The Best Episodes Directed By Arnold Laven

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

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

Hunter and McCall arrest a man named Gavin, who is a street thug. They are then shocked to learn that the D.A. has made a deal with him. It seems that Gavin can link crime boss Nate Demarest to four murders. And Hunter is not pleased with it, cause if they let Gavin go, he will kill someone eventually. After an attempt is made on Gavin, Hunter suggests that they limit the knowledge of Gavin's whereabouts to just two people, and Gavin says that he wants Hunter and McCall to be those two. Cause he knows that they only way Hunter can prove that he didn't sell Gavin out, is to take a bullet for him. And it is while they are protecting Gavin that McCall recalls an old case wherein she and her partner were investigating Demarest for murdering an undercover Fed. McCall begins by talking to the man's wife and tells about a girl named Crissy who worked for Demarest, whom her husband took an interest in. Hunter then goes to talk to a man who once worked for Demarest, Whitey McPhee. And when he g

Director: Arnold Laven

Writer: N/A

The US government recruits the A-Team to rescue a general and his daughter from guerillas in Borneo.

Director: Arnold Laven

Writer: Frank Lupo

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

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

A land developer is trying to run three disabled Vietnam vets off the desert property they're renovating.

Director: Arnold Laven

Writer: Sidney Ellis

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

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

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

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