The Worst Episodes of Airwolf

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   4.5/10(2 votes)

   #1 - 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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   4.5/10(2 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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   4.5/10(2 votes)

   #3 - Break-In at Santa Paula

   S3:E192/22/1986

   The wife of a deceased old friend of Hawke's begs him to rescue her son Terry, who is in a corrupt Mexican prison after being framed, with a bad heart condition. After visiting the prison posing as the boy's uncle, in order to survey the layout, Hawke, Dominic and Caitlin make the rescue bit; but the attempt fails when Terry attempts to take an ill friend with them, causing Hawke himself to be captured and held in the prison...

   Director:Dennis Donnelly

   Writer:Edward J. Lakso

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   Director:Dennis Donnelly

   Writer:Edward J. Lakso
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   4.7/10(3 votes)

   #4 - 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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   4.7/10(3 votes)

   #5 - 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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   4.7/10(3 votes)

   #6 - 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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   5.0/10(3 votes)

   #7 - 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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   5.0/10(2 votes)

   #8 - The Horn of Plenty

   S3:E19/28/1985

   Hawke takes a seemingly luxurious Santini Air job, piloting and accompanying a beautiful, high-flying business woman for a few days, but ends up duped into being hypnotised in an elaborate plot by master criminal John Bradford Horn. Horn has desire to take over a small country as his own, and intends to have the hypnotised Hawke deliver Airwolf to him so he can use the chopper's fierce fire-power to succeed in his goal...

   Director:Sutton Roley

   Writer:Sutton Roley

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   Writer:Sutton Roley
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   5.0/10(2 votes)

   #9 - 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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    5.0/10(2 votes)

    #10 - 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
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    5.0/10(2 votes)

    #11 - Eagles

    S3:E711/9/1985

    At a National Air Race show, Hawke and Dominic befriend an attractive pilot racer, unaware that she's being pursued by her boss and his henchmen after stealing some tapes that can prove that a new combat jet is too unstable to be flown – something that her boss is determined to cover up at any cost...

    Director:Virgil W. Vogel

    Writer:Edward J. Lakso

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    Director:Virgil W. Vogel

    Writer:Edward J. Lakso
12. 

    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #12 - Jennie

    S3:E911/23/1985

    Arriving in Airwolf in a war-torn South American country, Hawke, Dominic and Caitlin rendezvous with ""living legend"" freedom fighter leader El Gato, in a mission to rescue a US scientist who is being held captive. Dominic and Caitlin wait at the pick-up point as Hawke and El Gato set off on the rescue bid, but during the escape after locating the scientist, El Gato is killed, and Hawke's radio to Airwolf is destroyed. Hiding in from the pursing terrorist army in the area's dense growth, Hawke and the rather arrogant scientist meet a teacher and her group of hearing-impaired children, who are homeless after village was destroyed by the terrorists. Hawke attempts to lead the group to safety as they head to the pick-up point, trying to find a new home for the teacher and her students, and all the time avoiding the terrorist army along the way...

    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski

    Writer:Katharyn Powers

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    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski

    Writer:Katharyn Powers
13. 

    5.0/10(2 votes)

    #13 - Where Have All the Children Gone?

    S3:E1112/14/1985

    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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    Writer:Alan Godfrey
14. 

    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #14 - 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
15. 

    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Discovery

    S3:E141/18/1986

    A man who once failed to steal Airwolf is given a second chance when a young lady he knows stumbles upon its hiding place.

    Director:Alan Cooke

    Writer:Del Reisman

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    Director:Alan Cooke

    Writer:Del Reisman
16. 

    5.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - 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
17. 

    5.0/10(2 votes)

    #17 - 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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    Writer:Rick Kelbaugh
18. 

    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Blackjack

    S4:E11/23/1987

    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

    Writers:Michael Mercer, Jana Veverka

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    Director:Alan Simmonds

    Writers:Michael Mercer, Jana Veverka
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    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Escape

    S4:E21/30/1987

    After being captured and sentenced to die, Jo's only hope for survival lies with a Soviet defector.

    Director:Patrick Corbett

    Writer:Patrick Kennedy

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    Director:Patrick Corbett

    Writer:Patrick Kennedy
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    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - A Town for Hire

    S4:E32/6/1987

    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

    Writers:Gwen Tulpa, Jordon Nicht

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    Writers:Gwen Tulpa, Jordon Nicht
21. 

    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Salvage

    S4:E42/13/1987

    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

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    Writer:A.P. Liddell
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    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Windows

    S4:E52/20/1987

    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

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    Director:Ken Jubenvill

    Writer:Leslie McBride
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    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - A Piece of Cake

    S4:E62/27/1987

    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

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    Director:Bruce Pittman

    Writer:Anthony Robertson
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    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - Deathtrain

    S4:E73/6/1987

    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

    Writers:Gwen Tulpa, Jordon Nicht

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    Writers:Gwen Tulpa, Jordon Nicht
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    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Code of Silence

    S4:E83/13/1987

    St. John and Locke uncover a military cover-up when they represent opposite sides at a court martial.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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    Writer:Unknown