The A-Team: Season 2

This 1983-84 Season DVD of THE A-TEAM is great even though most of this season left us mourning the loss of the sexy newspaper reporter(Amy Allen) along with the fact that THE A-TEAM was still in its honeymoon phase of the show along with the fact that this was also the season when Face gets his snazzy Corvette and the season when Lance LeGault joins the cast as the team's new hard-nosed Army nemesis(Col.Decker) & replaces his disgruntled predecessor Col. Lynch(Bill Lucking)along with the fact the 2nd Season had some interesting episodes like "When You Coming Back Range Rider", which showed clipped scenes from previous episodes from the 1st Season like the "Mexican Slayride" episode, "Holiday In The Hills" episode, and the "One More Time" episode when they explained why the team's equally incompetent nemesis Lynch was being replaced by Decker after Lynch's unsuccessful 10-year pursuit of the A-Team.I also thought it was cool how they used clipped scenes from previous episodes from both the 1st and 2nd Seasons of this show in the "Curtain Call" episode when the A-Team starts reminising about their past and recent experiences by showing us flashback memory recollections that Decker, Hannibal(George Peppard), Murdock(Dwight Schultz), Face(Dirk Benedict), and B.A.(Mr. T)all started having while the team struggled to keep Murdock alive after being shot while Decker is hot on the A-Team's trail close to snagging them once & for all along with the fact that "Curtain Call" was also the Season Finale episode to the 1983-1984 Season on NBC, but Decker strikes out again at the end of the episode despite the fact that Decker wanted to capture the A-Team more than anything in the world if its the last thing he did.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 newspaper reporter Amy Allen(Melinda Culea) ended up leaving the team all of the sudden on such short notice in the second half of THE A-TEAM's 1983-84 Season since Culea was abruptly fired from the show in the mid Fall of 1983 after only the first 9 episodes of this season due to Culea being too tomboyish along with the fact that Peppard didn't get along well with Culea behind the set either.Therefore, you could say that Amy was kicked off the team after her last appearance in the "Water, Water Everywhere" episode without even mentioning a reason why Amy wasn't with them anymore as of the "Steel" episode when the A-TEAM went from being a fivesome to only a foursome all of the sudden leaving Amy no where to be found with the exception of "The White Ballot" episode when Amy gets shown one last time in December of 1983.Therefore, when Amy Allen's character was abruptly dropped from the show, it was kind of like when Rockford's sexy attorney girlfriend Beth Davenport(Gretchen Corbett) abruptly departed THE ROCKFORD FILES in the Winter of 1978 since Gretchen Corbett left Rockford due to a salary dispute, since THE ROCKFORD FILES wasn't quite the same without Beth's beauty and cheery personality on the show.Unfortunately, most of the episodes of THE A-TEAM without Amy weren't as interesting and made this show go stale afterwhile even though Amy briefly got replaced by foxy newspaper reporter Tawnia Baker(Marla Heasley)in the Winter of 1984 for the remainder of this season to work the outside for the team like her predecessor(Amy Allen) used to do when she made her first appearance in "The Battle Of Bel Air" episode, but Tawnia only ended up lasting 9 episodes unlike Amy, since Tawnia departed in the 3rd Season after only one episode in the Fall of 1984, which by the way was "The Bend In The River" episode when Tawnia helps the team find her kidnapped fiancee(Barry Van-Dyke)in Brazil before Tawnia and Bryan get married at the end of that episode before Tawnia moves away from L.A. and resigns from both team and the LA Courier resulting in THE A-TEAM becoming a foursome again leaving us to mourn the loss of both Tawnia & Amy in the 1984-85 Season.Additionally, even though Heasley had replaced Culea in the 2nd half of this season, Tawnia was nothing more than a part-time and trial co-star to the show 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 and Tawnia was never even included in the half-time credits in the middle of each episode either as opposed to Amy.Therefore, Amy was actually more of a co-star on THE A-TEAM than Tawnia ever was, since Amy was a full-time co-star throughout the whole First Season and throughout the first 9 episodes of this season and I think Amy was actually more committed to the team and to the cast & crew of the show than Tawnia ever was too despite the fact that Tawnia was cuter than Amy was, because something else I noticed about this show was in each episode that Tawnia came out in, Tawnia was never shown as much as Amy was, even though Tawnia had replaced Amy as the 5th team member by temporarily making THE A-TEAM a fivesome again.Unfortunately, when Amy Allen suddenly left the show; Hannibal, B.A., Face, and Murdock all acted as if Amy never even existed or like Amy was worthless to the team and like they didn't even miss Amy one bit, but I just wish that Amy would've stayed with the cast and crew of The A-Team and hadn't been fired from the show or that Tawnia would've at least became a permanent and full-time co-star on The A-Team by the 1984-85 Season instead of leaving the show in the Autumn of 1984.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 9 episodes of the Second Season by showing Marla Heasley's name and face on the introduction credits of the show as well as the half-time credits like they did with Amy, but then Tawnia ended up leaving the show too in September of 1984, due to Peppard's insistence of not needing or wanting a female co-star on the show or team, which prompted Heasley's resignation and why Tawnia's name and face was never shown on the credits of the introduction of THE A-TEAM or even on the half-time credits and why Tawnia was never quite in every single episode in the second half of the 2nd Season even once she joined the cast & crew of the A-Team, like the "Harder Than It Looks" episode and the "Semi-Friendly Persuasion" episode for instance, which technically made the "Curtain Call" episode Tawnia's last appearance on the show with the exception of "The Bend In The River" episode, since Tawnia didn't appear in the "Bullets & Bikinis" episode, which by the way was the Season Premiere of the A-TEAM's 3rd Season.Therefore, this show seemed to have gotten weaker and weaker each season and was becoming less & less impressive as the seasons progressed since the team wasn't as interesting to watch without Amy or Tawnia on the show, especially without Amy and without Tawnia on the show, since most of the 2nd Season didn't have Amy anymore for instance and since the 3rd Season didn't have Tawnia anymore either with the exception of "The Bend In The River" episode, which therefore left the show with no more female co-stars, since there was no more Amy or Tawnia from the Third Season on up, which really sucked and made this show become stale when this program hit its 3rd Season on NBC which is another reason why I stopped watching the A-TEAM afterwhile, since the show wasn't quite the same anymore without Amy or Tawnia's pizzaz and spunky personalities.It's just too bad that the producers of THE A-TEAM didn't decide to make Tawnia Baker(Marla Heasley) a permanent and full-time co-star of the show in the 3rd Season or that they didn't bring Amy Allen(Melinda Culea) back to the show after Tawnia departed either or that they didn't find a female co-star to replace Tawnia in the 3rd Season either, but Peppard along with the rest of the cast & crew of this show didn't want a female co-star and felt that this show did better without any lady co-stars and by just having the 4 of them on the team making it a strictly mans only team in order to make THE A-TEAM strictly a mans show since they obviously didn't have very good luck with keeping Culea or Heasley on the show, since there was tension between Culea and Peppard in the whole 1st Season and in the first half of the 2nd Season and since there was tension between Heasley and all the 4 main characters of this show, which of course were Peppard, Mr. T, Benedict, and Schultz since none of the cast & crew wanted Heasley on the show in the first place, due to the fact that Peppard felt that the show did much better without a female co-star and better with just the 4 of them, since Peppard felt that the lady co-stars were like a distraction to viewers of the show since Peppard felt that viewers paid more attention to the smiles and hot looks of Amy & Tawnia more than they paid attention to the genuine heavy-duty action that Hannibal, BA, Face, and Murdock all did on the show whenever they had a plan and accomplished a mission on each episode.But when Amy was kicked off the team and then when Tawnia was kicked off the team, Peppard felt that it helped viewers of this show pay a lot more attention to the heavy-duty action and stunts on this show, since there were no more female co-stars or team members on the show to distract anybody along with the fact that Tawnia and Amy rarely got involved in any of the heavy-duty work and action on this show, since Amy & Tawnia had the easy job on the team and this show.Therefore, Hannibal, B.A., Face, and Murdock all acted as if Amy never even existed and never mentioned Amy with the exception of "The Battle Of Bel Air" episode when Amy's name was brought up numerous times when Tawnia volunteered to take Amy's place and explains to the team how Amy Allen was a former co-worker of hers from the L.A. Courier and how she knew of the A-Team so well when Hannibal explains to Tawnia indicating that Amy left the team to take a job in Jakarta rather than saying that Culea was fired from the show or that Amy was ousted from the team, but this show pretty much started going downhill after this season along with the fact that I noticed a slump in the ratings when THE A-TEAM hit its Third Season and then the ratings sagged even more when it hit its Fourth Season in the Fall of 1985 nearly leading to its cancellation in the Spring of 1986.It was also interesting seeing guest stars like*Markie Post in "The Only Church In Town" episode during her co-starring days as Colt Seavers agent(Terri Michaels) on THE FALL GUY days and before her co-starring days on NIGHT COURT*Bo Hopkins in the "Pure Dee Poison" episode after his co-starring days on DYNASTY*Morgan Woodward in the "When You Comin Back Range Rider" episode during his co-starring days on DALLAS*Bill Boyett in the "Steel" episode after his co-starring days as Sgt. MacDonald on ADAM-12.*Steven Keats in the "Harder Than It Looks" episode before his co-starring days on ALL MY CHILDREN*Jack Ging in the "Bad Time At The Border" episode before his co-starring days as the overzealous(Gen. Fullbright)in the 4th Season of THE A-TEAM.*Lew Saunders in the "Steel" episode after his co-starring days as Ponch & Jon's fellow Officer Gene Fritz in the first 2 seasons of CHiPs.*Dennis Franz in the "Chopping Spree" episode before his co-starring days on NYPD BLUE and HILL STREET BLUES.*Barbara Stock in the "Deadly Manuevers" episode before her co-starring days on DALLAS and SPENCER FOR HIRE.*Tim O'Connor in the "Semi-Friendly Persuasion" episode after his co-starring days as Dr. Huer 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 co-starring days on GOOD TIMES and before his co-starring days as Hunter & McCall's hard-nosed superior officer(Capt. Dolan) on HUNTER*Keye Luke in "The Maltese Cow" episode after his co-starring days on KUNG FU*Ismael Carlo in "The Only Church In Town" episode before his co-starring days on DAYS OF OUR LIVES & SANTA BARBARA*Miguel Fernandes in the "Say It With Bullets" episode before his Sgt. Harry Santos days on THE NEW ADAM-12This season also takes me all the way back to memory lane when NBC's motto was "You can NBC there: "BE THERE", since that was NBC's slogan from September of 1983 thru June of 1984.In fact, it also brings back childhood memories to me when I used to watch THE A-TEAM every Tuesday night on NBC, since it was part of NBC's Tuesday night line-up, which started with THE A-TEAM at 8PM followed by RIPTIDE at 9PM and then topped off by REMINGTON STEELE at 10PM.

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The A Team is what it is: a mindless hour of non-sensical fun. The violence is what I call "Looney-Tunes" chic! Translation: An anvil falls on your head; you get crumpled but walk away alive!And that sums up the A Team. They blow things up; they fire enough amunition to fight a war; they create make-shift defense vehicles (Hum V's without the paint job :) ) and get the bad guys,--amazingly,--without ever having to kill them. I do not know about you; but if I shot machine guns in the opposite direction of a person, a bullet at least once or twice would ricochet and kill the bad guy. Not so with Hannibal and the gang. They aim directly at them; and they never hit a man. A helicopter flew into the side of a mountain, exploded, fell half a mile; and still every bad guy piled out dazed but unharmed. Ridiculous!I've always wanted to do: The A Team: The Bloody Cut! :)Limbs flying everywhere; blood splattered bodies, no men crawling out of any destroyed vehicle. With today's technology, it could be done with a few select episodes; and it would be a hoot. I figure these guys killed about 50 men per episode. If we really wanted to count the bodied "not shown".Plot: They are an expert tactical team from the Vietnam War, accused of a crime they didn't commit; and they are on the run. They live in the "Underbelly" of L.A. but refuse to leave their country. Why? It's there country; and they still believe in it. They'll solve their "minor differences" with the govt. in time. Oh; and they help the helpless to fight the bad guys. Sometimes for great profit; and others for free. Circumstances pending. But then most know this; and if you do not: you know it now.One serious flaw after A Team Season 1 DVD Set: Seasons 2, 3, and 4 are double-sided, dual-layered. This spells major trouble, especially coming from Universal. The studio that took DVD and made VHS look good!I start with Season 2 simply because these are where the flaws begin. So far, on Disc One, there has cropped up a situation where the DVD pauses for more time than it should: I should say it freezes, then jumps a second to the next frame. This has occurred in two episodes: "The Only Church In Town" (once); and "When You Comin Back, Range Rider?" (multiple times. Big problems with this episode). The eps play; but it is a freeze; and not a normal dual-layer pause.Universal, always on the cheap, should have gone with one-sided dual-layered discs. The normal pause might occur; but I had no problems with Season One with the discs,--which had only one side.It has beens suggested in a review on this site, these defective discs can be returned to Universal with replacements provided. I shall give it a try; and see if I can get replacement discs free of charge.But beware! Some players may handle it one time--the freezing; others may read every flaw. But the defects are there, even if one of your players can take the heat of these cheaply made discs.I like the A Team; but I do not like Universal DVD productions. Most are really just put the film on the DVD, flaws and all. No enhancements; no extras. Then add defects as I have just described, and it makes for lousy viewing--in spots.A Team? Non-sensical insanity: 4 StarsUniversal: They should locked up in a military prison! :)Braithwaite

Enjoyed season 2 a lot! Was always a great show, will order season 3 before long!

I have to say that while I love most if not all of the episodes in the second season (though I've still yet to see the final four on the last disc)...I am really, really disappointed in Universal's constant cutting of corners in the production both audio and visual, but especially in terms of quality...I had a Unable to Read Disc error in the ``There's Always a Catch'' episode about the extortionist threatening a small fishing town. There have been some other problems. Buyer beware, but apparently Universal has gone so far to be cheap in using a Mexican supplier of these double-sided discs whose quality leaves a bit to be desired. Good shows on this season thus far, especially ``When You Comin' Back, Range Rider?'', ``The Taxicab Wars,'' ``Water, Water Everywhere,'' ``Steel,'' and ``The Maltese Cow.'' This one made me look forward to more seasons of the A-Team in spite of the quality problems on this disc. Enjoy, with a healthy dose of caution.

Ja ja ja was waren das noch Zeiten, ich war ein kleiner Bub und schaute im ARD Regionalprogramm die Serie A Team mit meinem Kumpel Marcel an.So schön war die Serie das wir es als Kinder immer nachgespielt haben. Naja wir haben viele US Hits nachgespielt auch das Trio mit 4 Fäusten oder ein Colt für alle Fälle. Holten wir uns doch die passenden Plastik M16 aus der Serie ja bekannt immer von der Kirmes bei einem Spielzeughändler und schon konnte das A team Abenteuer beginnen LOL ! Einfach schöner 80iger Jahre Kult, sowas gibt es heute leider nicht mehr.Darum kann ich jedem Fan der 80iger auch das A Team hier ans Herz legen, einfach nur Klasse diese Box mit satten 22 Folgen auf 6 DVDs. Naja Bild & Ton sind natürlich dem Alter entsprechend dürftig, aber besser ging es halt damals nicht. Als Bonus gibt es auch nur eine Knight Rider Folge. Aber egal, die Boxen von Universal sind für mich einfach gut. Vor allem weil eben Universal eine der wenigen Film Firmen ist welche überaupt ihre alten Serien komplett raus bringen.Alle anderen sind da weniger positiv zu bewerten, ich warte z.B. immer noch auf die Weiterführung der Remington Steel Best of Box & auf die letzten 3 Staffeln von ein Colt für alle Fälle. Da kommt nichts !Wie ich schon sagte einfach Klasse, aber bitte die hier gebotene Erstauflage im Schuber kaufen, nur hier sind die DVDs auch gut und sauber in 2er DVD Hüllen gepackt. Bei der Neuauflage ist alles kreuz & quer übereinander und schwer zu entnehmen. ( Habe den Test bei einem Kumpel von mir gemacht und entschieden ich kaufe nur die Alte Version )Zudem ist die alte Version auch teilweise billiger als die Neue, ich zahlte für die 2. Staffel hier im Marketplace nur rund 5 Euro mit Porto. Die DVDs waren noch Top, nur der Pappschuber hatte etwas gelitten. Das machte aber nichts, wozu hat man etwas Tesa für die Ränder, fertig.Klare 5 Sterne für die alte Schuber Version. Toll dieses Actionjuwel.

This series is as good as I remember it. It is funny with lots of action, and sometimes a little campy but always entertaining.In the first set of DVDs I got, disc one sides a and B did not plya properly. I notified Amazon and got a replacement copy within two days. Very impressed with the customer support

Alles gut schnell liferung

Finally I have the completed collecting this series.I had searched through every store I knew of that carried DVDs andcould never find season 2 on the shelves.This was a great series.I enjoy watching it over again and again.

Ich liebe es wenn ein Plan funktioniert.