First Strike

First Strike

April 14, 1986 TV Episode Rambo

Studio
Ruby-Spears Productions, Carolco Entertainment
Distributor
Worldvision

Synopsis

Colonel Trautman enlists Rambo and his team to stop General Warhawk's forces, who are invading the small country of Tierra Libre. Rambo's first mission is to blow up the bridge leading to the country. The mission is successful but Rambo is captured by Sgt. Havoc and taken prisoner. Rambo escapes and dispenses with the men sent out to find him. Warhawk decides to use tanks to saturation bomb the area where they thought Rambo was hiding. Warhawk's troops repair the bridge and the tanks resume their attack into Tierra Libre. Having survived the previous heavy bombardment, Rambo gets in a Jeep that Turbo just equipped and defeats the tanks using grenades and RPGs. He then captures one of the tanks and destroys the bridge again, just behind a fleeing General Warhawk and his party.

Characters

John Rambo, Colonel Trautman, Kat, Turbo, General Warhawk, Sgt. Havoc, Gripper, President Ramone, Estrella

Credits

Directing

Director
Michael Hack

Producing

Producer
Joe Ruby, Ken Spears, Haim Saban, Shuki Levy

Voices

Voice
Neil Ross (Rambo), Allan Oppenheimer (Colonel Trautman), Lennie Weinrib (Gripper), Peter Cullen (SergeantHavoc), Mona Marshall (Kat), Frank Welker (Mad Dog), Robert Ito (Black Dragon), James Avery (Turbo), Edmund Gilbert (Nomad), Michael Ansara (General Warhawk)

Music

Music
Haim Saban, Shuki Levy
Non-Original Music
Jerry Goldsmith

Production notes

VERY toned down from the Rambo films, Rambo is now a member of a rag-tag force of heroes called "The Force of Freedom," a liberal-minded and ethnically-mixed group of men and women, each with his or her own combat specialties. Rambo and the Freedom Force always seemed to come up against the evil organization SAVAGE, led by renegade General Warhawk.