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Airwolf: The Classic Collection Boxset 1 Pub: Universal Playback 9062983. 6hr 54 minute 3 VHS videos.
Price: £19.99(UK).
Check out website: www.universal-playback.com
As a boxset, 3 tapes together are cheaper than buying separately after all. Nope! These episodes all come from the late end of Season Two. Without getting too boring with details, they are essentially in mixed order episodes 2-11 to 2-21 missing 2-18 and 2-19.
Being one of the last real live-action TV series that relied on physical than computer-generated effects, 'Airwolf' frequently ran into heavy budget expenditure and invariably ended up using stock plots set in the US rather than exotic missions as played out in the first season. 'The Lady' as Airwolf was frequently referred to was really too awesome a weapon that could beat anything that wasn't state of the art technology didn't help matters very much either. All the armed helicopters in the world wouldn't help against computer-guided
missiles that could target and take them out in a blink of an eye. The introduction of ex-police officer/helicopter pilot Caitlin O'Shannssy (ck sp) (actress Jean Bruce Scott) earlier in Season Two - which must confuse first-time buyers of this boxset as to where she came from - was to show the series wasn't all male driven and to lighten up Stringfellow Hawke's sombre mood. It's a shame that she wasn't better used in the series although
she did shine a little in 2-12: 'Condemned' here by giving a more
normal reaction compared to the military types in the story. If you're after commercial tapes of 'Airwolf' you'll probably add this to your collection anyway. One can only hope someone will come to their senses at Universal and start releasing the rest of the episodes from Season One. GF Willmetts
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OTHER REVIEWS - October 2002
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With
the recent release of Season One episodes in chronological order
of this series, I had high hopes that when they did a boxset that
they might have kept to this consecutive pattern. 
All
right, Universal thought showing the later episodes would be OK
but a little more care and attention, and they could have had least
had them in the right order.
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