The Best Episodes of Airwolf

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   7.8/10(207 votes)

   #1 - And They Are Us

   S1:E103/31/1984

   North and South Limbawe are in conflict over oil and a despotic General plans to overthrow his own government in South Limbawe and attacks his neighbors to the North. String and Dom are sent by Archangel to aid North Limbawe and it's leader, Seku Logana, but Logana has his own prejudices about receiving aid for his cause. Also in the mix is an old Vietnam buddy of Hawke's, Marty Vidor, who is working as a mercenary for South Limbawe, and Hawke is hesitant to take him on since Vidor just may know the location of the missing Saint John.

   Directors:David Hemmings, Nicholas Corea

   Writer:Nicholas Corea

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   Directors:David Hemmings, Nicholas Corea

   Writer:Nicholas Corea
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   7.5/10(214 votes)

   #2 - One Way Express

   S1:E62/18/1984

   A movie producer hires Santini Air for a dangerous stunt involving the landing of a helicopter onto the roof of a moving semi. Dom and String nearly come to blows, however, when String tries to convince Dom that his reaction time might not be up to snuff for this particular action sequence. Things get even more dicey when it appears that the production might just be an elaborate cover for a high-stakes gold heist.

   Director:Alan J. Levi

   Writer:Burton Armus

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   Director:Alan J. Levi

   Writer:Burton Armus
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   7.5/10(184 votes)

   #3 - Mind of the Machine

   S1:E114/7/1984

   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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   Director:Ivan Dixon

   Writer:T.S. Cook
4. 

   7.5/10(109 votes)

   #4 - Birds of Paradise

   S3:E223/29/1986

   String comes to the aid of his nephew who asks String for help when his mother disappears for a week.

   Director:Bernard L. Kowalski

   Writer:Robert Janes

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   Director:Bernard L. Kowalski

   Writer:Robert Janes
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   7.4/10(412 votes)

   #5 - Shadow of the Hawke (1)

   S1:E11/22/1984

   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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   Director:Donald P. Bellisario

   Writer:Donald P. Bellisario
6. 

   7.3/10(117 votes)

   #6 - Day of Jeopardy

   S3:E151/25/1986

   After Tess Dixon, the wife of infamous crime-lord Cullen Dixon, escapes his bodyguards while swimming in the sea at night, Archangel asks Hawke and Santini to deliver her safely via Airwolf to a top-secret location, where she will testify against a cartel of corrupt businessmen who are plotting to assassinate high-ranking officials in Washington. Tess is an old flame of Hawke's, something which makes him very reluctant to accept the mission, before he finally agrees, but they come under continual attack as Cullen Dixon's men aim to see that Tess never makes it to testify...

   Director:Georg Fenady

   Writer:Rick Kelbaugh

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   Director:Georg Fenady

   Writer:Rick Kelbaugh
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   7.3/10(112 votes)

   #7 - Hawke's Run

   S3:E182/15/1986

   String discovers that an old friend is a double agent when a schematic he was to turn over to the FIRM is stolen.

   Director:Richard Irving

   Writer:B.W. Sandefur

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   Director:Richard Irving

   Writer:B.W. Sandefur
8. 

   7.2/10(137 votes)

   #8 - The Horn of Plenty

   S3:E19/28/1985

   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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   Director:Sutton Roley

   Writer:Sutton Roley
9. 

   7.2/10(171 votes)

   #9 - Airwolf II

   S3:E210/5/1985

   Hawke is at a friend's prestigious ceremony when Archangel pulls him out and accuses him of being involved in a robbery the previous night in which items that could be used by Airwolf were stolen by thieves in a helicopter matching the Santini Air chopper. But Archangel is suspended by the Firm, who've built a new model of Airwolf – Airwolf II, called 'Redwolf', and piloted by Harlan ""Tex"" Jenkins, who worked on the original Airwolf project and has always insisted that he, not Dr. Moffett, was the true creator. But things backfire for the Firm when Jenkins steals Airwolf II - and before he hands it over to the foreign agents he's in league with, he plans a showdown with his old rival – Stringfellow Hawke; a duel that brings Airwolf vs. Airwolf...

   Director:Don Medford

   Writer:Al Martinez

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   Director:Don Medford

   Writer:Al Martinez
10. 

    7.1/10(197 votes)

    #10 - Proof Through the Night

    S1:E52/11/1984

    A Russian mole discovers that scientists in the U.S.S.R. have developed a lethal serum that instantly kills anyone exposed to it. He steals a vial of the serum and contacts his friend Archangel for help in escaping the country with his family. Archangel dispatches Hawke and Santini for the rescue effort, but Airwolf can't handle that much passenger weight -- unless all her armaments are stripped leaving the supercopter defenseless.

    Director:Harvey S. Laidman

    Writer:Clyde Ware

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    Director:Harvey S. Laidman

    Writer:Clyde Ware
11. 

    7.1/10(181 votes)

    #11 - Echos From the Past

    S1:E73/3/1984

    Hawke meets a mercenary who claims to have information regarding his missing brother. When they part company, Hawke loses consciousness in his helicopter and crashes. When he comes to, he finds himself in a hospital. The medical staff inform him that he has been in a coma for the better part of a year. His friends, Archangel and Dom, were killed on a POW camp raid, but in the process, their heroism helped rescue Hawke's brother Saint John. Believing that his "mission" is over, Hawke reveals the location of Airwolf to his captors, then discovers that it has all been an elaborate ruse and he has inadvertantly turned over the super copter to a group of foreign conspirators.

    Directors:Alan J. Levi, Harvey S. Laidman

    Writers:Burton Armus, Christopher Crowe

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    Directors:Alan J. Levi, Harvey S. Laidman

    Writers:Burton Armus, Christopher Crowe
12. 

    7.1/10(113 votes)

    #12 - Crossover

    S3:E510/26/1985

    String falls for the Czech woman scientist, whom he's helping defect to the west.

    Director:Don Medford

    Writer:Elliot West

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    Director:Don Medford

    Writer:Elliot West
13. 

    7.1/10(106 votes)

    #13 - Eagles

    S3:E711/9/1985

    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

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    Director:Virgil W. Vogel

    Writer:Edward J. Lakso
14. 

    7.1/10(110 votes)

    #14 - The Deadly Circle

    S3:E1011/30/1985

    The families of one of String's friends from Vietnam are kidnapped along with Dom and Caitlin by people seeking revenge against those who destroyed their village during the Vietnam conflict.

    Director:Harvey S. Laidman

    Writer:Robert Specht

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    Director:Harvey S. Laidman

    Writer:Robert Specht
15. 

    7.1/10(101 votes)

    #15 - Half-Pint

    S3:E1212/21/1985

    String decides to adopt St. John's Amerasian son when the son's discovery points to St. John being dead.

    Director:Bernard McEveety

    Writer:Robert Janes

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    Director:Bernard McEveety

    Writer:Robert Janes
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    7.1/10(107 votes)

    #16 - The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

    S3:E203/15/1986

    Hawke is doing some late-night fishing on the lake outside his cabin, when he sees a helicopter fly over and drop a body into the water. Pulling the unconscious, dumped young woman out and taking her to hospital, he finds that the girl has amnesia due to her trauma, but doctor's examination indicates that she is a drug user and worked as a prostitute. Hawke sets out to help the girl find out her true identity, and just what trouble she was in that had led to people trying kill her - but when the hit-men who had dumped her into the lake find out that she is still alive, they set out to see that neither girl or Hawke are around to uncover the truth about her...

    Director:Don Chaffey

    Writer:B.W. Sandefur

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    Director:Don Chaffey

    Writer:B.W. Sandefur
17. 

    7.0/10(122 votes)

    #17 - Fortune Teller

    S3:E410/19/1985

    Hawke and Dominic arrive for a rendezvous with Archangel in the desert, only to find his jeep abandoned and no sign of him. The F.I.R.M., who have reason to believe that he has turned traitor, give him 48 hours to be found before they send in the Zebra squad – an assassination squad that take out suspected traitors. Dominic asks for the help of a reluctant psychic in finding Archangel's whereabouts, much to Hawke's scepticism. Archangel is actually being held by a rich crime baron who is determined to get his hands on ""The Fortune Teller"" – an in-flight device that out-guesses the opponent's next move - of which Archangel has been involved of the development...

    Director:Sutton Roley

    Writer:Rick Kelbaugh

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    Director:Sutton Roley

    Writer:Rick Kelbaugh
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    7.0/10(106 votes)

    #18 - Wildfire

    S3:E131/11/1986

    Dominic introduces Hawke and Caitlin to an old friend, Big Cece“ the owner of an oil drilling company in the desert, and his son Little Cece, who works at the company. But they find themselves walking into the middle of a feud that has emerged between the two since the death of Big Cece's wife. With Dom staying with the pair for a few days, he is shocked to learn that Little Cece was thrown out of college for selling marijuana, and is even more concerned when he discovers that he now is being forced by a head of the oil company to make drug runs in part of a drug smuggling operation. Dom sets about trying to put things right, but it is no easy task going against the ruthless drug runners...

    Director:Vincent McEveety

    Writer:David Westheimer

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    Director:Vincent McEveety

    Writer:David Westheimer
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    7.0/10(109 votes)

    #19 - Break-In at Santa Paula

    S3:E192/22/1986

    The wife of a deceased old friend of Hawke's begs him to rescue her son Terry, who is in a corrupt Mexican prison after being framed, with a bad heart condition. After visiting the prison posing as the boy's uncle, in order to survey the layout, Hawke, Dominic and Caitlin make the rescue bit; but the attempt fails when Terry attempts to take an ill friend with them, causing Hawke himself to be captured and held in the prison...

    Director:Dennis Donnelly

    Writer:Edward J. Lakso

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    Director:Dennis Donnelly

    Writer:Edward J. Lakso
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    6.9/10(232 votes)

    #20 - Daddy's Gone a Hunt'n

    S1:E31/28/1984

    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

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    Director:Virgil W. Vogel

    Writer:Burton Armus
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    6.9/10(201 votes)

    #21 - Bite of the Jackal

    S1:E42/4/1984

    An ambitious executive at the Firm makes a subversive play for Archangel's job. A bomb is planted aboard a vintage helicopter owned by Dominic Santini and he's forced to crash land. When Hawke and Archangel go hunting for Dom, Airwolf is ambushed and shot down. The two must convince a group of locals to help them repair their damaged tail rotor. Complicating matters on Dom's end, he must contend with a stowaway aboard his chopper -- a young girl searching for her dad.

    Director:Alan J. Levi

    Writers:Burton Armus, Nicholas Corea

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    Director:Alan J. Levi

    Writers:Burton Armus, Nicholas Corea
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    6.9/10(120 votes)

    #22 - And a Child Shall Lead

    S3:E310/12/1985

    String is aided in the rescue of a kidnapped industrial designer by the man's retarded son.

    Director:Allen Reisner

    Writer:Stephen A. Miller

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    Director:Allen Reisner

    Writer:Stephen A. Miller
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    6.9/10(115 votes)

    #23 - Annie Oakley

    S3:E811/16/1985

    When ""The Mongoose"", a new laser weapon, is stolen, the thieves fall out, and one of them contacts The F.I.R.M. with hope of returning the weapon for reward. Archangel sends Hawke, with Dominic and Caitlin, to work undercover as stunt men at a travelling Wild West show where the man is hiding out, but when their contact is killed in a suspicious ""accident"", it's up to them to find out the whereabouts of the weapon for themselves before the thieves can sell it to foreign agents...

    Director:Daniel Haller

    Writer:Carleton Eastlake

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    Director:Daniel Haller

    Writer:Carleton Eastlake
24. 

    6.9/10(109 votes)

    #24 - Jennie

    S3:E911/23/1985

    Arriving in Airwolf in a war-torn South American country, Hawke, Dominic and Caitlin rendezvous with ""living legend"" freedom fighter leader El Gato, in a mission to rescue a US scientist who is being held captive. Dominic and Caitlin wait at the pick-up point as Hawke and El Gato set off on the rescue bid, but during the escape after locating the scientist, El Gato is killed, and Hawke's radio to Airwolf is destroyed. Hiding in from the pursing terrorist army in the area's dense growth, Hawke and the rather arrogant scientist meet a teacher and her group of hearing-impaired children, who are homeless after village was destroyed by the terrorists. Hawke attempts to lead the group to safety as they head to the pick-up point, trying to find a new home for the teacher and her students, and all the time avoiding the terrorist army along the way...

    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski

    Writer:Katharyn Powers

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    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski

    Writer:Katharyn Powers
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    6.9/10(114 votes)

    #25 - Where Have All the Children Gone?

    S3:E1112/14/1985

    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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    Director:Daniel Haller

    Writer:Alan Godfrey