Airwolf Season 1

If you want science fiction that respects its own premise, Airwolf Season 1 is available on and right now. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. 490 viewers have already rated it on TMDB — the kind of consensus that does not happen by accident. Jan-Michael Vincent leads a cast that never lets the concept overwhelm the characters. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

There is a reason Airwolf Season 1 keeps coming up in conversation. Airwolf Season 1 treats its concept seriously enough to follow it all the way through. Season 1 of Airwolf includes 12 episodes. It aired from January 1984 to April 1984. This season stars Jan-Michael Vincent, Ernest Borgnine and Alex Cord. Jan-Michael Vincent and Ernest Borgnine lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1984. The world-building is meticulous enough to sustain multiple rewatches, with details early on that only make sense later. It rarely drops the ball, and when it does, it recovers fast.

Sci-fi fans who want ideas alongside the spectacle will find Airwolf Season 1 genuinely rewarding. It rewards viewers regardless of what else is in their watch history. A contained run means every episode is doing real work. Jan-Michael Vincent's performance is the anchor the more ambitious moments need. The world-building pays off in ways you will not anticipate on a first watch.

🎬 Airwolf Season 1 — Episode Guide

Shadow of the Hawke (1)

1984-01-22

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 organiz...

Shadow of the Hawke (2)

1984-01-22

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 des...

Daddy's Gone a Hunt'n

1984-01-28

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 b...

Bite of the Jackal

1984-02-04

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 local...

Proof Through the Night

1984-02-11

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 ef...

One Way Express

1984-02-18

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 g...

Echos From the Past

1984-03-03

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 ye...

Fight Like a Dove

1984-03-10

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...

Mad Over Miami

1984-03-24

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...

E10

And They Are Us

1984-03-31

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 recei...

E11

Mind of the Machine

1984-04-07

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 simulat...

E12

To Snare a Wolf

1984-04-14

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 ...

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