5.0/101 votes#1 - Blackjack
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 1/23/1987
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
Writer: Michael Mercer, Jana Veverka
5.0/101 votes#2 - Escape
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 1/30/1987
After being captured and sentenced to die, Jo's only hope for survival lies with a Soviet defector.
Director: Patrick Corbett
Writer: Patrick Kennedy
5.0/101 votes#3 - A Town for Hire
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 2/6/1987
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
Writer: Jordon Nicht, Gwen Tulpa
5.0/101 votes#4 - Salvage
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 2/13/1987
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
5.0/101 votes#5 - Windows
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 2/20/1987
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
5.0/101 votes#6 - A Piece of Cake
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 2/27/1987
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
5.0/101 votes#7 - Deathtrain
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 3/6/1987
Locke does not get along with the Russian agent he has been assigned to work with to guard a train full of nerve gas that is to be destroyed.
Director: Patrick Corbett
Writer: Jordon Nicht, Gwen Tulpa
5.0/101 votes#8 - Code of Silence
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 3/13/1987
St. John and Locke uncover a military cover-up when they represent opposite sides at a court martial.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.0/101 votes#9 - Stavograd (a.k.a. The Stavograd Incident) (1)
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 3/20/1987
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
5.0/101 votes#10 - Stavograd (a.k.a. The Stavograd Incident) (2)
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 3/27/1987
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
5.0/101 votes#11 - Mime Troupe
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 4/3/1987
The Airwolf team is assigned to guard the daughter of an Interpol agent who is marked for death by terrorists.
Director: Bruce Pittman
Writer: Barbara Brown, Lyal Brown
5.0/101 votes#12 - X-Virus
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 4/10/1987
The Airwolf team tracks down the source of a genetically engineered virus that has claimed the life of one of St. John's friends.
Director: Ken Jubenvill
Writer: Barbara Brown, Lyal Brown
5.0/101 votes#13 - Rogue Warrior
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 4/24/1987
A security leak is blamed on Locke when his behavior changes as a result of seeing a friend killed on a mission behind the Iron Curtain.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: R.B. Carney
5.0/101 votes#14 - Ground Zero
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 5/1/1987
A Japanese Kamikaze pilot who survived being shot down by St. John's father during WWII plans on restoring his honor by killing St. John and destroying a nuclear power plant.
Director: Alan Simmonds
Writer: Michael Mercer
5.0/101 votes#15 - Flowers of the Mountains
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 5/8/1987
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
5.0/101 votes#16 - The Key
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 5/15/1987
The Airwolf team is sent in to stop a group that has taken control of ten Soviet and ten American nuclear missile silos and threatens to set them off unless everyone agrees to total nuclear disarmament.
Director: J. Barry Herron
Writer: Rick Drew
5.0/101 votes#17 - On the Double
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 5/22/1987
Mike and the wife of an East German double agent! pilot he had been impersonating are kidnapped at an air show in Paris.
Director: Ken Jubenvill
Writer: Frank Kniest
5.0/101 votes#18 - Storm Warning
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 5/29/1987
A banana republic dictator takes St. John and the family of one of St. John's friends- who had discovered that the dictator was skimming American aid- hostage on a remote island.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: Michael Mercer
5.0/101 votes#19 - The Golden One
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 7/3/1987
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
5.0/101 votes#20 - The Puppet Master
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 7/10/1987
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
Writer: Jordon Nicht, Gwen Tulpa
5.0/101 votes#21 - Malduke
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 7/17/1987
The Airwolf team is sent to stop a man who has hijacked a Japanese freighter carrying nuclear waste. The man plans to blackmail the nations of the Earth into guaranteeing all diseased persons.
Director: Ken Jubenvill
Writer: Michael Mercer
5.0/101 votes#22 - Poppy Chain
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 7/24/1987
The Airwolf team travels around the world as they put an opium ring run by St. John's former commander out of business.
Director: Ken Jubenvill
Writer: Chris Haddock
5.0/101 votes#23 - Flying Home
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 7/31/1987
Jo's ailing father aids the Airwolf team in recovering radioactive material stolen by a group of Neo-Nazi 5.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: Chris Haddock, Jana Veverka, Rick Drew
5.0/101 votes#24 - Welcome to Paradise
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 8/7/1987
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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Season 4 Ratings Summary
"Blackjack" is the best rated episode of "Airwolf" season 4. It scored 5/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Alan Simmonds and written by Michael Mercer, Jana Veverka, it aired on 1/23/1987. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Escape".