- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 Rambo, suspicious that the backup troops are late, learns that those troops have been replaced by Warhawk's men...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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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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".