I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The super vehicle genre was in full swing when Airwolf flew into the air on CBS in early 1984. Inspired by the 1983 movie, "Blue Thunder," Airwolf was a faster helo and more heavily armed made to fight the Cold War while the former was built to fight urban crime. Action movie star Jan-Michael Vincent (Stringfellow Hawke) led a great cast with Ernest Borgnine (Dominic Santini) and Alex Cord (Archangel Briggs). Deborah Pratt did an excellent recurring role as Marella throughout seasons one and two.Season one of Airwolf portrayed well how this super helicopter fought its foreign enemies whether in Libya or Russia (among others). There were attempts by foreign baddies to steal the "Lady" (as she was affectionately known by her crew), plus domestic government types who wanted her back.Season two introduced a new character: Caitlin O'Shanessy wonderfully played by Jean Bruce Scott. However years later, I read an unconfirmed account that Deborah Pratt was originally going to be the female lead in season two making her character Marella a regular role. CBS network interference is said to have prevented Pratt from having her shot at a regular role on the show. Not cool.Anyways, season two continued the Lady's battles. While she still fought foreign enemies whether overseas or in the USA, many stories were evident where the direction of the show was going: less foreign enemy conflicts and more domestic problem stories. Apparently, network executives stepped in thinking they knew what was best for the show. While some of these domestic problem stories were not bad, you had to watch and wonder why a helicopter built for war was dispatched to problems better suited for Blue Thunder.When season three came along, original series creator and producer Donald Bellesario was no longer on board. The quality of the stories were evident that DB was no longer there. All the stories do not have Airwolf fighting any foreign enemies; they all take place on U.S. soil. While there were stories that had to do with National Defense and Security, they did not involve foreign enemies with their air forces.Network interference of how the show "should" go was ultimately what shot down Airwolf. Jan Michael Vincent had problems with drugs, alcohol, showing up late for a shoot, or showing up drunk, high or hungover. That was ammo for CBS to ground Airwolf permanently.(Airwolf was revived for another season on the USA network. The budget was shoestring as was the quality. The original characters were not on-board for that iteration, but even if they were, they would still have the poor writing to contend with.)Fans of Airwolf like to bash season 4 on how terrible it was and rightly so. But what they don't realize is how the final season of the original broadcast was nothing to write home about either. Sure, JMV's problems were the nail in coffin of the original, but even without his problems, the show would still have been canceled because of the poor stories that resulted in poor ratings.Airwolf was one of the few series that was inspired by a movie that was able to get renewed for a second season; most shows inspired by or based on movies never go past the first season (like the the Blue Thunder TV series inspired by its movie!). The writers dazzled both the network and the viewers. At the end of season one, we were ready for more and got our wish.Unfortunately, network involvement in what they thought the show should be and who should/should-not be in it led to its demise. If CBS let Don Bellesario and the writers do their jobs instead of them trying to put their noses where it didn't need to be, then they would have gotten more out of Airwolf in money, ratings and seasons.

As a young teenager at the time, Airwolf was compulsory viewing for a generation who wanted their "Cowboys and Indians" to have amazing gadgets and whizz-bang explosions.In many ways, the show was essentially Knight Rider in the skies: similar comic-book technology, a central character who was essentially a loner, and echoing the concept of one man making a difference.But in other, important ways, it was thematically very different from Knight Rider, Street Hawk, The A-Team and other action shows of the time. For one thing, the premise of the series is built not on a desire to help those in need, but by Stringfellow Hawke's possession of Airwolf for essentially selfish reasons (as leverage to try to find his MIA brother, St John). And then there is the dark edge provided by basing the series firmly in an 80s Cold War context, complete with Soviet espionage and Central American dictators, not to mention the enemy within. Sure, The A-Team constantly referred back to Vietnam and the team's status as fugitives, but it was generally done with a light touch and was rarely central to the plot itself. With Airwolf, the intrigue was key to the tone and direction of the show - although this was (ill-advisedly) diluted as the series went on.With hindsight, the Cold War setting clearly dates the series, many of the stories are creaky and contrived, and much of what Airwolf does is clearly implausible even with today's technology. But that's really not the point. Airwolf was rip-roaring fun, it tried to tell interesting stories without relying solely on the big action sequences, and it didn't sugar-coat everything by miraculously ensuring nobody died. Sometimes it failed, but often it succeeded admirably - and on a TV budget to boot.For UK readers, DMAX (Sky channel 155) have just started (Jan 2008) daily re-runs of Airwolf. Set your Sky+ box for this blast from the past - we may even get the re-tooled, re-cast (and sadly vastly inferior) fourth season, which to my knowledge has never previously been shown in the UK.

so yes it is quite nostalgic watching the 1st episode because this is the one episode i definitely remembered. i enjoy watching the first season and yes compared to the action packed shows we have now this show seems lame. but frankly i like the "less violent" part of the show and the story line has more substance than the new ones now. I thought it interesting that Belisario's Airwolf and JAG have similar theme - the lead actor (Hawke and Harm) both are looking for an MIA relative (brother, father). wonder if Robert Belisario's personal life mimics these 2 shows' theme.Question - does anyone have pictures of Hawke's cabin. I love that cabin (kinda like a dream cabin of mine) and that is one of the scenes i remember about Airwolf.

In the early 80's, cool vehicle shows seemed to become really popular. After the success of the Blue Thunder movie, producer Donald Bellisario nicked the idea and made a show of a big, black helicopter that could do loads of things like fly about the desert shooting and well...that's it. Come on! At least K.I.T.T. could talk.In the pilot episode, a brilliant scientist who designed the Airwolf chopper is flying around in circles on the Airwolf open day, showing off the chopper's limited skills to a bizarrely over-impressed audience of Government officials. But he does a 1-80 and guns them all down before nicking the chopper and flying off to Lybia to sell it to deranged Arabs who use each other for target practice.The man in charge of the Airwolf project, the cycloptic and simply named Michael 'Archangel' Coldsmith Briggs III, survives the attack and calls upon renegade chopper pilot Stringfellow Hawke (no relation to the London nite-club owner sex symbol) to nip over to Lybia and steal the chopper back. Sound like Iron Eagle I-VII? Hawke agrees, but only if they promise to find his brother who is still MIA in the 'Nam or something. This plot device is an obvious hook to churn out more seasons.And Airwolf did exactly that for a few years. Every week baddies would get together in a bit of desert outside of LA to do their evil deeds only to be thwarted by a cumbersome chopper filled with ludicrously dated equipment that in real life would fall out of the sky like a bus instead of buzzing around at a zillion miles per hour.Despite being one of the most low-concept shows to ever be a hit, I just find it boring. I like Ernest Borgnine but I can only assume he signed on for this show to pay off his loan-shark. I'm not too keen on Jan-Michael Vincent either, the man who (to quote Biff Tannen) took his life and flushed it completely down the toilet. He's not much of a hero and his character is too brooding to ever really connect with. Where are the fun characters like Face, Murdock and Sam Beckett? Those are characters you can root for.Universal studios did some cool shows in this part of TV history. But in regards to military antics and blowing stuff up, Airwolf is to The A-Team what Street Hawk was to Knight Rider. Donald Bellisario scored much bigger, more dynamic hits with shows like Quantum Leap and Murder, She Wrote. This one is too simple and too derivative.Even the music was dull. Sylvester Levay, the man who did droning scores to Cobra and Navy SEALS, made a totally crap theme for this show that has nothing on the classic A-Team tune. But I seem to be in the minority here as a limited edition score CD that was released a few years ago goes for absolutely ridiculous amounts of money on auction sites. It's just too synth for me, which dates it badly.I'm sorry to say that Airwolf just don't do nuthin' for me. Give me a crack commando unit or David Hasselhoff's Knight Rider afro any day.