Demystifying The A-Team Formula
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"In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they
didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los
Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers
of fortune. If you have a problem, if ....
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.... to bite? Why was everyone so turned
on to, and tuned in to The A-Team in its first few seasons? Were the Am erican audience
that thrilled hearing B.A. Baracus (Mr. T) say "Shut up fool!"; were they that interested
in seeing if Hannibal's (George Peppard) plan always comes together, or was it truly
the violence that sold the show?
Compared to NBC's new experimental shows like Hill Street Blues, and St. Elsewhere, whose
innovative use of realism sparked the Third Golden Age of T ....
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