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Welcome to The Ultimate Airwolf Episode Guide, dedicated to the 1984-1987 U.S. Cult Television ''Super-Machine'' series, transmitted originally on CBS and the USA Network about a state-of-the-art black & white helicopter armed with fourteen deadly attack weapons, equipped with futuristic computerised equipment and a built-in jet turbine booster system, enabling the helicopter to fly at speeds close to Mach 2.
Created and Executive Produced by television veteran Donald P. Bellisario, responsible for such major hits including Magnum, P.I., Quantum Leap & his most recent and longest-running series, J.A.G., Airwolf boasted the highest production values ever seen in television history, matching what has been seen in the likes of the James Bond 007 films and other hugely financed productions, plus many storylines involving the political problems in the Cold War and hard-hitting real life drama with the well-developed characters.
But in early 1986, after 3 successful seasons, the show's American broadcasting network, CBS, decided to cancel the series, due to the painstakingly costs that they contributed into it's production, as well the unfortunate alcohol and drug problems surrounding Jan-Michael Vincent, who played the leading character, a Vietnam veteran, reckless, reclusive hotshot pilot called Stringfellow Hawke. The original 3 seasons also starred Multi-Oscar winning and Hollywood legend Ernest Borgnine as Stringfellow's comedic, helpful effective guardian, Dominic Santini, their expressive boss - a superior of the super-secret intelligence agency, The F.I.R.M., which built Airwolf, Michael Archangel, played by Alex Cord, and a Texan female pilot, Caitlin O'Shannessy, whom joined the cast at the beginning of the 2nd Season, potrayed by Jean Bruce Scott who had been playing a recurring character in Magnum, P.I.
Despite featuring most of the best aerial action sequences, breathtaking stunts, spectacular aerial photography, one-of-a-kind storylines and outstanding acting by both cast regulars and the well-known guest-stars including David Hemmings, Lance LeGault, Eugene Roche & Belinda Bauer, the series' only problem was the set budgets for the episodes, and on most cases, these went right up the roof, so this is why CBS decided to cancel it, plus it didn't help having the shows' creator, Don Bellisario, and his newly-wedded wife at the time, Deborah Pratt (who played Archangel's elegant assistant, Marella) leave the series due to several rifts and tension between him and the CBS executives as the storylines in the 3rd Season were slowly showing there many flaws - This placed the 3rd Season considerably low in the ratings, which is also due to the offical cancellation.
After 55 episodes, the USA Network decided to join teams with a Canadian productions company called Atlantis and carry on the adventures of the black & white "jet chopper", but this time their were greater difficulties - the production values were very much lower, meaning that the original Airwolf helicopter could not be used to shoot brand new fresh aerial footage, filming would take place only in Canada, and the original cast refused to travel to that part of the wilderness of a long period time to film the scheduled 24 episodes that would rise the show's total episode number to 80, which would in the future attract many television broadcasting companies around the world to use the series for syndication purposes, and to guarantee that both the original series, and the so-called sequel 4th Season would be found re-running themselves every year, which they have been.
The new made-for-cable 4th Season's cast consisted of Barry Van Dyke, the younger son of classic film actor Dick Van Dyke, star of the phenomenon Walt Disney film Mary Poppins, and who they both starred alongside together in the hit television series Diagonis Murder. Barry took up the role of Stringfellow's former M.I.A. brother, Saint John Hawke (pronounced as "Sinjin"), and became the leading character of the season, while Geraint Wyn Davies joined him as Major Mike Rivers, one of the best pilots of the United States Air Force who is assigned to the new Airwolf crew, the beautiful Canadian actress Michele Scarabelli took upon the role as Dominic's young daredevil niece, Jo Santini, and finally the man who would replace Alex Cord, Anthony Sherwood who wasn't provided with the role as Archangel, but as top government security agent, Jason Locke.
The F.I.R.M. was given a new title, The Company and the fondly remembered white dress code was gone. The Lair was given a computerised look, with various hi-tech equipment installed next to a larger heli-pad inside the disclosed mountain, and reels of stock footage, most of which was un-used during production of the original series was edited along with the new episodes, that were filmed on video rather than film print to cut-down on overall costs.
Although the new 4th Season disappointed many fans of the original series by the lack of careness, respect, time and money, it still contained quite a bit of originality, traditional Airwolf action, some well-thought of storylines which brought back the espionage and drama of the 1st Season back, as well a brilliant 80s' style rock n' roll rendition of Sylvester Levay's very original & unforgettable Main Theme music, re-performed synthesisely by Rick Patterson and Dan Miller, and thanks to many re-runs, the season alone has attracted a solid amount of fans.
Since its first international broadcast during the mid-Eighties, the series has collected over 1400 fans, all over the world, due to popular demand of complete re-runs of all 4 televised seasons, as well as the recent VHS & DVD releases by U.K. distributor, Universal-Playback. Here you will find in-depth and very detailed information pages on all 78 produced episodes made and broadcasted under the same name.
Also, in the near future, you can download high-quality audio and video clips taken from several episodes, plus behind-the-scenes & promotional photographs, but for the meantime, you can browse around the many 1st and 2nd Season pages which contain extremely in-depth information, such as trivia, bloopers, complete cast & crew credits and sharp, high-quality screenshots taken from various DVD/VHS sources. To find out more about one of the greatest television series' in history, simply select a section below and be taken into the world where 'A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing' was born.
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22nd February 2003
Various changes to late 2nd Season episode pages and 2 brand new 3rd Season "Fan-Favourite" episode pages!
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Contains the episode guide to AIRWOLF's 1st Season (1984)
Contains the episode guide to AIRWOLF's 2nd Season (1984-1985)
Contains the episode guide to AIRWOLF's 3rd Season (1985-1986)
Contains the episode guide to AIRWOLF's 4th Season (1987)
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High-Quality Audio Clips taken from various closing titles, scenes and aerial battles
Supreme-Quality Video Clips captured from various aerial battles, Pre-Opening Trailers, etc.
Full-size, high-quality and scanned behind-the-scenes and promo photographs
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The history, design process and credits from and to this site
URL links to some of the best AIRWOLF websites from around the world - Includes descriptions/screenshots
Please sign this site's guestbook with a comment, question, query or request
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Episode Information & Production Notes Gathered by: Martin Grant Screenshots Captured and Compressed by: Martin Grant
Audio Materials Captured by: Martin Grant Extra Audio Materials Captured and Supplied by: Adam C. Lettow
Main AIRWOLF logo courtesy of: Haakon Kjole
Special Thanks to: Jamie Dale / Clark Van Hoten / Adam C. Lettow / Louis Theb / Mark J. Cairns / Tristan P. Barratt
Web-Mastered By: Martin Grant
Website Design and Layout By: Martin Grant
NOTE: The custom-made headings (excluding the main AIRWOLF logo at the top of this page) and episodic screenshots presented within this site were designed/or captured and are copyrighted by Martin Grant © 2003. They are unavailable to be re-used on any other website whatsoever, due to their exclusitivty on this website.
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Airwolf™ is a licensed trademark of MCA/Universal Studios & Vivendi/Universal © 1984-2003. All Rights Reserved.
Airwolf™ is a licensed trademark of Belisarius Productions owned by the company's president and Creator/Executive Producer of this show, Donald P. Bellisario. All Rights Reserved.Airwolf 2™ is a licensed trademark of Atlantis Communications and Productions © 1987-2003. All Rights Reserved.
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The information & visual materials presented on the page has been gathered and retrieved from the original episode, which is fully copyrighted by Vivendi/Universal © 1984-2003. All Rights Reserved.