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The Best Episodes of The A-Team Season 1

Every episode of The A-Team Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The A-Team Season 1!

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

    #1 - 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.

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  2. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 2 - Children of Jamestown
    7.2/10(669 votes)

    #2 - Children of Jamestown

    S1:E2

    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.

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

    #3 - 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.

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

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

    #5 - 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.

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

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

    #7 - 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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  9. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 8 - Holiday in the Hills
    7.1/10(497 votes)

    #8 - Holiday in the Hills

    S1:E8

    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.

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  10. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 9 - West Coast Turnaround
    7.2/10(470 votes)

    #9 - West Coast Turnaround

    S1:E9

    The A-Team delivers produce to the market for a farmer who is slowly being driven out of business by a land-hungry rancher.

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

    #10 - One More Time

    S1:E10

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

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

    #11 - 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.

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

    #12 - 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.

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

    #13 - A Nice Place to Visit

    S1:E13

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

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Mexican Slayride" is the best rated episode of "The A-Team" season 1. It scored 7.3/10 based on 886 votes. Directed by Rod Holcomb and written by Stephen J. Cannell, Frank Lupo, it aired on 1/23/1983. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Children of Jamestown".