History Series / Airwolf

* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: The episode "Sweet Britches" involves the African Hunt Club Ranch, a safari club where customers can pay to hunt wild game from Africa, and occasionally prisoners from the local county jail.

* CodeName: "Archangel," real name Michael Coldsmith-Briggs III.[[labelnote:*]]Seasons after the first treated the code as his real last name[[/labelnote]].

* BittersweetEnding: The ending of the [[Recap/AirwolfS1E1ShadowOfTheHawke pilot episode]]. The ''Airwolf'' is recovered, but [[spoiler:Gabrielle is dead.]]

* AmbiguousSituation: At the conclusion of the fourth season opener "Blackjack" it is left unclear what happens to Stringfellow after St. John takes him from the hospital. St. John returns to the lair in Airwolf alone telling his friends there was ''something he had to do'', and the matter is quietly dropped. Caitlin's fate is also left unknown whilst Archangel has been redeployed to the Middle East.

* BellyDancer: In the pilot episode [[Recap/AirwolfS1E1ShadowOfTheHawke "Shadow of the Hawke"]], a couple of CIA operatives disguise themselves as dancers in a Libyan nightclub.

Unusually cordial about this act, the Firm proceeds to hire Hawke as a mercenary to fight against various threats from communists or criminals, with the assistance of fellow pilots Dominic Santini (Creator/ErnestBorgnine) and Caitlin O'Shannessy. Several times, the Firm would attempt to recover Airwolf, despite the fact that they routinely allowed Hawke into sensitive areas to discuss the helicopter's placement. (The Soviets tried to do the same, although the discussions tended to be far more forceful.) Hawke and company were assigned their missions by the Firm's deputy director Michael Coldsmith Briggs III, codenamed "Archangel" (Alex Cord).

The concept of the show is that Stringfellow Hawke, a helicopter pilot whose brother is missing in Vietnam, manages to blackmail the Firm (a thinly veiled branch of the UsefulNotes/{{CIA}}) by [[GrandTheftPrototype failing to return a prototype helicopter]] that he'd retrieved for them after the chopper's creator, the evil Dr. Moffet, flew it off to Libya.

Unusually cordial about this act, the Firm proceeds to hire Stringfellow Hawke as a mercenary to fight against various threats from communists or criminals. Several times, the Firm would attempt to recover Airwolf, despite the fact that they routinely allowed Stringfellow Hawke into sensitive areas to discuss the helicopter's placement. The Soviets tried to do the same, although the discussions tended to be far more forceful.

After Season 3 ended, the show was radically retooled with Stringfellow Hawke replaced by his brother Saint John Hawke. The sole season after this, which was made for Creator/USANetwork at a time where cable series literally had NoBudget, was mostly composed of (painfully obvious) StockFootage and ceased to have much of the previous helicopter action that they had once had.

A 1984-87 action-adventure program about Stringfellow Hawke, a helicopter pilot whose brother is missing in Vietnam. The concept of the show is that Stringfellow Hawke manages to blackmail the Firm (a thinly veiled branch of the UsefulNotes/{{CIA}}) by [[GrandTheftPrototype failing to return a prototype helicopter]] that he'd retrieved for them after the chopper's creator, the evil Dr. Moffet, flew it off to Libya.