The third season of the action-adventure television series The A-Team premiered in the United States on NBC on September 18, 1984, and concluded on May 14, 1985, consisting of 25 episodes.
No.overall 38
No. inseason 1
Title Bullets and Bikinis
Directed by Dennis Donnelly
Written by Mark Jones
Original air date September 18, 1984
Flying to Miami to help two girls in their hotel business, the A-Team must deal with two problems: B.A.'s fear of flying, and the gangsters that are trying to force the girls to sell the hotel. The method of getting B.A. to fly this time is drugging him in a car and making him think they drove the entire time to get there; even doctoring a newspaper to fake the passage of time. Hannibal takes over as the hotel's owner, while Face plans to reorganize the staff by hiring attractive women in bikinis to bring in more guests. In the end, B.A. discovers the ruse after seeing a real newspaper.
No.overall 39
No. inseason 2
Title The Bend in the River part 1
Directed by Michael O'Herlihy
Written by Stephen J. Cannell & Frank Lupo
Original air date September 25, 1984
Tawnia Baker, the A-Team's support member for the last half season calls in the help of her friends to find an archaeologist (secretly her fiancé) that has gone missing during an Amazon expedition. Traveling to the Amazon, the A-Team must deal with the local pirate king, "El Cajon" (The Coffin).
No.overall 40
No. inseason 3
Title The Bend in the River part 2
Directed by Michael O'Herlihy
Written by Stephen J. Cannell & Frank Lupo
Original air date September 25, 1984
The A-Team have to find a way to locate the pirates, bringing them into unknown territory. Locating the pirates, they come across a plot that is far greater than any of them could have expected: Third Reich remnants building a nuclear station. As Murdock puts it "the Fuhrer the better." The A-Team must ally themselves with the shady El Cajon's forces to defeat the threat. This is the last appearance of Tawnia Baker, who weds her fiancé at the end of the episode.
No.overall 41
No. inseason 4
Title Fire
Directed by Tony Mordente
Written by Stephen Katz
Original air date October 2, 1984
A fire chief calls in the help of the A-Team to help defend her department from a competing fire fighting department. Meanwhile, Colonel Decker is temporally replaced by a Colonel named Briggs, who opens his hunt on the A-Team, only to be unsuccessful in his first and only attempt.
Note: Colonel Decker would makes his reappearance later in the series with no explanation as to the disappearance of Briggs. Although the most likely reason is that unlike Lynch or Decker, Briggs lacked the willpower to continue after the A-Team after his first failed attempt.
Trivia: The alert tones in the first minute of the show, as well as the siren used by the fire truck, come from another NBC show, Emergency! (1972).
Special Guest Star: Stepfanie Kramer as Fire Chief Annie Sanders.
No.overall 42
No. inseason 5
Title Timber
Directed by David Hemmings
Written by Jeff Ray
Original air date October 16, 1984
A brother and sister hire the A-Team to help them stay in the logging business. The A-Team intercedes when a union organizer tries to put a small logging operation out of business by burning down one of their trucks. Amid the falling trees, Murdock is on the hunt for Bigfoot.
No.overall 43
No. inseason 6
Title Double Heat
Directed by Craig R. Baxley
Written by Stephen Katz
Original air date October 23, 1984
The A-Team is called in to find an accountant's daughter who has become a pawn in a game between two rival mobsters, but with the interference of the A-Team the gangland war spreads out, endangering everyone.
Special Guest Stars:Dana Elcar as George Olson. Burke Byrnes as Federal Marshal. Steven Williams as Eddie Devane.
No.overall 44
No. inseason 7
Title Trouble on Wheels
Directed by Michael O'Herlihy
Written by Mark Jones
Original air date October 30, 1984
Hannibal goes undercover in order to investigate employee theft from an auto plant, but things turn out to be bigger and more dangerous than anyone expected. Face can finally live out some of his passions.
Special Guest Star: Joe Santos as Rudy Garcia
No.overall 45
No. inseason 8
Title The Island
Directed by Michael O'Herlihy
Written by Mark Jones
Original air date November 13, 1984
An Army doctor who once saved B.A.'s life calls in his debt by asking the A-Team to help deal with gangsters who came to the tropical island where the doctor has built a clinic. The A-Team heads out to fight back, but first they have to get there. This is also the first time someone guesses Hannibal is in disguise, but it isn't him.
Trivia: The stock airplane footage that was used when The A-Team travel to the island are clips of the Cutter's Goose from Tales of the Gold Monkey, which was a Universal-produced TV show that aired during the 1982-83 season.
No.overall 46
No. inseason 9
Title Showdown!
Directed by James Fargo
Written by Milt Rosen
Original air date November 20, 1984
Several unsavory hoodlums are hired by the sleazy rock promoter Kyle Mason to impersonate the A-Team and tries to force Captain Winnetka's Wild West Show out of business. The real A-Team arrives to help the Captain and his feisty daughter Carrie, and to clear their names. The A-Team must save the Wild West Show while trying to evade their old nemesis Colonel Lynch, who has been given one final chance to capture the A-Team and is determined to succeed at all costs. At the same time Murdock is upset because the phoney A-Team doesn't have an imposter of himself; however, Hannibal calms him by explaining Murdock is a "known unknown".
Special Guest Star: Morgan Woodward as Captain Winnetka.
No.overall 47
No. inseason 10
Title Sheriffs of Rivertown
Directed by Dennis Donnelly
Written by Mark Jones
Original air date November 27, 1984
The A-Team travels to South America where they become the law in a town built to house workers of a power plant that has been experiencing a number of fatal accidents. The project to get B.A. in a plane get more and more difficult as B.A. has become overcautious.
No.overall 48
No. inseason 11
Title The Bells of St. Mary's
Directed by Dennis Donnelly
Written by Stephen J. Cannell
Original air date December 4, 1984
The A-Team gets involved in the music business when threats from their old record label prompt a singing group to ask the A-Team for help. Face went to school with them, and can't refuse to help old friends even when there isn't any money to get. The A-Team are caught between a greedy record company owner, a top singing group (the Bells) and a school's top football player. Serving as a makeshift witness protection group, while resisting their own attraction to the girls, the team successfully keep them safe until the charity concert.
Special Guest Star: Joseph Wiseman as Zeke Westerland.
No.overall 49
No. inseason 12
Title Hot Styles
Directed by Tony Mordente
Written by Stephen Katz
Original air date December 11, 1984
Just when Templeton 'Face' Peck is getting smitten with the Hollywood model Rina Turian, she is snatched before his nose by Chicago based mobster Johnny Turian. Face's latest girl friend is rather ungrateful after the A-Team rescues her from local mobsters. Meanwhile the A-Team seems to have two B.A.'s!
Special Guest Stars: Richard Lynch as Johnny Turian and Markie Post as Rina Turian
No.overall 50
No. inseason 13
Title Breakout!
Directed by Dennis Donnelly
Written by Stephen Katz & Mark Jones
Original air date December 18, 1984
After Murdock is taken hostage by armed robbers, he and B.A. are named as accomplices and jailed until Decker can come and get them. B.A. and Murdock escape and try to stay alive, while outrunning the Military Police.
No.overall 51
No. inseason 14
Title Cup A' Joe
Directed by Craig R. Baxley
Written by Dennis O'Keefe III
Original air date January 8, 1985
A restaurateur tries to force the owners of a small diner, Cup A' Joe, to sell out to him, after he arranged a new freeway off-ramp to be built nearby. The A-Team takes over the diner for a few days and Murdock is in full cry!
No.overall 52
No. inseason 15
Title The Big Squeeze
Directed by Arnold Laven
Written by Stephen J. Cannell
Original air date January 16, 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 Gina hire the A-Team. Back from Cup A' Joe, the A-Team opens its own restaurant to lure a ruthless loan shark who has other restaurant owners terrified. But can the A-Team beat this opponent, even after Hannibal's funeral?
No.overall 53
No. inseason 16
Title Champ
Directed by Michael O'Herlihy
Written by Stephen Katz
Original air date January 22, 1985
Face decides to invest some of the team's funds in 60% of a boxer, Billy Marquette. B.A. goes undercover as a boxer to stop the manipulation of boxing matches, when he finds out, that the money is used for drug-trafficking, he needs the support of the rest of the A-Team.
Special Guest Star: Alex Rocco as Sonny Monroe.
No.overall 54
No. inseason 17
Title Skins
Directed by Dennis Donnelly
Written by Mark Jones
Original air date January 29, 1985
The A-Team travels to Kenya to deal with game poachers who have included a game warden among their kills. Nobody seems able to stop them, so the A-Team must rescue the game preserve. But how to get B.A. in the plane this time?
No.overall 55
No. inseason 18
Title Road Games
Directed by Dennis Donnelly
Written by Mark Jones
Original air date February 5, 1985
When the otherwise decent manager of a 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, and must even trick Colonel Decker into providing help .Face has to infiltrate a gambling ring . .Things gets complicated, when the A-Team has to pursue the venue.
No.overall 56
No. inseason 19
Title Moving Targets
Directed by Dennis Donnelly
Written by Mark Jones
Original air date February 12, 1985
A Middle Eastern potentate hires the A-Team to protect his about-to-be-married daughter despite her ideas to the contrary. But the wedding might be more endangered by the love interest Face shows towards the princess than through the terrorists. Plus B.A. plots revenge against the team when he is promised he can get them back for getting him to fly in a plane again.
Special Guest Star: John Saxon as Kalem.
No.overall 57
No. inseason 20
Title Knights of the Road
Directed by Michael O'Herlihy
Written by Burt Pearl & Steven L. Sears
Original air date February 26, 1985
Mr. Corson and his daughter Jenny run a small towing truck company in an Arizonan 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. The A-Team comes to the aid of an auto mechanic being driven out of business by a ruthless competitor. Things turn out to be more complicated, when they discover drugs are part of the game.
No.overall 58
No. inseason 21
Title Waste 'Em
Directed by Sidney Hayers
Written by Stephen Katz & Mark Jones
Original air date March 5, 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 .The A-Team discovers a plot to dump toxic waste, which has been used by criminals for years, when they try to protect a young man and his blind sister from harassment.
Mitchell Ryan as Ike Hagan
No.overall 59
No. inseason 22
Title Bounty
Directed by Michael O'Herlihy
Written by Stephen Katz & Mark Jones
Original air date April 2, 1985
Murdock is kidnapped by bounty hunters that hope to use him as bait to capture the rest of the A-Team. When the Team arrives to rescue him, they find he has fallen in love with a veterinarian who tired to save him. With Decker on the way to pay off the bounty hunters, the A-Team has to find a way to rescue Murdock, the girl and beat Decker and the bounty hunters.
NOTE: Dwight Schultz's real-life wife Wendy Fulton plays Kelly, and the episode plays off their real-life marriage.
No.overall 60
No. inseason 23
Title Beverly Hills Assault
Directed by Craig R. Baxley
Written by Paul Birnbaum
Original air date April 9, 1985
A young artist seeks the help of the A-Team to search for the men who brutally assaulted her boyfriend. Also, Murdock takes painting and Face becomes a critic to bust a party of art thieves in Beverly Hills. The A-Team goes uptown and gets involved with an art dealer who has been replacing original paintings with fakes ones. Who's better to pretend to be a painter than Murdock?
Special Guest Star: Lloyd Bochner as Steffan Shawn.
No.overall 61
No. inseason 24
Title Trouble Brewing
Directed by Michael O'Herlihy
Written by Burt Pearl & Steven L. Sears
Original air date May 7, 1985
Two sisters ask the A-Team for help when they are pressured to convert their all-natural soda pop bottling plant into a brewery. The A-Team has seen too many friends turn into alcoholics, they agree to help immediately.
No.overall 62
No. inseason 25
Title Incident at Crystal Lake
Directed by Tony Mordente
Written by Stephen J. Cannell & Frank Lupo
Original air date May 14, 1985
The A-Team's planned fishing vacation at Crystal Lake retreat is ruined when Decker and his men show up. But that's only the beginning of their problems.