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The Best Episodes Written By Frank Lupo

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

  • Wiseguy (2)
    9.0/10(1)

    #1 - Wiseguy (2)

    Season 1 Episode 2

    Aired 9/16/1987

    Vinnie and Sonny's right hand man, Tony Grecco, has a run-in with the cops causing Vinnie to be arrested. The Steelgraves find that guns are being exported illegally using their pier and decide to take possession of the guns and sell them back to the owner.

    Director: Rod Holcomb

    Writer: Frank Lupo

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  • Hunter
    9.0/10(2)

    #2 - 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

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  • Hard Contract
    8.7/10(3)

    #3 - 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

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  • Operation Spoilsport
    8.3/10(3)

    #4 - 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

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  • Wiseguy (1)
    8.0/10(2)

    #5 - 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

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  • Dead or Alive
    8.0/10(1)

    #6 - Dead or Alive

    Season 1 Episode 8

    Aired 11/30/1984

    Hunter and McCall track a bounty hunter who is not fussy about the condition of his prey.

    Director: Guy Magar

    Writer: Frank Lupo

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  • The Sound of Thunder
    8.0/10(4)

    #7 - The Sound of Thunder

    Season 4 Episode 22

    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

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  • No Need to Know
    7.8/10(4)

    #8 - 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 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: Lawrence Doheny

    Writer: Frank Lupo

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  • One More Time
    7.8/10(4)

    #9 - One More Time

    Season 1 Episode 10

    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

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  • When You Comin' Back, Range Rider?
    7.7/10(3)

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

    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

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  • Waiting for Insane Wayne
    7.7/10(3)

    #11 - Waiting for Insane Wayne

    Season 4 Episode 16

    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

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  • A Long Way From L.A.
    7.7/10(3)

    #12 - 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

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  • The Out-of-Towners
    7.6/10(5)

    #13 - The Out-of-Towners

    Season 1 Episode 7

    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

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  • Mexican Slayride
    7.5/10(10)

    #14 - Mexican Slayride

    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

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  • A Nice Place to Visit
    7.4/10(5)

    #15 - A Nice Place to Visit

    Season 1 Episode 13

    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

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  • Judgement Day
    7.3/10(3)

    #16 - Judgement Day

    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

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  • The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas
    7.2/10(5)

    #17 - The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas

    Season 1 Episode 6

    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

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  • A Train of Thought
    7.0/10(2)

    #18 - 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

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  • A Small and Deadly War
    7.0/10(5)

    #19 - A Small and Deadly War

    Season 1 Episode 4

    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

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  • Harder Than It Looks
    7.0/10(1)

    #20 - Harder Than It Looks

    Season 2 Episode 19

    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

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  • Incident at Crystal Lake
    7.0/10(2)

    #21 - Incident at Crystal Lake

    Season 3 Episode 24

    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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  • Firing Line
    7.0/10(4)

    #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

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  • Till Death Do Us Part
    6.8/10(4)

    #23 - Till Death Do Us Part

    Season 1 Episode 11

    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

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  • Steel
    6.8/10(4)

    #24 - Steel

    Season 2 Episode 10

    Aired 11/29/1983

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

    Director: Gilbert M. Shilton

    Writer: Frank Lupo

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  • The Ugliest Dog in Hawaii
    6.7/10(3)

    #25 - The Ugliest Dog in Hawaii

    Season 1 Episode 8

    Aired 1/29/1981

    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: Lawrence Doheny

    Writer: Frank Lupo

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Frank Lupo Ratings Summary

"Wiseguy (2)" is the best rated episode written by Frank Lupo. It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Rod Holcomb. It aired on 9/16/1987 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Hunter".