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The A-Team

TV·1983–1987·5 seasons, 98 episodes·NBC·Action, Adventure·1h·7.4·Created by Frank Lupo, Stephen J. Cannell

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The A-Team is an American action-adventure television series, running from 1983 to 1987, about a fictional group of ex–United States Army Special Forces.

Highest-rated episodes all ranked

  1. 01The A-Team S01E01Mexican Slayride: Part 1S01E01 · 8.0Amy Allen is a reporter who is worried when her friend another reporter went to Mexico to do a story but appears to have disappeared.
  2. 02The A-Team S04E10There Goes the NeighborhoodS04E10 · 8.0The A-team is just in time, asked to protect rock singer Stevi Faith, to prevent an attack in her manager Woodie Stone's office by terrorists from North Terrania who want to prevent her donating any proceeds of an Africa benefit to the rival Central African South Terrania. They decide to hide her in a safer place incognito, so Face buys a nice suburban house, hoping to sell with a profit after some renovation. All neighbors are decent people, even the wacky, fat, macho but useless block captain Joe, except the Hells Angels types in the house across, who soon turn out to be hoods planted by drug baron Juarez.
  3. 03The A-Team S04E23The Sound of ThunderS04E23 · 7.7MP General 'Bull' Fulbright uses the needy girl-trick once too often, and is captured by the team but for once only was looking for them as a prospective client, claiming he wants them to go to Vietnam and free a POW colonel, his personal friend they presumed killed in action, who might dis-incriminate them. Once there, he sneaks away and is barely saved from a girl who tries to shoot him. He comes clean the POW was a lie, he recently learned he has a half-blood son and wants the A-Team to help bring him home. It soon turns out he was tricked too, there is no son but that girl who wanted kill to him...

Cast

Episodes by season

Season01Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode14Episodes1983Aired 7.1Season avg
  1. S01E01The A-Team S01E01Season's bestMexican Slayride: Part 1January 23, 1983 8.0Amy Allen is a reporter who is worried when her friend another reporter went to Mexico to do a story but appears to have disappeared.
  2. S01E02The A-Team S01E02Mexican Slayride: Part 2January 23, 1983 7.5Amy Allen is a reporter who is worried when her friend another reporter went to Mexico to do a story but appears to have disappeared.
  3. S01E03The A-Team S01E03Children of JamestownJanuary 30, 1983 7.0A wealthy businessman hires the team to rescue his daughter from a religious cult.
  4. S01E04The A-Team S01E04Pros and ConsFebruary 8, 1983 7.2When a friend of B.A.'s ends up in a prison in Strykersville, FL, the team goes in with an elaborate plan to rescue him.
  5. S01E05The A-Team S01E05A Small and Deadly WarFebruary 15, 1983 7.0A police inspector calls on the A-Team to help him end the activities of a corrupt SWAT team who are hiring themselves out as hitmen.
  6. S01E06The A-Team S01E06Black Day at Bad RockFebruary 22, 1983 7.2After B.A. is seriously wounded in a firefight and has lost a lot of blood, the team decides to hole up in a little town called Bad Rock.
  7. S01E07The A-Team S01E07The Rabbit Who Ate Las VegasMarch 1, 1983 6.3Two college girls hire the A-Team to rescue their professor who's been nabbed by the mob for a gambling system he's created that seems to wo
  8. S01E08The A-Team S01E08The Out-of-TownersMarch 15, 1983 6.8The A-Team travels to New York City to help out a group of beleaguered shopkeepers who are being extorted by a band of local thugs.
  9. S01E09The A-Team S01E09Holiday in the HillsMarch 22, 1983 6.7On their way back from Guatemala, the A-Team's plane crashes in a remote area of South Carolina and the team find themselves in a firefight
  10. S01E10The A-Team S01E10West Coast TurnaroundApril 5, 1983 6.7The team are hired to help a watermelon farmer deliver his crop to market.
  11. S01E11The A-Team S01E11One More TimeApril 12, 1983 6.7Hannibal's reckless motorbike driving at his daring escape from a sleazy monster-movie set finally gets him, Face and BA arrested by Colonel
  12. S01E12The A-Team S01E12Till Death Do Us PartApril 19, 1983 7.2The team is hired to rescue an heiress who is being forced to marry her late father's partner.
  13. S01E13The A-Team S01E13The Beast from the Belly of a BoeingMay 3, 1983 7.0The A-Team is called in to help out an airline when one of their planes is hijacked by a terrorist group.
  14. S01E14The A-Team S01E14A Nice Place to VisitMay 10, 1983 7.5When a Vietnam buddy of the team dies, they travel to his hometown for the funeral only to discover that a bullying family that runs the tow

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season02Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode23Episodes1983–84Aired 6.7Season avg
  1. S02E01The A-Team S02E01Diamonds 'n DustSeptember 20, 1983 6.0Retired Australia soldier Griffin, who devoted his old age to setting up a diamond mine in a crackpot Southern African state, was murdered b
  2. S02E02The A-Team S02E02Recipe for Heavy BreadSeptember 27, 1983 7.0Face recognizes, although incredulous, the pastry chef in his fancy favorite LA restaurant as Lin Duk Coo, the kind Viet Cong prison camp co
  3. S02E03The A-Team S02E03The Only Church in TownOctober 11, 1983 6.6Face is ready to drop the good lifewhen he receives a rather cryptic letter from Leslie Becktall, the ex 'who got away', from Latin America.
  4. S02E04The A-Team S02E04Bad Time on the BorderOctober 18, 1983 7.0The young Mexican girl coyotes didn't bother to catch while herding abused illegal migrant workers over the border stumbles upon BA, who pro
  5. S02E05The A-Team S02E05When You Comin' Back, Range Rider?: Part 1October 25, 1983 7.0A young native American enlists the aid of the A-Team in saving a herd of wild mustangs which are being rounded up by a rancher named Carter
  6. S02E06The A-Team S02E06When You Comin' Back, Range Rider?: Part 2October 25, 1983 7.0A young native American enlists the aid of the A-Team in saving a herd of wild mustangs which are being rounded up by a rancher named Carter
  7. S02E07The A-Team S02E07Season's bestThe Taxicab WarsNovember 1, 1983 7.4A small cab company finds itself on the verge of extinction when the A-Team steps in and helps them with a major problem... a rival no-holds
  8. S02E08The A-Team S02E08Labor PainsNovember 8, 1983 7.0Hiding in a country small town for Decker's MPs again, the A-team is shocked to see how local magnate Ted Jarrett's foreman Burt Cross and h
  9. S02E09The A-Team S02E09There's Always a CatchNovember 15, 1983 6.6The Mayer family seeks the A team's help when brave son Doug's hand is broken trying to stand up against Garber, whose goons terrorize the w
  10. S02E10The A-Team S02E10Water, Water EverywhereNovember 22, 1983 6.4Three Vietnam vets settle in a small desert town and hope to eke out a living with a small hotel they're refurbishing.
  11. S02E11The A-Team S02E11SteelNovember 29, 1983 6.4Mickey Stern and his construction company have a series of misadventures when he contracts with the city to demolish an old high rise.
  12. S02E12The A-Team S02E12The White BallotDecember 6, 1983 6.4A reporter friend of Amy's enlists the team to aid in defeating a long term incumbent small town sheriff named Dawson who is as corrupt as t
  13. S02E13The A-Team S02E13The Maltese CowDecember 13, 1983 6.7The Golden Pagoda restaurant is owned by a good friend of the A-Team and they have helped out the Yeng's by bankrolling them, thus making th
  14. S02E14The A-Team S02E14In Plane SightJanuary 3, 1984 7.0When a cargo plane pilot develops engine trouble over Venezuela, he safely lands only to find himself incarcerated by authorities when cocai
  15. S02E15The A-Team S02E15The Battle of Bel-AirJanuary 10, 1984 6.0Tawnia Baker is an investigative reporter who infiltrates a security firm on assignment. There, she discovers that the A-Team is about to be
  16. S02E16The A-Team S02E16Say It with BulletsJanuary 17, 1984 6.8Cpl. Brown asks the Team to investigate the death of her older brother, Paul, who was involved in weapons trafficking at a military base.
  17. S02E17The A-Team S02E17Pure-Dee PoisonJanuary 31, 1984 6.5Reverend Taylor knew Face as a US military padre in Saigon, so when Charles Drew, the criminal king of Arcadia county where he now ministers
  18. S02E18The A-Team S02E18It's a Desert Out ThereFebruary 7, 1984 6.5A criminal gang, known as the Scorpions, robs the clients of a small desert casino in armored go-carts.
  19. S02E19The A-Team S02E19Chopping SpreeFebruary 14, 1984 6.8The team goes after the crooked car dealer who stole B.A.'s van.
  20. S02E20The A-Team S02E20Harder Than It LooksFebruary 21, 1984 7.3A hostage with Cupid's version of Stockholm syndrome.
  21. S02E21The A-Team S02E21Deadly ManeuversFebruary 28, 1984 7.0While the team uses a period without a job to retreat for military-style physical training, a syndicate of crime lords is so fed up with the
  22. S02E22The A-Team S02E22Semi-Friendly PersuasionMay 8, 1984 6.3Kale Sykes and his men are trying to bully the peaceful Society of Men away from Kellisburg because they don't agree with their way of life.
  23. S02E23The A-Team S02E23Curtain CallMay 15, 1984 7.0Decker learns that The A-Team is taking down cattle-rustler Russ Clayton.

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

Season03Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode25Episodes1984–85Aired 6.8Season avg
  1. S03E01The A-Team S03E01Bullets and BikinisSeptember 18, 1984 7.0The team comes to the aid of two young girls whose hotel is being terrorized by thugs trying to force them to sell.
  2. S03E02The A-Team S03E02The Bend in the River: Part 1September 25, 1984 6.8The A-team goes to the Amazon Jungle in Peru, to rescue Tawnia's fiancé from a river pirate called "El Cajon" who scares everybody off for t
  3. S03E03The A-Team S03E03The Bend in the River: Part 2September 25, 1984 6.8The A-team goes to the Amazon Jungle in Peru, to rescue Tawnia's fiancé from a river pirate called "El Cajon" who scares everybody off for t
  4. S03E04The A-Team S03E04FireOctober 2, 1984 6.8The A-team accept female Fire Chief Annie Sanders's plea to help her keep the contract for a small town's privately run fire department whic
  5. S03E05The A-Team S03E05Timber!October 16, 1984 6.5Siblings John and Samantha Lawrence hire The A-Team to help out as lumberjacks and stand up to crooked union organizer McEwan and his men.
  6. S03E06The A-Team S03E06Double HeatOctober 23, 1984 7.0A young girl named Jenny Olson has been kidnapped. Her father, who used to work as an accountant for mob boss Tommy Largo, hires the A-Team
  7. S03E07The A-Team S03E07Trouble on WheelsOctober 30, 1984 6.5Plant Foreman Rudy Garcia, who was found out about to tell the police, and his honest hard-working colleagues are tired being terrorized in
  8. S03E08The A-Team S03E08The IslandNovember 13, 1984 6.8Dr. Fallone once saved BA's life as medic in Vietnam but left the US Army to retire on a small fishery island. When it is invaded by a small
  9. S03E09The A-Team S03E09Season's bestShowdown!November 20, 1984 7.3Captain Winnetka's Wild West Show is being terrorized by a trio of A-Team impostors.
  10. S03E10The A-Team S03E10Sheriffs of RivertownNovember 27, 1984 6.8An American company involved in the building of a huge dam to produce electricity in the Southern American republic of San Marcos pays the A
  11. S03E11The A-Team S03E11The Bells of St. Mary'sDecember 4, 1984 7.0The girl group 'The Bells' is being harassed by record company owner Dave Luna. The A-Team finds out by accident because Face and B.A. are c
  12. S03E12The A-Team S03E12Hot StylesDecember 11, 1984 6.8Just when Templeton 'Face' Peck was getting cozy with Hollywood model Rina, she's snatched before his nose by Chicago crook Johnny Turian, b
  13. S03E13The A-Team S03E13Breakout!December 18, 1984 7.0While BA drives to Hollywood, where Face is having a ball, Murdock's rabbits foot doesn't stop him and the black van from getting hijacked b
  14. S03E14The A-Team S03E14Cup A' JoeJanuary 8, 1985 6.3When Cactus Jack Slater, who already owns a chain with three nearby diners, adds violence putting Joe in hospital to his offers for his smal
  15. S03E15The A-Team S03E15The Big SqueezeJanuary 15, 1985 7.0When loan shark Jack 'the Ripper' Lane, who is too violent even for his mob extortion boss Nathan Vincent's taste, breaks Italian restaurant
  16. S03E16The A-Team S03E16Champ!January 22, 1985 6.8Face decides to invest some of the teams funds in 60% of a boxer, Billy Marquette, but looking him up the team finds his sister Tina bend ov
  17. S03E17The A-Team S03E17SkinsJanuary 29, 1985 6.3When Kenyan game warden Kim is shot dead by poachers after refusing to take the customary cut for turning a blind eye on 'harvesting' animal
  18. S03E18The A-Team S03E18Road GamesFebruary 5, 1985 7.0When the otherwise decent manager of a home is forced to take a run on account of his personal debts in illegal gambling, the A-team is hire
  19. S03E19The A-Team S03E19Moving TargetsFebruary 12, 1985 6.8The A-team is hired to test the security in the royal palace of a North West African country.
  20. S03E20The A-Team S03E20Knights of the RoadFebruary 26, 1985 6.8Mr. Corson and his daughter Jenny run a small towing truck company in a New Mexico town. When another company resorts to violence against th
  21. S03E21The A-Team S03E21Waste 'Em!March 5, 1985 6.5Former military helicopter pilot A.J. runs a delivery service, Speedy Express, with his blind sister Lisa Perry. Garbage collection company
  22. S03E22The A-Team S03E22BountyApril 2, 1985 7.0Two hillbilly types, Royko and Tanen, visit the VA Hospital to see Murdock. When they go to his room, Royko produces a sawed-off shotgun and
  23. S03E23The A-Team S03E23Beverly Hills AssaultApril 9, 1985 6.8When Paris-trained painter Steven "Speed" Miller disappears (actually he's beaten into hospital for refusing to work on command), his painti
  24. S03E24The A-Team S03E24Trouble BrewingMay 7, 1985 6.8The sisters Cathy and Maryanne Rodgers enlist the A-team to keep their Hi Brite Soda company, which a certain brewer Webb wants to buy by al
  25. S03E25The A-Team S03E25Incident at Crystal LakeMay 14, 1985 7.3Face was falling for a foxy girl in a 'broken down' sports car lure planted by MP Colonel Decker, but fortunately Hannibal spotted her in ad

Season 3 ranked & reviewed

Season04Best seasonEpisode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode23Episodes1985–86Aired 7.1Season avg
  1. S04E01The A-Team S04E01Judgment Day: Part 1September 24, 1985 6.5Mobster Joe Scarlett puts the squeeze on judge Mordente by kidnapping his daughter. Hannibal takes the place of Scarlett's messenger Augie t
  2. S04E02The A-Team S04E02Judgment Day: Part 2September 24, 1985 6.5Stuck in Italy after B.A. destroys their plane, Faceman scams their way onto the cruise ship M. S. Tropicale by posing as the ship's doctor
  3. S04E03The A-Team S04E03Where is the Monster When You Need Him?October 1, 1985 7.0Hannibal is playing a new aquatic monster, alligator-mutation Gatorella, so Face, who schmoozes up to the dumb blond starlet Jennifer 'Jenny
  4. S04E04The A-Team S04E04A Lease with an Option to DieOctober 22, 1985 7.3The tenants of a Chicago apartment building are fed up with the harassments by a gang of goons who moved in and seem determined to drive the
  5. S04E05The A-Team S04E05The Road to HopeOctober 29, 1985 7.0Face was already enjoying the possibilities of spending the profits from a no-sweat $300,000 job offered by a foxy millionaire when Hannibal
  6. S04E06The A-Team S04E06The Heart of Rock N' RollNovember 5, 1985 6.8Rockstar Rick James asks the A-team to help a friend and colleague of his, C.J. Mack, who is about to be released from Rockford State Penite
  7. S04E07The A-Team S04E07Body SlamNovember 12, 1985 7.3The team goes to see a wrestling win by world champion Hulk Hogan, a colleague of BA's in Vietnam, and accepts his plea to help keep open a
  8. S04E08The A-Team S04E08Blood, Sweat and CheersNovember 19, 1985 7.3Kid Harmon is a fine young man and talented car racer, but when his competitor Kyle Ludwig, who gets almost unlimited funds from his uncle,
  9. S04E09The A-Team S04E09Mind GamesNovember 26, 1985 7.3The Pentagon publicly announces a full pardon for Lieutenant Templeton Peck, on the false grounds he would only have been a passenger, but F
  10. S04E10The A-Team S04E10Season's bestThere Goes the NeighborhoodDecember 3, 1985 8.0The A-team is just in time, asked to protect rock singer Stevi Faith, to prevent an attack in her manager Woodie Stone's office by terrorist
  11. S04E11The A-Team S04E11The Doctor is OutDecember 10, 1985 7.3In the lunatic asylum Dr. Richter is on to Murdoch, but gets abducted by armed U.S. army men. Murdock makes the team go after their leader,
  12. S04E12The A-Team S04E12Uncle Buckle-UpDecember 17, 1985 7.3Now Hannibal no longer gets horror monster parts, he's excited when Sydney, the chipmunk-dressed presenter of the TV show Uncle Buckle-Up, i
  13. S04E13The A-Team S04E13Wheel of FortuneJanuary 14, 1986 7.3Largely thanks to Face's letter frequency research, Murdock wins big at Wheel of Fortune. When Face comes spring him from the asylum, hoping
  14. S04E14The A-Team S04E14The A-Team is Coming, The A-Team is ComingJanuary 21, 1986 7.3The A-team successfully organizes the defection of the Russian ballerina Katrina who wants to be reunited with her brother Sasha.
  15. S04E15The A-Team S04E15Members OnlyJanuary 28, 1986 7.0Face was as proud as a peacock to be accepted - on a two-month trial period, and as a Mr Ashley Hemmings - at the Beverly Bay Country Club.
  16. S04E16The A-Team S04E16Cowboy GeorgeFebruary 11, 1986 7.3Face is proud to have negotiated as 'Peach Pear Artist management' a profitable deal, filling Chuck's country dance hall "Floor'em" and get
  17. S04E17The A-Team S04E17Waiting for Insane WayneFebruary 18, 1986 7.3The A-team is confused with four mercenaries (Insane Wayne, Tully, Three Finger Harry and Fat Rat) and thus hear rancher Kincaids offer to e
  18. S04E18The A-Team S04E18The Duke of Whispering PinesFebruary 25, 1986 7.0B.A. gets the team to help an old girlfriend who's husband is missing.
  19. S04E19The A-Team S04E19Beneath the SurfaceMarch 4, 1986 6.7Faceman attends a reunion of the Angel Guardians Orphanage hoping to impress the one girl he could never get, Rebecca Piper. Little does he
  20. S04E20The A-Team S04E20Mission of PeaceMarch 11, 1986 6.7The A-Team is hired by a group of old age pensioners who run a Wild West attraction known as 'Mission De La Paz'.
  21. S04E21The A-Team S04E21The Trouble with HarryMarch 25, 1986 6.5Harry Sullivan accidentally killed a man in the boxing ring in 1959 and has been on the run ever since. Now a drunk, both loan shark 'Fats'
  22. S04E22The A-Team S04E22A Little Town with an AccentMay 6, 1986 7.0Goons from Octiline Oil threaten gas station owner Zach's life unless he sells it to them, so he hires the A-Team. The car mechanics are rig
  23. S04E23The A-Team S04E23The Sound of ThunderMay 13, 1986 7.7MP General 'Bull' Fulbright uses the needy girl-trick once too often, and is captured by the team but for once only was looking for them as

Season 4 ranked & reviewed

Season05Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode13Episodes1986–87Aired 6.6Season avg
  1. S05E01The A-Team S05E01Dishpan ManSeptember 26, 1986 6.3After having a little accident on the set of his latest monster movie, Hannibal has to spend the night in a hospital. From there he is kidna
  2. S05E02The A-Team S05E02Trial by FireOctober 3, 1986 6.7Betrayed by Josh Curtis, the A-Team has finally been captured and is put on trial for the murder of their commanding officer in Vietnam, Col
  3. S05E03The A-Team S05E03Firing LineOctober 10, 1986 5.5The A-Team has been convicted for murder and will face a firing squad within 24 hours. Murdock escapes from the V.A. hospital in a straight
  4. S05E04The A-Team S05E04Quarterback SneakOctober 17, 1986 6.3General Stockwell sends the A-Team on a mission the FBI found too risky; to help Dr. Warner Strasser and his wife Marlena defect from East-G
  5. S05E05The A-Team S05E05The Theory of RevolutionOctober 24, 1986 6.3The members of the A-Team are living the good life with a bunch of bikini clad babes at their private resort in Langley, Virginia when Gener
  6. S05E06The A-Team S05E06The Say U.N.C.L.E. AffairOctober 31, 1986 6.7Stockwell is contacted by Ivan Trigorin, aka "Brown Fox", his former partner at the CIA for nearly ten years. The Russian is looking for a t
  7. S05E07The A-Team S05E07Alive at FiveNovember 7, 1986 7.0Faceman wants to get out of Stockwell's operation, thinking the A-Team won't receive a pardon before dying in action. He plans to make a bre
  8. S05E08The A-Team S05E08Season's bestFamily ReunionNovember 14, 1986 7.7On Thanksgiving, General Stockwells orders the A-Team to reunite a wanted criminal, A.J. Bancroft, with his daughter Ellen within 24 hours.
  9. S05E09The A-Team S05E09Point of No ReturnNovember 18, 1986 6.3Using the call sign Empress 7, Hannibal Smith has disappeared on a solo mission for General Stockwell in Hong Kong involving a plutonium the
  10. S05E10The A-Team S05E10The Crystal SkullNovember 28, 1986 6.0In the Australian outback, the A-Team has acquired a Crystal Skull that some believe generates bad luck. Murdock, Face and Frankie have to b
  11. S05E11The A-Team S05E11The Spy Who Mugged MeDecember 12, 1986 7.7The A-Team is assigned to Monte Carlo to flush out the worlds most dangerous terrorist, known only as "The Jaguar".
  12. S05E12The A-Team S05E12The Grey TeamDecember 30, 1986 6.7The A-Team has to find Paula Anderson, a young girl who's run away from home with her fathers briefcase containing a top secret Star Wars pr
  13. S05E13The A-Team S05E13Without ReservationsMarch 8, 1987 6.8Just back from a mission, The A-Team insists Stockwell gives them two weeks off. Murdock invites the guys to the restaurant he waits tables

Season 5 ranked & reviewed

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