The A-Team

The A-Team

Heroes for hire.

A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit."

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Seasons

Mexican Slayride (1)

1. Mexican Slayride (1)

Air Date: 1983-01-23

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.

Mexican Slayride (2)

2. Mexican Slayride (2)

Air Date: 1983-01-23

Part 2 of the pilot episode in which the A-Team have been captured by a group of guerillas and the gang leader they were sent to fight. In the final battle they are assisted by the villagers and with their help, the A-Team is able to overthrow the guerillas, save the reporter and make their way home. Once home, Amy Allen blackmails her way onto the team.

Children of Jamestown

3. Children of Jamestown

Air Date: 1983-01-30

After the A-Team rescues a girl from a crazed cult leader, they are captured by the man's followers and made the quarry of a death hunt.

Pros and Cons

4. Pros and Cons

Air Date: 1983-02-08

B.A.'s friend is held in a prison where the warden holds fight-to-the-death-boxing matches whose winner receives short-lived freedom.

A Small and Deadly War

5. A Small and Deadly War

Air Date: 1983-02-15

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

Black Day at Bad Rock

6. Black Day at Bad Rock

Air Date: 1983-02-22

While treating a seriously wounded B.A., a suspicious small town doctor notifies the sheriff, who fears that B.A. may be part of a biker gang returning to free its jailed leader.

The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas

7. The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas

Air Date: 1983-03-01

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.

The Out-of-Towners

8. The Out-of-Towners

Air Date: 1983-03-15

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

Holiday in the Hills

9. Holiday in the Hills

Air Date: 1983-03-22

B.A.'s fear of flying is justified when the A-Team's plane crashes in the backwoods where they must battle mountain men to keep a man from being burned at the stake.

West Coast Turnaround

10. West Coast Turnaround

Air Date: 1983-04-05

The A-Team delivers produce to the market for a farmer who is slowly being driven out of business by a land-hungry rancher.

One More Time

11. One More Time

Air Date: 1983-04-12

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

Till Death Do Us Part

12. Till Death Do Us Part

Air Date: 1983-04-19

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

The Beast from the Belly of a Boeing

13. The Beast from the Belly of a Boeing

Air Date: 1983-05-03

Hannibal's plan to free a hijacked airborne 747 requires a bit of adjustment when B.A. becomes cataleptic and Murdock temporarily blinded.

A Nice Place to Visit

14. A Nice Place to Visit

Air Date: 1983-05-10

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

Diamonds 'n Dust

1. Diamonds 'n Dust

Air Date: 1983-09-20

The A-Team agrees to transport explosives to a Zimbabwe diamond mine after the owner dies trying to do it himself.

Recipe for Heavy Bread

2. Recipe for Heavy Bread

Air Date: 1983-09-27

The cook from the A-Team's POW camp gives them a tip about a drug deal between the camp's former commander and a prisoner who had sold out to him.

The Only Church in Town

3. The Only Church in Town

Air Date: 1983-10-11

Face convinces the A-Team to take his case when he receives his fraternity pin in a package from Ecuador from a woman who disappeared from his life fifteen years earlier.

Bad Time on the Border

4. Bad Time on the Border

Air Date: 1983-10-18

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.

When You Comin' Back, Range Rider? (1)

5. When You Comin' Back, Range Rider? (1)

Air Date: 1983-10-25

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

When You Comin' Back, Range Rider? (2)

6. When You Comin' Back, Range Rider? (2)

Air Date: 1983-10-25

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.

The Taxicab Wars

7. The Taxicab Wars

Air Date: 1983-11-01

A small cab company hires the A-Team to thwart the sabotage efforts of a larger company trying to run them out of business.

Labor Pains

8. Labor Pains

Air Date: 1983-11-08

The A-Team helps migrant workers to organize against a landowner that is forcing them to live and work under slave-labor conditions.

There's Always a Catch

9. There's Always a Catch

Air Date: 1983-11-15

The A-Team must once again duck Decker as they try to stop an extortionist plaguing a small fishing village.

Water, Water Everywhere

10. Water, Water Everywhere

Air Date: 1983-11-22

A land developer is trying to run three disabled Vietnam vets off the desert property they're renovating.

Steel

11. Steel

Air Date: 1983-11-29

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

The White Ballot

12. The White Ballot

Air Date: 1983-12-06

Face replaces a candidate who was killed while running for sheriff against a corrupt incumbent, and ends up getting the military after the whole A-Team when his photo is published in the newspaper.

The Maltese Cow

13. The Maltese Cow

Air Date: 1983-12-13

Old friends who own a restaurant sponsored by the A-Team face an extortion threat from a Chinese tong.

In Plane Sight

14. In Plane Sight

Air Date: 1984-01-03

The A-Team employs a new method to prepare B.A. for a flight to South America, where drug smugglers are holding an innocent pilot prisoner.

The Battle of Bel Air

15. The Battle of Bel Air

Air Date: 1984-01-10

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

Say It With Bullets

16. Say It With Bullets

Air Date: 1984-01-17

A WAC asks the A-Team to investigate the death of her brother, who was involved in arms trafficking at a military base.

Pure-Dee Poison

17. Pure-Dee Poison

Air Date: 1984-01-31

The A-Team helps a southern minister stop the manufacture of lethal moonshine.

It's a Desert Out There

18. It's a Desert Out There

Air Date: 1984-02-07

The sophisticated commando tactics used by a gang for robbing busloads of tourists suggests to the A-Team that they're preparing for a bigger score.

Chopping Spree

19. Chopping Spree

Air Date: 1984-02-14

The A-Team uses their own vehicles, Face's Corvette and B.A.'s van, as bait for a car-stealing ring.

Harder Than It Looks

20. Harder Than It Looks

Air Date: 1984-02-21

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.

Deadly Maneuvers

21. Deadly Maneuvers

Air Date: 1984-02-28

Criminals foiled in the past by the A-Team hire a crew of mercenaries to pick off each member one by one.

Semi-Friendly Persuasion

22. Semi-Friendly Persuasion

Air Date: 1984-03-08

The A-Team faces an especially challenging mission when their pacifist clients forbid the use of violence against bigots trying to run their community off its land.

Curtain Call

23. Curtain Call

Air Date: 1984-03-15

The A-Team reminisces (via flashbacks) about an injured Murdock as they look for a doctor and try to avoid a pursuing Decker.

Bullets and Bikinis

1. Bullets and Bikinis

Air Date: 1984-09-18

Two girls ask the A-Team to take over their beachfront hotel after an alleged mobster keeps making bigger and bigger buyout offers that they refuse to take.

The Bend in the River Part 1

2. The Bend in the River Part 1

Air Date: 1984-09-25

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

The Bend in the River Part 2

3. The Bend in the River Part 2

Air Date: 1984-09-25

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

Fire

4. Fire

Air Date: 1984-10-02

The A-Team faces another Army pursuit as they try to help a small town fire chief compete with a larger rival company.

Timber!

5. Timber!

Air Date: 1984-10-09

The A-Team intercedes when a union organizer tries to put a small logging operation out of business.

Double Heat

6. Double Heat

Air Date: 1984-10-16

The A-Team is called in to find an accountant's daughter who has become a pawn in a game between two rival mobsters.

Trouble on Wheels

7. Trouble on Wheels

Air Date: 1984-10-23

Hannibal goes undercover in order to investigate employee theft from an auto plant.

The Island

8. The Island

Air Date: 1984-10-30

An Army doctor who once saved B.A.'s life calls in his debt by asking the A-Team to help deal with the thugs who have taken over the tropical island where he has set up a medical practice.

Showdown!

9. Showdown!

Air Date: 1984-10-30

Col. Lynch stakes out a Wild West show that has been terrorized by a group of A-Team impostors, sure that the real guys won't be able to ignore them.

Sheriffs of Rivertown

10. Sheriffs of Rivertown

Air Date: 1984-11-20

The A-Team travels to South America where they become the law in a town built to house workers of a power plant that has been experiencing a number of fatal accidents.

The Bells of St. Mary's

11. The Bells of St. Mary's

Air Date: 1984-11-27

Threats from their old record label prompt a singing group who went to school with Face to ask the A-Team for help.

Hot Styles

12. Hot Styles

Air Date: 1984-12-11

Face's latest girl friend is rather ungrateful after the A-Team rescues her from mobsters.

Breakout!

13. Breakout!

Air Date: 1984-12-18

After being taken hostage by bankrobbers B.A. and Murdock are named as accomplices and put in jail until Decker can come and get them.

Cup A' Joe

14. Cup A' Joe

Air Date: 1985-01-08

A restaurateur tries to force the owners of a small diner to sell out to him after he arranges for a new freeway off-ramp to be built nearby.

The Big Squeeze

15. The Big Squeeze

Air Date: 1985-01-15

The A-Team opens its own restaurant to lure a ruthless loan shark who has other restaurant owners terrified.

Champ!

16. Champ!

Air Date: 1985-01-22

B.A. goes undercover as a boxer in order to put a drug-trafficking ring out of business.

Skins

17. Skins

Air Date: 1985-01-29

The A-Team travels to Kenya to deal with game poachers who have included a game warden among their kills.

Road Games

18. Road Games

Air Date: 1985-02-05

Face infiltrates a gambling ring to clear a man's gambling debts and to save the foster home he runs.

Moving Targets

19. Moving Targets

Air Date: 1985-02-12

A Middle Eastern potentate hires the A-Team to protect his about-to-be-married daughter despite her ideas to the contrary.

Knights of the Road

20. Knights of the Road

Air Date: 1985-02-26

The A-Team comes to the aid of an auto mechanic being driven out of business by a ruthless competitor.

Waste 'Em!

21. Waste 'Em!

Air Date: 1985-03-05

The A-Team discovers a plot to dump toxic waste when they try to protect a man and his blind sister from harassment.

Bounty

22. Bounty

Air Date: 1985-04-02

Murdock is kidnapped by bounty hunters that hope to use him as bait to capture the rest of the A-Team. When the Team arrives to rescue him, they find he has fallen in love with a veteranarian that's helped save him.

Beverly Hills Assault

23. Beverly Hills Assault

Air Date: 1985-04-09

The A-Team goes uptown and gets involved with an art dealer who has been replacing original paintings with fakes.

Trouble Brewing

24. Trouble Brewing

Air Date: 1985-05-07

Two sisters ask the A-Team for help when they are pressured to convert their all-natural soda pop bottling plant into a brewery.

Incident at Crystal Lake

25. Incident at Crystal Lake

Air Date: 1985-05-14

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

Judgement Day (1)

1. Judgement Day (1)

Air Date: 1985-09-24

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.

Judgement Day (2)

2. Judgement Day (2)

Air Date: 1985-09-24

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.

Where Is the Monster When You Need Him?

3. Where Is the Monster When You Need Him?

Air Date: 1985-10-01

The A-Team must make do with movie prop guns against the real things when they are attacked while helping Hannibal and a friend film a low-budget movie in Mexico.

Lease with an Option to Die

4. Lease with an Option to Die

Air Date: 1985-10-22

Some muscle men make a big mistake when they try to force B.A.'s momma out of her apartment.

The Road to Hope

5. The Road to Hope

Air Date: 1985-10-29

Hannibal poses as a wino to avoid being caught by the Army and stumbles onto a racket that involves killing the derelicts.

The Heart of Rock n' Roll

6. The Heart of Rock n' Roll

Air Date: 1985-11-05

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

Body Slam

7. Body Slam

Air Date: 1985-11-12

Hulk Hogan asks his old friend B.A. for the A-Team's help against a mobster who is out to close down a youth center for no apparent reason.

Blood, Sweat and Cheers

8. Blood, Sweat and Cheers

Air Date: 1985-11-19

Someone sabotages a car at a regional stock-car race and attracts the A-Team's attention-the car belongs to Hannibal's nephew.

Mind Games

9. Mind Games

Air Date: 1985-11-26

Face quits the A-Team after receiving a full government pardon and quickly becomes a celebrity, the rest of the A-Team keeps an eye on him suspecting the pardon's not 100% legit.

There Goes the Neighborhood

10. There Goes the Neighborhood

Air Date: 1985-12-03

The A-Team moves a rock star threatened with kidnapping into a quiet suburban neighborhood, which doesn't stay quite for long.

The Doctor Is Out

11. The Doctor Is Out

Air Date: 1985-12-10

The A-Team travels to South America to find Murdock's psychiatrist, accompanied by a woman claiming to be his daughter.

Uncle Buckle-Up

12. Uncle Buckle-Up

Air Date: 1985-12-17

The A-Team discovers a kiddie show is a front for a heroin ring when Hannibal auditions for a part.

Wheel of Fortune

13. Wheel of Fortune

Air Date: 1986-01-14

Murdock's fortunes rise and fall as he uses Face's system to win big on "Wheel of Fortune" but then is kidnapped during a plot to steal a Soviet gunship.

The A-Team is Coming, The A-Team is Coming

14. The A-Team is Coming, The A-Team is Coming

Air Date: 1986-01-21

Soviet spys need the A-Teams help in preventing the theft of an American satellite weapon, whose disappearance would disrupt world peace.

Members Only

15. Members Only

Air Date: 1986-01-28

Face's chances of getting into an exclusive country club are severely hampered by the A-Team's battles on club property with a crooked bank president.

Cowboy George

16. Cowboy George

Air Date: 1986-02-11

Face believes he's booked country singer Cowboy George into one of the roughest dance halls in the Southwest, but his agent friend delivers Boy George instead.

Waiting for Insane Wayne

17. Waiting for Insane Wayne

Air Date: 1986-02-18

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

The Duke of Whispering Pines

18. The Duke of Whispering Pines

Air Date: 1986-02-25

One of B.A.'s old girlfriends has a problem; her husband, B.A.'s old college rival, has disappeared.

Beneath the Surface

19. Beneath the Surface

Air Date: 1986-03-04

Face returns to his orphanage for a reunion and meets an old friend's sister, who's worried about her brother's disappearance, and an old girlfriend, who is in cahoots with Fulbright to trap Face for the reward.

Mission of Peace

20. Mission of Peace

Air Date: 1986-03-11

Senior citizens hire the A-Team to protect their historic Texas mission home and tourist attraction from land developers.

The Trouble with Harry

21. The Trouble with Harry

Air Date: 1986-03-25

Hulk Hogan comes to visit B.A. but the reunion is interrupted by a cry for help from a troubled youth with an alcoholic father.

A Little Town with an Accent

22. A Little Town with an Accent

Air Date: 1986-05-06

The A-Team discovers an organized crime kingpin believed to be dead is behind the intimidation of several gas station owners.

The Sound of Thunder

23. The Sound of Thunder

Air Date: 1986-05-13

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.

Dishpan Man

1. Dishpan Man

Air Date: 1986-09-26

The A-Team is blackmailed by retired General Stockwell, who kidnaps Hannibal and threatens to have him prosecuted if the A-Team fails to secure the release of hostages held on a plane in Spain.

Trial by Fire

2. Trial by Fire

Air Date: 1986-10-03

The A-Team's court martial begins and a surprising motive for the death of Colonel Morrison is revealed.

Firing Line

3. Firing Line

Air Date: 1986-10-10

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

Quarterback Sneak

4. Quarterback Sneak

Air Date: 1986-10-17

The A-Team uses a football game as a cover to sneak a chemical warfare scientist out of East Germany.

The Theory of Revolution

5. The Theory of Revolution

Air Date: 1986-10-24

The outbreak of a revolution interferes with the planned rescue of three Americans from a Third World Country.

The Say UNCLE Affair

6. The Say UNCLE Affair

Air Date: 1986-10-31

Stockwell is kidnapped by his former partner who has "gone bad" and the A-Team has 18 hours to find him or forever loose any chances of securing a pardon.

Alive at Five

7. Alive at Five

Air Date: 1986-11-07

Face plans to leave the A-Team but gets involved in the rescue of a newswoman from a paranoid mob chief.

Family Reunion

8. Family Reunion

Air Date: 1986-11-14

A former political adviser offers to trade a diary for a reunion with his daughter- who Face is hitting on, but Murdock learns that the man may be Face's father and the daughter Face's sister.

Point of No Return

9. Point of No Return

Air Date: 1986-11-18

Stockwell refuses to allow the A-Team to go after Hannibal when he fails to check in while on a solo mission in hostile territory.

The Crystal Skull

10. The Crystal Skull

Air Date: 1986-11-28

The A-Team's effort to secure a valuable religious artifact involves them with warring island tribes who mistake Murdoch for a God and some unusual missionaries.

The Spy Who Mugged Me

11. The Spy Who Mugged Me

Air Date: 1986-12-02

Murdock poses as suave secret agent to catch a killer before he can complete another assignment.

The Grey Team

12. The Grey Team

Air Date: 1986-12-30

The A-Team must bring a girl in who has stolen a briefcase from her father, filled with material she believes he's selling to the Soviets.

Without Reservations

13. Without Reservations

Air Date: 1987-03-08

Frankie and Face visit Murdock at his job in a restaurant, and all three become hostages of mobsters out to kill a patron, the US Attorney General.

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Rating

7.5/10

Release Date

1983-01-23

Episodes

98 (5 seasons)

Status

Ended

Cast

Production Companies

Stephen J. Cannell Productions

Universal Television

Universal Television

Universal Television Entertainment