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i looked high and low for a digital copy but was unsuccessful and am very happy to have this.I remember riding home on my bike as fast as i could to see the A team we never missed an episode and i Pity the fool who doesn't take advantage of all these episodes in 1 collection
i love it
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hello i got 1 through 4 i love it im so happy it is great im watching the pilot first episode the box set looks soo cool i love it going watch all of them highly recommended
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I loved it as a kid and I love it probably even more today. The friggin' A-Team, man!!! Anyone who grew up in the 80s knows the adventures of fugitive Vietnam vets, Hannibal, Face, B.A. and Murdock. It's a great memory and also a sad reminder of how lousy television shows are today. There is absolutely nothing like this on T.V. anymore. The A-Team do-gooders for hire, but it seems like they're always working Pro Bono. It makes you wonder how they make any money at all. The show is sorta like a mix of McGyver, Mission: Impossible and any given Cannon action film from the 80s.
Season One introduces us to the crew and sets them off on a series of adventures. They're pursued by Colonel Lynch, who just can't seem to get his hands on them(even when he does, he can't hold on to them!). A female reporter named Amy also joins the team. Tim Dunigan plays Face in the pilot episode, and he's not quite as bad as everyone says, but Dirk is Dirk, and he'll always be Face.
The first season doesn't have as much Macgyver-ish stuff as we'd see later on. The most entertaining aspect of the show is the personalities of the characters and how they interact with one another. They're all goofballs, and even B.A., who is supposed to be the straight and serious guy, is funny in his attempt to be so serious amongst a group of loonies. Basically the show can almost be seen more as a comedy than an action show.
There are some notable appearances to those who dig cult and B films, like John Saxon, William Smith and Dean Stockwell to name a few. Also of note to cult horror fans(Karen Shaub especially!), the show was produced by Filipino horror(and Frankie Avalon beach movie)star John Ashley, who also does the narration on the show's intro.
Season One isn't regarded as the best season. The characters are well established, but the show still had some evolving to do. It's still highly entertaining and has some of my personal favorite episodes. And it's a helluva lot more fun than reality T.V.
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When you're a kid you remember some shows fondly and some with distaste and when you grow up it changes this show is one of them. Let me say that while the actors aren't bad but when I started watching some of these episodes and seeing all the explosions and bullets flying I'm surprised that neither any of the A-team members or the people their fighting got seriously injured or hurt I mean they would just shake themselves off and just walk away. PLEASE! I know this show wasn't meant to be taking as a very dramatic show but as I see these episodes now that I'm an adult I just can't feel but wonder what I found so appealing about this show as a kid. Again this is just a personal review so to all fans of the show don't get to hostile if you like the show and want people to know why make a review and explain your reasons for it.
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This was truly the best season of them all throughout THE A-TEAM's whole 4-year run on NBC and the season that made Mr. T a superstar and the season that made The A-TEAM an instant smash in the 1980's along with the fact that it was interesting seeing Dirk Benedict going from being Starbuck on BATTLESTAR GALACTICA to being Face on THE A-TEAM.
In addition; this was the season when The A-Team was in its honeymoon phase when the A-Team was hotter, they were slicker, they were sharper looking, plus this was the only full season with sexy newspaper reporter Amy Allen(Melinda Culea)as their sidekick who always tagged along on their missions, which made the show and their missions even more interesting along with the fact that this was the only full season of The A-Team with Amy even though the 1st Season wasn't quite a whole full season since the First Season only had 13 episodes since The A-Team didn't even come out till January of 1983 on NBC for the very first time, plus it's just too bad that they only showed Col. Lynch (Bill Lucking) in 2 episodes, which were the pilot episode("Mexican Slayride")and "One More Time", even though they used to mention Lynch's name a lot in the First Season, yet Lynch was usually no where to be found even when other MP's were obviously chasing and tracking them, which I found kind of odd since Lynch had so-called been chasing Hannibal, Face, and B.A. for over 10 years since the ending of the Vietnam war when they escaped and became fugitives on the lam who were convicted and imprisoned for a crime they could never prove they didn't commit in the first place.
In addition to that, this season also explains to us how THE A-TEAM was a show about how Hannibal, B.A., Face, and Murdock were all creative Robin Hood style mercaneries for hire who were soldiers of fortune Vietnam vets who specialized in impossible situations where even the police couldn't help, but the A-Team still managed to aid the people in need of serious help who couldn't even be helped out by the police, FBI, etc., even though they were wanted harboring criminals on the run from the law; plus this was the season that shows us how Amy became a member of the team after discovering the A-Team and what they were all about after doing a story on Hannibal, Face, and B.A. when she does a story on them while hiring the A-Team to find her kidnapped reporter friend(William Windom), but Amy becomes the 5th team member at the end of the pilot episode while Lynch continues to unsuccessfully pursue Hannibal, BA, and Face.
Additionally, this season also brings back a lot of memories when I was little and lived for watching this show back then, especially since the show became less interesting when Amy departed from the show in the 2nd half of the 1983-84 Season, since the show didn't have Amy's smile or beauty, or good looks, or cheery personality anymore along with the fact that it was actually nice for The A-Team to have a female co-star on the show when they did.
Therefore, the First Season also seemed to be more genuine and more sophisticated than all the other seasons, so this has and always will be my favorite season of this show and was probably the very best season of them all along with the fact that this season is what made the A-Team such a smash when it made its debut on NBC in early 1983.
The one thing I don't understand about this season was why didn't they have Dirk Benedict playing Tempelton Peck "Face" in the pilot episode instead of Tim Dunigan, which only played Face in the "Mexican Slayride" episode, but according to my information Tim Dunigan only played Face in the pilot episode, because he was fired since the producers thought Dunigan was too tall and too young looking to be a convincing Vietnam vet and a con-man along with the fact that Dunigan was the tallest and practically the toughest looking co-star on the team, which the producers didn't want.
Therefore, the producers of the A-Team decided to replace Tim Dunigan with Dirk Benedict as Tempelton Peck a.k.a. Face since Dirk Benedict was a much better match, since Dirk Benedict was so tall and was a lot more convincing as a Vietnam vet and a smooth talking con-artist since Dirk Benedict was close to being in his 40's when this show made its debut on NBC in 1983 along with the fact that the producers wanted Dirk Benedict to portray the role of Face from the very beginning and I personally thought Dirk Benedict made an awesome Tempelton Peck, unlike Tim Dunigan, which made an aweful Tempelton Peck and looked more like an inexperienced wannabe Face.
I also wondered why Amy Allen had departed the show in the 2nd half of the following season all of the sudden after the first 10 episodes of the 2nd Season too leaving Amy no where to be found, but unfortunately it turns out that Melinda Culea(Amy) was fired from the show between November and December of 1983 due to wanting more challenging actions for her character that the writers & producers kept refusing to give her.
In addition to why Amy was ousted from the show; George Peppard(Hannibal)unfortunately didn't get along well with Melinda Culea(Amy)either, but Culea was eventually briefly replaced by foxy newspaper reporter Tawnia Baker(Marla Heasley) in the remaining half of THE A-TEAM's Second Season when Tawnia made her first appearance and joined the cast & crew of the show in "The Battle Of Bel-Air" episode in January of 1984, but I still preferred Amy to Tawnia, even though Tawnia was hotter looking, because Amy was actually more of a co-star and more of a member of the team than Tawnia ever was, but it just so happens that Tawnia departed the show in the 3rd Season after only lasting 8 episodes, due to sexism on the set, which prompted Marla Heasley to quit the show in the Fall of 1984, which was nearly a year after Melinda Culea's departure from the show.
In other words, Amy and Tawnia were technically kicked off the team, but it was initially due to the fact that George Peppard didn't want any lady co-stars on the show or the team since Peppard felt the lady co-stars, especially Amy & Tawnia were kind of a distraction from the real heavy-duty action on the show along with the fact that the 4 main male co-stars of the show were the ones to always do the heavy-duty work, but Amy & Tawnia always had the easy job and the easy part on the team.
It was also interesting seeing
-Dirk Benedict making a new show as Tempelton Peck "Faceman" after his co-starring days as Starbuck on BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
-Jack Ging in the "Small & Deadly War" episode before he became a part-time co-star on this show as the A-Team's overzealous nemesis(Gen. Fullbright)in the 4th Season
-Joanna Kerns in the "A Nice Place To Visit" episode before her co-starring days on GROWING PAINS
-Andy Robinson in "The Belly Of The Beast Of Boeing" episode after his co-starring days on RYANS HOPE
-Dean Stockwell in the "A Small & Deadly War" episode before his co-starring days on QUANTUM LEAP
-Don Stroud in the "A Nice Place To Visit" episode before his co-starring days as Capt. Lussen on THE NEW DRAGNET
-Rhonda Shear in the "A Small & Deadly War" episode before her co-starring days on USA's Up All Night
-Noble Willingham in the "Till Death Do Us Part" episode before his co-starring days on WALKER TEXAS RANGER
-Michael Swan in "The Belly Of The Beast Of A Boeing" episode before his co-starring days on AS THE WORLD TURNS
-Ismael Carlo in the "A Small & Deady War" episode before his co-starring days on DAYS OF OUR LIVES
This season also takes me all the way back to memory lane when NBC's motto was "Just Watch Us Now" and to when I used to watch THE A-TEAM sometimes even twice every Tuesday between 6PM-7PM on KYEL, which was the NBC affiliate for Yuma, AZ and El Centro, CA at the time and then again at 8PM on KNBC, which is the NBC affiliate for Los Angeles, which I did frequently since I was living in the Imperial Valley at the time, which is a small secluded desert community with very little to do for fun or entertainment.
So I think anybody who religiously watched The A-Team on NBC every Tuesday night back in the mid 1980's would definetely agree with me on all this.
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