The Best Episodes of The A-Team

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   8.3/10(3 votes)

   #1 - Cup A' Joe

   S3:E131/8/1985

   A restaurateur tries to force the owners of a small diner to sell out to him after he arranges for a new freeway off-ramp to be built nearby.

   Director:Craig R. Baxley

   Writer:Dennis O'Keefe

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   Director:Craig R. Baxley

   Writer:Dennis O'Keefe
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   8.3/10(3 votes)

   #2 - The Trouble with Harry

   S4:E203/25/1986

   Hulk Hogan comes to visit B.A. but the reunion is interrupted by a cry for help from a troubled youth with an alcoholic father.

   Director:David Hemmings

   Writer:Bill Nuss

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   Director:David Hemmings

   Writer:Bill Nuss
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   8.2/10(4 votes)

   #3 - The Road to Hope

   S4:E410/29/1985

   Hannibal poses as a wino to avoid being caught by the Army and stumbles onto a racket that involves killing the derelicts.

   Director:David Hemmings

   Writer:Stephen J. Cannell

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   Director:David Hemmings

   Writer:Stephen J. Cannell
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   8.0/10(4 votes)

   #4 - When You Comin' Back, Range Rider?

   S2:E510/25/1983

   The A-Team must duck their Army pursuers as they try to stop wild horse rustlers.

   Director:Christian I. Nyby II

   Writer:Frank Lupo

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   Director:Christian I. Nyby II

   Writer:Frank Lupo
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   8.0/10(4 votes)

   #5 - Showdown!

   S3:E810/30/1984

   Col. Lynch stakes out a Wild West show that has been terrorized by a group of A-Team impostors, sure that the real guys won't be able to ignore them.

   Director:James Fargo

   Writer:Milt Rosen

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   Director:James Fargo

   Writer:Milt Rosen
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   8.0/10(3 votes)

   #6 - Breakout!

   S3:E1212/18/1984

   After being taken hostage by bankrobbers B.A. and Murdock are named as accomplices and put in jail until Decker can come and get them.

   Director:Dennis Donnelly

   Writer:Mark Jones

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   Director:Dennis Donnelly

   Writer:Mark Jones
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   8.0/10(4 votes)

   #7 - Beverly Hills Assault

   S3:E224/9/1985

   The A-Team goes uptown and gets involved with an art dealer who has been replacing original paintings with fakes.

   Director:Craig R. Baxley

   Writer:Paul Bernbaum

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   Director:Craig R. Baxley

   Writer:Paul Bernbaum
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   8.0/10(3 votes)

   #8 - Mind Games

   S4:E811/26/1985

   Face quits the A-Team after receiving a full government pardon and quickly becomes a celebrity, the rest of the A-Team keeps an eye on him suspecting the pardon's not 100% legit.

   Director:Michael O'Herlihy

   Writer:Stephen J. Cannell

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   Director:Michael O'Herlihy

   Writer:Stephen J. Cannell
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   8.0/10(4 votes)

   #9 - The Doctor Is Out

   S4:E1012/10/1985

   The A-Team travels to South America to find Murdock's psychiatrist, accompanied by a woman claiming to be his daughter.

   Director:David Hemmings

   Writers:Richard Christian Matheson, Tom Szollosi

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   Director:David Hemmings

   Writers:Richard Christian Matheson, Tom Szollosi
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    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #10 - Waiting for Insane Wayne

    S4:E162/18/1986

    When Murdock gets mistaken for an insane mercenary the A-Team is drawn into a fight over property rights and an oil well.

    Director:Craig R. Baxley

    Writers:Stephen J. Cannell, Frank Lupo

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    Director:Craig R. Baxley

    Writers:Stephen J. Cannell, Frank Lupo
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    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #11 - Bullets and Bikinis

    S3:E19/18/1984

    Two girls ask the A-Team to take over their beachfront hotel after an alleged mobster keeps making bigger and bigger buyout offers that they refuse to take.

    Director:Dennis Donnelly

    Writer:Mark Jones

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    Director:Dennis Donnelly

    Writer:Mark Jones
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    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #12 - The Big Squeeze

    S3:E141/15/1985

    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

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    Director:Arnold Laven

    Writer:Stephen J. Cannell
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    7.8/10(5 votes)

    #13 - Bounty

    S3:E214/2/1985

    Murdock is kidnapped by bounty hunters that hope to use him as bait to capture the rest of the A-Team. When the Team arrives to rescue him, they find he has fallen in love with a veteranarian that's helped save him.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy

    Writer:Stephen Katz

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    Director:Michael O'Herlihy

    Writer:Stephen Katz
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    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #14 - Judgement Day

    S4:E19/24/1985

    The A-Team goes to Italy to rescue a judge's daughter from mobsters, then must spend the journey home aboard an oceanliner dodging the boys trying to get her back.

    Director:David Hemmings

    Writer:Frank Lupo

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    Director:David Hemmings

    Writer:Frank Lupo
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    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #15 - The Duke of Whispering Pines

    S4:E172/25/1986

    One of B.A.'s old girlfriends has a problem; her husband, B.A.'s old college rival, has disappeared.

    Director:Sidney Hayers

    Writer:Jayne C. Ehrlich

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    Director:Sidney Hayers

    Writer:Jayne C. Ehrlich
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    7.8/10(5 votes)

    #16 - The Sound of Thunder

    S4:E225/13/1986

    General Fulbright captures the A-Team then offers to let them prove their innocence by accompanying him to Vietnam and rescuing a POW who could clear their names.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy

    Writer:Frank Lupo

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    Director:Michael O'Herlihy

    Writer:Frank Lupo
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    7.7/10(6 votes)

    #17 - One More Time

    S1:E104/12/1983

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

    Director:Arnold Laven

    Writers:Patrick Hasburgh, Frank Lupo

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    Director:Arnold Laven

    Writers:Patrick Hasburgh, Frank Lupo
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    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #18 - Harder Than It Looks

    S2:E192/21/1984

    The rescue of a kidnapping victim looks easy until the ransom is left behind and the victim insists on bringing along one of her captors.

    Director:Ivan Dixon

    Writer:Frank Lupo

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    Director:Ivan Dixon

    Writer:Frank Lupo
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    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #19 - Champ!

    S3:E151/22/1985

    B.A. goes undercover as a boxer in order to put a drug-trafficking ring out of business.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy

    Writer:Stephen Katz

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    Director:Michael O'Herlihy

    Writer:Stephen Katz
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    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #20 - Beneath the Surface

    S4:E183/4/1986

    Face returns to his orphanage for a reunion and meets an old friend's sister, who's worried about her brother's disappearance, and an old girlfriend, who is in cahoots with Fulbright to trap Face for the reward.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Michael O'Herlihy

    Writer:Unknown
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    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #21 - A Little Town with an Accent

    S4:E215/6/1986

    The A-Team discovers an organized crime kingpin believed to be dead is behind the intimidation of several gas station owners.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy

    Writers:Richard Christian Matheson, Tom Szollosi

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    Director:Michael O'Herlihy

    Writers:Richard Christian Matheson, Tom Szollosi
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    7.7/10(7 votes)

    #22 - Without Reservations

    S5:E133/8/1987

    Frankie and Face visit Murdock at his job in a restaurant, and all three become hostages of mobsters out to kill a patron, the US Attorney General.

    Director:John Peter Kousakis

    Writer:Bill Nuss

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    Director:John Peter Kousakis

    Writer:Bill Nuss
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    7.6/10(7 votes)

    #23 - The Beast from the Belly of a Boeing

    S1:E125/3/1983

    Hannibal's plan to free a hijacked airborne 747 requires a bit of adjustment when B.A. becomes cataleptic and Murdock temporarily blinded.

    Director:Ron Satlof

    Writer:Patrick Hasburgh

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    Director:Ron Satlof

    Writer:Patrick Hasburgh
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    7.6/10(5 votes)

    #24 - Recipe for Heavy Bread

    S2:E29/27/1983

    The cook from the A-Team's POW camp gives them a tip about a drug deal between the camp's former commander and a prisoner who had sold out to him.

    Director:Bernard McEveety

    Writer:Stephen J. Cannell

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    Director:Bernard McEveety

    Writer:Stephen J. Cannell
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    7.6/10(5 votes)

    #25 - Bad Time on the Border

    S2:E410/18/1983

    Hannibal goes undercover as an illegal alien when the A-Team is asked to find a sick woman who was apparently left behind by alien smugglers.

    Director:Bruce Kessler

    Writer:Richard Christian Matheson

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    Director:Bruce Kessler

    Writer:Richard Christian Matheson