THE A-TEAM SEASON 2
The second season that brought Mr. T, Dwight Schultz,
and George Peppard to the forefront of stardom, and
brought back an icon, Dirk Benedict(of Battlestar Galactica
fame)!!
Sadly, these are on double sided discs!! Which means that
you have to be incredibly careful when loading them into
the DVD player as to not scratch the second side!!! A horrible
way to distribute DVDs!!! Also, these were suppose to be
new, however, they were in terrible shape! I had to clean them
before I was able to play them!!! BOOOOOO!!!
And like the first season, 258,000 rounds of bullets fired,
not one person hit!!!!! LOL!!!!
Again many guest stars in this series, as this was, kind of like
Batman in the 60's, THE show to get your face on!!
EPISODE 1: DIAMONDS N' DUST(Sept. 20, 1983):
The boys(and girl) are hired by the daughter of a diamond
mine owner who gets killed while trying to mine his, um, mine!! A
EPISODE 2: RECIPE FOR HEAVY BREAD(Sept. 27, 1983):
A baker that the team knew in Vietnam is discovered here in
the US in a restaraunt by Face!! This guy was "the enemy" but
he helped the POWs by sneaking them food!! He's now in
trouble here, and the A-Team comes to his aid!! A
EPISODE 3: ONLY CHURCH IN TOWN(Oct. 11, 1983):
Face gets a message from an old flame and thinks that it's a
call for help!! In reality, it was just an apology, but they all go
to El Salvador to hep her out!! Turns out, she really does need
help, along with a convent of nuns who are running a home
for orphaned children!
Guest starring in this is Markie Post(Night Court, The Fall
Guy)!
This episode has a glitch in it and needs to be skipped
ahead where the glitch is!! A
EPISODE 4: BAD TIME ON THE BORDER(Oct. 18, 1983):
Bad dudes are smuggling illegals over the border and
putting them in enslavement!! One little girl gets away
and meets up with B.A. who gets the rest of the crew to
join him in stopping the ring!! A
EPISODE 5: WHEN YOU COMIN' BACK, RANGE RIDER? PT. 1 & 2(Oct. 25, 1983):
Horse rusting's the name of the game here, and it has
cowboys and Indians, and horse rustling!! The purpose
of the rustling is to sell for glue in Mexico!!!!
As an aside plot here, there's a new man chasing after
the group, Col. Decker!! Just as determined as the previous
dude chasing our heroes!!!
This was a double episode that was almost two hours
long, but so good and fun that it really didn't seem like
it!!
Guest "starring" Lance LeGault(Magnum P.I., Star Trek:
TNG[episode "The Emissary"], and four Elvis movies:
Girls! Girls! Girls!, Kissing Cousins, Viva Las Vegas &
Roustabout), Morgan Woodward(Dallas, Star Trek: TOS
[episodes "The Omega Glory" & "Dagger Of The Mind"],
The Life And Times Of Wyatt Earp)! A+
EPISODE 6: TAXICAB WARS(Nov. 1, 1983):
Kinda what you'd expect here, a small cab company is trying
to keep operating while a larger company is trying to run them
and all the other smaller cab companies out of business!! So,
they go to the only people they can, the A-Team!!
Guest starring Michael Ironside(Smallville, V, Total Recall, Top
Gun), Ernie Hudson(Ghostbusters), Brion James(Blade
Runner, Fifth Element) A
EPISODE 7: LABOR PAINS(Nov. 8, 1983):
Some migrant farm workers are being oppressed by the
local land baron! The team shows up by hapenstance and
immediately get involved!!
Guest starring Charles Napier(Star Trek: DS9[episode "Little
Green Men", Star Trek: TOS[episode "The Way To Eden"])!! A+
EPISODE 8: THERE'S ALWAYS A CATCH(Nov. 15, 1983):
While in a small fishing town the crew stop in at a hospital to
attend to B.A.'s foot that he stepped on a nail with!! While
there, they hear of the local bully who's making the small
fishermen's life Hell!! Not only that but Decker is hot on
their trail and not far behind them!! Not an easy task for
the A-Team, but they take on the bully!!
Guest starring in this one is Tracey Scoggins(Babylon 5)!! A
EPISODE 9: WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE(Nov. 22, 1983):
Some disabled Vietnam Vets are trying to make a new life
for themselves in a small town by building up a B&B!! The
trouble arises from a man who wants the water rights to
the whole area, including the town!! A fight ensues!!! A
EPISODE 10: STEEL(Nov. 29, 1983):
This is about a destruction company trying to do a job
and getting grief from a dude that it doesn't seem would
be even interested!! Turns out there is a connection to
organized crime!! Heaven knows why, but the A-Team's
bound to find out!! A
EPISODE 11: THE WHITE BALLOT(Dec. 6, 1983):
A town run by a very crooked sheriff!! A newspaper man
who wants to bring him down!! The A-Team to do the job!!
Guest starring Andrew Robinson(Star Trek: DS9), Clifton
James(playing here his usual role in movies, a Sheriff: The
Man With The Golden Gun, Live And Let Die, Superman II) A
EPISODE 12: THE MALTESE COW(Dec. 13, 1983):
Yep, there really is a cow in this!! But more to the plot, there's
a Chinese mobster who's pushing his weight around in the
China Town district, of which the A-Team has a vested interest
in because they helped a friend open a restaraunt there, and
the thugs busted up the place!!
Guest stars include James Hong(The New Adventures Of
Charlie Chan, Blade Runner, Big Trouble In Little China),
Keye Luke(Charlie Chan movies from the 30's and 40's,
Green Hornet serial[1940]), Peter Kwong(High Road To
China, The Golden Child), Al Leong(Die Hard, Lethal Weapon,
Lethal Weapon IV, Beverly Hills Cop 3, The Scorpion King)!! A
EPISODE 13: IN PLANE SIGHT(Jan. 3, 1984):
A pilot running some turquoise from South America has
plane trouble and lands in Venezuela!! No, problems,
he lands safely, but unfortunately for him he's also
running coke!! The parents call for the A-Team and
even though the parents can't afford them without
selling their farm, they take the job anyway, and head
off to Venezuela!!! A
EPISODE 14: THE BATTLE OF BEL AIR(Jan. 10, 1984):
While planning on when and how to "get out of town", a
reporter working in a "security firm" finds the group at
a hardware store that Face is working in!! She tells them
that the Army is closing in on them and that they need to
leave quickly!! Her ulterior motive: she wants to take the
place of Amy who's overseas as a correspondent!! What
she doesn't know is that the "security company" is actually
a front for a hit company!! A
EPISODE 15: SAY IT WITH BULLETS(Jan. 17, 1984):
In this one we have an Army Leiutenant who's running arms
with the help of a young soldier!! The soldier wants out, so
the Leiutenant takes him out, all the way!! His sister comes
to the A-Team for help, only it's a trap!! Another 23,000 rounds
and again no one hit!! LOL!!
Guest starring Monte Markham(Baywatch, The New Perry
Mason)
EPISODE 16: PURE-DEE POISON(Jan. 31, 1984):
The boys are recruited by a preacher who is fighting a moonshiner
who's making stuff that is a real killer!!
Guest starring John Amos(The West Wing, Die Hard 2,
Roots, Mary Tyler Moore Show), Bo Hopkins(American
Graffiti, Dynasty, Cat Ballou). A
EPISODE 17: IT'S A DESERT OUT THERE(Feb. 7, 1984):
A bus full of tourists who have just left a casino get robbed
after the goons are tipped off by one of the girls at the
Casino!!!! They hire the A-Team to help out and get their
stuff back!!
There is a huge jump in this!!! Close to the end of the
episode!!!! :(
Guest starring Tony Burton(all six of the Rocky movies)
Parley Baer(The Adventures Of Ozzie & Harriet)! A
EPISODE 18: CHOPPING SPREE(Feb. 14, 1984):
While the boys go after a professional car theft ring, B.A.'s
van get stolen!! Of course, all Hell breaks out!!
Guest starring Dennis Franz(NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues)! A
EPISODE 19: HARDER THAN IT LOOKS(Feb. 21, 1984):
A man hires the A-Team to get his daughter who's been
kidnapped and held for ransom back - - along with the
money!! They succeed, except the money part - - - and
the fact that the rescued won't go home till they get her
boyfriend out too!!!
Guest starring Anthony De Longis(Star Trek: Voyager
[5 episodes])! A
EPISODE 20: DEADLY MANEUVERS(Feb.28, 1984):
A bunch of the guys that the A-Team have come in contact
with in their endevours have banded together to hire a bunch
of mercenaries to kill off the A-Team!! One by one they fall
into traps and get caught!! Cept the Colonel!!
Tricia O'Neal(Babylon 5: In The Beginning) returns as a guest
star in this, along with Michael Cavanaugh(Star Trek: TNG[episode
"Tin Man"]), Ed Lauter(Star Trek: TNG[episode "The First Duty"]),
Michael Ensign(Boston Legal, Star Trek: Enterprise[episode
"Stigma"], Star Trek: Voyager[Episode "False Prophets"], Star
Trek: DS9[episode "The Forsaken"], Star Trek: TNG[episode
"First Contacts"])!! A
EPISODE 21: SEMI-FRIENDLY PERSUASION(May 8, 1984):
Another glitch in the disc on this one, about 3/4 of the way
through!!! BOOOOOOO again!!!!!!
A religious group are trying to settle in a town where there's
a dude who apparently runs the whole town, and he doesn't
want them there for whatever reason!! The group comes to
the A-Team for help, but ties their hands by saying that they
can't use any force!!!
Guest stars include Tim O'Connor(Buck Rogers) & Sam Jones
(Flash Gordon)!! A
EPISODE 22: CURTAIN CALL(May 15, 1984):
Again, a glitch, unable to watch the ending!!!!!!!!!
During the end of a mission, Murdock gets shot protecting
Hannibal!! The real trouble is that they're surrounded by
Decker and his crew, and they can't get to medical help
without running into him!!! During his delirium, there are
several flashbacks to previous episodes!! A
From another reviewer at IMDb.com:
"A-team"is one of the best tv-series ever. Four
veterans of Vietnam war are wrongfully accused
and now they are outlaws.Peppard is very good
in his role.He plays Hannibal,the leader of the four.
I think is the best role of Peppard!But Mr.T as B.A
is also outstanding."A_team"is not only adventure
and crime.It has also comedy and sometimes romance.
If you like "MacGyver" you are going to love "A-Team".
Also if you are fun of Robert Vaughn you must see
"A-Team" because Vaughn plays general Stockwell.
A mysterious person who is a friend and an enemy
of the four veterans. - Andy S, (anstamatopoulos@yahoo.gr)