The Best Episodes Written By Bill Nuss
Every TV Episode Written by Bill Nuss Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Bill Nuss Ratings Summary
The best episode written by Bill Nuss is "Pilot", rated 10/10 from 1 user votes. It was "directed by Ralph Hemecker". "Pilot" aired on 3/2/1996 and is rated 1.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Halloween Knight".
10.0/10 1 votes#1 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/2/1996
Ambitious police officer Chris Kelly is introduced to the Bike Patrol after she's transferred from the P.R. Department of the Santa Monica Police Department. T.C. Callaway, at a crossroads with his long term girlfriend, faces additional family pressure to quit the force and join the family business in Newport Beach. The entire unit is on the trail of a vicious car-jacker working the beach area.
Director: Ralph Hemecker
Writer: Bill Nuss
9.0/10 2 votes#2 - Halloween Knight
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/1984
After Bonnie claims she witnessed a murder, she's plagued by strange happenings designed to scare her out of her new apartment.
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Writer: Bill Nuss
8.0/10 2 votes#3 - Lease with an Option to Die
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1985
Some muscle men make a big mistake when they try to force B.A.'s momma out of her apartment.
Director: David Hemmings
Writer: Bill Nuss
8.0/10 4 votes#4 - Without Reservations
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 3/8/1987
Frankie and Face visit Murdock at his job in a restaurant, and all three become hostages of mobsters out to kill a patron, the US Attorney General.
Director: John Peter Kousakis
Writer: Bill Nuss
8.0/10 1 votes#5 - America, What a Town
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/19/1987
Hoffs goes undercover to keep a wild Eastern Bloc exchange student out of trouble. Hanson and Penhall enroll in a shop class suspected of being a chop shop for an auto theft ring.
Director: Larry Shaw
Writer: Bill Nuss
8.0/10 1 votes#6 - My Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/3/1987
Hanson and Penhall infiltrate an exclusive preppie clique to investigate a prank that left a girl dead.
Director: Gary Winter
Writer: Bill Nuss
8.0/10 1 votes#7 - Gotta Finish the Riff
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/17/1987
Jenko is killed by a drunk driver and is replaced by Captain Fuller who has his hands full dealing with a vengeful gang leader whom has taken his principal and several others hostage, including an undercover Hanson.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Bill Nuss
8.0/10 1 votes#8 - Low and Away
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/14/1987
Penhall joins the school baseball team in order to keep an eye on one of its star players, whose life has been threatened when his father agrees to testify against the mob.
Director: Bill Corcoran
Writer: Bill Nuss
8.0/10 1 votes#9 - You Ought to Be in Prison
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1987
Hanson and a film star he had been assigned to protect are kidnapped by an escaped murderer.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Bill Nuss
8.0/10 1 votes#10 - Christmas in Saigon
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/18/1987
Ioki faces being dismissed from the force when internal affairs discovers that he is a Vietnamese refuge who is using an alias. Flashback sequences show his escape from Saigon.
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Bill Nuss
8.0/10 1 votes#11 - Chapel of Love
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/14/1988
Past romances that didn't have happy endings are the subject of conversation at a Valentine Day Eve poker game.
Director: Michael Robinson
Writer: Bill Nuss
8.0/10 1 votes#12 - Orpheus 3.3
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/28/1988
Hanson blames himself for failing to prevent the shooting death of his girlfriend in a convenience store robbery and becomes obsessed with revenge.
Director: James A. Contner
Writer: Bill Nuss
8.0/10 1 votes#13 - Coach of the Year
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 11/27/1988
Penhall and Booker join a high school football team in attempt to prove that the coach's negligence led to the paralyzing injury of one of the players.
Director: James Whitmore Jr.
Writer: Bill Nuss
8.0/10 1 votes#14 - Hell Week
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 12/18/1988
Hanson and Ioki must endure hell week as fraternity pledges in order to gain the confidence and get evidence on a gang rape which occurred at a frat party.
Director: Jonathan Wacks
Writer: Bill Nuss
8.0/10 1 votes#15 - Woolly Bullies
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 2/19/1989
Penhall's encounter with a bully while undercover causes the members of the Jump Street unit to reminisce about their dealings with bullies while they were in school.
Director: Bill Corcoran
Writer: Bill Nuss
8.0/10 1 votes#16 - High High
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 4/23/1989
The Jump Street cops enroll in a performing arts school to bust a drug ring being run there.
Director: Mario Van Peebles
Writer: Bill Nuss
8.0/10 1 votes#17 - Baxter and Boz
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/22/1985
An appreciative gesture from a multimillionaire genius makes Boz the recipient of a recently developed attack helicopter.
Director: Michael Lange
Writer: Bill Nuss
7.5/10 2 votes#18 - Wheel of Fortune
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/14/1986
Murdock's fortunes rise and fall as he uses Face's system to win big on "Wheel of Fortune" but then is kidnapped during a plot to steal a Soviet gunship.
Director: David Hemmings
Writer: Bill Nuss
7.3/10 3 votes#19 - Members Only
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 1/28/1986
Face's chances of getting into an exclusive country club are severely hampered by the A-Team's battles on club property with a crooked bank president.
Director: Tony Mordente
Writer: Bill Nuss
7.0/10 4 votes#20 - Squall
Season 10 Episode 19 - Aired 3/26/2013
The team investigates death of a navy medical officer aboard a ship that went through a storm. The prime suspect turns out to be a 4-star admiral, who is also McGee's estranged father.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Bill Nuss
7.0/10 1 votes#21 - There Goes the Neighborhood
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/3/1985
The A-Team moves a rock star threatened with kidnapping into a quiet suburban neighborhood, which doesn't stay quite for long.
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Writer: Bill Nuss
7.0/10 1 votes#22 - The Trouble with Harry
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 3/25/1986
Hulk Hogan comes to visit B.A. but the reunion is interrupted by a cry for help from a troubled youth with an alcoholic father.
Director: David Hemmings
Writer: Bill Nuss
6.0/10 3 votes#23 - Body Slam
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1985
Hulk Hogan asks his old friend B.A. for the A-Team's help against a mobster who is out to close down a youth center for no apparent reason.
Director: Craig R. Baxley
Writer: Bill Nuss
6.0/10 2 votes#24 - Alive at Five
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1986
Face plans to leave the A-Team but gets involved in the rescue of a newswoman from a paranoid mob chief.
Director: Craig R. Baxley
Writer: Bill Nuss
4.5/10 2 votes#25 - The Crystal Skull
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1986
The A-Team's effort to secure a valuable religious artifact involves them with warring island tribes who mistake Murdoch for a God and some unusual missionaries.
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Writer: Bill Nuss