The A-Team: Season 5

1986 · 13 episodes · ★ 7.5

What Season 5 of The A-Team

The fifth season opens with Hannibal kidnapped and taken before retired General Hunt Stockwell, a mysterious man who offers him a mission to free the passengers of a hijacked plane. Stockwell then joins the team, and the A-Team faces the toughest challenges in its history: hitmen, kidnappers and mercenary monks. A former CIA colleague of Stockwell's, Ivan Trigorin, aka Brown Fox, eventually tracks him down. Hannibal runs the operations, Faceman and B.A. provide the plan and the muscle, and Murdock brings his own brand of madness. Meanwhile, the team keeps working toward its goal of clearing their names.

13episodes

Sep 26, 1986premiered

Mar 8, 1987Latest episode

10.5 hrtotal runtime

Season 5 Episodes

5x01 Dishpan Man
Sep 26, 1986 · 49 min · ★ 7.3
The A-Team is blackmailed by retired General Stockwell, who kidnaps Hannibal and threatens to have him prosecuted if the A-Team fails to secure the release of hostages held on a plane in Spain.
Directed by Tony Mordente · Written by Stephen J. Cannell · Starring John Durbin, Stanley Brock, Sandy McPeak, David Hess
5x02 Trial by Fire
Oct 3, 1986 · 48 min · ★ 7.0
The A-Team's court martial begins and a surprising motive for the death of Colonel Morrison is revealed.
Directed by Sidney Hayers, Les Sheldon · Written by Tom Blomquist · Starring Lisa Mordente, David Ackroyd, Byrne Piven, J.A. Preston
5x03 Firing Line
Oct 10, 1986 · 49 min · ★ 7.7
General Stockwell interferes with the plans of Murdock and Frankie to free the rest of the A-Team before the Army can execute them.
Directing: Michael O'Herlihy · Writing: Frank Lupo · Starring: John Durbin, Dan Woren, Tony Ciccone, Francis X. McCarthy
5x04 Quarterback Sneak
Oct 17, 1986 · 49 min · ★ 7.0
The A-Team uses a football game as a cover to sneak a chemical warfare scientist out of East Germany.
Directed by Craig R. Baxley · Written by Paul Bernbaum · Starring Lyman Ward, Jim Brown, John Matuszak, Joe Namath
5x05 The Theory of Revolution
Oct 24, 1986 · 47 min · ★ 7.9
The outbreak of a revolution interferes with the planned rescue of three Americans from a Third World Country.
Directed by Sidney Hayers · Written by Steven L. Sears, Burt Pearl · Starring Tasia Valenza, Pepe Serna, Alejandro Rey, Peter Brown
5x06 The Say UNCLE Affair
Oct 31, 1986 · 48 min · ★ 7.1
Stockwell is kidnapped by his former partner who has "gone bad" and the A-Team has 18 hours to find him or forever loose any chances of securing a pardon.
Directing: Michael O'Herlihy · Writing: Terry D. Nelson · Starring: James Saito, Debra Stipe, David McCallum, Toni Attell
5x07 Alive at Five
Nov 7, 1986 · 48 min · ★ 7.7
Face plans to leave the A-Team but gets involved in the rescue of a newswoman from a paranoid mob chief.
Directing: Craig R. Baxley · Writing: Bill Nuss · Starring: Dennis Fimple, Richard Romanus, Valerie Wildman, Red West
5x08 Family Reunion
Nov 14, 1986 · 49 min · ★ 7.7
A former political adviser offers to trade a diary for a reunion with his daughter- who Face is hitting on, but Murdock learns that the man may be Face's father and the daughter Face's sister.
Directed by James Darren · Written by Steven L. Sears · Starring Terri Treas, Beau Billingslea, John Carter, Cory McClendon
5x09 Point of No Return
Nov 18, 1986 · 48 min · ★ 7.4
Stockwell refuses to allow the A-Team to go after Hannibal when he fails to check in while on a solo mission in hostile territory.
Directed by Bob Bralver · Written by Burt Pearl · Starring Nancy Kwan, Dale Ishimoto, Dustin Nguyễn, Rosalind Chao
5x10 The Crystal Skull
Nov 28, 1986 · 48 min · ★ 7.0
The A-Team's effort to secure a valuable religious artifact involves them with warring island tribes who mistake Murdoch for a God and some unusual missionaries.
Directed by Michael O'Herlihy · Written by Bill Nuss · Starring Aki Aleong, Manu Tupou, Barry Pierce, Sam Hiona
5x11 The Spy Who Mugged Me
Dec 2, 1986 · 49 min · ★ 7.7
Murdock poses as suave secret agent to catch a killer before he can complete another assignment.
Directed by Michael O'Herlihy · Written by Paul Bernbaum · Starring Roy Dotrice, Ronan O'Casey, Professor Toru Tanaka, Renata Scott
5x12 The Grey Team
Dec 30, 1986 · 48 min · ★ 7.6
The A-Team must bring a girl in who has stolen a briefcase from her father, filled with material she believes he's selling to the Soviets.
Directed by Michael O'Herlihy · Written by Tom Blomquist · Starring Lew Ayres, Eddie Quillan, Paul Petersen, Tony Steedman
5x13 Without Reservations Season Finale
Mar 8, 1987 · 48 min · ★ 7.9
Frankie and Face visit Murdock at his job in a restaurant, and all three become hostages of mobsters out to kill a patron, the US Attorney General.
Directing: John Peter Kousakis · Writing: Bill Nuss · Starring: Hope Marie Carlton, Marc Alaimo, Edward Bell, Lonny Chapman