6.8/10426 votes#1 - Diamonds 'n Dust
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1983
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
7.3/10393 votes#2 - 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
7.1/10391 votes#3 - The Only Church in Town
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1983
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
7.0/10399 votes#4 - Bad Time on the Border
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1983
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
7.4/10409 votes#5 - 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
- 7.4/10395 votes
#6 - 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
7.6/10413 votes#7 - 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
6.8/10372 votes#8 - Labor Pains
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1983
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
7.2/10376 votes#9 - 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
7.0/10348 votes#10 - Water, Water Everywhere
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1983
A land developer is trying to run three disabled Vietnam vets off the desert property they're renovating.
Director: Arnold Laven
Writer: Sidney Ellis
7.1/10374 votes#11 - Steel
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/1983
The A-Team looks into sabotage at a construction site.
Director: Gilbert M. Shilton
Writer: Frank Lupo
6.8/10346 votes#12 - The White Ballot
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/1983
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
7.1/10349 votes#13 - The Maltese Cow
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/13/1983
Old friends who own a restaurant sponsored by the A-Team face an extortion threat from a Chinese tong.
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Writer: Richard Christian Matheson, Tom Szollosi
7.0/10346 votes#14 - In Plane Sight
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/3/1984
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
7.0/10344 votes#15 - The Battle of Bel Air
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/10/1984
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
7.1/10338 votes#16 - Say It With Bullets
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/17/1984
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
Writer: Richard Christian Matheson, Tom Szollosi
6.8/10326 votes#17 - Pure-Dee Poison
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/31/1984
The A-Team helps a southern minister stop the manufacture of lethal moonshine.
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Writer: Chris Bunch
7.0/10338 votes#18 - It's a Desert Out There
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/7/1984
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
7.2/10357 votes#19 - Chopping Spree
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/14/1984
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
7.1/10333 votes#20 - Harder Than It Looks
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/21/1984
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
7.7/10387 votes#21 - 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
- 6.5/10330 votes
#22 - Semi-Friendly Persuasion
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 3/8/1984
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
- 6.6/10342 votes
#23 - Curtain Call
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 3/15/1984
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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Genres:Action & AdventureComedyCrime
Network:NBC
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Diamonds 'n Dust" is the best rated episode of "The A-Team" season 2. It scored 6.8/10 based on 426 votes. Directed by Ron Satlof and written by Patrick Hasburgh, it aired on 9/20/1983. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Recipe for Heavy Bread".