The Best Episodes Written By Frank Lupo

Every TV Episode Written by Frank Lupo Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

Episode Rankings

  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 2 Episode 2 - Operation Spoilsport
    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #1 - Operation Spoilsport

    S2:E2

    Ralph and Bill must stop World War III by defusing a corrupt military leader's plans to launch a suprise missile attack against Russia.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  2. undefined Season 4 Episode 16 - Waiting for Insane Wayne
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #2 - Waiting for Insane Wayne

    S4:E16

    When Murdock gets mistaken for an insane mercenary the A-Team is drawn into a fight over property rights and an oil well.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  3. undefined Season 2 Episode 5 - When You Comin' Back, Range Rider?
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #3 - When You Comin' Back, Range Rider?

    S2:E5

    The A-Team must duck their Army pursuers as they try to stop wild horse rustlers.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  4. undefined Season 4 Episode 22 - The Sound of Thunder
    7.8/10(5 votes)

    #4 - The Sound of Thunder

    S4:E22

    General Fulbright captures the A-Team then offers to let them prove their innocence by accompanying him to Vietnam and rescuing a POW who could clear their names.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  5. undefined Season 4 Episode 1 - Judgement Day
    7.8/10(4 votes)

    #5 - Judgement Day

    S4:E1

    The A-Team goes to Italy to rescue a judge's daughter from mobsters, then must spend the journey home aboard an oceanliner dodging the boys trying to get her back.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  6. undefined Season 2 Episode 19 - Harder Than It Looks
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #6 - Harder Than It Looks

    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:N/A
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  7. undefined Season 1 Episode 10 - One More Time
    7.7/10(6 votes)

    #7 - One More Time

    S1:E10

    The US government recruits the A-Team to rescue a general and his daughter from guerillas in Borneo.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  8. undefined Season 1 Episode 5 - No Need to Know
    7.6/10(5 votes)

    #8 - No Need to Know

    S1:E5

    Magnum returns from a case to find that Higgins' old Army commander is staying on the Masters estate, under tight security, until some I.R.A. members he helped capture are tried. Two secret intelligence agents hire Magnum to protect the brigadier and foil assassins out to kill him before the terrorists' trial, but the “need to know” basis the agents insist on operating by only serves to complicate matters for Magnum.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  9. undefined Season 5 Episode 3 - Firing Line
    7.4/10(5 votes)

    #9 - Firing Line

    S5:E3

    General Stockwell interferes with the plans of Murdock and Frankie to free the rest of the A-Team before the Army can execute them.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  10. undefined Season 3 Episode 24 - Incident at Crystal Lake
    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #10 - Incident at Crystal Lake

    S3:E24

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

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  11. undefined Season 1 Episode 1 - Mexican Slayride
    7.2/10(14 votes)

    #11 - Mexican Slayride

    S1:E1

    Newspaper reporter, Amy Allen, sets out to prove the A-Team really exists and ends up hiring them to rescue one of her fellow reporters whose been kidnapped by Mexican outlaws.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  12. undefined Season 1 Episode 4 - A Small and Deadly War
    7.1/10(8 votes)

    #12 - A Small and Deadly War

    S1:E4

    Hannibal plays cat and mouse with a renegade S.W.A.T. A-Team that's committing murders for hire.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  13. undefined Season 1 Episode 7 - The Out-of-Towners
    7.1/10(8 votes)

    #13 - The Out-of-Towners

    S1:E7

    The A-Team takes up the cause of New York shopkeepers against neighborhood protection racketeers.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  14. undefined Season 1 Episode 13 - A Nice Place to Visit
    7.1/10(8 votes)

    #14 - A Nice Place to Visit

    S1:E13

    The A-Team comes to the aid of a small town being terrorized by a murderous family.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  15. undefined Season 4 Episode 5 - The Heart of Rock n' Roll
    7.0/10(5 votes)

    #15 - The Heart of Rock n' Roll

    S4:E5

    Singer Rick James asks the A-Team to help an old rock-and-roll legend whose life in prison has suddenly become very dangerous.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  16. undefined Season 2 Episode 10 - Steel
    7.0/10(6 votes)

    #16 - Steel

    S2:E10

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

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  17. undefined Season 1 Episode 6 - The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas
    7.0/10(7 votes)

    #17 - The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas

    S1:E6

    The A-Team gets involved in a mob power play when two girls ask them to find their college professor who went to Las Vegas with a perfect gambling system and never came back.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  18. undefined Season 1 Episode 11 - Till Death Do Us Part
    7.0/10(6 votes)

    #18 - Till Death Do Us Part

    S1:E11

    The A-Team has to rescue a reluctant bride being forced to marry her late father's business partner.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  19. undefined Season 2 Episode 9 - A Train of Thought
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #19 - A Train of Thought

    S2:E9

    Ralph crashes head first into a train, and gets amnesia. Pam and Bill have to convince him that the suit really works.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  20. undefined Season 3 Episode 2 - The Bend in the River
    6.8/10(4 votes)

    #20 - The Bend in the River

    S3:E2

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

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  21. undefined Season 1 Episode 8 - The Ugliest Dog in Hawaii
    6.6/10(5 votes)

    #21 - The Ugliest Dog in Hawaii

    S1:E8

    Higgins volunteers Magnum's services to guard a wealthy socialite's quarantined dog after the attempted dognapping of the canine. Sir Algernon Farnsworth soon finds himself to be the most wanted dog in Hawaii when his former owner, aging gangster Victor DiGiorgio, needs to get him back.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  22. undefined Season 2 Episode 14 - The Battle of Bel Air
    6.5/10(4 votes)

    #22 - The Battle of Bel Air

    S2:E14

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

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  23. undefined Season 1 Episode 9 - The Young Lords
    6.5/10(8 votes)

    #23 - The Young Lords

    S1:E9

    Starbuck crashes on the planet Trillion, where the Cylons have destroyed all the humans except for a band of children, who have become warriors to save their enslaved father.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  24. undefined Season 2 Episode 5 - Classical Gas
    6.3/10(3 votes)

    #24 - Classical Gas

    S2:E5

    Ralph's students start a band, and a promoter lands them a spot on a big ticket concert while trying to get Pam to go out with him.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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Frank Lupo Ratings Summary

"Operation Spoilsport" is the best rated episode written by Frank Lupo. It scored 8.3/10 based on 3 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 11/11/1981 and is rated 0.3 points higher than their second-best episode, "Waiting for Insane Wayne".