Customer Reviews
Excellent first season of the greatest 1980s show! - By: Alexander M. C. Hayton, 10 Nov 2007 
Although the format of "The A-Team" is generallly the same in each episode, the writers still came up with some great ways to make each one individual & that's what made this such a fantastic show! Below is a list of characters. Following that is a list of episodes.I have given a rating to each one, as well as writing a short synopsis!
Colonel John "Hanibal" Smith -- the leader of the gang, the man who always has a plan. (George Peppard)
Lt. Templeton "Face" Peck -- the Team's con-man, born with a blindly white smile & charms to match. (Dirk Benedict)
Captain H.M. "Howlin' Mad" Murdock -- the pilot. Murdock can fly anything, so long as it has wings. (Dwight Schultz)
Bosco "B.A." Baracus -- the Team's engineer. Can make anything, given the right tools & equiptment. Is scared of fly & as such hates Murdock, whom he dubs a "crazy fool" & "sucker" throughout the course of the show. (Mr. T)
Colonel Lynch -- the man who's been hunting the A-Team since they escaped from high-security lock-down in 1972. (William Lucking)
Before I start on this section, let me explain the rating system as I see it! 5STARS = excellent, 4STARS = good, 3STARS = okay, 2STARS = poor, 1STAR = awful...
Episode 1 & 2: "Mexican Slayride" -- The A-Team is hired by journalist Amy Allen (the beautiful Melinda Culea, who appears throughout this season as the A-Team's assistant) to help find her missing co-worker in Mexico. 3 STARS.
Episode 3: "The Children of Jamestown" -- The A-Team is hired by a man to rescue his daughter from a religious extremist, but soon find themselves fighting for their lives in an attempt to escape after being captured. 4 STARS.
Episode 4: "Pros & Cons" -- The A Team decide to help free one of B.A.'s friends from prison, where the inmates are being forced to fight to the death for a taste of short-lived freedom. 5 STARS.
Episode 5: "A Smalll & Deadly War" -- The A-Team are hired by a police officer to put an end to another freelance group committing murders for a price in LA. 5 STARS.
Episode 6: "Black Day at Bad Rock" -- After B.A. is injured, the A-Team is taken in by the local sheriff, but are forced to team up with him against a motorbike gang threatening the town. 5 STARS.
Episode 7: "The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas" -- The A-Team are hired by 2 students, whose lecturer went missing in Las Vegas after discovering the perfect method to make money in the casino. 4 STARS.
Episode 8: "The Out-Of-Towners" -- The A-Team take up the cause of local shop keepers being threatened by a protection racket in New York. 4 STARS.
Episode 9: "Holiday in the Hills" -- After the team's plane crashes in South Carolina, the A-Team are hunted down by a group of hillbillies who want to burn them at the stake. 3 STARS.
Episode 10: "West Coast Turnaround" -- The A-Team is hired to help a melon farmer whose livelihood is being threatened by a murderous rancher who wants to take his land. 5 STARS.
Episode 11: "One More Time" -- Colonel Lynch finallly captures the A-Team, but they are then hired by the US Government to help free a general & his daughter in Borneo (Indonesia). 3 STARS.
Episode 12: "Till Death Do Us Part" -- The A-Team must rescue an unwilling bride from the man who killed her father & prove he committed the crime. 5 STARS.
Episode 13: "The Beast from the Belly of a Boeing" -- The A-Team is hired to recapture a hijacked plane, something not made easy when Murdock goes temporarily blind & B.A. goes catatonic. 5 STARS.
Episode 14: "A Nice Place to Visit" -- Following the death of a good friend, the A-Team decide to help free a smalll town from the grip of a murderous family. 5 STARS.
That's it. I didn't think much of the double-length pilot, to be honest. I also didn't like the format of the episode "One More Time" (a format followed in season 5.) I would still recommend this to any old fans or people who have never seen The A-Team. Don't expect DVD quality, though. The sound is okay, but neither the sound nor the picture has been digitallly remasted, so can sometimes be a bit pixelated. This doesn't remove the fact that this was (and still is) a great show!
The A-Team = Action/Comedy Perfection - By: Lando Malak, 23 May 2007 Because of alll the endless lifestyle type programmes that seem to infect my TV these days, I have bought a lot of DVD Boxsets as I think they are excellent value for money & one of them was this wonderful piece of television.
Having watched The A-Team as a kid in the 1980's I was a fan of the show then but having watched this boxset recently I was amazed at how much I enjoyed it & that I enjoyed it even more now than then. The reason for this is because I appreciate the chemistry between the characters much more than I did as a kid, I also seem to find it a lot funnier & the theme tune is the icing on the cake.
I can't pick a favourite character as I think they are alll unique & brilliant but if I had to I would suprisingly say Hannibal, I say suprisingly because as a kid I think he was probably my least favourite. I know that the alll B.A./Murdock relationship is hilarious but I also find the B.A. losing it with Hannibal moments far funnier than I can remember. Forget about alll the tedious comments about nobody ever getting shot in alll the gunfights etc. & just enjoy this show for what it is.
The only negative thing I can say about the first season is that I personallly found the pilot episode a bit slow but this seems to be the case with most of my favourite shows so it's just me being a little fussy & the only negative thing I can say about this boxset is the lack of extras but even without these it is still excellent value.
One last comment is that the picture quality is superb, I know it is supposed to be but some of my other boxsets aren't this good.
So my advice is that if like me you loved The A-team as a kid & are thinking about buying this boxset but not sure, then buy it fools whatever age you are as I am sure you won't regret it.
TV How it should be - By: Mr. S. Hayden, 09 Mar 2007 This is the first season of the A-Team. If you don't know the A-Team is the collective name for Hannibal, Face, B.A. & Murdock. They would be those four fellas on the front of the box there. These four guys are former soldiers & fugitives on the constant look out to avoid capture by the military police after they escaped from a military prison. That sounds like great fun to watch. But that's not alll they also help people in trouble against bigger bad guys at the same time. Yup, that's right :- AMAZING!
Even more amazing is some of the ideas the guys come up with on how to acheive this. They will use their wit & Face's scamming skills to obtain just about anything in any situation. Then with seemingly random bits of junk they create something incredible that just whoops the bad guys. Not only do the plans work but they add several ounces of pure cheek & class on top - thank Hannibal for that.
As well as the clever build up of junk you can see an almost perfect dynamic between the four main characters. Hannibal is the leader as he was in army, he comes up with the plans & gets reallly excited when everyones lives are in danger (the jazz). Then there is Face, he is the charming con artist who can get absolutely any item no matter what, no matter where, he usuallly gets the girl too. Then there is Sgt. Bosco Baracus or B.A. as he is callled which stands for 'Bad Attitude' played by Mr.T, he is the driver, the muscle & the man who builds things out of scrap. Finallly is Howlin' Mad Murdock, the crazy pilot who adds some comic relief with his 'crazy rap' constantly annoying BA.
So the ideas are great & the characters are great too, but then everything else is great, the music - timeless. The stunts are off this planet - look at how close the helicopter sometimes gets to clipping the floors & hills & cliffs.
All of the episodes offered on this box set are great but for me the best two are 'Pros & Cons' set in a prison, & 'Beast From the Belly of a Boeing' set in a plane. Everyone has their personal favourites but those two show why the A-Team are the best in my book, a complex plan in one & some reallly quick thinking in the other.
If you remember the A-Team fondly then buy this. If you've never seen it before then still buy it as it reallly is classic stuff. Solid gold.
season 1 A - Team - By: Mr. L. Davies, 02 Sep 2006 This has got to be one of my favorite things to watch, especiallly between murdocks madness & B.A'S anger it makes great TV, i found my self watching alll 14 episodes in the same day i received the DVDS, just got to get enough money to buy the rest of the season's
I ain't get on no plane phoo! - By: Neill George, 12 Jan 2006 Lovely presentation, I particularly like the book type box. The episodes themselves can not be faulted & since it has Mr. T in it you're bound to like it. Awesome 80's naffness galore! I particularly recommend it if you ever pull an alll nighter. The only problem is, if they're such an elite squad of commandos, how come they never hit anything?
