7.2/10819 votes#1 - 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
7.1/10614 votes#2 - Mexican Slayride (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/23/1983
Part 2 of the pilot episode in which the A-Team have been captured by a group of guerillas and the gang leader they were sent to fight. In the final battle they are assisted by the villagers and with their help, the A-Team is able to overthrow the guerillas, save the reporter and make their way home. Once home, Amy Allen blackmails her way onto the team.
Director: Rod Holcomb
Writer: Frank Lupo, Stephen J. Cannell
7.5/10538 votes#3 - 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
7.4/10528 votes#4 - 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
7.7/10582 votes#5 - 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
7.3/10475 votes#6 - 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
7.4/10467 votes#7 - 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
7.1/10457 votes#8 - The Out-of-Towners
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/15/1983
The A-Team takes up the cause of New York shopkeepers against neighborhood protection racketeers.
Director: Chuck Bowman
Writer: Frank Lupo
7.2/10432 votes#9 - 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
7.2/10434 votes#10 - 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
7.3/10441 votes#11 - 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
7.6/10452 votes#12 - 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
7.5/10468 votes#13 - 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
7.8/104 votes#14 - 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
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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...
Genres:Action & AdventureComedyCrime
Network:NBC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Mexican Slayride (1)" is the best rated episode of "The A-Team" season 1. It scored 7.2/10 based on 819 votes. Directed by Rod Holcomb and written by Frank Lupo, Stephen J. Cannell, it aired on 1/23/1983. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Mexican Slayride (2)".