A Team is one of the tv series that i use to watch when i was much younger. The family usually watch this together. Hope will do the same on the movie version.
A-Team: TV Series
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Burn Notice is like the A-Team meets James Bond, or maybe macgyver meets JB.
Either way you'll probably enjoy it.
And one of the main actors is Bruce Campbell (Adventures of Brisco County junior, Army of Darkness, ...) which certainly adds to the fun.
^Sam is one of my favorite things about Burn Notice.
Burn Notice is not as cartoony as The A-Team, but there is a similar theme of team-work, the how-to aspect and helping out the "little guy." I really enjoy that part of it.
Burn Notice is not as cartoony as The A-Team, but there is a similar theme of team-work, the how-to aspect and helping out the "little guy." I really enjoy that part of it.
My kids got me the limited edition DVD set (the one with the van) for Father's Day. Best. Present. Ever. The A-Team was my favorite show when I was eight years old. As a 34 year old I watch it and wonder how I took it so seriously. Such a funny show. Such a great show! I love the characters. I love the action. I love the van! I love how over the top batshit crazy all of it is.
I pity the foo' dat don't like dis show!
I pity the foo' dat don't like dis show!
Digging up this thread as I'm coming towards the end of season 1 in my rewatch...
It's just hugely fun isn't it? Mainly thanks to the pitch perfect casting, without these four actors (oh alright, and The Girl One. Not to be confused with The Other Girl One) it wouldn't be anywhere near as good a show. The plots are almost irrelvant, it's just all about how they interact so wonderfully.
It's also easy to forget how loved by kids Mr. T was, he certainly shows he's no actor but there's a wonderful childlike charm to him that makes a character who's constantly threatening to hit people rather sweet.
And of course, back in the day this was to my generation what Who was to 70's kids. Saturday afternoon fun you'd sit down with the entire family to watch whilst eating, taking it completely seriously whilst the older people in the room have a good old chuckle whilst still loving it.
And hands down the best ever "Lots of clips" opening credits.
Shame some of the stunt doubling isn't up to much though, Hannibal has a tendancy to turn into a much younger man in a unconvincing Doc Brown wig if he does anything too strenuous. And the less said about the skinny guy in a poorly fitted skull cap doubling BA at times the better (though the stunts themselves actually stand up surprisingly well).
Even with the repeats (which is how I mainly would have seen the show, both it and Knightrider stayed a part of the ITV Saturday line up into the early 90's) I can remember the A-Team on trial being a big everyone talks about it at school deal. The shame about the season 5 opener is it would have actually made a really good final for the show, it's got everything including special guest star Airwolf. Pity the rest of the year is a bit pants bar Robert Vaughn getting to blow up David McCallum.
It's just hugely fun isn't it? Mainly thanks to the pitch perfect casting, without these four actors (oh alright, and The Girl One. Not to be confused with The Other Girl One) it wouldn't be anywhere near as good a show. The plots are almost irrelvant, it's just all about how they interact so wonderfully.
It's also easy to forget how loved by kids Mr. T was, he certainly shows he's no actor but there's a wonderful childlike charm to him that makes a character who's constantly threatening to hit people rather sweet.
And of course, back in the day this was to my generation what Who was to 70's kids. Saturday afternoon fun you'd sit down with the entire family to watch whilst eating, taking it completely seriously whilst the older people in the room have a good old chuckle whilst still loving it.
And hands down the best ever "Lots of clips" opening credits.
Shame some of the stunt doubling isn't up to much though, Hannibal has a tendancy to turn into a much younger man in a unconvincing Doc Brown wig if he does anything too strenuous. And the less said about the skinny guy in a poorly fitted skull cap doubling BA at times the better (though the stunts themselves actually stand up surprisingly well).
Even with the repeats (which is how I mainly would have seen the show, both it and Knightrider stayed a part of the ITV Saturday line up into the early 90's) I can remember the A-Team on trial being a big everyone talks about it at school deal. The shame about the season 5 opener is it would have actually made a really good final for the show, it's got everything including special guest star Airwolf. Pity the rest of the year is a bit pants bar Robert Vaughn getting to blow up David McCallum.
It's time for The A-Team, Michael Knight, Thomas Magnum, Bo and Luke Duke, Angus MacGyver, Stringfellow Hawke, Sonny Crockett, Ricardo Tubbs, Colt Seavers, Remington Steele, Lee "Scarecrow" Stetson and Rick Hunter (not the guy from Robotech) to team up for a TV movie.
Sounds like a much cheesier version of The Expendables.
Nobody seems to do TV movies anymore, except for basic cable stations, and those are usually just direct-to-video films they buy for broadcast.
Although the movie-of-the-week is pretty much dead on Network television, Lifetime produces a ton of them, and HBO's original movies have been widely lauded.
The show's final season wasn't as good, but it's still one of my favorite shows. Remember the machine gun they built that fired machine bolts? 
Let's not forget Airwolf, Blue Thunder, and The Greatest American Hero.
Let's not forget Airwolf, Blue Thunder, and The Greatest American Hero.
HBO is a weird case anyway. They somehow realized that offering good content causes people to renew their subscriptions.
i always thought a cool premise for a tv movie would be Michael Knight getting the assignment of bringing the A-Team in. they fight, then team up and in the end the A-Team is finally cleared of all charges.
It's time for The A-Team, Michael Knight, Thomas Magnum, Bo and Luke Duke, Angus MacGyver, Stringfellow Hawke, Sonny Crockett, Ricardo Tubbs, Colt Seavers, Remington Steele, Lee "Scarecrow" Stetson and Rick Hunter (not the guy from Robotech) to team up for a TV movie.
The show's final season wasn't as good, but it's still one of my favorite shows. Remember the machine gun they built that fired machine bolts?
Let's not forget Airwolf, Blue Thunder, and The Greatest American Hero.
never got in the The Great American hero but having seen some of the eps of Blue Thunder the Series all I can say is yes lets please forgot it.
Just watched the first two episodes of season 5, and it's really, really good. Much better than the tail end of season 4 which just seems to be bored of the whole format of the series. There's a long run of episodes where rather than being hired two of the team will be off by themselves and run into trouble randomly before the other two show up to help them out a great long way into the show (almost as if the cast had all fallen out with each other). The episode with Boy George is good for a laugh though simply because he's like a fan who's won a competition.
The trial story though is nice and tight and genuinely tense, and it's nice to see Decker again. Dishpan Man seems to be the direct inspiration for Poochy though, a deeply, deeply unfunny and annoying character. And what's happened to Dirk Benedict's face? It suddenly looks like old tanned leather (and I suppose this is where I should mention how sweet it is that during the flashbacks to the crime they didn't commit they all look the same. Even the guest character who they made a point of saying now looked older in the previous episode).
Other than a bit of shameless plot recycling in that both the first two episodes of this three parter end with a character the A-Team have hunted down to clear them suddenly giving evidence that makes them look guilty it's a great opening to the season though. And was that "Victim" of their freelance work actually from a previous episode?
As for the reunion movie idea, I do think if not for Peppard's death in the early 90's it would have at least been looked into and popped up around the same time as Knight Rider 2000 and the Six Million Dollar Man movies. I suppose it would have depended on how much the cast would have been willing to put aside whatever animosity they still had at that point in order to get some work.
The trial story though is nice and tight and genuinely tense, and it's nice to see Decker again. Dishpan Man seems to be the direct inspiration for Poochy though, a deeply, deeply unfunny and annoying character. And what's happened to Dirk Benedict's face? It suddenly looks like old tanned leather (and I suppose this is where I should mention how sweet it is that during the flashbacks to the crime they didn't commit they all look the same. Even the guest character who they made a point of saying now looked older in the previous episode).
Other than a bit of shameless plot recycling in that both the first two episodes of this three parter end with a character the A-Team have hunted down to clear them suddenly giving evidence that makes them look guilty it's a great opening to the season though. And was that "Victim" of their freelance work actually from a previous episode?
As for the reunion movie idea, I do think if not for Peppard's death in the early 90's it would have at least been looked into and popped up around the same time as Knight Rider 2000 and the Six Million Dollar Man movies. I suppose it would have depended on how much the cast would have been willing to put aside whatever animosity they still had at that point in order to get some work.
^Dirk lost a lot of weight, due to his macrobiotic lifestyle. He looked pretty gaunt, compared to his slightly more buff appearance in earlier episodes.
Season 5 gets seriously, SERIOUSLY bad later on. There are a few good episodes--"Family Reunion," for one---but some are so bad, you'll feel the need to take a shower afterwards. "The Crystal Skull" is probably one of the worst of the series. And I'm a HUGE A-Team (and Dirk) fan, so I don't say that lightly.
On a side note, "Without Reservations" is actually copied from an old "Starsky and Hutch" season one episode, "Shootout." They changed a few minor details for the characters, but the plot is virtually the same.
Season 5 gets seriously, SERIOUSLY bad later on. There are a few good episodes--"Family Reunion," for one---but some are so bad, you'll feel the need to take a shower afterwards. "The Crystal Skull" is probably one of the worst of the series. And I'm a HUGE A-Team (and Dirk) fan, so I don't say that lightly.
On a side note, "Without Reservations" is actually copied from an old "Starsky and Hutch" season one episode, "Shootout." They changed a few minor details for the characters, but the plot is virtually the same.
Hmmm. From what Dirk Benedict said at a panel during a Battlestar: Galactica con I attended in the early nineties, a reunion movie would have entailed getting all four guys into one room at some point, and that just was not going to happen.
No. Mr. T and Peppard were NOT on speaking terms. Peppard called T an "embarrassment" on national TV, and they never spoke again. Even when filming the show, they would talk only through Dirk or Dwight, even when all of them were filming a scene together.
I remember Dirk acting out a little scene of what it was like on set. George would tell Dirk,"Tell HIM that I want him to come in sooner when I finish my line."
"Um, OK. Mr T? George wants you to come in a bit sooner when he finishes that line."
"Tell him, fine; I'll do it sooner."
"George? He said he'll do it."
And all of this went on, every day, even when they were all only inches from each other.
I remember Dirk acting out a little scene of what it was like on set. George would tell Dirk,"Tell HIM that I want him to come in sooner when I finish my line."
"Um, OK. Mr T? George wants you to come in a bit sooner when he finishes that line."
"Tell him, fine; I'll do it sooner."
"George? He said he'll do it."
And all of this went on, every day, even when they were all only inches from each other.
Good grief, I didn't think people actually did that outside of sitcoms. (Though it's hearsay, so Benedict may have been embellishing the story.)
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I was always annoyed that the A-Team never killed anyone. Especially given that many of the times they could've killed someone it would've been in obvious self defense and it was against people who were murderers themselves.
After a couple of years, there is no way the A-Team would've had any kind of fearsome reputation left if they never killed anyone.
You can make a humorous, tongue in cheek series and still have the heroes kill a few people every year. Burn Notice does it.
After a couple of years, there is no way the A-Team would've had any kind of fearsome reputation left if they never killed anyone.
You can make a humorous, tongue in cheek series and still have the heroes kill a few people every year. Burn Notice does it.
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