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== The A-Team ==

 

The leader of the team.

 

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "I love it when a plan comes together"!

* [[Cheshire Cat Grin]]: Or as Face puts it:

* [[Cool Old Guy]]

* [[Magnificent Bastard]]

* [[Same Face, Different Name]]: George Peppard also played a crook in the fourth season's opener "Judgement Day".

 

 

The team's con man, who would get whatever you needed. A true womanizer.

 

* [[The Charmer]]

* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]

* [[The Scrounger]]

 

 

* [[Ace Pilot]]

* [[Berserk Button]]: "THRASHBAGS!!"

* [[Once an Episode]]: Breaking him out of the asylum. Until the final season, in which he was devastated to learn that he'd been declared sane and released permanently.

 

 

* [[Actor Allusion]]: Many of B.A.'s characteristics are based on that of Mr. T himself, such as the mohawk cut and the gold chains.

* [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]]: "I ain't getting on no plane!"

* [[Put on a Bus]]: IT ALMOST HAPPENED. Around season 4, which was a hard time for the show, Mr. T many times threatened to quit. Rumors say that NFL Player William "The Refrigerator" Perry would replaced him. Luckily, Mr. T decided to stay.

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Hates flying. Giving him drugged milk to knock him out so they can get him on a plane is a [[Running Gag]].

 

== Allied members ==

 

* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: Besides the episode after her departure, in which Decker mentions she's working in Jakarta, Indonesia, Amy just vanished from the series. The final episode of the second season was "Curtain Cull" in which Murdock was seriously wounded. While saving his life, we see flashbacks from previous episodes. And NONE of these flashbacks have Amy in them. They never even mention her again.

* [[Put on a Bus]]

 

 

* [[And Starring]]: Every episode in which she appears. Unlike Amy, she never was added into the intro.

* [[Put on a Bus]]

* [[You Look Familiar]]: Marla Heasly appeared in an earlier episode, as Cherise, one of Face's yacht companions.

 

 

Became a fifth member of the team in the final season.

 

* [[Promoted to Opening Titles]]: In the first two episodes of that season, Frankie was only a guest star, as he was credited with "And Eddie Velez as Frankie Santana"

* [[Remember the New Guy?]]: Supposedly, Frankie had worked at the film studio for a long time. But before the fifth season, Hannibal, who also worked at the studio, never mentioned a special effects guy named Frankie Santana.

* [[The Sixth Ranger]]

* [[What Could Have Been]]: His name was originally going to be Frankie Sanchez.

 

== US Army ==

 

* [[Put on a Bus]]: He made a comeback in season 3's episode "Showdown!"

 

 

* [[Jerkass]]

* [[Put on a Bus]]: But he came back in the fifth season's "Trial on fire"

 

 

Decker's right hand.

 

* [[Put on a Bus]]

 

 

* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]

* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: He only appeared in the episode "Fire!". Originally, Decker was suppose to appear, but actor Lance LeGault was unable because he was currently working on Magnum PI. Briggs really looked and almost sounds like Decker.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: When this episode first showed up, people thought that Brigss was a permanent character, and that each season would have a different antagonist (Lynch in season 1 and Decker and season 2, and Briggs for this season.), but it turned out different.

 

 

* [[Actor Allusion]]: Jack Ging played the villain in two episodes on the same show before his role as Fullbright.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]

* [[Killed Off for Real]]

* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: Gen. Fullbright's trademark white scarf. He luckily he didn't wear it when he died.

 

== US Government ==

 

* [[Actor Allusion]]: Stockwell was very much the same as Robert Vaughn's Napoleon Solo from The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Do it... my way!"

* [[Batman Gambit]]

 

Tsundere: To Faceman.

 

== Other ==

 

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: In the season 4 finale, his first name is Steve. The fifth season's three-episode story arc, "The Court Martial" however reveals his first name as Samuel.

* [[Killed Off for Real]]: Happened offscreen.

* [[Posthumous Character]]

 

 

Was actually a fifth member of the A-Team during the Vietnam war.

 

* [[The Faceless]]

* [[Posthumous Character]]

 

 

John Ashley, who was the show's producer during the entire show, did the infamous voice in the intro who said "In 1972..."

 

* [[Opening Narration]]: "In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit..." And you know the rest.

* [[The Faceless]]