"Actor: Alex Cord"

• Airwolf - Vol. 1 | DVD | (09/04/2001) from £4.95   |  Saving you £5.04 (101.82%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Airwolf appeared only two years after Knight Rider and, perplexingly, the same year as the short-lived Blue Thunder series. However, creator Donald P Bellisario had spent more than a little time in fully conceptualising this series. Although the format allowed for stories-of-the-week, a B-plot always ran as background motivation for the individual tales. This was a trick Bellisario would also use to good effect later in Magnum P.I. and Quantum Leap. The hook that sustains the audience here is an extremely bitter sub-plot: Stringfellow Hawke (Jan-Michael Vincent) is a peculiar anti-hero to root for since he is effectively being held to ransom and doing the same in return. His brother St. John is held captive somewhere and until his release the Airwolf chopper is Hawke's to keep hidden and use under the covert instructions of "Archangel". His best friend Dominic Santini (the ever-appealing Ernest Borgnine) is a surrogate father figure caught up in the family history. All this pre-determined angst means this is never a show that plays itself for laughs. Very specific character flaws are upfront from the beginning. We are hammered over the head with the idea of Hawke being a tortured intellectual; hence the cello, log cabin retreat and inability to smile. Of course the real star is the spurious technology showcased in the Mach One helicopter armed to the teeth and able to defy the laws of physics on a regular basis. As the mid-80s looked increasingly to the lighter side in most television successes, Airwolf is a rare display of aggression. Justice is fought, but dig only a little way and the moral motivations are often in question. Toward the end of its third season things began to lose coherence and after a year's pause the show was magically resurrected with an all-new cast. It didn't last. --Paul Tonks

• Airwolf - Series 1 - Vol. 1 | DVD | (18/02/2008) from £15.97   |  Saving you £-6.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Jan-Michael Vincent and Ernest Borgnine star in the cult favourite Airwolf - although some might call Airwolf itself the star. The Emmy Award-winning series followed the dangerous missions of the high-tech helicopter Airwolf and it's renegade pilot Stringfellow Hawke. Fans can now relive every secret mission and dangerous operation in Part 1 of Season One!

• Airwolf - Complete Season 3 (4 Disc Box Set) | Blu Ray | (08/09/2014) from £34.49   |  Saving you £10.50 (30.44%)   |  RRP £44.99

• Airwolf - Complete Season 2 (4 Disc Box Set) | Blu Ray | (08/09/2014) from £24.65   |  Saving you £20.34 (82.52%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Created by Donald P. Bellisario (JAG, Magnum P.I.), Airwolf was among the many action-adventure shows of the 1980s that garnered a cult following. Jan-Michael Vincent stars as the improbably named Stringfellow Hawke, a Vietnam veteran still troubled by the disappearance of his brother during the war. Secret government agent Archangel (Alex Cord) approaches Hawke with a unique offer: to help him recover and then become the de facto pilot of the powerful, top-secret helicopter known as Airwolf. With that proposal begins Hawke's adventures, along with his sidekick Dominic (Ernest Borgnine) as pilot of the advanced aircraft. Contains all the episodes from the second series of the show. --This text refers to the DVD edition.

• To Be The Best | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  They were forced to be the best.... or face the terrible consequences...

• The Real Housewives of New York Season 1-9 | 47 Discs | NON-UK Format | Region 4 Import - Australia | DVD | (17/11/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A