Airwolf: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Airwolf Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
The Horn of Plenty
Sep 28, 1985 · 48 min
Hawke takes a seemingly luxurious Santini Air job, piloting and accompanying a beautiful, high-flying business woman for a few days, but ends up duped into being hypnotised in an e
Airwolf II
Oct 5, 1985 · 48 min
Hawke is at a friend's prestigious ceremony when Archangel pulls him out and accuses him of being involved in a robbery the previous night in which items that could be used by Airw
And a Child Shall Lead
Oct 12, 1985 · 48 min
String is aided in the rescue of a kidnapped industrial designer by the man's retarded son.
Fortune Teller
Oct 19, 1985 · 48 min
Hawke and Dominic arrive for a rendezvous with Archangel in the desert, only to find his jeep abandoned and no sign of him. The F.I.R.M., who have reason to believe that he has tur
Crossover
Oct 26, 1985 · 48 min
String falls for the Czech woman scientist, whom he's helping defect to the west.
Kingdom Come
Nov 2, 1985 · 48 min
When a professional group of thieves steal a batch of thermonuclear detonators, which can cause mass destruction if they fall into the wrong hands, Archangel has reason to suspect
Eagles
Nov 9, 1985 · 48 min
At a National Air Race show, Hawke and Dominic befriend an attractive pilot racer, unaware that she's being pursued by her boss and his henchmen after stealing some tapes that can
Annie Oakley
Nov 16, 1985 · 48 min
When ""The Mongoose"", a new laser weapon, is stolen, the thieves fall out, and one of them contacts The F.I.R.M. with hope of returning the weapon for reward. Archangel sends Hawk
Jennie
Nov 23, 1985 · 48 min
Arriving in Airwolf in a war-torn South American country, Hawke, Dominic and Caitlin rendezvous with ""living legend"" freedom fighter leader El Gato, in a mission to rescue a US s
The Deadly Circle
Nov 30, 1985 · 48 min
The families of one of String's friends from Vietnam are kidnapped along with Dom and Caitlin by people seeking revenge against those who destroyed their village during the Vietnam
Where Have All the Children Gone?
Dec 14, 1985 · 48 min
At the funeral of a Vietnam comrade, Hawke takes it upon himself to deliver the man's coffin flag and Congressional Medal of Honour to the soldier's brother, Billy Fargo. But arriv
Half-Pint
Dec 21, 1985 · 48 min
String decides to adopt St. John's Amerasian son when the son's discovery points to St. John being dead.
Wildfire
Jan 11, 1986 · 48 min
Dominic introduces Hawke and Caitlin to an old friend, Big Cece“ the owner of an oil drilling company in the desert, and his son Little Cece, who works at the company. But they fin
Discovery
Jan 18, 1986 · 48 min
A man who once failed to steal Airwolf is given a second chance when a young lady he knows stumbles upon its hiding place.
Day of Jeopardy
Jan 25, 1986 · 48 min
After Tess Dixon, the wife of infamous crime-lord Cullen Dixon, escapes his bodyguards while swimming in the sea at night, Archangel asks Hawke and Santini to deliver her safely vi
Little Wolf
Feb 1, 1986 · 48 min
String and Dom become involved in a custody dispute when a friend of Strings who was about to be divorced dies leaving his wife and mother to battle for his infant son.
Desperate Monday
Feb 8, 1986 · 48 min
At Caitlin's sorority reunion kidnappers after one of her ‘sisters' bungle the job and end up holding the whole reunion hostage.
Hawke's Run
Feb 15, 1986 · 48 min
String discovers that an old friend is a double agent when a schematic he was to turn over to the FIRM is stolen.
Break-In at Santa Paula
Feb 22, 1986 · 48 min
The wife of a deceased old friend of Hawke's begs him to rescue her son Terry, who is in a corrupt Mexican prison after being framed, with a bad heart condition. After visiting the
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
Mar 15, 1986 · 48 min
Hawke is doing some late-night fishing on the lake outside his cabin, when he sees a helicopter fly over and drop a body into the water. Pulling the unconscious, dumped young woman
Tracks
Mar 22, 1986 · 48 min
String takes group of wheelchair-bound Vietnam war vets on a mountain hike adventure, but they wind up fighting for thier lives when a deranged mountain man, wants them off his mou
Birds of Paradise
Mar 29, 1986 · 48 min
String comes to the aid of his nephew who asks String for help when his mother disappears for a week.