9.0/102 votes#1 - Hunter
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1984
Former NFL player Fred Dryer is Det.Sgt. Rick Hunter, a mobster's son turned cop, cut in the ""Dirty Harry"" mold. Hassled by his by-the-book captain (played by Michael Cavanaugh in the opener), Hunter enlists another maverick, brassy Det. Sgt. Dee Dee McCall to set a trap for a brutal murderer.
Director: Ron Satlof
Writer: Frank Lupo
9.0/102 votes#2 - Hard Contract
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1984
Hunter & McCall make a pact of protectiveness and loyalty toward each other when she is nearly killed by her old partner after she tries to stop him from a killer-for-hire assignment.
Director: Bruce Kessler
Writer: Frank Lupo
8.3/103 votes#3 - Operation Spoilsport
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 11/11/1981
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: Rod Holcomb
Writer: Frank Lupo
8.0/103 votes#4 - The Sound of Thunder
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 5/13/1986
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: Michael O'Herlihy
Writer: Frank Lupo
7.8/104 votes#5 - One More Time
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/12/1983
The US government recruits the A-Team to rescue a general and his daughter from guerillas in Borneo.
Director: Arnold Laven
Writer: Frank Lupo
7.7/103 votes#6 - No Need to Know
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/8/1981
Magnum returns from a case to find that Higgins' old Army commander is staying on the Masters Estate, under tight security, until some IRA 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' trail, but the ""need to know"" basis the Agents insist on operating by only serves to complicate matters for Magnum...
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Writer: Frank Lupo
7.7/103 votes#7 - 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
- 7.7/103 votes
#8 - 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
7.6/105 votes#9 - The Out-of-Towners
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/15/1983
The A-Team takes up the cause of New York shopkeepers against neighborhood protection racketeers.
Director: Chuck Bowman
Writer: Frank Lupo
7.5/102 votes#10 - A Long Way From L.A.
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/1984
Hunter and McCall are transporting a prisoner back to L.A. when they have to stop at a small town. They place their prisoner in the custody of the Sheriff. Later that evening after the waitress from the local café brings the prisoner his dinner she's attacked and at the same time the prisoner's cell is opened. He runs out and everyone assumes he attacked her. However Hunter and McCall think the Sheriff had something to do with it. When they try to question him, they learn the Sheriff is the step-son of the town's wealthiest man.
Director: Arnold Laven
Writer: Frank Lupo
7.5/1010 votes#11 - Mexican Slayride (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/23/1983
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: Rod Holcomb
Writer: Frank Lupo
7.5/102 votes#12 - Waiting for Insane Wayne
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 2/18/1986
When Murdock gets mistaken for an insane mercenary the A-Team is drawn into a fight over property rights and an oil well.
Director: Craig R. Baxley
Writer: Frank Lupo
7.4/105 votes#13 - A Nice Place to Visit
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 5/10/1983
The A-Team comes to the aid of a small town being terrorized by a murderous family.
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writer: Frank Lupo
7.2/105 votes#14 - The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/1/1983
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: Bruce Kessler
Writer: Frank Lupo
7.0/101 votes#15 - Wiseguy (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1987
Vinnie is released from prison where he has been for two years to establish his cover. He meets his boss, Frank McPike and gets to see his coach and mentor, Jerry Greco. Greco is killed and Vinnie demands to be put in to finish the investigation. He uses his ingenuity to get a foothold in the Steelgrave crime family, but it will take a while to finish this job.
Director: Rod Holcomb
Writer: Frank Lupo
7.0/102 votes#16 - A Train of Thought
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 1/13/1982
Ralph crashes head first into a train, and gets amnesia. Pam and Bill have to convince him that the suit really works.
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Writer: Frank Lupo
7.0/105 votes#17 - A Small and Deadly War
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/15/1983
Hannibal plays cat and mouse with a renegade S.W.A.T. A-Team that's committing murders for hire.
Director: Ron Satlof
Writer: Frank Lupo
7.0/101 votes#18 - 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
7.0/102 votes#19 - 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
7.0/102 votes#20 - Judgement Day (1)
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1985
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: David Hemmings
Writer: Frank Lupo
7.0/102 votes#21 - Judgement Day (2)
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1985
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: David Hemmings
Writer: Frank Lupo
7.0/103 votes#22 - Firing Line
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1986
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: Michael O'Herlihy
Writer: Frank Lupo
6.8/104 votes#23 - Till Death Do Us Part
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 4/19/1983
The A-Team has to rescue a reluctant bride being forced to marry her late father's business partner.
Director: Guy Magar
Writer: Frank Lupo
6.8/104 votes#24 - 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
6.6/107 votes#25 - The Young Lords
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/1978
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: Donald P. Bellisario
Writer: Frank Lupo
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"Hunter" is the best rated episode written by Frank Lupo. It scored 9/10 based on 2 votes. It was directed by Ron Satlof. It aired on 9/18/1984 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Hard Contract".