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"The A-Team" (1983): Season 5: Episode 13 -- The A-Team uncovers a plot to assassinate an attorney general.
"The A-Team" (1983): Season 5: Episode 12 -- A girl runs away with her father's top-secret documents.
"The A-Team" (1983): Season 5: Episode 11 -- Murdock goes under cover to investigate an assassination plot.
"The A-Team" (1983): Season 5: Episode 10 -- Murdock is made a god on an island where the natives mine diamonds.
"The A-Team" (1983): Season 5: Episode 9 -- The A-Team searches for Hannibal, who disappeared while tracking down stolen plutonium.

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Seasons:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 full episode list
Release Date:
23 January 1983 (USA) more
Tagline:
Heroes for hire.
Plot:
Four Vietnam vets, framed for a crime they didn't commit, help the innocent while on the run from the military. full summary
Awards:
Nominated for 3 Primetime Emmys. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(185 articles)
Original A-Team Making Cameos in New Movie?
 (From Cinematical. 9 November 2009, 2:45 PM, PST)

Idris Elba Interview at McM Expo
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Formula, but in a good way. (And read on for some myths to be exploded.) more (90 total)

Cast

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George Peppard ... John 'Hannibal' Smith / ... (97 episodes, 1983-1987)
Dwight Schultz ... 'Howling Mad' Murdock (97 episodes, 1983-1987)

Mr. T ... B.A. Baracus (97 episodes, 1983-1987)

Dirk Benedict ... Templeton 'Faceman' Peck (96 episodes, 1983-1987)
John Ashley ... Narrator / ... (84 episodes, 1983-1986)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
60 min (98 episodes) | Argentina:60 min | Israel:45 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
USA:TV-PG | Australia:M (some episodes) | Netherlands:6 (DVD rating) | Argentina:Atp | Australia:PG (DVD rating) | Singapore:PG

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Almost every single episode involved a car-stunt, where a car had to jump dramatically in the air and perform a crash landing. In addition, the people driving these vehicles invariably were shown getting out afterward, unscathed. more
Quotes:
Murdock: I'm a bird! I'm a plane! I'm a choo-choo train!
[shouts]
Murdock: Touchdown!
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Formula, but in a good way. (And read on for some myths to be exploded.), 11 December 2002
Author: Victor Field from London, England

Some '80s shows that were hits at the time really don't hold up well today, but some very definitely do. "Moonlighting" was one of them, and so was this creation of Frank Lupo and Stephen J. Cannell. (Lupo later came to a parting of the ways with Cannell and inflicted "Werewolf" and "Something Is Out There" on the world. Blub.)

Like most of the people commenting on "The A-Team," I used to watch it as a kid (well, a teenager really). It had likeable heroes, comedy, action, top music (unlike most TV producers, Cannell billed Mike Post and Pete Carpenter in the main titles with the stars) ... the lot. The plots weren't exactly loaded with endless twists, but that was part of the fun - who else looked forward to the week's DIY montage where the quartet built that week's weapons? (As Hannibal pointed out in one of the novelisations, it's amazing how the bad guys always locked them up with precisely what they needed to escape.)

And contrary to popular belief, our heroes did get hurt from time to time (the clip show episode "Curtain Call" used Murdock being shot as an excuse for his comrades to hold a remembrance of episodes past; in "The Battle Of Bel Air" the helicopter containing the A-Team crashed at the end of the climax, injuring everyone EXCEPT B.A. Baracus); occasionally episodes started with someone actually getting murdered (the man in the exploding car in "Skins," one of the battling convicts in "Pros & Cons"). The show didn't dwell on it, true, but it was there.

This remains Cannell's most successful show as an independent producer, and demonstrates how he's more adaptable than the more critically acceptable Steven Bochco (this is not to put down Bochco, but can you imagine the man with the would-be violinist for a dad coming up with shows as wildly different as "The Greatest American Hero," "Top of the Hill" and "Wiseguy"?). It was fun in the 1980s, and it's fun now. Which is a lot more than can be said for "The Professionals."

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