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It's just a pity it only ran for 3 years. I was only a kid then but I imagine it was one of the top rating shows. When I say that The A-Team was inventive I really mean it.

Every show would have them locked in a barn or warehouse, by a corrupt Sheriff or Mayor, that just happens to be loaded with equipment of some kind. The A-Team then invent some kind of crazy machine that enables them to break out and defeat the bad guys. Not before a montage of them building the machine to a variation of the classic A-Team theme tune.

Every 10th show would be about Deckard and how he wanted to catch the A-Team "for a crime they didn't commit", but he never did. They were just too clever.

The show was always critized for being too farfetch'd. It's true though. A car would be blown up and the passengers would walk out, cough and dust themselves down...totally unharmed. And The A-Teams uncanny ability to fashion a rocket launcher out of a pringles tube and an orange was just too much for some folks. But that's what made it so good.

I grew up with the A-Team, it is part of my childhood. I loved it, as i did knight rider!!!!! BRing it back.... All the cast were great, but my favourite of course was B.A Barackas. All those gold chains!! and his attitude, very cool.

All the characters were just so different, yet they seamlessly worked together and made a great team.

I always wanted to be part of the gang. Anyway, I really hope that it keeps going. It seems children don't really have these sort of shows anymore. This was great for an 8 year old.. yet it was so grownup. Watching the show always brings back my childhood. I hope I can get a DVD of some of the series, and I will definitely get my own kids to see it. Only because I really want them to gain same imagination and richness that the show provided me.

The original A-Team had it all. Action, drama, comedy and lots of blowing things up. I am watching reruns now and it still has it. Highly recommend if you need to get away from the real world crap.

Nobody does cars flipping over as well as this show. Bravo

"A-team"is one of the best tv-series ever.Four veterans of Vietnam war are wrongfully accused and now they are outlaws.Peppard is very good in his role.He plays Hannibal,the leader of the four.I think is the best role of Peppard!But Mr.T as B.A is also outstanding."A_team"is not only adventure and crime.It has also comedy and sometimes romance.If you like "MacGyver" you are going to love "A-Team".Also if you are fun of Robert Vaughn you must see "A-Team" because Vaughn plays general Stockwell.A mysterious person who is a friend and an enemy of the four veterans.

I know the show isn't perfect but no-one can argue with how iconic it is. I can't express how much joy the show has brought me over the years. It's action packed with a great level of comedy. The film reboot was okay but lost a lot of what made the show great. If it was made today, it would likely have CGI effects instead of the big explosions etc. I love all four characters and I feel they all add something. It's a shame they god rid of Amy as I felt she fitted in well. I would say that the later series are a bit weaker at times but I do love the series 5 "movie."

I was re watching old episodes in tv, and basically this could have been made today, because all the episodes are funny and the a-team is fun. Hannibal, face, murdoch(he bring the jokes in every episode)and b.a baracus were all fun to watch resolving troubles.

The fact they get the skills from vietnam, and they now race a gmc vandura in every episode(is funny to see it drift in many episodes) to the places they need to go. Is a joy, really.

If theres no other sequel or tv series, at least the old episodes are fun. They always get a plan, sometimes in the middle of the episode, or is uncovered during the episode. The point is always work, always is funny to see.

I remember seeing The A-Team, come onto the small screen back in early 83'. I especially remember the white haired man, who didn't even seem like an old-guy to a young kid of 14. George Peppard was in a helicopter, just about to jump out and I can see that scene frozen in my mind's eye after two and a half decades.

I caught the commercial for it on NBC and was immediately amazed by the different style of series that it was, I really couldn't describe why I liked it in all ways ...I simply did. My uncle laughed that the show (The A-Team) was that one where they shot off thousands of rounds of ammunition and no one ever got hit or died. My uncle was a 'Fed' and a sharp-shooter who would face off in competition. I didn't mind that about the show so much, yeah no one died. I got familiar with who Mr. T was from this as I had seen him once on 'Silver Spoons' as Ricky Schroeder's body guard.

I followed the show on the network and onto the cable stations that would carry it later. Then as I was living in Los Angeles in 2003, I was sitting in an older cigar shop that is very famous with the locals and local Celeb's, and I see a blue Porshe 911 pull up out side and who should come into the store but "Faceman" Dirk Benedict!!! I was pretty happy about that. As I was sitting there in a big leather chair, in the sitting area, Dirk came up and said something to an acquaintance of his there, then, sat down and smoked a premium cigar. He talked to some people, then with me about everyday stuff, politics and then I asked about his work and the days of The A Team and he said that they (He and Peppard) used to sit in between the shooting 'break' and smoke cigars and get in trouble sometimes with the studio, probably rowdy behavior. All in all, this was a great time to be sitting puffing on great cigars exchanging smoke and listening as well as shooting the breeze with good Ole Dirk B. I had also heard that when the beginning of shooting started for the production of the A-Team DeWight Shultz arrived and went to meet his co-stars. On the lot he went to be introduced to Peppard and George replied after meeting Dewight, "Hi my name is George Peppard...and I am not a nice man." That might knock you on your tail if you had a confidence problem. At any rate I have enjoyed the show and still do on DVD.

This was a show that on the departure of the network running it after cancellation. Peppard quipped that "It was like being on a thundering runaway freight train. I was happy to see it end. I needed some rest." This is just one of those 'things' that makes the eighties a great time to be alive. Good stuff, all wrapped up. (****)

I haven't watched this show in 20 years, last time it was on tv in Ireland, I watched it originally in the 80's as a kid too, I started watching again as the show came up in conversation between myself and my Panamanian girlfriend, she was explaining how she watched it in Spanish as a kid, there is something special about this show, the way the plot of the show makes it exciting, each episode has a good story, action and bits to make you laugh, the actors are excellent as I actually think they are really their characters, not actors playing a character if you know what I mean, the action scenes are extremely good, it may be old and a bit cheesy but I still love this show the same as when I was a kid dancing with excitement in front of the tv on Saturday evening when I was 6 years old in the 80's, if your thinking of watching this show again, watch it, if you have never watched this show before, watch it, it's still great,

80s shows were the best and this was defiantly in the top 3. Takes you back to a time when people wasn't a bunch of fairy's and didn't get offended for the simpliest of things. The theme tunes were second to none not like the rubbish these days. Dukes of Hazzard, Knight Rider, Battlestar Galactica, Street Hawk, The Fall Guy, Quantum Leap, Magnum PI, Macguyver, Buck Rogers all classics.

The 1980's gave us many things The A-Team being one of them and one of the greatest shows to ever hit the airwaves. It centres around a Team of Vietnam vets who were part of an elite unit of special forces soldiers all of which were green berets. At the end of the war they were sent on a secret mission only they and their commanding officer knew about,that mission ended badly and they were framed for a crime they didn't commit. They were just about to be sentenced to life in prison when they made their escape and became soldiers of fortune living within the Los Angeles underground and if you have problems they can find a solution to them. Col Hannibal Smith,Lt Templeton Peck,Cap H.M Murdock and Sargent B.A Baracus along with hotshot newspaper reporter Amy Allen are The A Team and TV histories greatest group of mercenaries. It's still a great show that still gets better with every year that passes unlike some other shows. I was young when it first aired and now my grandchildren enjoy it just as much as i did back when it first hit TV screens everywhere.

These shows stories may not have been the best but they had great action "true" stunts, especially from what we have today in green screens. No one got hurt and as a kid I appreciated that. Overall for 80's tv this was my favorite next to MASH.

It is really hard to put into words just how much I love this show, but I'm going to try.

"In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. 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 can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... the A-Team." Cue greatest theme song ever written.

These larger-than-life characters include Templeton "Face Man" Peck, a good-looking con artist whose job it is to scam the A-Team's equipment from any hapless passerby and question everything dangerous the team undertakes, John "Hannibal" Smith, the cigar-chomping disguise- wearing dated-insult-slinging leader of the group, and B. A. Baracus, who is essentially just Mr. T. I'm not kidding, Mr. T was the only cast member who never had to audition since the role was written specifically for him.

There is a fourth member named Murdock who was the pilot that flew them to Hanoi for the infamous bank job. He has since gone banana balls and spends his days in the greatest mental hospital ever constructed. They let Murdock have his own private arcade and snack stash; THAT is good service. Face Man is usually the one sent in to break him out, and it's always fun to see what new con he'll pull to sneak Murdock out in plain sight, from a case of TB to a bout of rabies that Murdock contracted from his imaginary pet dog. Yes, that actually happened. And it was hysterical.

The series centers around the A-Team doing jobs for people who can't prove who done it or otherwise can't count on the police for aid. In fact, more than once the A-Team are HIRED by the police to take care of dirty cops or corrupt officials. Other clients include logging companies, taxi companies, college students, Wild West show owners, all-female funk groups, and sometimes a pretty girl with a diamond mine to her name.

And from that point on each episode begins building up to the big showdown, which is always crammed full of explosions, cars flipping over, guns that can't shoot straight, and poorly edited gun shot sounds. It's totally fake, but one does not watch this show for any amount of realism. One watches the A-Team because this is the romanticized action genre, the kind where the heroes always win, Face Man always gets the girl, cars blow up without injuring anyone, and the bad guys never stand a chance. It's cheesy, it's over-the-top, it's upbeat, and, above all, it's a ton of fun and I would happily rewatch it any time.

I pity the fool who doesn't like The A-Team. Trademarked Mr. T 1997.

The A-Team television series debuted in 1983, one year after the release of Rambo I, borrowing from First Blood the theme of the renegade Vietnam veteran being chased by the authorities for no just cause. It is far more humorous than the Stallone vehicle, however, and perpetuates in an eighties context the rollicking medieval legend of Robin Hood and his merry band of men. The A-Team is sometimes criticized for its almost constant (but non- lethal) violence. The show's cartoonish fighting style is in fact an almost exact translation of the hyped-up fakery of professional wrestling, which was so popular during the show's run. It is no accident that Mr. T , star of the A-Team, was paired up with Hulk Hogan in Wrestlemania I.

Ostensibly an action program, the A-Team may now be enjoyed more as a comedy. In the first three seasons, the writers almost never took the plot seriously. This was not the case in the final two seasons, which increasingly lapsed into uninspired action formulas. Even so, they are a breath of fresh air compared to more recent television productions such as CSI, whose unremittingly grim lack of irony is insufferable. Combining violence and comedy involves a delicate alchemy that few television shows pull off. The A-Team's success in this department may partly be attributed to its co-producer, Frank Lupo - who also achieved comparable results in the first season of Hunter. In addition, one should call attention to Sledge Hammer!, an outrageous cop sit-com of the eighties that has achieved cult status even though its syndication has been limited.

Plans to produce a movie version of the A-Team seem to have been shelved. This might change if studio chiefs realize that the central premise of the A-Team is most timely in a recession. A viewer whose mortgage is about to be foreclosed will undoubtedly connect with the idea of a bunch of persecuted, homeless eccentrics on the run from the law because of their involvement in a murky, bank-robbing scheme.

What can I say...as us kids used to say back in the 80's...."it was wicked"!!! ...Despite the so called friction off set..they created a magic between them that gave millions of kids so many great memories..God Bless them! Although,if they make a movie on cinema , Stephen J Cannell wants to seriously rethink about whether he wants the James Bond writer from the Brosnan years messing up his master piece....if somethings not broke (don't fix it)..stick to the original game plan And as much as I would rather see the original cast rekindle their roles.. here are some alternate suggestions: Jim Carrey as Murdoch,John Coffey (huge guy from the Green mile) as B.A....Brad Pitt as Face Man and my personal favourite character John Hannibal Smith played by Mel Gibson!!! (second choice Tommy Lee Jones)...Mr Cannell suggested the budget wouldn't be big enough for an all star cast....but I think he underestimates just how many people are going to be buying cinema tickets on that long awaited day!!

I remember the show when I was a kid. It was one of the best shows on at the time. Four people who were on the run from the military had enough brass to help people in need and wouldn't sell out to the highest bidder.

My favorite character of the show was Hannibal Smith (George Peppard). He was the coolest. He always seemed he had a way out for any of the tough situations they ran across. And he always had the Jazz. And I don't think just the character of Hannibal had the Jazz, but I believe Peppard always had it and he brought it to the character of Hannibal.

Also I think it would be great if they made a movie about the A-Team. I vote Bruce Willis or Peirce Bronsan as Hannibal, Ryan Reynolds as Face, Jim Carrey as Murdoch and last but not least Ice Cube as B.A.. But I also feel that the surviving cast members of the original A-Team should have at least cameos in the film and a little bit of homage paid to Peppard as well.

So I say all systems go for the A-Team movie. So if the powers that be in Hollywood read this please make one. It be the coolest movie and besides I would pay to see it.

As I was growing up, I would watch the A-Team reruns with my oldest brother in the mornings and we'd sit there and just watch in awe as we saw the cars, the action, the girls and the enemies. The A-Team was entertaining, action-packed and suspenseful the whole way. Fit with the cigar-chomping leader Hannibal Smith, the smooth-silk con Faceman, the funny crazy pilot H.M. Murdock, and of course, the big bad tough guy B.A. Baracus. The other show that was a copy of the A-Team was MacGyver because they always built equipment out of random material. Equipped with guns and a 1983 GMC Van with a red spoiler, anybody will love the A-Team as much as I did, and I still do.

A 10 out of 10.

Let me start off by saying that this is my favorite show.It didn't start off that way though.I was only 1 1/2 years old when this show came out in 1983.So i couldn't enjoy it in it's prime and a lot of other shows of the 80's.But in the back of my mind.I always knew what the show was.Just not what it was about.I knew Mr.t played on it and a character named Murdock that's it.So 10 years later(1993)A local station here was rerunning them.So i started watching them.And when my mom would catch me staying up on school nights.I would record them and have every episode today.I definitely gonna upgrade and buy the DVD's.I got hooked and then it became my favorite show.I can quote just about every episode.It was fresh,new,and exciting to me cause i hadn't seen this before .The A-team was a group of soldiers on the run from the military for robbing the bank of Hanoi in Vietnam.Which was a top secret mission to stop the war.But nobody knew about it except a officer who was eventually killed in the war.So there goes the teams proof.They escaped from a military stockade to the Los Angeles underground.Helping the lil'man or damsel in distress fight the bad guy.

Col.John "Hannnibal" Smith-The leader,the thinker,strategist,loves the thrill of danger or The jazz as he says.A part-time actor who plays a swamp monster called"Aquamaniac".Master of disguises.He loves it when a plan comes together too.He keeps all the guys together and in line.Played by the late actor George Peppard.

(RIP) George

Lieutenant Tempelton "Faceman" Peck-Con man,ladies man.Pretty boy.Could scam anything and everybody.The team's meal ticket.Hated confrontation though.But would fight.Played by Tim Dunigan in pilot then eventually by Dirk Benedict.

Capt.H.M(Howlin' Mad)Murdock" Crazed vet who can fly anything.He's technically not on the run like the others but has to be broken out of the Va hospital to assist them on their missions.He slips in and out of reality during the course of the show.Comic Relief.Played by Dwight Schultz.

Sgt.B.A(Bad Attitude Baracus-Big tough dude who u didn't want to mess with.Loves his van.Hates to fly.So Murdock and him don't get along.Has to be drugged and knocked out to fly.Mechanical genius.If hannibal's the brain.B.A was the muscle.played by MR.T.He was the baddest dude on TV then and now to me.Lookin'mad but when he smiled or laugh it was golden.His "suckas""fools" were weekly catch phrases.

These were the central characters although Amy,Tawnia,Lynch Decker,Santana, Stockwell were added along the way.They were the main attraction.The A-team helped people for money and charity.But they weren't getting' rich at it though.They beat up the bad guys;shoot at them,blow things up.No one would hardly get shot or killed.My theory of this was"If you're already in trouble with the law for bank robbery.Why make it worse with murder'.Which they would be charged with in the very last season.The A-team would build stuff from anything and make a weapon out of it.An idea Macguver's people stole.This show was pretty original and that's what made it a big hit.Nothing' like it then or since.The 80's had great action/adv shows.The A-team is the top one in the genre.It made u laugh, cry,think,Most of all it kept your attention for an hour.I think it got a late start though.If it had of came out in the late 70's or 1980,81.It would be even more popular and memorable than it is today.Stephen J.Cannell is a genius for creating this one and several other classic shows. If u haven't seen it.U got to.It's one of the best. .Nothin' like venturing back to the 80's.

I'll always be in debt to my late uncle (a Vietnam Vet himself) for showing this show to me. I was automatically captivated by the fun characters and the campy 80's feel. George Peppard's Hannibal was my initial favorite, I related to the character like a brother, and Dwight Schultz's Murdock was always good for a pick me up when you're feeling down. The Team were mercenaries for hire, and defender of the little guy. For some reason, I've always loved the simplistic plot line (Think The Magnificent Seven or A Bug's Life) about good underdogs always beating a villain with superior numbers. I taped every episode I could, and I recall the Hulk Hogan episodes, in which my little brother (Knowing I was a fan of Wrestling) asked me who the Hulkster was facing. I went to my tapes and found it was archive footage of Hogan VS Greg Valentine at the Philadelphia Spectrum in 1984. Anyway, my favorite episodes had to be The Court Martial Series and A Bend In The River. I taped them off TV Land, but lost it, so I suppose I must wait for the DVD of the respective seasons to come out. I believe the show ended too quickly (Just before I was born), and I wish I could find reruns, or maybe they'll put the show on Nick At Night.

The Show was DA BOMB,it was simply the best.Watched it faithfully as a kid.I just simply loved it and i sell do ,watch reruns till today.The cast members, i don't think a better set of people could have been chosen. George Peppard as Hannibal Smith,Dirk Benedict as Templeton "Face" Peck,Dwight Swartz as Howling Mad Murdock and who could forget Mr T as B.A. They were the best and they made the series completely awesome(like i said i still watch reruns till date) which just show the timelessness of the show. The characters simply unforgettable,Hannibal with the way he always has a plan and a back up plan, Face's constant reluctance to carry out some certain plans especially when it came to his corvette , Murdock with his madness,and B.A with his impatience of Murdock's antics and of course B.A's van. About a movie , i don't see how that can work i can't conceive anyone that will fit into those roles of Hannibal,Face,B.A,and Murdock the original cast made those roles their own and nobody can replace them in the hearts of true fans of the series,absolutely no one

THE A-TEAM The A-team TV series (1983-1987) was really rather special for me growing up in the 1980's, (God I was so spoilt for choice i.e Knight Rider, Dukes of Hazzard, Airwolf ) it gave me my first ever TV schedule regime. Saturday around 5pm to 6pm (think ?) I would drop anything I was doing (yes even my BMX) in order to get close to a big television set and enjoy it. From the likes of the late George Peppard as Hannibal Smith to Mr T as B.A Baracus, The A team worked extremely well and still over 20 years on is yet to be beaten for the sheer testosterone pulsating action on a late Saturday afternoon.

Watching this A-team Season 2 Box-set (which is on 6 DVD's, a staggering 17hrs 38mins running time) was a nostalgic trip back to the past where Col Hannibal Smith (Gerorge Peppard) and his team mates (B.A,Face,Murdock) Soldiers of Fortune are highly skilled military vigilantes that are hired by victims of injustice but at the same time are being heavily pursued by Col Decker who only wants them back behind bars for the crime they did not commit. There's never a shortage of bullets flying left right and centre or clever strategic plans as The A-Team settle the score with the baddies. Look out for B.A's (stands for Bad Attitude,bet you didn't know that) black van which The A-Team travel in (awesome) also how they construct useful contraption's to use for their tactical operations. There's also for me a very strong side effect from watching all this A-Team Action, I have now started to whistle the tune day and night (hope I stop soon).

THE CAST George Peppard --- Col John Hannibal Smith Mr T --- Sgt B.A Baracus Dwight Schultz --- Capt H.M Murdock Dirk Benedict Lt Templeten Face Lance LeGault --- Col Decker

Created by Stephen J. Cannel and Frank Lupo.

SUMMARY The A-team second season box-set is exceptional entertainment and a must for fans. Totally in your face action with good captivating performances from the actors and enthralling music that ties in perfectly. I bought The A-Team Second Season Boxset from Play.com (www.play.com) for £15.99 (£34.99 rrp) which is more than good value if you ask me. Past and present generations should not be without the A-Team. HIRE THEM NOW..

P.S Just found out there making a new series/film 2006 yesssssss

Three Cheers, for the great A-Team, and George Peppard, first of all; when it comes to the difference between, in "Mr. T's" vernacular, a Real Man, and a "Real"--Whatever! Moreover, Jonas Cord, Jr., from "The Carpetbaggers," was one of Peppard's most inspiring roles; regardless of how much even he finally needed to be "cut down" at least a couple of notches, by the same kind of Real Man (Alan Ladd) who also played the lead "Junior," but, this time, of himself (Steve McQueen), along with his good friend, Jonas Cord, Sr. (Brian Keith), in the marvelously well-conceived, movingly-retroactive sequel to this film, Nevada Smith! . . . And, of course, Clubber Lang needed to be "cut down" a couple of notches, too; although I know the feeling well, when, in the first fight, he kept screaming, with every punch, "You made me wait, Balboa!" I only shudder to realize against Whom we were actually fighting, somewhat like unto the occasion when Jacob was wresting with you-know-Whom for his new "Name Change!" God forbid that we should make Him wait nearly as long in return, for the amount of time He'd given us to get in such really good shape (Revelation 3:7-8)! . . . In the A-Team, they're both "on the lam" with a very impressive entourage of rogues, whose swagger is, quite believably, buoyantly, nothing less than second-to-none!--Even Next to Errol Flynn, in Robin Hood!--And that's going almost to the very top!--Save for the fact that Robin Hood was much closer to, in particular, the real "throat" of the problem! . . . Moreover, in such strikingly, redeemingly real-life contrast, with most equally "Real"--Whatevers, even "Mr. T" had a point, many years ago, about being "Born Again!"--At least, perhaps, until he'd far-enough surpassed most of his "spiritual competitors," especially the most "sweet-smelling" varieties, even so much more dynamically enough to where he probably no longer continues to say, "I don't like that term, fool!" He even very recently, graciously, and freely, of the Spirit, made note of one of my own favorite lines, from long, long ago; about how most "parishoners," after having "praised the Lord" for an entire hour or so together, will characteristically, thereafter, threaten to ram one-another down with their cars, while trying so very "courteously," and "tender-heartedly," to exit the parking lot first! . . . "Mr. T," particularly, would get a real "kick" out of the following "Joke," from the Reverend Ralph Woodrow, if he hasn't heard it already. There's a meeting, between the members of a Baptist and a Presbyterian (or is it Methodist? Whichever, it doesn't matter!) "congregation," for the purpose of uniting the two, because both "congregations" had decided they were too small. But, then, the problem of what to call the combined grouping could not be solved. Finally, they decided to "compromise," by calling it the Christian Church; at which point, an old woman screamed out, "I've been a Baptist all my life, and nobody's going to make a Christian out of me!" . . . It's like in that original Star Trek episode, where a computer named "Landru" had control of "The Body!" Maybe that's about the best they could do even together, but they're doing just as good-a-job separately! Most today unfortunately need to learn, the hard way, what a hypocritical rather than redeeming world of difference there is, between genuinely laying one's sins on the Lord, and dumping them upon a favorite scapegoat such as Judas Iscariot! Also, does "Mr. T" need even one mere guess, as to which of these characters most resembles the real "Lonesome Rhodes?"--Who really ended up being hated for having been as sadly correct as well as wrong as he was, concerning his most fervently-devoted admirers! In fact, how many, even of his harshest critics, can begin to tell the difference, in anything but Babbitt's favor, between him and Elmer Gantry?--Or, for that matter, an inspiring joy to the heart such as Robert Duvall's The Apostle! No less positively, I just finished watching Glenn Ford, again, in The Fastest Gun Alive! Now there was a Real Congregation! Moreover, what a long, barren gap, between Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott, in Ride the High Country, and Captain James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock!--Except for Dr. Richard Kimble, The Fugitive; who, despite competition as close as Rocky vs. Creed II, has always been my favorite!--Even if he did end up dropping me, so very fast and hard, along with John Wayne's accompanying "jab" at Van Gogh, that I enjoyed Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid so much more--almost as much as I still do my favorite--Champion!--And his Paths of Glory, particularly, as well as Town Without Pity.