The Best Episodes of Airwolf

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   6.5/10(2 votes)

   #1 - Shadow of the Hawke (2)

   S1:E21/22/1984

   Hawke and his pal Santini head to Libya to recover Airwolf from it's diabolical creator, but Dr. Moffet turns up the heat by destroying a U.S. Navy warship. When Hawke's girlfriend Gabrielle goes undercover to discover Moffet's nefarious plans, she is captured and tortured and left to die in the desert. It's up to Hawke to recover the chopper, stop Moffet and save the girl, but will he do it all in time?

   Director:Unknown

   Writer:Unknown

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   6.5/10(4 votes)

   #2 - 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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   6.2/10(4 votes)

   #3 - 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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   6.0/10(4 votes)

   #4 - 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
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   6.0/10(4 votes)

   #5 - 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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   6.0/10(4 votes)

   #6 - 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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   6.0/10(3 votes)

   #7 - Sins of the Past

   S2:E610/27/1984

   Dominic is distraught to hear that his daughter Sally-Anne – whom Hawke never even knew existed – has been found dead on the beach after over-dosing, in the Caribbean Island of San Remo, where Dom himself was born. Detouring in their way to a top-secret Airwolf mission for the Firm, Hawke flies Dominic to the island to attend the funeral, only for it to end in an argument with his bitter ex-wife Lila. Returning from their mission, they hear that Lila was murdered the previous night, and Dominic is arrested as the prime suspect. When Archangel is ordered not to allow Firm involvement as not to risk uncovering the secret mission, Hawke heads to the luxurious San Remo to investigate the murder for himself, and finds the island is living in the shadow of a new gambling casino, run by a very shady character with great influence in the area...

   Director:Donald A. Baer

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Donald A. Baer

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   6.0/10(3 votes)

   #8 - 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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   6.0/10(3 votes)

   #9 - Random Target

   S2:E1112/8/1984

   While filming aerial footage, String and Dom accidentally get footage of a mobster believed dead.

   Director:Virgil W. Vogel

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Virgil W. Vogel

   Writer:Unknown
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    6.0/10(3 votes)

    #10 - Condemned

    S2:E121/5/1985

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

    Director:Tom Blank

    Writer:Douglas Steinberg

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    Director:Tom Blank

    Writer:Douglas Steinberg
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    6.0/10(3 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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    6.0/10(3 votes)

    #12 - Short Walk to Freedom

    S2:E224/13/1985

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

    Director:Virgil W. Vogel

    Writers:Dorothy Robinson, Robert Blees

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    Director:Virgil W. Vogel

    Writers:Dorothy Robinson, Robert Blees
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    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #13 - 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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    5.8/10(4 votes)

    #14 - The Truth About Holly

    S2:E410/13/1984

    After Hawke rescues Dominic's niece Holly from a mobster's compound in Mexico, strange things start happening at Santini Air. At first, Hawke and Dominic assume that the mobster is trying to scare the girl, but, especially when Hawke turns down Holly's advances of romance, the incidents get worse... Meanwhile, Caitlin O'Shannessy arrives fresh from her escapade with Hawke against the corrupt Police of Pope County, and looks for work at Santini Air. He close relationship with Hawke somehow seems to fuel the incidents...

    Director:Alan J. Levi

    Writer:Phil Combest

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    Director:Alan J. Levi

    Writer:Phil Combest
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    5.8/10(4 votes)

    #15 - The Hunted

    S2:E510/20/1984

    Santini Air is hired for a 30 day period by agents on behalf of a industrial millionaire, to be on stand-by to pilot the man on an important journey when called upon. Dominic is excited at the prospect of the high-paying job, but Hawke is more sceptical and intends to find out just why they've been given the contract. But unbeknown to any of them, Caitlin's new boyfriend is plotting to assassinate the millionaire; and matters are not helped any by some malfunctions that Airwolf is suffering...

    Director:Sutton Roley

    Writer:Chester Krumholz

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    Director:Sutton Roley

    Writer:Chester Krumholz
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    5.8/10(4 votes)

    #16 - 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
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    5.7/10(3 votes)

    #17 - 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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    5.7/10(3 votes)

    #18 - 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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    5.7/10(3 votes)

    #19 - 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
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    5.7/10(3 votes)

    #20 - 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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    5.7/10(3 votes)

    #21 - 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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    5.7/10(3 votes)

    #22 - Flight #093 Is Missing

    S2:E911/17/1984

    Caitlin is a passenger on board a plane which Airwolf is sent to search for after the plane is hijacked and forced down at sea.

    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski

    Writers:Calvin Clements Jr., Chester Krumholz

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    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski

    Writers:Calvin Clements Jr., Chester Krumholz
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    5.7/10(3 votes)

    #23 - The American Dream

    S2:E131/12/1985

    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

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    Director:Virgil W. Vogel

    Writer:Dennis Foley
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    5.7/10(3 votes)

    #24 - Prisoner of Yesterday

    S2:E162/9/1985

    The Airwolf team ends up stopping a Banana republic coup when they set out to rescue Doc, who had been kidnapped to treat the nation's leader.

    Director:Georg Fenady

    Writers:T.S. Cook, Chester Krumholz

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    Director:Georg Fenady

    Writers:T.S. Cook, Chester Krumholz
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    5.7/10(3 votes)

    #25 - Eruption

    S2:E214/6/1985

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

    Director:Tom Blank

    Writers:T.S. Cook, Kevin Hartigan

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    Director:Tom Blank

    Writers:T.S. Cook, Kevin Hartigan