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The Best Episodes of The A-Team

Every episode of The A-Team ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The A-Team!

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A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit."

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    The A-Team Season 4 Episode 4 - The Road to Hope
    8.6/10(382 votes)

    #1 - The Road to Hope

    S4:E4

    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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  2. The A-Team Season 4 Episode 8 - Mind Games
    8.5/10(337 votes)

    #2 - Mind Games

    S4:E8

    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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  3. The A-Team Season 4 Episode 20 - The Trouble with Harry
    8.5/10(291 votes)

    #3 - The Trouble with Harry

    S4:E20

    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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  4. The A-Team Season 3 Episode 22 - Beverly Hills Assault
    8.4/10(396 votes)

    #4 - Beverly Hills Assault

    S3:E22

    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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  5. The A-Team Season 4 Episode 10 - The Doctor Is Out
    8.4/10(344 votes)

    #5 - The Doctor Is Out

    S4:E10

    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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  6. The A-Team Season 4 Episode 21 - A Little Town with an Accent
    8.3/10(305 votes)

    #6 - A Little Town with an Accent

    S4:E21

    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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  7. The A-Team Season 4 Episode 16 - Waiting for Insane Wayne
    8.2/10(388 votes)

    #7 - Waiting for Insane Wayne

    S4:E16

    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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  8. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 5 - When You Comin' Back, Range Rider?
    8.0/10(454 votes)

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

    S2:E5

    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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  9. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 20 - Deadly Maneuvers
    8.0/10(384 votes)

    #9 - Deadly Maneuvers

    S2:E20

    Criminals foiled in the past by the A-Team hire a crew of mercenaries to pick off each member one by one.

    Director:Michael Vejar
    Writer:Richard Christian Matheson

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  10. The A-Team Season 3 Episode 1 - Bullets and Bikinis
    8.0/10(395 votes)

    #10 - Bullets and Bikinis

    S3:E1

    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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  11. The A-Team Season 3 Episode 8 - Showdown!
    8.0/10(353 votes)

    #11 - Showdown!

    S3:E8

    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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  12. The A-Team Season 3 Episode 10 - The Bells of St. Mary's
    8.0/10(356 votes)

    #12 - The Bells of St. Mary's

    S3:E10

    Threats from their old record label prompt a singing group who went to school with Face to ask the A-Team for help.

    Director:Dennis Donnelly
    Writer:Stephen J. Cannell

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  13. The A-Team Season 3 Episode 12 - Breakout!
    8.0/10(365 votes)

    #13 - Breakout!

    S3:E12

    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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  14. The A-Team Season 3 Episode 13 - Cup A' Joe
    8.0/10(363 votes)

    #14 - Cup A' Joe

    S3:E13

    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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  15. The A-Team Season 3 Episode 15 - Champ!
    8.0/10(380 votes)

    #15 - Champ!

    S3:E15

    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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  16. The A-Team Season 3 Episode 24 - Incident at Crystal Lake
    8.0/10(314 votes)

    #16 - Incident at Crystal Lake

    S3:E24

    The A-Team's planned fishing vacation at a lakeside retreat is ruined when Decker and his men show up.

    Director:Tony Mordente
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  17. The A-Team Season 5 Episode 13 - Without Reservations
    8.0/10(376 votes)

    #17 - Without Reservations

    S5:E13

    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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  18. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 12 - The Beast from the Belly of a Boeing
    7.8/10(506 votes)

    #18 - The Beast from the Belly of a Boeing

    S1:E12

    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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  19. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 8 - There's Always a Catch
    7.8/10(419 votes)

    #19 - There's Always a Catch

    S2:E8

    The A-Team must once again duck Decker as they try to stop an extortionist plaguing a small fishing village.

    Director:Ron Satlof
    Writer:Richard Christian Matheson

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  20. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 9 - Water, Water Everywhere
    7.8/10(429 votes)

    #20 - Water, Water Everywhere

    S2:E9

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

    Director:Arnold Laven
    Writer:Sidney Ellis

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  21. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 19 - Harder Than It Looks
    7.8/10(402 votes)

    #21 - Harder Than It Looks

    S2:E19

    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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  22. The A-Team Season 3 Episode 5 - Double Heat
    7.8/10(349 votes)

    #22 - Double Heat

    S3:E5

    The A-Team is called in to find an accountant's daughter who has become a pawn in a game between two rival mobsters.

    Director:Craig R. Baxley
    Writer:Stephen Katz

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  23. The A-Team Season 3 Episode 6 - Trouble on Wheels
    7.8/10(371 votes)

    #23 - Trouble on Wheels

    S3:E6

    Hannibal goes undercover in order to investigate employee theft from an auto plant.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Mark Jones

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  24. The A-Team Season 3 Episode 7 - The Island
    7.8/10(342 votes)

    #24 - The Island

    S3:E7

    An Army doctor who once saved B.A.'s life calls in his debt by asking the A-Team to help deal with the thugs who have taken over the tropical island where he has set up a medical practice.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Mark Jones

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  25. The A-Team Season 3 Episode 11 - Hot Styles
    7.8/10(350 votes)

    #25 - Hot Styles

    S3:E11

    Face's latest girl friend is rather ungrateful after the A-Team rescues her from mobsters.

    Director:Tony Mordente
    Writer:Stephen Katz

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Road to Hope" is the best rated episode of "The A-Team". It scored 8.6/10 based on 382 votes. Directed by David Hemmings and written by Stephen J. Cannell, it aired on 10/29/1985. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Mind Games".