Join Scott & Tom as they break down this week’s pilot: The A-TEAM
The A-Team is an American action adventure television series about a fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel who work as soldiers of fortune, while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a “crime they didn’t commit”. The A-Team was created by writers and producers Frank Lupo and Stephen J. Cannell (who also collaborated on Wiseguy, Riptide, and Hunter) at the behest of Brandon Tartikoff, NBC’s Entertainment president.
Despite being thought of as mercenaries by the other characters in the show, the A-Team always acted on the side of good and helped the oppressed. The show ran for five seasons on the NBC television network, from January 23, 1983 to December 30, 1986 (with one additional, previously unbroadcast episode shown on March 8, 1987), for a total of 98 episodes.
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In the new movie the Dirk Benedict and Dwight Schultz cameos did make it to the movie. You just have to wait quite a while to see them.
I’ve watched a lot of episodes of the A-Team recently and it’s still a fun show today. Yeah, it gets repetitive but sometimes they’ll change it up, like the episode where Murdock has to save the rest of the team (one of my favourites)
And I remember Amy Amanda Allen more than the other chick because of her nickname- Triple A. The Boy George episode is amazingly bad. B.A. is excited to meet Boy George, it’s really quite funny.
Finally….what the crap is ‘Emergency’???????
I coulda swore the first A*Team premiered after Super Bowl XVIII (Raiders destroyed the ‘Skins), it was sooo hyped during the game. It was Mr. T’s height of popularity w/Wrestlemania I and “Be Somebody, or Be Somebody’s Fool” soo to follow (I’m not sure when “D.C. Cab” happened…alls I know is that it did).
Thanks for the episode fool!
D.C. Cab was the same year, as was the Mr. T cartoon series. According to Wiki, D.C. Cab was controversial because of its R-rating and Mr. T had a strong child fanbase. They forget, however, that he started out as a bad guy the year before in Rocky III and was in the R-rated Penitentiary II in which he played himself. You can see the full film of Penitentiary II on youtube, by the way…..
Scott do you still have the clip of the Japanese A-team opening song?
If not, you can find a dance version (yes!) at the end of an episode of Spaced! with Simon Peg called “epiphanies.”
I pity the fool who don’t go clubbing’ !