A-Team

[CycloneRulzzz]

Every episode was required to include the following:
1. Some poor townspeople needing help to defend themselves against some bad guys. Did i mention they have no money to pay the ATeam for their services?
2. Murdock displaying a funny quirk (acting like a duck, speaking like he's Irish, acting like a ship captain, or some other nonsense) that only lasts the duration of the episode and gets on BA's nerves.
3. The team having to fly somewhere and needing to knock out BA due to his fear of flying.
4. One of the local girls falling in love with Faceman.
5. Hannibal slowly putting a cigar in his mouth while smiling.
6. Bad guys trap the A Team in a barn or shed full of equipment (including metal planks and welding gear) they can use to build some MadMax-esque machine.
7. Only BA is man enough to weld while Murdock comes to bother him while he works.
8. They bust out of the shed/barn riding said machine which shoots watermelons, pumpkins, ears of corn, or whatever else was available.
9. A grenade will send bad guys flying through the air in slow motion and a car will inevitably go off some ramp and flip through the air as well.
10. Bad guys defeated, Faceman says his goodbyes to his romantic interest for the episode, townsfolk try to pay the A Team in watermelons, pumpkins, ears of corn, oranges, or whatever else they have but Hannibal will refuse.
11. Murdock makes one final joke related to his quirk for this episode, everyone laughs, and they leave town in their van.
12. Military shows up and the townspeople will either not cooperate or give them wrong directions of where the A Team was headed.
13. Roll credits.

This is every episode. Still a fun show, but damn if they REALLY didn't want to fix what was not broken.

Also doesn't at least one the guys in every episode dress in some kind of disguise?

 

[Joe4Cy]

You beat me to the Hannibal quote.

They did a movie, with Liam Neeson i think. Wasnt great iirc.

No show fired more bullets from automatic weapons with zero injuries. Absolute stormtrooper levels of accuracy.

I'm not sure you're remembering correctly...

 

[JP4CY]

A Team
MacGyver
Airwolf
Knight Rider
Magnum PI
Miami Vice
The Fall Guy
Equalizer
Cagney and Lacey

All heavily watched in our house growing up.

 

[CascadeClone]

And the guys who wrote the theme song had a ton of stuff you'd know.

Rockford Files
Hunter
Law and Order
Greatest American Hero
Hill Street Blues

Hunter. Now there's an underappreciated masterpiece too

Always liked the Equalizer (the original British guy) and Spenser for Hire too.

 

[CascadeClone]

Every episode was required to include the following:
1. Some poor townspeople needing help to defend themselves against some bad guys. Did i mention they have no money to pay the ATeam for their services?
2. Murdock displaying a funny quirk (acting like a duck, speaking like he's Irish, acting like a ship captain, or some other nonsense) that only lasts the duration of the episode and gets on BA's nerves.
3. The team having to fly somewhere and needing to knock out BA due to his fear of flying.
4. One of the local girls falling in love with Faceman.
5. Hannibal slowly putting a cigar in his mouth while smiling.
6. Bad guys trap the A Team in a barn or shed full of equipment (including metal planks and welding gear) they can use to build some MadMax-esque machine.
7. Only BA is man enough to weld while Murdock comes to bother him while he works.
8. They bust out of the shed/barn riding said machine which shoots watermelons, pumpkins, ears of corn, or whatever else was available.
9. A grenade will send bad guys flying through the air in slow motion and a car will inevitably go off some ramp and flip through the air as well.
10. Bad guys defeated, Faceman says his goodbyes to his romantic interest for the episode, townsfolk try to pay the A Team in watermelons, pumpkins, ears of corn, oranges, or whatever else they have but Hannibal will refuse.
11. Murdock makes one final joke related to his quirk for this episode, everyone laughs, and they leave town in their van.
12. Military shows up and the townspeople will either not cooperate or give them wrong directions of where the A Team was headed.
13. Roll credits.

This is every episode. Still a fun show, but damn if they REALLY didn't want to fix what was not broken.

This is completely accurate. Just want to add that WRT #3, they always drugged his milk.

 

[Clonedogg]

And the guys who wrote the theme song had a ton of stuff you'd know.

Rockford Files
Hunter
Law and Order
Greatest American Hero
Hill Street Blues

Hunter. Now there's an underappreciated masterpiece too

Who wrote the CHiPs theme song that was the best, I used to watch re-runs of that in the summers on TBS.

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

And the guys who wrote the theme song had a ton of stuff you'd know.

Rockford Files
Hunter
Law and Order
Greatest American Hero
Hill Street Blues

Hunter. Now there's an underappreciated masterpiece too

This was the only one on your list I wasn't very familiar with. My goodness Stepfanie Kramer was a looker.

 

[mramseyISU]

Also doesn't at least one the guys in every episode dress in some kind of disguise?

Hannibal financed the whole operation by acting in b grade monster flicks. He was always in disguise when they hired The A-Team.

 

[cydsho]

Also doesn't at least one the guys in every episode dress in some kind of disguise?

Yeah maybe that happened.....

 

[StPaulCyclone]

This was the only one on your list I wasn't very familiar with. My goodness Stepfanie Kramer was a looker.

She was. IIRC, Fred Dryer was originally going to star in Cheers as a former football player, before Ted Danson got the role.

 

[StPaulCyclone]

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Yeah maybe that happened.....

Is that the dude in 21 Jump Street in that last picture?

 

[CYdTracked]

The A-Team is the greatest television show ever made no matter what genre we’re talking about.

It's up there on my list for sure but I'd rank MASH and Seinfeld ahead of it for sure

 

[theshadow]

No show fired more bullets from automatic weapons with zero injuries. Absolute stormtrooper levels of accuracy.

"A crack commando unit" -- maybe they were so good they missed intentionally.

 

[dosry5]

Every episode was required to include the following:
1. Some poor townspeople needing help to defend themselves against some bad guys. Did i mention they have no money to pay the ATeam for their services?
2. Murdock displaying a funny quirk (acting like a duck, speaking like he's Irish, acting like a ship captain, or some other nonsense) that only lasts the duration of the episode and gets on BA's nerves.
3. The team having to fly somewhere and needing to knock out BA due to his fear of flying.
4. One of the local girls falling in love with Faceman.
5. Hannibal slowly putting a cigar in his mouth while smiling.
6. Bad guys trap the A Team in a barn or shed full of equipment (including metal planks and welding gear) they can use to build some MadMax-esque machine.
7. Only BA is man enough to weld while Murdock comes to bother him while he works.
8. They bust out of the shed/barn riding said machine which shoots watermelons, pumpkins, ears of corn, or whatever else was available.
9. A grenade will send bad guys flying through the air in slow motion and a car will inevitably go off some ramp and flip through the air as well.
10. Bad guys defeated, Faceman says his goodbyes to his romantic interest for the episode, townsfolk try to pay the A Team in watermelons, pumpkins, ears of corn, oranges, or whatever else they have but Hannibal will refuse.
11. Murdock makes one final joke related to his quirk for this episode, everyone laughs, and they leave town in their van.
12. Military shows up and the townspeople will either not cooperate or give them wrong directions of where the A Team was headed.
13. Roll credits.

This is every episode. Still a fun show, but damn if they REALLY didn't want to fix what was not broken.

How much coke must have the show writers been snorting?

Writer 1 “Hey, let’s have Hulk Hogan in this episode running around town in his wrestling outfit”

Writer 2 “wouldn’t he wear street clothes? Nah, **** it”

Writer 1 “ let’s also put Refrigerator Perry in the same episode”

Writer 2 “why, what’s his role?”

Writer 1 “who cares”

 

[mramseyISU]

It's up there on my list for sure but I'd rank MASH and Seinfeld ahead of it for sure

The A-Team being better than those is a hill I'll die on.

 

[houjix]

The GI Joe cartoons were like this with lasers. I don’t think anyone was ever hit

There was one of the GI Joe shows, I think it was called Renegades, that was a straight up A-team homage.

 

[houjix]

A Team
MacGyver
Airwolf
Knight Rider
Magnum PI
Miami Vice
The Fall Guy
Equalizer
Cagney and Lacey

All heavily watched in our house growing up.

Add Remington Steele and Simon & Simon to the list.

I just think of how many hours my family actually sat around the TV together and watched stuff. Of course only having 1 or 2 TVs and no video game systems until the late 80's in the house will cause that.

 

[VeloClone]

When BA built a hang glider out of what appeared to be 3/4 or 1" conduit, duct tape, and (if I remember right) Visqueen they lost me. It would have been cool if it had fallen apart in mid-air and they barely managed to survive the fall.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

6. Bad guys trap the A Team in a barn or shed full of equipment (including metal planks and welding gear) they can use to build some MadMax-esque machine.

Wasn't this always done in a montage?

 

[JayV]

I ain't getting on no plane, fool!