Stringfellow Hawke conducts a-desperate search for a brilliant aircraft designer and his young son in NBC Universal’s "AIRWOLF" episode entitled "And A Child Shall Lead." The episode was written by Stephen A. Millet and directed by Allan Reisner.
Robert Phelps is a brilliant aircraft designer whose wife died three years ago, and whose son Bobby is mentally handicapped.
Bobby has the extraordinary ability to draw anything he sees from memory and in the finest detail.
After his father is kidnapped by several men who are after his secret military aircraft designs, he also falls critically ill.
Unable to get Phelps to reproduce any more blueprints, the captors also abduct Bobby, as they are aware of his extraordinary gift.
It is now the child who is the only one able to escape and get help, which he does.
Thanks to Bobby's accurate reproduction of the structure, Hawke and Santini are able to trace the house in the forest, in which Phelps is held captive.
NOTE: Ricky Wittmann, a 16-year-old Downs Syndrome child plays the role of Bobby. Wittmann has had many professional appearances in other motion pictures-for-television as well as series episodes.
