The BEST episodes written by Frank Lupo

#1 - Cain's Son-in-Law

B.J. and the Bear - Season 2 - Episode 5

When B.J. rescues a young lady from an assailant it hits Captain Cain where he lives.

#2 - A Train of Thought

The Greatest American Hero - Season 2 - Episode 9

Ralph crashes head first into a train, and gets amnesia. Pam and Bill have to convince him that the suit really works.

#3 - The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

The Greatest American Hero - Season 2 - Episode 15

Ralph and Bill hunt for the sea creature "Carrie" in the Bermuda Triangle thinking that the monster may be responsible for all of the boats that disappear there. They undercover a stolen boat ring, and never find the creature.

#4 - The Hand-Painted Thai

The Greatest American Hero - Season 2 - Episode 11

Years ago, prisoners of war were brainwashed to respond to a code phrase. Now, someone is using them to commit acts of sabotage. Bill and Ralph investigate, but Bill inadvertently falls under a hypnotic trance, leaving the heroics up to Ralph.

#5 - Incident at Crystal Lake

The A-Team - Season 3 - Episode 25

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

#6 - Bear Bondage

B.J. and the Bear - Season 2 - Episode 16

When Bear becomes ill B.J. takes him to a vet and is subsequently told that he has died. However it turns out that the vet is secretly selling animals to a laboratory and Bear is still alive.

#7 - Judgment Day (1)

The A-Team - Season 4 - Episode 1

The A-Team goes to Italy to rescue a judge's daughter from mobsters, then must spend the journey home aboard an oceanliner dodging the boys trying to get her back.

#8 - There's Just No Accounting...

The Greatest American Hero - Season 2 - Episode 18

Bill convinces the parents of a kidnap victim to pay the ransom, certain that Ralph can recover it when he saves their little girl. Ralph finds himself being audited by an overzealous IRS agent who's convinced he took the ransom money. Meanwhile, Ralph and Bill keep getting shot at in drive-by shootings, but by who?

#9 - Pilot (2)

Wiseguy - Season 1 - Episode 2

Vinnie and Sonny's right hand man, Tony Grecco, have a run-in with the cops for which Vinnie is arrested. The Steelgraves find that guns are being exported illegally using their pier and decide to take possession of the guns and sell them back to the owner. The meeting goes down bad and ends with Dave Steelgrave's death. Vinnie gets rid of Tony by setting him up and having him arrested. To prove his loyalty, Vinnie shoots a federal agent for Sonny (but the agent was warned, wore a bullet proof vest, and was then moved out of state).

#10 - Dead or Alive

Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 8

Hunter and McCall track a bounty hunter who is not fussy about the condition of his prey.

#11 - The Healer

Painkiller Jane - Season 1 - Episode 15

Sabotage hinders Jane's efforts to catch a Neuro, she becomes suspicious of a faith healer that she has been visiting.

#12 - Million Dollar Misunderstanding

Hunter - Season 2 - Episode 8

A ruthless robbery of an armoured car goes awry when Dunbar, the leader of the gang, kills his partner only to have his car stolen with the $1,000,000 in the trunk. When the owner of the car is later killed, Hunter and McCall find themselves on a case that gets deadlier at every turn and puts Rick against as tough and mean a man as he'll ever meet

#13 - Waiting for Insane Wayne

The A-Team - Season 4 - Episode 17

When Murdock gets mistaken for an insane mercenary the A-Team is drawn into a fight over property rights and an oil well.

#14 - No Need to Know

Magnum, P.I. - Season 1 - Episode 5

Magnum returns from a case to find that Higgins' old Army commander is staying on the Masters Estate, under tight security, until some IRA members he helped capture are tried. Two Secret Intelligence Agents hire Magnum to protect the Brigadier and foil assassins out to kill him before the terrorists' trail, but the "need to know" basis the Agents insist on operating by only serves to complicate matters for Magnum...

#15 - Captain Bellybuster and the Speed Factory

The Greatest American Hero - Season 2 - Episode 20

Bill recieves hot tips on a speed factory working out of a fast food chain, and a newspaper reporter publishes pictures of Ralph flying.

#16 - Pilot (1)

Wiseguy - Season 1 - Episode 1

Vinnie (Ken Wahl) is released from prison where he has been for two years to establish his cover. He meets his boss, Frank McPike (Jonathan Banks) and gets to see his coach and mentor, Jerry Greco (Robert Miranda). Greco is killed and Vinnie demands to be put in to finish the investigation. He uses his ingenuity to get a foothold in the Steelgrave crime family, but it will take a while to finish this job.

#17 - A Long Way from L.A.

Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 4

A gang war is in the making if Hunter can't find a witness that can provide testimony that will stop it.

#18 - Mexican Slayride

The A-Team - Season 1 - Episode 1

Newspaper reporter Amy Allen sets out to prove the A-Team really exists and ends up hiring them to rescue one of her fellow reporters who has been kidnapped by Mexican outlaws.

#19 - The Resurrection of Carlini

The Greatest American Hero - Season 3 - Episode 4

A magician killed performing his greatest trick seemingly returns from the grave to murder his three rivals. Ralph must use his suit to out trick the would-be killer.

#20 - The Snow Queen (2)

Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 14

Dee Dee's in danger as she moves closer to exposing a ruthless drug dealer, while Hunter fights to keep a rogue policeman from killing a material witness.

#21 - The Snow Queen (1)

Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 13

A cocaine dealer from New York escapes from the escort, who wants her dead. Hunter and Molinas team up for a major drug bust. Dee Dee's cover may be blown.

#22 - Werewolf (pilot)

Werewolf - Season 1 - Episode 1

College student Eric Cord is turned into a werewolf by his roommate shortly before he is forced to kill him. Eric sets out on a quest to locate and kill Skorzeny, the source of the werewolf bloodline, thus lifting his curse: while keeping ahead of Alamo Joe, a bounty hunter determined to bring him in.

#23 - Operation: Spoilsport

The Greatest American Hero - Season 2 - Episode 2

Ralph and Bill must stop World War III by defusing a corrupt military leader's plans to launch a suprise missile attack against Russia.

#24 - Harder Than It Looks

The A-Team - Season 2 - Episode 20

The rescue of a kidnapping victim looks easy until the ransom is left behind and the victim insists on bringing along one of her captors.

#25 - Bounty

Walker, Texas Ranger - Season 2 - Episode 1

After he robbed a bank Roy accidentally gets arrested because of a minor offense, but has to be freed after a short time. Walker and Trivette stay close on his heels but they are not the only ones. The bounty hunter Maxwell is also behind Roy. When Roy is (unprovable) killed by Maxwell, Walker and Trivette follow Maxwell, who is now behind Roy's partner Ned - who has the stolen money - and doesn't stop at nothing to get the money.

#26 - The Out-of-Towners

The A-Team - Season 1 - Episode 7

The A-Team takes up the cause of New York shopkeepers against neighborhood protection racketeers.

#27 - The Battle of Bel Air

The A-Team - Season 2 - Episode 15

The A-Team must rescue an employee of a security firm after she warns them about an ambush.

#28 - One More Time

The A-Team - Season 1 - Episode 10

The US government recruits the A-Team to rescue a general and his daughter from guerillas in Borneo.

#29 - A Small and Deadly War

The A-Team - Season 1 - Episode 4

Hannibal plays cat and mouse with a renegade S.W.A.T. A-Team that's committing murders for hire.

#30 - Steel

The A-Team - Season 2 - Episode 11

The A-Team looks into sabotage at a construction site.

#31 - Hard Contract

Hunter - Season 1 - Episode 2

Dee Dee McCall's former partner, Gus Trancus, becomes a hit man for the mob. His victim is a police informant.

#32 - Shine On

B.J. and the Bear - Season 1 - Episode 2

Three young ladies abduct BJ and force him to work in an illegal still,asserting that they need money for their sick father.

#33 - Firing Line (3)

The A-Team - Season 5 - Episode 3

General Stockwell interferes with the plans of Murdock and Frankie to free the rest of the A-Team before the Army can execute them.

#34 - The Murphy Contingent

B.J. and the Bear - Season 1 - Episode 7

Facing an eviction, the murphy contingent devise a plan which BJ disapproves

#35 - Classical Gas

The Greatest American Hero - Season 2 - Episode 5

Ralph's students start a band, and a promoter lands them a spot on a big ticket concert while trying to get Pam to go out with him.

#36 - Never Give a Trucker an Even Break

B.J. and the Bear - Season 1 - Episode 5

B.J. helps a girl who works for a motorcycle stunt circuit

#37 - A Nice Place to Visit

The A-Team - Season 1 - Episode 13

The A-Team comes to the aid of a small town being terrorized by a murderous family.

#38 - The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas

The A-Team - Season 1 - Episode 6

The A-Team gets involved in a mob power play when two girls ask them to find their college professor who went to Las Vegas with a perfect gambling system and never came back.

#39 - Family Matters

Walker, Texas Ranger - Season 2 - Episode 6

Walker is not able to arrest Mick Flanders because his sister is in the Witness Protection Program. Mick, proving that he's invincible, kidnaps a boy named Archie who was staying at Walker's ranch.

#40 - The Sound of Thunder

The A-Team - Season 4 - Episode 23

General Fulbright captures the A-Team then offers to let them prove their innocence by accompanying him to Vietnam and rescuing a POW who could clear their names.

#41 - The Ugliest Dog in Hawaii

Magnum, P.I. - Season 1 - Episode 8

Higgins volunteers Magnum's services to guard a wealthy socialite's quarantined dog, after the attempted dognapping of the canine. "Sir Algernon Farnsworth" soon finds himself to be the most wanted dog in Hawaii, when his former owner, ageing gangster Victor DiGiorgio, has need to get him back. Magnum and an animal regulations officer are soon on the run with Algie from the would-be dognappers - and the fact that the officer seems to be scared of dogs doesn't exactly make matters any easier - but just why does DiGiorgio want the mutt back so badly?...

#42 - Shades

Hunter - Season 3 - Episode 22

McCall's life is saved by a mysterious gunman and Hunter is missing.

#43 - Through the Past, Darkly

B.J. and the Bear - Season 2 - Episode 15

A mental patient escapes from an institution and beseeches help from B.J.to clear her name in a murder rap investigation. She stands accused of killing her husband

#44 - The Young Lords

Battlestar Galactica - Season 1 - Episode 11

Starbuck crashes on the planet Trillion, where the Cylons have destroyed all the humans except for a band of children, who have become warriors to save their enslaved father.

#45 - The Bend in the River (2)

The A-Team - Season 3 - Episode 3

#46 - The Bend in the River (1)

The A-Team - Season 3 - Episode 2

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

#47 - When You Comin' Back, Range Rider? (2)

The A-Team - Season 2 - Episode 6

With Decker hot on their heels, the A-Team must try and find of evidence of the mustangs’ illegal rustling as quickly as possible, before they are captured themselves. With enemies coming from two sides, it is ultimately up to Murdock to save his friends.

#48 - Pilot (1)

Riptide (1984) - Season 1 - Episode 1

Nick and Cody investigate a yacht pirating that's disputed by a woman who says she saw the boat explode and sink. First of two parts.

#49 - When You Comin' Back, Range Rider? (1)

The A-Team - Season 2 - Episode 5

The A-Team must duck their Army pursuers as they try to stop wild horse rustlers.

#50 - Pilot (2)

Riptide (1984) - Season 1 - Episode 2

Conclusion. Nick and Cody try to raise the sunken hull of the yacht to find out why anyone would sink it.