Air Wolf
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| Created by | Donald P. Bellisario |
| Starring |
Jan-Michael Vincent Ernest Borgnine Alex Cord Jean Bruce Scott |
| Theme music composer | Sylvester Levay |
| Composer(s) | Sylvester Levay (S1-3) Udi Harpaz (S2-3) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 80 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 45–48 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Belisarius Productions (1984–1986) Universal Television (1984–1986) Atlantis Communications (1987) MCA TV (1987) |
| Release | |
| Original network |
CBS (1984–1986) USA (1987) |
| Original release | January 22, 1984 – August 7, 1987 |
Airwolf is an American television series that ran from 1984 until 1987. The program centers on a high-tech military helicopter, code named Airwolf, and its crew as they undertake various missions, many involving espionage, with a Cold War theme.
The show was created by Donald P. Bellisario and lasted four seasons. The first three seasons star Jan-Michael Vincent, Ernest Borgnine, Alex Cord, and (from the second season onwards) Jean Bruce Scott, and aired on CBS. After the original series was cancelled, a fourth season, with an entirely new cast and on a much smaller budget, was filmed in Canada for the USA Network.
The show's distinctive musical score, which was originally orchestral but shifted to more synthesizer-based arrangements early in the second season, was composed and mainly conducted by Sylvester Levay. Udi Harpaz conducted the scores for many later second and third-season episodes.
Airwolf, an advanced supersonic helicopter with stealth capabilities and a formidable arsenal, was designed by Dr. Charles Henry Moffet (David Hemmings) – a genius with a psychopathic taste for torturing and killing women – and built by "the Firm," a division of the CIA (a play on the term "the Company", a nickname for the CIA). As the series begins, Moffet and his crew steal Airwolf during a live-fire weapons test. During the theft, Moffet opens fire on the Firm's bunker, killing a United States Senator and seriously injuring Firm deputy director Michael Coldsmith-Briggs III (codename "Archangel"). Moffet takes the gunship to Libya, where he begins performing acts of aggression – such as sinking an American destroyer – as a service for Muammar Gaddafi, who allows Moffet to keep Airwolf on Libyan soil.
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