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The Best Episodes of The A-Team Season 1

Every episode of The A-Team Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The A-Team Season 1!

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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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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The A-Team Season 1 Episode 5 - Black Day at Bad Rock
    7.8/10(663 votes)

    S1:E5

    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.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Patrick Hasburgh

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  2. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 12 - The Beast from the Belly of a Boeing
    7.7/10(529 votes)

    S1:E12

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

    Director:Ron Satlof
    Writer:Patrick Hasburgh

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  3. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 13 - A Nice Place to Visit
    7.6/10(545 votes)

    S1:E13

    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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  4. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 3 - Pros and Cons
    7.5/10(626 votes)

    S1:E3

    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.

    Director:Ron Satlof
    Writer:Stephen J. Cannell

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  5. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 4 - A Small and Deadly War
    7.5/10(613 votes)

    S1:E4

    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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  6. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 7 - The Out-of-Towners
    7.5/10(546 votes)

    S1:E7

    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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  7. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 11 - Till Death Do Us Part
    7.4/10(504 votes)

    S1:E11

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

    Director:Guy Magar
    Writers:Babs Greyhosky, Frank Lupo

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  8. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 1 - Mexican Slayride
    7.3/10(967 votes)

    S1:E1

    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
    Writers:Stephen J. Cannell, Frank Lupo

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  9. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 6 - The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas
    7.3/10(551 votes)

    S1:E6

    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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  10. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 10 - One More Time
    7.3/10(503 votes)

    S1:E10

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

    Director:Arnold Laven
    Writers:Patrick Hasburgh, Frank Lupo

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  11. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 2 - Children of Jamestown
    7.2/10(726 votes)

    S1:E2

    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.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Stephen J. Cannell

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  12. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 9 - West Coast Turnaround
    7.2/10(502 votes)

    S1:E9

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

    Director:Guy Magar
    Writers:Patrick Hasburgh, Stephen J. Cannell

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  13. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 8 - Holiday in the Hills
    7.1/10(528 votes)

    S1:E8

    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.

    Director:Arnold Laven
    Writer:Babs Greyhosky

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Black Day at Bad Rock" is the best rated episode of "The A-Team" season 1. It scored 7.8/10 based on 663 votes. Directed by Christian I. Nyby II and written by Patrick Hasburgh, it aired on 2/22/1983. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Beast from the Belly of a Boeing".