What are the best episodes of Airwolf?

The best rated episodes of Airwolf are: Santini's Millions - S2E15 rated 7.8, Eagles - S3E7 rated 7.7, Airwolf II - S3E2 rated 7.7, Sins of the Past - S2E6 rated 7.7, To Snare a Wolf - S1E12 rated 7.7, Flight #093 Is Missing - S2E9 rated 7.7, Once a Hero (a.k.a. Heroes) - S2E10 rated 7.7, Fallen Angel - S2E7 rated 7.7, Annie Oakley - S3E8 rated 7.6, And a Child Shall Lead - S3E3 rated 7.6

What are the worst episodes of Airwolf?

The lowest rated episodes of Airwolf are: Windows - S4E5 rated 5.6, Poppy Chain - S4E22 rated 5.9, The Puppet Master - S4E20 rated 5.9, Malduke - S4E21 rated 5.9, Welcome to Paradise - S4E24 rated 5.9, Stavograd (a.k.a. The Stavograd Incident) (2) - S4E10 rated 6.0, The Key - S4E16 rated 6.0, Salvage - S4E4 rated 6.1, A Piece of Cake - S4E6 rated 6.2, Deathtrain - S4E7 rated 6.2

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Best Episodes of Airwolf

Santini's Millions
S2 Ep15
7.8
2nd Feb 1985
Dom inherits from the estate of a millionaire whom he had earlier rescued from a plane crash.
Eagles
S3 Ep7
7.7
9th Nov 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 â€“ something that her boss is determined to cover up at any cost...
Airwolf II
S3 Ep2
7.7
5th Oct 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 â€“ 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 â€“ Stringfellow Hawke; a duel that brings Airwolf vs. Airwolf...
Sins of the Past
S2 Ep6
7.7
27th Oct 1984
Dominic is distraught to hear that his daughter Sally-Anne â€“ whom Hawke never even knew existed â€“ has been found dead on the beach after over-dosing, in the Caribbean Island of San Remo, where Dom himself was born. Detouring in their way to a top-secret Airwolf mission for the Firm, Hawke flies Dominic to the island to attend the funeral, only for it to end in an argument with his bitter ex-wife Lila. Returning from their mission, they hear that Lila was murdered the previous night, and Dominic is arrested as the prime suspect. When Archangel is ordered not to allow Firm involvement as not to risk uncovering the secret mission, Hawke heads to the luxurious San Remo to investigate the murder for himself, and finds the island is living in the shadow of a new gambling casino, run by a very shady character with great influence in the area...
To Snare a Wolf
S1 Ep12
7.7
14th Apr 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.
Flight #093 Is Missing
S2 Ep9
7.7
17th Nov 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.
Once a Hero (a.k.a. Heroes)
S2 Ep10
7.7
24th Nov 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.
Fallen Angel
S2 Ep7
7.7
3rd Nov 1984
String must add Caitlin to the Airwolf crew, in order to rescue Archangel from behind enemy lines.
Annie Oakley
S3 Ep8
7.6
16th Nov 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...
And a Child Shall Lead
S3 Ep3
7.6
12th Oct 1985
String is aided in the rescue of a kidnapped industrial designer by the man's retarded son.
Sweet Britches
S2 Ep1
7.6
22nd Sep 1984
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 â€“ and Hawke is the latest bait...
Inn at the End of the Road
S2 Ep14
7.6
26th Jan 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.
The Deadly Circle
S3 Ep10
7.6
30th Nov 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.
The American Dream
S2 Ep13
7.6
12th Jan 1985
The Airwolf crew decides to help a group of Vietnamese farmers get their crop to market, after a warlord threatens their lives.
Moffett's Ghost
S2 Ep3
7.6
6th Oct 1984
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...
Mind of the Machine
S1 Ep11
7.6
7th Apr 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.
Wildfire
S3 Ep13
7.6
11th Jan 1986
Dominic introduces Hawke and Caitlin to an old friend, Big Cece“ the owner of an oil drilling company in the desert, and his son Little Cece, 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 Cece's wife. With Dom staying with the pair for a few days, he is shocked to learn that Little Cece 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...
Short Walk to Freedom
S2 Ep22
7.5
13th Apr 1985
String is captured by Latin American revolutionaries while attempting to rescue American archaeological students trapped by a coup.
The Horn of Plenty
S3 Ep1
7.5
28th Sep 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...
Dambreakers
S2 Ep19
7.5
16th Mar 1985
String and a reporter friend are taken hostage by terrorists who have taken over a Christian commune.
Eruption
S2 Ep21
7.5
6th Apr 1985
After being forced down by a volcano eruption, String and Dom discover a mining town being run as a slave colony.
Birds of Paradise
S3 Ep22
7.5
29th Mar 1986
String comes to the aid of his nephew who asks String for help when his mother disappears for a week.
HX 1
S2 Ep8
7.5
10th Nov 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...
The Hunted
S2 Ep5
7.5
20th Oct 1984
Santini Air is hired for a 30 day period by agents on behalf of a industrial millionaire, to be on stand-by to pilot the man on an important journey when called upon. Dominic is excited at the prospect of the high-paying job, but Hawke is more sceptical and intends to find out just why they've been given the contract. But unbeknown to any of them, Caitlin's new boyfriend is plotting to assassinate the millionaire; and matters are not helped any by some malfunctions that Airwolf is suffering...

Worst Episodes of Airwolf

Windows
S4 Ep5
5.6
20th Feb 1987
St. John and crew are under a deadline to recover a piece of stolen satellite hardware which is needed for an upcoming space shuttle flight.
Poppy Chain
S4 Ep22
5.9
24th Jul 1987
The Airwolf team travels around the world as they put an opium ring run by St. John's former commander out of business.
The Puppet Master
S4 Ep20
5.9
10th Jul 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.
Malduke
S4 Ep21
5.9
17th Jul 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.
Welcome to Paradise
S4 Ep24
5.9
7th Aug 1987
John comes to the aid of an old flame whose husband was killed by drug dealers.
Stavograd (a.k.a. The Stavograd Incident) (2)
S4 Ep10
6.0
27th Mar 1987
The Russians reluctantly agree to allow the Airwolf team help them contain a nuclear power plant that has had a meltdown.
The Key
S4 Ep16
6.0
15th May 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.
Salvage
S4 Ep4
6.1
13th Feb 1987
A former female employee of the Company, who has suffered mental trauma after a Company mission went wrong, insists that she is seeing strange lights and hearing unexplained noises in the middle of the night, over her remote home and the nearby Indian burial ground in the rural town of Devil's Ridge. Jason sends St. John and Mike to investigate, and they are just as sceptical as everyone else, putting it down to her mental troubles, but the source of the disturbances is actually a stolen super-helicopter â€“ a third version of Airwolf called ""The Scorpion"" â€“ is hidden in the area, waiting to be picked up by KGB agents...
A Piece of Cake
S4 Ep6
6.2
27th Feb 1987
The grandfather of one of four juvenile delinquents Jo and Mike have taken camping plans on killing the rest of the camping party in order to regain custody of his grandson.
Deathtrain
S4 Ep7
6.2
6th Mar 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.
Code of Silence
S4 Ep8
6.2
13th Mar 1987
St. John and Locke uncover a military cover-up when they represent opposite sides at a court martial.
A Town for Hire
S4 Ep3
6.3
6th Feb 1987
St. John is following Jo in a bi-plane as she tries out a new navigation device in a helicopter over an area of wilderness, when her helicopter is suddenly struck from the ground by a laser-beam that sends her chopper crashing down. St. John's plane is also hit, but he manages to land in the nearby town of Santa Mira before he looses consciousness. Waking up the next day in the local hospital, he is infuriated that nobody seems to believe his story and is out looking for Jo. But when he arrives at the crash-site, there is no sign of the crash ever happened, and as St. John tries to find out what is going on, he finds that the small boom town is held in some kind of grip of fear...
Storm Warning
S4 Ep18
6.3
29th May 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.
Mime Troupe
S4 Ep11
6.3
3rd Apr 1987
The Airwolf team is assigned to guard the daughter of an Interpol agent who is marked for death by terrorists.
The Golden One
S4 Ep19
6.4
3rd Jul 1987
Jo is lured to Afghanistan by an old boyfriend who has sold her as a bride to a rebel leader.
On the Double
S4 Ep17
6.4
22nd May 1987
Mike and the wife of an East German double agent! pilot he had been impersonating are kidnapped at an air show in Paris.
X-Virus
S4 Ep12
6.4
10th Apr 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.
Ground Zero
S4 Ep14
6.4
1st May 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.
Flying Home
S4 Ep23
6.5
31st Jul 1987
Jo's ailing father aids the Airwolf team in recovering radioactive material stolen by a group of Neo-Nazi 5.
Escape
S4 Ep2
6.5
30th Jan 1987
After being captured and sentenced to die, Jo's only hope for survival lies with a Soviet defector.
Rogue Warrior
S4 Ep13
6.6
24th Apr 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.
Blackjack
S4 Ep1
6.6
23rd Jan 1987
Dom is killed in a helicopter accident that also severely injures String. Dom's niece, Jo, inherits and takes charge of Santini Air. The Company sends Locke to regain possession of Airwolf, he recruits Major Mike Rivers ,an Air Force pilot to help him find and fly the craft. Together they rescue St. John from a jungle prison and he and Jo round out the new Airwolf team.
Flowers of the Mountains
S4 Ep15
6.7
8th May 1987
A jet manufacturer sabotages his own plane that St. John is test piloting rather than let St. John reveal its inferior construction.
Stavograd (a.k.a. The Stavograd Incident) (1)
S4 Ep9
6.7
20th Mar 1987
The Russians reluctantly agree to allow the Airwolf team help them contain a nuclear power plant that has had a meltdown.

Airwolf Episode Guide

Shadow of the Hawke (1)
S1 Ep1
7.3
22nd Jan 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.
Shadow of the Hawke (2)
S1 Ep2
7.2
22nd Jan 1984
Hawke and his pal Santini head to Libya to recover Airwolf from it's diabolical creator, but Dr. Moffet turns up the heat by destroying a U.S. Navy warship. When Hawke's girlfriend Gabrielle goes undercover to discover Moffet's nefarious plans, she is captured and tortured and left to die in the desert. It's up to Hawke to recover the chopper, stop Moffet and save the girl, but will he do it all in time?
Daddy's Gone a Hunt'n
S1 Ep3
7.4
28th Jan 1984
Hawke and Dom must stop a suspected traitor from turning an advanced military fighter over to the Russians in exchange for his son who was born in Vietnam. Things get complicated, though, when Hawke realizes that he was also involved with the boy's mother during roughly the same era as the child's birth.
Bite of the Jackal
S1 Ep4
7.3
4th Feb 1984
An ambitious executive at the Firm makes a subversive play for Archangel's job. A bomb is planted aboard a vintage helicopter owned by Dominic Santini and he's forced to crash land. When Hawke and Archangel go hunting for Dom, Airwolf is ambushed and shot down. The two must convince a group of locals to help them repair their damaged tail rotor. Complicating matters on Dom's end, he must contend with a stowaway aboard his chopper -- a young girl searching for her dad.
Proof Through the Night
S1 Ep5
7.4
11th Feb 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.
One Way Express
S1 Ep6
7.4
18th Feb 1984
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.
Echos From the Past
S1 Ep7
7.4
3rd Mar 1984
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.
Fight Like a Dove
S1 Ep8
7.2
10th Mar 1984
An Israeli war crimes hunter is killed by a suspected Nazi named Hans Daubert in France. His daughter vows revenge and seeks the help of String and Dom, along with Airwolf, to bring him to justice. Complicating matters is Archangel's involvement with Daubert who is a known arms dealer selling to the powers that he chooses to in order to influence political outcomes in the world -- and Archangel is his supplier!
Mad Over Miami
S1 Ep9
7.4
24th Mar 1984
Santini makes an unauthorized flight to Cuba in order to rescue two political prisoners who are being ransomed for $2 million. However, while there, the exchange site is attacked and the ransom money is stolen. While flying back to the mainland, Santini is forced to crash land back on Cuba and Hawke must brave a hurricane in Airwolf to rescue his friend. When String and Dom are reunited, the pair must negotiate with a band of freedom fighters who raised the capital to ransom their compadres and are not convinced of Santini's innocence in the theft of the funds. To make matters more interesting, Archangel is supplying weapons to a paramilitary band that just may have had a hand in stealing the ransom money.
And They Are Us
S1 Ep10
7.3
31st Mar 1984
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.
Mind of the Machine
S1 Ep11
7.6
7th Apr 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.
To Snare a Wolf
S1 Ep12
7.7
14th Apr 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.