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The A-Team: Season 3

24 episodes Premiered Sep 18, 1984 Updated Sep 29, 2026

In the most popular season ever, Hannibal, Face, Murdock and B.A. face off against new criminals with the most outrageous schemes yet - from toxic-waste dumping to wild-game poaching to restaurant sabotage.

Previously on The A-Team

Season 3 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ In the most popular season ever, Hannibal, Face, Murdock and B.A.
  • ⚡ Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
  • ⚡ Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
  • ⚡ Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
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Season overview

In the most popular season ever, Hannibal, Face, Murdock and B.A. face off against new criminals with the most outrageous schemes yet - from toxic-waste dumping to wild-game poaching to restaurant sabotage.

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Season 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 3: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
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S3·E1 Mytharc

Bullets and Bikinis

Sep 18, 1984 · 46 min

Two girls ask the A-Team to take over their beachfront hotel after an alleged mobster keeps making bigger and bigger buyout offers that they refuse to take.

S3·E2 Core

The Bend in the River

Sep 25, 1984 · 88 min

Tawnia asks the A-Team to find her fiancé, an archaeologist last seen on an Amazon expedition that was attacked by a pirate.

S3·E3 Core

Fire

Oct 2, 1984 · 48 min

The A-Team faces another Army pursuit as they try to help a small town fire chief compete with a larger rival company.

S3·E4 Core

Timber!

Oct 9, 1984 · 48 min

The A-Team intercedes when a union organizer tries to put a small logging operation out of business.

S3·E5 Core

Double Heat

Oct 16, 1984 · 47 min

The A-Team is called in to find an accountant's daughter who has become a pawn in a game between two rival mobsters.

S3·E6 Core

Trouble on Wheels

Oct 23, 1984 · 48 min

Hannibal goes undercover in order to investigate employee theft from an auto plant.

S3·E7 Core

The Island

Oct 30, 1984 · 48 min

An Army doctor who once saved B.A.'s life calls in his debt by asking the A-Team to help deal with the thugs who have taken over the tropical island where he has set up a medical p

S3·E8 Core

Showdown!

Oct 30, 1984 · 46 min

Col. Lynch stakes out a Wild West show that has been terrorized by a group of A-Team impostors, sure that the real guys won't be able to ignore them.

S3·E9 Core

Sheriffs of Rivertown

Nov 20, 1984 · 48 min

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.

S3·E10 Core

The Bells of St. Mary's

Nov 27, 1984 · 48 min

Threats from their old record label prompt a singing group who went to school with Face to ask the A-Team for help.

S3·E11 Core

Hot Styles

Dec 11, 1984 · 48 min

Face's latest girl friend is rather ungrateful after the A-Team rescues her from mobsters.

S3·E12 Core

Breakout!

Dec 18, 1984 · 47 min

After being taken hostage by bankrobbers B.A. and Murdock are named as accomplices and put in jail until Decker can come and get them.

S3·E13 Core

Cup A' Joe

Jan 8, 1985 · 46 min

A restaurateur tries to force the owners of a small diner to sell out to him after he arranges for a new freeway off-ramp to be built nearby.

S3·E14 Core

The Big Squeeze

Jan 15, 1985 · 49 min

The A-Team opens its own restaurant to lure a ruthless loan shark who has other restaurant owners terrified.

S3·E15 Core

Champ!

Jan 22, 1985 · 48 min

B.A. goes undercover as a boxer in order to put a drug-trafficking ring out of business.

S3·E16 Core

Skins

Jan 29, 1985 · 49 min

The A-Team travels to Kenya to deal with game poachers who have included a game warden among their kills.

S3·E17 Core

Road Games

Feb 5, 1985 · 49 min

Face infiltrates a gambling ring to clear a man's gambling debts and to save the foster home he runs.

S3·E18 Core

Moving Targets

Feb 12, 1985 · 47 min

A Middle Eastern potentate hires the A-Team to protect his about-to-be-married daughter despite her ideas to the contrary.

S3·E19 Core

Knights of the Road

Feb 26, 1985 · 50 min

The A-Team comes to the aid of an auto mechanic being driven out of business by a ruthless competitor.

S3·E20 Core

Waste 'Em!

Mar 5, 1985 · 47 min

The A-Team discovers a plot to dump toxic waste when they try to protect a man and his blind sister from harassment.

S3·E21 Core

Bounty

Apr 2, 1985 · 47 min

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 v

S3·E22 Core

Beverly Hills Assault

Apr 9, 1985 · 49 min

The A-Team goes uptown and gets involved with an art dealer who has been replacing original paintings with fakes.

S3·E23 Mytharc

Trouble Brewing

May 7, 1985 · 47 min

Two sisters ask the A-Team for help when they are pressured to convert their all-natural soda pop bottling plant into a brewery.

S3·E24 Mytharc

Incident at Crystal Lake

May 14, 1985 · 47 min

The A-Team's planned fishing vacation at a lakeside retreat is ruined when Decker and his men show up.

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