The Best Episodes Directed By Arnold Laven
Every TV Episode Directed by Arnold Laven Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Arnold Laven Ratings Summary
The best episode directed by Arnold Laven is "Vigilante", rated 10/10 from 1 user votes. It was "written by Stephen Lord". "Vigilante" aired on 5/3/1981 and is rated 1.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "S1.E18 The Time of Day".
10.0/10 1 votes#1 - Vigilante
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 5/3/1981
Mod Squad's Michael Cole costars in this thrilling episode about a criminal once arrested by Sgt. Getraer, who is back and on a terrifying rampage.
Director: Arnold Laven
Writer: Stephen Lord
9.0/10 1 votes#2 - S1.E18 The Time of Day
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 5/29/1955
The Time of Day - Featuring Charles Bronson. The coddled daughter of a judge befriends a broke young man with a reform school past. She gives him an expensive watch as a token of her friendship, but a detective thinks he stole it. When she wants to go to the police station to clear her friend, her parents are more concerned about what others might think than of helping the innocent man.
Director: Arnold Laven
Writer: Peggy Chantler Dick
8.3/10 3 votes#3 - One More Time
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/12/1983
The US government recruits the A-Team to rescue a general and his daughter from guerillas in Borneo.
Director: Arnold Laven
Writer: Patrick Hasburgh
7.5/10 2 votes#4 - It's a Desert Out There
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/7/1984
The sophisticated commando tactics used by a gang for robbing busloads of tourists suggests to the A-Team that they're preparing for a bigger score.
Director: Arnold Laven
Writer: Bruce Cervi
7.5/10 2 votes#5 - The Big Squeeze
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/15/1985
The A-Team opens its own restaurant to lure a ruthless loan shark who has other restaurant owners terrified.
Director: Arnold Laven
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
7.5/10 2 votes#6 - A Long Way From L.A.
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/1984
Hunter and McCall are transporting a prisoner back to L.A. when they have to stop at a small town. They place their prisoner in the custody of the Sheriff. Later that evening after the waitress from the local café brings the prisoner his dinner she's attacked and at the same time the prisoner's cell is opened. He runs out and everyone assumes he attacked her. However Hunter and McCall think the Sheriff had something to do with it. When they try to question him, they learn the Sheriff is the step-son of the town's wealthiest man.
Director: Arnold Laven
Writer: Frank Lupo
7.3/10 3 votes#7 - Holiday in the Hills
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/22/1983
B.A.'s fear of flying is justified when the A-Team's plane crashes in the backwoods where they must battle mountain men to keep a man from being burned at the stake.
Director: Arnold Laven
Writer: Babs Greyhosky
7.0/10 1 votes#8 - Labor Pains
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1983
The A-Team helps migrant workers to organize against a landowner that is forcing them to live and work under slave-labor conditions.
Director: Arnold Laven
Writer: Richard Christian Matheson
7.0/10 2 votes#9 - Water, Water Everywhere
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1983
A land developer is trying to run three disabled Vietnam vets off the desert property they're renovating.
Director: Arnold Laven
Writer: Sidney Ellis
7.0/10 1 votes#10 - The Return of Verge Likens
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 10/5/1964
Verge Likens is a farmer whose father was killed by a crooked politician named Riley McGrath. Verge returns home to avenge his father's death. He manages to get close to Riley by getting hired as an assistant at a barbershop. After asking the barber to run an errand, Verge is alone with Riley and proceeds to lather up the murdering politician for a shave. Verge vividly describes how he is planning to cut Riley's throat. When the barber returns to the barbershop he finds the door locked. He gets the police who break down the door. Inside they find Verge standing over Riley's dead body. Berge has avenged his father's death and he is not guilty of a crime. Riley died of a heart attack.
Director: Arnold Laven
Writer: James Bridges