The Worst Episodes of Airwolf

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   5.3/10(4 votes)

   #1 - Kingdom Come

   S3:E611/2/1985

   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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   Director:Harvey S. Laidman

   Writer:Michael Halperin
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   5.3/10(3 votes)

   #2 - Hawke's Run

   S3:E182/15/1986

   String discovers that an old friend is a double agent when a schematic he was to turn over to the FIRM is stolen.

   Director:Richard Irving

   Writer:B.W. Sandefur

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   Director:Richard Irving

   Writer:B.W. Sandefur
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   5.5/10(4 votes)

   #3 - Fortune Teller

   S3:E410/19/1985

   Hawke and Dominic arrive for a rendezvous with Archangel in the desert, only to find his jeep abandoned and no sign of him. The F.I.R.M., who have reason to believe that he has turned traitor, give him 48 hours to be found before they send in the Zebra squad – an assassination squad that take out suspected traitors. Dominic asks for the help of a reluctant psychic in finding Archangel's whereabouts, much to Hawke's scepticism. Archangel is actually being held by a rich crime baron who is determined to get his hands on ""The Fortune Teller"" – an in-flight device that out-guesses the opponent's next move - of which Archangel has been involved of the development...

   Director:Sutton Roley

   Writer:Rick Kelbaugh

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   Director:Sutton Roley

   Writer:Rick Kelbaugh
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   5.7/10(3 votes)

   #4 - Little Wolf

   S3:E162/1/1986

   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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   Director:Bernard McEveety

   Writer:Robert Specht
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   5.7/10(3 votes)

   #5 - Tracks

   S3:E213/22/1986

   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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   Director:Ron Stein

   Writer:Rick Kelbaugh
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   5.8/10(4 votes)

   #6 - Santini's Millions

   S2:E152/2/1985

   Dom inherits from the estate of a millionaire whom he had earlier rescued from a plane crash.

   Director:Sutton Roley

   Writer:Michael Halperin

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   Director:Sutton Roley

   Writer:Michael Halperin
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   5.8/10(4 votes)

   #7 - Crossover

   S3:E510/26/1985

   String falls for the Czech woman scientist, whom he's helping defect to the west.

   Director:Don Medford

   Writer:Elliot West

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   Director:Don Medford

   Writer:Elliot West
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   5.8/10(4 votes)

   #8 - Wildfire

   S3:E131/11/1986

   Dominic introduces Hawke and Caitlin to an old friend, Big Cece“ the owner of an oil drilling company in the desert, and his son Little Cece, who works at the company. But they find themselves walking into the middle of a feud that has emerged between the two since the death of Big Cece's wife. With Dom staying with the pair for a few days, he is shocked to learn that Little Cece was thrown out of college for selling marijuana, and is even more concerned when he discovers that he now is being forced by a head of the oil company to make drug runs in part of a drug smuggling operation. Dom sets about trying to put things right, but it is no easy task going against the ruthless drug runners...

   Director:Vincent McEveety

   Writer:David Westheimer

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   Director:Vincent McEveety

   Writer:David Westheimer
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   6.0/10(4 votes)

   #9 - 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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    6.0/10(4 votes)

    #10 - Mad Over Miami

    S1:E93/24/1984

    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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    Director:David Hemmings

    Writers:Burton Armus, Joseph Gunn
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    6.0/10(5 votes)

    #11 - 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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    6.0/10(5 votes)

    #12 - 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
13. 

    6.0/10(4 votes)

    #13 - 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
14. 

    6.0/10(4 votes)

    #14 - 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
15. 

    6.0/10(3 votes)

    #15 - Airwolf II

    S3:E210/5/1985

    Hawke is at a friend's prestigious ceremony when Archangel pulls him out and accuses him of being involved in a robbery the previous night in which items that could be used by Airwolf were stolen by thieves in a helicopter matching the Santini Air chopper. But Archangel is suspended by the Firm, who've built a new model of Airwolf – Airwolf II, called 'Redwolf', and piloted by Harlan ""Tex"" Jenkins, who worked on the original Airwolf project and has always insisted that he, not Dr. Moffett, was the true creator. But things backfire for the Firm when Jenkins steals Airwolf II - and before he hands it over to the foreign agents he's in league with, he plans a showdown with his old rival – Stringfellow Hawke; a duel that brings Airwolf vs. Airwolf...

    Director:Don Medford

    Writer:Al Martinez

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    Director:Don Medford

    Writer:Al Martinez
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    6.0/10(3 votes)

    #16 - And a Child Shall Lead

    S3:E310/12/1985

    String is aided in the rescue of a kidnapped industrial designer by the man's retarded son.

    Director:Allen Reisner

    Writer:Stephen A. Miller

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    Director:Allen Reisner

    Writer:Stephen A. Miller
17. 

    6.0/10(5 votes)

    #17 - 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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    6.0/10(4 votes)

    #18 - The Deadly Circle

    S3:E1011/30/1985

    The families of one of String's friends from Vietnam are kidnapped along with Dom and Caitlin by people seeking revenge against those who destroyed their village during the Vietnam conflict.

    Director:Harvey S. Laidman

    Writer:Robert Specht

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    Director:Harvey S. Laidman

    Writer:Robert Specht
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    6.0/10(4 votes)

    #19 - Half-Pint

    S3:E1212/21/1985

    String decides to adopt St. John's Amerasian son when the son's discovery points to St. John being dead.

    Director:Bernard McEveety

    Writer:Robert Janes

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    Director:Bernard McEveety

    Writer:Robert Janes
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    6.0/10(3 votes)

    #20 - Desperate Monday

    S3:E172/8/1986

    At Caitlin's sorority reunion kidnappers after one of her ‘sisters' bungle the job and end up holding the whole reunion hostage.

    Director:Gregory Prange

    Writer:Unknown

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    Writer:Unknown
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    6.0/10(3 votes)

    #21 - The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

    S3:E203/15/1986

    Hawke is doing some late-night fishing on the lake outside his cabin, when he sees a helicopter fly over and drop a body into the water. Pulling the unconscious, dumped young woman out and taking her to hospital, he finds that the girl has amnesia due to her trauma, but doctor's examination indicates that she is a drug user and worked as a prostitute. Hawke sets out to help the girl find out her true identity, and just what trouble she was in that had led to people trying kill her - but when the hit-men who had dumped her into the lake find out that she is still alive, they set out to see that neither girl or Hawke are around to uncover the truth about her...

    Director:Don Chaffey

    Writer:B.W. Sandefur

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    Director:Don Chaffey

    Writer:B.W. Sandefur
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    6.0/10(2 votes)

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

    S4:E103/27/1987

    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

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    Director:Ken Jubenvill

    Writer:Sydney Burrows
23. 

    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #23 - X-Virus

    S4:E124/10/1987

    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

    Writers:Lyal Brown, Barbara Brown

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    Director:Ken Jubenvill

    Writers:Lyal Brown, Barbara Brown
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    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #24 - Rogue Warrior

    S4:E134/24/1987

    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

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    Director:Brad Turner

    Writer:R.B. Carney
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    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #25 - Ground Zero

    S4:E145/1/1987

    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

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    Director:Alan Simmonds

    Writer:Michael Mercer