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The Best Episodes of The A-Team Season 2

Every episode of The A-Team Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The A-Team Season 2!

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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 2 Episode 21 - Semi-Friendly Persuasion
    7.8/10(459 votes)

    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 2 Episode 7 - Labor Pains
    7.7/10(477 votes)

    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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  3. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 5 - When You Comin' Back, Range Rider?
    7.5/10(470 votes)

    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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  4. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 6 - The Taxicab Wars
    7.5/10(460 votes)

    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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  5. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 2 - Recipe for Heavy Bread
    7.3/10(467 votes)

    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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  6. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 9 - Water, Water Everywhere
    7.3/10(442 votes)

    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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  7. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 19 - Harder Than It Looks
    7.3/10(413 votes)

    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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  8. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 3 - The Only Church in Town
    7.2/10(454 votes)

    S2:E3

    Face convinces the A-Team to take his case when he receives his fraternity pin in a package from Ecuador from a woman who disappeared from his life fifteen years earlier.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Babs Greyhosky

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  9. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 11 - The White Ballot
    7.2/10(436 votes)

    S2:E11

    Face replaces a candidate who was killed while running for sheriff against a corrupt incumbent, and ends up getting the military after the whole A-Team when his photo is published in the newspaper.

    Director:Dennis Donnelly
    Writer:Jeff Ray

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  10. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 13 - In Plane Sight
    7.2/10(413 votes)

    S2:E13

    The A-Team employs a new method to prepare B.A. for a flight to South America, where drug smugglers are holding an innocent pilot prisoner.

    Director:Tony Mordente
    Writer:Babs Greyhosky

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  11. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 16 - Pure-Dee Poison
    7.2/10(408 votes)

    S2:E16

    The A-Team helps a southern minister stop the manufacture of lethal moonshine.

    Director:Dennis Donnelly
    Writer:Chris Bunch

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  12. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 20 - Deadly Maneuvers
    7.2/10(393 votes)

    S2:E20

    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

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  13. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 4 - Bad Time on the Border
    7.1/10(459 votes)

    S2:E4

    Hannibal goes undercover as an illegal alien when the A-Team is asked to find a sick woman who was apparently left behind by alien smugglers.

    Director:Bruce Kessler
    Writer:Richard Christian Matheson

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  14. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 10 - Steel
    7.1/10(414 votes)

    S2:E10

    The A-Team looks into sabotage at a construction site.

    Director:Gilbert M. Shilton
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  15. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 14 - The Battle of Bel Air
    7.1/10(405 votes)

    S2:E14

    The A-Team must rescue an employee of a security firm after she warns them about an ambush.

    Director:Gilbert M. Shilton
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  16. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 15 - Say It With Bullets
    7.1/10(409 votes)

    S2:E15

    A WAC asks the A-Team to investigate the death of her brother, who was involved in arms trafficking at a military base.

    Director:Dennis Donnelly
    Writers:Richard Christian Matheson, Tom Szollosi

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  17. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 18 - Chopping Spree
    7.1/10(400 votes)

    S2:E18

    The A-Team uses their own vehicles, Face's Corvette and B.A.'s van, as bait for a car-stealing ring.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Stephen Katz

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  18. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 12 - The Maltese Cow
    6.9/10(406 votes)

    S2:E12

    Old friends who own a restaurant sponsored by the A-Team face an extortion threat from a Chinese tong.

    Director:Dennis Donnelly
    Writers:Richard Christian Matheson, Tom Szollosi

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  19. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 17 - It's a Desert Out There
    6.9/10(384 votes)

    S2:E17

    The sophisticated commando tactics used by a gang for robbing busloads of tourists suggests to the A-Team that they're preparing for a bigger score.

    Director:Arnold Laven
    Writer:Bruce Cervi

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  20. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 1 - Diamonds 'n Dust
    6.8/10(495 votes)

    S2:E1

    The A-Team agrees to transport explosives to a Zimbabwe diamond mine after the owner dies trying to do it himself.

    Director:Ron Satlof
    Writer:Patrick Hasburgh

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  21. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 8 - There's Always a Catch
    6.8/10(434 votes)

    S2:E8

    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

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  22. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 22 - Curtain Call
    6.6/10(387 votes)

    S2:E22

    The A-Team reminisces (via flashbacks) about an injured Murdock as they look for a doctor and try to avoid a pursuing Decker.

    Director:Dennis Donnelly
    Writer:Stephen Katz

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Semi-Friendly Persuasion" is the best rated episode of "The A-Team" season 2. It scored 7.8/10 based on 459 votes. Directed by Craig R. Baxley and written by Danny Lee Cole, it aired on 3/8/1984. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Labor Pains".