The A-Team - Season Four

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A-Team, 2008-10-09
If you like the A-Team you won't be disappointed. They are even better when not interrupted with commercials.

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A serious decline in quality, 2008-09-06
By Season Four, the people behind The A-Team just put less and less effort into the story and opted for the same old, same old formulaic nonsense with fake car chases, phony crashes, obvious stunt doubles and poorly integrated stock footage. br / br /Only about half of the episodes are worth watching, while the rest are so mundane to the point of being down right awful. The 'Uncle Buckle-Up' episode in particular is just horrendous and the infamous 'Cowboy George' (my eyes, MY EYES!!!) really is as bad as you've heard. I haven't seen it for years (I skipped right over it on this box set) but I remember wishing that the ground would just open up and swallow me, it was that bad. At one point you can even see Dirk Benedict barely containing his embarrassment. br / br /The best episodes are not necessarily the ones with the best action and stories. When the show makes the most of out the four characters (usually with an amusing running joke with Murdoch) it can be highly watchable. A young Hulk Hogan even joins in for a couple of episodes. br / br /The over-zealous Decker is replaced by equally incompetent General Fullbright in this season but he ends up being killed-off in the last episode (further proof that people DID die in this show), which is actually a complete rip-off of Rambo - First Blood Part II [Blu-ray], to the point of even hiring the same actors for the same kind of roles. br / br /Thankfully, things really picked up for Season 5, though I can still only reccomend this to hardcore A-Team completists. br / br /The DVD presents the show in absolutely shocking quality. Shot on 35mm film there are a couple of shots that are surprisingly crisp and colorful but I'm afraid that the rest of it is grainy, washed-out and as dull as dish water. The thin Mono soundtracks fail to impress also, and there are no worthy extra features.

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The A-Team's 1985-86 Season Is Less Than Exceptional Season , 2008-08-12
This 1985-86 Season of THE A-TEAM was okay, but not nearly as great or as phenomenal as it was during it's first 2 seasons on NBC, which was proven in the Nielsen ratings, since there was obviously a big decline in where The A-Team ranked in the ratings, since the ratings weren't nearly as high as they were in the first 2 seasons, which especially made a big difference in the ratings between the 1st Season and the 4th Season. br / br /Therefore, when The A-Team hit it's Fourth Season, the excitement of the action and uniqueness of this show wasn't nearly as good as it was when The A-Team made it's debut in it's First Season in early 1983, especially since the action wasn't as impressive and the car chases and stunts seemed to have become phonier along with the fact that the 1985-86 Season didn't have a female co-star for the team in this season either, unlike they did in the first 2 seasons. br / br /This was also the season when the hasty overzealous Col.Decker(Lance LeGault) ends up getting replaced by the rigid Gen. Fullbright(Jack Ging) after Decker's unsuccessful 2-year pursuit of The A-Team, which was an interesting transition, despite the fact that I preferred Decker to Fullbright, even though Fullbright made Decker look like a weakling, especially after Decker's last appearance in the "Blood, Sweat, Cheers" episode, which is the episode prior to when Fullbright replaces Decker as The A-Team's new military nemesis, except Fullbright ends up dying off in "The Sound Of Thunder" episode when Fullbright sends The A-Team to go on a mission to Vietnam with him to help Fullbright find his long lost daughter and to help Hannibal, B.A., and Face find the person who could finally help clear them of their charges from being on the run after being imprisoned for a crime they didn't even commit in the first place. br / br /Therefore, Fullbright was the first nemesis of The A-Team's that ever ended up dying off, especially after having an unsuccessful pursuit with The A-Team, since Col. Decker(Lance LeGault), Col. Lynch(Bill Lucking), and Col.Briggs(Charles Napier) never died off, even though Lynch, Decker, and Briggs all ran out of steam since The A-Team was able to break Decker's spirit after an unfortunate 2-year pursuit with The A-Team and was able to break Lynch's spirit after a failed 10-year pursuit of The A-Team and then they broke Briggs spirit after only one episode, except none of those nemesis died off, unlike Fullbright. br / br /It was also intriguing how Fullbright put down Decker in the "Mind Games" episode during Fullbright's first appearance, since Fullbright had vowed to succeed where Decker had failed. br / br /The truth is the 1985-86 Season progressed, it started becoming less and less interesting, although it was kind of interesting seeing Gen. Fullbright chasing The A-Team in some of these episodes, just like it was interesting watching Col. Decker chasing The A-Team in the first few months of the 4th Season, which was of course before Decker was replaced by Fullbright later in this season. br / br /Therefore, the first half of The A-Team's 1985-86 Season was actually better and more interesting than the second half of the Fourth Season, especially since there was no more Decker and no more lady co-stars on the team, plus it was almost as if the producers were running out of ideas to make this show continue to be interesting along with the fact that this was the last successful season of The A-Team throughout it's whole 4-year run on NBC, since the ratings bombed in the following season when Hannibal, BA, and Face was no longer on the run from the military and started working for retired Gen. Stockwell(Robert Vaughn) in the Fifth Season. br / br /Therefore, the last 3 seasons of The A-Team weren't as strong as the first 2 seasons were, since the ratings weren't nearly as high nor as strong as they were in the First and Second Seasons of this show, which was another reason why this show bit the dust in the 1986-87 Season of The A-Team. br / br /Another thing I didn't like about this A-Team-Season 4 DVD was it didn't provide a brief summary with it's original airdate posted for them, unlike Universal did with the first 3 seasons of The A-Team DVD's nor put a brief summary with it's original air date on the DVD package or DVD case like Warner Bros. did with both the CHiPs DVD's and The Dukes Of Hazzard DVD's, which really sucked, because it's harder to know or find out when each episode was shown for the very first time on NBC.

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I Love It When a Plan Comes Together!, 2007-02-21
We love the A-Team! We enjoy the chemistry and the idiocyncracies of the characters, the silly plots, car chases and explosions. Just good old family fun. These are dvd's that the whole family can watch, no blood, and really not much violence, nobody gets killed, the good guys win in the end, and it's great entertainment!

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Campy, but great fun, 2007-01-15
You have to be a fan. This has the same fun as the first three seasons. There are wonderful antics and some great bantering between the four main characters.