Airwolf: Season 4
Season 4 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 3.
- 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 4 Progress Shield
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
Escape
Jan 30, 1987 · 48 min
After being captured and sentenced to die, Jo's only hope for survival lies with a Soviet defector.
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 b
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 tota
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.
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.
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.
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 Airwo
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 disea
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.
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.
Welcome to Paradise
Aug 7, 1987 · 48 min
John comes to the aid of an old flame whose husband was killed by drug dealers.