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Season guide

Airwolf: Season 4

24 episodes Premiered Jan 23, 1987 Updated Sep 25, 2026
Previously on Airwolf

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.
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Season 4 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 4: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (21): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S4·E1 Mytharc

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

S4·E2 Core

Escape

Jan 30, 1987 · 48 min

After being captured and sentenced to die, Jo's only hope for survival lies with a Soviet defector.

S4·E3 Core

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

S4·E4 Core

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

S4·E5 Core

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.

S4·E6 Core

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.

S4·E7 Core

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.

S4·E8 Core

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.

S4·E11 Core

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.

S4·E12 Core

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.

S4·E13 Core

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.

S4·E14 Core

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.

S4·E15 Core

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.

S4·E16 Core

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

S4·E17 Core

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.

S4·E18 Core

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.

S4·E19 Core

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.

S4·E20 Core

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

S4·E21 Core

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

S4·E22 Core

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.

S4·E23 Mytharc

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.

S4·E24 Mytharc

Welcome to Paradise

Aug 7, 1987 · 48 min

John comes to the aid of an old flame whose husband was killed by drug dealers.

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