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The Best Episodes of Airwolf

Every episode of Airwolf ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Airwolf!

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As part of a deal with an intelligence agency to look for his missing brother, a renegade pilot goes on missions with an advanced battle helicopter.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Airwolf Season 1 Episode 10 - And They Are Us
    7.8/10(208 votes)

    #1 - And They Are Us

    S1:E10

    North and South Limbawe are in conflict over oil and a despotic General plans to overthrow his own government in South Limbawe and attacks his neighbors to the North. String and Dom are sent by Archangel to aid North Limbawe and it's leader, Seku Logana, but Logana has his own prejudices about receiving aid for his cause. Also in the mix is an old Vietnam buddy of Hawke's, Marty Vidor, who is working as a mercenary for South Limbawe, and Hawke is hesitant to take him on since Vidor just may know the location of the missing Saint John.

    Directors:David Hemmings, Nicholas Corea
    Writer:Nicholas Corea

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  2. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 20 - Severance Pay
    7.6/10(125 votes)

    #2 - Severance Pay

    S2:E20

    String must bring in a disgruntled former Firm employee who's been denied his retirement benefits.

    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writer:Chester Krumholz

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  3. Airwolf Season 1 Episode 6 - One Way Express
    7.5/10(215 votes)

    #3 - One Way Express

    S1:E6

    A movie producer hires Santini Air for a dangerous stunt involving the landing of a helicopter onto the roof of a moving semi. Dom and String nearly come to blows, however, when String tries to convince Dom that his reaction time might not be up to snuff for this particular action sequence. Things get even more dicey when it appears that the production might just be an elaborate cover for a high-stakes gold heist.

    Director:Alan J. Levi
    Writer:Burton Armus

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  4. Airwolf Season 1 Episode 11 - Mind of the Machine
    7.5/10(185 votes)

    #4 - Mind of the Machine

    S1:E11

    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.

    Director:Ivan Dixon
    Writer:T.S. Cook

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  5. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 3 - Moffett's Ghost
    7.5/10(184 votes)

    #5 - Moffett's Ghost

    S2:E3

    In the midst of it's key part in delivering and collecting a leading American scientist to top secret sanctions aimed at cooling international tensions with Russians, Airwolf develops a seeming computer virus in it's systems, which periodically takes pilot control and makes it a potential killing machine in the air. The systems have been taken over buy a ""time-bomb"" left by the chopper's evil creator, Dr. Moffett, who has programmed it to begin the deadly behaviour if not given it a recognition code by him at that time. Hawke and Dominic must decide whether to let the Firm scientists try and work on the machine - risking having them snatching it back away from them - or to find another way to try and cure The Lady before completing their part in the sanctions, knowing that if they fail to completely cure it, they jeopardise not only international relations, but potentially hundreds of lives...

    Director:Donald A. Baer
    Writer:T.S. Cook

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  6. Airwolf Season 3 Episode 22 - Birds of Paradise
    7.5/10(109 votes)

    #6 - Birds of Paradise

    S3:E22

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

    Director:Bernard L. Kowalski
    Writer:Robert Janes

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  7. Airwolf Season 1 Episode 1 - Shadow of the Hawke (1)
    7.4/10(410 votes)

    #7 - Shadow of the Hawke (1)

    S1:E1

    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.

    Director:Donald P. Bellisario
    Writer:Donald P. Bellisario

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  8. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 15 - Santini's Millions
    7.4/10(130 votes)

    #8 - Santini's Millions

    S2:E15

    Dom inherits from the estate of a millionaire whom he had earlier rescued from a plane crash.

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Michael Halperin

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  9. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 22 - Short Walk to Freedom
    7.4/10(128 votes)

    #9 - Short Walk to Freedom

    S2:E22

    String is captured by Latin American revolutionaries while attempting to rescue American archaeological students trapped by a coup.

    Director:Virgil W. Vogel
    Writers:Dorothy Robinson, Robert Blees

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  10. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 1 - Sweet Britches
    7.3/10(195 votes)

    #10 - Sweet Britches

    S2:E1

    After an old Vietnam buddy of Hawke's is shot in the desert when trying to escape a corrupt Sheriff, Hawke gets a call from an inmate who had been in jail with the man to aleart him of the escape, and flies with Dominic in Airwolf to Pope County, Texas, to investigate. There, Hawke meets Highway Patrol Deputy Caitlin O'Shannessy, who had a run in with Sheriff Bogard prior to the killing; but Hawke's appearance on the scene sees him arrested by Bogard and released on a private game reserve, where gun-happy sportsmen pay big money to hunt big game – and Hawke is the latest bait...

    Director:Alan J. Levi
    Writer:Donald P. Bellisario

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  11. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 7 - Fallen Angel
    7.3/10(152 votes)

    #11 - Fallen Angel

    S2:E7

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

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Deborah Pratt

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  12. Airwolf Season 3 Episode 18 - Hawke's Run
    7.3/10(113 votes)

    #12 - Hawke's Run

    S3:E18

    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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  13. Airwolf Season 1 Episode 5 - Proof Through the Night
    7.2/10(198 votes)

    #13 - Proof Through the Night

    S1:E5

    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.

    Director:Harvey S. Laidman
    Writer:Clyde Ware

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  14. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 8 - HX 1
    7.2/10(160 votes)

    #14 - HX 1

    S2:E8

    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...

    Director:Gerald Mayer
    Writer:Steve Hayes

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  15. Airwolf Season 3 Episode 2 - Airwolf II
    7.2/10(173 votes)

    #15 - Airwolf II

    S3:E2

    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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  16. Airwolf Season 3 Episode 15 - Day of Jeopardy
    7.2/10(116 votes)

    #16 - Day of Jeopardy

    S3:E15

    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...

    Director:Georg Fenady
    Writer:Rick Kelbaugh

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  17. Airwolf Season 1 Episode 7 - Echos From the Past
    7.1/10(182 votes)

    #17 - Echos From the Past

    S1:E7

    Hawke meets a mercenary who claims to have information regarding his missing brother. When they part company, Hawke loses consciousness in his helicopter and crashes. When he comes to, he finds himself in a hospital. The medical staff inform him that he has been in a coma for the better part of a year. His friends, Archangel and Dom, were killed on a POW camp raid, but in the process, their heroism helped rescue Hawke's brother Saint John. Believing that his "mission" is over, Hawke reveals the location of Airwolf to his captors, then discovers that it has all been an elaborate ruse and he has inadvertantly turned over the super copter to a group of foreign conspirators.

    Directors:Alan J. Levi, Harvey S. Laidman
    Writers:Burton Armus, Christopher Crowe

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  18. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 12 - Condemned
    7.1/10(136 votes)

    #18 - Condemned

    S2:E12

    String and Caitlin are sent to a remote Alaskan research station where a deadly Russian bacteria has been let loose.

    Director:Tom Blank
    Writer:Douglas Steinberg

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  19. Airwolf Season 2 Episode 21 - Eruption
    7.1/10(120 votes)

    #19 - Eruption

    S2:E21

    After being forced down by a volcano eruption, String and Dom discover a mining town being run as a slave colony.

    Director:Tom Blank
    Writers:T.S. Cook, Kevin Hartigan

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  20. Airwolf Season 3 Episode 1 - The Horn of Plenty
    7.1/10(138 votes)

    #20 - The Horn of Plenty

    S3:E1

    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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  21. Airwolf Season 3 Episode 7 - Eagles
    7.1/10(107 votes)

    #21 - Eagles

    S3:E7

    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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  22. Airwolf Season 3 Episode 10 - The Deadly Circle
    7.1/10(111 votes)

    #22 - The Deadly Circle

    S3:E10

    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.

    Director:Harvey S. Laidman
    Writer:Robert Specht

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  23. Airwolf Season 3 Episode 20 - The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
    7.1/10(108 votes)

    #23 - The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

    S3:E20

    Hawke is doing some late-night fishing on the lake outside his cabin, when he sees a helicopter fly over and drop a body into the water. Pulling the unconscious, dumped young woman out and taking her to hospital, he finds that the girl has amnesia due to her trauma, but doctor's examination indicates that she is a drug user and worked as a prostitute. Hawke sets out to help the girl find out her true identity, and just what trouble she was in that had led to people trying kill her - but when the hit-men who had dumped her into the lake find out that she is still alive, they set out to see that neither girl or Hawke are around to uncover the truth about her...

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writer:B.W. Sandefur

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  24. Airwolf Season 3 Episode 5 - Crossover
    7.0/10(114 votes)

    #24 - Crossover

    S3:E5

    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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  25. Airwolf Season 3 Episode 12 - Half-Pint
    7.0/10(102 votes)

    #25 - Half-Pint

    S3:E12

    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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Best Episodes Summary

"And They Are Us" is the best rated episode of "Airwolf". It scored 7.8/10 based on 208 votes. Directed by David Hemmings, Nicholas Corea and written by Nicholas Corea, it aired on 3/31/1984. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Severance Pay".