Airwolf Episode Guide
Airwolf ran for four seasons and 79 episodes between 1984 and 1987. Below is every episode — with original air dates, plot summaries and a link to its full transcript on the Airwolf Wiki.
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The series finds its feet. After recovering Airwolf from its rogue designer, Stringfellow Hawke and Dominic Santini settle into a rhythm of covert missions for Archangel and the F.I.R.M., while Hawke's grief and the search for his missing brother St. John give the action its emotional weight.
| Watched | # | Title | Air date | Summary | Transcript |
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| 1.1 | Shadow of the Hawke | 1984-01-22 | Feature-length pilot: Hawke is recruited to recover the advanced helicopter Airwolf after its unstable designer, Dr. Moffet, steals it and hides it in Libya. | Read ↗ | |
| 1.2 | Daddy's Gone a Hunt'n | 1984-01-28 | Hawke must stop a Vietnam War buddy from stealing a fighter jet in exchange for his half-Vietnamese son's freedom. | Read ↗ | |
| 1.3 | Bite of the Jackal | 1984-02-04 | Airwolf goes down in Mexico after sabotage, and a rival agent seizes the chance to try to capture the aircraft. | Read ↗ | |
| 1.4 | Proof Through the Night | 1984-02-11 | A mission to extract a Soviet defector carrying a neurotoxin is complicated when extra passengers prevent Airwolf from arming fully. | Read ↗ | |
| 1.5 | One Way Express | 1984-02-18 | A movie stunt-flying assignment turns out to be cover for a real gold heist run by a criminal mastermind. | Read ↗ | |
| 1.6 | Echoes from the Past | 1984-03-03 | Hawke wakes from a coma to find his year-long 'recovery' is an elaborate enemy ruse designed to obtain Airwolf. | Read ↗ | |
| 1.7 | Fight Like a Dove | 1984-03-10 | A woman enlists Hawke's help to take revenge on the former Nazi weapons dealer who murdered her father, now hiding in Paraguay. | Read ↗ | |
| 1.8 | Mad Over Miami | 1984-03-24 | Hawke searches for a kidnapped friend and discovers his own agency secretly hired the mercenaries behind the abduction. | Read ↗ | |
| 1.9 | And They Are Us | 1984-03-31 | The team protects an African president during a coup led by a commander tied to Hawke's missing brother's old unit. | Read ↗ | |
| 1.10 | Mind of the Machine | 1984-04-07 | Hawke tests an Airwolf simulator whose designer is a KGB-controlled scientist out to steal the aircraft's schematics. | Read ↗ | |
| 1.11 | To Snare a Wolf | 1984-04-14 | The team must relocate Airwolf to avoid a new spy satellite while a suspicious female pilot circles their secret. | Read ↗ |
Airwolf hits full stride and becomes a genuine ratings hit. Caitlin O'Shannessy joins the team, lightening the mood and rounding out the cast, while the missions grow in scope — globe-trotting rescues, Cold-War intrigue and ever more dramatic uses of Airwolf's firepower and speed.
| Watched | # | Title | Air date | Summary | Transcript |
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| 2.1 | Sweet Britches | 1984-09-22 | Hawke investigates a corrupt sheriff's suspicious killing and meets highway-patrol pilot Caitlin O'Shannessy. | Read ↗ | |
| 2.2 | Firestorm | 1984-09-29 | Reports of strange lights in the sky lead the team to a secret missile base run by militant extremists. | Read ↗ | |
| 2.3 | Moffett's Ghost | 1984-10-06 | A logic bomb left in Airwolf's computer threatens to seize control of the aircraft unless the override code is found. | Read ↗ | |
| 2.4 | The Truth About Holly | 1984-10-13 | Hawke and Santini rescue Dom's niece from a Mexican crime lord while sabotage strikes the airport. | Read ↗ | |
| 2.5 | The Hunted | 1984-10-20 | A millionaire hires Airwolf for protection, but an assassin and a string of malfunctions complicate the job. | Read ↗ | |
| 2.6 | Sins of the Past | 1984-10-27 | Santini becomes the prime suspect when his ex-wife and daughter are found dead on a Caribbean island. | Read ↗ | |
| 2.7 | Fallen Angel | 1984-11-03 | With Archangel captured in East Germany, Hawke must rely on an injured Santini and a green Caitlin for the rescue. | Read ↗ | |
| 2.8 | HX-1 | 1984-11-10 | Hawke pursues mercenaries who stole an advanced helicopter, suspecting a link to his missing brother St. John. | Read ↗ | |
| 2.9 | Flight #093 Is Missing | 1984-11-17 | A hijacked airliner goes down at sea — with Caitlin aboard — as terrorists demand a ransom. | Read ↗ | |
| 2.10 | Once a Hero | 1984-11-24 | Hawke assembles a Vietnam strike team to raid a Laotian POW camp believed to hold his brother. | Read ↗ | |
| 2.11 | Random Target | 1984-12-08 | When a business partner is murdered by mobsters, Hawke investigates whether he and Santini filmed the hit. | Read ↗ | |
| 2.12 | Condemned | 1985-01-05 | A remote Alaskan bio-weapons facility is found abandoned and littered with dead scientists — as a Russian sub lurks offshore. | Read ↗ | |
| 2.13 | The American Dream | 1985-01-12 | Hawke aids a Vietnamese ally whose crops are sabotaged by a ruthless rival landowner known as 'The Spider'. | Read ↗ | |
| 2.14 | Inn at the End of the Road | 1985-01-26 | Terrorists who stole a weapons-guidance computer get lost and take cabin-dwellers hostage. | Read ↗ | |
| 2.15 | Santini's Millions | 1985-02-02 | A dying millionaire leaves his fortune to Santini, triggering a legal war with the businessman's greedy partner. | Read ↗ | |
| 2.16 | Prisoner of Yesterday | 1985-02-09 | South American rebels kidnap Hawke's doctor friend amid a plot to overthrow the president by poisoning him. | Read ↗ | |
| 2.17 | Natural Born | 1985-02-23 | A hotshot young pilot working for Santini Air seeks revenge for his uncle's murder during a drug-running operation. | Read ↗ | |
| 2.18 | Out of the Sky | 1985-03-02 | A country star's manager plots her murder to boost record sales, forcing Hawke and Santini to mount a rescue. | Read ↗ | |
| 2.19 | Dambreakers | 1985-03-09 | Terrorists holding a commune hostage threaten to destroy a hydroelectric dam unless jailed extremists are freed. | Read ↗ | |
| 2.20 | Severance Pay | 1985-03-16 | A disgruntled ex-F.I.R.M. agent leaks classified files, and Hawke suspects a mole inside the organization. | Read ↗ | |
| 2.21 | Eruption | 1985-04-06 | As Mount Catherine erupts, a rival community leader uses the chaos to plot the mayor's murder. | Read ↗ | |
| 2.22 | Short Walk to Freedom | 1985-04-13 | Caitlin's archaeology expedition is hijacked by guerrillas, forcing Hawke and Santini into a jungle rescue. | Read ↗ |
The team is at its most confident, balancing high-octane action with the ongoing threads of Hawke's past and the search for St. John. For many fans this is the definitive era — the classic line-up flying the classic missions.
| Watched | # | Title | Air date | Summary | Transcript |
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| 3.1 | The Horn of Plenty | 1985-09-28 | Hawke is taken prisoner after delivering gems to a Texas compound, leaving Santini to decide whether to surrender Airwolf. | Read ↗ | |
| 3.2 | Airwolf II | 1985-10-05 | Hawke is framed for a train robbery carried out by a second helicopter, 'Redwolf', built by a vengeful designer. | Read ↗ | |
| 3.3 | And a Child Shall Lead | 1985-10-12 | Hawke relies on an autistic boy's astonishing memory to locate the boy's kidnapped aircraft-designer father. | Read ↗ | |
| 3.4 | Fortune Teller | 1985-10-19 | Archangel is kidnapped and tortured; Hawke races to free him before an assassin squad is activated. | Read ↗ | |
| 3.5 | Crossover | 1985-10-26 | Hawke helps defecting Czech scientists escape while Santini and Caitlin launch an unauthorized rescue of their own. | Read ↗ | |
| 3.6 | Kingdom Come | 1985-11-02 | With stolen nuclear detonators to smuggle, Hawke must act while explosives are rigged to Caitlin and to Airwolf. | Read ↗ | |
| 3.7 | Eagles | 1985-11-09 | Hawke backs a test pilot locked in a dangerous battle with her employer over a flawed aircraft design. | Read ↗ | |
| 3.8 | Annie Oakley | 1985-11-16 | Hawke and Santini must recover a stolen laser weapon before it can be smuggled to Cuba. | Read ↗ | |
| 3.9 | Jennie | 1985-11-23 | Hawke rescues a scientist and squares off against a robotic tank menacing a village of deaf children. | Read ↗ | |
| 3.10 | The Deadly Circle | 1985-11-30 | Hawke learns his Vietnamese friends' families were taken by survivors of a village he once destroyed by accident. | Read ↗ | |
| 3.11 | Where Have All the Children Gone? | 1985-12-14 | Hawke must stop militia-trained youths from launching a nuclear missile at Washington, D.C. | Read ↗ | |
| 3.12 | Half-Pint | 1985-12-21 | Hawke meets his young nephew and uncovers a cocaine operation disguised as a mercy flight. | Read ↗ | |
| 3.13 | Wildfire | 1986-01-11 | Hawke tries to pull an old friend's son out of a deadly drug-smuggling scheme. | Read ↗ | |
| 3.14 | Discovery | 1986-01-18 | A criminal mastermind uses a rescued woman to discover Airwolf's hiding place. | Read ↗ | |
| 3.15 | Day of Jeopardy | 1986-01-25 | Hawke protects an old flame set to testify against her husband's assassination plot. | Read ↗ | |
| 3.16 | Little Wolf | 1986-02-01 | Hawke is drawn into a bitter custody battle and finds himself accused of kidnapping. | Read ↗ | |
| 3.17 | Desperate Monday | 1986-02-08 | Hawke moves to rescue hostages seized aboard the Queen Mary by a band of kidnappers. | Read ↗ | |
| 3.18 | Hawke's Run | 1986-02-15 | Hawke is hunted by assassins from both sides as a dead operative's intelligence becomes the prize. | Read ↗ | |
| 3.19 | Break-In at Santa Paula | 1986-02-22 | Hawke helps break a wrongly convicted man out of a brutal Mexican prison. | Read ↗ | |
| 3.20 | The Girl Who Fell From the Sky | 1986-03-15 | Hawke discovers an amnesiac woman is the key witness against an arms-dealing politician. | Read ↗ | |
| 3.21 | Tracks | 1986-03-22 | A mountain trip with disabled veterans turns deadly when a deranged killer stalks the group. | Read ↗ | |
| 3.22 | Birds of Paradise | 1986-03-29 | Hawke pursues a human trafficker to rescue his nephew's stepmother. | Read ↗ |
Produced for cable in Canada with a new cast and a tighter budget, the final season takes a sharp turn. After tragedy strikes the original team, the saga commits at last to resolving the long search for St. John Hawke — handing Airwolf to a new generation of pilots.
| Watched | # | Title | Air date | Summary | Transcript |
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| 4.1 | Blackjack | 1987-01-23 | Hawke learns his brother St. John is alive; tragedy strikes the team and St. John returns to help reclaim Airwolf. | Read ↗ | |
| 4.2 | Escape | 1987-01-30 | Jo must retrieve secret documents in Istanbul and be pulled from a downed plane before a peace conference collapses. | Read ↗ | |
| 4.3 | A Town for Hire | 1987-02-06 | Laser attacks lead the team to a secret weapons-testing facility hidden in the town of San Maria. | Read ↗ | |
| 4.4 | Salvage | 1987-02-13 | The crew uncovers a base testing an advanced helicopter, the Scorpion, destined for the KGB. | Read ↗ | |
| 4.5 | Windows | 1987-02-20 | The team chases a KGB agent who stole computer boards for a government spy satellite. | Read ↗ | |
| 4.6 | A Piece of Cake | 1987-02-27 | A runaway boy's grandfather kidnaps Jo at a dam, and St. John must mount an Airwolf rescue. | Read ↗ | |
| 4.7 | Deathtrain | 1987-03-06 | Tasked with guarding a nerve-gas train, the crew is fooled by mercenaries who divert the real train with a decoy. | Read ↗ | |
| 4.8 | Code of Silence | 1987-03-13 | St. John helps a former enemy, Colonel Combs, defend himself at a court martial after a pilot's death. | Read ↗ | |
| 4.9 | Stavograd (Part 1) | 1987-03-20 | Airwolf detects radioactive gas from a Russian nuclear plant; St. John crosses into Soviet airspace and is captured. | Read ↗ | |
| 4.10 | Stavograd (Part 2) | 1987-03-27 | St. John bargains for his crew's release by using Airwolf's laser to seal the leaking reactor. | Read ↗ | |
| 4.11 | Mime Troupe | 1987-04-03 | The team protects the star of a French mime troupe whose father is waging war on terrorism. | Read ↗ | |
| 4.12 | X-Virus | 1987-04-10 | St. John investigates a murdered businessman injected with a deadly experimental virus. | Read ↗ | |
| 4.13 | Rogue Warrior | 1987-04-24 | The Company demands Airwolf back after the crew defies orders inside Soviet airspace. | Read ↗ | |
| 4.14 | Ground Zero | 1987-05-01 | Jo is kidnapped by a Japanese businessman seeking revenge for his father's wartime death. | Read ↗ | |
| 4.15 | Flowers of the Mountain | 1987-05-08 | St. John tests a flawed military aircraft and is turned into a fugitive hunted by company hit men. | Read ↗ | |
| 4.16 | The Key | 1987-05-15 | Anti-nuclear protestors seize missiles in both superpowers; Mike infiltrates their HQ for the deactivation code. | Read ↗ | |
| 4.17 | On the Double | 1987-05-22 | Mike impersonates an East German pilot at an air show while the real agent's imprisoned wife awaits word. | Read ↗ | |
| 4.18 | Storm Warning | 1987-05-29 | Airwolf is sent to rescue Hawke's friend Jack from a South American general — but Jack is already dead. | Read ↗ | |
| 4.19 | The Golden One | 1987-07-03 | An Afghan rebel wants weapons — and Jo — luring her to Afghanistan and into a trap. | Read ↗ | |
| 4.20 | The Puppet Master | 1987-07-10 | Locke is captured and implanted with a mind-control device meant to compromise Airwolf. | Read ↗ | |
| 4.21 | Malduke | 1987-07-17 | A madman threatens to poison the Pacific unless infected people are forcibly quarantined. | Read ↗ | |
| 4.22 | Poppy Chain | 1987-07-24 | The team hunts one of the world's biggest opium suppliers across a string of missions in Laos. | Read ↗ | |
| 4.23 | Flying Home | 1987-07-31 | Hawke investigates stolen plutonium as Jo's dying father resurfaces and neo-Nazis chase a nuclear weapon. | Read ↗ | |
| 4.24 | Welcome to Paradise | 1987-08-07 | Hawke helps an old friend whose air-charter business is being targeted by a ruthless lumber operator. | Read ↗ |
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