7.2/10341 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
- 6.9/10333 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: Frank Lupo, Stephen J. Cannell
- 6.8/10321 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: Frank Lupo, Stephen J. Cannell
7.2/10338 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
- 7.0/10304 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
7.0/10317 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
6.9/10294 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
6.8/10303 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
7.2/10335 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
6.8/10312 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
6.7/10302 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
6.6/10317 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
7.1/10315 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
7.1/10320 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
7.2/10334 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
6.9/10319 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
6.6/10286 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
6.8/10290 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
6.6/10293 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
6.9/10303 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
6.7/10288 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
7.5/10349 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
7.0/10304 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
6.7/10276 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
7.3/10312 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
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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 3 Ratings Summary
"Bullets and Bikinis" is the best rated episode of "The A-Team" season 3. It scored 7.2/10 based on 341 votes. Directed by Dennis Donnelly and written by Mark Jones, it aired on 9/18/1984. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "The Bend in the River Part 1".