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Airdate:
Sept 26, 1986
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After
being taken to the hospital as a result of an
accident that was caused by movie special effects
artist Frankie "Dishpan" Santana, Hannibal is
kidnapped and brought to Hunt Stockwell, a retired
general. Stockwell then informs Hannibal that
he wants the A-Team to rescue the passengers oŁ
a plane that has been hijacked in Spain. Considering
Stockwell's somewhat shady involvement in the
field of espionage, the A-Team leader initially
refuses, but finally accepts when he learns that
a former army captain named Josh Curtis is on
board the captured plane. (Curtis, who was believed
to be dead, witnessed the A-Team receiving their
orders from Colonel Morrison back in Vietnam.
Accordingly, Curtis' testimony can clear the A-Team
members.) Once in Spain, the team begins their
rescue operations by first freeing the passengers
that had been taken away from the plane. Afterwards,
Frankie, who has joined the team as part of Hannibal's
plan to use special effects in the operation,
is caught calling in a progress report to Stockwell.
Frankie then reveals that Stockwell has been threatening
to stop the pension fund that has been making
payments to a nursing home for his father. Hannibal
accepts Frankie's story and the team begins implementing
their plan to free the plane. Next, as Murdock
boards the aircraft as a relief pilot, the A-Team
begins to set up Frankie's special effects equipment
outside the plane. Then, when Murdock is ordered
to take off, he only pretends to comply. The terrorists,
fooled by the special effects into mistakenly
believing that they are no longer on the ground,
are totally caught by surprise as the A-Team successfully
boards the plane. Curtis is then rescued and taken
to a safe place so the team can talk to him. However,
Stockwell and his men arrive and, as the episode
ends, Curtis changes his story and accuses the
A-Team of killing Morrison. Fortunately, Murdock,
having left to buy groceries, is not captured.
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Guest
Cast
Sandy
McPeak (Blue Thunder) as Josh Curtis, David
A. Hess as Ben Al Fradeen, Fernando Escandon,
Stanley Brock, Marc Tubert, Hector Jaime Mercado,
Andrew Divoff
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Writer
Stephen
J. Cannell
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Director
Tony
Mordente
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Airdate:
Oct. 3, 1986
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As
the episode begins, the captured A-Team members
are preparing to face military court-martials
for the murder of Morrison. Meanwhile, Frankie,
feeling regret about how Stockwell manipulated
him against the team, hires a trial lawyer named
Benny Conway to defend the team. The trial soon
begins and does not seem to be going well as prosecuting
officer Major Laskov provides compelling evidence
against the team. Furthermore, B.A. lives up to
his nickname and severely hurts the team's case
when he loses control in court. Next, after Curtis
(who is currently a dealer in illegal arms) gives
his testimony, Decker arrives and accuses the
team of having broken numerous laws during their
past adventures. Laskov soon maneuvers Hannibal
into almost admitting guilt when he asks the A-Team
leader if he has ever killed anyone. Hannibal
replies he killed the enemy, a statement that
causes him to fall into the prosecutor's trap
when it is then revealed that Morrison was secretly
working for the other side. In response, Frankie
and Murdock proceed to find the Vietnamese colonel
that Morrison reportedly worked with. Complicating
matters, Conway's hopes of recalling Curtis are
then dashed when the arms dealer is murdered.
Murdock and Frankie then believe that they have
saved the team when they capture the former colonel
and learn that, as part of an enemy plan, Morrison
had sent the team to the bank as a trap. Unfortunately,
the colonel changes his story after he is brought
into court. As the episode ends, the team (Hannibal,
Face and B.A.), having admitted guilt when they
feared that the prosecution would implicate Murdock
in the murder, are convicted and sentenced to
death.
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Guest
Cast
David
Ackroyd as Major Laskov, Lance LeGault as Colonel
Roderick Decker, Byrne Piven as Benny Conway,
Sandy McPeak (Blue Thunder) as Josh Curtis,
J.A. Preston as the judge, Dana Lee, Robert Darnell,
Adam Gregor, Richard Newton, Tiiu Leek
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Writer
Tom
Blomquist
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Director
Lee
Sheldon
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Airdate:
Oct. 10, 1986
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As
part three of this multi-episode story begins,
Murdock escapes from the V.A. hospital and meets
up with Frankie. The two men then sneak into Stockwell's
plane and confront the general about the events
that have led to the A-Team's upcoming execution.
In response, Stockwell continues with his strange
agenda and provides Murdock with plans for the
Barrier Island prison that the A-Team is being
held in. Stockwell then exposes Frankie and Murdock
to a knockout gas and the duo are dropped in a
dumpster. Later, Stockwell approaches Hannibal
in prison and offers the A-Team leader a deal:
If they agree to work as his operatives, he will
provide full pardons after completing a series
of missions of him. However, the A-Team must first
escape without his help. Faced with death, Hannibal
accepts the deal. Murdock is then arrested when
he tries to sneak onto the island as a priest.
Frankie, disguised as another priest (and using
the fact that - as planned - the prison is somewhat
less suspicious of visitors now that Murdock has
been captured), soon visits the team in their
cells. Frankie then gives the team fake blood
tablets and pills that will simulate death. Additionally,
he replaces the ammo in the execution rifles.
The A-Team are "executed", but then revived
by Stockwell. Deciding to take care of one final
matter before leaving with the general, the team
eludes Stockwell's men and proceeds to capture
the men that had killed Curtis. When Stockwell's
men are nowhere to be seen, Hannibal then realizes
that Stockwell was manipulating the team into
resolving the Curtis issue. The team is soon brought
to their new home: a guarded house in Langley,
Virginia. They find themselves joined by Murdock,
who (strangely enough) was declared sane, along
with new (and reluctant) team member Frankie.
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Guest
Cast
Frank
McCarthy as Underwood, Rodney Saulsberry as Sgt
Reger, John Durbin as Soulay, Dan Tullis, Andrew
Divoff, Tiiu Leek
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Writer
Frank
Lupo
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Director
Michael
O'Herlihy
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Airdate:
Oct. 17, 1986
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The
A-Team begins to work towards their eventual pardon
when they are assigned the task of helping a scientist
named Dr. Warren Strasser to defect. In order
to get into the country, Hannibal poses as millionaire
Billy Bob Smith and challenges a visiting East
German football team. As expected, fearing that
his country's reputation is at stake, East German
official Eisler reluctantly agrees. The A-Team
soon puts together a team and proceeds to East
Germany. However, B.A. is somewhat upset that
quarterback T. J. Bryant is on the team since
many years previously Bryant had cost the A-Team
strongman a pro career by destroying his scholarship
application. Once in East Germany, Face, disguised
as an air conditioner repairman, sneaks into Strasser's
lab and meets with the defecting scientist. Complicating
matters, Strasser refuses to leave without his
wife Marlena. In the meantime, Strasser provides
Face with a top-secret chemical warfare culture
known as Project Vulture. The game begins but
the Americans are losing as a result of T.J. giving
in to East German threats. Meanwhile, Murdock
is captured during an attempt to find Marlena.
Eisler then uses Murdock's capture as leverage
against the American team. Fortunately, Face,
this time disguised as a soldier, rescues Marlena.
Back at the game, T.J. has a change of heart and
helps the American players to win the game. Later,
Eisler arranges to trade Project Victory for Murdock.
T.J., who appears to be operating out of fear,
runs the top-secret project over to Eisler. However,
it is actually a ruse whereby the East Germans
are exposed to a smoke bomb. As a result of the
distraction, the A-Team, Strasser, Marlena and
the football players all manage to escape.
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Guest
Cast
Joe
Namath as T.J. Bryant, Alan Autry, Jim Brown,
Bo Brundin as Dr. Warren Strasser, Judy Geeson,
John Natuszak, Ray Reinhardt as Brecht, Lyman
Ward as Eisler
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Writer
Paul
Bernbaum
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Director
Craig
R. Baxley
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Airdate: Oct. 24, 1986
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As
the episode begins, Stockwell arrives at the A-Team's
Langley, Virginia house only to discover that
they have captured his men and disabled his surveillance
equipment. Ignoring the situation, Stockwell informs
the team that their latest mission is to rescue
millionaire Ted Burke and two other Americans
from San Marcus, a small country that is being
ruled by dictator Alexander Martien. Once in San
Marcus, contrary to Stockwell's instructions,
the A-Team becomes involved in the internal politics
of the country when Frankie runs to the rescue
of Bonito, a local woman who is being harassed
by Mother's soldiers. Afterwards, Face destroys
an ammo dump and is captured. The A -Team con
artist is then thrown into the same prison as
Burke and the other two Americans. Face is soon
startled to discover that Burke and his companions
are CIA agents and that the boat they arrived
on is filled with top-secret surveillance equipment.
The A-Team then frees Face but, although the CIA
men leave the country, the A-Team stays behind
to assist the local rebels because Bonito and
a rebel named Jefferson were arrested in retaliation
for the A-Team's actions. With the help of a borrowed
helicopter, the A-Team soon launches an assault
and frees the rebels. The top secret boat is then
destroyed before visiting Russian agent Anatoly
Terensky can discover its secrets. Back in Langley,
Stockwell arrives at the team's house and discovers
that the A-Team has once again disabled his security
measures.
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Cast
Alejandro
Rey as the commandant, Pepe Serne as Jefferson,
Castulo Guerra as Martien, Geno Silva, Vladimir
Skomarovsky as Anatoly Terensky, Peter Brown,
Tasia Valenza as Bonito, Blake Conway, Carlos
Cervantes (The Greatest American Hero), Demon
Clark, Charles Howerton
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Writers
Steven
L. Sears and Burt Pearl
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Director
Sidney
Hayers
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Airdate:
Oct. 31, 1986
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As
the episode begins, the A-Team recovers a top-secret
plane from the Soviet Union; Stockwell opens "Channel
D" and receives a call from his old CIA partner,
Ivan Trigorin (played by David McCallum, Robert
Vaughn's co-star from The Man from U.N.C.L.E).
However, this call is only a pretense for Ivan
to meet and kidnap the general. Carla, Stockwell's
assistant, then contacts the team and informs
them that unless Stockwell is rescued in the next
thirty-six hours, all records of the general's
operations (including the team's eventual pardon)
will be erased. Blackmailed into helping, the
team soon finds evidence that Trigorin, publicly
posing as a visiting professor, is working for
the Chinese government. The team then sneaks into
the Chinese consulate and obtains information
on the location of Trigorin's operation: the Coastal
Psychiatric Hospital. Following up on the lead,
Murdock feigns insanity (acting like Frank Sinatra)
and is admitted to the hospital. Meanwhile, Trigorin,
who had turned bad after folding under pressure
during a mission many years ago in Cuba, is torturing
Stockwell for information on the stolen plane.
The team soon locates Stockwell and creates a
fake earthquake that forces Ivan out into the
open. Unfortunately, Ivan maintains custody of
Stockwell and offers to trade the general for
the plane. Reluctantly, the team agrees. Later,
at the trade' site, the top-secret plane apparently
explodes and, due to the distraction, Ivan is
accidentally killed. Stockwell is angered at the
loss of the plane but apologizes to the team after
learning that only a prop plane was destroyed
whereas the real aircraft is safely hidden. After
completing the mission, Murdock continues his
insanity act and walks on stage at a Sinatra concert.
(Note: Besides the reunion of former Man
from U.N.C.L.E. actors Vaughn and McCallum
and references like "Channel D", this episode
pays further to The Man from UN.CL.E. through
titled acts and the use of U.N.C.L.E. style
commercial fades.)
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Guest Star
David
McCallum as Ivan Trigorin
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Writer
Terry
D. Nelson
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Director
Michael
O' Herlihy
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Cast
James
Saito as Kwai Li, Toni Attell as Reynolds, Eric
Goldner as Borofsky
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Airdate:
Nov. 7, 1986
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After
having reoccurring nightmares, Face decides to
leave the team. However, he agrees to perform
one last mission: the rescue of a reporter that
has gone undercover as the girlfriend of reported
mobster Tommy Tedesco. The team rescues Sally
Vogel, the reporter, and then learns that they
need to stop Tedesco from assassinating a union
leader named Brick Peterson. Meanwhile, Tedesco,
realizing that Sally has information on him, contacts
a crooked sheriff named Brooks to stop the team.
The sheriff tries, but the team escapes. Throughout
the assignment, Face has been trying to leave
only to return each time when the team needs help.
Fortunately, one of Face's return trips warns
the team of Tedesco's impending arrival. Accordingly,
they are prepared and are able to escape. Tedesco
is then used as leverage so that the team is able
to get past the sheriff. Later, in Atlantic City,
Sally recognizes the hit man that Tedesco hired
and the team is able to stop the assassination.
As all loose ends are resolved, Sally writes a
nice story about the team only to have it killed
by her boss due to pressure from the government
and Face decides to stay with the team.
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Guest
Cast
Richard
Romanus as Tommy Tedesco, Valerie Wildman as Sally
Vogel, Red West (Black Sheep Squadron)
as Brooks, Linden Chiles as Nolting, Dennis Fimple
as Cares, Paul Sylvan as Brick Peterson, Lore
Staley, Robert Miano, Mike Lally
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Writer
Bill
Nuss
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Director
Craig
R. Baxley
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Airdate:
Nov. 14, 1986
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The
team's Thanksgiving plans are interrupted when
Stockwell orders them to reunite a wanted criminal
named A.J. Bancroft, with his daughter Ellen.
Since A.J. has information on other people who
had been involved in a government conspiracy many
years earlier, the team needs to protect Bancroft.
A.J., is soon reunited with a woman claiming to
be his daughter. However, Hannibal grows suspicious
of the woman and discovers that she is not Ellen
but rather an impostor. Furthermore, the team
learns that she has been paid $5,000 to leave
a package (actually a bomb) near A.J. In the confusion
that results from the attempted bombing, Murdock
gets a glimpse of a picture of what appears to
be a young Templeton "Faceman" Peck on Bancroft.
Hannibal pays a visit on Jacob Edwards, the man
trying to kill A.J., and then, after the meeting,
the A-Team is able to rescue the real Ellen Bancroft
from Edwards' men. Meanwhile, Murdock confronts
A.J., and the conspirator claims to be Face's
father. Thereby, Murdock contacts Stockwell and
asks the general to look into the story. (Murdock's
actions in this story - especially in negotiation
with Stockwell - seem to dispute any claim that
he is truly insane.) Later, the A-Team defeats
Edwards during an unsuccessful attack on A.J.
Regrettably, A.J. dies during the siege, but only
after being reunited with his daughter. As the
story concludes (in an ending that was decided
by a 900 number call-in vote during the original
airing of this episode), Face learns that A.J.
was indeed his father and that Ellen is actually
his half-sister.
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Guest
Cast
Jeff
Corey as A.J. Bancroft, Clare Kirkconnell as Ellen
Bancroft, John Carter as Jacob Edwards, Terri
Treas (Alien Nation) as the "imposter"
Ellen, Beau Billingslea as Owens, Lou Felder,
Anna Rapagna
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Writer
Steven
L. Sears
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Director
James
Darren
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Airdate:
Nov. 18, 1986
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After
Hannibal mysteriously disappears during a solo
mission in Hong Kong, Stockwell and the remainder
of the A-Texan investigate. They arrive in Hong
Kong and learn that the A-Team leader was tracking
a stolen shipment of plutonium. Stockwell and
the team meet up with Alice Heath, Hannibal's
Hong Kong contact. Face and Murdock then run into
a local youth named Bobby and discover that Hannibal
did not trust Alice. Unfortunately, Stockwell
is captured before the team can warn him. The
team then follows a tracer that they left on Stockwell
and, although the plutonium is not recovered,
the general is rescued. Later, based on a tip
from Bobby, the team locates and rescues Hannibal
from the Imperial Bank of Hong Kong. Together
with their leader, the team recovers the plutonium
and captures the thieves.
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Guest
Cast
Rosalind
Chao (Star Trek: The Next Generation / Star
Trek: Deep Space Nine) as Alice Heath, Soon
Teck-Oh, Nancy Kwon as Lin Wu, Dustin Nguyen (21
Jump Street) as Bobby, Clive Rosengren, Dale
Ishimoto
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Writer
Bud
Pearl
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Director
Robert
Brewer
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Airdate:
Nov. 28, 1986
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The
A-Team recovers a valuable religious artifact
(a crystal skull) in the Australian outback. When
they are followed, B.A. and Hannibal detour their
pursuers while Face, Murdock and Frankie escape
with the skull in a plane. The aircraft develops
engine trouble and the team members are forced
to parachute right into the middle of a battle
between waning island tribes. The team's arrival
stops the fight and Mardock (or rather Murdocka)
is worshipped by the natives. Cannibals soon attack
the island and steal the skull. After being joined
by Hannibal and B.A., the team goes to the cannibal's
island and discovers a group of strange monks
forcing the natives to work in a mine. The team
then rescues Lessa, a native girl that was captured
from the other island. The monks are soon defeated
when they try to pursue the team. Later, Murdock
wins back the skull after facing off against the
cannibal chief in a dual. Unfortunately, the original
Australian outback thieves show up and capture
Hannibal, B.A., and Murdock. However, with Frankie
and Face's help, the team is freed.
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Guest
Cast
Manu
Tupou as Chief Sikahama, Aki Aleong, Barry Pierce,
Sam Hiona as Chief Walakino, Peter Icangelo, Jeffrey
Alan Chandler, Rochelle Ashana as Lessa, Art Tizon
as Kolou, Charles Hyman
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Writer
Bill Nuss
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Director
Michael
O'Herlihy
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Airdate:
Dec. 2, 1986
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As
the episode opens, Stockwell has been using a
fictional agent named Logan Ross to try to catch
a terrorist known as the Jaguar. However, when
Logan's hotel room is destroyed, the A-Team is
brought on board and instructed to investigate
Charles Jourdan, a wheelchair-bound man that is
suspected of being the terrorist With Murdock
posing as Logan Ross (acting like James Bond and
using an accent similar to Sean Connery's), the
team arrives in Jourdan's Monte Carlo casino where
their plan is implemented. Thereby, Murdock/Logan
begins to romance Dominique, Jourdan's girlfriend.
Secretly being assisted by the team, Murdock surprises
the casino owner by stopping an attempt on his
life and by winning big in the casino. (A disturbed
Face, who had believed that he should have played
the Logan Ross role, is forced to watch as Murdock
gets to romance the girl.) Continuing their assignment,
the team protects a visiting ambassador from one
of Jaguar's assassination attempts. Later, the
team attacks Jourden's boat and captures the casino
owner, however, Frobe, Jourdan's assistant (portraying
a role reminiscent of the James Bond movie character
Odd Job), manages to escape. Frobe is then able
to meet up with Dominique (who had pretended to
be on the team's side while actually plotting
against them). The team then follows the two assassins
to a prince's yacht where they defeat their foes.
At the end of the episode (in another idea borrowed
from the Bond franchise), Murdock/Logan is found
lounging in a small boat with a female member
of the prince's crew.
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Guest
Cast
Karen
Kopins as Dominique, Kai Wulff, Roy Doltrice (Beauty
and the Beast), as Jourdan, Marianne Marks,
Professor Toru Tanaka as Frobe, Maurice Morsel.
Nick Faltas, Ronan O'Casey, Marius Mazmanian
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Writer
Paul
Bernbaum
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Director
Michael
O'Herlihy
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Airdate:
Dec. 30, 1986
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When
teenager Paula Anderson overhears her father Randy
planning on selling top secret information to
a KGB agent named Sarnoff, she steals the information
and runs away from home. Randy, who is actually
passing fake information as part of a government
sting, contacts Stockwell, and the A Team are
brought in to find the girl before the KGB does.
While the team meets with Randy Anderson, Paula
goes to her elderly friend Bernie Green for help.
After outrunning some KGB agents, Bernie and Paula
visit George Nemchek, one of Bernie's friends,
at the Silver Creek Retirement Home. As Hannibal
and Face help Anderson to set up Sarnoff, B.A.
and Frankie begin to trace Paula. In order to
give the team time to locate Paula, Murdock then
poses as an SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative,
a.k.a. Star Wars) scientist and distracts the
KGB agents. Later, Frankie and B.A. arrive at
the retirement home and are initially attacked
by the elderly residents. Fortunately, the 2 team
members manage to convince Paula and Bernie of
their good intentions and Paula decides to call
her father. Although Randy soon arrives at the
home, so do the KGB agents and Sarnoff captures
Paula and Randy. The team, with the help of the
retirement home residents, commandeers a bus and
follows the enemy agents. Sarnoff and his men
are captured and Paula and her father are rescued.
(Note: at the end of the episode, the team
ponders what they will do after receiving their
pardons. Hannibal responds that they will probably
continue to do what they always have: helping
people in need.)
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Guest
Cast
Lew
Ayres as Bernie Green, John McLiam, Michael Shannon
as Randy Anderson, Tony Steedman as Sarnoff, Moya
Kordick as Paula, Paula Victor, Lynn Longos, Nick
Angotti, Paul Petersen
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Tom Blomquist
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Director
Michael
O'Herlihy
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Airdate:
Mar. 8, 1987
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The
team's final episode begins on a rather sour note
as the opening scenes are not original but are
instead lifted directly from the opening of the
first season episode "Holiday in the Hills".
As the original portion of the episode begins,
Murdock returns to Virginia and goes to his job
as a waiter at an Italian restaurant. Additionally,
Frankie and Face decide to have dinner at the
restaurant. Once at work, Murdock spots a gun
on one of the customers. The team members try
to stop the man but are defeated when a second
armed man reveals himself. Regrettably, Face is
critically wounded during the struggle. The armed
men then take the restaurant owners (Sal and his
daughter Gina) and the customers hostage. Murdock
and Frankie soon discover that the men are planning
on murdering the attorney general (who is scheduled
to have dinner in the restaurant later in the
evening). Fortunately, B.A. arrives to purchase
a pizza and Murdock manages to signal for help
by writing a message with the ingredients. After
being apprised of the situation by B.A., Hannibal
pretends to be in a car accident and struggles
into the restaurant. In the confusion, the A-Team
is able to overpower the armed man. 'Their victory
proves short lived, however, as a crooked police
officer enters the restaurant and the team is
captured. However, they use their ingenuity to
defeats the armed man before the attorney general
arrives. As the episode (and the series) ends,
Face is rushed to the hospital in time to save
his life.
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Guest
Cast
Marc
Alaimo, Mills Watson as Lou Canter, Edward Bell,
Lonny Chapman as Henderson, Alfred Dennis as Sal,
Bobby DiCicco as Joey, Terence O'Connor, Ely Pouget
as Gina
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Writer
Bill
Nuss
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Director
John
Peter Kousakis
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