EPISODE GUIDE

(Broadcast Order)

Last updated Wednesday 3rd March 2010

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Below is a list of all 98 episodes (94 if counting the two-hour episodes as one) of 'The A-Team', complete with original US airdate, production number, plot summaries, detailed cast lists, written by and directed by credits, and key notes. Main cast changes are listed at the points which they occurred.

This guide has been compiled by original research from watching episodes, going through old television listing magazines, and comparing information from a vast array of different sources, and in several different languages (No simple copying and pasting from other sites!!). I believe it to be the most comprehensive 'A-Team' cast listing guide on the Net. A screen-shot or two for each episode will be added in due course.

BROADCAST ORDER - this is the order the the episodes were originally broadcast on NBC on American television. It is often quite different from the order in which they were filmed, although on occasion an episode would noticeably be shown out of sequence. Repeat runs, and particularly overseas broadcasts, are often in yet another order.

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1st Season

1983 (early episodes produced 1982); Pilot and 12 episodes

1/2       (feature-length / 2 part) 

Sun 23rd Jan 1983     #1100 (2-part: #1198 & #1199)

Written by FRANK LUPO & STEPHEN J. CANNELL

Directed by ROD HOLCOMB

The A-Team were a highly trained crack commando unit in Vietnam, who were forced to become mercenaries after being wrongly accused of robbing the Bank Of Hanoi without orders during the chaotic close of the war. Now, they live in the underworld of Los Angeles, occasionally surfacing and re-grouping to tackle cases that take their interest, if the circumstances - and the money - are right…

In this feature-length Pilot episode, newspaper journalist Amy Allen attempts to track down the elusive soldiers of fortune to rescue her missing colleague, who, unbeknown to her, has been captured by bandits while on assignment in Mexico. But proceedings are hampered by Colonel Lynch, who is determined to see the team back behind bars…

Guest Stars WILLIAM LUCKING  (Colonel Lynch)

PHILIP STERLING  (Grant Eldridge)

SERGIO CALDERON  (Malavida Valdez)

RON PALLILO  (Zachary (Zack))

MELODY ANDERSON  (Avon)

And WILLIAM WINDOM as Al Massey

Co-Starring ENRIQUE LUCERO  (Colonel Flores),  FELIX GONZALES (Miguel Perez)

WILLIAM MARQUEZ  (Ground Control Officer Sanchez),  JORGE ZEPEDA  (Manny Cortez)

PETER BROCCO  (Father David Magill),  MARIANNE MUELLERLEILE  (Hospital reception nurse)

J. PATRICK MC NAMARA  (Director Jerry)

Featuring JAMES BEACH as Aide (Captain Mark Stewart)

KELAND LOVE as Floyd

BRANDON WILLIAMS as Kid

ARNOLD TURNER as Assistant Director

HUMBERTO ELIZONDO as Carlos

MIGUEL ANGEL FUENTES as Quintana

Uncredited (UNKNOWN) as Nurse

	Although not broadcast until 1983, this and the first few episodes were produced in Autumn 1982, and this episode is copyrighted as such.
	Although originally designed and shown as a 2-hour Pilot, this story exists in both feature-length and two-part formats.
	This story was partly filmed in Mexico.
	This Pilot was originally simply titled 'The A-Team'. The episode title 'Mexican Slayride' wasn't added until later, when the series went into syndication. Sometimes, it is still billed simply as 'Pilot'.
	The role of Face was recast after this Pilot when "the powers that be" decided that Tim Dunigan wasn't right for the part. Creators Stephen J. Cannell and Frank Lupo's original choice for the part, Dirk Benedict, finally won the role for the series. For more details, read the series synopsis.
	This is the only episode to not (originally) have any form of regular opening credits. Most later broadcasts, when the episode is shown in two parts, have the first season opening credits (later version, with 'The A-Team' "written in bullets"), with Tim Dunigan in place of Dirk Benedict. There are two versions of this, one with Dunigan's name in Stencil font to match the rest of the opening credits, and a (presumably earlier) version with a completely mis-matched, Times New Roman style font.
	This is the only story until the 5th season revamp that does not include a pre-episode teaser. Various syndicated versions have their own re-cap at the start of the second episode, either before or after the opening credits. Some other stations, such as overseas broadcasts, may use their own constructed re-cap.
	The actress that plays Nurse who shows Colonel Lynch to Murdock's room at the V.A. Hospital is uncredited.
	In a rare instance of a (non main) character appearing more than once, both Philip Sterling (Amy's boss, editor Grant Eldridge) and Colonel Lynch's Aide, Captain Stewart (James Beach), return later in the season in 'Holiday In The Hills'.

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Starring GEORGE PEPPARD as John "Hannibal" Smith  

DIRK BENEDICT 

MELINDA CULEA  

DWIGHT SCHULTZ  

and Mr. T as b.a. Baracus

3.  CHILDREN OF JAMESTOWN          Sun 30th Jan 1983     #1105

Written by STEPHEN J. CANNELL

Directed by CHRISTIAN I. NYBY, JR.

The team have been hired to free a young woman from the clutches of an evil religious cult. But after rescuing the girl, Hannibal, Face, B.A. and Amy are themselves captured, and the cult's crazed leader makes them the quarry for a death hunt as a test for their "crimes" against his society…

Guest Stars GERRIT GRAHAM  (Brother Stephen)

RON HAYES  (Tim Coulton)

Special Guest Star JOHN SAXON as (Reverend) Martin James

Co-Starring JOHN CARTER  (Stan Rodgers)

SHERILYN WOLTER  (Carolyn Coulton),  CAROL JONES  (Sheila Rodgers)

FRED LERNER  (Brother John),  DEAN WEIN  (Brother)

Featuring BILL WATSON as Man in Hardhat

VICTORIA LUCAS as Girl

	This episode is Copyright 1983, the first episode of the series to be dated with that year. However, some following episodes (produced before this one) still have a 1982 copyright.
	Despite being the first regular episode to be broadcast after the Pilot (in the US at least), this was the third to be filmed. To see the episodes listed in production (i.e.. filming) order, click here.
	Although not the first to be filmed (see above), this is the first episode where Dirk Benedict is seen on-screen in the role of Face. It is also the first time B.A.'s van is seen.
	The regular opening credits are also seen for the first time (although syndicated versions of the Pilot use them, with Tim Dunigan in place of Dirk Benedict, see above). The opening dialogue throughout the first season begins "10 years ago...", even though the series was not broadcast until 1983. (This is due to the very early episodes being produced in 1982).
	The in-episode credits are in an 'Arial' font for this episode. Only one other episode, 'The Rabbit Who Ate Last Vegas'  (the episode produced before this one), uses this font, although some in-episode captions (place names, etc.) in other first season episodes are also in Arial.
	This episode is the most evident of Murdock quickly being "written back in" to the plot, after the character, originally intended to be a semi-regular or possibly dropped completely, proved so popular at test showings of the Pilot.
	One or two sources mis-credit Gerrit Graham as playing a Brother Graham. This seems to be due to a mix up with the actor's name.

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4.            Tue 8th Feb 1983     #1102

Written by STEPHEN J. CANNELL

Directed by RON SATLOF

The A-Team head behind bars to rescue an old friend of B.A.'s, who is being held in a Florida prison where the crooked warden is arranging gladiatorial, bare knuckle to-the-death boxing matches, then setting the winner free and giving them short lived freedom before having his men hunt them down…

Guest Stars CLIFTON JAMES  (Warden Beale)

WILLIAM SMITH  (Jase Tataro)

PAUL KOSLO  (Deputy Chip Sneed)

RED WEST  (Lieutenant Leo Trask)

HUGH GILLIN  (Sheriff Norm)

And KEN NORTON  ("Jackhammer" Jackson)

Special Guest Star MEENO PELUCE  (Joey Tataro)

Co-Starring ELSA RAVEN  (Dr. Marian Ericson)

MICHAEL GREENE  (Deke),  PHIL PROCTOR  (André)

Featuring DAVID PENHALE as Maitre D'

RANDY PATRICK as Deputy (Billy Robertson)

DUANE TUCKER as Guard #1

NICK SHIELDS as Guard #2

EDDY C. DYER as Guard #3

	This episode is Copyright 1982.
	Although shown second, this was actually the first episode to be produced after the Pilot (and thus was the first episode with Dirk Benedict in the role of Face).
	Other than the opening credits, this episode uses the same font as the Pilot, the only regular episode of the series to do so.
	For many years, Jase Tataro was mis-spelt 'Jose' in countless episode guides. It was a long-running typographical error that was passed down through numerous sources.
	The spelling of Warden Beale varies between 'Beal' and 'Beale' in different sources. The DVD subtitles offer no clue as the to the correct spelling, as some languages spell it with the 'e', whereas others do not!
	In the United Kingdom, where, as with many imported US series of the era, the episode broadcast order often varied from the US broadcasts, this was the first episode that many regions broadcast after the Pilot, on Friday 29th July 1983. (However, some regions took different episodes, such as 'Black Day At Bad Rock').

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5.  A SMALL AND DEADLY WAR          Tue 15th Feb 1983     #1106

Written by FRANK LUPO

Directed by RON SATLOF

A proud Police officer nearing retirement reluctantly hires the soldiers of fortune to take out a four-man SWAT team from his division, who are using their law enforcement work as a cover for operating as hit-men for hire. With the squad's specialist training, taking them on is no easy task - but Hannibal has a few tricks of his own...

Guest Stars JACK GING  (Captain Robert Stark)

DEAN STOCKWELL  (Officer Collins)

NORMAN ALDEN  (Detective Ed Maloney)

And AL WHITE as (Officer) Steve Meadows

Co-Starring FIL FORMICOLA  (Officer Shaeffer)

CAROL BAXTER  (V.A. Hospital Nurse),  EAST CARLO  (Mr. Delgado)

LEW PALTER  (Sergeant),  RHONDA SHEAR  (Bonnie Webb)

Featuring DAVE MORICK as Mickey

CONNIE DOWNING as Waitress

	This episode is Copyright 1983. All others after it in the season are dated as such with the exception of 'The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas'.
	The Stencil font is used in-episode and on the closing credits for the first time (until now, it had only been used on the opening credits). This would become the standard font for the series.
	Jack Ging (after playing another villain in the second season episode 'Bad Time On The Border') would go on to play the recurring role of General Harlan "Bull" Fulbright in the fourth season.
	Frequent guest star Ismael Carlo uses his alternative credited name, East Carlo, for this episode.

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6.  BLACK DAY AT BAD ROCK          Tue 22nd Feb 1983     #1107

Written by PATRICK HASBURGH

Directed by CHRISTIAN I. NYBY, JR.

When Hannibal and Face get a small rural town doctor to treat the injured B.A.'s gun-shot wound, the suspicious medic alerts the local Sheriff, who fears that they are part of a vicious biker gang that is heading to town to break free their jailed leader, and calls in the Army for assistance…

Guest Stars ED LAUTER  (Sheriff Hank Thompson)

TRICIA O'NEAL  (Dr. Maggie "Mo" Sullivan)

JOHN DENNIS JOHNSTON  ("Snake")

SID HAIG  (Sonny Jenko)

Co-Starring TED GEHRING  (Deputy Sheriff Jack Harmson)

WILLIAM FRANKFATHER  (Neil Sullivan)

Featuring none

	In a rare instance of a (non main) character appearing more than once, Tricia O'Neal returns as Dr. Maggie Sullivan in the second season episode 'Deadly Maneuvers'. (However, Ed Lauter, who plays Sheriff Thompson in this episode, plays a different role in that story!).
	In the United Kingdom, although most regions broadcast 'Pros And Cons' as the first episode after the Pilot, some regions took this as their first regular episode, on Friday 29th July 1983.

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7.  THE RABBIT WHO ATE LAS VEGAS          Tue 1st Mar 1983     #1103

Written by FRANK LUPO

Directed by BRUCE KESSLER

Two young student woman hire the team to rescue their college Professor friend, who is being held by mobsters in Las Vegas after going there to try out a supposedly no-lose gambling formula. Hannibal poses as a CIA hit-man with his sights on a Mafia crime-lord to try and ensure the safe return of the Professor...

Guest Stars RICHARD ROMANUS  (Jack "Jackie" Martell)

TERRY MC GOVERN  (Professor Bruce Warfel)

LUKE ANDREAS  (Jilly)

KITTY MOFFAT  (Darlene)

FLOYD LEVINE

And CHARLES CIOFFI as Gianni Christian

Co-Starring MICHELLE AVONNE  (Sue Beth),  RICHARD REICHEG

TRACY SCOGGINS  (Elly Payne)

CHRISTOPHER THOMAS,  MICHAEL LAURENCE

Featuring ALMA BELTRAN as Maid

JAMES DYBAS as Doorman

TIMOTHY PRAGER as Florist Messenger

	The second episode to be produced after the Pilot, this episode is Copyright 1982, the last episode to be dated that year.
	The in-episode credits are in Arial font for this episode. This would be used once more in the next produced episode, 'Children Of Jamestown', the first episode to be shown after the Pilot.

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8.  HOLIDAY IN THE HILLS          Tue 15th Mar 1983     #1108

Written by BABS GREYHOSKY

Directed by ARNOLD LAVEN

After escaping a group of guerrillas in their current mission, the team crash-land in the backwoods, where they find themselves battling dangerous mountain men to stop an outsider being burnt at the stake. Meanwhile, Amy has got her own problems - a new colleague at the newspaper is actually a plant by the Military…

Guest Stars EDWARD WINTER  (Mitchel Barnes)

PHILIP STERLING  (Grant Eldridge)

DENISE GALIK  (Louanne)

JOHN PERAK  (Matt)

And BILL MC KINNEY as Clint

Co-Starring MICKEY JONES,  GARY DAVIS

JAMES BEACH  (Captain Mark Stewart)

Featuring none

	This episode, and all after it until the second season's 'Say It With Bullets', is copyrighted 1983.
	Some sources list this episode as being shown in reverse order with the next episode, 'The Out-Of-Towners'. Even the Season One DVD sets present the episodes in that order, seemingly going from an old, incorrect episode guide.
	This episode is unique in that Amy has her own, separate storyline. She does not come into direct contact with the team for the entire episode.
	In a rare instance of a (non main) character reappearing, Philip Sterling appears once again as Amy's boss, Grant Eldridge, and James Beach as Captain Stewart, after both appearing in the Pilot.
	In an uncommon reference to a specific previous episode, Amy says that she is writing up her report on "the Jamestown incident", an obvious reference to the events of 'Children Of Jamestown'.
	A chunk of footage from the opening of this episode was recycled in the 'missing' fifth season episode 'Without Reservations', to full the running time in order to make the episode long enough for broadcast. (The footage of the plane seems even more familiar, as not only was it used in 'flashback' in the second season's 'Curtain Call', but was recycled for several other episodes (the second season's 'In Plane Sight', the third season's 'Skins' and the fifth season's 'The Crystal Skull'), not to mention being used in other series, such as 'Knight Rider', and 'Riptide''s first season episode 'Long Distance Daddy'.)

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9.  THE OUT-OF-TOWNERS          Tue 22nd Mar 1983     #1109

Written by FRANK LUPO

Directed by CHUCK BOWMAN

A group of New York shop-keepers hire The A-Team's services to stop a gang of brutal protection racketeers that are terrorising the neighborhood. The team set up their own store, with Hannibal taking the guise of a blind TV repair man, to lure the thugs and trace them to their boss…

Guest Stars YAPHET KOTTO  (Charlie F. Struthers - "East Side Charlie")

PRISCILLA POINTER  (Mrs. Richter)

ALBERT POPWELL  (Digger)

JACK KRUSCHEN  (Bernie Shatzman)

ROBERT TESSIER  (Scully)

J. JAY SAUNDERS  (Mr. Daniels)

BILLY JACOBY  (Nicky)

Co-Starring WENDY HOFFMAN  (Tracy Richter)

MARTIN GARNER  (Mr. Laskey),  PETER LACANGELO

Featuring JONI DEMAREST as Rita

HOWARD VANN as Airport guard

	The famous sequence of 'The A-Team' being "written in bullets" on the opening credits appears for the first time in this episode. It would be used for the remainder of the series, even surviving the fifth season revamp (albeit on a different background).
	In the United States, this was the highest ever viewed episode of the series, when a rerun was shown on (??date and viewing figure to be confirmed??).
	Some sources list this episode as being shown in reverse order with the previous episode, 'Holiday In The Hills'. Even the Season One DVD sets present the episodes in that order, seemingly going from an old, incorrect episode guide.

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10.  WEST COAST TURNAROUND          Tue 5th Apr 1983     #1110

Teleplay by STEPHEN J. CANNELL & PATRICK HASBURGH    Story by BABS GREYHOSKY

Directed by GUY MAGAR

After her father's truck is forced off the road when trying to deliver a crop of water melons to market, a young woman contacts the team through her friend Amy for help. Hannibal agrees for the team to make the run, going up against the land-hungry neighbor who is trying to force the farm into bankruptcy so that he can buy it up cheap…

Guest Stars MICHAEL ALLDREDGE  (Harry Whitaker)

DEVON ERICSON  (Ellen Penhall)

ROBERT SAMPSON  (Joe Penhall)

TOM MC FADDEN  (Sheriff Dale Murphy)

TIM ROSSOVICH  (Milt)

Special Guest Star STUART WHITMAN  (Chuck Easterland)

Co-Starring CASKEY SWAIN  (Truck driver)

JIM BOEKE  (Bill Mathers)

Featuring none

Jim Boeke's character is called both Bill Mather, and Bill Mathers, at different points during the episode. Mathers seems to generally be correct.

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11.  ONE MORE TIME          Tue 12th Apr 1983     #1111

Teleplay by FRANK LUPO & PATRICK HASBURGH   Story by BABS GREYHOSKY

Directed by ARNOLD LAVEN

After a high-speed pursuit, Colonel Lynch finally manages to re-capture Hannibal, Face and B.A., but the case is suddenly lifted from his hands by two Government officials, who offer to forge an escape for the trio in return for them rescuing a captured General and his daughter from guerrillas in Borneo…

Guest Stars ED GROVER  (Major Briggs)

ALAN FUDGE  (Mr. Parry)

NICO MINARDOS  (Colonel Rashaam)

WARREN KEMMERLING  (General Ludlam)

AMY STEEL  (Kathy Ludlam)

DANNY WELLS  (Film Director)

BARBRA HORAN  (Rhonda)

DEAN SANTORO

Special Guest Star WILLIAM LUCKING as Lynch

Co-Starring DENNIS HAYSBERT  (Male V.A. Hospital Nurse),  CASEY KING

Featuring PATRICK CAMERON as Guard  (McKenizie)

RICK FITTS as Burrows

ROBB MADRID as Sergeant at arms

JUDD OMEN as Guerrilla

	The spelling of Rashaam is sometimes spelt as Rasaad, and several other variations, in different sources.
	Some episode guides mis-credit Dennis Haysbert as playing Burrows. This is incorrect, and is proven on the closing credits, where Rick Fitts is correctly credited for the role.

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12. TILL DEATH DO US PART          Tue 19th Apr 1983     #1112

Written by BABS GREYHOSKY & FRANK LUPO

Directed by GUY MAGAR

Face gets married, Murdock almost does, and B.A. bursts out of the wedding cake as the team rescue an unwilling bride from her forceful groom - the man responsible for the murder of the girl's father, and who is now forcing marriage in order to gain full control of the dead man's company…

Guest Stars JOHN ERICSON  (Calvin Cutter)

JANICE HEIDEN  (Jacquelyn “Jackie” Leah Taylor)

JIM ANTONIO  (Sheriff Gillis)

NOBLE WILLINGHAM  (Pete Stockton)

WILLIAM GREEN BUSH

Co-Starring TONY DALE  (Bo)

LESLEY WOODS  (Cutter's receptionist),  JENNY NEUMANN  (Tracey Scott)

SY KRAMER,  KENNETH WHITE

Featuring JACK GARNER as Texan

TOM PLETTS as Justice Of The Peace

TERRANCE BEASOR as Minister

GORDON HURST as Gas station attendant

Some sources mis-credit Sheriff Gillis as being called Sheriff Bueller.

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13. THE BEAST FROM THE BELLY OF A BOEING          Tue 3rd May 1983     #1113

Written by PATRICK HASBURGH

Directed by GUY MAGAR

The A-Team are called in to rescue a sky-jacked 747 captured by a militant political group, but Hannibal's plan needs continual adjustment due to unexpected take off, B.A. becoming cataleptic, Hannibal's disguise being roused, and pilot Murdock being blinded in an on-board gun-fight…

Guest Stars ANDREW ROBINSON  (Brother Jackson)

ALAN STOCK  (Thomas)

JIM MCKRELL  (Captain Larry Hertzog)

MICHAEL SWAN  (Trigg)

JESSE D. GOINS  (Phillips)

Co-Starring MILT KOGAN  (V.A. Doctor)

XANDER BERKELEY  (Baker),  SCOTT LINCOLN  (Rourke)

MARY KATE MCGEEHAN  (Stewardess Kate Morgan)

Featuring MELVIN F.ALLEN as Orderly

TONY BRUBAKER as Marty

STEVE CHAMBERS as Price

WAYNE STORM as Guard (Scotty)

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14. A NICE PLACE TO VISIT          Tue 10th May 1983     #1114

Written by FRANK LUPO

Directed by BERNARD MCEVEETY

The soldiers of fortune travel to a small, seemingly quiet backwater town to attend the funeral of an old war buddy. But upon arrival they find the entire place held in a grip of fear by five murderous brothers – the very men who were responsible for the death of the team's fallen comrade…

Guest Stars JOANNA KERNS  (Trish Brenner)

BURTON GILLIAM  (Sheriff Jeff Lewis)

TED MARKLAND  (Logan Watkins)

KELBE NUGENT  (Lianne)

SANDY WARD  (Dan)

And ROBERT F. LYONS as Harold (Watkins)

Special Guest Star DON STROUD  (Deke Watkins)

Co-Starring M. C. GAINEY  (C.W. Watkins),  GEORGIE PAUL

Featuring JOHNNY CREAR as Arnold

TONY EPPER as Curly (Watkins)

WILLIAM DYER as Minister

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2nd Season

(1983-84; 22 episodes, including one feature-length episode)

15. DIAMONDS 'N DUST          Tue 20th Sep 1983     #1201

Written by PATRICK HASBURGH

Directed by RON SATLOF

Things go with a bang when a woman hires The A-Team to transport explosives needed to start work in a diamond mine in Zimbabwe, after her father was murdered when trying to make the run himself. Before long they are engaged in battle with his killers – employed by the ruthless man who wants to open the mine as his own…

Guest Stars ALBERT SALMI  (Jonathan Fletcher)

KRISTEN MEADOWS  (Toby Griffin)

MICHAEL HALSEY  (Alan Scheckter)

SAM SCARBER  (Landers)

Co-Starring BRIAN LIBBY  (Vanetta)

GARNETT SMITH  (Mr. Griffin)

PETER ELBLING  (Morey Moran)

Featuring JOPHREY BROWN as Bartender

STEVE VANDEMAN as Jaspers

TONY EPPER as Baker

	The updated second season opening credits include the revised opening dialogue "In 1972..." from the rather confusing "Ten years ago..." from the first season.
	Some sources mis-name Toby Griffin as Toby Griffith. Griffin is confirmed as correct (and supported by Toby's father having a Griffin logo on his truck in the episode).

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16. RECIPE FOR HEAVY BREAD          Tue 27th Sep 1983     #1206

Written by STEPHEN J. CANNELL

Directed by BERNARD MCEVEETY

Face spots the team's old, sympathetic P.O.W. camp cook working in an exclusive Beverly Hills restaurant, but the chef is suddenly snatched away by heavies, leading to the team uncovering a drug deal between the camp's ex-commander and a prisoner who sold out for him years before, and who both want the cook dead…

Guest Stars MARJOE GORTNER  (Thomas Anderson, formerly Lieutenant Thomas Angel)

JOHN FUJIOKA  (General Chow)

MICHAEL ALLDREDGE  (Don)

Special Guest Star MAKO as Lin Duk Coo

Co-Starring LIAM SULLIVAN  (Mr. Peters)

SHAWN WEATHERLY  (Stella, Face's neighbor)

Featuring ROBERT DESTRI as Parking Attendant

MICHEL VOLETTI as Henri

JOPHREY BROWN as Ted

JIM CONNORS as Joey

NICK DIMITRI as Solly

A General Chow is also seen in the fourth season episode 'Mind Games', but played by a different actor, James Hong. It is not clear if it is intended to be the same character (both episodes are written by Stephen J. Cannell, who often recycles character names).

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17. THE ONLY CHURCH IN TOWN          Tue 11th Oct 1983     #1204

Written by BABS GREYHOSKY

Directed by CHRISTIAN I. NYBY II

When Face receives the fraternity pin he once gave to the high-school sweetheart he wanted to marry, he is certain that it is a cryptic call for help, and persuades the rest of the team to accompany him to Ecuador. Once there, they find that the woman is now one of a group of nuns in an orphanage besieged by bandits…

Guest Stars ISMAEL CARLO  (Salvador)

BEAU STARR  (Swain)

DEBORAH SHELTON  (Gayle)

DON KNIGHT  (Gibbens)

Special Guest Star MARKIE POST  (Sister Theresa, formerly Leslie Becktall)

Co-Starring ELIZABETH HOFFMAN  (Mother Superior)

JUDD OMEN  (Marcos)

PATRICK O'MOORE  (Father O'Malley),  CAESAR CORDOVA

Featuring LARRY DURAN as Sanchez

TONY BRUBAKER as Bantu

	This episode is the last time that Colonel Lynch is said to be in pursuit of the team before Colonel Decker is introduced in "When You Comin' Back, Range Rider?". Hannibal calls him on the telephone (!) and he is said to be at the head of the Military vehicles that pursue the team in this episode, but he is not actually seen.
	In the United Kingdom, this was the most watched episode of 1983, when broadcast on Friday 4th November, at 7:30 pm (ITV), clocking up 14.6 million viewers and coming 2nd in the viewing charts for that week.

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18. BAD TIME ON THE BORDER          Tue 18th Oct 1983     #1203

Written by RICHARD CHRISTIAN MATHESON & THOMAS SZOLLOSI

Directed by BRUCE KESSLER

After B.A. befriends a little lost girl who has escaped from a ring selling illegal immigrants into the slave trade, Hannibal goes undercover posing as an illegal immigrant to try and find the girl's desperately ill mother. But the plan backfires, and the rest of the team must find Hannibal before it is too late for both the girl's mother, and him…

Guest Stars JACK GING  (Border Patrol Lieutenant Jack Taggart)

DENNIS LIPSCOMB  (Prince)

JOEY ARESCO  (Presley)

Co-starring DAVID GRAF  (Cooper)

JEFFREY JOSEPHSON  (Kirk),  MARLA HEASLEY  (Cherise)

CARLOS LACAMARA  (Carlos),  BERT SANTOS

Featuring JAVIER GRAJEDA as Roberto

EDDIE MARIE RUBIO as Maria

SCOTT NEMES as Robert

	This episode is notable for featuring not one, but two faces that will become more familiar in later episodes - Jack Ging (who previously played a different villain in the first season episode 'A Small And Deadly War') would go on to play the recurring General Harlan "Bull" Fulbright in the fourth season; and Marla Heasley would go on to play Amy's replacement Tawnia Baker later this season.
	Some sources incorrectly list this episode as 'Bad Day On The Border'.

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19/20. "WHEN YOU COMIN' BACK, RANGE RIDER?"     (feature-length / 2 parts)

Tue 25th Oct 1983     #1207 (2-part: #1298 & #1299)

Written by FRANK LUPO

Directed by CHRISTIAN I. NYBY II

Native Red Indian Daniel Running Bear travels to Los Angeles to try and hire The A-Team, to get their help in protecting a bunch of wild Mustang horses in Arizona from a ruthless millionaire's men, who are illegally capturing the animals to sell for meat. But while the team are preparing to corral the rustlers, the Military assigns tough Vietnam veteran Colonel Decker to lasso the soldiers of fortune once-and-for-all…

Guest Stars RICHARD YNIGUEZ  (Daniel Running Bear)

MILLS WATSON  (Phil Stryker)

CARL FRANKLIN  (Captain Crane)

DANA KIMMELL  (Lane Carter)

WALTER BROOKE  (General Bullen)

And LANCE LEGAULT as Colonel Roderick Decker

Special Guest Star MORGAN WOODWARD  (Bus Carter)

Co-Starring PHILIP GORDON  (Shelly),  ALICIA FLEER  (Girl in changing cubicle)

Featuring WILL HUNT as Wino

ANITA MERRITT as Gretel

TONY CICCONE as Parking Attendant

KEVIN MCBRIDE as M.P.#1

BILL DYER as Engineer  (Willy)

BOBBY BASS as Dexter

JACK VERBOIS as Flint

NORM HOWELL as M.P.#2

Uncredited (UNKNOWN) as Mick

	Lance LeGault as Colonel Decker, and his (almost) ever present aide Captain Crane (Carl Franklin) are introduced in this story, taking over from Colonel Lynch as the team's pursuers. (However, although it is their first appearance on-screen, their first filmed episode was 'The White Ballot', shown later in the season.)
	Originally shown as a feature-length episode, this story exists in both feature-length and two-part formats.

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21. THE TAXICAB WARS          Tue 1st Nov 1983     #1213

Written by STEPHEN J. CANNELL

Directed by GILBERT SHILTON

A small taxicab fleet hires The A-Team to drive up against a rival company that is sabotaging their operations to try and to force them out of business, in order to gain complete reign of the area to run their illegal operations. The team take to the streets as they set about forcing the crooked firm off the road...

Guest Stars MICHAEL IRONSIDE  (Miles Crane)

EDWARD LYNCH  (Strike)

ERNIE HUDSON  (Cal Freeman)

ROBIN DEARDEN  (Kathy)

BRION JAMES  (Ryder)

Co-Starring GREG MONAGHAN  (Shelley),  MICHAEL CRABTREE  (Thomas Hart)

LIZ SHERIDAN  (Tina Lavelle),  TOM REESE  (Guard)

IVOR BARRY  (Elderly cab fare)

Featuring DONALD GIBB as Deke Billings

	Face's white Corvette (complete with red stripe to match B.A.'s van) is seen for the first time in this episode. For trivia fans, this is the only episode to feature both Amy and the Corvette within the same story, although they don't appear on-screen together.
	Some sources list this episode as 'The Taxi Cab Wars', with a space (or sometimes a hyphen) after 'Taxi'. The spelling as listed here, as all one word, is as it appears on-screen in the episode.

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22. LABOR PAINS          Tue 8th Nov 1983     #1208

Written by THOMAS SZOLLISI & RICHARD CHRISTIAN MATHESON

Directed by ARNOLD LAVEN

After a near miss with Decker, Hannibal plans for the team plan to lie low for a while in a nearby country town. But the gang are soon back in the heat of things again when they end up helping a group of downtrodden crop pickers form a union against their crooked boss, who's men are forcing them to work in near slave labor conditions…

Guest Stars CHARLES NAPIER  (Burt Cross)

PENNY PEYSER  (Laura Crenshaw)

ALAN AUTRY  (Gary Crenshaw)

LANCE LEGAULT  (Colonel Decker)

CARL FRANKLIN  (Captain Crane)

Special Guest Star JOHN VERNON as Ted Jarrett

Co-Starring TED MARKLAND  (Giddings)

BELINDA BALASKI  (Jimmy's mother),  BOB LARKIN

JIM BOEKE  (Danton),  DAVID CLOVER

Featuring KYLE SPICER as Jimmy

Some sources mis-name Burt Cross as Ray Cross. Burt Cross is confirmed as correct.

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23. THERE'S ALWAYS A CATCH          Tue 15th Nov 1983     #1212

Written by RICHARD CHRISTIAN MATHESON & THOMAS SZOLLOSI

Directed by RON SATLOF

The gang stop in a small seaside fishing village to get B.A.'s injured foot treated, and wind up helping a fisher family nab local extortionist Garber, who is forcing fisherman to work for him. But just as they're about to reel Garber in, the team find themselves caught on Colonel Decker's hook…

Guest Stars JOHN QUADE  (Garber)

TRACY SCOGGINS  (Shana Mayer)

ROBIN STRAND  (Doug Mayer)

LEN WAYLAND  (Calvin "Cal" Mayer)

REBECCA STANLEY  (Betty)

CARL FRANKLIN  (Captain Crane)

And LANCE LEGAULT as Decker

Co-Starring DAPHNE MAXWELL  (Hospital receptionist Lewis),  GENE SYNARSKI  (Mr. Hargopian)

ROSS ELLIOTT  (Doctor),  GERALD BERNS  (Sheriff Newman)

Featuring DICK DUROCK as Lennox

DENNIS KERWIN as Soldier

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24. WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE          Tue 22nd Nov 1983     #1205

Teleplay by SIDNEY ELLIS and JO SWERLING, JR.

Story by SIDNEY ELLIS

Directed by RON SATLOF

The soldiers of fortune come to the aid of three disabled fellow Vietnam veterans, and help them defend the desert town property they're renovating from a local land-grabbing developer, who is trying to force them off their ground so he can gain access to the valuable water rights below…

Guest Stars ALAN FUDGE  (Frank Gaines)

JIM KNAUB  (Jamie Collins)

MICHAEL RIDER  (Harry)

ROY JENSON

And ROBIN RIKER as Amanda (Huston)

Co-Starring JON L. FEATHER  (Dave ("Bump")),  R. DAVID SMITH  (Les)

WILLIAM FRANKFATHER  (Water Station Supervisor)

Featuring MELVIN F. ALLEN as Truckdriver

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Starring GEORGE PEPPARD as John "Hannibal" Smith  

DIRK BENEDICT 

DWIGHT SCHULTZ  

and Mr. T as B.A. Baracus

25. STEEL          Tue 29th Nov 1983     #1214

Written by FRANK LUPO

Directed by GILBERT SHILTON

When a construction site foreman and his niece hire The A-Team to find out why their work on a demolition site is being sabotaged by rival contractors who lost the bid, the gang unearth a grave motive behind the trouble, and the construction site ends up becoming a battle ground…

Guest Stars MARY-MARGARET HUMES  (Randy)

RAY GIRARDIN  (Carl Denham)

TIM ROSSOVICH  (Boyle)

And MICHAEL BASELEON as Crazy Tommy T (Tommy Tillis)

Special Guest Star NORMAN ALDEN  (Mickey Stern)

Co-Starring CAROL BAXTER  (Nurse Beth Billings)

LUKE ANDREAS  (McGreavey)

WILLIAM BOYETT  (Snack Vendor),  LEW SAUNDERS  (V.A. Orderly) 

Featuring SHARAN LEA as Leann

NINA SHAW as Tourist

DUKE STROUD as Scott

CAMILLA MORE as Girlfriend

	This is the first episode of the series without Melinda Culea as Amy Allen (though if the production codes are completely true, 'Semi-Friendly Persuasion', shown near the end of the season, was produced before it. There is some contradictions as to if it was produced this early though).
	This episode marks the first use of the re-edited version of the second season credits, removing Melinda Culea and adding more shots of the other characters instead.
	Some sources list Luke Andreas' character in this episode as being called Jules. Awaiting confirmation, but I believe McGreavey to be correct (unless Jules is his first name?).
	Some sources list Luke Andreas as playing a character named Jilly in this episode. This seems to be a confusion with the name of the character that he played in the first season episode 'The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas'.
	A couple of sources credit Michael Allderidge playing a character called Don in this episode. This is incorrect, Michael Allderidge does not appear in this episode; he plays a character named Don in 'Recipe For Heavy Bread' earlier in the season.
	Hannibal, in the guise of a CIA hit-man, mentions in passing a character named "Crazy Tommy T" in 'The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas'. As both episodes are written by Frank Lupo, this seems just to be recycling of a name rather than foresight of the character's appearance in this episode.

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26. THE WHITE BALLOT          Tue 6th Dec 1983     #1202

Written by JEFF RAY

Directed by DENNIS DONNELLY

Face takes the guise of a war veteran returning home when he runs for Sheriff in a small backwater New Mexico town, as the team launch a campaign to try and stop the re-election of the corrupt current lawman – who uses his position to run illegal guns, gambling, and booze, and has any rival to his post bumped off…

Guest Stars ANDREW ROBINSON  (Deputy F. Rance)

JOSHUA BRYANT  (Jim Baker)

CARL FRANKLIN  (Captain Crane)

And LANCE LEGAULT as Colonel Decker

Special Guest Star CLIFTON JAMES  (Sheriff Jake Dawson)

Co-Starring MARTIN AZAROW  (Danny),  JAMES LOUGH  (Café Owner)

Featuring LARRY MARKO as Ernie

	This is the last episode of the series to feature Amy Allen, before Melinda Culea left the series. (For details, read the series synopsis)
	For some reason, the original second season credits (making their last appearance here) have the audio track from the first season ("Ten years ago..." in place of "In 1972...", and the sound of the bi-plane from the Pilot being heard when the helicopters from 'Till Death Do Us Part' are seen).
	Although introduced on-screen in "When You Comin' Back, Ranger Rider?", this is the first episode that Lance LeGault as Colonel Decker (and Carl Franklin as Captain Crane) filmed in the role.

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27. THE MALTESE COW          Tue 13th Dec 1983     #1216

Written by THOMAS SZOLLOSI & RICHARD CHRISTIAN MATHESON

Directed by DENNIS DONNELLY

When The A-Team come to the assistance of an old war friend, who's Chinatown restaurant is being targeted by a protection racket, they find themselves doing battle with a dangerous Chinese “Tong” gang trained in lethal martial arts, who are funding an exiled drug baron's return into the country…

Guest Stars JAMES HONG  (Wan Chu)

PAUL MANTEE  (Chris Thomas)

JOHN MILFORD  (?Lieutenant Sanders?)

KEYE LUKE  (Sam Yeng)

Co-Starring PETER KWONG  (Tommy Chen)

RICHARD KUHLMAN

LYDIA LEI  (Sun Yeng)

PROFESSOR TORU TANAKA  (Ling)

Featuring CHARLES GUARDINI as Officer

	This was the last episode broadcast in America before Christmas 1983. Although it isn't a "Christmas episode", the team leave a note for the police with captured criminal Chris Thomas that reads 'Merry Xmas,  The A Team'. Whether this is was intentional or just plain coincidence… who knows.
	'The Golden Pagoda restaurant' featured in this episode, is a stock Universal set, and can also been seen in the second season 'Riptide' episode 'The Twisted Cross'.

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28. IN PLANE SIGHT          Tue 3rd Jan 1984     #1217

Written by BABS GREYHOSKY

Directed by TONY MORDENTE

When their pilot son is imprisoned in South America for unknowingly transporting drugs, an elderly couple hire the team to locate the real culprits behind the operation. The couple's niece persuades the team to let her come along, and tries out a new method to get B.A. onto aircraft: hypnosis…

Guest Stars ANTHONY CHARNOTA  (Winston Corliss)

JUDY STRANGIS  (Judy Rogers)

CARMEN ARGENZIANO  (Colonel Sanchez)

ROD COLBIN  (Jes Hicks)

And LANCE HENRICKSON as Mack Dalton

Co-Starring BRUCE FRENCH  (Al Jackson)

GRAINGER HINES  (Pete)

LESLEY WOODS  (Carrie Hicks),  CROFTON HARDESTER  (Robert "Robbie" Hicks)

Featuring CHAD BLOCK as Cop

This episode makes a brief mention of the departed Amy. The only other episode after her departure that mentions her is the next broadcast one, 'The Battle of Bel-Air'.

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29. THE BATTLE OF BEL-AIR          Tue 10th Jan 1984     #1220

Written by FRANK LUPO

Directed by GILBERT SHILTON

Undercover reporter Tawnia Baker - a colleague of Amy's - warns the team of a planned ambush by Decker to try and convince them to let her join them. But she ends up needing rescue herself when she uncovers a plot by the heads of a high-tech security company to assassinate an important visiting Sheik, which endangers her own life...

Also starring MARLA HEASLEY as Tawnia Baker

Guest stars MICHAEL FAIRMAN  (Anthony Raymond)

KURTWOOD SMITH  (John Carson)

CARL FRANKLIN  (Captain Crane)

And LANCE LEGAULT as Col. Decker

Co-starring RANDOLPH ROBERTS  (Ron Graham),  RON MESZAROS  (Rocky Spencer, helicopter owner)

Featuring CHARLES WALKER as Guard

EDWARD ANSARA as Sheik Fatasi

	This episode introducers new (semi) regular Marla Heasley (who had played a different role in 'Bad Time On The Border' earlier in the season) as reporter Tawnia Baker, brought in to replace the departed Melinda Culea (Amy).
	The second version of the 2nd season opening credits (featuring just the four main members of the team) are retained and stay until the end of the season. Heasley never had her name added to the opening credits, and instead always receives 'Also Starring' credit directly after the episode title and before the Guest Star cast, for all the episodes she appears in. Although with a couple of exceptions, she generally doesn't feature in stories as heavily as Amy, and doesn't appear in two episodes during her time on the show ('Harder Than It Looks' and 'Semi-Friendly Persuasion').
	Although this is the first time Tawnia is seen on-screen, 'Pure-Dee Poison' was actually the first episode that Marla Heasley filmed in the role.
	This is also the last time that Amy is mentioned in the series, said to be a colleague of Tawnia's.

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30. SAY IT WITH BULLETS          Tue 17th Jan 1984     #1218

Written by RICHARD CHRISTIAN MATHESON & THOMAS SZOLLOSI

Directed by DENNIS DONNELLY

A female Army corporal hires the soldiers of fortune to catch her brother's killer, a Lieutenant who is illegally selling weapons from an Army base. But unbeknown to the them, the woman has a prior deal with Decker: he'll get her brother's killer, in return for her delivering The A-Team to him…

Also starring MARLA HEASLEY as Tawnia Baker

Guest stars LAUREN CHASE  (Corporal Charlotte Brown)

CARL FRANKLIN  (Captain Crane)

And LANCE LEGAULT as Colonel Decker

Special Guest Star MONTE MARKHAM as (Lieutenant) Mason Harnett

Co-Starring MIGUEL FERNANDES  (Noche)

PATRICK BRADY,  SAM MELVILLE  (Shaw)

Featuring CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL MOORE as Soldier

ANTHONY S. JOHNSON as Guard

FRED MCGRATH as Paul Brown

This is the last episode to be Copyright 1983.

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31. PURE-DEE POISON          Tue 31st Jan 1984     #1215

Written by CHRIS BUNCH & ALLAN COLE

Directed by DENNIS DONNELLY

A Southern minister hires The A-Team to put the cap on a ruthless moonshiner's operation and stop his men distributing their crudely brewed, potentially lethal cocktail. The team set out to track the operation to it's well-concealed source, which is protected like a fortress…

Also starring MARLA HEASLEY as Tawnia Baker

Guest Stars JOHN AMOS  (Reverend Taylor)

STEVE SANDOR  (Burt)

TRACY REED  (Stephanie Taylor)

Special Guest Star BO HOPKINS as Charles Drew

Co-Starring TONY O'NEIL  (Frank),  MARSHA HAYNES  (Doctor (Dentist) Reed)

ED CRICK    (Bar owner)

JOHN ROSELIUS

Featuring none

	This is the first episode of the series to be Copyright 1984.
	Although Marla Heasley was introduced as Tawnia Baker in 'The Battle Of Bel-Air', this was the first episode that she filmed in the role.
	This episode marks the first use of a wooden building that would be used in a number of guises in many later second season episodes, until it eventually burnt down.
	A few sources incorrectly list Reverend Taylor as being called Reverend Johnson.

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32. IT'S A DESERT OUT THERE          Tue 7th Feb 1984     #1219

Written by BRUCE CERVI

Directed by ARNOLD LAVEN

An elderly couple hire the team after their bus is hi-jacked and robbed when taking a short-cut on a desert back road from a casino. As the team rev into action, the sophisticated commando tactics used by the gang committing the petty hold-ups suggests that they're practising for bigger game…

Also starring MARLA HEASLEY as Tawnia Baker

Guest Stars JEANNIE WILSON  (Lila Palmer)

ROBERT DRYER  (Al Driscoll)

TONY BURTON  (Burke)

ANTHONY JAMES  (Flagg)

Co-Starring PARLEY BAER  (Max Klein)

PEG STUART    (Miriam Klein),  ARNOLD TURNER

Featuring AUSTIN KELLY as Bus driver

DAN MAGIERA as Croupier

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33. CHOPPING SPREE          Tue 14th Feb 1984     #1222

Written by STEPHEN KATZ

Directed by MICHAEL O'HERLIHY

When a young ex-con that the team once helped go straight is wrongly accused of stealing cars, Face reluctantly has his prized Corvette used as bait for the thieves, but the plan backfires when the robbers take off in B.A.'s beloved van instead. Face works for a shady car dealer to get a lead on the van before it's cut up and sold as spare parts…

Also starring MARLA HEASLEY as Tawnia Baker

Guest Stars JOE COLLIGAN  (Davey)

LEE PATTERSON  (Tony Victor)

Special Guest Star DENNIS FRANZ as Sam Friendly

Co-Starring LIBERTY GODSHALL  (Cindy)

KEN FOREE  (Dirkson),  NICK SHIELDS  ("Tiny Roscoe")

Featuring BRUCE TUTHILL as Guy

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34. HARDER THAN IT LOOKS          Tue 21st Feb 1984     #1224

Written by FRANK LUPO

Directed by IVAN DIXON

The soldiers of fortune's rescue of a millionaire's kidnapped daughter from a militant terrorist group isn't exactly the "piece of cake" Hannibal plans, when the ploy ransom money is lost, when the girl asks that a capturer she's fallen in love with be rescued too, and when they learn of a plot to blow up a nearby dam…

Guest stars LORI LETHIN  (Jennifer Teasdale)

KEVYN MAJOR HOWARD  (Marcus)

FRANK ANNESE  (Strickland)

MICHAEL PRINCE  (Warren Teasdale)

And STEPHEN KEATS as Ramon

Co-Starring CHERIE MICHAN  (Kathryn)

ANTHONY DE LONGIS,  VINCE MCKEWIN  (Giant terrorist)

Featuring SUZNNE ALBERSHARDT as Laura

	Marla Heasley (Tawnia Baker) does not appear in this episode.
	A couple of slack sources mis-spell Ramon as 'Roman'.

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35. DEADLY MANEUVERS          Tue 28th Feb 1984     #1225

Written by RICHARD CHRISTIAN MATHESON & THOMAS SZOLLOSI

Directed by MIKE VEJAR

A syndicate of criminals all foiled by The A-Team hire a four-man mercenary squad to wipe the team out once-and-for-all. Their tactic is to take them out one-by-one, and eventually only Hannibal is left, as he alone attempts to free his captured men while suffering the effects of doctored milk that himself and B.A. unknowingly drank…

Also starring MARLA HEASLEY as Tawnia Baker

Guest Stars BARBARA STOCK  (“Koochy”)

TRICIA O'NEIL  (Dr. Maggie Sullivan)

RICHARD KUSS  (Mr. Harper)

MICHAEL CAVANAUGH  (Joseph King)

JOHN G. SCANLON  (Jackie Hoffer)

Special Guest Star ED LAUTER as Major Douglas Kyle

Co-Starring MICHAEL ENSIGN  (Head of criminal syndicate)

ED JOHNSON  (John Sharphook)

JOHN STEADMAN  (Local),  RENE ASSA

Featuring RANDY PATRICK as Gateman

	In a rare instance of a (non main) character appearing more than once, Tricia O'Neal returns as Dr. Maggie Sullivan from the first season episode 'Bad Day At Black Rock'. (However, Ed Lauter, who played Sheriff Thompson in that episode, plays a different role, that of mercenary Kyle, in this story!).
	The unusual spelling of 'Maneuvers' is as the title appears on-screen (as opposed to the more standard spelling 'manoeuvres').

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36. SEMI-FRIENDLY PERSUASION          Tue 8th May 1984     #1211

Written by DANNY LEE COLE

Directed by CRAIG R. BAXLEY

The team are hard pressed to meet the demands of a peace-loving community, who hire them to help build their meeting house while taking care of a group of local bigoted trouble-makers who are trying to run them off of their land and out of town. But there is one condition to the team being hired: that they don't use violence…

Special Guest Star GEOFFREY LEWIS as Kale Sykes

Guest Stars TIM O'CONNOR  (Pastor Karl Peerson)

SAM J. JONES  (Eric)

FRANC LUZ  (Reverend Frank Traynor)

RED WEST  (Sinclair)

Co-Starring ROBBY KIGER  (Ollie Ridder),  LINDSAY V. JONES  (Mrs. Ridder)

BEN RAWNSLEY  (Dr. Forrest),  DONALD THOMPSON  (Doyle)

Featuring GALEN EVERHART as Nurse

Marla Heasley (Tawnia Baker) does not appear in this episode. (If the production codes are completely true, it was produced during Melinda Culea (Amy's) stint, but there is some contradictions as to if it was produced that early though).

In the United Kingdom, this was the most watched episode of 1987, when a repeat (rerun) of the episode was broadcast on Saturday 17th January at 5:35 pm (ITV). It was the highest audience achieved by a repeated episode, actually getting more viewers (just) than the previous year's most watched, first-run episode, the fifth season's 'Trial By Fire'. 1987 would be the last year that the series made the viewing charts in the UK.

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37. CURTAIN CALL          Tue 15th May 1984     #1226

Written by STEPHEN KATZ

Directed by DENNIS DONNELLY

In a remote area, Murdock is seriously wounded when he takes a bullet, and as the rest of team struggle to keep him alive while staying one step ahead of Colonel Decker, they recall some of his past antics and contributions to the team. But with Murdock near death and Decker sealing off the entire area, can The A-Team escape this time?…

Also Starring MARLA HEASLEY as Tawnia Baker

Guest Stars DANNY WELLS  (Artie Simmons)

GEORGE WYNER  (Richie Hauser)

CARL FRANKLIN  (Captain Crane)

And LANCE LEGAULT as Col. Decker

Co-Starring STEVE TANNEN  (Sergeant Collins)

NIK CELOZZI  (Kelsey)

Featuring none

Besides having the main plot, this episode also features a number of 'flashback' scenes from previous first and second episodes (although the departed Melinda Culea (Amy) is edited out of them, sometimes quite awkwardly).

Clips used are: * Murdock giving B.A. blood (from 'Black Day At Bad Rock', first season) * Murdock and Hannibal escaping prison on the 'hot air chairs' ('Pros And Cons', first season) * The makeshift plane taking off ('Holiday In The Hills', first season) * The helicopter running out of fuel and landing at the gas station ('Till Death Do Us Part', first season) * The plane crash-landing ('Holiday In The Hills') * Murdock pretending to be drugged by B.A.'s burger ('Till Death Do Us Part')  * B.A. throwing Murdock into the sea ('There's Always A Catch', second season) * Face and Murdock scamming dynamite ('Diamonds 'N Dust', second season)  * Murdock having 'tuberculosis' as Face breaks him out of the V.A. hospital ('A Small And Deadly War', first season)  * Decker's first attempt at catching the team, surrounding the warehouse ("When You Comin' Back, Ranger Rider?", second season) * Decker chasing the team and the van jumping the incomplete bridge ('Labor Pains', second season) * Murdock and B.A. working on the 747, and B.A. blanking out when it takes off ('The Beast From The Belly of A Boeing', first season) * Closing montage shots of: Murdock wheeling the injured B.A. around ('Bad Day At Black Rock'), B.A. taping Murdock's mouth up ('The Maltese Cow' (second season)), Murdock and his teddy bear annoying B.A. ('Diamonds 'N Dust'), cowboy Murdock talking to his horse, again annoying B.A. ("When You Comin' Back, Ranger Rider?"), Murdock thanking B.A. before takeoff ('Holiday In The Hills').

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3rd Season

(1984-85; 24 episodes,. including one feature-length episode)

38. BULLETS AND BIKINIS          Tue 18th Sep 1984     #1305

Written by MARK JONES

Directed by DENNIS DONNELLY

The gang enter the hotel business, as two sisters hire the team to protect their late father's beach-front Miami property from a neighboring owner connected with the Mob, who is trying to force them out of business so he can take it over himself and give it to a Mafia king-pin to win his favour…

Guest stars VINCENT BAGGETTA  (Joey Epic)

JEANA TOMASINO  (Denise)

BETSY RUSSELL  (Tina Kelson)

BEN PIAZZA  (Councilman Michael Prescott)

KIMBERLY ROSS  (Sandy Kelson)

TONY GIORGIO  (Carlin)

Co-Starring PAUL SYLVAN  (Rocky),  RICK GRASSI  (Denise's bodyguard)

Featuring WANDA PENALVER as Nurse (Lana Andrews)

KELLY ANDRUS as Hostess

RICHARD BROSE as Tony

LIBBY CHARLTON as Tami

	Despite being shown first in the season, this episode was probably originally designed to be shown after the feature-length 'The Bend In The River' (it was probably shown first due to scheduling needs).
	Marla Heasley as Tawnia Baker is not seen in this episode. She is written out in 'The Bend In the River' and, bearing in mind the above, can generally be presumed to have left the team by this episode.
	The spelling of the two sisters' surname varies between Kelson and Conlon in different sources. Kelson is confirmed as correct.

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39/40. THE BEND IN THE RIVER   (feature-length / 2 parts)       Tue 25th Sep 1984   

#1309 (2-part: #1398 & #1399)

Written by FRANK LUPO & STEPHEN J. CANNELL

Directed by MICHAEL O'HERIHY

Tawnia asks the team to travel to the Amazon and look for her missing fiancée, an archaeologist searching for a lost city, who has disappeared after a run-in with a horde of river pirates - led by a character known as 'El Cajon', "The Coffin" - who patrol up and down the infamous 'Bend In The River'. But as the team search for the missing man, they gradually discover that the river pirates are being employed by a higher, even more dangerous organisation…

Also Starring MARLA HEASLEY as Tawnia Baker

Guest Stars MARTA DUBOIS  (Bobbi Cardina)

BARRY VAN DYKE  (Brian Lefcourt)

MIKE PRESTON  (Carson Doyle)

DANNY WELLS  (Film Director)

RAFAEL CAMPOS

KAI WULFF  (Kruger)

SERGIO CALDERON as El Cajon ("The Coffin")

And RICHARD MOLL as Churlisco

Co-Starring DON PEDRO COLLEY  (Little John)

ERIC HOLLAND  (Roidermann)

Featuring MICHAEL CHIEFFO as Assistant Director

ROBERTA STUART as Nurse

KURT PAUL as Intern

DEVOY WHITE as Ramirez

IVAN SANDOVAL as Laborer

ROGER HOOPMAN as Lieutenant

	Originally shown as a feature-length episode, this story exists in both feature-length and two-part formats.
	Despite being shown second in the season, this story was probably designed to play first. This episode writes Marla Heasley (Tawnia) out of the series; she is married to Brian Leftcourt at the end of the story.
	This is the only feature-length outing not to feature a run-in with the Military Police.
	Danny Wells also played a film director in the first season episode 'One More Time'. Whether it's intended to be the same character or not is debatable.
	Brian Lefcourt is spelt Leftcourt in many sources. Lefcourt is confirmed as correct.

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41. FIRE          Tue 2nd Oct 1984     #1304

Written by STEPHEN KATZ

Directed by TONY MORDENTE

The A-Team respond to a fire alarm when a female fire chief hires them to find out why a rival company is terrorising her operation and stopping the crew reaching calls. Taking on fireman duties, temperatures are soon rising as they take on the rival company and try to find out what has ignited the trouble...

Special Guest Star STEPHANIE KRAMER as Annie Sanders

Guest Stars ALAN FUDGE  (Charles Farnell)

CHRISTOPHER PENNOCK  (Palin)

CHARLES NAPIER  (Colonel Briggs)

W.K. STRATTON  (Captain Ross)

And PAUL GLEASON as Roy Kelsey

Co-Starring BUDDY GARION  (Vince Rogan)

BRAD ENGLISH  (Casey),  TERRANCE EVANS

Featuring DONNA ANDERSON MARSHALL as Alma

DANNY COLBY as Small boy  (Billy)

This episode introduces another (would be) Military pursuer, Charles Napier as Colonel Briggs, but as it turned out, it was the only episode ever to feature or even mention the character. In hindsight, it would seem that the character is just a temporary replacement for Colonel Decker; Briggs seems very much a Decker clone in mannerisms and even looks. Presumably Lance LeGault was unavailable for this episode, quite possibly filming due to filming an episode of 'Magnum, p.i', in which he had a recurring role as Colonel Buck Greene.

A couple of sources credit W.K. Stratton's role in this episode as Captain Royce. Royce is the (similar) character he plays in a few episodes time, in 'Showdown!'; the name 'Captain Ross' has been confirmed for this episode.

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42. TIMBER!          Tue 16th October 1984     #1302

Written by JEFF RAY

Directed by DAVID HEMMINGS

The gang have their work cut out for them when a brother and sister, who run their own small logging company, hire the team to help them stand up to a self-appointed union leader, who is sabotaging their work and will stop at nothing to force them out of business unless they agree to sign up and obey to his terms…

Guest Stars JOE LAMBIE  (John Lawrence)

TRACY BROOKS SWOPE  (Samantha Lawrence)

And BEAU STARR as Bull McEwan

Co-Starring ANDRÉ GOWER  (Billy),  WILEY HARKER  (Ralph Claymont)

SHIRLEY SLATER  (Sister Heidelberg),  CINDY ROBERTS  (Nurse Meadows)

ART LAFLEUR  (Truck rental owner)

Featuring RAY BICKEL as George

This is the first of a number of episodes to be directed by British actor David Hemmings, who also appeared as the sadistic Dr. Charles Henry Moffet(t) in 'Airwolf's Pilot episode (a.k.a. 'Shadow of the Hawke') and the second season's 'Moffett's Ghost', as well as directing the first season episode 'Mad Over Miami'). Hemmings makes an uncredited cameo role in 'The A-Team's feature-length fourth season episode 'Judgement Day'.

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43. DOUBLE HEAT          Tue 23rd Oct 1984     #1310

Written by STEPHEN KATZ

Directed by CRAIG R. BAXLEY

When the key witness in an upcoming trail hires the team to find his kidnapped daughter, the soldiers of fortune become caught up in an on-going war between two feuding mobsters - one trying to prevent the father's grand-jury testimony, the other one trying to ensure it…

Special Guest Stars DANA ELCAR  (George Olsen, formerly George Banner)

And STEPHEN WILLIAMS as Eddie Devane

Guest Stars MICHAEL BASELEON  (Tommy Largo)

CHRISTINE DE LISLE  (Ginger)

REID CRUIKSHANKS

And LEAH AYRES as Jenny Olsen

Co-Starring DANIEL GREENE  (Ray Evans)

BURKE BYRNES  (Mr. Reynolds)

JASON EDWARDS,  ROSEMARIE THOMAS (Priscilla)

Featuring none

For this episode only, Dirk Benedict appears sporting a moustache.

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44. TROUBLE ON WHEELS          Tue 30th Oct 1984     #1311

Written by MARK JONES

Directed by MICHAEL O'HERLIHY

The team rev up for action when the foreman of a car construction plant hires them to stop the theft of valuable parts from the factory and sold on the black market. Hannibal goes undercover on the line, while the rest of the team open up an auto spares store as a lure for the thieves, who beat up anyone who threatens to expose their operation…

Guest Stars MILLS WATSON  (Hoyt Plummer)

JAMES LUISI  (Jimmy Durkee)

Special Guest Star JOE SANTOS  (Rudy Garcia)

Co-Starring DENNIS PRATT  (Williams),  KEN GIBBEL

DANIEL CHODOS,  RON RECASNER

Featuring MELINDA MORENO as Mrs. Garcia

MICHELLE ROSAS as Melody Garcia

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45. THE ISLAND          Tue 13th Nov 1984     #1308

Written by MARK JONES

Directed by MICHAEL O'HERLIHY

An ex-Vietnam vet doctor, who once saved B.A.'s life, sends his young friend Mickey to find The A-Team for help when the idyllic tropical island on which he now lives, doctoring the natives, is besieged by a horde of pirate-like thugs, who plan to use the remote island to grow and ship drugs…

Guest Stars PAUL DRAKE  (Johnny Vescari)

CAROLE DAVIS  (Falani)

JAMES CALLAHAN  (Captain/Doctor Fallone)

SONNY LANDHAM  (Ryker)

CARL FRANKLIN  (Captain Crane)

And LANCE LEGAULT as Col. Decker

Co-Starring  none

Featuring ALEJANDRO GARAY as Mickey

DIEGO PALACIOS as Melo

LOYDA RAMOS as Nora

GORDON ROSS as Oldman Jacobs

WILLIAM DYER as Old man villager

Lance LeGault makes his first appearance of the season as Colonel Decker; no mention of his temporary absence in 'Fire', nor of would-be replacement Colonel Briggs or what has become of him, is given.

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46. SHOWDOWN!          Tue 20th Nov 1984     #1307

Written by MILT ROSEN

Directed by JAMES FARGO

The A-Team are quick to leap into action and defend their name when they hear that a B-team of impostors are terrorising a travelling Wild West Rodeo Show. Matters are complicated further by the fact that the Army has given Colonel Lynch one last chance at capturing the real A-Team…

Special Guest Star MORGAN WOODWARD as Captain Winnetka

Guest Starts JOHN CARTER  (Parker (fake Hannibal))

D.D. HOWARD  (Carrie Winnetka)

MICHAEL DELANO  (Kyle Mason)

W.K. STRATTON  (Captain Royce)

BEN HAMMER  (General Rockmore)

Special Guest Star BILL LUCKING as Col. Lynch

Co-Starring XANDER BERKELEY  (Sergeant Wilson)

JOSPEH DI REDA  (Bartender ("Sarge")),  K.C. WINKLER  (Face's date)

Featuring LYNNDA FERGUSON as Nurse Smith

uncredited TONY BRUBAKER  (fake B.A.)

(UNKNOWN)  (fake Face)

	William ('Bill') Lucking makes a (surprise) return to play original pursuer Colonel Lynch for one last time in this episode. It is the last time the character is seen (or mentioned) in the series. As with Colonel Briggs' lone appearance a few episodes earlier in 'Fire', part of Lynch's sudden return may well be due to Lance LeGault (Decker) being unavailable.
	While Hannibal's impostor is played by a regular actor (John Carter, who also plays different characters in the first season episode 'Children of Jamestown' and the fifth season's 'Alive At Five', as well as an uncredited cameo at the end of the fourth season's 'The Doctor Is Out'), the impostors for B.A. and Face are played by Mr. T and Dirk Benedict's stunt doubles. Both are uncredited on-screen.
	In 'Fire', W.K. Stratton played another Military Captain. Although at first appearance he might seem to be playing the same character here, the two characters actually have different names.
	This was not only the U.K.'s most watched episode of 1984, but the country's most watched episode of the series ever, on it's original broadcast on Saturday 29th December at 6:05 pm (ITV), clocking up 16.6 million viewers, coming 2nd in the viewing figures for that week. Also to note was that it was broadcast just over a month after the US broadcast - in the days before $ky were around to buy up and hog everything!

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47. SHERIFFS OF RIVERTOWN          Tue 27th Nov 1984     #1314

Written by MARK JONES

Directed by DENNIS DONNELLY

The executives of an oil company employ the soldiers of fortune to take on the duties of lawmen in a small construction town in South America, the site of a new power generator being built and where a number of workers are disappearing in a series of highly suspicious industrial “accidents”…

Guest Stars ROBERT DAVI  (D. Boyle)

WENDY KILBOURNE  (Nicole "Nikki" Monroe)

EDMUND GILBERT  (C.E.O. Wilkins)

ISMAEL CARLO  (Captain Cordoba)

Co-Starring JAMES LOUGH  (Nathan),  WILL MACMILLAN  (Joe)

CUTIS TAYLOR  (Flint),  BRYAN MCGUIRE  (Lupis)

ELSA RAVEN (Clara Dickerson),  CHIP JOHNSON  (Craig Monroe)

Featuring CLINT CARMICHAEL as Worker

This episode is sometimes listed as 'The Sheriffs Of Rivertown', but the official, on-screen title is without the 'the'.

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48. THE BELLS OF ST. MARY'S          * see note     #1303

Written by STEPHEN J. CANNELL

Directed by DENNIS DONNELLY

A chain of events leads from the star player on Face's football team dropping out of an up-coming game, to the team rescuing the boy's sister and her friends who make up a female singing group, from heavies who are trying to scare them into re-signing up to an unwanted record contract…

Guest Stars ROBERT DESIDERIO  (Dave Luna)

REGINALD DORSEY  (Billy Rey King)

MICHAEL ALLDREDGE  (Colonel Harry Twill)

DEBORAH LACEY  (Charlotte King)

Special Guest Star JOSEPH WISEMAN  (Zeke Westerland)

Co-Starring KARL JOHNSON  (Ryack)

DAWN MANGRUM  (Marcia),  LESLIE KAWAI  (Jennifer Kim)

LISA ANTILLE  (Lilianna),  KATHLEEN O'MALLEY  (Sister Catherine)

Featuring ROBERT HANLEY as Mel

THOMAS PATTON as Tim

This episode was originally scheduled in the U.S. for ?Tuesday 9th October 1984?, but was postponed until Tuesday 4th December 1984, resulting in it being shown between 'Sheriffs Of Rivertown' and 'Hot Styles'. Most re-runs continue to show it between those two episodes, as do the third season DVD sets.  It is presented here as such to reflect that.

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49. HOT STYLES          Tue 11th Dec 1984     #1312

Written by STEPHEN KATZ

Directed by TONY MORDENTE

Face's latest flame, a high class fashion model, is suddenly snatched away by mobsters, but when he goes with Hannibal and Murdock to rescue her, he is amazed when she isn't very grateful for the intervention and promptly goes back to her abductors. Like him, she has secrets about her life…

Special Guest Star MARKIE POST  (Rina Matthews, formerly Rina Turian)

Guest Stars ARTHUR TAXIER  (Turian's aide)

JOHN MOSCHITTA, JR. (Jason Burnette)

ANDY ROMANO  (Walter Dubrio)

And Special Guest Star RICHARD LYNCH as Johnny Turian

Co-Starring STEPHEN LISKA,  LIAM SULLIVAN  (Party guest)

Featuring EVE SMITH as Irma

SUZANNE WASSON as Louella

ROBB MADRID as Barris

BENJAMIN GREGORY as Eric

RALPH REDPATH as Limo Driver #1

	Mr. T only has a cameo role, in the final scene of this episode. This is the first of only three occasions where one of the team is absent from the bulk of the story (the others instances being the next broadcast episode, 'Breakout!', and the fourth season's 'Wheel Of Fortune').
	A couple of sources mis-credit Liam Sullivan as playing a Dr. Peters. Peters was the character he played in the second season's 'Recipie For Heavy Bread'; his character, a party guest, is here unnamed.
	Some slack sources mis-spell Turian as 'Turain'.

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50. BREAKOUT!          Tue 18th Dec 1984     #1315

Written by MARK JONES & STEPHEN KATZ

Directed by DENNIS DONNELLY

Murdock and B.A. unwittingly get caught up in an armed robbery, and end up on a chain gang when the real robbers frame them as their accomplices in revenge for the pair foiling the heist. While the real thieves plan an escape and to recover loot from a robbery committed years earlier, news of B.A.'s arrest soon reaches Decker…

Guest Stars STEVE SANDOR  (Deke Logan)

JEFF DOUCETTE  (Malcolm Jones)

ROBERT DONNER  (Sheriff J. C. Bickford)

BRUCE M. FISCHER  (Officer Predrosa)

TAWNY MOYER  (Patty)

LENORE KASDORF  (Callie Russell)

CARL FRANKLIN  (Captain Crane)

And LANCE LEGAULT as Col. Decker

Co-Starring MELANIE WILSON  (Nurse Morgan)

JOE LADUE  (Kyle),  JOE UNGER

Featuring JUSTIN GOCKE as Toby Russell

PATRICK CAMERON as Sheriff Deputy No.2

Dirk Benedict only has a cameo role, in two scenes of this episode. This is the second of only three occasions where one of the team is absent from the bulk of the story (the others instances being the previous broadcast episode, 'Hot Styles', and the fourth season's 'Wheel Of Fortune').

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51. CUP A' JOE          Tue 8th Jan 1985     #1301

Written by DENNIS O'KEEFE

Directed by CRAIG R. BAXLEY

The A-Team work up an appetite for action when they are hired to protect a family run trucker's highway diner, which is being terrorised by a ruthless business rival who wants to run them out of business so he can have the place for himself, knowing it's value will skyrocket with the new freeway off-ramp he's arranged…

Guest Stars JOHN ASHTON  ("Cactus Jack" Slater)

LISA DENTON  (Patty Dutton)

CLAUDE EARL JONES  ("Skeeter")

DAVE SHELLEY  (Joe Dutton)

GARY LEE DAVIS

Co-Starring SHAWN SOUTHWICK  (Secretary),  TONI SAWYER (Edith Dutton)

HERB MITCHELL,  JIM BOEKE

Featuring DAVID A. PENHALE as Sgt. Burlow

	Although shown mid-season, this was the first episode to be produced for the third season.
	The updated 3rd season version of the theme tune, previously heard on a couple of opening trailers and closing credits, is used on the opening credits for the first time. It is used again on the next broadcast episode, 'The Big Squeeze', before reverting back to the previous version until 'Knights Of The Road'.
	This episode is sometimes listed as 'A Cup A' Joe' or even 'A Cup of Joe'.
	This is also the only episode of the series (bar the Pilot) until the complete 5th season revamp where the 'standard' version of the theme tune (i.e. the version previously used on the opening credits) is not used anywhere at all within an episode (opening trailer, opening credits, closing credits, etc.).

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52. THE BIG SQUEEZE          Tue 15th Jan 1985     #1316

Written by STEPHEN J. CANNELL

Directed by ARNOLD LAVEN

The soldiers of fortune go to the aid of a friend whose restaurant is being targeted by a violent loan shark protection racket. But when the man is too scared to accept their offer of help, the team open their own restaurant nearby, and Hannibal takes on the guise of an eccentric Irishman and asks the sharks for a loan…

Guest Stars WINGS HAUSER  (Jack “Jackie”/”Jack the Ripper” Lane)

AL RUSCIO  (Gino Giani)

JANINE TURNER  (Theresa Giani)

MARSHALL TEAGUE  (Travis Mason)

Special Guest Star JOSEPH SIROLA as Nathan Vincent

Co-Starring VICTORIA BASS  (Lane's girlfriend)

Featuring WILLIAM DYER as Claude

TONY CICCONE as Waiter

CLINT CARMICHAEL as Aide

In the United Kingdom, this was the most watched episode of 1985, when broadcast on Saturday 16th February, at 5:35 pm (ITV), clocking up 14.0 million viewers.

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53. CHAMP!          Tue 22nd Jan 1985     #1317

Written by STEPHEN KATZ

Directed by MICHAEL O'HERLIHY

A boxer that Face has invested 60% of the team's money in is favorite to win a big upcoming fight, but is being threatened by mobsters to take a fall so they can collect on the huge odds to finance their drugs racket. Hannibal soon has a plan to kayo the thugs – a plan that sees B.A. entering the boxing ring…

Special Guest Star ALEX ROCCO  (Sonny Monroe)

Guest Stars DANIEL FARALDO  (Billy Marquette)

GREG COLLINS

HOLLY GAGNIER  (Tina Marquette)

DICK BALDUZZI  (Mick Halligan)

JOE E. TATA  (McGurdy)

Co-Starring HERMAN POPPE  (Roarke)

LANA CLARKSON  (Monroe's girlfriend),  JIMMY LENNON  (Himself)

Featuring BRUCE TUTHILL as Cook

LOU FILIPPO as Referee

	This is the last episode of the series to be Copyright 1984.
	After the updated version of the them was used on 'Cup A' Joe' and 'The Big Squeeze', it reverts back to the old "standard" version. It remains this way until it changes back again in 'Knights Of The Road' in a few episodes time.
	This episode is often billed as 'The Champ', but the official, on-screen title is 'Champ!', with no 'the' and an exclamation mark.

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54. SKINS          Tue 29th January 1985     #1318

Written by MARK JONES

Directed by DENNIS DONNELLY

A female Kenyan game warden travels to Los Angeles to hire The A-Team, to accompany her back to her country and track down and capture a group of illegal poachers who are hunting for ivory and who murdered her brother, a fellow game warden, when he tried to stop them. Soon, the team are ready to snare the poachers...

Guest Stars JOHN QUADE  (McKaydoo)

JOHN CALVIN  (Madrid)

DAPHNE MAXWELL  (Kamarra Keboko)

JESSIE LAWRENCE FERGUSON  (Navarro)

Co-Starring DARIN TAYLOR  (Kim Keboko)

Featuring MIKE MOROFF as Seeger

TONY O'NEIL as Steele

This is the first episode of the series to be Copyright 1985.

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55. ROAD GAMES          Tue 5th Feb 1985     #1319

Written by STEPHEN KATZ

Directed by NICHOLAS SGARRO

The team are hired by a woman whose father is being forced to sign over the foster home they run after running up a $30k debt to a crooked gambling ring. The stakes are high as Face infiltrates the racket from the inside, but when the organizers find that the team are onto them, they take the operation onto the road in the back of an 18 wheeler...

Guest Stars EDWARD WINTER  (Johnny Royce)

DAPHNE ASHBROOK  (Patty Sullivan)

FRANK MARTH  ("Gentleman Jim" Sullivan) 

KAZ GARAS  (Meekes)

CARL FRANKLIN  (Captain Crane)

And LANCE LEGAULT as Colonel Decker

Co-Starring READ MORGAN  (Earl),  KATY BALDWIN  (Ginger)

Featuring CANDY OLSEN as Sally

MICHAEL BUCCELATO as Kevin

NICK CAVANAUGH as Tony

BRAD FISHER as Thompson

DON MAXWELL as Hansen

LIA YOON as Kid #1

DESH€ BYNUM as Kid #2

BRIAN AUTENREITH as Kid #3

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56. MOVING TARGETS          Tue 12th Feb 1985     #1320

Written by MARK JONES

Directed by DENNIS DONNELLY

A rich Mid-East Sheik has hired the soldiers of fortune to get his daughter safely across Arabia to her wedding - but it is no easy task with the political terrorists out to prevent the marriage, not to mention that the bride has other ideas about the wedding and who she wants to marry…

Special Guest Star JOHN SAXON  (Kalem)

Guest Stars SUE KIEL  (Salina)

FRANK ANNESE  (Senbet)

JACK HELLER  (Jabar)

Co-Starring MAURICE SERBANEE  (Sheik Fahd)

KAVI RAZ  (Korem)

AVA LAZAR

ADAM AGELI

Featuring JOHN HAMELIN as Abdul

	This is the last episode of the series to use the original, 'standard' version of the theme on the opening credits. (However, some versions of several following episodes). The original version is still head on most pre-credits trailers and most closing credits, until the fifth season revamp.
	This episode is occasionally listed as being titled 'Prey' - possibly a working title.

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57. KNIGHTS OF THE ROAD          Tue 26th Feb 1985     #1321

Written by STEVEN L. SEARS & BURT PEARL

Directed by MICHAEL O'HERLIHY

The A-Team mobilises to aid an auto mechanic's company that is being driven out of business by a ruthless competitor's crew. As they try to fix up the situation, the team attempt to find out just why the rival company wants the small business so badly...

Guest Stars DON STROUD  (Walter Tyler)

CARLOS ROMERO  (Zunigan)

JIM MCMULLAN  (Robert Corson)