The WORST episodes of Airwolf
Every episode of Airwolf ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Airwolf!
'Airwolf' followed the adventures of a hi-tech helicopter and its reclusive pilot, Stringfellow Hawke. Airwolf itself was a hi-tech attack helicopter, equipped with cutting-edge on-board computer, surveillance and radar systems.
#1 - Severance Pay
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/23/1985
String must bring in a disgruntled former Firm employee who's been denied his retirement benefits.
#2 - Annie Oakley
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1985
When "The Mongoose", a new laser weapon, is stolen, the thieves fall out, and one of them contacts The F.I.R.M. with hope of returning the weapon for reward. Archangel sends Hawke, with Dominic and Caitlin, to work undercover as stunt men at a travelling Wild West show where the man is hiding out, but when their contact is killed in a suspicious "accident", it's up to them to find out the whereabouts of the weapon for themselves before the thieves can sell it to foreign agents...
#3 - Eagles
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1985
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...
#4 - Kingdom Come
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1985
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...
#5 - Crossover
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1985
String falls for the Czech woman scientist, whom he's helping defect to the west.
#6 - Fortune Teller
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1985
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...
#7 - And a Child Shall Lead
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/1985
String is aided in the rescue of a kidnapped industrial designer by the man's autistic son.
#8 - The Horn of Plenty
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1985
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...
#9 - Short Walk to Freedom
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/13/1985
String is captured by Latin American revolutionaries while attempting to rescue American archaeological students trapped by a coup.
#10 - Eruption
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/6/1985
After being forced down by a volcano eruption, String and Dom discover a mining town being run as a slave colony.
#11 - Flying Home
Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 7/31/1987
Jo's ailing father aids the Airwolf team in recovering radioactive material stolen by a group of Neo-Nazi 5.
#12 - Dambreakers
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/16/1985
String and a reporter friend are taken hostage by terrorists who have taken over a Christian commune.
#13 - Out of the Sky
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/2/1985
While working on a music video, String helps a country singer whose manager plans to kill her in an effort to boost album sales.
#14 - Natural Born
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/23/1985
The Airwolf crew befriend a runaway looking for revenge on the drug runners that murdered his uncle.
#15 - Prisoner of Yesterday
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/9/1985
The Airwolf team is drawn into fighting a Banana Republic coup when they set out to rescue their latest team member, "Doc", who has been kidnapped to treat the nation's leader.
#16 - Santini's Millions
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/2/1985
Dom inherits from the estate of a millionaire whom he had earlier rescued from a plane crash.
#17 - Inn at the End of the Road
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/26/1985
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.
#18 - The American Dream
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/12/1985
The Airwolf crew decides to help a group of Vietnamese farmers get their crop to market, after a warlord threatens their lives.
#19 - Condemned
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/5/1985
String and Caitlin are sent to a remote Alaskan research station where a deadly Russian bacteria has been let loose.
#20 - The Deadly Circle
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/30/1985
The families of one of String's friends from Vietnam are kidnapped along with Dom and Caitlin by people seeking revenge against those who destroyed their village during the Vietnam conflict.
#21 - Poppy Chain
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 7/24/1987
The Airwolf team travels around the world as they put an opium ring run by St. John's former commander out of business.
#22 - Malduke
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 7/17/1987
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.
#23 - The Puppet Master
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 7/10/1987
Locke's girlfriend is given a behavior implant module which forces her to turn Locke over to a lady scientist who uses the same procedure on Locke in order to gain control of Airwolf.
#24 - The Golden One
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 7/3/1987
Jo is lured to Afghanistan by an old boyfriend who has sold her as a bride to a rebel leader.
#25 - On the Double
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/22/1987
Mike and the wife of an East German double agent! pilot he had been impersonating are kidnapped at an air show in Paris.