A-Team

The A-Team is an American action adventure television series about a fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces who are on the run from the military for a "crime they didn't commit" while working as soldiers of fortune. more...

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Despite being thought of as mercenaries, the A-Team always acted on the side of the good guys, helping 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 popping up on March 8 1987), with a total of 98 episodes.

Intro

Each episode of the first season began with this voiceover introduction:

Seasons 2-4 substituted "In 1972" for "Ten years ago". The intro was dropped for the final season.

The intro was narrated by John Ashley who was also one of the show's producers.

The "crime they didn't commit"

During the Vietnam War, the A-Team's commanding officer, Colonel Morrison, gave them orders to rob the Bank of Hanoi to help bring the war to an end. They succeeded in their mission, but on returning to their base four days after the end of the war, they found their C.O. murdered by the Viet Cong and his headquarters burnt to the ground. Therefore no proof existed that the A-Team were acting under orders, and they were sent to prison by a military court.

Episode formula

A typical episode starts with the A-Team being hired by down-trodden terrorized client(s) (quite often members of the same family). The 'official' way of doing this was for the client to contact one of Hannibal's many comic aliases that were used to ensure that their clients were not working for the military. Just as frequently the A-Team would be on the road and stumble across someone who needed their help. Often the A-Team would return the fee to their most needy clients or find some other way to pay their expenses. Typically (especially as the episodes progressed, and particularly in the third season), the team would have an opening brawl with the episode's opponents and win. The opponents would go away swearing to get even with the team. The team would then quite often construct a weapon / vehicle / etc. out of resources at their disposal (often while held captive by the bad guys) and send their opponents packing. Thrown into this mix was typically one of Face's cons (often paired with Murdock) to get resources that the team needed, Murdock's particular comic fixation / persona of the episode, another disguise by Hannibal to fool the bad guys, and B.A. building aforementioned defensive construction, and arguing with Murdock. Every few episodes, the Military Police would catch up with the team, giving them an extra obstacle to overcome in that particular episode.

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