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Opening credits[]
- Starting with this season, the opening narration by John Ashley was discontinued, and The A-Team theme song is remixed.
- The fifth and final season's opening credits consisted of scenes from Dishpan Man, Firing Line, Trial By Fire, Season 2's The Maltese Cow, The Theory of Revolution, Season 3's Season 4's The Sound of Thunder, Timber!, and Quarterback Sneak.
- Robert Vaughn and Eddie Velez join the cast in this season.
- This is the only season to have cold opens.
Episodes[]
Season 5 (1986-1987)[]
| No. in series | No. in season | Title | Director | Writer(s) | Originally aired | Prod. code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 86 | 1 | "Dishpan Man/The Court Martial (Part I)"
"The Court Martial (Part 1)" |
Tony Mordente | Stephen J. Cannell | September 26, 1986 | 5.01 |
| Hannibal is kidnapped by retired General Hunt Stockwell, who offers him the choice between going to jail or the A-Team performing a mission for him. They are to free a group of hostages from a hijacked plane in Spain. As an extra incentive, Stockwell reveals that former ally Josh Curtis is on the plane, and he might have information that could clear the A-Team's names. Instead, after being freed, Curtis betrays the team and falsely tells Stockwell he saw the A-Team kill Colonel Morrison and burn their headquarters to cover the crime. After years of beingfugitives, the A-Team has finally been captured. | ||||||
| 87 | 2 | "Trial by Fire/The Court Martial (Part I)" | Les Sheldon | Tom Blomquist | October 3, 1986 | 5.02 |
| The court martial of the A-Team is under way, featuring witnesses (among them Col. Roderick Decker) and a recounting of the team's "crime they didn't commit". Curtis is exposed as a liar, but before the truth comes out fully he is killed by his gunrunner partners. Fearful that Murdock, who is not part of the court martial, will be suspected, the rest of the A-Team pleads guilty at the hearing. Meanwhile Frankie Santana, a colleague of Hannibal's in his stunt work, and Murdock seek evidence to prove the innocence of Hannibal, Face, and BA. | ||||||
| 88 | 3 | "Firing Line/The Court Martial (Part III)" | Michael O'Herlihy | Frank Lupo | October 10, 1986 | 5.03 |
| Time is running out for the team as their execution is impending. Murdock and Frankie desperately seek Stockwell's help in helping the team escape but are rebuffed. Eventually, through clever manipulation of Stockwell, the team escape their execution and are coerced into joining Stockwell's agency, whereupon they will perform covert high-risk missions for him in exchange for a presidential pardon. | ||||||
| 89 | 4 | "Quarterback Sneak" | Craig R. Baxley | Paul Birnbaum | October 17, 1986 | 5.04 |
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The A-Team travel to East-Germany under the pretense of a football team in order to sneak out a chemical warfare scientist. Special Guest Star: Joe Namath as T.J. Sneak. | ||||||
| 90 | 5 | "The Theory of Revolution" | Sidney Hayers | Burt Pearl,
Steven L. Sears |
October 24, 1986 | 5.05 |
| The A-Team must free three captured American citizens in a far away country, but become part of a revolution in the meantime. | ||||||
| 91 | 6 | "The Say UNCLE Affair" | Michael O'Herlihy | Terry D. Nelson | October 31, 1986 | 5.06 |
The A-Team must deal with Stockwell's former partner turned adversary Ivan Trigorin when he kidnaps Stockwell. If they cannot find and free Stockwell in time, they lose any hope of securing their pardon.
Note: David McCallum and Robert Vaughn were the stars of The Man From U.N.C.L.E., to which this episode's title is a reference. Actually the best episode of the last season..although the plot of stealing a USSR warplane is lifted from Clint Eastwood Movie..."Firefox"! | ||||||
| 92 | 7 | "Alive at Five" | Craig R. Baxley | Bill Nuss | November 7, 1986 | 5.07 |
| Face plans to leave the A-Team during the upcoming mission, no longer believing that they can secure a pardon. Instead he finds himself returning to the team in order to help a reporter after trying to run away numerous times. | ||||||
| 93 | 8 | "Family Reunion" | James Darren | Steven L. Sears | November 14, 1986 | 5.08 |
| In a special of which the ending was voted on by viewers, the A-Team must help a former political advisor to reunite with his lost daughter in exchange for a diary with large political ramifications. Unbeknownst to Face, the advisor claims to be his father, a fact Murdock learns of during the course of the episode, causing a dilemma for Murdock on whether or not he should tell his friend. | ||||||
| 94 | 9 | "Point of No Return" | Bob Bralver | Burt Pearl | November 18, 1986 | 5.09 |
| The A-Team travel to Hong Kong after Hannibal goes missing in action during a solo mission. With the assistance of Stockwell, they hope to A) complete Hannibal's mission in time and B) find and save Hannibal himself. | ||||||
| 95 | 10 | "The Crystal Skull" | Michael O'Herlihy | Bill Nuss | November 28, 1986 | 5.10 |
| The A-Team become mixed up in a fight between two warring tribes concerning a religious artifact they secured for Stockwell. With the artifact in his hands, the tribe mistake Murdock for a god. | ||||||
| 96 | 11 | "The Spy Who Mugged Me" | Michael O'Herlihy | Paul Bernbaum | December 2, 1986 | 5.11 |
| Murdock must assume the guise of a James Bond-type secret agent named Logan Ross in order to stop a professional assassin known as the Jaguar from completing his next mission. | ||||||
| 97 | 12 | "The Grey Team" | Michael O'Herlihy | Tom Blomquist | December 30, 1986 | 5.12 |
| The A-Team are called in to retrieve a briefcase housing various faked government secrets, meant to be given to the Soviets. During their mission they come across a group of retiredelderly men and women, to whom the episode's title refers. Note: The weakest epsiode of the series....a better A Team ending would be the A-Team tricking the Soviets to stealing the fake briefcase; the reason Smith breaks off contact with General Stockwell...is so that in reruns The A Team is wanted again...as shown in the prior 96 epsiodes.. would habe been better of 1} The A team indeed reunite the daugther and her father but the Russians do not get arrested ..they taked the phoney Star Wars plans 2] Hanibal renagoataites terms of working for Stockwell (On the grounds that if the A Team is arrested-they will have to reveal their involment with stokcwell orgization to other Federal Agencies such as the FBI...the A team goes to Jail..but stockwell will be out of the spy business for good..in other words the A team will work for stockwell only on dangerous but not suicide missions such as The Say Uncle Affair or The Spy who hugged Me....3] LAStly Mursock finally finds a occupation he has talent for...a Flying School/Charter Air service which would be the perfect cover for A team adventures at home and Abbroad.... ] | ||||||
| 98 | 13 | "Without Reservations" | John Peter Kousakis | Bill Nuss | March 8, 1987 | 5.13 |
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Face becomes critically injured when a group of mobsters take over the restaurant Murdock works at. Together with Frankie, the three are taken hostage and it is up to Hannibal and B.A. to rescue them in time to save Face's life. Note: This is the last episode of the series. Note this epsiode is out of order this should have been the 2nd to last epsiode Note: Although this was the last episode of the series to be broadcast, it is, in fact, the penultimate episode. It was aired out of order more than two months after "The Grey Team", for reasons that remain unclear. A visual clue of the order of the episodes is that in "The Grey Team", Murdock is seen wearing a shirt that says "Fini", the French word for "Finished", whilst in this episode he is seen wearing a shirt that reads "Almost Fini". | ||||||