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Narrator is a fictional character portrayed by John Ashley in the TV series The A-Team.
In the first episode they appeared in, titled Mexican Slayride (season 1), they were 48 years old.
They appear in 84 episodes out of a total of 97 aired

Narrator

by John Ashley

character

Episodes84

  • 7.2
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    Mexican Slayride

    episode S1.E1 january 1983
    The A-Team is hired by Amy Allen to rescue a missing foreign correspondent in Mexico.
  • 7.1
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    Children of Jamestown

    episode S1.E2 january 1983
    The A-team rescues a girl from a cult and then takes on the cult leader to save others and get back Hannibal's boots.
  • 7.5
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    Pros and Cons

    episode S1.E3 february 1983
    The Team goes to a prison in Florida where the sadistic warden forces the prisoners to fight in gladiatorial combat. Face impersonates a criminal psychologist to get close to the warden, while the others infiltrate the prison population.
  • 7.4
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    A Small and Deadly War

    episode S1.E4 february 1983
    A police inspector calls on the A-Team to help him end the activities of a corrupt SWAT team who are hiring themselves out as hitmen.
  • 7.7
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    Black Day at Bad Rock

    episode S1.E5 february 1983
    Since B.A. is seriously wounded, Hannibal decides to stop in a remote town to get medical help. This results in Hannibal and Face getting locked up in jail. To make matters worse, a biker gang is on its way to burn the town to the ground.
  • 7.3
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    The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas

    episode S1.E6 march 1983
    The A-Team heads to Vegas to rescue a college professor who perfected a winning gambling system.
  • 7.4
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    The Out-of-Towners

    episode S1.E7 march 1983
    The A-Team agree to help a beleaguered New York neighborhood free itself from a brutal mobster's protection racket.
  • 7
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    Holiday in the Hills

    episode S1.E8 march 1983
    After the A-Team completes a mission, they crash on the way home and have to take on hillbillies.
  • 7.2
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    West Coast Turnaround

    episode S1.E9 april 1983
    The team are hired to help a watermelon farmer deliver his crop to market.
  • 7.2
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    One More Time

    episode S1.E10 april 1983
    The A-Team is caught by the federal government and offered a mission in exchange for release.
  • 7.3
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    Till Death Do Us Part

    episode S1.E11 april 1983
    The A-Team is hired to find an heiress and Face marries her so she won't have to marry a corrupt businessman.
  • 7.6
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    The Beast from the Belly of a Boeing

    episode S1.E12 may 1983
    The A-Team is hired when skyjackers take over an airplane and demand $5 million.
  • 7.5
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    A Nice Place to Visit

    episode S1.E13 may 1983
    The Watkins family tries to run the A-Team out of town when they visit to attend a friend's funeral.
  • 6.7
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    Diamonds 'n Dust

    episode S2.E1 september 1983
    The A-Team heads to South Africa to defend a diamond mine after the owner is killed.
  • 7.2
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    Recipe for Heavy Bread

    episode S2.E2 september 1983
    The A-Team helps a fellow POW survivor who works as a pastry chef and is threatened by a drug distributor.
  • 7.1
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    The Only Church in Town

    episode S2.E3 october 1983
    Face receives a cryptic letter from his college sweetheart and demands the Team go to Ecuador to save her. A big surprise awaits Face, not to mention a criminal gang holding everyone hostage inside a children's orphanage.
  • 7
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    Bad Time on the Border

    episode S2.E4 october 1983
    The A-Team heads to Mexico to find a girl's mother and put a stop to an illegal alien slavery operation.
  • 7.4
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    When You Comin' Back, Range Rider?: Part 1

    episode S2.E5 october 1983
    The A-team gets hired by an Indian from Arizona who needs help stopping horse rustlers, and the Army tasks Col. Decker to put an end to the A-Team.
  • 7.4
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    When You Comin' Back, Range Rider?: Part 2

    episode S2.E6 october 1983
    The A-Team finds out who is behind the horse rustling scheme and comes up with a plan to derail the operation.
  • 7.6
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    The Taxicab Wars

    episode S2.E7 november 1983
    The A-Team is hired to help a small taxicab company beat a villainous rival business determined to drive it to ruin.
  • 6.8
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    Labor Pains

    episode S2.E8 november 1983
    While evading Col. Decker, the A-Team helps farm laborers in a small town who are being mistreated by their employer.
  • 7.2
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    There's Always a Catch

    episode S2.E9 november 1983
    The A-Team steps up to help a family fishing business who are victims of an extortion protection racket.
  • 7
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    Water, Water Everywhere

    episode S2.E10 november 1983
    When a few Vietnam veterans are threatened by a wealthy landowner to give up their property, the A-Team helps them fight back.
  • 7.1
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    Steel

    episode S2.E11 november 1983
    When the A-Team is hired by a contractor, they discover why his competition is trying to stop his demolition project.
  • 6.8
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    The White Ballot

    episode S2.E12 december 1983
    Face gets put on the ballot when the A-Team steps in to stop a corrupt small-town sheriff who kills off his competition.
  • 7.1
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    The Maltese Cow

    episode S2.E13 january 1984
    The Golden Pagoda restaurant is owned by a good friend of the A-Team and they have helped out the Yeng's by bankrolling them, thus making them part owners of the successful eatery. Unfortunately, the Yengs have become a target for the Lung Chin, a Chinese tong that extorts protection money from area businesses. When the Lung Chin take on the A-Team, they kick over a hornet's nest, however, and things get very interesting when the team discovers that the tong is attempting to smuggle an exiled mobster back into the U.S.
  • 7.1
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    In Plane Sight

    episode S2.E14 january 1984
    When a cargo plane pilot develops engine trouble over Venezuela, he safely lands only to find himself incarcerated by authorities when cocaine is discovered aboard his aircraft. The pilot's parents hire the A-Team to get to the bottom of the situation since their son is a decorated soldier who would never knowingly smuggle drugs. The team flies to Colombia where they discover the true mastermind behind the smuggling operation. The trick, however, is getting him out of Colombia since he has many friends in the Colombian government and can never be convicted there.
  • 7
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    The Battle of Bel Air

    episode S2.E15 january 1984
    Marla Heasley joins the recurring cast as Tawnia Baker, an investigative reporter who infiltrates a security firm on assignment. There, she discovers that the A-Team is about to be captured by Col. Decker and his men, so she clues Hannibal in. Unfortunately, her snooping has made her a target of the firm's management and they attempt to find out what other information she may have discovered about the firm's planned activities which include the upcoming assassination attempt on the life of a prominent middle eastern diplomat.
  • 7.1
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    Say It with Bullets

    episode S2.E16 january 1984
    A Cpl. Brown hires the A-Team to get the man who murdered her brother while selling weapons out of the base's armory. Brown also has a secret agenda: working with Col. Decker to get the A-Team, which she soon regrets.
  • 6.8
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    Pure-Dee Poison

    episode S2.E17 january 1984
    In Arcadia county a local moonshiner sells (even to teenagers) rot-gut that really will rot your gut, and the Reverend Taylor wants the A-Team to put a stop to it.
  • 7
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    It's a Desert Out There

    episode S2.E18 february 1984
    A small desert town's casino makes extra money by robbing its patrons on a lonely country road. The team intervenes and learns that the robbers have an even bigger goal, and to stop them, they'll have to infiltrate a prison.
  • 7.2
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    Chopping Spree

    episode S2.E19 february 1984
    The team goes after the crooked car dealer who stole B.A.'s van.
  • 7.1
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    Harder Than It Looks

    episode S2.E20 february 1984
    A hostage with Cupid's version of Stockholm syndrome.
  • 7.7
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    Deadly Maneuvers

    episode S2.E21 february 1984
    While the team uses a period without a job to retreat for military-style physical training, a syndicate of crime lords is so fed up with the A-team ruining their business that they pay legendary Major Douglas Kyle a fortune in advance to set up an "evil A-team" of four merciless super-mercenaries to put them out of business for good. Having done their homework, the challengers use three team-members' weak spots to take them out one by one: a girl to bate Face, a dog for Murdock, BA's daily gallon of milk. Thus Hannibal is alone, with no other clue than the dairy firm which delivered the drugged milk, and has to escape the killer-quartet before he must free the others and plan a revenge.
  • 6.5
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    Semi-Friendly Persuasion

    episode S2.E22 may 1984
    Kale Sykes and his men are trying to bully the peaceful Society of Men away from Kellysburg because they don't agree with their way of life. Eric, a young Society member, hires The A-Team to build their meeting house, hoping the team can resolve matters without using any violence. The Team goes to work facing dangerous opposition from Sykes as well as objections from community leader Karl Peerson.
  • 6.7
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    Curtain Call

    episode S2.E23 may 1984
    Decker learns that The A-Team is taking down cattle-rustler Russ Clayton. When he arrives at the scene the team is gone - but blood is found on the ground. The reason is Clayton attempted to shoot Hannibal but Murdock took the bullet, and the team is desperate to find medical help to save Murdock. As they strain to help Murdock, the members of the team recall his contributions to their success, such as giving B.A. his blood, leading an escape from prison, helping Face pull numerous confidence jobs, and displaying general engaging wackiness. However, with Decker on the prowl, the team must get the bullet out of Murdock's body themselves - and are forced to surrender when Murdock proves too weak to be moved.
  • 7.2
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    Bullets and Bikinis

    episode S3.E1 september 1984
    The team comes to the aid of two young girls whose hotel is being terrorized by thugs trying to force them to sell.
  • 6.9
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    The Bend in the River: Part 1

    episode S3.E2 september 1984
    The A-team goes to the Amazon Jungle in Peru, to rescue Tawnia's fiancé from a river pirate called "El Cajon" who scares everybody off for the shady Doyle.
  • 6.8
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    The Bend in the River: Part 2

    episode S3.E3 september 1984
    The team goes to the Amazon Jungle in Brazil, to rescue Tawnia's fiance from a river pirate called "El Cajon".
  • 7.2
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    Fire

    episode S3.E4 october 1984
    Despite Col. Briggs, the Army's new head of A-team hunting, the veterans accept female Fire Chief Annie Sanders's plea to help her keep the contract for a small town's privately run fire department which Roy Kelsey wants to get at all cost for Tristar, a new, larger and better equipped company, even using violence on her firemen and arson. It takes some research, but they find out that arrested mobster Vince Rogan is behind this apparently hardly profitable scheme, and sense it has something to do with his impending trial...
  • 7
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    Timber!

    episode S3.E5 october 1984
    Siblings John and Samantha Lawrence hire The A-Team to help out as lumberjacks and stand up to crooked union organizer McEwan and his men. Murdock relishes the opportunity to search for Bigfoot while B.A. bonds with Samantha's son Billy.
  • 7
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    Double Heat

    episode S3.E6 october 1984
    A young girl named Jenny Olson has been kidnapped. Her father, who used to work as an accountant for mob boss Tommy Largo, hires the A-Team to find her. It soon turns out it's not Largo who's behind the kidnapping, but his rival Eddie Devane. Once the A-Team has made fools of both crime bosses, the two of them decide to team up despite their differences.
  • 6.9
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    Trouble on Wheels

    episode S3.E7 october 1984
    Plant Foreman Rudy Garcia, who was found out about to tell the police, and his honest hard-working colleagues are tired being terrorized in their small car factory, so they hire the A-Team, and the thugs are good - barely has Face set them up as a new car part supplier, or 'thief' Hannibal is abducted and recruited, but a wire allows the team to localize the contraband warehouse, so they can check out their adversaries and mount a 'reverse frontal attack', although this involves Murdock catching BA on the wrong foot even worse then usual.
  • 6.8
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    The Island

    episode S3.E8 november 1984
    Dr. Fallone once saved BA's life as medic in Vietnam but left the US Army to retire on a small fishery island. When it is invaded by a small army of thugs who want to abuse its sovereign status as cover for their criminal activities and treat the inhabitants as their slaves, he sends a young boy to LA where a simple ad gets him in contact with the A-team, which quickly shakes off Decker and rushes to the rescue. Without any help from Murdock's new friend, baby crocodile Wally Gator, they infiltrate and take on the better equipped, more numerous enemy, even after Hannibal seemingly blows the element of surprise.
  • 7.2
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    Showdown!

    episode S3.E9 november 1984
    Captain Winnetka's Wild West Show is being terrorized by a trio of A-Team impostors. The real Team decides to go find out what all the bad press is about. Colonel Lynch has one last chance to catch the A-Team and is expecting them to show up. Therefore, Hannibal joins the circus in disguise as Rufus Cantrell, Murdock as Indian warrior 'Runnin Round, Face as a rodeo clown and B.A. as a shoveler. Meanwhile, Murdock is upset at not being seen as an actual member of the A-Team by the press, nor the impostors.
  • 6.8
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    Sheriffs of Rivertown

    episode S3.E10 november 1984
    An American company involved in the building of a huge dam to produce electricity in the Southern American republic of San Marcos pays the A-team to act as new sheriffs in Rivertown, where the construction site is but several workers and even the previous sheriffs disappeared mysteriously. Once arrived there they swear each-other in (thus freezing BA's wrath for another drugging and flight) and find the obvious subject Boyle, a poker player, who is also the suspect of missing engineer Craig Monroe's sister.
  • 6.7
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    The Bells of St. Mary's

    episode S3.E11 december 1984
    The girl group 'The Bells' is being harassed by record company owner Dave Luna. The A-Team finds out by accident because Face and B.A. are coaching the lead singer's kid brother. Hannibal poses as record producer Danny Diamond and soon finds out Luna is getting orders from a bigger fish. Face has to constrain himself not to hit on any of the girls in the group while Murdock takes to hero worshiping B.A.
  • 6.6
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    Hot Styles

    episode S3.E12 december 1984
    Just when Templeton 'Face' Peck was getting cozy with Hollywood model Rina, she's snatched before his nose by Chicago crook Johnny Turian, but does not exactly appreciate being rescued. Sneeking aboard his yacht during a party she attends, Templeton gets her to confess being Johnny's brother Tony's widow and he blackmails her to spy on fashion designer Jason Burnett so gangster Dubrio's company Revell fashions can produce pirate copies, but not what his hold over her is, so the team fakes designs by- Murdock...
  • 7.1
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    Breakout!

    episode S3.E13 december 1984
    While BA drives to Hollywood, where Face is having a ball, Murdock's rabbits foot doesn't stop him and the black van from getting hijacked by bank-robber Logan and his mate Malcolm; just chasing them gets both A-team members arrested, and the sheriff believes they initiated the ride, so they're packed off to a work farm too, while BA's fingerprints can't fail to alert Decker. Hannibal impersonates the colonel, but is too late - inside, they see an accomplice free the crooks but handcuff both of them, forced to bring a shot guard to the hospital but they escape there. Meanwhile Hannibal rushes to the widow and small son of another Logan's accomplice who supposedly had the loot stashed away...
  • 7.2
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    Cup A' Joe

    episode S3.E14 january 1985
    When Cactus Jack Slater, who already owns a chain with three nearby diners, adds violence putting Joe in hospital to his offers for his small town family business, his wife, daughter and friend Skeeter, a truck-driver, hire the A-team; Murdock immediately decides to rise to the occasion as- chef. When Face poses as insurances claims-adjuster for the truckload of restaurant supplies the team stole from his headquarters, Slater is awfully suspicious, especially about the plans for his new shopping center- just on Joe's spot. Fortunately he also plants a wire, which proves Hannibal is right suspecting there's a reason it must be that spot...
  • 7.3
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    The Big Squeeze

    episode S3.E15 january 1985
    When loan shark Jack 'the Ripper' Lane, who is too violent even for his mob extortion boss Nathan Vincent's taste, breaks Italian restaurant owner Gino Giani's fingers, he and his daughter Theresa hire the A-team, but get cold feet after threats to their entire family. So Hannibal, alias Sean O'Shea, deliberately takes a loan from Lane to start an Irish pub cum restaurant, The Naked Lady (where busboy Murdock's new vocation is that of union representative), and then doesn't even give him a seat, thus provoke him to a sniper assault, and then takes on Vincent's by own (hard-hand enforced) juke-box business...
  • 6.9
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    Champ!

    episode S3.E16 january 1985
    Face decides to invest some of the teams funds in 60% of a boxer, Billy Marquette, but looking him up the team finds his sister Tina bend over his miserable body after Sonny Monroe's ruffians beat him up to force him to lose the fight of his life against a certain Dixie Joe so the gangster can earn enough money to finance a lucrative drug deal with a Columbian. Hannibal enjoys concocting one of his more elaborate plans. First Gabriel is taken out of the equation because of a 'hand wound' fighting BA, who thus becomes his obvious successor, managed by Hannibal, who supposedly owes gambling debts to a bookie; buying those off makes the villains pay back Face's investment with a nice profit. Then BA is trained by Murdock, supposedly now in gangster Monroe's pocket, so the stage is all set for a finale with punch...
  • 6.7
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    Skins

    episode S3.E17 january 1985
    When Kenyan game warden Kim is shot dead by poachers after refusing to take the customary cut for turning a blind eye on 'harvesting' animals hides and elephant tusks, his sister and colleague Kamara Kaboko travels all the way to LA to enlist the A-team. On arrival Murdock makes it his mission to reacquaint BA with his 'roots' (which are probably in West -, not East Africa). They stop a poach raid, plant a wire to find the local smuggle king and order him to hand over all his stock and pay nearly half a million dollars for his past catches; when he tries to evacuate, they ambush his plain with an elephant herd, and call on the next chain in the illegal traffic, cleverly setting them up against each-other...
  • 6.8
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    Road Games

    episode S3.E18 february 1985
    When the otherwise decent manager of a foster home is forced to take a run on account of his personal debts in illegal gambling, the A-team is hired to put the criminals out of business. In no time Face, who naturally takes to the flashy lifestyle as a duck to water, is set up to meet and ingratiate racketeer Johnny Royce, who soon hires him and comes to trust his new brightest boy, so they can find out all about his current operation: a long truck is converted into a casino on wheels.
  • 6.6
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    Moving Targets

    episode S3.E19 february 1985
    The A-team is hired to test the security in the royal palace of a North West African country; as they easily break it, they are put in charge of the impending, politically important wedding of the princess, but terrorists who want to continue the strife with a neighboring country are clearly tipped off from the inside. The plane crashes, just when BA was promised a revenge for having to fly again, and the princess is suspiciously uncooperative during the attempted escape on foot...
  • 6.9
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    Knights of the Road

    episode S3.E20 february 1985
    Mr. Corson and his daughter Jenny run a small towing truck company in a New Mexico town. When another company resorts to violence against their trucks and even threaten them physically to force them out of business, the A-team is recruited, to Murdocks delight: a chance to adopt the chivalric code of the 'knights of the road', while Jenny is the first female in ages to seem unresponsive to Face's charm- that can't be waning, or is it? Since the Corson firm even needs the contract for towing US cars over the Mexican border just to stay viable, the thugs must be after something else- wiring their cars proves it's something they smuggle over the border, so Murdock plays live freight to the Mexican villa of a certain Zuniga, but the team looses contact...
  • 6.7
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    Waste 'Em!

    episode S3.E21 march 1985
    Former military helicopter pilot A.J. runs a delivery service, Speedy Express, with his blind sister Lisa Perry. Garbage collection company manager Ike Hagen wants them to sell to him, and pulls all the stops to force them, including threats and violence against both vehicles and staff, so they hire the A-Team. When Face springs Murdock from the asylum, he believes his hand 'Lefty' has a vicious will of its own. Hannibal pretends to be the new owner, is swiftly abducted, hears they mainly want the building so he pretends to plan a six-store on the spot, and plants a wire. When he's sprung free, they hear Hagen is in illegal toxic waste disposal for Oxem Chemicals, underground into the city sewer system, and switch the drums with water. They get a written confession from the Oxem manager, but Hagen finds the wire and kidnaps A.J. and Lisa...
  • 7.5
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    Bounty

    episode S3.E22 april 1985
    Two hillbilly types, Royko and Tanen, visit the VA Hospital to see Murdock. When they go to his room, Royko produces a sawed-off shotgun and blasts open the door. The two hillbillies take Murdock hostage and drive off in a pickup truck with an Indian companion. When Face hears of the kidnapping he learns that the Army has been alerted, and barely escapes when Colonel Decker arrives at the hospital. Royko, Tanen, and the Indian drive over 100 miles upstate and arrive at the house of their pappy, Darrow, a famous bounty hunter who sees Murdock as his ticket to the A-Team, the big score he's sought all his life. Darrow draws the A-Team north, but Murdock escapes and a three-way pursuit ensues between the A-Team, the bounty hunters, and Decker. Murdock finds shelter with a small-town veterinarian, Kelly Stevens, as he tries to contact the A-Team, but as the two wait, Murdock and Kelly begin falling in love, to the point that when Murdock eventually reunites with the A-Team, he has to phone Kelly to reassure her he's all right - and must lead the Team to rescue Kelly when Darrow and his boys take her hostage.
  • 7
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    Beverly Hills Assault

    episode S3.E23 april 1985
    When Paris-trained painter Steven "Speed" Miller disappears (actually he's beaten into hospital for refusing to work on command), his painting friend Peggy and her best friend who never used his uncles inheritance to go to an Ivy League college hire the A-Team to find him. By his style Peggy indicates as likely suspect Steffan Shawn's Beverly Hills gallery. It takes Face a jiffy to get a foot in as 'arts magazine critic'; he soon manages to plant a wire and makes the crook believe "H.M. Murdock" is the new talent he looks for- indeed he is soon seized and ordered to make perfect reproduction (Peggy does that for him) so his alarm company can switch them for the priceless real thing, notably in a villa BA of all people is set up in...
  • 6.7
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    Trouble Brewing

    episode S3.E24 may 1985
    The sisters Cathy and Maryanne Rodgers enlist the A-team to keep their Hi Brite Soda company, which a certain brewer Webb wants to buy by all means, presumably for the mineral water spring. Murdock decides to get the team in shape by natural produce health food. Face whips the company in commercial shape. They also sabotage the unfair competitor, and find out his intentions, which concern the whole valley, with the help of a bank- his fate is sealed...
  • 7.3
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    Incident at Crystal Lake

    episode S3.E25 may 1985
    Face was falling for a foxy girl in a 'broken down' sports car lure planted by MP Colonel Decker, but fortunately Hannibal spotted her in advance, and decides they need some quiet time- by Crystal Lake. Some thieves who found the union payroll armored car empty because of a strike but still get chased -in it- by the local sheriff. While Murdock concentrates on fishing, with a dummy as partner 'to get the bad luck', Face finds himself a lovely Park Ranger- whose post is taken by the fleeing robbers and tells them the best getaway vehicle is the teams van, actually having recognized them; only the bullet proof vest he wore as fishing gear saves him when shot by the one who came with her; meanwhile she escapes and joins the team. So Hannibal gets deliberately captured to join her father at the Rangers post and the crooks' goose gets cooked according the Hannibals planning recipe, but miss Ranger confesses the MPs are also on their way...
  • 7.1
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    Judgement Day: Part 1

    episode S4.E1 september 1985
    Mobster Joe Scarlett puts the squeeze on judge Mordente by kidnapping his daughter. Hannibal takes the place of Scarlett's messenger Augie to find out where the kidnappers are hiding the girl. Meanwhile, Colonel Decker has been tapping his phone line and prevents the team from completing their mission. When Scarlett's older brother Gino relocates the judge's daughter to Italy, the A-Team follows.
  • 7.1
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    Judgement Day: Part 2

    episode S4.E2 september 1985
    Stuck in Italy after B.A. destroys their plane, Faceman scams their way onto the cruise ship M. S. Tropicale by posing as the ship's doctor assistant. B.A. has to pretend to be wheelchair bound Mr. Allardyce with Murdock as his nurse, while Hannibal gets a job as a pool-boy. However, the Scarlatti family is hot on their trail and boards the ship. Hannibal proposes to have a costume party on the ship, so they can move about wearing disguises.
  • 6.9
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    Where Is the Monster When You Need Him?

    episode S4.E3 october 1985
    Hannibal is playing a new aquatic monster, alligator-mutation Gatorella, so Face, who schmoozes up to the dumb blond starlet Jennifer 'Jenny' O'Hannorhan, scammed a plane even Murdock doubts airworthy, just seconds before Deckers MPs try to shoot it down, but they get to a tiny Mexican village- where the welcome is exactly the grim, armed opposite of Face's first visit. After the star Charles Lake walks off, leaving Face to fill in after finding a contract loophole, it turns out even the sheriff is in the power of major Ramon DeJarro, an Argentinian junta butcher...
  • 7.6
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    Lease with an Option to Die

    episode S4.E4 october 1985
    B.A.'s mom calls him to come to Chicago to help her and her neighbors, who are being victimized by a gang. Upon arriving (B.A. willingly flies for this one) they discover some real estate magnate is desperate to drive the tenants out.
  • 7
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    The Road to Hope

    episode S4.E5 october 1985
    Face was already enjoying the possibilities of spending the profits from a no-sweat $300,000 job offered by a foxy millionaire when Hannibal guesses correctly that it must be a trap by Decker. Hannibal goes to collect the money dressed as a bum, but a real bum gets the briefcase and is arrested by the MPs. He is then erroneously sprung by the other team-members, while Smith checks out a restaurant where the bum told him to ask for a certain Wiiliam to get free food. Hannibal finds himself in the hands of a dodgy group of mission-running criminals who give him a full medical exam, then orders him to dig his own grave. He escapes and tells the team they must be after homeless mens' identities, which they sell for a small fortune to criminals. The team sets up their own 'mission' run by "Reverend" Face and "Evangelist" Murdock to in an effort to draw potential victims away from danger and attract the goons. This sets more in motion more than the team bargained for. References to the series of "Road Pictures" featuring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby are sprinkled throughout.
  • 6.8
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    The Heart of Rock N' Roll

    episode S4.E6 november 1985
    Rick James (playing himself) asks the Team to help C.J. Mack, a prison inmate due to be released soon. Mack is in trouble, as he has recording of illegal activity among some of the prisoners, and he may not leave the prison alive.
  • 7.1
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    Body Slam

    episode S4.E7 november 1985
    The team goes to see a wrestling win by world champion Hulk Hogan, a colleague of BA's in Vietnam, and accepts his plea to help keep open a center for street kids in Venice, CA., which the Carter crime family wants and already has the bank ready to foreclose and sell to them if the next loan payment fails. Face figures out patriarch Victor Carter's past under his original name, Kotero, and the criminal connection with the father of the center's devoted manager Dicki Gordon: a gold transport robbery, the loot of which is probably buried under the center. The Carters may send in a bunch of goons, Hulks friends are a few sizes bigger. Hannibal pretends to be a crooked FBI agent after the gold, but MP Col. Decker is also on to the team...
  • 6.9
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    Blood, Sweat, and Cheers

    episode S4.E8 november 1985
    Kid Harmon is a fine young man and talented car racer, but when his competitor Kyle Ludwig, who gets almost unlimited funds from his uncle, Chicago gangster Carl Ludwig, hears his goons can't discourage the kid and his dad, Jack Harmon, he orders them to stop both physically. Once Kid is in hospital, his young wife Dana calls his uncle John, i.e. Hannibal Smith, who brings in the A-team. Face presents himself as the smart Western Hemisphere representative of an Italian first rate formula 1 sponsor, offering Kyle to buy himself in- the $1,000,000 is actually to replace Kids car trashed car. Then they make his goons blow up his own best car, and bring in Murdock as the Italian family's philandering heir Carlo, who only utters absurd Italian phrases. However uncle Jack, a wino who nearly lost his bride to Hannibal, and is fed up with his son admiring the Colonel, has called Decker and owes up a minute too late, so it's up to Murdock alone to save the day...
  • 7.1
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    Mind Games

    episode S4.E9 november 1985
    The Pentagon publicly announces a full pardon for Lieutenant Templeton Peck, on the false grounds he would only have been a passenger, but Face cannot resist his chance to try his charms on a world ripe for the picking; despite positive legal advice, Hannibal is convinced it must be a trap, while Murdock is eager to try his hands as the new -inferior- scam-artist 'Hunkman'. A certain Mrs. E.G. is waiting for him to sell his biography while the publicity is hot, but her firm -or is it the Firm, i.e. the CIA?- seems connected to the goons who try to kidnap the others. When they meet, some Vietnamese attack all four of them in a helicopter...
  • 7.1
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    There Goes the Neighborhood

    episode S4.E10 december 1985
    The A-team is just in time, asked to protect rock singer Stevi Faith, to prevent an attack in her manager Woodie Stone's office by terrorists from North Terrania who want to prevent her donating any proceeds of an Africa benefit to the rival Central African South Terrania. They decide to hide her in a safer place incognito, so Face buys a nice suburban house, hoping to sell with a profit after some renovation. All neighbors are decent people, even the wacky, fat, macho but useless block captain Joe, except the Hells Angels types in the house across, who soon turn out to be hoods planted by drug baron Juarez. Their firm efficiency against those criminals makes Hannibal elected -without standing- new block captain, so Joe will eagerly rat on them to Stone, and then other problems also resurface...
  • 7
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    The Doctor Is Out

    episode S4.E11 december 1985
    In the lunatic asylum Dr. Richter is on to Murdoch, but gets abducted by armed U.S. army men. Murdock makes the team go after their leader, dodgy colonel Mack Stoddard, who was recognized by the docs daughter and as Face discovers is a military adviser to Curaguay in South America, and even plans to overthrow the president for wanting to end the profitable civil war. There Hannibal realizes the daughter is actually a reporter, but soon she turns out to claim a different identity in every situation, such as CIA agent or Stoddards daughter; the doc is found and once refused her as a patient...
  • 6.5
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    Uncle Buckle-Up

    episode S4.E12 december 1985
    Now Hannibal no longer gets horror monster parts, he's excited when Sydney, the chipmunk-dressed presenter of the TV show Uncle Buckle-Up, is looking for an actor to replace his good-for-nothing, generally drunk relative who plays Uncle's main sidekick, Ruff the Bear, who was in Sid's car when it had an accident. The team, dragged along to the zoo for bear research and to the studio for moral support and actual advice from lifelong fan Murdock, finds out that was no accident but a failed attempt, but not the last, on Sid, which has something to do with the dodgy Asian toy producer whose scandalous rubbish -the heads snap off- was enforced upon him, who has build up his great reputation by promoting everything that makes his young audience safer.
  • 7.1
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    Wheel of Fortune

    episode S4.E13 january 1986
    Largely thanks to Face's letter frequency research, Murdock wins big at Wheel of Fortune. When Face comes spring him from the asylum, hoping to accompany him on the Hawaii trip among his prizes, he first thinks to be stood up for a girl H.M. had an eye on, but soon suspects Murdock is kidnapped, and indeed a team claims to need his help as top pilot for a CIA mission in Baraq (South America) to steal a Russian helicopter; he soon realizes their less patriotic intentions, while Face mobilizes the rest of the team searching for him...
  • 6.7
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    The A-Team Is Coming, the A-Team Is Coming

    episode S4.E14 january 1986
    The A-team successfully organizes the defection of the Russian ballerina Katrina who wants to be reunited with her brother Sasha. She charms Face out of his clothes to sneak out and inform Soviet agent Dimitri Shasta Kovich, who they fought in Vietnam, but the team had anticipated her double game; the Russian however hires them to help prevent mad Soviet Colonel Ivan Pedavich stealing super-secret laser-satellite Abraxis which could trigger a nuclear war. So they first must break into the Soviet consulate-general, then get Katrina back and find & eliminate the KGB-trained terrorist and his satellite. They find the CIA and MP general Fulbright on their path, but should cooperate for the national good and world peace...
  • 7.3
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    Members Only

    episode S4.E15 january 1986
    Face was as proud as a peacock to be accepted - on a two-month trial period, and as a Mr Ashley Hemmings - at the Beverly Bay Country Club. But he's soon disappointed when it appears Murdock is treated as a full member (as Dr Richter's' guest (his psychiatric therapist) ). And it gets worse: caddie Frank, the lover of the daughter of the snooty rich lady he used to get in, is chased by armed men after he finds a gold bag full of money, which turns out to be counterfeit, and has something to do with highly-respected member Bob McKeever, a banker. Another member is MP General "Bull" Fulbright.
  • 6.9
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    Cowboy George

    episode S4.E16 february 1986
    Face pulls the coup of his career arranging a performance of a country star. But instead of getting Country George, he gets Boy George, and that just won't do. All of this coincides with an armored car robbery that backfires on the Team.
  • 6.9
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    Waiting for Insane Wayne

    episode S4.E17 february 1986
    On the way to a psych exam the Team stop in a small town and Murdoch is confused for an "Insane Wayne" (surprise). A rich rancher wants a squatter off his land, so they take the rancher's money ($100,000) and decide to help the squatter.
  • 6.9
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    The Duke of Whispering Pines

    episode S4.E18 february 1986
    B.A. gets the team to help an old girlfriend who's husband is missing.
  • 6.8
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    Beneath the Surface

    episode S4.E19 march 1986
    Face goes back to the orphanage he grew up at and runs into General Fulbright. They escape, but his old friend from there has been kidnapped because he has apparently found a sunken treasure ship somewhere off the coast.
  • 6.8
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    Mission of Peace

    episode S4.E20 march 1986
    The A-Team is hired by a group of old age pensioners who run a Wild West attraction known as 'Mission De La Paz'. A land developer named Ashton is trying to drive them off the land. Murdock takes on the guise Daniel Davy Bowie Boone, the Pathfinder. Meanwhile Faceman finds he has competition from resident conman Rudy.
  • 7
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    The Trouble with Harry

    episode S4.E21 march 1986
    Harry 'The Hammer' Sullivan accidentally killed a man in the boxing ring in 1959 and has been on the run ever since. Now a drunk, both loan shark 'Fats' Styles and mob boss Richie Ifker are closing in on Harry and his son Jeffrey. B.A. and Hannibal, who just got Hulk Hogan a part in a Hollywood movie, decide to help Jeffery, and the Hulkster joins them. Meanwhile, Faceman and Murdock are on a double date with twins Rikki and Vikki, but after answering a call for help from Hannibal, have the misfortune of repeatedly getting in Ifker and Styles' way.
  • 6.8
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    The Little Town with an Accent

    episode S4.E22 may 1986
    Goons from Octiline Oil threaten gas station owner Zach's life unless he sells it to them, so he hires the A-Team. The car mechanics are right up B.A.'s alley, including training Zach's assistant, the giant and slow-witted Kelvin, while Murdock takes as a duck to water to old-fashioned full service. Face finds out the power behind Octiline is Detroit mob boss Sonny 'the Enforcer' Marlini. Spying on the mobsters indicates it's all about some truck loads, so they intercept those even after Sonny backed down on the gas station - it transports the possessions of Detroit mob king Sam Marlini, allegedly deceased in an accident, who looks exactly like Sonny's gardener. He's alive, and plans to receive various other Mafia barons...
  • 7.6
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    The Sound of Thunder

    episode S4.E23 may 1986
    MP General 'Bull' Fulbright uses the needy girl-trick once too often, and is captured by the team but for once only was looking for them as a prospective client, claiming he wants them to go to Vietnam and free a POW colonel, his personal friend they presumed killed in action, who might dis-incriminate them. Once there, he sneaks away and is barely saved from a girl who tries to shoot him. He comes clean the POW was a lie, he recently learned he has a half-blood son and wants the A-Team to help bring him home. It soon turns out he was tricked too, there is no son but that girl who wanted kill to him...