise Shearer
- 7.2/104 votes
#2 - A Single Drop of Rain
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/1991
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
- 7.0/102 votes
#3 - The Martyr
Season 4 Episode 26 - Aired 3/29/1970
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
- 7.0/102 votes
#4 - Squeeze Play (aka Sicily)
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/12/1970
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
- 6.5/102 votes
#5 - Cat's Paw
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 1/9/1971
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
- 6.0/103 votes
#6 - Random Target
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1984
While filming aerial footage, String and Dom accidentally get footage of a mobster believed dead.
Director: Virgil W. Vogel
Writer: N/A
- 6.0/103 votes
#7 - Short Walk to Freedom
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 4/13/1985
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
- 6.0/102 votes
#8 - Takeover
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 1/2/1971
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
- 5.7/103 votes
#9 - The American Dream
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/12/1985
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
- 5.5/102 votes
#10 - Daddy's Gone a Hunt'n
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/28/1984
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
- 5.5/102 votes
#11 - Natural Born
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/23/1985
The Airwolf crew befriend a runaway looking for revenge on the drug runners that murdered his uncle.
Director: Virgil W. Vogel
Writer: Alfonse Ruggiero
- 5.5/102 votes
#12 - Dambreakers
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/16/1985
String and a reporter friend are taken hostage by terrorists who have taken over a Christian commune.
Director: Virgil W. Vogel
Writer: Alfonse Ruggiero
- 5.0/102 votes
#13 - Eagles
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1985
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
- 5.0/101 votes
#14 - Faith and Begorrah
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 4/28/1983
Thomas is hired to follow Angie, the wife of his client Clarence, to see if she's being unfaithful. After watching Clarence in the ring training for his next title bout, Thomas is extremely reluctant to be the bearer of bad tidings. Clarence assures him that he wants proof that Angie is cheating, so that the fight's multi-million dollar purse won't be part of the settlement negotiations in the divorce proceedings she initiated. While he's on Angie's trail, Thomas meets a priest at the airport who turns out to be Higgins's Irish half-brother Paddy. Higgins isn't thrilled to see his sibling, especially when he discovers that Paddy has followed Ffolkes, Higgins's former commanding officer, to Hawaii after suspecting Ffolkes of stealing a relic during a search of Paddy's church for I.R.A. weapons. Paddy intends to hold hostage a certain English relic he pilfered from the custody of Ffolkes and Higgins until the one from his church is returned until Thomas steps in to mediate the standoff a
Director: Virgil W. Vogel
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario