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When "A-Team" Different in the country's living rooms on January 23, 1983, Ann -Bi had no high expectations for the play. But when the second episode-which aired after the Super Bowl XVII (where Washington Johnon Riggins hastened with shocking impunity against Miami's defense)-rating in the sky, the net realized that there was a hit on his hands.

We enjoyed the famous, occasionally controversial interconnection between Tockker Hannibal Smith (George Pepard), Lieutenant Colonel "Fate" Peck (Dirk Benedict), Sergeant Ba Baracus (M -T), and Hmm's pilot. And, perhaps the most important thing for the era, we wanted their use of various firearms and makeshift weapons.

The A-team was Nielsen's top-ten rating during the first three seasons. It was popular as "football on Monday night" and owned the slot on Tuesday night at 8pm. It was a family hour on Primetime television, which meant A-Team essentially had to function as a live cartoon. Co-creator Steven J. Kanel and his writers could use all the high-tech weapons they loved and blow up all kinds of vehicles, but, but, but, As the former A-team writer Mark Onesons told me in 2023They couldn't kill anyone.

The A-team came in sixth in Nielsen's ratings at the end of its third season and seemed to be ready for the long term, but viewers abruptly left the show in Season 4. Ann -BI -he tried to save the show in Season 5 by initially moving it to Friday, then back on Tuesday (this time at 9pm) and finally by Sunday, but her already reduced viewership was reduced to half. When it was clear that viewers had moved from the "A-team", NBC canceled it in the middle of the season. How did such a massively popular show die so fast death?

It is rare a good sign when the fighting show introduces new characters to spice up its solid formula plot. Disposions for throwing are fine ("To Health" brilliantly pulled this one twice), but the withdrawal of the Brady Cup and walking the route of Oliver's cousin is a typical sign of the upcoming cancellation.

At the beginning of season 5, Hannibal was captured by retired General Hunt Stockwell (Robert Vaughan), resulting in the fact that the whole team was detained and military military. Stockwell encourages the team to escape the prison, sent them to a series of secret missions, which, if they successfully perform, will earn a presidential pardon. To help them in their dangerous operations, they receive a new member of the team, Frankie Santana Aka "Dispanese" (Eddie Velez). He is neurotic as Murdoch, and has a personal knocking to be afraid to travel by the sea (which he places in boring chances with BA, which has a glorious flying phobia).

Other changes include a change in initial loans. The producers missed the narration (which was now irrelevant because the team was no longer a refugee), and may have worshiped the musical fad of the era, avoiding the orchestral theme of synthetic heavy areas. Each episode was just as packaged as always, the potential pardon hook had some appeal, and Stockwell was a shaded dealer, adding uncertainty to the legitimacy of his offer. Quality wise, aside from the boring Frankie's boring, it was the perfect average A-team season. The problem is that no one was watching.

Since the "A-team" entered season 5, it made a strong sense among some of the cast that this would be the song of the series. Newcomer Eddie Velez must have felt that way. As he said YouTuber Jimim Conlan:

"What I Understood was that they all knew it was the final season. What I have been at the end of the Fourth Season, The Rating Were so low they were talking About Cancelling It. But Butuck the Show Hell Held The Netk. Up, it was the only 13 more episodes to make 100, which was what you needed then to go in Syndication. So good to the network, said, "we give you another 13 episodes." But they also said, "You have to change it a little, season it." And that is when they came out with the international angle and brought Robert Vaughan. "

The A-Team actually closed 98 episodes, but the network may have made a charity math to help it exceed the union threshold (though I remember the show disappeared long after its cancellation).

As for the TV veteran Vaughan (best known as David McCallum's co-stint of "Uncle Man"), he said The archive of American television That he was offered a nice salary to strengthen the grades as a slippery general staff. He was told that the show would survive perhaps a few more years, which did not. This probably satisfied him because he was flomoxed by Mr T:

"One thing (Pepard) told me before doing the show was:" You must understand that there is a guy named M -T. He's crazy, and you just have to accept his madness. I can't stand. I don't even want to see the guy, but I'm stuck with him. "

Although Vaughan considered Mr. T. "Clinically Crazy", he worked through the eccentricities of his co-Starvala. However, Pepard was less forgiven by the antiquity of M -T. (Actors "A-Team" seems to have not been so well.) In an interview with Terry Vogan (which I can find only on the message board), the alleged starvet of the series recalled that the Irregular Mr. When Pepard found out, he headed to the Kanel office and told the show's creator that he would leave the series if he opposed the demands of Mr T. After all, everyone maintained their work.

To be fair, Pepard can be wild. According to the late Hulk Hogan (quoted in the British tabloid Express), which appeared on two episodes of the "A-team", "Pepard and Mr. T. hated each other with passion." When Pepard called Mr. T "the worst actor of the show" in an interview, Mohowked Badas parked in front of his co-star trailer and read all the intrusive quotes from the loud work. Dwight Schulz also accused Pepard of bad vibrations. "I think it has created a lot of problems and tensions," he said. "I don't think George has accepted the fact that T is the star's Starwar." Dirk Benedict Innocent!

Season 5 of the "A-team" officially ended on March 8, 1987, with an episode called "No Reservations", but it was essentially burning. The series of real final was broadcast on December 30, 1986 with the episode "The Gray Team", in which Hannibal and the boys realize the promise of pardon is a shame, forcing them to break up from Stockwell and return to a freelance unit that will allow them to help them again.

There was definitely a lot of disappointment when it was broadcast "without reservations" because it was a little more than an adventure with the quintet. But it was a boon for Canel fans because he released a fertile television producer to focus on one of his best series, "Wiseguy". That same year, he also gave the Fox network one of the first hit series With "21 Jump Street", which became its own film franchise.

In any case, if you are planning a thorough redirection of the "A-team", keep in mind to watch "without reservations" before throwing the Gray's team. And always remember that George Pepard and Mr. T hated each other's intestines.