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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Airwolf Season 4 Episode 10 - Stavograd (a.k.a. The Stavograd Incident) (2)
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #1 - Stavograd (a.k.a. The Stavograd Incident) (2)

    S4:E10

    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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  2. Airwolf Season 4 Episode 12 - X-Virus
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #2 - X-Virus

    S4:E12

    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
    Writers:Lyal Brown, Barbara Brown

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  3. Airwolf Season 4 Episode 13 - Rogue Warrior
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #3 - Rogue Warrior

    S4:E13

    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

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  4. Airwolf Season 4 Episode 14 - Ground Zero
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #4 - Ground Zero

    S4:E14

    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

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  5. Airwolf Season 4 Episode 17 - On the Double
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #5 - On the Double

    S4:E17

    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

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  6. Airwolf Season 4 Episode 21 - Malduke
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #6 - Malduke

    S4:E21

    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

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  7. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 18 - Out of the Sky
    6.1/10(134 votes)

    #7 - Out of the Sky

    S2:E18

    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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  8. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 13 - The American Dream
    6.3/10(141 votes)

    #8 - The American Dream

    S2:E13

    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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  9. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 6 - Sins of the Past
    6.4/10(156 votes)

    #9 - Sins of the Past

    S2:E6

    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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  10. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 17 - Natural Born
    6.4/10(138 votes)

    #10 - Natural Born

    S2:E17

    The Airwolf crew befriend a runaway looking for revenge on the drug runners that murdered his uncle.

    Director:Virgil W. Vogel
    Writers:Alfonse Ruggiero, Westbrook Claridge

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  11. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 4 - The Truth About Holly
    6.5/10(161 votes)

    #11 - The Truth About Holly

    S2:E4

    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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  12. Airwolf Season 4 Episode 7 - Deathtrain
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #12 - Deathtrain

    S4:E7

    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
    Writers:Gwen Tulpa, Jordon Nicht

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  13. Airwolf Season 4 Episode 11 - Mime Troupe
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #13 - Mime Troupe

    S4:E11

    The Airwolf team is assigned to guard the daughter of an Interpol agent who is marked for death by terrorists.

    Director:Bruce Pittman
    Writers:Lyal Brown, Barbara Brown

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  14. Airwolf Season 4 Episode 16 - The Key
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #14 - The Key

    S4:E16

    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

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  15. Airwolf Season 4 Episode 18 - Storm Warning
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #15 - Storm Warning

    S4:E18

    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

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  16. Airwolf Season 4 Episode 22 - Poppy Chain
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #16 - Poppy Chain

    S4:E22

    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

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  17. Airwolf Season 4 Episode 23 - Flying Home
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #17 - Flying Home

    S4:E23

    Jo's ailing father aids the Airwolf team in recovering radioactive material stolen by a group of Neo-Nazi 5.

    Director:Brad Turner
    Writers:Chris Haddock, Jana Veverka, Rick Drew

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  18. Airwolf Season 1 Episode 2 - Shadow of the Hawke (2)
    6.6/10(259 votes)

    #18 - Shadow of the Hawke (2)

    S1:E2

    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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  19. Airwolf Season 1 Episode 8 - Fight Like a Dove
    6.6/10(182 votes)

    #19 - Fight Like a Dove

    S1:E8

    An Israeli war crimes hunter is killed by a suspected Nazi named Hans Daubert in France. His daughter vows revenge and seeks the help of String and Dom, along with Airwolf, to bring him to justice. Complicating matters is Archangel's involvement with Daubert who is a known arms dealer selling to the powers that he chooses to in order to influence political outcomes in the world -- and Archangel is his supplier!

    Director:Stephen Dollinger
    Writer:Burton Armus

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  20. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 16 - Prisoner of Yesterday
    6.6/10(133 votes)

    #20 - Prisoner of Yesterday

    S2:E16

    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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  21. Airwolf Season 3 Episode 21 - Tracks
    6.6/10(103 votes)

    #21 - Tracks

    S3:E21

    String takes group of wheelchair-bound Vietnam war vets on a mountain hike adventure, but they wind up fighting for thier lives when a deranged mountain man, wants them off his mountain at any cost.

    Director:Ron Stein
    Writer:Rick Kelbaugh

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  22. Airwolf Season 1 Episode 9 - Mad Over Miami
    6.7/10(191 votes)

    #22 - Mad Over Miami

    S1:E9

    Santini makes an unauthorized flight to Cuba in order to rescue two political prisoners who are being ransomed for $2 million. However, while there, the exchange site is attacked and the ransom money is stolen. While flying back to the mainland, Santini is forced to crash land back on Cuba and Hawke must brave a hurricane in Airwolf to rescue his friend. When String and Dom are reunited, the pair must negotiate with a band of freedom fighters who raised the capital to ransom their compadres and are not convinced of Santini's innocence in the theft of the funds. To make matters more interesting, Archangel is supplying weapons to a paramilitary band that just may have had a hand in stealing the ransom money.

    Director:David Hemmings
    Writers:Burton Armus, Joseph Gunn

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  23. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 5 - The Hunted
    6.7/10(155 votes)

    #23 - The Hunted

    S2:E5

    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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  24. Airwolf Season 3 Episode 6 - Kingdom Come
    6.7/10(120 votes)

    #24 - Kingdom Come

    S3:E6

    When a professional group of thieves steal a batch of thermonuclear detonators, which can cause mass destruction if they fall into the wrong hands, Archangel has reason to suspect that the robbery was an inside job, and sends Hawke and Santini to use Airwolf to track down the detonators before they can be used by the criminals. Meanwhile, while Hawke and Dom are busy tracking down the detonators, a man arrives at Santini Air asking Caitlin to give him flying lessons, and soon strikes up a romance with her – but unbeknown to her, he is actually an ex-F.I.R.M. employee who was the inside man on the robbery, and now plans to use her in a trap to get his hands on Airwolf, which he intends to use to fly the detonators out of the country with...

    Director:Harvey S. Laidman
    Writer:Michael Halperin

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  25. Airwolf Season 3 Episode 16 - Little Wolf
    6.7/10(109 votes)

    #25 - Little Wolf

    S3:E16

    String and Dom become involved in a custody dispute when a friend of Strings who was about to be divorced dies leaving his wife and mother to battle for his infant son.

    Director:Bernard McEveety
    Writer:Robert Specht

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Stavograd (a.k.a. The Stavograd Incident) (2)" is the worst rated episode of "Airwolf". It scored 6/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Ken Jubenvill and written by Sydney Burrows, it aired on 3/27/1987. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "X-Virus".