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Die vier ehemalige Soldaten B. A. Baracus, H. M. Murdock, Templeton Peck und John Smith sind auf der Flucht vor der Militärpolizei. Dabei helfen sie Menschen, die in Not geraten sind und vom Gesetz im Stich gelassen wurden. Das A-Team (Originaltitel: The A-Team) ist eine Actionserie aus den Vereinigten Staaten von Stephen J. Cannell und Frank Lupo. Sie wurde von bis Als Special Forces Operational Detachment-Alpha (OD-A) oder umgangssprachlich A-Team bezeichnet das United States Army Special Forces Command. Zwar gelingt es dem A-Team, das Mädchen aus den Klauen des Wahnsinnigen zu befreien, jedoch geraten Hannibal, Face, B.A. und Amy dabei selbst in. Kurzbeschreibung. "A-Team - Season 1" Vier Männer - John "Hannibal" Smith, Templeton Face, H.M. "Howling Mad" Murdock und. Das A-Team: Vier verleumdete Vietnamkriegsveteranen helfen auf der Flucht vor der Militärpolizei anderen Menschen in bremboski.eu „Hannibal“ (George Peppard). Was wurde aus B.A., Murdock und Face? Das machen die „A-Team“-Stars heute! Marek Bang
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Die Figur des Hannibal wurde von George Der Fremde verkörpert, der vor allem in den ern mit Filmen wie Frühstück bei Tiffany erfolgreich war. Diese Änderungen bewirkten aber eher einen gegenteiligen Zuschauer-Zuspruch, wodurch die Serie bereits nach der Sie brachen aus dem Gefängnis aus Glücklich Geschieden tauchten in Los Angeles unter. Auch schwer beschädigte Maschinen kann er reparieren oder zu Waffen umfunktionieren. Änderungen Oma Und Enkelin Handlungsschema für die fünfte Staffel vermochten diese Entwicklung nicht aufzuhalten, woraufhin die Serie eingestellt wurde. Da wird wild durch die Gegend geschossen, irgendeine trickreiche Veränderung an Fahrzeugen vorgenommen, Eifel Kino Prüm Guten vor den Bösen beschützt und trotzdem geht niemand drauf. Diese Änderungen bewirkten aber eher einen gegenteiligen Zuschauer-Zuspruch, wodurch die Serie bereits nach der John Ashley Tom Blomquist Tödliche Augenblicke. Wie in vielen anderen Serien wurde versucht, mit neu eingeführten Charakteren die Serie neu zu beleben. Sie wollen nicht so ganz ernst genommen werden, aber ihre Gegner Vikings Hvitserk sie ernst nehmen. Face wurde von Dirk Benedict Willow Movie, der in den späten ern in Kampfstern Galactica mitwirkte. Murdock trägt den Beinamen Howling Der Bulldozerwas sich auf seinen instabilen Geisteszustand bezieht. Hannibal arranges to meet Sosa on board a container ship at the Los Angeles Port, saying he will hand over "Morrison" and the plates.
Face then calls Sosa on a drop phone he planted on her at a train station earlier, and conspires a different plan with her. It all unfolds according to plan until Pike, who is now working with Lynch, blows up the container ship with a bazooka and chases Face to near death.
BA having converted to Buddhism while in prison finally gives up his pacifist ways and confronts Pike before breaking his neck and spinal cord, killing him and saving Face's life.
Hannibal leads Lynch into a container with Murdock, who, wearing a covered bullet-proof helmet filled with ketchup, is portraying Morrison. Lynch shoots at Murdock's head, believing that he killed Morrison, and is later tricked into admitting that he stole the plates, but is subsequently caught and arrested by Sosa for his crimes.
The CIA agents led by a separate "Lynch" comes and claims custody of the original one. Despite their success and proving themselves innocent, the military still arrests the team for escaping from prison, also a crime; they and Sosa are angered by this, since it is only being done so Sosa's boss does not have to fill out paperwork.
Sosa's boss even tries to cover their tracks because of their screw up. Sosa is reinstated to captain, but she promises to do all she can to set the team free and kisses Face as everybody is led into a prison van.
In the van, the team starts saying that the system has burned them again, but Hannibal tells them that there is always a way out of any situation, and turns towards Face, who smiles and says "I don't want to steal your line, boss, but I love it when a plan comes together" and opens his mouth, revealing a handcuff key given to him by Sosa through the kiss.
The final scene includes a narration spoken by Corey Burton similar to the show's opening narration. Benedict plays Face's fellow tanning bed client, credited as " Pensacola Prisoner Milt," and Schultz plays the German neurologist who examines Murdock.
The entire film was shot at various locations in Canada including Kamloops , Vancouver , Cache Creek and Ashcroft, [12] British Columbia , with much of the studio works being done at Mammoth Studios.
American markings were digitally added later. The film had been in development since the mids, going through a number of writers and story ideas, and being put on hold a number of times.
Producer Stephen J. Cannell hoped to update the setting, perhaps using the Gulf War as part of the backstory. In June , Variety revealed that Liam Neeson was in negotiations with 20th Century Fox to star as Hannibal Smith, [22] and Bradley Cooper announced to MTV News [23] that he would be playing the role of Templeton Peck after he first denied the rumors saying that he was not involved and insisted that he had not seen any script.
On August 26, , MMAjunkie. Baracus in the upcoming film, [25] but this was later denied by a representative for Jackson. Filming started in Vancouver in late , and Jackson's involvement was then confirmed.
They additionally reported that Sharlto Copley and Jessica Biel were in final negotiations to join the cast. Copley would be playing the role of H. Murdock and Biel would be playing the ex-lover of Face who is a disillusioned and ruthless Army officer in charge of pursuing the team.
The first official pictures of Neeson, Cooper, Copley and Jackson in character included one which features the iconic van in the background.
On October 30, , Dwight Schultz confirmed that he had filmed a cameo scene for the movie. T , the original BA Baracus, did not appear in the film.
In an interview with Wendy Williams , he said he did not like doing a cameo appearance in a film based on the original series he once did.
In February , it was announced a series of comics for the movie would be released beginning in March. Film director Joe Carnahan and Tom Waltz collaborated to pen the series.
Jazwares released a line of action figures featuring the four main characters, plus the GMC Vandura. An application for the iPhone was released as part of the marketing blitz for the film.
The A-Team application is a side-scrolling, third person, action shooter game. Produced by RealNetworks the game includes voice-overs from B.
The film's first trailer was released January 8, Army tank. The film premiered in the United Kingdom on July 27, before going on general release the next day.
The event was attended by the four team members along with Jessica Biel, and the A-Team van. An extended cut was also released, pushing the running time to minutes.
The A-Team received mixed reviews from critics. The site's critical consensus reads, "The A-Team assembles a top-rate cast only to ditch the show's appealingly silly premise for explosive yet muddled blockbuster filmmaking.
Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly says of the film: "It's trash so compacted it glows". He goes on to say the film lacks "a coherent plot and complex characterization", though he does note that these qualities "are irrelevant to the genre".
Petersburg Times was far more positive, calling the film "literally a blast" from start to finish, and praises it for "containing more thrills than the average shoot-em-up".
Film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said The A-Team is an incomprehensible mess, criticizing the film for being as shallow as the television series, which he describes as "punishment" when drawn out to a two-hour-long film.
Dirk Benedict , who played Templeton "Faceman" Peck in the TV series, spoke of regretting his cameo, stating "You'll miss me if you blink.
I kind of regret doing it because it's a non-part. They wanted to be able to say, 'Oh yeah, the original cast are in it,' but we're not.
It is three seconds. It's kind of insulting. T , the original B. Baracus, was offered a cameo, but turned it down, feeling it would not be right for him to appear in the film if he did not play Barracus.
T, after viewing scenes from the film, thought the final product was "the greatest thing in the world". T allegedly stated that he had become disillusioned and felt the story emphasized sex and violence, and that it was unfaithful to the original series.
T later stated that the actor had not yet seen the film and could not comment on it. Dwight Schultz, who played the TV series' "Howling Mad" Murdock, issued a statement to his official fansite that the film "pays homage to the series while it eschews its essential working premise: a band of capable military brothers for hire determined to save underdog and usually poor civilians from scum.
The team characters are sufficiently different and, with so many roles reversed from the original, one could say they are not really derivative, save for their names.
In the psychiatric hospital scene, Reginald Barclay , Schultz's character from Star Trek: The Next Generation , is credited during the opening title of a film, as is G.
Starbuck, referencing Lieutenant Starbuck , Benedict's character from the original Battlestar Galactica. All music is composed by Alan Silvestri unless stated otherwise.
Neeson, Cooper, Copley and Jackson originally expressed interest in doing a sequel. There will NOT be a sequel.
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Box Office Mojo. MTV Movies Blog. Entertainment Weekly. The A-Team has been broadcast all over the world; international response has been varied.
George Peppard was the first to receive the invitation and thus thought the invitation applied only to him. When the other cast members were also invited, Peppard declined, leaving only Mr.
T, Benedict and Schultz to visit the Netherlands. A video was released with the present actors in which Dwight Schultz apologized and thanked everyone who had attended.
From 7mate has been showing reruns of show. The show was broadcast in New Zealand on TV2. In the UK, the program was shown on ITV , starting on Friday, July 22, ; when it returned for its second run resuming mid-second season it moved to Saturday evenings.
The series continued to be repeated on ITV until The series was later repeated on UK Gold from through at various times.
It was also repeated on Bravo from to It returned to the channel in until the channel's closure in In the digital channel Spike began showing the series from the beginning.
Channel 5 also repeated it in Although ratings soared during its early seasons, many television critics described the show largely as cartoonish and thereby wrote the series off.
Most reviews focused on acting and the formulaic nature of the episodes, most prominently the absence of actual killing in a show about Vietnam War veterans.
The show was a huge hit in Italy in the mids to the s. Mary Harron, New Statesman [32]. The violence presented in The A-Team is highly sanitized.
People do not bleed or bruise when hit though they might develop a limp or require a sling , nor do the members of the A-Team kill people.
The results of violence were only ever presented when it was required for the script. In almost every car crash there is a short take showing the occupants of the vehicle climbing out of the mangled or burning wreck, even in helicopter crashes.
However, more of these types of takes were dropped near the end of the fourth season. According to Stephen J. Cannell, this part of the show did become a running joke for the writing staff and they would at times test the limits of realism on purpose.
The show has been described as cartoonish and likened to Tom and Jerry. Dean P. After all, Tom and Jerry survived all sorts of mayhem for years with no ill-effects.
Stephen J. Cannell, co-creator of the show responds: "They were determined to make a point, and we were too big a target to resist.
Cartoon violence is a scapegoat issue. The GMC Vandura van used by the A-Team, with its characteristic red stripe, black and red turbine mag wheels, and rooftop spoiler, [37] has become an enduring pop culture icon.
A number of devices were seen in the back of the van in different episodes, including a mini printing press "Pros and Cons" , an audio surveillance recording device "A Small and Deadly War" , Hannibal's disguise kits in various episodes, and a gun storage locker.
Early in the second season, these logos were blacked out, although GMC continued to supply vans and receive a credit on the closing credits of each episode.
The van was almost all-black, as the section above the red stripe was metallic gray. The angle of the rear spoiler can also be seen to vary on different examples of the van within the series.
Additionally, some versions of the van have a sunroof, whereas others, typically those used for stunts do not. This led to continuity errors in some episodes, such as in the third season's "The Bells of St.
Mary's", in a scene where Face jumps from a building onto the roof of the van with no sunroof but moments later, in an interior studio shot, climbs in through the sunroof.
The huge success of the series saw a vast array of merchandise, including toys and snacks released both in America and internationally.
There were several sets of trading cards and stickers, action figures of the characters were produced by Galoob as well as vehicles, including B.
The set includes a Baldwin shark nose engine painted up like the Van and a matching Caboose. Following the original cancellation of the series, further merchandise has appeared as the series has achieved cult status, including an A-Team van by "Hot Wheels".
In Lego released a pack that includes a B. Baracus minifigure and constructible van; the pack will unlock additional A-Team themed content in the video game Lego Dimensions , including all four team members as playable characters.
Marvel Comics produced a three-issue A-Team comic book series, which was later reprinted as a trade paperback. Similarly, in the United Kingdom, an A-Team comic strip appeared for several years in the s as part of the children's television magazine and comic Look-In , to tie in with the British run of the series.
Several novels were based on the series, the first six published in America by Dell and in Britain by Target Books ; the last four were only published in Britain.
The first six are credited to Charles Heath. The books are generally found in paperback form, although hardback copies with different cover artwork were also released.
A Panini set of stickers, which adapted six TV episodes from the first and earlier second season using shots from the episodes, could be stuck into an accompanying book, with text under each inserted sticker to narrate the story.
The theme, as heard on seasons two through four including the opening narration and sound effects , was also released on TVT's Television's Greatest Hits: 70s and 80s.
A 7-inch single of the song credited to Post was released on RCA in The French version of the song had lyrics, which mirrored the spoken description of the show in the English opening credits.
The series was co produced by former actor John Ashley who also provided the opening narration to the movie. In the episode "Body Slam", which featured Hogan, wrestling interviewer and announcer "Mean" Gene Okerlund also appeared.
In early episodes the team used Colt AR SP1 semi-automatic rifles with automatic sound effects, simulating the M16 , while in later seasons they used the Ruger Mini , and on rare occasions, the selective fire ACK variant of the Mini Hannibal is also seen using an M60 machine gun which Hannibal called "Baby" in some episodes as well as a Micro-Uzi.
MACs with parts added to simulate the Uzi appear in at least two early episodes. Many antagonists and members of the team are seen using s as well.
For five seasons, the wrongly accused foursome used rifles, handguns, submachine guns and shotguns to bring justice for the little guy while trying to stay out of jail.
Regardless of the number of explosions or rounds fired, nobody ever got seriously hurt except for the occasional flesh wound of a team member.
The complete series set was released in Region 4 on November 3, All 5 seasons were re-released in Region 2 with new packaging on June 21, The series has been remastered and was released on Blu-ray disc in the United Kingdom on October 17, The A-Team".
T was unable to make the meeting, which took place in the Friar's Club in Beverly Hills , but he did manage to appear on the show for a brief talk with Collins.
They were later reinserted for the extended-cut of the film. The team is to be made up of both male and female characters. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Cannell Productions. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground.
Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire See also: List of The A-Team episodes.
Main article: List of The A-Team characters. They are all Vietnam veterans. The gradual assimilation of Vietnam into acceptable popular mythology, which began solemnly with The Deer Hunter , has reached its culmination with The A-Team : No longer a memory to be hurriedly brushed aside, but heroes of a network adventure show.
Their enemy is a comic army officer, Col. Lynch, see Sgt. This is classic right-wing American populism; patriotic, macho, anti-authority, and is unlikely to be understood in Britain, where to be right-wing implies an obsequiousness towards officers and the status quo.
But right-wing this series certainly is. The bandits, it turns out, are in league with a group of sinister guerrillas who are trying to destabilise the country.
Thanks to the A-Team's hearts and minds policy, the villagers rise up and put them to rout, in a minute series of comic-book battle scenes, over-turning cars and airplane stunt-tricks, in which not a single person is hurt.
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The bandits, it turns out, are in league with a group of sinister guerrillas who are trying to destabilise the country. According to Stephen J. Retrieved August 17, The show ran for five seasons on the NBC television network, from January 23, to December 30, Perfekte Dinner Heute one additional, previously unbroadcast episode shown on March 8,for a total of 98 episodes. March 30, He also is constantly seen smoking a cigar. Zahltag Ein Koffer Voller Chancen Press. "A-Team - Season 1" Vier Männer - John "Hannibal" Smith, Templeton Face, H.M. "Howling Mad" Murdock und Bosco Albert "B.A." - werden unschuldig vom. Am Anfang der meisten Folgen von „Das A-Team“ werden die Protagonisten Hannibal, Murdock, B. A. und Face von Menschen, die sich in einer Notlage befinden. THE A TEAM. likes · 29 talking about this. The A-Team is an American action-adventure television series, running from to , about a. Publikumsliebling wurde ausgerechnet der so unsympathisch wirkende Afroamerikaner Mr. Wie in Highlander Imdb anderen Serien wurde versucht, mit neu eingeführten Charakteren die Serie neu zu beleben. Übersicht mit allen Folgen. Ähnlich Shades Of Grey Band 4 Deutsch Hannibal ist Face sehr wandlungsfähig. Mann zusätzliche Eigenschaften ins Team bringen sollte, konnten dabei aber nicht überzeugen. Deutschsprachige Erstausstrahlung. These men promptly escaped Mr Bean Filme Stream a maximum-security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Als dritte Partei tritt in vielen Folgen die Militärpolizei in Erscheinung, welche das A-Team zwar gelegentlich kurzzeitig gefangen nimmt, letztlich aber dessen Flucht nicht verhindern kann. On August 26, , MMAjunkie. Baracus in the upcoming film, [25] but this was later denied by a representative for Jackson. Filming started in Vancouver in late , and Jackson's involvement was then confirmed.
They additionally reported that Sharlto Copley and Jessica Biel were in final negotiations to join the cast. Copley would be playing the role of H.
Murdock and Biel would be playing the ex-lover of Face who is a disillusioned and ruthless Army officer in charge of pursuing the team.
The first official pictures of Neeson, Cooper, Copley and Jackson in character included one which features the iconic van in the background.
On October 30, , Dwight Schultz confirmed that he had filmed a cameo scene for the movie. T , the original BA Baracus, did not appear in the film.
In an interview with Wendy Williams , he said he did not like doing a cameo appearance in a film based on the original series he once did.
In February , it was announced a series of comics for the movie would be released beginning in March. Film director Joe Carnahan and Tom Waltz collaborated to pen the series.
Jazwares released a line of action figures featuring the four main characters, plus the GMC Vandura. An application for the iPhone was released as part of the marketing blitz for the film.
The A-Team application is a side-scrolling, third person, action shooter game. Produced by RealNetworks the game includes voice-overs from B. The film's first trailer was released January 8, Army tank.
The film premiered in the United Kingdom on July 27, before going on general release the next day. The event was attended by the four team members along with Jessica Biel, and the A-Team van.
An extended cut was also released, pushing the running time to minutes. The A-Team received mixed reviews from critics. The site's critical consensus reads, "The A-Team assembles a top-rate cast only to ditch the show's appealingly silly premise for explosive yet muddled blockbuster filmmaking.
Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly says of the film: "It's trash so compacted it glows". He goes on to say the film lacks "a coherent plot and complex characterization", though he does note that these qualities "are irrelevant to the genre".
Petersburg Times was far more positive, calling the film "literally a blast" from start to finish, and praises it for "containing more thrills than the average shoot-em-up".
Film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said The A-Team is an incomprehensible mess, criticizing the film for being as shallow as the television series, which he describes as "punishment" when drawn out to a two-hour-long film.
Dirk Benedict , who played Templeton "Faceman" Peck in the TV series, spoke of regretting his cameo, stating "You'll miss me if you blink.
I kind of regret doing it because it's a non-part. They wanted to be able to say, 'Oh yeah, the original cast are in it,' but we're not.
It is three seconds. It's kind of insulting. T , the original B. Baracus, was offered a cameo, but turned it down, feeling it would not be right for him to appear in the film if he did not play Barracus.
T, after viewing scenes from the film, thought the final product was "the greatest thing in the world". T allegedly stated that he had become disillusioned and felt the story emphasized sex and violence, and that it was unfaithful to the original series.
T later stated that the actor had not yet seen the film and could not comment on it. Dwight Schultz, who played the TV series' "Howling Mad" Murdock, issued a statement to his official fansite that the film "pays homage to the series while it eschews its essential working premise: a band of capable military brothers for hire determined to save underdog and usually poor civilians from scum.
The team characters are sufficiently different and, with so many roles reversed from the original, one could say they are not really derivative, save for their names.
In the psychiatric hospital scene, Reginald Barclay , Schultz's character from Star Trek: The Next Generation , is credited during the opening title of a film, as is G.
Starbuck, referencing Lieutenant Starbuck , Benedict's character from the original Battlestar Galactica. All music is composed by Alan Silvestri unless stated otherwise.
Neeson, Cooper, Copley and Jackson originally expressed interest in doing a sequel. There will NOT be a sequel. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Five Ounces Of Pain. Dirk Benedict Central. Trailer Addict. The Daily Telegraph. The Huffington Post. An article in the New Statesman UK published shortly after the premiere of The A-Team in the United Kingdom, also pointed out The A-Team's connection to the Vietnam War, characterizing it as the representation of the idealization of the Vietnam War, and an example of the war slowly becoming accepted and assimilated into American culture.
One of the team's primary antagonists, Col. Often, Hannibal would refer to such a tactic, after which the other members of the team would complain about its failure during the War.
This was also used to refer to some of Face's past accomplishments in scamming items for the team, such as in the first-season episode " Holiday In The Hills ", in which Murdock fondly remembers Face being able to secure a '53 Cadillac while in the Vietnam jungle.
The team's ties to the Vietnam War were referred to again in the fourth-season finale, " The Sound of Thunder ", in which the team is introduced to Tia Tia Carrere , a war orphan and daughter of fourth season antagonist General Fulbright.
Returning to Vietnam, Fulbright is shot in the back and gives his last words as he dies. The documentary Bring Back The A-Team joked that the scene lasted seven and a half minutes, [16] but his death actually took a little over a minute.
His murderer, a Vietnamese colonel, is killed in retaliation. Tia then returns with the team to the United States see also: casting. This episode is notable for having one of the show's few truly serious dramatic moments, with each team member privately reminiscing on their war experiences, intercut with news footage from the war with Barry McGuire 's Eve of Destruction playing in the background.
The show's ties to the Vietnam War are fully dealt with in the opening arc of the fifth season, dubbed "The Court-Martial Part 1—3 ", in which the team is finally court-martialed for the robbery of the bank of Hanoi.
The character of Roderick Decker makes a return on the witness stand, and various newly introduced characters from the A-Team's past also make appearances.
The team, after a string of setbacks, decides to plead guilty to the crime and they are sentenced to be executed.
They escape this fate and come to work for a General Hunt Stockwell, leading into the remainder of the fifth season.
The show ran for five seasons on the NBC television network, from January 23, to December 30, with one additional, previously unbroadcast episode shown on March 8, , for a total of 98 episodes.
The A-Team revolves around the four members of a former commando outfit, now mercenaries. Lieutenant Templeton Peck Dirk Benedict ; Tim Dunigan appeared as Templeton Peck in the pilot , usually called "Face" or "Faceman", is a smooth-talking con man who serves as the team's appropriator of vehicles and other useful items, as well as the team's second-in-command.
The team's pilot is Captain H. A patch on Hannibal's uniform on the right shoulder in that episode indicates he belonged to the st Airborne during a prior combat assignment, but that patch was replaced by the 1st Air Cavalry Division patch in the episode " Trial by Fire ".
The patch worn on the left sleeve according to uniform wear in the Army is the current assignment of the person wearing it and in the episode "A Nice Place to Visit" shows that the team was assigned to the Special Forces with a tab Airborne over the shoulder patch.
Also their berets in that episode are green and have the tab of the 5th Special Forces in Vietnam on them. Though the name they have adopted comes from the "A-Teams", the nickname coined for Special Forces Operational Detachments Alpha, these detachments usually consisted of twelve members; whether the four were considered a "detachment" of their own or had once had eight compatriots who were killed in action was never revealed.
For its first season and the first half of the second season, the team was assisted by reporter Amy Amanda Allen Melinda Culea.
In the second half of the second season, Allen was replaced by fellow reporter Tawnia Baker Marla Heasley. The character of Tia Tia Carrere , a Vietnam war orphan now living in the United States, was meant to join the Team in the fifth season, [17] but she was replaced by Frankie Santana Eddie Velez , who served as the team's special effects expert.
Velez was added to the opening credits of the fifth season after its second episode. During their adventures, the A-Team was constantly met by opposition from the Military Police.
Lynch returned for one episode in the show's third season " Showdown! Decker was also briefly replaced by a Colonel Briggs Charles Napier in the third season for one episode " Fire " when LeGault was unavailable, but returned shortly after.
For the latter portion of the show's fourth season, the team was hunted by General Harlan "Bull" Fulbright Jack Ging , who would later hire the A-Team to find Tia in the season four finale, during which Fulbright was killed.
The fifth season introduced General Hunt Stockwell Robert Vaughn who, while serving as the team's primary antagonist, was also the team's boss and joined them on several missions.
His most used disguise onscreen only on the pilot episode is Mr. Lee, the dry cleaner. This is one of the final parts of the client screening process, as he tells the client where to go to make full contact with the A-Team.
He dresses most often in a tan safari jacket and black leather gloves. He also is constantly seen smoking a cigar.
His catchphrase is "I love it when a plan comes together". Often said, usually by B. The team's scrounger and con artist , he can get virtually anything he sets his mind to, usually exploiting women with sympathy-appeal and flirtation.
He grew up an orphan, and is not without integrity, as stated by Murdock in the episode " Family Reunion ": "He would rip the shirt off his back for you, and then scam one for himself.
He dresses suavely, often appearing in suits. Sergeant Bosco "B. He is also the team's mechanic, master at arms, demolition and weapon's specialist.
Baracus affects a dislike for Murdock, calling him a "crazy fool", but his true feelings of friendship are revealed when he prevents Murdock from drowning in his desire to live like a fish.
It is very rare that Baracus is awake while flying, and even rarer for him actually to consent to it. When he does, however, he then goes into a catatonic state.
Baracus generally wears overalls and leopard or tiger print shirts in the early seasons, and wears a green jumpsuit in the later seasons.
He is almost always seen with many gold chains and rings on every finger, and also wears a weightlifting belt.
Baracus' hairstyle is always in a mohawk-like cut. He drives a customized black GMC van that acts as the team's usual mode of transport.
Captain H. However, due to a helicopter crash in Vietnam, Murdock apparently went insane. He lives in a Veterans' Hospital in the mental wing.
Whenever the rest of the team requires a pilot, they have to break him out of the hospital, generally using Faceman to do so.
In Seasons 1—4, Murdock has a different pet, imaginary friend, or alter-ego in each episode. Whenever one of his pets or imaginary friends is killed by an enemy, Murdock snaps and takes revenge but never kills.
Many times, when Baracus is mad at Murdock for being crazy, Hannibal will side with Murdock in a sympathetic way. Once he is discharged from the hospital in Season 5, Murdock has a different job each episode.
Murdock usually wears a leather flight jacket, a baseball cap, and basketball sneakers. Cannell with Dirk Benedict in mind, NBC insisted that the part should be played by another actor, instead.
Therefore, in the pilot, Face was portrayed by Tim Dunigan , who was later replaced by Dirk Benedict, with the comment that Dunigan was "too tall and too young".
So it was difficult to accept me as a veteran of the Vietnam War, which ended when I was a sophomore in high school. Tia Carrere was intended to join the principal cast of the show in its fifth season after appearing in the season four finale, [17] providing a tie to the team's inception during the war.
Unfortunately for this plan, Carrere was under contract to General Hospital , which prevented her from joining The A-Team.
Her character was abruptly dropped as a result. According to Mr. T's account in Bring Back The A-Team in , the role of B.
Baracus was written specifically for him. This is corroborated by Stephen J. Cannell's own account of the initial concept proposed by Tartikoff.
The first regular episode "Children of Jamestown" , reached The fourth season saw The A-Team experience a dramatic fall in ratings, as it started to lose its position while television viewership increased.
As such, the ratings, while stable, were relatively less. The season premiere ranked a In October, The A-Team had fallen to the 19th and by Super Bowl Night had fallen still to 29th the night on which the show had originally scored its first hit three years before.
Ratings continued to drop, and after seven episodes, The A-Team fell out of the top 50 altogether with a The series has achieved cult status through heavy syndication in the U.
It has also remained popular overseas, such as in the United Kingdom, since it was first shown in July It is airing on satellite and cable channel Esquire Network.
The A-Team has been broadcast all over the world; international response has been varied. George Peppard was the first to receive the invitation and thus thought the invitation applied only to him.
When the other cast members were also invited, Peppard declined, leaving only Mr. T, Benedict and Schultz to visit the Netherlands.
A video was released with the present actors in which Dwight Schultz apologized and thanked everyone who had attended.
From 7mate has been showing reruns of show. The show was broadcast in New Zealand on TV2. In the UK, the program was shown on ITV , starting on Friday, July 22, ; when it returned for its second run resuming mid-second season it moved to Saturday evenings.
The series continued to be repeated on ITV until The series was later repeated on UK Gold from through at various times.
It was also repeated on Bravo from to It returned to the channel in until the channel's closure in In the digital channel Spike began showing the series from the beginning.
Channel 5 also repeated it in Although ratings soared during its early seasons, many television critics described the show largely as cartoonish and thereby wrote the series off.
Most reviews focused on acting and the formulaic nature of the episodes, most prominently the absence of actual killing in a show about Vietnam War veterans.
The show was a huge hit in Italy in the mids to the s. Mary Harron, New Statesman [32]. The violence presented in The A-Team is highly sanitized.
People do not bleed or bruise when hit though they might develop a limp or require a sling , nor do the members of the A-Team kill people.
The results of violence were only ever presented when it was required for the script. In almost every car crash there is a short take showing the occupants of the vehicle climbing out of the mangled or burning wreck, even in helicopter crashes.
However, more of these types of takes were dropped near the end of the fourth season. According to Stephen J. Cannell, this part of the show did become a running joke for the writing staff and they would at times test the limits of realism on purpose.
The show has been described as cartoonish and likened to Tom and Jerry. Dean P. After all, Tom and Jerry survived all sorts of mayhem for years with no ill-effects.
Stephen J. Cannell, co-creator of the show responds: "They were determined to make a point, and we were too big a target to resist.
Cartoon violence is a scapegoat issue. The GMC Vandura van used by the A-Team, with its characteristic red stripe, black and red turbine mag wheels, and rooftop spoiler, [37] has become an enduring pop culture icon.
A number of devices were seen in the back of the van in different episodes, including a mini printing press "Pros and Cons" , an audio surveillance recording device "A Small and Deadly War" , Hannibal's disguise kits in various episodes, and a gun storage locker.
Early in the second season, these logos were blacked out, although GMC continued to supply vans and receive a credit on the closing credits of each episode.
The van was almost all-black, as the section above the red stripe was metallic gray. The angle of the rear spoiler can also be seen to vary on different examples of the van within the series.
Additionally, some versions of the van have a sunroof, whereas others, typically those used for stunts do not.
This led to continuity errors in some episodes, such as in the third season's "The Bells of St. Mary's", in a scene where Face jumps from a building onto the roof of the van with no sunroof but moments later, in an interior studio shot, climbs in through the sunroof.
The huge success of the series saw a vast array of merchandise, including toys and snacks released both in America and internationally.
There were several sets of trading cards and stickers, action figures of the characters were produced by Galoob as well as vehicles, including B.
The set includes a Baldwin shark nose engine painted up like the Van and a matching Caboose. Following the original cancellation of the series, further merchandise has appeared as the series has achieved cult status, including an A-Team van by "Hot Wheels".
In Lego released a pack that includes a B. Baracus minifigure and constructible van; the pack will unlock additional A-Team themed content in the video game Lego Dimensions , including all four team members as playable characters.
Marvel Comics produced a three-issue A-Team comic book series, which was later reprinted as a trade paperback. Similarly, in the United Kingdom, an A-Team comic strip appeared for several years in the s as part of the children's television magazine and comic Look-In , to tie in with the British run of the series.
Several novels were based on the series, the first six published in America by Dell and in Britain by Target Books ; the last four were only published in Britain.
The first six are credited to Charles Heath. The books are generally found in paperback form, although hardback copies with different cover artwork were also released.
A Panini set of stickers, which adapted six TV episodes from the first and earlier second season using shots from the episodes, could be stuck into an accompanying book, with text under each inserted sticker to narrate the story.
The theme, as heard on seasons two through four including the opening narration and sound effects , was also released on TVT's Television's Greatest Hits: 70s and 80s.
A 7-inch single of the song credited to Post was released on RCA in The French version of the song had lyrics, which mirrored the spoken description of the show in the English opening credits.
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