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A-Team

reviewed by Moosekarloff

Ran on NBC from 1983-1986, the show which starred George Peppard as Col. John "Hannibal" Smith, Mr. T as Sgt. Bosco Albert "B.A." Baracus, Dirk Benedict as Lt. Templeton "Faceman" Peck, and Dwight Schultz as Capt. H.M. "Howling Mad" Murdock, the show was about a squad of ex-soldiers, who solved people's problems, while on the run from the military.

Moosekarloff
10/22/2008

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Totally cartoonish and far-fletched nonsense, aimed at a fifth grade mentality, which made its presumed audience just beneath what's considered average in this country. The acting on this show, excepting Dwight Schultz and Jack Ging, was of the Bugtussle, Arkansas Dinner Theater (aka "Clem's Truck Stop") variety. The scripts demonstrated the effects of tertiary syphilis on the brains of the writing staff. There was always this incessant gun play, but, no one ever got wasted, and the cops never showed up. You'd think that people in the neighborhood would call 911 if they heard automatic gunfire in the street. But, the most ludicrous aspect of the show was when, every week, they'd put together some kind of death machine using crap they found at the highway underpass and then blaze to victory over the generic Bad Guys. What tripe. And it was on the air for three seasons, meaning they got maybe 75 hours of programming out of 45 minutes of plot. That's really stretching the soup, all right.

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twansalem commented 399 days ago.
Would you just lighten up for once? No one claims that the A-Team was an intelectual masterpiece, and it wasn't intended to be. It was funny and the good guys always won. It seems to me that you're missing the whole point of the show (and just about everything else you rate) trying to completely disect it for meaning. What's wrong with just being entertained?
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