Airwolf (TV Series) Sweet Britches (1984) User Reviews

Airwolf meets the Rockford files.

[mm-39 · 6/10 · 7 January 2020]

Airwolf meets the Rockford files. Hawke has a war buddy, of course Hawke owes him, who is in trouble in a small town. Like Jim, Hawk has to investigate. There is a wild hunting rage with a few surprises. A nice lady air cop. A mean sheriff, and Hawk being a human target. Just like the Rockford Files, but with some jazzed up Airwolf action. Kinda liked this one. The bad guys got what's coming. 6 stars.

Airwolf - Sweet Britches

[Scarecrow-88 · 6/10 · 4 August 2018]

String, with Santini, gets word from a buddy of his past that a dirt bike friend was on the run after breaking from a Texas dust town prison. Polk County Sheriff, JJ Bogan (Lance LeGault, perfectly cast as a man-of-few-words laconic type, with eyes hidden behind black shades, never without his cowboy hat, seemingly never shaken despite every reason to be when outside threat towards his position could eventually result when always abusing the badge he wears) "does away with" the jail runaway despite Highway Patrol helicopter pilot, Caitlin O'Shannessy (Jean Bruce Scott, laying on the accent a bit too thick, later as she appears on the show abandoning it as time goes by), and her best efforts to see he is taken to a hospital for medical assistance. That Bogan would just blatantly dismiss her and kill him "deader than bait" is quite ballsy considering Caitlin knew of the escapee's existence. Being that she's a confrontational, not-easily-rattled officer of the law, Bogan and his town cowboy gang of thugs aren't just going to shrug her off. Luckily String, Santini, and the Airwolf are available to make sure Bogan and his boys get what's coming to them. An electrified fence keeping in African cats, gun-toting human/animal hunters set loose to hunt down String once he's left to try and avoid their gunfire; this once again summons the ghost of "The Most Dangerous Game", although it is more or less a minor subplot rather than a significant theme of the episode. Santini hoping to avoid a lion and tigers while trapped in the Airwolf and his singing as String pilots the Airwolf home despite Caitlin's declaration that they should account for "blowing up the sheriff's station" are fun highlights. The story is rather flim-flam, as String is locked behind bars when the sheriff brazenly arrests him for no reason whatsoever, except passing through for a beer at the town's lone bar. More of a western standoff that Bogan loses miserably despite shot-gun blasts into his deputy and Caitlin's chopper when she is freed from her cell (yes, Bogan even arrests her despite a judge-served warrant requiring the dirt biker hurt during a highway-into-desert chase) when String and the Airwolf get involved. Perhaps this will be entertaining if just for the Airwolf sending ammunition and missiles into Bogan's station and truck as he unloads his shotgun towards him to no avail. That the sheriff would be so above the law that his illegalities would certainly lead to his ruin, a stubbornness and orneriness certain to dethrone him, going down in flames, doesn't exactly cast him as the smartest character...even in Texas there had to be some recognition by Bogan that he had to operate within boundaries, so his not doing so presented him as rather a preposterous character. LeGault does have a presence about him, a steely resolve and dark voice, stern and unmovable. All the way to the end, LeGault won't budge from his standoff despite every reason to surrender. Those involved with him aren't so bright and certainly come off as clowns in cowboy hats and boots. Caitlin would become a regular on the series' second season. Quite a different approach than the first season, barely any involvement of The Firm or Alex Cord's ArchAngel. The title comes from a nickname given to Caitlin by Bogan's dumb cowboys; Caitlin confronting Bogan in a bar proves she's not a shrinking violet.

Sweet Britches

[Prismark10 · 5/10 · 10 September 2018]

Shades of The Most Dangerous Game in this launch of the second season and Archangel is nowhere to be seen in this opener.

Hawke crosses swords with mean small town sheriff Bogan who does not like drifters coming into town. In fact he does not seem to like anyone even threatening another law enforcement officer.

Bogan should had remembered what happened to another small town sheriff who did not like drifters in the movie First Blood.

Hawke comes looking for an old friend who escaped from jail and might have ended up dead courtesy of Bogan. Hawke also needs to save the pretty law enforcement officer from Bogan's goons. One of them being Tackleberry from the Police Academy films.