The A-Team (TV series)

The a-team is a television series from the 1980s. The series is about a group of mercenaries who pulls in their van across America. Along the way, they help oppressed people in their fight against rich criminals and oppressors. Characteristic of the series was the unique combination of humor, comic style action and jongensboek-like adventure. The a-team was a success and attracted a worldwide audience of millions. Today, The a-team is still often repeated on tv. Because the series was especially appealed to children under 10 years, it is now especially among youth sentiment. Also there are many a-team fan clubs founded and has the series a certain cult status. The series was in the Netherlands for the first time broadcast by TROS .

Remarkably, the series was called, because of the alleged violent content much controversy and pro-military character. Today it appears that all best too bad: despite the countless explosions, stunts, bullet rains and fist fights, falls into the entire series just one visible dead and flows rarely blood.



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[hide] *1 the story  ==The story[ Edit] == The series is about four Viet Nam Veterans out there falsely accused the bank of Hanoi just after the end of the war to have raided. They said that the day after, but the mission was a mission the Office of the Prosecutor is bloated and so did the officer. They are judged, but know to eventually escape from Fort Bragg. They flee to Los Angeles and dives under. There they survive as mercenaries, but every now and then they also help free people who wronged.
 * 2 Members
 * 3 the origin of the series
 * the actors 4
 * 5 the success
 * the movie 6
 * 7 Episodes
 * 8 Dvd releases
 * 9 Trivia
 * 10 external link

Although each episode of the a-team in isolation and so independent is to look, there are a number of subplots that run like a thread through the series. As they are during the first half of the series chased by different persons of the u.s. Army: Colonel Lynch, Colonel Briggs and Colonel Decker and their soldiers of the military police.

Also they are some episodes followed by General Harlan The Bull Fullbright out there, like Lynch and Decker, even after great difficulty fails to the a-team to get under lock and key. When Fullbright along with the a-team in Viet Nam is looking for his daughter, however, he becomes convinced of the innocence of the members of the a-team.However, he gets no chance to help them, because he is shot dead by a Vietnam war militia.

The first three episodes of the fifth (and final) season run to the capture, trial and execution of three (occurrences) of the four A-Team members. They are arrested if they enter into an army captain behind that can prove their innocence. By a military court be B.A., Face and Hannibal was sentenced to death and awaiting the execution thereof they sit on a military base on an island in the ocean. However, they are saved by Murdock and the new team member James Santana, with help from General Hunt Stockwell. Because they still can, convicted criminals are Stockwell force them to work for him in Exchange for protection. Run the commands that they should serve the u.s. Government, but are all clandestine. ==Members[ Edit] == In the first episode is reporter Amy Allen (played by Melinda Culea) looking for the a-team. Then she works with them for a while. She is Later replaced by Tawnia Baker ( Marla Heasleyplayed by), a fellow reporter. In The episode "The Bend in the River" hires Tawnia the a-team to find her fiancé. If the a-team has a Nazi plot foiled, she married with her fiance and then to leave the team.
 * Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith (played by George Peppard). This is the sigaarrokende leader of the team. He was nicknamed Hannibal because he is a brilliant strategist. He is a meestervermommer and the big brains behind the plans to the missions to a successful conclusion. One of his favorite quotes is "I love it when a plan comes together" ("I love it when a plan works").
 * Sergeant Bosco Albert Baracus (played by Mr. T). He is B.A. called. Those are his initials but it can also mean "bad attitude" (which refers to its aggressive behavior). B.A. is the powerhouse and the techie of the team. He loves children, but does suffer from fear of flying. That is why he is usually stunned before they go flying.
 * Lieutenant Templeton Peck (played by Dirk Benedict). His nickname Faceman, usually abbreviated to Face, refers to his handsome face, with which he gets many for each other. Face is the cousin of the team rule. Without any trouble he knows of to arrange everything. Especially when he can get much female beauty.
 * Captain H.m. "Howlin' Mad" Murdock (played by Dwight Schultz). He is the pilot of the team. Although he officially declared to crazy, he is a valuable member of the team. He does often strange, but knows his own. He loves animals (especially his invisible little dog Billy). Murdock is left alone after Colonel Lynch himself there in episode 1 of convinced that Murdock is mentally disturbed. Often should Murdock for a command from a psychiatric facility escape. B.A. and Murdock have often quarrel or an altercation because B.A. not handles the strange behavior of Murdock, but secretly they are put on each other.

In the last season the a-team gets reinforcement by Santana (played by Eddie Velez), specializing in special effects. Further they are forced by General Hunt Stockwell (played byRobert Vaughn), to work for him to renovate. ==The origin of the series<span class="mw-editsection" len="359" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The series was written by Stephen j. Cannell around Mr. T as a result of his appearance in Rocky III with Sylvester Stallone. The idea was that Mr. T was the leader of the a-team and that the other characters were given much less text. During the writing process decided the writers to make a lot of the other characters, they also came up with a new character (Hannibal) that got the lead.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Also the character of the series changed: first wanted a serious action series them, but soon more childlike, chosen for a less violent and especially more humorous character. Interesting is that one as a starting point for the series chose a parody. The a-team was actually a kind of parody of action-and war films. This explains why the action, the stories, the acting and the music all a tad exaggerated.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The A-Team title is a reference to the standard designation for the smallest Green Beret (Command)-army unit. Viet Nam-In their time were the four main characters from the series member of such A Team. ==The actors<span class="mw-editsection" len="344" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Initially, one for the role of Hannibal James Coburn in mind, but it was eventually did George Peppard.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Dwight Schultz stood before his role as Murdock also on the trip: the producers felt that he was exaggerating his role. When a pilot episode with test audiences made it was decided to keep Schultz anyway.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">One had ' Face ' for the role of Dirk Benedict on the eye, but due to contractual problems was the role in the pilot episode played by Tim Dunigan. Dunigan was still replaced by Benedict.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">During the recordings, there were some disputes between the actors. Amy was written out of the series, reportedly because Melinda Culea had too many demands; She wanted to be part of the team and do more actiescenes. George Peppard and Mr. T could not together by a door, mainly because it's not accept Peppard could that although he unlike Mr. T had followed a formal training to actor Mr. T, the real star of the series was.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The budget of the series was at times so low that it chose to Recyclesome actress-actors. Actors who sometimes had a guest appearance as a villain in a single episode were defeated but appeared in the next episode again as villain but then in a different persona. As a result, it came that an actor played multiple bad guys and that many of the bad guys alike. All the scenes of several characters that were played by one actor were then included on 1 day. ==The success<span class="mw-editsection" len="344" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The first episode of the a-team was broadcast on American television in January 1983. Subsequently, the a-team weekly on the American television broadcast. The series was an immediate success and ran through to december 1986. There were 98 episodes made In that intervening period. From May 1984 was also the a-team in Netherlands to see weekly.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After the end of the series went there for years the rumor of a cinema film about the a-team. The movie would have to be a kind of reunion. The team would get a full pardon in this film and so no longer wanted by the Government. These plans were not given passage when George Peppard died in May 1994. ==The film<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">More than 10 years later, in 2008, the film project was revived. After a year of wild speculations was published in the autumn of 2009 the cast. In the feature film about the a-team Hannibal is played by Liam Neeson,Bradley Cooper, Face by the role of Murdock is played by Sharlto Copley and Quinton Jackson crawls into the skin of B.A. a supporting role that is played by Jessica Biel plays an ex-girlfriend of Face.

<p lang="en" len="69" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On June 10, 2010, the film premiered in Dutch cinemas.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the film the Red wire from the series in a new look. The film is not (as the series) after the Viet Nam war, but after the war in Iraq. The film focuses on the further development of ' The a-team '; the Mission in which the men will be framed and their response to light in the film. ==Episodes<span class="mw-editsection" len="346" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Dvd releases<span class="mw-editsection" len="346" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="340" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * George Peppard had a hard time that Mr. T was more popular than he. During the first (double) episode of season 4 ran Mr. T even evil of the set. They spoke sixteen weeks not with each other, but explained it later at.
 * Members of the cast of The a-team are been in Netherlands in 1984. It was at the height of the success and consequently attracted a lot of fans. Were present when Mr. T, Dirk Benedict and Dwight Schultz. Only George Peppard was missing: he got the invitation to in Netherlands to come a day earlier than the rest. Therefore, he thought that only he was invited. When it became apparent that the rest also was invited, he was so disappointed that he did not came along to Netherlands.
 * On 8 and 9 May 2004, Dwight Schultz and Dirk Benedict together to Netherlands. They were when a guest at the "New Star Con"-fanbeurs in Berkel-Enschot.
 * In May 2007, Schultz and Benedict again visiting Netherlands. On May 11, they made their appearance in the television programmes JENSEN! and RTL Boulevard. In addition they were Gerard Ekdom in guest on the radio show on 3FM. Labour vitamins on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 may they were present on the "Dutch Star Con"-fanbeurs in "the bunch of grapes" (again in Berkel-Enschot).
 * In The a-team are five GMC-used vans, two of which are beautiful and had to remain undamaged (these are also called the gift versions). There are many unofficial Vans used (also from other brands like Chevrolet and Ford), which were used to great stunts get involved.
 * This program is one of the childhood memories that are cited in the song Kvraagetaan by Fixkes(2007). The singer sings in his youth that "no one wanted to be Hannibal or Murdock".