Airwolf — Season Four
1987 · 24 episodes
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 ↗ |