Airwolf
Welcome to Paradise
TV Flash files “Welcome to Paradise” as a desk essential hour — Airwolf (1984–1987) on CBS/USA, season 4, episode 24, aired 1987-08-07, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E24: listed hour 80 of 80 in the Airwolf guide, last listed hour of season 4. It aired 1987-08-07 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Flying Home” (S04E23). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “Welcome to Paradise”. Welcome to Paradise is the USA-season closer: a title the cheapened later years cannot cash. Watch the CBS hours.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
John comes to the aid of an old flame whose husband was killed by drug dealers.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Welcome to Paradise sit in the Airwolf guide?
S04E24 is listed hour 80 of 80 — last listed hour of season 4, season 4 episode 24.
When did Airwolf S04E24 air?
Welcome to Paradise aired 1987-08-07 and is listed at 60 minutes.
CBS Airwolf or the later USA seasons?
CBS looks expensive; later USA seasons cheapen fast. If you want Bellisario's flying Knight Rider, start with the network hours and the supercopter as co-star.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Bellisario's flying Knight Rider: a reclusive cello-playing loner, Ernest Borgnine as hangar dad, and a black supercopter that is the actual co-star. Come for Cold War hardware spectacle — rotor wash, missile racks, Archangel's white suit — and stay for the melancholy leaking around Jan-Michael Vincent. CBS hours look expensive; later USA seasons cheapen fast.
The machine is the actual co-star, and the night dressed it in black. CBS then USA's *Airwolf* (1984–1987) is Donald P. Bellisario's flying Knight Rider: Jan-Michael Vincent's Stringfellow Hawke as cello-playing loner, Ernest Borgnine as hangar dad Dominic Santini, Alex Cord's Archangel in the white suit. Rotor wash, missile racks, Cold War hardware spectacle. Part of the 1980s high-tech vehicle-hero trend, merch-ready chopper included. **CBS hours look expensive; later USA seasons cheapen fast.** Max's vending…
Filed against
- Jan-Michael Vincent as Stringfellow Hawke
Jan-Michael Vincent’s Stringfellow Hawke flew Airwolf like a cello with missiles — Bellisario’s flying Knight Rider, Ernest Borgnine as hangar dad, a black supercopter as the actual co-star. 1980s Cold War hardware with melancholy in the…
- Ernest Borgnine as Dominic Santini
Ernest Borgnine’s Lt. Cmdr. Quinton McHale made McHale’s Navy a PT-boat farce with a movie star’s grin — 1960s catalog WWII as sitcom, then Airwolf stretching the hangar-dad warmth around a black supercopter. TV Flash files him as the…
- Alex Cord as Michael Coldsmith Briggs III
Alex Cord’s Michael Coldsmith Briggs III — Archangel in a white suit — handled Airwolf as Bellisario’s flying Knight Rider: a reclusive cello-playing loner, Ernest Borgnine as hangar dad, a black supercopter as the actual co-star. Cold…