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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!

The Best Episodes of Airwolf

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...

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  1. Background image for And They Are Us
    7.7/10(201 votes)

    #1 - And They Are Us

    S1:E10

    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.

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  2. Background image for Mind of the Machine
    7.5/10(179 votes)

    #2 - 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.

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    Director:Ivan Dixon
    Writer:T.S. Cook
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    7.4/10(397 votes)

    #3 - 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.

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  4. Background image for One Way Express
    7.4/10(205 votes)

    #4 - One Way Express

    S1:E6

    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.

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    Director:Alan J. Levi
  5. Background image for Moffett's Ghost
    7.4/10(179 votes)

    #5 - Moffett's Ghost

    S2:E3

    In the midst of it's key part in delivering and collecting a leading American scientist to top secret sanctions aimed at cooling international tensions with Russians, Airwolf develops a seeming computer virus in it's systems, which periodically takes pilot control and makes it a potential killing machine in the air. The systems have been taken over buy a ""time-bomb"" left by the chopper's evil creator, Dr. Moffett, who has programmed it to begin the deadly behaviour if not given it a recognition code by him at that time. Hawke and Dominic must decide whether to let the Firm scientists try and work on the machine - risking having them snatching it back away from them - or to find another way to try and cure The Lady before completing their part in the sanctions, knowing that if they fail to completely cure it, they jeopardise not only international relations, but potentially hundreds of lives...

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    Writer:T.S. Cook
  6. Background image for Severance Pay
    7.3/10(118 votes)

    #6 - Severance Pay

    S2:E20

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

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  8. Background image for Birds of Paradise
    7.3/10(106 votes)

    #7 - Birds of Paradise

    S3:E22

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

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  9. Background image for Sweet Britches
    7.2/10(190 votes)

    #8 - 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...

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  10. Background image for Proof Through the Night
    7.1/10(189 votes)

    #9 - Proof Through the Night

    S1:E5

    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.

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  11. Background image for Fallen Angel
    7.1/10(146 votes)

    #10 - Fallen Angel

    S2:E7

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

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  12. Background image for Short Walk to Freedom
    7.1/10(122 votes)

    #11 - Short Walk to Freedom

    S2:E22

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

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    7.1/10(107 votes)

    #12 - Hawke's Run

    S3:E18

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

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  14. Background image for Echos From the Past
    7.0/10(177 votes)

    #13 - Echos From the Past

    S1:E7

    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.

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    7.0/10(154 votes)

    #14 - 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...

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    Director:Gerald Mayer
  16. Background image for Santini's Millions
    7.0/10(126 votes)

    #15 - Santini's Millions

    S2:E15

    Dom inherits from the estate of a millionaire whom he had earlier rescued from a plane crash.

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    7.0/10(113 votes)

    #16 - Day of Jeopardy

    S3:E15

    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...

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  18. Background image for Bite of the Jackal
    6.9/10(192 votes)

    #17 - Bite of the Jackal

    S1:E4

    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.

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  19. Background image for Condemned
    6.9/10(131 votes)

    #18 - Condemned

    S2:E12

    String and Caitlin are sent to a remote Alaskan research station where a deadly Russian bacteria has been let loose.

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  20. Background image for Eruption
    6.9/10(115 votes)

    #19 - Eruption

    S2:E21

    After being forced down by a volcano eruption, String and Dom discover a mining town being run as a slave colony.

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  21. Background image for The Horn of Plenty
    6.9/10(132 votes)

    #20 - 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...

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    Director:Sutton Roley
  22. Background image for Airwolf II
    6.9/10(166 votes)

    #21 - Airwolf II

    S3:E2

    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...

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    Director:Don Medford
  23. Background image for Eagles
    6.9/10(99 votes)

    #22 - Eagles

    S3:E7

    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...

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  24. Background image for The Deadly Circle
    6.9/10(103 votes)

    #23 - The Deadly Circle

    S3:E10

    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.

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  25. Background image for The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
    6.9/10(103 votes)

    #24 - The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

    S3:E20

    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...

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    Director:Don Chaffey
  26. Background image for Daddy's Gone a Hunt'n
    6.8/10(219 votes)

    #25 - Daddy's Gone a Hunt'n

    S1:E3

    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.

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Best Episodes Summary

"And They Are Us" is the best rated episode of "Airwolf". It scored 7.7/10 based on 201 votes. Directed by David Hemmings, Nicholas Corea and written by Nicholas Corea, it aired on 3/31/1984. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Mind of the Machine".