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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 2 Episode 21 - Semi-Friendly Persuasion
    7.8/10(436 votes)

    #1 - Semi-Friendly Persuasion

    S2:E21

    The A-Team faces an especially challenging mission when their pacifist clients forbid the use of violence against bigots trying to run their community off its land.

    Director:Craig R. Baxley
    Writer:Danny Lee Cole

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  2. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 5 - Black Day at Bad Rock
    7.7/10(627 votes)

    #2 - Black Day at Bad Rock

    S1:E5

    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

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  3. The A-Team Season 3 Episode 22 - Beverly Hills Assault
    7.7/10(389 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. The A-Team Season 4 Episode 4 - The Road to Hope
    7.7/10(371 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 12 - The Beast from the Belly of a Boeing
    7.6/10(490 votes)

    #5 - 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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  6. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 13 - A Nice Place to Visit
    7.6/10(511 votes)

    #6 - A Nice Place to Visit

    S1:E13

    The A-Team comes to the aid of a small town being terrorized by a murderous family.

    Director:Bernard McEveety
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  7. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 7 - Labor Pains
    7.6/10(455 votes)

    #7 - Labor Pains

    S2:E7

    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

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  8. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 3 - Pros and Cons
    7.5/10(582 votes)

    #8 - Pros and Cons

    S1:E3

    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

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  9. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 4 - A Small and Deadly War
    7.5/10(575 votes)

    #9 - A Small and Deadly War

    S1:E4

    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

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  10. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 5 - When You Comin' Back, Range Rider?
    7.5/10(450 votes)

    #10 - 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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  11. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 6 - The Taxicab Wars
    7.5/10(440 votes)

    #11 - The Taxicab Wars

    S2:E6

    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

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  12. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 7 - The Out-of-Towners
    7.4/10(511 votes)

    #12 - The Out-of-Towners

    S1:E7

    The A-Team takes up the cause of New York shopkeepers against neighborhood protection racketeers.

    Director:Chuck Bowman
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  13. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 11 - Till Death Do Us Part
    7.4/10(472 votes)

    #13 - Till Death Do Us Part

    S1:E11

    The A-Team has to rescue a reluctant bride being forced to marry her late father's business partner.

    Director:Guy Magar
    Writers:Babs Greyhosky, Frank Lupo

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  14. The A-Team Season 3 Episode 4 - Timber!
    7.4/10(380 votes)

    #14 - Timber!

    S3:E4

    The A-Team intercedes when a union organizer tries to put a small logging operation out of business.

    Director:David Hemmings
    Writer:Jeff Ray

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  15. The A-Team Season 3 Episode 15 - Champ!
    7.4/10(372 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 4 Episode 15 - Cowboy George
    7.4/10(303 votes)

    #16 - Cowboy George

    S4:E15

    Face believes he's booked country singer Cowboy George into one of the roughest dance halls in the Southwest, but his agent friend delivers Boy George instead.

    Director:Tony Mordente
    Writer:Stephen J. Cannell

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  17. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 1 - Mexican Slayride
    7.3/10(886 votes)

    #17 - Mexican Slayride

    S1:E1

    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
    Writers:Stephen J. Cannell, Frank Lupo

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  18. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 6 - The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas
    7.3/10(517 votes)

    #18 - The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas

    S1:E6

    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

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  19. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 10 - One More Time
    7.3/10(474 votes)

    #19 - One More Time

    S1:E10

    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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  20. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 2 - Recipe for Heavy Bread
    7.3/10(436 votes)

    #20 - Recipe for Heavy Bread

    S2:E2

    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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  21. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 9 - Water, Water Everywhere
    7.3/10(421 votes)

    #21 - 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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  22. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 19 - Harder Than It Looks
    7.3/10(394 votes)

    #22 - 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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  23. The A-Team Season 3 Episode 1 - Bullets and Bikinis
    7.3/10(384 votes)

    #23 - 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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  24. The A-Team Season 3 Episode 9 - Sheriffs of Rivertown
    7.3/10(369 votes)

    #24 - Sheriffs of Rivertown

    S3:E9

    The A-Team travels to South America where they become the law in a town built to house workers of a power plant that has been experiencing a number of fatal accidents.

    Director:Dennis Donnelly
    Writer:Mark Jones

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  25. The A-Team Season 3 Episode 13 - Cup A' Joe
    7.3/10(353 votes)

    #25 - 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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Best Episodes Summary

"Semi-Friendly Persuasion" is the best rated episode of "The A-Team". It scored 7.8/10 based on 436 votes. Directed by Craig R. Baxley and written by Danny Lee Cole, it aired on 3/8/1984. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Black Day at Bad Rock".