The Best Episodes of Airwolf

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   7.5/10(2 votes)

   #1 - Discovery

   S3:E141/18/1986

   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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   Director:Alan Cooke

   Writer:Del Reisman
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   7.5/10(2 votes)

   #2 - Salvage

   S4:E42/13/1987

   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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   Director:Ken Jubenvill

   Writer:A.P. Liddell
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   7.5/10(2 votes)

   #3 - Windows

   S4:E52/20/1987

   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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   Director:Ken Jubenvill

   Writer:Leslie McBride
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   7.5/10(2 votes)

   #4 - Code of Silence

   S4:E83/13/1987

   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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   Director:Unknown

   Writer:Unknown
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   7.5/10(2 votes)

   #5 - The Puppet Master

   S4:E207/10/1987

   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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   Director:Zale Dalen

   Writers:Gwen Tulpa, Jordon Nicht
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   7.5/10(2 votes)

   #6 - Welcome to Paradise

   S4:E248/7/1987

   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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   Director:J. Barry Herron

   Writer:James S. Hughs
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   7.0/10(5 votes)

   #7 - 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
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   7.0/10(5 votes)

   #8 - 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
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   7.0/10(3 votes)

   #9 - To Snare a Wolf

   S1:E124/14/1984

   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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   Director:Alan J. Levi

   Writer:Louis F. Vipperman
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    7.0/10(3 votes)

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

    S2:E1011/24/1984

    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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    Director:Leslie H. Martinson

    Writer:Alfonse Ruggiero
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    7.0/10(4 votes)

    #11 - Inn at the End of the Road

    S2:E141/26/1985

    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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    Director:Ray Austin

    Writers:Alfonse Ruggiero, Westbrook Claridge
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    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #12 - Blackjack

    S4:E11/23/1987

    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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    Director:Alan Simmonds

    Writers:Michael Mercer, Jana Veverka
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    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #13 - Escape

    S4:E21/30/1987

    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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    Director:Patrick Corbett

    Writer:Patrick Kennedy
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    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #14 - A Town for Hire

    S4:E32/6/1987

    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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    Director:Patrick Corbett

    Writers:Gwen Tulpa, Jordon Nicht
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    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #15 - A Piece of Cake

    S4:E62/27/1987

    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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    Director:Bruce Pittman

    Writer:Anthony Robertson
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    7.0/10(2 votes)

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

    S4:E93/20/1987

    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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    Director:Ken Jubenvill

    Writer:Sydney Burrows
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    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #17 - Flowers of the Mountains

    S4:E155/8/1987

    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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    Director:Randy Bradshaw

    Writer:Stephen Ainsworth
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    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #18 - The Golden One

    S4:E197/3/1987

    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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    Director:George Erschbamer

    Writer:Ray Hoagan
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    6.8/10(4 votes)

    #19 - 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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    6.8/10(5 votes)

    #20 - Sweet Britches

    S2:E19/22/1984

    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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    Director:Alan J. Levi

    Writer:Donald P. Bellisario
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    6.8/10(4 votes)

    #21 - Firestorm

    S2:E29/29/1984

    Eddie, a friend of Dominic's, was once a pilot until a air crash in which his passengers were killed, causing him to lose his nerve and turn to drink as a result. Living alone in his trailer in the desert, Eddie's alcohol problem has recently become even worse after supposedly seeing lights in the sky in the middle of the night. Though trying to help his friend, Dominic is as skeptical as everyone else, blaming the sightings on Eddie's drunken state, until one night he sees the lights too... The next morning, Hawke arrives to find that the pair of them have vanished, and in searching for them, stumbles upon a fanatical militarist's organization, who is planning to launch his own nuclear missile against Russia...

    Director:Ray Austin

    Writer:Calvin Clements Jr.

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    Director:Ray Austin

    Writer:Calvin Clements Jr.
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    6.8/10(4 votes)

    #22 - Moffett's Ghost

    S2:E310/6/1984

    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...

    Director:Donald A. Baer

    Writer:T.S. Cook

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    Director:Donald A. Baer

    Writer:T.S. Cook
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    6.8/10(4 votes)

    #23 - Fallen Angel

    S2:E711/3/1984

    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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    Director:Sutton Roley

    Writer:Deborah Pratt
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    6.8/10(4 votes)

    #24 - HX 1

    S2:E811/10/1984

    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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    Director:Gerald Mayer

    Writer:Steve Hayes
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    6.7/10(3 votes)

    #25 - Out of the Sky

    S2:E183/2/1985

    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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    Director:Bruce Seth Green

    Writers:Gregory Harris, Charles Winston