8.0/102 votes#1 - Deadly Maneuvers
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/28/1984
Criminals foiled in the past by the A-Team hire a crew of mercenaries to pick off each member one by one.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: Richard Christian Matheson
7.7/103 votes#2 - Bad Time on the Border
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1983
Hannibal goes undercover as an illegal alien when the A-Team is asked to find a sick woman who was apparently left behind by alien smugglers.
Director: Bruce Kessler
Writer: Richard Christian Matheson
7.5/106 votes#3 - Miss Stardust
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 4/10/1987
An extraterrestrial threatens to destroy the earth unless the "Miss Stardust" beauty-pageant promoter allows entrants from other planets.
Director: Tobe Hooper
Writer: Richard Christian Matheson
7.5/102 votes#4 - Labor Pains
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1983
The A-Team helps migrant workers to organize against a landowner that is forcing them to live and work under slave-labor conditions.
Director: Arnold Laven
Writer: Richard Christian Matheson
7.5/102 votes#5 - The Doctor Is Out
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/10/1985
The A-Team travels to South America to find Murdock's psychiatrist, accompanied by a woman claiming to be his daughter.
Director: David Hemmings
Writer: Richard Christian Matheson
7.3/103 votes#6 - There's Always a Catch
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1983
The A-Team must once again duck Decker as they try to stop an extortionist plaguing a small fishing village.
Director: Ron Satlof
Writer: Richard Christian Matheson
7.1/108 votes#7 - Magic Saturday
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1986
Marky adores hearing his grandfather tell wondrous tales of hitchhiking through the universe and playing baseball with him on Saturdays. So when old "Stormin' Norman" takes ill, the boy invokes a magic spell to let his grandpa play one last magical ball game.
Director: Robert Markowitz
Writer: Richard Christian Matheson
7.0/101 votes#8 - Of Guilt, Models and Murder
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 3/24/1978
David 'Blaine' takes a job as a valet to investigate the murder of a model that the Hulk is being blamed for. We get to see different accounts of the murder in flashback. But which one really happened?
Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
Writer: Richard Christian Matheson
7.0/104 votes#9 - The Maltese Cow
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/13/1983
Old friends who own a restaurant sponsored by the A-Team face an extortion threat from a Chinese tong.
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Writer: Richard Christian Matheson
7.0/101 votes#10 - A Little Town with an Accent
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 5/6/1986
The A-Team discovers an organized crime kingpin believed to be dead is behind the intimidation of several gas station owners.
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Writer: Richard Christian Matheson
6.5/102 votes#11 - Say It With Bullets
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/17/1984
A WAC asks the A-Team to investigate the death of her brother, who was involved in arms trafficking at a military base.
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Writer: Richard Christian Matheson
5.8/105 votes#12 - Forget Me Not
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/17/1982
Michael's only hope of preventing the assassination of a Latin American president is a girl who knows the plan, but has amnesia.
Director: Gil Bettman
Writer: Richard Christian Matheson
4.6/1039 votes#13 - Dance of the Dead
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/11/2005
This story revolves around a post-apocalyptic town where re-animated corpses of friends and enemies dance on stage for the few people who survived a nuclear holocaust. Peggy a naïve girl learns of the dangers of the outside world and the sacrifices made to guarantee her survival.
Director: Tobe Hooper
Writer: Richard Christian Matheson
4.6/1026 votes#14 - The Damned Thing
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/27/2006
The Damned Thing is the apocalyptic tale of a mysterious creature that terrorizes a small Texas town.
Director: Tobe Hooper
Writer: Richard Christian Matheson
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"Deadly Maneuvers" is the best rated episode written by Richard Christian Matheson. It scored 8/10 based on 2 votes. It was directed by Michael Vejar. It aired on 2/28/1984 and is rated 0.3 points higher than their second-best episode, "Bad Time on the Border".