The BEST episodes of Airwolf

#1 - Hawke's Run

Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/15/1986

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

#2 - Airwolf II

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/1985

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...

#3 - Welcome to Paradise

Season 4 - Episode 24 - Aired 8/7/1987

John comes to the aid of an old flame whose husband was killed by drug dealers.

#4 - Storm Warning

Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/29/1987

A banana republic dictator takes St. John and the family of one of St. John's friends- who had discovered that the dictator was skimming American aid- hostage on a remote island.

#5 - The Key

Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/15/1987

The Airwolf team is sent in to stop a group that has taken control of ten Soviet and ten American nuclear missile silos and threatens to set them off unless everyone agrees to total nuclear disarmament.

#6 - Flowers of the Mountain

Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 5/8/1987

A jet manufacturer sabotages his own plane that St. John is test piloting rather than let St. John reveal its inferior construction.

#7 - Rogue Warrior

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/24/1987

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.

#8 - X-Virus

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/10/1987

The Airwolf team tracks down the source of a genetically engineered virus that has claimed the life of one of St. John's friends.

#9 - Deathtrain

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/6/1987

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.

#10 - Ground Zero

Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 5/1/1987

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.

#11 - Once a Hero (a.k.a. Heroes)

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/1984

String receives information that St. John is being held in a POW camp, but by the time a rescue operations put into effect St. John has been moved.

#12 - Discovery

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/18/1986

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

#13 - Random Target

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1984

While filming aerial footage, String and Dom accidentally get footage of a mobster believed dead.

#14 - Wildfire

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/11/1986

Dominic introduces Hawke and Caitlin to an old friend, Big Cec - the owner of an oil drilling company in the desert, and his son Little Cec, 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 Cec's wife. With Dom staying with the pair for a few days, he is shocked to learn that Little Cec 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...

#15 - Day of Jeopardy

Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/25/1986

After Tess Dixon, the wife of infamous crime-lord Cullen Dixon, escapes his bodyguards while swimming in the sea at night, Archangel asks Hawke and Santini to deliver her safely via Airwolf to a top-secret location, where she will testify against a cartel of corrupt businessmen who are plotting to assassinate high-ranking officials in Washington. Tess is an old flame of Hawke's, something which makes him very reluctant to accept the mission, before he finally agrees, but they come under continual attack as Cullen Dixon's men aim to see that Tess never makes it to testify...

#16 - HX 1

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/10/1984

When new hi-tech attack chopper HX1 is stolen by an elite group of mercenaries, the tactics used fits those that Hawke's MIA brother St. John was trained in, and Hawke is certain that his brother may somehow be involved. Dominic begs him to leave well alone, but Hawke is adamant, and with Archangel insisting that if it cant be retrieved, the Firm will blow HX1 and anyone flying it out of the sky, Hawke goes back into his past and some of the people he knows from it, to desperately try and get a lead on the group and mercenaries and possibly St. John... But the HX1 is so powerful, it may even be able to blow Airwolf out of the sky...

#17 - Firestorm

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1984

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...

#18 - Fallen Angel (a.k.a. Angel of Mercy)

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/1984

String must add Caitlin to the Airwolf crew, in order to rescue Archangel from behind enemy lines.

#19 - To Snare a Wolf

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/14/1984

Archangel warns String about a zealous government bureaucrat named D.G. Bogard who will stop at nothing until he finds Airwolf. Dom and Hawke take time out from shooting a military training film to hide Airwolf in a different location before it can be discovered, but Bogard catches on to their ruse and tracks Hawke back to the new hideaway. To complicate things, an eager pilot tails Dom and Hawke in an effort to convince Santini that she deserves a job working for his company.

#20 - Shadow of the Hawke (1)

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/22/1984

While demonstrating the capabilities of the new prototype supercopter codenamed 'Airwolf', Dr. Charles Moffet goes rogue, steals the chopper and kills almost all of the observers. At least one man -- Michael Coldsmith Briggs III survives. Briggs, codenamed 'Archangel' is the head of a covert organization called 'The Firm' and Archangel calls upon the one man in the world he knows that can retrieve the copter. The problem is Stringfellow Hawke is not only a loner, but a recluse as well. The amount of money the Firm is willing to pay for Airwolf's recovery is irrelevant. Hawke wants just one thing - the safe return of his brother, Saint John, who was captured during the Vietnam war and is evidently a POW.

#21 - Mind of the Machine

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/7/1984

Dr. Robert Winchester is a brilliant researcher and a former test pilot who helped design Airwolf. Now, he's asking for Hawke's help in test flying a simulator that he's designed to enable the Firm to train future test pilots to fly Airwolf. Reluctantly, Hawke agrees, but determines that the simulator's "feel" is a little off. Archangel convinces Hawke to let Winchester hook up the real Airwolf to his computers in order to get a more realistic demonstration. This allows Winchester to engage in a little friendly flying competition with Hawke but it also allows the Russians to nearly get their hands on the high tech super copter.

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

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/27/1987

#23 - Birds of Paradise

Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/29/1986

String comes to the aid of his nephew who asks String for help when his mother disappears for a week.

#24 - Proof Through the Night

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/11/1984

A Russian mole discovers that scientists in the U.S.S.R. have developed a lethal serum that instantly kills anyone exposed to it. He steals a vial of the serum and contacts his friend Archangel for help in escaping the country with his family. Archangel dispatches Hawke and Santini for the rescue effort, but Airwolf can't handle that much passenger weight -- unless all her armaments are stripped leaving the supercopter defenseless.

#25 - Flight #093 Is Missing

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/17/1984

Caitlin is a passenger on board a plane which Airwolf is sent to search for after the plane is hijacked and forced down at sea.