Heroes for hire.
Original title
The A-Team
Released
1/23/1983
Origin country
US
Genre
Action & Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Production companies
Stephen J. Cannell Productions, Universal Television, Universal Television Entertainment
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
5
Number of episodes
94
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."
Interview Stephen J. Cannell
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Hannibal plays cat and mouse with a renegade S.W.A.T. A-Team that's committing murders for hire.
While treating a seriously wounded B.A., a suspicious small town doctor notifies the sheriff, who fears that B.A. may be part of a biker gang returning to free its jailed leader.
The A-Team gets involved in a mob power play when two girls ask them to find their college professor who went to Las Vegas with a perfect gambling system and never came back.
The A-Team takes up the cause of New York shopkeepers against neighborhood protection racketeers.
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.
The A-Team delivers produce to the market for a farmer who is slowly being driven out of business by a land-hungry rancher.
The US government recruits the A-Team to rescue a general and his daughter from guerillas in Borneo.
The A-Team has to rescue a reluctant bride being forced to marry her late father's business partner.
Hannibal's plan to free a hijacked airborne 747 requires a bit of adjustment when B.A. becomes cataleptic and Murdock temporarily blinded.
The A-Team comes to the aid of a small town being terrorized by a murderous family.
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.
The A-Team agrees to transport explosives to a Zimbabwe diamond mine after the owner dies trying to do it himself.
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.
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.
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.
The A-Team must duck their Army pursuers as they try to stop wild horse rustlers.
A small cab company hires the A-Team to thwart the sabotage efforts of a larger company trying to run them out of business.
The A-Team helps migrant workers to organize against a landowner that is forcing them to live and work under slave-labor conditions.
The A-Team must once again duck Decker as they try to stop an extortionist plaguing a small fishing village.
A land developer is trying to run three disabled Vietnam vets off the desert property they're renovating.
The A-Team looks into sabotage at a construction site.
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.
Old friends who own a restaurant sponsored by the A-Team face an extortion threat from a Chinese tong.
The A-Team employs a new method to prepare B.A. for a flight to South America, where drug smugglers are holding an innocent pilot prisoner.
The A-Team must rescue an employee of a security firm after she warns them about an ambush.
A WAC asks the A-Team to investigate the death of her brother, who was involved in arms trafficking at a military base.
The A-Team helps a southern minister stop the manufacture of lethal moonshine.
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.
The A-Team uses their own vehicles, Face's Corvette and B.A.'s van, as bait for a car-stealing ring.
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.
Criminals foiled in the past by the A-Team hire a crew of mercenaries to pick off each member one by one.
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.
The A-Team reminisces (via flashbacks) about an injured Murdock as they look for a doctor and try to avoid a pursuing Decker.
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.
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.
Tawnia asks the A-Team to find her fiancé, an archaeologist last seen on an Amazon expedition that was attacked by a pirate.
The A-Team faces another Army pursuit as they try to help a small town fire chief compete with a larger rival company.
The A-Team intercedes when a union organizer tries to put a small logging operation out of business.
The A-Team is called in to find an accountant's daughter who has become a pawn in a game between two rival mobsters.
Hannibal goes undercover in order to investigate employee theft from an auto plant.
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.
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.
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.
Threats from their old record label prompt a singing group who went to school with Face to ask the A-Team for help.
Face's latest girl friend is rather ungrateful after the A-Team rescues her from mobsters.
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.
A restaurateur tries to force the owners of a small diner to sell out to him after he arranges for a new freeway off-ramp to be built nearby.
The A-Team opens its own restaurant to lure a ruthless loan shark who has other restaurant owners terrified.
B.A. goes undercover as a boxer in order to put a drug-trafficking ring out of business.
The A-Team travels to Kenya to deal with game poachers who have included a game warden among their kills.
Face infiltrates a gambling ring to clear a man's gambling debts and to save the foster home he runs.
A Middle Eastern potentate hires the A-Team to protect his about-to-be-married daughter despite her ideas to the contrary.
The A-Team comes to the aid of an auto mechanic being driven out of business by a ruthless competitor.
The A-Team discovers a plot to dump toxic waste when they try to protect a man and his blind sister from harassment.
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.
The A-Team goes uptown and gets involved with an art dealer who has been replacing original paintings with fakes.
Two sisters ask the A-Team for help when they are pressured to convert their all-natural soda pop bottling plant into a brewery.
The A-Team's planned fishing vacation at a lakeside retreat is ruined when Decker and his men show up.
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.
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.
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.
Some muscle men make a big mistake when they try to force B.A.'s momma out of her apartment.
Hannibal poses as a wino to avoid being caught by the Army and stumbles onto a racket that involves killing the derelicts.
Singer Rick James asks the A-Team to help an old rock-and-roll legend whose life in prison has suddenly become very dangerous.
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.
Someone sabotages a car at a regional stock-car race and attracts the A-Team's attention-the car belongs to Hannibal's nephew.
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.
The A-Team moves a rock star threatened with kidnapping into a quiet suburban neighborhood, which doesn't stay quite for long.
The A-Team travels to South America to find Murdock's psychiatrist, accompanied by a woman claiming to be his daughter.
The A-Team discovers a kiddie show is a front for a heroin ring when Hannibal auditions for a part.
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.
Soviet spys need the A-Teams help in preventing the theft of an American satellite weapon, whose disappearance would disrupt world peace.
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.
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.
When Murdock gets mistaken for an insane mercenary the A-Team is drawn into a fight over property rights and an oil well.
One of B.A.'s old girlfriends has a problem; her husband, B.A.'s old college rival, has disappeared.
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.
Senior citizens hire the A-Team to protect their historic Texas mission home and tourist attraction from land developers.
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.
The A-Team discovers an organized crime kingpin believed to be dead is behind the intimidation of several gas station owners.
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.
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.
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.
The A-Team's court martial begins and a surprising motive for the death of Colonel Morrison is revealed.
General Stockwell interferes with the plans of Murdock and Frankie to free the rest of the A-Team before the Army can execute them.
The A-Team uses a football game as a cover to sneak a chemical warfare scientist out of East Germany.
The outbreak of a revolution interferes with the planned rescue of three Americans from a Third World Country.
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.
Face plans to leave the A-Team but gets involved in the rescue of a newswoman from a paranoid mob chief.
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.
Stockwell refuses to allow the A-Team to go after Hannibal when he fails to check in while on a solo mission in hostile territory.
The 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.
Murdock poses as suave secret agent to catch a killer before he can complete another assignment.
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.
Frankie and Face visit Murdock at his job in a restaurant, and all three become hostages of mobsters out to kill a patron, the US Attorney General.
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