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Rating:  -
This 1983-84 Season DVD of The A-Team is great, plus this was also the season when Face gets his snazzy Corvette and the season when the team's hard nosed nemesis Col. Decker(Lance LeGault) replaces the exasperated Col. Lynch(Bill Lucking) as the A-Team's new nemesis along with the fact the 2nd Season had some interesting episodes like "When You Coming Back Range Rider", which showed clips from episodes from the 1st Season when they explained why Lynch was being replaced by Decker and the "Curtain Call" episode when they showed clips from previous episodes from both the 1st and 2nd Seasons when Decker and the team all started having flashback memories while the team struggled to keep Murdock alive after being shot while Decker is close to nabbing The A-Team along with the fact that "Curtain Call" was the Season Finale to the 1983-1984 Season on NBC.
On the other hand; I don't think the Second Season was quite as good as the First Season was, because of the fact that Amy Allen(Melinda Culea) ended up departing the team in the second half of The A-Team's 1983-84 Season, since Amy left the show all of the sudden without any mention of Amy or without even mentioning a reason why Amy wasn't with them anymore afterwhile bringing the team down to only 4 guys instead of 5 along with the fact that it was nicer having a lady co-star being a part of The A-Team, but a lot of the episodes weren't as interesting without Amy in them, even though Amy eventually so-called got replaced by Tawnia Baker(Marla Heasley), but only lasted 8 episodes, since Tawnia departed in the 3rd Season of The A-Team.
Additionally, even though Tawnia had supposedly replaced Amy, Tawnia was nothing more than a part-time co-star and was never a full-time co-star like Amy was, because unlike Amy, Tawnia was never included in the introduction credits at the beginning of the show like Amy was in the 1st Season and during the first half of the 2nd Season.
Therefore, Amy was actually more of a co-star than Tawnia was, since Amy was a full-time co-star throughout the whole First Season and throughout the first 10 episodes of the Second Season, but when Amy departed from the show, Hannibal, B.A., Face, and Murdock all acted as if Amy never even existed or like Amy was worthless, but I just wish that Amy would've stayed with the cast and crew of The A-Team, but I found out a few years ago that Amy's reason for leaving the team was due to the fact that George Peppard(Hannibal) didn't get along well with Melinda Culea(Amy) in real life and the rest of the co-stars of The A-Team allegedly starting ganging up on Culea in addition to that.
In addition to that, I think the team wasn't as sharp looking as they were in the 1st season either, but I think the 2nd Season would've been better if Tawnia Baker had became a permanent full-time co-star on this show like Amy was in the First Season and the first 10 episodes of the Second Season by showing Marla Heasley's name and face on the introduction of the show, but then Tawnia ended up departing the show in the following season and then it was almost as if Tawnia never existed either, so I think anybody who watched The A-Team religiously every week when it was on NBC who preferred this show with the female co-stars would agree with me on this review.
It was also interesting seeing
-Markie Post in "The Only Church In Town" episode during her FALL GUY days and before her NIGHT COURT days.
-Morgan Woodward in the "When You Comin Back Range Rider" episode during his DALLAS days.
-Bill Boyett in the "Steel" episode after his Sgt. MacDonald days on ADAM-12.
-Jack Ging in the "Bad Time At The Border" episode before his Gen. Fullbright days in the 4th Season of THE A-TEAM.
-Lew Saunders in the "Steel" episode after his California Highway Patrol Officer Fritz days on CHiPs.
-Dennis Franz in the "Chopping Spree" episode before his days on NYPD BLUE and HILL STREET BLUES.
-Barbara Stock in the "Deadly Manuevers" episode before her days on DALLAS and SPENCER FOR HIRE.
-Tim O'Connor in the "Semi-Friendly Persuasion" episode after his Dr. Huer days on BUCK ROGERS.
-Monte Markham in the "Say It With Bullets" episode before his Capt. Thorpe days on BAYWATCH.
-John Amos in the "Pure Dee Poison" episode after his days on GOOD TIMES and before his days as Capt. Dolan on HUNTER.
-Miguel Fernandes in the "Say It With Bullets" episode before his Sgt. Harry Santos days on THE NEW ADAM-12; etc.
This season also takes me all the way back to memory lane when NBC's motto was "You can NBC there: "BE THERE", since that was NBC's slogan from September of 1983 thru June of 1984.
In fact, it also brings back childhood memories to me when I used to watch THE A-TEAM every Tuesday night on NBC, since it was part of NBC's Tuesday night line-up, which started with THE A-TEAM at 8PM followed by RIPTIDE at 9PM and then topped off by REMINGTON STEELE at 10PM.
Rating:  -
This is a fantastic show. Now I am for entertainment that can provoke genuine thought but, there are times where you just want to kick back and get lost in pure fun. That's what the A-Team is for!
It's what I would consider to be tasteful low-brow; no fart jokes, no excessive language, no suggestive situations, just good old fashioned senseless violence where the action itself is actually the joke as opposed to anything really serious with characters guaranteed to make you like them for the way they will put a smile on your face, and that's if the running gag of virtually anyone who goes through a horrific car crash only to get out of it almost completely unscathed doesn't do it first.
Now, why am I just rating this two stars when my praise suggests I'd give it five? Two words: DEFECTIVE DISCS!
The main problem stems from the fact that the discs in seasons 2, 3, and 4 are all DVD-18, which are double-sided with each side being dual layer. DVD-18 is the most complex type of DVD you can make with the most layers constructed on a single disc to keep them together.
The inherent complexity and the greater difficulty in assuring quality as a result are the reasons why there aren't too many titles released using the DVD-18 configuration, yet Universal did it as a way to cut costs in manufacturing. Otherwise seasons 2, 3, and 4 would have been like seasons 1 and 5: produced on single-sided dual layer discs with six per set instead of three.
To make things worse, the discs are manufactured by Technicolor, which isn't exactly the greatest company making DVDs; that honor belongs to Panasonic Disc Services Corporation (which Universal USED to use) and Sony DADC.
As for my copy of season 2, discs one and two are faulty. Disc one plays well enough, but there is definitely a physical defect as playing side one causes a definite scraping noise whereas this does not happen with side 2 or with any other disc in the set. Disc two freezes up at the same point in the middle of "Water, water everywhere" in most of my DVD players; my Sony DVP-S7700 and the DVD SuperDrive in my MacBook Pro are the only ones able to successfully play through the problem area without freezing up.
Fortunately, I have made arrangements with Universal to have the discs exchanged free of charge. What I did was go to their DVD website [...] and clicked on "IF YOU DAMAGED YOUR DVD." on the bottom right corner of the screen. You will go to a page where you must agree on terms and then you enter your information. Even though this section is for DVDs that were damaged by the user, just type up that a manufacturer defect is the reason in the "How did your DVD(s) become damaged?" field. In about a day or two, you will receive an e-mail from Universal saying that they will be sending you a prepaid mailer to send the defective discs back.
Hope this helps.
Rating:  -
This episode was not a highlight of the second season. It was the A team meets themselves the B team and then wins the fistfight. Role credits. It was one would guess about time someone would gang up on main heroes. A mercenary is hired. Hired a million dollars per A Team member to remove them. Someone is getting milked when we get to see how bad a merceneary the hired guy is. The main gun is Ed Lauter, from a season one show. He is not a believable killer in any way. However, Melinda Culea's replacement Marla Heasley shows her believability in acting by doing a fine job of milking here part that has her taking pictures of some cows. Wonder why they let her go her at the end of the season. Just plain weaker than usual plod (no typo) that opens with Team supposedly in training. This was actually funny. They get picked off one by one by mercernearies which carries the suspense of a milk commerical. Hannibal is tougher and survives the spedative spiked milk, gets back on his horse with medical help to chew up the villains in an exciting fist fight finale. Pretty forgettable. The main characters all seemed somewhat muted. The one highlight was a gorgeous Tricia O'neil making another appearance as Doc Sullivan although they call her Maggie instead of Mo from the season 1 show. To bad she was in this so little. Too bad the writers could not have featured her as a more recurrung guest. Her backstory was vietnam medic and she would have fit in. (But then there was Peppards oft spoken penchant for feeling women had no major place in this kind of show). Both Lauter and O'neill were in the the Black Rock epsisode. At least there, Ed Lauter was believable and O'neill who is always great had not much more than seven or eight short lines.
On a trivia note, Barbara Stock from Spenser for Hire, Dallas, pops in as a seductive vixen.) Not one of this series stellar efforts.
Rating:  -
I bought this as a Christmas present for my daughter's boyfriend and he was happy to have received it!
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This is one of the greatest shows ever. What makes it even greater is that every word is true.
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