The A-team

It's my firm believe that the A-team had just one script written for the whole duration of the show and they just changed actors and locations from episode to episode. More than once they repeated actors, even in main roles. Michael Ironside played a different baddie twice and a guy that played one of the Military Police colonels that chase the team had played before a mob boss. Also he's the only guy ever dying in the A-team.


... and then there's this guy











The basic A-Team episode goes like this:

* Nice people gets bullied by bullies, mobsters, dirty cops... usually regarding some real state claims.

* Good looking niece/daughter of the bullied old man tries to hire the A-team, talking to Hannibal in disguise. Hannibal refuses at first, but when she's leaving disappointed he takes off his costume and tells her "You just hired the A-team"

* Face breaks Murdoch out of the asylum... funny enough we never see them get Murdoch go back. Murdoch will develop a stupid delusion during the episode that will annoy the shit out of B.A.. After briefly studying psychology I can assure you that Murdoch is not crazy, he's just a twat.My favourite Murdoch gimmick is his alter ego, the superhero "Captain taxi"

* B.A. is adamant of getting in no-plane but he gets drugged and he gets in plane. No matter where they go in the world it looks like southern California

* Face cons someone, usually to get some mean of transportation or information

* The A-team attest the situation and have first confrontation with baddies. The bad guys will always have a big guy for B.A. to fight, they will punch each other at first with no effect. Said big guy has also taken out first either Face or Murdoch.

* In fights there's always a shot of Face or Hannibal jumping from somewhere tall, the shot is slow mo and taken from bellow. If Hannibal is the one doing a stunt you can always notice the white wig on the stuntman. That's drinking game worth it.

* The bad guys re-group and capture the A-Team. Instead of killing them they'll lock the guys somewhere with lots of tools

* B.A. befriends some kid and Face and/or Hannibal flirt with the ladies

* For the final showdown the A-team will armor some vehicles and built weird weapons in a classic montage. In one episode Murdoch is halfway around the country from the rest of the Team and still you can see his reflection on some rims when the montage happens. This montages drove whole generations to compulsive DIY and planted the seed for "Pimp my ride".

* The A-Team strikes back and save the day, without ever killing anyone. You have to wonder what the hell did they do in the 'nam
In the final fight some things will always happen. B.A. taking out the big bad guy, car chases in which cars flips and the bad guys get out of them stunned, cars will drive over the camera (I used to love that shot as a kid), Hannibal will take out the leader with a one liner (note that Hannibal never lights his cigar).

* Hannibal states once again that he loves it when a plan comes together, B.A. throws Murdock to a river or something. Face or Hannibal snog a girl before leaving. I'm pretty sure those two are gay and the whole girl thing is a act.. and B.A. totally have the hots for Murdoch. It's a closeted gay relationship, pretty much like Odo and Quark in "Star trek: deep space 9"

* Goodbyes are cut short because the military police is coming. Some episodes included the pesky military police making the mission harder, which is great to seeing the team outsmart the army. Episode ends in freeze frame

Of course there's a few variations in the scripts, which brings us great tv moments like this