The A-Team - Season Two
Universal Studios
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DVD Details:
- Starring:
- Director: Stanley Ellis, Nicholas Sgarro, Bernard McEveety (II), John Peter Kousakis, Bruce Kessler
- Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
- Rated: NR (Not Rated)
- Studio: Universal Studios
- Theatrical Release Date: Jan 23, 1983
- DVD Release Date: Apr 12, 2005
- Run Time: 1108 minutes
- ASIN: B0007LXP7W
- UPC: 025192726026
- Sales Rank: 10322
Editorial Review from Amazon.com:
If ridiculous banter, goofball plots, and many, many, many explosions sounds like the recipe for a perfect TV show to you--you must already be a fan of The A-Team. Each of these Vietnam vets on the lam had his specialty: Hannibal (cigar-chomping George Peppard, a long way from Breakfast at Tiffany's) is the cocksure master planner; Faceman (Dirk Benedict of the original Battlestar Galactica) is the smooth-talking con artist; the pilot with a screw loose is Murdock (Dwight Schultz, later to appear on Star Trek: Voyager); and B.A. Baracus (the charismatic and gold-encrusted Mr. T, Rocky III) is both mechanic and muscle. During the series' five year run, each of these eccentrics cultivated their own rabid fan-base as they threw punches, fired thousand of bullets, tossed hand grenades to and fro, and flipped speeding cars--all without killing or even really hurting anyone, which only adds to the show's willful silliness. (A warning for fans of reporter/sidekick Amy Allen, played by Melinda Culea: After being given nothing to do for a dozen or so testosterone-heavy episodes of the second season, Culea either quit or was fired.) Only during the 1980s could this peculiar blend of lefty politics and military fetishism have thrived. Though supposedly mercenaries-for-hire, the A-Team usually finds itself defending the downtrodden and helpless out of sheer cussedness. In the second season they helped abused migrant workers form a union--which, naturally, required transmogrifying farm equipment into a cabbage-shooting cannon. Other underdogs included the disenfranchised heir to an African diamond mine; an independent cab company being squeezed by big business; and a pacifist commune harassed by bigots. The last of these prompted Hannibal to muse ponderously on the unappreciated role of the soldier, who fights so others don't have to--after which Murdock and B.A. began punching each other over a bag of pecans. Self-aware and self-mocking, The A-Team pushed the TV action/adventure genre to laughable extremes. --Bret Fetzer The A-Team--Season Two Trivia
? In this season, Amy is no longer part of the A-Team. There's no explanation as to why.
? One episode this season sees the title sequence featuring the Cylon from Battlestar Galatica (as well being in this episode) for the first time. This is an in-joke, as Dirk Benedict played Starbuck in that series.
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  SEASON 2 ROCKS! , 2008-01-25
This 1983-84 Season DVD of The A-Team is great, plus this was also the season when Face gets his snazzy Corvette and the season when the hard nosed Col. Decker(Lance LeGault) replaces the obsessed exasperated Col. Lynch(Bill Lucking) as the A-Team's new nemesis along with the fact the 2nd Season had some interesting episodes like "When You Coming Back Range Rider", which showed clips from episodes from the 1st Season when they explained why Lynch was being replaced by Decker and the "Curtain Call" episode when they showed clips from previous episodes from both the 1st and 2nd Seasons when Decker and the team all started having flashback memories while the team struggled to keep Murdock alive after being shot while Decker is close to nabbing The A-Team along with the fact that "Curtain Call" was the Season Finale to the 1983-84 Season on NBC.
On the other hand; I don't think the Second Season was quite as good as the First Season was, because of the fact that Amy Allen(Melinda Culea) ended up departing the team in the second half of The A-Team's 1983-84 Season, since Amy left the show all of the sudden without any mention of Amy or without even mentioning a reason why Amy wasn't with them anymore afterwhile bringing the team down to only 4 guys instead of 5 along with the fact that it was nicer having a lady co-star being a part of The A-Team, but a lot of the episodes weren't as interesting without Amy in them, even though Amy eventually so-called got replaced by Tawnia Baker(Marla Heasley), but only lasted 8 episodes, since Tawnia departed in the 3rd Season of The A-Team.
Additionally, even though Tawnia had supposedly replaced Amy, Tawnia was nothing more than a part-time co-star and was never a full-time co-star like Amy was, because unlike Amy, Tawnia was never included in the introduction credits at the beginning of the show like Amy was in the 1st Season and during the first half of the 2nd Season.
Therefore, Amy was actually more of a co-star than Tawnia was, since Amy was a full-time co-star throughout the whole First Season and throughout the first 10 episodes of the Second Season, but when Amy departed from the show, Hannibal, B.A., Face, and Murdock all acted as if Amy never even existed or like Amy was worthless, but I just wish that Amy would've stayed with the cast and crew of The A-Team, but I found out a few years ago that Amy's reason for leaving the team was due to the fact that George Peppard(Hannibal) didn't get along well with Melinda Culea(Amy) in real life and the rest of the co-stars of The A-Team allegedly starting ganging up on Culea in addition to that.
In addition to that, I think the team wasn't as sharp looking as they were in the 1st season either, but I think the 2nd Season would've been better if Tawnia Baker had became a permanent full-time co-star on this show like Amy was in the First Season and the first 10 episodes of the Second Season by showing Marla Heasley's name and face on the introduction of the show, but then Tawnia ended up departing the show in the following season and then it was almost as if Tawnia never existed either, so I think anybody who watched The A-Team religiously every week when it was on NBC who preferred this show with the female co-stars would agree with me on this review.
It was also interesting seeing
-Markie Post in "The Only Church In Town" episode during her FALL GUY days and before her NIGHT COURT days.
-Morgan Woodward in the "When You Comin Back Range Rider" episode during his DALLAS days.
-Bill Boyett in the "Steel" episode after his Sgt. MacDonald days on ADAM-12.
-Jack Ging in the "Bad Time At The Border" episode before his Gen. Fullbright days in the 4th Season of THE A-TEAM.
-Lew Saunders in the "Steel" episode after his California Highway Patrol Officer Fritz days on CHiPs.
-Dennis Franz in the "Chopping Spree" episode before his days on NYPD BLUE and HILL STREET BLUES.
-Barbara Stock in the "Deadly Manuevers" episode before her days on DALLAS and SPENCER FOR HIRE.
-Tim O'Connor in the "Semi-Friendly Persuasion" episode after his Dr. Huer days on BUCK ROGERS.
-Monte Markham in the "Say It With Bullets" episode before his Capt. Thorpe days on BAYWATCH.
-John Amos in the "Pure Dee Poison" episode after his days on GOOD TIMES and before his days as Capt. Dolan on HUNTER.
-Miguel Fernandes in the "Say It With Bullets" episode before his Sgt. Harry Santos days on THE NEW ADAM-12; etc.
This season also takes me all the way back to memory lane when NBC's motto was "You can NBC there: "BE THERE".
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