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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!

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".

  • Deadly Maneuvers
    7.8/10393 votes
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    #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

  • A Small and Deadly War
    7.7/10584 votes
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    #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

  • Till Death Do Us Part
    7.6/10453 votes
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    #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

  • The Taxicab Wars
    7.6/10417 votes
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    #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

  • Lease with an Option to Die
    7.6/10337 votes
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    #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

  • The Sound of Thunder
    7.6/10329 votes
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    #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

  • Children of Jamestown
    7.5/10541 votes
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    #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

  • The Beast from the Belly of a Boeing
    7.5/10471 votes
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    #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

  • Bounty
    7.5/10355 votes
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    #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

  • Pros and Cons
    7.4/10530 votes
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    #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

  • The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas
    7.4/10472 votes
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    #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

  • A Nice Place to Visit
    7.4/105 votes
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    #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

  • When You Comin' Back, Range Rider? (1)
    7.4/10412 votes
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    #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

  • When You Comin' Back, Range Rider? (2)
    7.4/10399 votes
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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

  • Black Day at Bad Rock
    7.3/10478 votes
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    #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

  • One More Time
    7.3/10441 votes
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    #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

  • Recipe for Heavy Bread
    7.3/10395 votes
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    #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

  • Fire
    7.3/10342 votes
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    #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

  • The Big Squeeze
    7.3/10338 votes
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    #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

  • Incident at Crystal Lake
    7.3/10316 votes
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    #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

  • Members Only
    7.3/10277 votes
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    #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

  • Mexican Slayride (1)
    7.2/10822 votes
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    #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

  • Holiday in the Hills
    7.2/10435 votes
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    #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

  • West Coast Turnaround
    7.2/10436 votes
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    #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

  • There's Always a Catch
    7.2/10379 votes
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    #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