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The Best Episodes of The A-Team Season 3

Every episode of The A-Team Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The A-Team Season 3!

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."

Genres:Action & AdventureComedyCrime
Network:NBC

Season 3 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "The A-Team" season 3 is "Bullets and Bikinis", rated 7.2/10 from 334 user votes. It was directed by Dennis Donnelly and written by Mark Jones. "Bullets and Bikinis" aired on 9/18/1984 and is rated 0.3 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Bend in the River Part 1".

  • Bullets and Bikinis
    7.2/10 334 votes

    #1 - Bullets and Bikinis

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1984

    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

  • The Bend in the River Part 1
    6.9/10 326 votes

    #2 - The Bend in the River Part 1

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1984

    Tawnia asks the A-Team to find her fiancé, an archaeologist last seen on an Amazon expedition that was attacked by a pirate.

    Director: Michael O'Herlihy

    Writer: Stephen J. Cannell, Frank Lupo

  • The Bend in the River Part 2
    6.8/10 315 votes

    #3 - The Bend in the River Part 2

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/1984

    Tawnia asks the A-Team to find her fiancé, an archaeologist last seen on an Amazon expedition that was attacked by a pirate.

    Director: Michael O'Herlihy

    Writer: Stephen J. Cannell, Frank Lupo

  • Fire
    7.2/10 331 votes

    #4 - Fire

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/2/1984

    The A-Team faces another Army pursuit as they try to help a small town fire chief compete with a larger rival company.

    Director: Tony Mordente

    Writer: Stephen Katz

  • Timber!
    7.0/10 298 votes

    #5 - Timber!

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/9/1984

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

    Director: David Hemmings

    Writer: Jeff Ray

  • Double Heat
    6.9/10 310 votes

    #6 - Double Heat

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/16/1984

    The A-Team is called in to find an accountant's daughter who has become a pawn in a game between two rival mobsters.

    Director: Craig R. Baxley

    Writer: Stephen Katz

  • Trouble on Wheels
    6.9/10 288 votes

    #7 - Trouble on Wheels

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/23/1984

    Hannibal goes undercover in order to investigate employee theft from an auto plant.

    Director: Michael O'Herlihy

    Writer: Mark Jones

  • The Island
    6.8/10 297 votes

    #8 - The Island

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 10/30/1984

    An Army doctor who once saved B.A.'s life calls in his debt by asking the A-Team to help deal with the thugs who have taken over the tropical island where he has set up a medical practice.

    Director: Michael O'Herlihy

    Writer: Mark Jones

  • Showdown!
    7.2/10 328 votes

    #9 - Showdown!

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 10/30/1984

    Col. Lynch stakes out a Wild West show that has been terrorized by a group of A-Team impostors, sure that the real guys won't be able to ignore them.

    Director: James Fargo

    Writer: Milt Rosen

  • Sheriffs of Rivertown
    6.8/10 309 votes

    #10 - Sheriffs of Rivertown

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1984

    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

  • The Bells of St. Mary's
    6.7/10 299 votes

    #11 - The Bells of St. Mary's

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1984

    Threats from their old record label prompt a singing group who went to school with Face to ask the A-Team for help.

    Director: Dennis Donnelly

    Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

  • Hot Styles
    6.6/10 313 votes

    #12 - Hot Styles

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/11/1984

    Face's latest girl friend is rather ungrateful after the A-Team rescues her from mobsters.

    Director: Tony Mordente

    Writer: Stephen Katz

  • Breakout!
    7.1/10 312 votes

    #13 - Breakout!

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/18/1984

    After being taken hostage by bankrobbers B.A. and Murdock are named as accomplices and put in jail until Decker can come and get them.

    Director: Dennis Donnelly

    Writer: Mark Jones

  • Cup A' Joe
    7.2/10 315 votes

    #14 - Cup A' Joe

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/8/1985

    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

  • The Big Squeeze
    7.3/10 330 votes

    #15 - The Big Squeeze

    Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/15/1985

    The A-Team opens its own restaurant to lure a ruthless loan shark who has other restaurant owners terrified.

    Director: Arnold Laven

    Writer: Stephen J. Cannell

  • Champ!
    6.9/10 312 votes

    #16 - Champ!

    Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/22/1985

    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

  • Skins
    6.7/10 281 votes

    #17 - Skins

    Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/29/1985

    The A-Team travels to Kenya to deal with game poachers who have included a game warden among their kills.

    Director: Dennis Donnelly

    Writer: Mark Jones

  • Road Games
    6.8/10 284 votes

    #18 - Road Games

    Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/5/1985

    Face infiltrates a gambling ring to clear a man's gambling debts and to save the foster home he runs.

    Director: Dennis Donnelly, Nicholas Sgarro

    Writer: Mark Jones, Stephen Katz

  • Moving Targets
    6.6/10 290 votes

    #19 - Moving Targets

    Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/12/1985

    A Middle Eastern potentate hires the A-Team to protect his about-to-be-married daughter despite her ideas to the contrary.

    Director: Dennis Donnelly

    Writer: Mark Jones

  • Knights of the Road
    6.9/10 298 votes

    #20 - Knights of the Road

    Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/26/1985

    The A-Team comes to the aid of an auto mechanic being driven out of business by a ruthless competitor.

    Director: Michael O'Herlihy

    Writer: Steven L. Sears, Burt Pearl

  • Waste 'Em!
    6.7/10 283 votes

    #21 - Waste 'Em!

    Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 3/5/1985

    The A-Team discovers a plot to dump toxic waste when they try to protect a man and his blind sister from harassment.

    Director: Sidney Hayers

    Writer: Mark Jones

  • Bounty
    7.5/10 341 votes

    #22 - Bounty

    Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 4/2/1985

    Murdock is kidnapped by bounty hunters that hope to use him as bait to capture the rest of the A-Team. When the Team arrives to rescue him, they find he has fallen in love with a veteranarian that's helped save him.

    Director: Michael O'Herlihy

    Writer: Stephen Katz

  • Beverly Hills Assault
    7.0/10 301 votes

    #23 - Beverly Hills Assault

    Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 4/9/1985

    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

  • Trouble Brewing
    6.7/10 272 votes

    #24 - Trouble Brewing

    Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 5/7/1985

    Two sisters ask the A-Team for help when they are pressured to convert their all-natural soda pop bottling plant into a brewery.

    Director: Michael O'Herlihy

    Writer: Steven L. Sears, Burt Pearl

  • Incident at Crystal Lake
    7.3/10 309 votes

    #25 - Incident at Crystal Lake

    Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 5/14/1985

    The A-Team's planned fishing vacation at a lakeside retreat is ruined when Decker and his men show up.

    Director: Tony Mordente

    Writer: Frank Lupo