Airwolf : Season 1

People always remember the best things about Airwolf. The music, the helicopter, the fold out weapons that have a mind of their own. Now brace yourselves for this. It was crap.

Airwolf is a state of the art secret stealth attack helicopter, owned and operated by a branch of the CIA. Airwolf is totally bulletproof, it flies at above the speed of sound.

In reality Airwolf is a civil helicopter with lots of things superglued to the outside, stolen by a moody Vietnam vet from a CIA splinter group that is run by some bloke that likes white suits.
Airwolf is bulletproof when it feels like it and it flies at the same speed as sped up film.

The main character is Stringfellow Hawk played by Jean Michael Vincent. He's a totally unlikeable loner. He enjoys sitting by a lake, playing the cello, collecting art and being alone. Match.com material he is not. His only friend is Academy Award winner Ernest Borgnine. Borgnine is played by Dominic Santini, a rotund Italian-American pilot and owner of "Santini Air"
Nearly all of the episodes revolve around some silly cold-war spy plots that culminate with Airwolf shooting a biplane out of the sky. The commies want Airwolf for themselves because it's that good. The government wants Airwolf back too as Stringfellow stole is and hid it in a cave. He says he'll give it back when the CIA find his brother, St.John Hawk, who is still missing in action in Vietnam.
Hawk and Academy Award winner Ernest Borgnine begin to harbour unhealthy feelings towards the helicopter, remarking that "seeing her gives me tingles all over" and refering to it as "The Lady". They both think this is normal acceptable behavior, no wonder the CIA want it back - it'll have to go to councelling for helicopters when Hawk gives it up.
For such an invincible aircraft, Airwolf is not without its faults. Every episode it has something that doesn't work, probably a result of the abuse heaped upon it by the two aero-perverts that keep it locked up. It's more likely that the faults are a product of a script that gives that particular episode's antagonist a minor chance of survival in his home made autogiro.
Now I could yak on about the use of stock footage from airforce archives for the battle scenes and the repeated use of footage from the first episode.
But I won't. This whole first season is such a mess I'm surprised it ran for 4 seasons.
Honestly, even the music is really annoying.