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The A-Team
1983 - 1987 7.5 (999 votes) 5 Seasons
Genres
Action & Adventure Comedy Crime
Networks
NBC
Created By
Frank Lupo
Stephen J. Cannell

The A-Team

Heroes for hire.

Overview

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."

Key Crew

Producer: John Ashley, Frank Lupo, Stephen J. Cannell, Rob Bowman

Top Cast

George Peppard
George Peppard

John 'Hannibal' Smith

Dirk Benedict
Dirk Benedict

Templeton 'Faceman' Peck

Mr. T
Mr. T

B.A. Baracus

Dwight Schultz
Dwight Schultz

'Howling Mad' Murdock

Eddie Velez
Eddie Velez

Frankie Santana

Robert Vaughn
Robert Vaughn

General Hunt Stockwell

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1983)

Sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit, these four commandos escaped from a maximum-security stockade and now survive in the Los Angeles underground as soldiers of fortune. So, if you have a problem and there's no one else who can help, and if you think you can find them, maybe you can hire The A-Team.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Mexican Slayride
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.

Runtime: 95 min
Episode 2: Children of Jamestown
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.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 3: Pros and Cons
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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 4: A Small and Deadly War
1983-02-15

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

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 5: Black Day at Bad Rock
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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 6: The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas
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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 7: The Out-of-Towners
1983-03-15

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

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 8: Holiday in the Hills
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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 9: West Coast Turnaround
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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 10: One More Time
1983-04-12

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

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 11: Till Death Do Us Part
1983-04-19

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

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 12: The Beast from the Belly of a Boeing
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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 13: A Nice Place to Visit
1983-05-10

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

Runtime: 47 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1983)

Pile into that famous black van for another season of adrenaline-pumping adventure with Hannibal, Face, Murdock and B.A. as they fight for justice against dangerous criminals, while staying one step ahead of their archenemy, Colonel Decker.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Diamonds 'n Dust
1983-09-20

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

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 2: Recipe for Heavy Bread
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.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 3: The Only Church in Town
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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 4: Bad Time on the Border
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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 5: When You Comin' Back, Range Rider?
1983-10-25

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

Runtime: 89 min
Episode 6: The Taxicab Wars
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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 7: Labor Pains
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.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 8: There's Always a Catch
1983-11-15

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

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 9: Water, Water Everywhere
1983-11-22

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

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 10: Steel
1983-11-29

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

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 11: The White Ballot
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.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 12: The Maltese Cow
1983-12-13

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

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 13: In Plane Sight
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.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 14: The Battle of Bel Air
1984-01-10

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

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 15: Say It With Bullets
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.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 16: Pure-Dee Poison
1984-01-31

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

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 17: It's a Desert Out There
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.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 18: Chopping Spree
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.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 19: Harder Than It Looks
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.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 20: Deadly Maneuvers
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.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 21: Semi-Friendly Persuasion
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.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 22: Curtain Call
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.

Runtime: 48 min
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Season 3 (1984)

In the most popular season ever, Hannibal, Face, Murdock and B.A. face off against new criminals with the most outrageous schemes yet - from toxic-waste dumping to wild-game poaching to restaurant sabotage.

24 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Bullets and Bikinis
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.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 2: The Bend in the River
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.

Runtime: 88 min
Episode 3: Fire
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.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 4: Timber!
1984-10-09

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

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 5: Double Heat
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.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 6: Trouble on Wheels
1984-10-23

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

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 7: The Island
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.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 8: Showdown!
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.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 9: Sheriffs of Rivertown
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.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 10: The Bells of St. Mary's
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.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 11: Hot Styles
1984-12-11

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

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 12: Breakout!
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.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 13: Cup A' Joe
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.

Runtime: 46 min
Episode 14: The Big Squeeze
1985-01-15

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

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 15: Champ!
1985-01-22

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

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 16: Skins
1985-01-29

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

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 17: Road Games
1985-02-05

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

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 18: Moving Targets
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.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 19: Knights of the Road
1985-02-26

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

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 20: Waste 'Em!
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.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 21: Bounty
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.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 22: Beverly Hills Assault
1985-04-09

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

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 23: Trouble Brewing
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.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 24: Incident at Crystal Lake
1985-05-14

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

Runtime: 47 min
Season 4 poster
Season 4 (1985)

Team up again with B.A., Hannibal, Murdock and Face as they take on hardhearted kidnappers, corrupt millionaires, ruthless drug dealers, and even a Mob kingpin.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Judgement Day
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.

Runtime: 95 min
Episode 2: Where Is the Monster When You Need Him?
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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 3: Lease with an Option to Die
1985-10-22

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

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 4: The Road to Hope
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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 5: The Heart of Rock n' Roll
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.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 6: Body Slam
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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 7: Blood, Sweat and Cheers
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.

Runtime: 50 min
Episode 8: Mind Games
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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 9: There Goes the Neighborhood
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.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 10: The Doctor Is Out
1985-12-10

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

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 11: Uncle Buckle-Up
1985-12-17

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

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 12: Wheel of Fortune
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.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 13: The A-Team is Coming, The A-Team is Coming
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.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 14: Members Only
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.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 15: Cowboy George
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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 16: Waiting for Insane Wayne
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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 17: The Duke of Whispering Pines
1986-02-25

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

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 18: Beneath the Surface
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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 19: Mission of Peace
1986-03-11

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

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 20: The Trouble with Harry
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.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 21: A Little Town with an Accent
1986-05-06

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

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 22: The Sound of Thunder
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.

Runtime: 48 min
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Season 5 (1986)

B.A., Hannibal, Murdock and Face confront their greatest challenges yet when the mysterious General Stockwell joins them to battle bad guys that include hitmen, hijackers, and mercenary monks.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Dishpan Man
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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 2: Trial by Fire
1986-10-03

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

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 3: Firing Line
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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 4: Quarterback Sneak
1986-10-17

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

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 5: The Theory of Revolution
1986-10-24

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

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 6: The Say UNCLE Affair
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.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 7: Alive at Five
1986-11-07

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

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 8: Family Reunion
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.

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 9: Point of No Return
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.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 10: The Crystal Skull
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.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 11: The Spy Who Mugged Me
1986-12-02

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

Runtime: 49 min
Episode 12: The Grey Team
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.

Runtime: 48 min
Episode 13: Without Reservations
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.

Runtime: 48 min

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