Airwolf: Season 4

1987 · 24 episodes · ★ 6.7

What Season 4 of Airwolf

Season 4 of Airwolf has 24 episodes and premiered on January 23, 1987. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

24episodes

Jan 23, 1987premiered

Aug 7, 1987final episode

19.2 hrtotal runtime

Season 4 Episodes

4x01 Blackjack
Jan 23, 1987 · 48 min
Dom is killed in a helicopter accident that also severely injures String. Dom's niece, Jo, inherits and takes charge of Santini Air. The Company sends Locke to regain possession of Airwolf, he recruits Major Mike Rivers ,an Air Force pilot to help him find and fly the craft. Together they rescue St. John from a jungle prison and he and Jo round out the new Airwolf team.
Directing: Alan Simmonds · Writing: Michael Mercer, Jana Veverka · Starring: Jan-Michael Vincent, Ernie Prentice, Jerry Wasserman, Garry Chalk
4x02 Escape
Jan 30, 1987 · 48 min
After being captured and sentenced to die, Jo's only hope for survival lies with a Soviet defector.
Directing: Patrick Corbett · Writing: Patrick Kennedy · Starring: Alex Diakun, Lynne Harbaugh, Sherry Bie, Amy Newman
4x03 A Town for Hire
Feb 6, 1987 · 48 min
St. John is following Jo in a bi-plane as she tries out a new navigation device in a helicopter over an area of wilderness, when her helicopter is suddenly struck from the ground by a laser-beam that sends her chopper crashing down. St. John's plane is also hit, but he manages to land in the nearby town of Santa Mira before he looses consciousness. Waking up the next day in the local hospital, he is infuriated that nobody seems to believe his story and is out looking for Jo. But when he arrives at the crash-site, there is no sign of the crash ever happened, and as St. John tries to find out what is going on, he finds that the small boom town is held in some kind of grip of fear...
Directing: Patrick Corbett · Writing: Gwen Tulpa, Jordon Nicht · Starring: Anne Lockhart, Stephen Young, John S. Ragin, David Longworth
4x04 Salvage
Feb 13, 1987 · 48 min
A former female employee of the Company, who has suffered mental trauma after a Company mission went wrong, insists that she is seeing strange lights and hearing unexplained noises in the middle of the night, over her remote home and the nearby Indian burial ground in the rural town of Devil's Ridge. Jason sends St. John and Mike to investigate, and they are just as sceptical as everyone else, putting it down to her mental troubles, but the source of the disturbances is actually a stolen super-helicopter â€“ a third version of Airwolf called ""The Scorpion"" â€“ is hidden in the area, waiting to be picked up by KGB agents...
Directing: Ken Jubenvill · Writing: A.P. Liddell · Starring: Alvin Sanders, Dale Wilson, Margot Pinvidic, Jonathon Pallone
4x05 Windows
Feb 20, 1987 · 48 min
St. John and crew are under a deadline to recover a piece of stolen satellite hardware which is needed for an upcoming space shuttle flight.
Directing: Ken Jubenvill · Writing: Leslie McBride · Starring: George Touliatos, Linda Darlow, Lillian Carlson, Otto Lowy
4x06 A Piece of Cake
Feb 27, 1987 · 48 min
The grandfather of one of four juvenile delinquents Jo and Mike have taken camping plans on killing the rest of the camping party in order to regain custody of his grandson.
Directing: Bruce Pittman · Writing: Anthony Robertson · Starring: Jason Priestley, Paul Lambert, Harvey M. Miller, Lance Garrett
4x07 Deathtrain
Mar 6, 1987 · 48 min
Locke does not get along with the Russian agent he has been assigned to work with to guard a train full of nerve gas that is to be destroyed.
Directing: Patrick Corbett · Writing: Gwen Tulpa, Jordon Nicht · Starring: August Schellenberg, Ty Haller, William S. Taylor, Douglas Tuck
4x08 Code of Silence
Mar 13, 1987 · 48 min
St. John and Locke uncover a military cover-up when they represent opposite sides at a court martial.
Starring: John Calvin, John Donald, Deborah Wakeham, Hagan Beggs
4x09 Stavograd (a.k.a. The Stavograd Incident) (1)
Mar 20, 1987 · 48 min
The Russians reluctantly agree to allow the Airwolf team help them contain a nuclear power plant that has had a meltdown.
Directing: Ken Jubenvill · Writing: Sydney Burrows · Starring: William B. Davis, Lawrence Dane, Garwin Sanford, Sonja Smits
4x10 Stavograd (a.k.a. The Stavograd Incident) (2)
Mar 27, 1987 · 48 min
The Russians reluctantly agree to allow the Airwolf team help them contain a nuclear power plant that has had a meltdown.
Directing: Ken Jubenvill · Writing: Sydney Burrows · Starring: William B. Davis, Lawrence Dane, Garwin Sanford, Sonja Smits
4x11 Mime Troupe
Apr 3, 1987 · 48 min
The Airwolf team is assigned to guard the daughter of an Interpol agent who is marked for death by terrorists.
Directing: Bruce Pittman · Writing: Lyal Brown, Barbara Brown · Starring: Ann-Marie MacDonald, Michael Cutt, Joseph Golland, Len Birman
4x12 X-Virus
Apr 10, 1987 · 48 min
The Airwolf team tracks down the source of a genetically engineered virus that has claimed the life of one of St. John's friends.
Directing: Ken Jubenvill · Writing: Lyal Brown, Barbara Brown · Starring: James Saito, Ken Pogue, Wong Gerald Shuck, Don MacKay
4x13 Rogue Warrior
Apr 24, 1987 · 48 min
A security leak is blamed on Locke when his behavior changes as a result of seeing a friend killed on a mission behind the Iron Curtain.
Directing: Brad Turner · Writing: R.B. Carney · Starring: John Ireland, Robin Curtis, Martin Evans, Keith Martin Gordey
4x14 Ground Zero
May 1, 1987 · 48 min
A Japanese Kamikaze pilot who survived being shot down by St. John's father during WWII plans on restoring his honor by killing St. John and destroying a nuclear power plant.
Directing: Alan Simmonds · Writing: Michael Mercer · Starring: Seth Sakai, Larry Jang, Soon-Tek Oh, Garrick Jang
4x15 Flowers of the Mountains
May 8, 1987 · 48 min
A jet manufacturer sabotages his own plane that St. John is test piloting rather than let St. John reveal its inferior construction.
Directing: Randy Bradshaw · Writing: Stephen Ainsworth · Starring: Garry Chalk, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Joy Coghill, Marie Stillin
4x16 The Key
May 15, 1987 · 48 min
The Airwolf team is sent in to stop a group that has taken control of ten Soviet and ten American nuclear missile silos and threatens to set them off unless everyone agrees to total nuclear disarmament.
Directing: J. Barry Herron · Writing: Rick Drew · Starring: H.M. Wynant, William B. Davis, William Samples, Phillip Childs
4x17 On the Double
May 22, 1987 · 48 min
Mike and the wife of an East German double agent! pilot he had been impersonating are kidnapped at an air show in Paris.
Directing: Ken Jubenvill · Writing: Frank Kniest · Starring: Michael Pataki, Lucinda Nielsen, Anthony Stamboulieh, Devorah Macdonald
4x18 Storm Warning
May 29, 1987 · 48 min
A banana republic dictator takes St. John and the family of one of St. John's friends- who had discovered that the dictator was skimming American aid- hostage on a remote island.
Directing: Brad Turner · Writing: Michael Mercer · Starring: Jerry Wasserman, Gary Reineke, Caroline Barclay, Robert Symonds
4x19 The Golden One
Jul 3, 1987 · 48 min
Jo is lured to Afghanistan by an old boyfriend who has sold her as a bride to a rebel leader.
Directing: George Erschbamer · Writing: Ray Hoagan · Starring: Andrew Gillies, Stephen E. Miller, Richard Barathy, Alex Green
4x20 The Puppet Master
Jul 10, 1987 · 48 min
Locke's girlfriend is given a behavior implant module which forces her to turn Locke over to a lady scientist who uses the same procedure on Locke in order to gain control of Airwolf.
Directing: Zale Dalen · Writing: Gwen Tulpa, Jordon Nicht · Starring: Freda Perry, Karen Elizabeth Austin, John Bawden, Craig Bruhnanski
4x21 Malduke
Jul 17, 1987 · 48 min
The Airwolf team is sent to stop a man who has hijacked a Japanese freighter carrying nuclear waste. The man plans to blackmail the nations of the Earth into guaranteeing all diseased persons.
Directing: Ken Jubenvill · Writing: Michael Mercer · Starring: Dick Van Dyke, Richard Sargent, Alex Diakun
4x22 Poppy Chain
Jul 24, 1987 · 48 min
The Airwolf team travels around the world as they put an opium ring run by St. John's former commander out of business.
Directing: Ken Jubenvill · Writing: Chris Haddock · Starring: Grainger Hines, Dee Jay Jackson, Brent Applegath, Alec Burden
4x23 Flying Home
Jul 31, 1987 · 48 min
Jo's ailing father aids the Airwolf team in recovering radioactive material stolen by a group of Neo-Nazi 5.
Directing: Brad Turner · Writing: Chris Haddock, Jana Veverka, Rick Drew · Starring: Morris Panych, Donnelly Rhodes, Terence Kelly, Dwight McFee
4x24 Welcome to Paradise Season Finale
Aug 7, 1987 · 48 min
John comes to the aid of an old flame whose husband was killed by drug dealers.
Directing: J. Barry Herron · Writing: James S. Hughs · Starring: Gordon Tootoosis, Mary Kate McGeehan, William Smith, Denny Arnold