7.8/10393 votesLoading...#1 - Deadly Maneuvers
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/28/1984
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
7.7/10584 votesLoading...#2 - A Small and Deadly War
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/15/1983
Hannibal plays cat and mouse with a renegade S.W.A.T. A-Team that's committing murders for hire.
Director: Ron Satlof
Writer: Frank Lupo
7.6/10453 votesLoading...#3 - Till Death Do Us Part
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 4/19/1983
The A-Team has to rescue a reluctant bride being forced to marry her late father's business partner.
Director: Guy Magar
Writer: Frank Lupo, Babs Greyhosky
7.6/10417 votesLoading...#4 - The Taxicab Wars
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1983
A small cab company hires the A-Team to thwart the sabotage efforts of a larger company trying to run them out of business.
Director: Gilbert M. Shilton
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
7.6/10337 votesLoading...#5 - Lease with an Option to Die
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1985
Some muscle men make a big mistake when they try to force B.A.'s momma out of her apartment.
Director: David Hemmings
Writer: Bill Nuss
7.6/10329 votesLoading...#6 - The Sound of Thunder
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 5/13/1986
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
7.5/10541 votesLoading...#7 - Children of Jamestown
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/30/1983
After the A-Team rescues a girl from a crazed cult leader, they are captured by the man's followers and made the quarry of a death hunt.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
7.5/10471 votesLoading...#8 - The Beast from the Belly of a Boeing
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 5/3/1983
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
7.5/10355 votesLoading...#9 - Bounty
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 4/2/1985
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
7.4/10530 votesLoading...#10 - Pros and Cons
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/8/1983
B.A.'s friend is held in a prison where the warden holds fight-to-the-death-boxing matches whose winner receives short-lived freedom.
Director: Ron Satlof
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
7.4/10472 votesLoading...#11 - The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/1/1983
The A-Team gets involved in a mob power play when two girls ask them to find their college professor who went to Las Vegas with a perfect gambling system and never came back.
Director: Bruce Kessler
Writer: Frank Lupo
7.4/105 votesLoading...#12 - A Nice Place to Visit
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 5/10/1983
The A-Team comes to the aid of a small town being terrorized by a murderous family.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: Frank Lupo
7.4/10412 votesLoading...#13 - When You Comin' Back, Range Rider? (1)
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1983
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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#14 - When You Comin' Back, Range Rider? (2)
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1983
With Decker hot on their heels, the A-Team must try and find of evidence of the mustangs’ illegal rustling as quickly as possible, before they are captured themselves. With enemies coming from two sides, it is ultimately up to Murdock to save his friends.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Writer: Frank Lupo
7.3/10478 votesLoading...#15 - Black Day at Bad Rock
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/22/1983
While treating a seriously wounded B.A., a suspicious small town doctor notifies the sheriff, who fears that B.A. may be part of a biker gang returning to free its jailed leader.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Writer: Patrick Hasburgh
7.3/10441 votesLoading...#16 - 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: Frank Lupo, Patrick Hasburgh
7.3/10395 votesLoading...#17 - Recipe for Heavy Bread
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1983
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
7.3/10342 votesLoading...#18 - Fire
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/2/1984
The A-Team faces another Army pursuit as they try to help a small town fire chief compete with a larger rival company.
Director: Tony Mordente
Writer: Stephen Katz
7.3/10338 votesLoading...#19 - 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
7.3/10316 votesLoading...#20 - Incident at Crystal Lake
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 5/14/1985
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
7.3/10277 votesLoading...#21 - Members Only
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 1/28/1986
Face's chances of getting into an exclusive country club are severely hampered by the A-Team's battles on club property with a crooked bank president.
Director: Tony Mordente
Writer: Bill Nuss
7.2/10822 votesLoading...#22 - Mexican Slayride (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/23/1983
Newspaper reporter, Amy Allen, sets out to prove the A-Team really exists and ends up hiring them to rescue one of her fellow reporters whose been kidnapped by Mexican outlaws.
Director: Rod Holcomb
Writer: Frank Lupo, Stephen J. Cannell
7.2/10435 votesLoading...#23 - 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
7.2/10436 votesLoading...#24 - West Coast Turnaround
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/5/1983
The A-Team delivers produce to the market for a farmer who is slowly being driven out of business by a land-hungry rancher.
Director: Guy Magar
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell, Patrick Hasburgh
7.2/10379 votesLoading...#25 - There's Always a Catch
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1983
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
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!
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...
Genres:Action & AdventureComedyCrime
Network:NBC
Best Episodes Summary
"Deadly Maneuvers" is the best rated episode of "The A-Team". It scored 7.8/10 based on 393 votes. Directed by Michael Vejar and written by Richard Christian Matheson, it aired on 2/28/1984. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "A Small and Deadly War".