Airwolf — Season Three
1985–86 · 22 episodes
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 ↗ |