Airwolf: Echos From the Past
Episode score
9.2
Superb
Echos From the Past
- 7.
- Season: 1
- Episode: 7
- First Aired: 3/3/1984
- Prod Code: 58211
After Hawke meets with an old "acquaintance" who claims to have solid details of where his MIA brother St. John in being held, he suddenly looses consciousness and crashes his helicopter. Months later, he awakens from a coma in hospital, only to be told that Dominic and Archangel were killed in a daring mission to rescue St. John from a prison camp – but St. John is now a free man, alive and well. But nothing is as it seems, and behind it all are some foreign agents in a complex plan to get their hands on Airwolf... Add a recap »
- Writers:
- C.R. O'Christopher
- Director:
- Harvey S. Laidman
- Stars:
- Ernest Borgnine (Dominic Santini)
- Jan-Michael Vincent (Stringfellow Hawke)
- Alex Cord (Michael 'Archangel' Coldsmith-Briggs III)
- Recurring Role:
- Deborah Pratt (Marella)
- Guest Star:
- Bobbie Bates (Female in White Coat)
- Rebecca Clemons (Anchor Woman)
- Fred Holliday (Anchor Man)
- Sally Hampton (Charlene)
- Christopher Connelly (St. John Hawke)
- Michelle Nicastro (Susan)
- Milt Kogan (Dr. Rothchild (alias Clous Kinter))
- Barbara Cason (Nurse Simmons (alias Eis Meinhamen))
- Michael Halsey (Peter McGregor Moore)
- Robert Hogan (Morton Abrahams)
- Zohra Lampert (Dr. Lisa Holgate (alias Anasazie Zarcof))
- Jerome Anson Blackwell (Man in White Coat)
- The footage of the chopper that Hawke is in crashing into the side of the mountain, is a stock sequence (one of the other places it can be seen used is in the second season 'A-Team' episode 'The Battle Of Bel-Air' (1984). edit »
- Continuity error: when Nurse Susan is in the elevator with St. John('s impostor), as she exits the elevator, we see a shot of her in which she says "Bye" to him as the elevator doors start to close; but in the following shot of St. John replying "Bye, have a nice day", the doors don't appear to be moving. edit »
- The shot as one of the heat-seeker missiles lands in the ocean is quite obviously stock footage – and the missle seems to hit by a boat or some sort of rig, something which quite clearly wasn't there in other shots. edit »
- This episode has the second version of the File A56-7W opening narration. This dialogue of this version is:
"File A56-7W, Subject: Airwolf, Top Secret – A mach one plus attack helicopter with the most advanced weapons arsenal in the air. Sought by Governments friendly and foreign, Airwolf is hidden somewhere in the Western wilderness by it's test pilot Stringfellow Hawke; to be returned to the Government only if his brother Saint John, an MIA in Vietnam, can be found.
The deputy director of the intelligence agency that developed Airwolf is Michael Coldsmith-Briggs the third, codename Archangel; believed to covertly provide classified information and support to Hawke in return for flying the chopper on missions of national interest.
Stringfellow Hawke is 34, reclusive, sensitive and a loner; known to associate with his only friend and mentor Dominic Santini. Together, Santini and Hawke fly Airwolf.
Capable of speeds rivalling the fastest jets and backed by unmatched firepower, Airwolf is a weapon too dangerous to be left in unenlightened hands. Finding Airwolf is your first priority. End of file." edit » - Resembles the Hardy Boys episode, Sole Survivor. edit »
- In the 1980s, re-released in the 1990s, this episode was released in the UK and some countries on video by CIC, who merged it together with 'And They Are Us' to form a "feature-length" story, called 'Airwolf II: A Deadly Mission!', though the on-screen title was 'Airwolf II: The Search' ('Airwolf I' being the video release version of the Pilot). The two episodes were joined, rather awkwardly, in the middle, with this one playing second (however, unlike the video version of the Pilot, other than being joined together, these stories played in their original version).More recently, this episode has been released in it's original state, on Universal Playback's 'Airwolf: Volume 3'. edit »
- This is the only episode of the series to utilise The Lady's "parachute drag" utility (and is used rather unconvincingly here!) edit »
- This is the first episode where we see Dominic and Marella on-screen together (after Marella commented in 'Daddy's Gone A Hunt'n' that she had never then met him). It's not indicated if it's the first time they've actually met or not (there's nothing to indicate it is). edit »
- Susan: A helicopter? All this for a lousy helicopter?
String: Yeah. edit »
- Episode Title: "Echos from the Past"
The title of the episode is a reference to a 1925 black-and-white movie titled "Echos fro the Alps." edit »
Echos From the Past
The Bottom Line: "Exciting"04/18/08 10:11am | report abuseHawke falls victim to an elaborate East German plot to wrest possession of Airwolf from him. With the unexpected aid from quick-thinking Dom Santini, Hawke turns the tables on his abductors and delivers some sweet payback. ...Continue »
Echos From the Past
The Bottom Line: "Cleverly plotted"07/27/06 08:38am | report abuseHawke is brainwashed into believing he crashed his chopper and that hes been in hospital 8 and a half months. he is told dom and archangel have been killed rescuing st.john who is now alive and well... ...Continue »
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