7.2/10182 votes#1 - Sweet Britches
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1984
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
6.6/10162 votes#2 - Firestorm
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1984
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.
7.3/10171 votes#3 - Moffett's Ghost
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1984
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
6.4/10142 votes#4 - The Truth About Holly
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/1984
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
6.5/10134 votes#5 - The Hunted
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1984
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
6.3/10136 votes#6 - Sins of the Past
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/1984
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: N/A
7.1/10139 votes#7 - Fallen Angel
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/1984
String must add Caitlin to the Airwolf crew, in order to rescue Archangel from behind enemy lines.
Director: Sutton Roley
Writer: Deborah Pratt
7.0/10148 votes#8 - HX 1
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/10/1984
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
6.7/10138 votes#9 - Flight #093 Is Missing
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/17/1984
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
Writer: Calvin Clements Jr., Chester Krumholz
6.8/10126 votes#10 - Once a Hero (a.k.a. Heroes)
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/1984
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
6.9/10122 votes#11 - Random Target
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1984
While filming aerial footage, String and Dom accidentally get footage of a mobster believed dead.
Director: Virgil W. Vogel
Writer: N/A
7.1/10123 votes#12 - Condemned
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/5/1985
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
6.4/10120 votes#13 - The American Dream
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/12/1985
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
6.6/10130 votes#14 - Inn at the End of the Road
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/26/1985
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
Writer: Alfonse Ruggiero, Westbrook Claridge
7.2/10118 votes#15 - Santini's Millions
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/2/1985
Dom inherits from the estate of a millionaire whom he had earlier rescued from a plane crash.
Director: Sutton Roley
Writer: Michael Halperin
6.3/10114 votes#16 - Prisoner of Yesterday
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/9/1985
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
Writer: T.S. Cook, Chester Krumholz
6.7/10121 votes#17 - Natural Born
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/23/1985
The Airwolf crew befriend a runaway looking for revenge on the drug runners that murdered his uncle.
Director: Virgil W. Vogel
Writer: Alfonse Ruggiero, Westbrook Claridge
6.2/10116 votes#18 - Out of the Sky
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/2/1985
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
Writer: Gregory Harris, Charles Winston
6.6/10124 votes#19 - Dambreakers
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/16/1985
String and a reporter friend are taken hostage by terrorists who have taken over a Christian commune.
Director: Virgil W. Vogel
Writer: Alfonse Ruggiero, Westbrook Claridge
7.2/10114 votes#20 - Severance Pay
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/23/1985
String must bring in a disgruntled former Firm employee who's been denied his retirement benefits.
Director: Sidney Hayers
Writer: Chester Krumholz
6.9/10110 votes#21 - Eruption
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 4/6/1985
After being forced down by a volcano eruption, String and Dom discover a mining town being run as a slave colony.
Director: Tom Blank
Writer: T.S. Cook, Kevin Hartigan
7.1/10116 votes#22 - Short Walk to Freedom
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 4/13/1985
String is captured by Latin American revolutionaries while attempting to rescue American archaeological students trapped by a coup.
Director: Virgil W. Vogel
Writer: Robert Blees, Dorothy Robinson
The Best Episodes of Airwolf Season 2
Every episode of Airwolf Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Airwolf Season 2!
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Sweet Britches" is the best rated episode of "Airwolf" season 2. It scored 7.2/10 based on 182 votes. Directed by Alan J. Levi and written by Donald P. Bellisario, it aired on 9/22/1984. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Firestorm".