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The Worst Episodes of Airwolf

Every episode of Airwolf ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Airwolf!

Worst episode
S2E18 Out of the Sky
6.1135 votes
Best episode
S1E10 And They Are Us
7.8215 votes
Top season
Season 1
7.1avg
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2d 16h
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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Airwolf Season 2 Episode 18 - Out of the Sky
    6.1/10(135 votes)

    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:Charles Winston, Gregory Harris

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  2. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 13 - The American Dream
    6.3/10(142 votes)

    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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  3. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 6 - Sins of the Past
    6.4/10(157 votes)

    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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  4. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 17 - Natural Born
    6.4/10(139 votes)

    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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  5. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 4 - The Truth About Holly
    6.5/10(162 votes)

    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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  6. Airwolf Season 3 Episode 21 - Tracks
    6.5/10(105 votes)

    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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  7. Airwolf Season 1 Episode 2 - Shadow of the Hawke (2)
    6.6/10(261 votes)

    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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  8. Airwolf Season 1 Episode 8 - Fight Like a Dove
    6.6/10(183 votes)

    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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  9. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 16 - Prisoner of Yesterday
    6.6/10(134 votes)

    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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  10. Airwolf Season 1 Episode 9 - Mad Over Miami
    6.7/10(192 votes)

    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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  11. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 5 - The Hunted
    6.7/10(156 votes)

    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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  12. Airwolf Season 3 Episode 6 - Kingdom Come
    6.7/10(122 votes)

    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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  13. Airwolf Season 3 Episode 16 - Little Wolf
    6.7/10(110 votes)

    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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  14. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 2 - Firestorm
    6.8/10(185 votes)

    S2:E2

    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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  15. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 14 - Inn at the End of the Road
    6.8/10(150 votes)

    S2:E14

    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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  16. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 19 - Dambreakers
    6.8/10(147 votes)

    S2:E19

    String and a reporter friend are taken hostage by terrorists who have taken over a Christian commune.

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

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  17. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 11 - Random Target
    6.8/10(145 votes)

    S2:E11

    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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  18. Airwolf Season 3 Episode 11 - Where Have All the Children Gone?
    6.8/10(124 votes)

    S3:E11

    At the funeral of a Vietnam comrade, Hawke takes it upon himself to deliver the man's coffin flag and Congressional Medal of Honour to the soldier's brother, Billy Fargo. But arriving in the small rural town where Fargo is reported to be living, he finds the whole area inhabited solely by youths, all under their ""father"" Fargo's influence. Fargo emerges to be a deranged ""peace-loving"" hippie, who, with his wily cohort Sabrina, is planning to use the youngsters to help in a plot to make a destructive anti-nuclear statement to the world...

    Director:Daniel Haller
    Writer:Alan Godfrey

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

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

    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:Barbara Brown, Lyal Brown

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

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

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

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

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

    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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Worst Episodes Summary

"Out of the Sky" is the worst rated episode of Airwolf. It scored 6.1/10 from 135 votes. Directed by Bruce Seth Green and written by Charles Winston, Gregory Harris, it aired on March 2, 1985. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The American Dream".

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