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Season
One Episode Guide
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Pilot
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hours - Airdate: Jan. 23, 1983
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When
fellow "Courier Express" reporter Al Massey
disappears in Mexico while investigating a story,
a worried Amy Allen decides to hire the A-Team.
After visiting Murdock in the V.A. Hospital
and running into Lynch (who is also trying to
get information on the team from the "insane"
captain), Amy is directed to a meeting with
a Mr. Lee at a Chinese Laundry. (Mr. Lee,
actually Hannibal in disguise, screens all clients
in order to make sure that the team is not led
into a military trap.) Later, after Amy has
formally hired the team, Face pulls a con and
frees Murdock. The team then borrows
a plane, sedates BA., and takes off for Mexico
just as Lynch unsuccessfully storms the airfield.
Once in town, face obtains a hotel room
and supplies by pretending to be the front man
for a film crew. Hannibal, B.A. and Amy then
go to speak to Manny Cortez, a man mentioned
in Massey's files. After a small misunderstanding
in which Hannibal and B.A. end up in a fist
fight with Cortez and his men, the team arrives
in the town of San Rio Blanco and learns that
the villagers are being harassed by a group
of bandits led by a man named Valdez. The team
then modifies a truck and fights off Valdez.
(One of the A-Team's usual maneuvers is to turn
ordinary items into some form of a weapon. Normally,
as in this episode, they convert a car or a
truck into a tank.) Unfortunately, Col.
Flores and his rebel soldiers (whose cause is
being funded by Valdez's taxes and drug
operation) soon enter the scene and the team
finds themselves imprisoned with Massey.
However, the team escapes before too long and
returns to the village. In response, Valdez
and the rebels attack. The team rallies the
villagers and successfully fights off their
opponents. (As with most A-Team battles,
many automatic weapons are fired but no one
is injured.) Later, the A-Team (including
Amy who plans on joining the team and helping
out on the theory that they need a member who
is not "wanted") arrives back in the United
States and once again runs into Colonel Lynch.
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Guest
Cast
William
Windom as Al Massey. Philip Sterling, Sergio
Calderon as Valdez, Ron Palillo, Melody Anderson,
Enrique Lucero as Colonel Flares, Felix Gonzales
as Miguel Perez, William Marquez, Jorge Zepeda
as Cortez, Peter Brocco, Marianne Muellerleile,
J. Patrick McNamara
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Writers
Frank
Lupo and Stephen J. Cannell
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Director
Rod
Holcomb
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Airdate:
Jan. 30, 1983
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As
Dirk Benedict (Battlestar Galactica) assumes
the role of "Face", the team finds themselves
hired to rescue a girl name Sheila Rodgers from
cult leader Martin James. When James' men
take their followers into a local store for supplies,
the team is waiting. After Face and Amy
distract James' men by posing as a bickering couple,
the team rescues Sheila and transports her to
Murdock and a waiting helicopter. Murdock
and Sheila successfully lift off but unfortunately
the remaining members of the team are captured
and brought back to Martin James' compound.
James then decides that the team will be released
on foot. However, his armed men will pursue
and hunt them down. The team out distance
James' men and soon receive help from a woman
named Carolyn and her father. Using items
in the father's barn, the team modifies a jeep
(with a flamethrower) and then attacks the coarpound.
With some additional aerial support from a returning
Murdock, the team proceeds to capture James and
his men.
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Special
Guest Star
John
Saxon (Gene Roddenberry's Planet Earth)
as Martin James
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Writer
Stephen
J. Cannell
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Director
Christian
I. Nyby II
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Guest
Cast
Gerrit
Graham as Brother Stephan, Ron Hayes as Tim, John
Carter, Sherilyn Wolter as Carolyn, Carol Jones
as Sheila Rodgers, Fred Lerner, Dean Wein
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Airdate:
Feb. 8, 1983
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B.A.'s
old friend Jase Tataro heads to Los Angeles after
escaping from the Strikersville prison in Florida.
Although Jase is soon recaptured, beforehand,
he informs B.A. how the prison turned his 30 day
sentence into five years and then forced him into
a battle to the death against other prisoners.
As expected, the team decides to take a trip to
Florida. Face enters the prison as Dr. Pepper,
the author of a book on prison reform, while the
rest of the team crashes up a police station and
is sent inside as prisoners. It is not long
before the warden takes notice of B.A. as a potential
fighter. Therefore, B.A. and Jase are soon
removed from the prison and taken away to fight
each other. Murdock and Hannibal then escape
from prison by building hot air balloons (using
items that Face's "reforms" allowed them to obtain).
The team proceeds to the fight and rescues B.A.,
and Jase, but not before making a video tape that
incriminates the warden and his cohorts.
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Special
Guest Star
Meeno
Peluce (Voyagers) as Joey Tataro
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Writer
Stephen
J. Cannell
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Director
Ron
Satlof
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Guest
Cast
Clifton
James as Warden Beal, William Smith as Jase Tataro,
Paul Koslo as Sneed, Red West (Black Sheep
Squadron) as Trask, Hugh Gillin, Elsa Raven
(Wiseguy), Michael Greene, Phil Proctor
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Airdate:
Feb. 15, 1983
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When
police inspector Maloney uncovers evidence that
a police S.W.A.T. team is hiring itself out as
assassins, he turns to the A-Team for help.
Under the guise of exterminators, Face and Amy
sneak into the S.W.A.T. teams headquarters and
plant bugs on their uniforms. Thereby, the
team receives advance notice of the next hit and
arrives in time to scare off the assassins.
Hannibal then puts further pressure on Stark,
the S.W.A.T. leader, by having Murdock deliver
a wreath. Hannibal's next step is to personally
meet with the S.W.A.T. team and warn them to turn
themselves in. After meeting with the team,
Stark and his men locate and destroy the bugs.
The team then captures S.W.A.T. member Collins
and entice him to provide evidence against
his partners. Collins agrees and arranges
to meet the team at a local amusement park . However,
Stark learns of the team's plans (from a bug he
planted on Collins) and heads to the park.
Of course. the A-Team is ready for Stark and the
S.W.A.T. team is soon captured. Later, Maloney,
having used Collins's evidence against Stark and
his men, thanks the team.
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Guest
Cast
Jack
Ging (who would later appear as semi-regular "Bull"
Fuibright) as Stark, Dean Stockwell (Quantum
Leap) as Collins, Norman Alden as Maloney,
Al White as Steve Meadows, Fil Formicola as Shaeffer,
Carol Baxter, East Carlo, Lew Racta, Rhonda Shear
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Writer
Frank Lupo
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Director
Ron
Satlof
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Airdate:
Feb. 22. 1983
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The
A-Team successfully completes their latest mission
but, unfortunately, B.A. is shot in the leg by
Face. Therefore, the team quickly rushes
B.A. to Maggie Sullivan, a doctor in Bad Rock,
California. The doctor cares for B.A., however,
she contacts the sheriff thinking that B.A. is
part of the Barbarians, a motorcycle gang whose
leader is being held in the Bad Rock jail.
The sheriff soon arrives and arrests Hannibal
and Face. Of course, Face and Hannibal quickly
escape after locking the sheriff and his deputy
in a jail cell. Amy then arrives with Murdock,
whose blood is needed in order to give B.A.
a transfusion. The team leaves town but
decides to return when they come across the Barbarians
and realize that they cannot leave the town defenseless.
The A-Team then frees the sheriff and deputy and,
together with Dr. Sullivan, they prepare a few
traps and soon capture the Barbarians. Lynch,
who was responding to an earlier message from
the sheriff, arrives in town, however, the team
manages to elude him.
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Guest
Cast
Ed Lauter as Sheriff Thompson, Tricia O'Neal as
Dr. Maggie Sullivan, John Dennis Johnston as Snake,
Sid Haig as Jenko, Ted Gehring, William Frankfather
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Writer
Patrick
Hasburgh
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Director
Christian
I. Nyby II
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Airdate:
Mar. 1, 1983
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When
Professor Bruce Warfel disappears while trying
out a new system in Las Vegas, two of his students
hire the team to find him. Hannibal, using
the name Tony Vincent, arrives at the Xanadu Hotel
in Las Vegas and reserves a room by dropping the
name of Gianni Christian, a known mobster and
the hotel's owner. The team's next step
is to plant evidence in Hannibal's room that seems
to indicate that Tony Vincent is a federal agent
(but one that operates outside the system).
Christian grabs Hannibal, but is almost shot by
Face. Hannibal/Vincent then offers Christian
a deal: He will let him live in return for Warfel
and the gambling system (which will only be used
in Atlantic City). Christian agrees and
the team leaves with Warfel. However, mobster
Martell, realizing the opportunity, kills Christian
and blames it on the team. In order to clear
their name, the team sneaks into the mob offices
and grabs Martell. Martell in turn brags about
his plan not realizing that the team is
recording it. The A-Team soon escapes and
Amy prints a story about the real killer: Martell.
Later, the team hears how Martell was freed by
the mob when being transferred by the police.
Hannibal realizes that the mob freed Martell in
order to kill him and not to save him.
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Guest
Cast
Richard
Romanus as Martell, Charles Cioffi as Gianni Christian,
Terry McGovern as Dr. Bruce Warfel, Luke Andreas
as July, Kitty Moffat, Floyd Levine, Michael Avonne,
Richard Reicheg, Tracy Scoggins (Babylon 5)
as Elly Payne, Christopher Thomas, Michael Laurance
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Writer
Frank
Lupo
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Director
Bruce
Kessler
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Airdate:
Mar. 15, 1983
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After
the team escapes from a mission in Guatemala,
their plane (which Murdock was forced to scam
as Face was otherwise occupied) develops engine
trouble and they crash land in the back woods
of the United States. While exploring the
area, the team comes across a group of men who
are trying to burn a county surveyor at the stake.
Unwilling to allow the surveyor to be killed,
the team proceeds to rescue him. Realizing
the surveyor needs medical attention, Murdock
designs a mini-helicopter which B.A. and the rest
of the team are able to construct from parts of
the plane. Afterwards, with the help of
Murdock, who returns with a firefighting helicopter,
the team captures the men that had threatened
the surveyor. Meanwhile, Amy is being forced
by her editor to work with a reporter named Mitch
Barnes, who is secretly working with Lynch to
capture the A-Team. Although Amy manages
to lose Barnes, the reporter does manage to place
a transmitter in her car. Fortunately, Amy
realizes she is being followed and manages to
warn the arriving team in time.
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Guest
Cast
Edward
Winter as Mitch Barnes, Bill McKinney as Clint,
Philip Sterling as Eldridge, Denise Galik as Louanne,
John Perak as Matt, Mickey Jones, Gary Lee Davis,
James Beach
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Writer
Babs
Greyhosky
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Director
Arnold
Laven
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Airdate:
Mar. 22. 1983
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After
DeLancie Street store owner Laskey is hospitalized
for refusing to pay protection money, the store
owners turn to the A-Team for help. Accepting
the assignemnt. the team sets up a pawn shop on
DeLancie Street with Hannibal posing as the blind
owner. As expected, the protection racketeers
soon pay a visit. After Hannibal is threatened
for refusing to pay, B.A. follows the criminals
back to the Sugar Hill Club and their boss, "East
Side Charlie" Struthers. The team's next
step is to acquire a garbage truck and pay a visit
on Charlie. After dumping a pile of garbage
in the Sugar Hill Club, Hannibal informs Charlie
of how much money is owed to the shopkeepers of
DeLancie street . Charlie and his men, angered
over Hannibal's actions, are soon on their way
to DeLancie Street in retaliation. Of course,
the team is ready for them and Charlie and his
men are defeated. Afterwards, Tracy Richter,
who works at the local bakery, stuns Face by deciding
to date Murdock instead of him.
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Guest
Cast
Yaphet
Koto as Charles S. Struthers, Priscilla Pointer,
Albert Popwell as Digger, Jack Kruschen, Robert
Tessler as Scully, J. Jay Saunders (Salvage
I), Billy Jacoby, Wendy Hoffman as Tracy Richter,
Martin Garner
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Writer
Frank
Lupo
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Director
Chuck
Bowman
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Airdate:
Apr. 5, 1983
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Joe
Penhall is Delivering crops from his farm when
he is attacked by men working for a land-hungry
rancher by the name of Chuck Easterland.
The truck is destroyed and Joe is hospitalized.
Ellen, Joe's daughter, then turns to her friend
Amy and before long the Penhall's have hired the
A-Team. The first part of Hannibal'S plan
is to obtain a new truck which they do by disguising
themselves as police officers and stealing it
from one of Easterland's cohorts. Easterland
responds by coming to the Penhall's farm and verbally
threatening the team. Refusing to back down,
Hannibal proceeds with his plan by having the
team modify Amy's car into an armored vehicle.
(When Ellen seems doubtful that Hannibal's plan
will work, Amy responds that Hannibal's plans
"never work right. they just work.")
The team splits up with B.A. and the women escorting
the real crops while Hannibal and the rest of
the team escort a decoy truck. As predicted.
Easterland attacks Hannibal and the decoy crew.
However, Hannibal, Murdock and Face are captured.
Easterland and his men then proceed to attack
B.A. and the real load. Fortunately. the
remainder of the team frees themselves and borrows
Easterland's helicopter. The team captures
Easterland and saves the load. Later, an
angry Amy notices that her car did not survive
the team's mission.
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Special
Guest Star
Stuart
Whitman as Chuck Easterland
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Teleplay
Stephen
J. Cannell and Patrick Hasburgh
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Director
Guy
Magar
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Guest
Cast
Michael
Aldredge as Whittaker, Devon Ericson as Ellen
Penhall, Robert Sampson as Joe Penhall, Tom McFadden,
Tim Rossovich, Caskey Swain, Jim Boeke as Mather
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Story
Babs Greyhosky
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Airdate:
Apr. 12, 1983
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As
the episode begins, Lynch's wish finally comes
true when he captures Hannibal, Face, and B.A.
However, Lynch's pleasure is short lived for a
Major Briggs and a Mr. Perry of the State Department
take custody of the team. Perry then offers
the team their freedom (although they will still
be fugitives) if they rescue General Ludlam and
his daughter Kathy from Borneo and a fanatical
leader named RaShaad. Unwilling to face
prison, the team reluctantly agrees. Meanwhile,
Amy, concerned about the team's welfare, has contacted
Murdock for help. Murdock and Amy sneak
onto the military base and witness the team leaving
in a plane. Concerned, Murdock borrows
a plane and follows the team. Then, when
Hannibal, Face and B.A. parachute into Borneo,
Murdock and Amy follow suit. Unfortunately,
the team's rescue does not go according to plan
and Hannibal, Face, and B.A. are captured and
imprisoned with the General and Kathy. Face
is then led away to be executed. Plotting
their escape, Hannibal uses his ingenuity and
starts a leak in RaShaad's ammo dump. With
a little assistance from Face's last request (a
cigarette), the ammo dump explodes allowing the
team to escape. Murdock and Amy join the
team and everyone escapes in one of RaShaad's
helicopters. Once back in the United States,
Perry is as good as his word and the team find
themselves (still wanted but) free.
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Guest
Cast
Ed
Grover as Major Briggs, Alan Fudge as Perry, Mico
Minardos as RaShaad, Warren Kemmerling as General
Ludlam, Amy Steel (The Powers of Matthew Star)
as Kathy, Danny Wells, Barbara Moran, Dean Santoro,
Dennis Haysbert, Casey King
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Teleplay
Frank
Lupo and Patrick Hasburgh
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Director
Arnold
Laven
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Story
Babs Greyhosky
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Airdate:
Apr. 19, 1983
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The
A-Team finds themselves attending a wedding when
they are hired to rescue a woman named Jackie
Taylorfrom a forced marriage with a an named Calvin
Cutler. The team enters the wedding as caterers
and rescues Jackie in a plan that involves Murdock
dressing up in a wedding dress (in order to temporarily
distract the wedding guests). Unfortunately,
although the team successfully escapes from Cutler's
estate, they cannot leave the county as Cutler
has arranged for the local police to seal off
the area. Realizing that Cutler is actually
after Jackie's money (which she inherited from
her late father, Cutler's business partner), Hannibal
has Jackie marry Face. Hannibal then goes
to Cutler with a tape of the wedding and explains
that unless Cutler wants Face to come in and control
the company, the team will be allowed to safely
leave the county. Hannibal's plan seems
to be working until Cutler realizes that the A-Team
leader has removed a tape from under his desk.
Since the tape incriminates him in the murder
of Jackie's father, Cutler can no longer afford
to let the team leave alive. However, with
the help of Murdock and a borrowed helicopter,
the team manages to escape along with the evidence
against Cutler. Later, Face and Jackie receive
a divorce. (Note: this episode includes
a reference to Burger Heaven, a fictional fast
food chain that was featured in the "Captain
Bellybuster and the Speed Factory" episode
of The Greatest American Hero.)
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Guest
Cast
John
Ericson as Calvin Cutler, Janice Heiden as Jackie
Taylor, Jim Antonio as the Sheriff, Noble Willingham,
William Green Bush, Tony Dale as Bo, Lesley Woods,
Jenny Neumann, Sy Kramer, Kenneth White
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Writers
Babs
Greyhosky and Frank Lupo
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Director
Guy
Magar
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The
Beast from the Belly of a Boeing
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Airdate:
May 3, 1983
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When
Bellar flight #227 is hijacked by terrorists demanding
five million dollars, the Bellar executives hire
The A-Team to rescue the passengers and the plane.
Accepting the assignment, Hannibal poses as Edward
Bellar III (the airline's owner) and manages to
trade himself and his assistant (Face) for the
release of the passengers. Meanwhile, B.A.
and Murdock have approached the plane in a refueling
truck and are working on entering the plane from
underneath. Unfortunately, Hannibal's ruse
is discovered and the plane lifts off prematurely;
trapping B.A. and Murdock with the landing gear.
B.A. is initially cataleptic (due to his fear
of flying), but he eventually comes out of it
and, along with Murdock, enters the airplane through
the floor and begins to take out the terrorists.
In the final confrontation between the team and
the terrorists, a stray gunshot temporarily blinds
Murdock and creates a pressure imbalance that
pulls Jackson and the terrorist pilot, out of
the plane. Therefore, it is up to Hannibal
to land the plane. The ground crew attempts
to direct the plane away from a populated area
(i.e. into the ocean) but Amy pulls a gun and
forces them to talk the team in to a real landing
area. With verbal help from Murdock and
the ground crew, Hannibal manages to safely land
the plane (although, he does crash through the
wall of the airport in a scene lifted from
the movie Airplane).
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Guest
Cast
ndrew
Robinson (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) as
Jackson, Alan Stock as Thomas, Jim McKrell as
Hertzog, Michael Swan as Trigg, Jesse D. Goins
(The Greatest American Hero) as Phillips,
Milt Kogan, Xander Berkeley, Scott Lincoln, Mary
Kate McGeehan
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Writer
Patrick
Hasburgh
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Director
Ron
Satlof
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Airdate:
May 10, 1983
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As
the episode opens, the team arrives in Barlow
Creek for the funeral of Ray Brenner, a man they
knew in Vietnam. To their surprise, the
locals are shying away from the funeral based
on pressure from the Watkins brothers. After
a brief run-in with two of the lesser Watkins
brothers, the team attends the funeral, relives
some of their Vietnam adventures with Ray (via
scenes of the various members in Vietnam), and
comfort Trish Brenner, Ray's widow. After
the funeral, the team is on their way to Trish's
house when the van is pushed off the road.
The team heads to the Watkins's gas station and
attempts to stop the brothers (who Trish believe
killed Ray) but Logan Watkins arrives and captures
the team using weapons stolen from the team's
own damaged van. The team is then dumped
outside of town. Meanwhile, Amy and Trish
find themselves under attack from some of the
other Watkins brothers. Fortunately, Trish manages
to hold her own with one of Ray's rifles.
Returning to town, the team meets up with the
women and locates some of Ray's old military hardware.
Hannibal and company then head into town and,
after an exchange of bullets (where, like all
A-Team battles, no one is actually shot), the
team triumphs and the Watkins brothers are captured.
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Special
Guest Star
Don
Stroud as Deke Watkins
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Writer
Frank
Lupo
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Director
Bernard
McEveety
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Guest
Cast
Joanna
Kerns (Groing Pains) as Trish Brenner,
Burton Gilliam as the Sheriff, Ted Markland as
Logan Watkins, Kelbe Nugent as Lianne, Sandy Ward,
Robert F. Lyons as Harold Watkins, M.C. Gainey,
Georgie Paul
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