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The Best Episodes of Airwolf

Every episode of Airwolf ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Airwolf!

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As part of a deal with an intelligence agency to look for his missing brother, a renegade pilot goes on missions with an advanced battle helicopter.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Airwolf Season 3 Episode 14 - Discovery
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #1 - Discovery

    S3:E14

    A man who once failed to steal Airwolf is given a second chance when a young lady he knows stumbles upon its hiding place.

    Director:Alan Cooke
    Writer:Del Reisman

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  2. Airwolf Season 4 Episode 4 - Salvage
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #2 - Salvage

    S4:E4

    A former female employee of the Company, who has suffered mental trauma after a Company mission went wrong, insists that she is seeing strange lights and hearing unexplained noises in the middle of the night, over her remote home and the nearby Indian burial ground in the rural town of Devil's Ridge. Jason sends St. John and Mike to investigate, and they are just as sceptical as everyone else, putting it down to her mental troubles, but the source of the disturbances is actually a stolen super-helicopter – a third version of Airwolf called ""The Scorpion"" – is hidden in the area, waiting to be picked up by KGB agents...

    Director:Ken Jubenvill
    Writer:A.P. Liddell

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  3. Airwolf Season 4 Episode 5 - Windows
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #3 - Windows

    S4:E5

    St. John and crew are under a deadline to recover a piece of stolen satellite hardware which is needed for an upcoming space shuttle flight.

    Director:Ken Jubenvill
    Writer:Leslie McBride

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  4. Airwolf Season 4 Episode 8 - Code of Silence
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #4 - Code of Silence

    S4:E8

    St. John and Locke uncover a military cover-up when they represent opposite sides at a court martial.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Airwolf Season 4 Episode 20 - The Puppet Master
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #5 - The Puppet Master

    S4:E20

    Locke's girlfriend is given a behavior implant module which forces her to turn Locke over to a lady scientist who uses the same procedure on Locke in order to gain control of Airwolf.

    Director:Zale Dalen
    Writers:Gwen Tulpa, Jordon Nicht

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  6. Airwolf Season 4 Episode 24 - Welcome to Paradise
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #6 - Welcome to Paradise

    S4:E24

    John comes to the aid of an old flame whose husband was killed by drug dealers.

    Director:J. Barry Herron
    Writer:James S. Hughs

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  7. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 10 - Once a Hero (a.k.a. Heroes)
    7.0/10(4 votes)

    #7 - Once a Hero (a.k.a. Heroes)

    S2:E10

    String receives information that St. John is being held in a POW camp, but by the time a rescue operations put into effect St. John has been moved.

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writer:Alfonse Ruggiero

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  8. Airwolf Season 4 Episode 1 - Blackjack
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #8 - Blackjack

    S4:E1

    Dom is killed in a helicopter accident that also severely injures String. Dom's niece, Jo, inherits and takes charge of Santini Air. The Company sends Locke to regain possession of Airwolf, he recruits Major Mike Rivers ,an Air Force pilot to help him find and fly the craft. Together they rescue St. John from a jungle prison and he and Jo round out the new Airwolf team.

    Director:Alan Simmonds
    Writers:Michael Mercer, Jana Veverka

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  9. Airwolf Season 4 Episode 2 - Escape
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #9 - Escape

    S4:E2

    After being captured and sentenced to die, Jo's only hope for survival lies with a Soviet defector.

    Director:Patrick Corbett
    Writer:Patrick Kennedy

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  10. Airwolf Season 4 Episode 3 - A Town for Hire
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #10 - A Town for Hire

    S4:E3

    St. John is following Jo in a bi-plane as she tries out a new navigation device in a helicopter over an area of wilderness, when her helicopter is suddenly struck from the ground by a laser-beam that sends her chopper crashing down. St. John's plane is also hit, but he manages to land in the nearby town of Santa Mira before he looses consciousness. Waking up the next day in the local hospital, he is infuriated that nobody seems to believe his story and is out looking for Jo. But when he arrives at the crash-site, there is no sign of the crash ever happened, and as St. John tries to find out what is going on, he finds that the small boom town is held in some kind of grip of fear...

    Director:Patrick Corbett
    Writers:Gwen Tulpa, Jordon Nicht

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  11. Airwolf Season 4 Episode 6 - A Piece of Cake
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #11 - A Piece of Cake

    S4:E6

    The grandfather of one of four juvenile delinquents Jo and Mike have taken camping plans on killing the rest of the camping party in order to regain custody of his grandson.

    Director:Bruce Pittman
    Writer:Anthony Robertson

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  12. Airwolf Season 4 Episode 9 - Stavograd (a.k.a. The Stavograd Incident) (1)
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #12 - Stavograd (a.k.a. The Stavograd Incident) (1)

    S4:E9

    The Russians reluctantly agree to allow the Airwolf team help them contain a nuclear power plant that has had a meltdown.

    Director:Ken Jubenvill
    Writer:Sydney Burrows

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  13. Airwolf Season 4 Episode 15 - Flowers of the Mountains
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #13 - Flowers of the Mountains

    S4:E15

    A jet manufacturer sabotages his own plane that St. John is test piloting rather than let St. John reveal its inferior construction.

    Director:Randy Bradshaw
    Writer:Stephen Ainsworth

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  14. Airwolf Season 4 Episode 19 - The Golden One
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #14 - The Golden One

    S4:E19

    Jo is lured to Afghanistan by an old boyfriend who has sold her as a bride to a rebel leader.

    Director:George Erschbamer
    Writer:Ray Hoagan

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  15. Airwolf Season 1 Episode 1 - Shadow of the Hawke (1)
    6.8/10(6 votes)

    #15 - Shadow of the Hawke (1)

    S1:E1

    While demonstrating the capabilities of the new prototype supercopter codenamed 'Airwolf', Dr. Charles Moffet goes rogue, steals the chopper and kills almost all of the observers. At least one man -- Michael Coldsmith Briggs III survives. Briggs, codenamed 'Archangel' is the head of a covert organization called 'The Firm' and Archangel calls upon the one man in the world he knows that can retrieve the copter. The problem is Stringfellow Hawke is not only a loner, but a recluse as well. The amount of money the Firm is willing to pay for Airwolf's recovery is irrelevant. Hawke wants just one thing - the safe return of his brother, Saint John, who was captured during the Vietnam war and is evidently a POW.

    Director:Donald P. Bellisario
    Writer:Donald P. Bellisario

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  16. Airwolf Season 1 Episode 11 - Mind of the Machine
    6.8/10(6 votes)

    #16 - Mind of the Machine

    S1:E11

    Dr. Robert Winchester is a brilliant researcher and a former test pilot who helped design Airwolf. Now, he's asking for Hawke's help in test flying a simulator that he's designed to enable the Firm to train future test pilots to fly Airwolf. Reluctantly, Hawke agrees, but determines that the simulator's "feel" is a little off. Archangel convinces Hawke to let Winchester hook up the real Airwolf to his computers in order to get a more realistic demonstration. This allows Winchester to engage in a little friendly flying competition with Hawke but it also allows the Russians to nearly get their hands on the high tech super copter.

    Director:Ivan Dixon
    Writer:T.S. Cook

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  17. Airwolf Season 1 Episode 12 - To Snare a Wolf
    6.8/10(4 votes)

    #17 - To Snare a Wolf

    S1:E12

    Archangel warns String about a zealous government bureaucrat named D.G. Bogard who will stop at nothing until he finds Airwolf. Dom and Hawke take time out from shooting a military training film to hide Airwolf in a different location before it can be discovered, but Bogard catches on to their ruse and tracks Hawke back to the new hideaway. To complicate things, an eager pilot tails Dom and Hawke in an effort to convince Santini that she deserves a job working for his company.

    Director:Alan J. Levi
    Writer:Louis F. Vipperman

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  18. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 7 - Fallen Angel
    6.8/10(5 votes)

    #18 - Fallen Angel

    S2:E7

    String must add Caitlin to the Airwolf crew, in order to rescue Archangel from behind enemy lines.

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Deborah Pratt

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  19. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 8 - HX 1
    6.8/10(5 votes)

    #19 - HX 1

    S2:E8

    When new hi-tech attack chopper HX1 is stolen by an elite group of mercenaries, the tactics used fits those that Hawke's MIA brother St. John was trained in, and Hawke is certain that his brother may somehow be involved. Dominic begs him to leave well alone, but Hawke is adamant, and with Archangel insisting that if it cant be retrieved, the Firm will blow HX1 and anyone flying it out of the sky, Hawke goes back into his past and some of the people he knows from it, to desperately try and get a lead on the group and mercenaries and possibly St. John... But the HX1 is so powerful, it may even be able to blow Airwolf out of the sky...

    Director:Gerald Mayer
    Writer:Steve Hayes

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  20. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 14 - Inn at the End of the Road
    6.8/10(5 votes)

    #20 - Inn at the End of the Road

    S2:E14

    A pilot who escaped from terrorists who stole an experimental aircraft guidance computer leads the Airwolf team to the remote community where the terrorists are holed up.

    Director:Ray Austin
    Writers:Alfonse Ruggiero, Westbrook Claridge

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  21. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 1 - Sweet Britches
    6.7/10(6 votes)

    #21 - Sweet Britches

    S2:E1

    After an old Vietnam buddy of Hawke's is shot in the desert when trying to escape a corrupt Sheriff, Hawke gets a call from an inmate who had been in jail with the man to aleart him of the escape, and flies with Dominic in Airwolf to Pope County, Texas, to investigate. There, Hawke meets Highway Patrol Deputy Caitlin O'Shannessy, who had a run in with Sheriff Bogard prior to the killing; but Hawke's appearance on the scene sees him arrested by Bogard and released on a private game reserve, where gun-happy sportsmen pay big money to hunt big game – and Hawke is the latest bait...

    Director:Alan J. Levi
    Writer:Donald P. Bellisario

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  22. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 18 - Out of the Sky
    6.7/10(3 votes)

    #22 - Out of the Sky

    S2:E18

    While working on a music video, String helps a country singer whose manager plans to kill her in an effort to boost album sales.

    Director:Bruce Seth Green
    Writers:Gregory Harris, Charles Winston

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  23. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 20 - Severance Pay
    6.7/10(3 votes)

    #23 - Severance Pay

    S2:E20

    String must bring in a disgruntled former Firm employee who's been denied his retirement benefits.

    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writer:Chester Krumholz

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  24. Airwolf Season 3 Episode 1 - The Horn of Plenty
    6.7/10(3 votes)

    #24 - The Horn of Plenty

    S3:E1

    Hawke takes a seemingly luxurious Santini Air job, piloting and accompanying a beautiful, high-flying business woman for a few days, but ends up duped into being hypnotised in an elaborate plot by master criminal John Bradford Horn. Horn has desire to take over a small country as his own, and intends to have the hypnotised Hawke deliver Airwolf to him so he can use the chopper's fierce fire-power to succeed in his goal...

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Sutton Roley

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  25. Airwolf Season 3 Episode 11 - Where Have All the Children Gone?
    6.7/10(3 votes)

    #25 - Where Have All the Children Gone?

    S3:E11

    At the funeral of a Vietnam comrade, Hawke takes it upon himself to deliver the man's coffin flag and Congressional Medal of Honour to the soldier's brother, Billy Fargo. But arriving in the small rural town where Fargo is reported to be living, he finds the whole area inhabited solely by youths, all under their ""father"" Fargo's influence. Fargo emerges to be a deranged ""peace-loving"" hippie, who, with his wily cohort Sabrina, is planning to use the youngsters to help in a plot to make a destructive anti-nuclear statement to the world...

    Director:Daniel Haller
    Writer:Alan Godfrey

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Best Episodes Summary

"Discovery" is the best rated episode of "Airwolf". It scored 7.5/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Alan Cooke and written by Del Reisman, it aired on 1/18/1986. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Salvage".