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The Best Episodes of Rambo Season 1

Every episode of Rambo Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Rambo Season 1!

Rambo: The Force of Freedom is an animated series based on the character of John Rambo from David Morrell's book First Blood and the subsequent...
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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"First Strike" is the best rated episode of "Rambo" season 1. It scored 7.3/10 based on 27 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 4/14/1986. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "The Angel of Destruction".

  • First Strike
    7.3/1027 votes

    #1 - First Strike

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/14/1986

    General Warhawk and his cronies try to take over a peaceful fictional South American country. Colonel Samuel Trautman sends John Rambo and mechanic Edward "Turbo" Hayes to stop Warhawk. Katherine Anne "K.A.T." Taylor assists them.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Angel of Destruction
    6.8/1021 votes

    #2 - The Angel of Destruction

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/15/1986

    General Warhawk's spies steel an experimental flying gunship and kidnap a local kid who saw them, so Rambo must infiltrate Warhawk's secret snowy mountain base and get the plane and the kid back.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Battlefield Bronx
    7.3/1021 votes

    #3 - Battlefield Bronx

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/16/1986

    The president of Tierra Libre, the South American fictional country that general Warkawk wants to take over, is in New York to ask the UN for help, but his daughter Estrella gets kidnapped by a Bronx biker gang hired by Warkawk.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Raise the Yamato
    6.9/1019 votes

    #4 - Raise the Yamato

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/17/1986

    Warhawk's men raise Yamato, an actual sunken Japanese WWII battleship and one of the two most powerfully battleships ever constructed. Rambo, Hayes and master of disguise Taylor must stop him before he reaches Tierra Libre.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Taking of Tierra Libre
    7.9/1017 votes

    #5 - The Taking of Tierra Libre

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/18/1986

    General Warhawk and his men kidnap Colonel Trautman and begin their invasion of Tierra Libre. Soon, Rambo, Hayes, Taylor and a handful of Tierra Libre soldiers are the only resistance left. However, Rambo counts as the army of one.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Subterranean Holdup
    8.2/1018 votes

    #6 - Subterranean Holdup

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/15/1986

    General Warhawk is in Chicago to rob a money shipment to the federal reserve bank. Rambo, suspicious that the backup troops are late, learns that those troops have been replaced by Warhawk's men...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Trouble in Tibet
    7.6/1018 votes

    #7 - Trouble in Tibet

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 9/16/1986

    General Warhawk and Sergeant Havoc capture a young monk who would become the next Dalai Lama and gains control of a small village in Tibet.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • S.A.V.A.G.E. Island
    7.9/1018 votes

    #8 - S.A.V.A.G.E. Island

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 9/17/1986

    Rambo and the Force of Freedom travel to S.A.V.A.G.E. Island in this first exciting adventure, to stop General Warhawk's plan of using a missile for international terrorism.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • General Warhawk's Curse
    7.7/1016 votes

    #9 - General Warhawk's Curse

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 9/18/1986

    Under the orders of General Warhawk, Sergeant Havoc, Gripper, Nomad and an ally named Bashir take advantage of three countries by passing off fake curses in S.A.V.A.G.E.'s plot to steal the artifacts in the ruins.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Deadly Keep
    8.0/1015 votes

    #10 - Deadly Keep

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/19/1986

    Nobel Prize_winning physicist Herbert Kengsington is kidnapped by the Count (a descendant of Vlad III the Impaler) and plans to hand him over to S.A.V.A.G.E. in the Moldavian Mountains.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Beneath the Streets
    7.1/1017 votes

    #11 - Beneath the Streets

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 9/22/1986

    Mad Dog sneaks beneath the Special Forces building through the sewers and deploys a time bomb. In the sewers they capture a utility worker and former war buddy of Rambo nicknamed Wrongway...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Cult of the Cobra
    8.1/1016 votes

    #12 - Cult of the Cobra

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 9/23/1986

    General Warhawk teams up with the Cult of the Cobra and its leader Rama to halt the food shipments to the Indian Province of Asam in a plot to force the people of Asam to make him their dictator.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Raid on Las Vegas
    7.8/1015 votes

    #13 - Raid on Las Vegas

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 9/24/1986

    General Warhawk plans to blow up Boulder Dam as a diversion so that he can rob the casino money in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is up to Rambo, Kat, and Turbo to stop General Warhawk.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Lost City of Acra
    4.5/1015 votes

    #14 - The Lost City of Acra

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 9/25/1986

    Warhawk's men invade the lost city of Arca in India. He rounds up the local Bindu people and forces them to dig for the fabled gold under an ancient temple. Chad, the Bindu chief's son, escapes and joins Rambo's team...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Guns Over Suez
    7.7/1016 votes

    #15 - Guns Over Suez

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 9/26/1986

    Threatening to blow up all shipping on the Suez Canal, General Warhawk demands a $100 million ransom. He starts with a relief ship on which Nomad planted explosives. Rambo's team is sent to stop him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Exercise in Terror
    8.1/1014 votes

    #16 - Exercise in Terror

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 10/6/1986

    General Warhawk and the evil forces of S.A.V.A.G.E. hold children hostage in the Statue of Liberty for a fifty million dollar ransom and it's up to John J. Rambo to head the rescue mission and conquer the sadistic thugs.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Doomsday Machine
    8.2/1015 votes

    #17 - The Doomsday Machine

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 10/7/1986

    A powerful new aircraft, the XK-7, has been developed by the air force. It's stolen by a renegade Special Forces operative and sold to General Warhawk, who uses the plane to capture the world's largest diamond mine...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Disaster in Delgado
    7.9/1015 votes

    #18 - Disaster in Delgado

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 10/8/1986

    Disaster relief supplies bound for the earthquake-stricken South American country of Delgado are not being received. Rambo's team is sent to investigate, discovering that General Warhawk's men are hijacking the valuable...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Fire in the Sky
    7.8/1015 votes

    #19 - Fire in the Sky

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 10/9/1986

    Rambo's team is attending the launch ceremony for a powerful new nuclear submarine, the USS Typhoon. A skydiver who is to deliver the ceremonial bottle of champagne is replaced by Sgt. Havoc...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Enter the Black Dragon
    7.7/1016 votes

    #20 - Enter the Black Dragon

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 10/10/1986

    While General Warhawk is attacking a foreign base with commandos from submarines, Nomad leads a supporting ground force. But the mission had been a trap set by Rambo's team and many of Warhawk's troops were captured...

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Reign of the Boy King
    8.7/1016 votes

    #21 - Reign of the Boy King

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 10/13/1986

    In the episode ""Reign of the Boy King,"" General Warhawk kidnaps the spoiled boy king of Morovia and sets up a puppet government with the evil Black Duke. It's up to John J. Rambo to rescue the captured king.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Rambo and the White Rhino
    8.6/1014 votes

    #22 - Rambo and the White Rhino

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 10/14/1986

    Two African tribes are on the brink of war, thanks to Warhawk. His men have stolen the sacred white rhino from one tribe, causing them to blame the neighboring tribe. Warhawk is using the resulting war to distract the tribes long enough to steal their natural resources. Rambo comes in to save the white rhino and stop the war.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Pirate Peril
    8.1/1014 votes

    #23 - Pirate Peril

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 10/15/1986

    General Warhawk and his ally Admiral Nomak team up with Captain Scar and his pirates in a plot to raise the sunken Liberte submarine off the coast of Hong Kong.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Mephisto's Magic
    8.1/1014 votes

    #24 - Mephisto's Magic

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 10/16/1986

    When Rambo and his team stop General Warhawk's plot to steal the Liberty Bell, General Stedring insists to Colonel Trautman that his army be used next time.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Halley Microbe
    8.6/1013 votes

    #25 - The Halley Microbe

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 10/17/1986

    Kat's scientific brother is investigating the ion trail left by Halley's Comet and a space probe sent to gather samples left by the comet is targeted by General Warhawk and Black Dragon.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A