The A-Team: Season 3

This was the season when the A-Team was the highest rated television. This comedic series had an eclectic group of actors with George Peppard, Mr. T, Dwight Shultz, and Dirk Benedict who with their everyman type of fighting and propensity to create tanks out of gardening supplies provided a fun hour of television. This season had a few turkey episodes but overall it was entertaining with several excellent episodes, some of which were penned by the excellent writing talents of Stephen J. Cannell. The Big Squeeze, and Incident at Crystal Late stood out as some of the best the episode in the series and even the ones that were a little cliché such as Bullets and Bikinis, and Timber you got the idea the actors where having a little fun. This season was before the Cosby show made them make some serious changes in order to try to stay alive, and the formula was in full force. So if you like to watch elaborate con jobs or even the worst (or best shots) in the cinema pick up this season.

Great

And if you can find them, maybe you should hire...THE A-TEAM! What more can I say? One of the single best shows of the 80's and still awesome today! Enjoy!!

Liked this show as a kid and like it now. It stands the test of time.

Still going strong in this third season, with some really great actors here: George Peppard(Breakfast At Tiffany's), Mr. T(um, MR. T), Dirk Benedict(The original Battlestar Galactica), and Dwight Schultz(Star Trek: The Next Generation)!! There's a problem with my copy of this DVD! Two episodes do not play if you try to play through the episode listing!! The only way to play them is to do the "Play All" option! Weird!!

Some other reviews stated that Season Three of The A-Team had some major problems with some of the episodes freezing up and stopping and going back to the main screen as if the rest of the episode was missing. I recently bought The A-Team-Season three and I had no problems at all. All the episodes played great. This is a great Season to watch and I am looking foward to purchasing season four of the A-Team.

I like this 1984-85 Season of this action-packed drama, but I noticed that this show started becoming stale afterwhile in this season since this show had started lacking a lot of the interesting and sophisticated actions that the first 2 seasons of this show had especially since the A-TEAM wasn't a fivesome anymore in the absence & departure of Tawnia Baker(Marla Heasley) and her predeccesor Amy Allen(Melinda Culea) who was dropped abruptly from the show in the mid Fall of 1983 since Culea was already fired in mid November of 1983 after only 10 weeks and 9 episodes for being too tomboyish and since Heasley quit the show in the 3rd Season in the Fall of 1984, due to sexual harrassment leaving us to mourn the loss of Tawnia & Amy, unlike they had in the 1st Season when the A-TEAM was a fivesome the whole time and the 2nd Season when they were only a foursome temporarily between Amy's departure in the mid Fall of 1983 and the arrival of Tawnia in the Winter of 1984. As a matter of fact, the "Fire" episode was the first episode with Tawnia out of the picture as well as the episode when THE A-TEAM's hard-nosed Army nemesis Col.Decker(Lance LeGault)was abruptly so-called replaced by the antagonistic Army nemesis Col.Briggs(Charles Napier)as Hannibal, B.A., and Face's new military nemesis, since Briggs had said at the beginning of the "Fire" episode to Hannibal "Hey Smith, You've Played Out Your Last Tricks On Lynch & Decker" and mentions later on at the Fire station in the middle of the "Fire" episode to Hannibal "All that garbage about Lynch & Decker admiring you while they were chasing you was stupid" with Hannibal replying to Briggs by saying "Whatever happened to Decker, they shipped him off to Alaska because he never caught us?", which indicated that Briggs was Decker's successor indicating that Decker had ran out of steam just like Decker's predecessor Col. Lynch(Bill Lucking)did after his unsuccessful 10-year pursuit of the A-Team. But then Decker returned to the show 4 episodes later in "The Island" episode with the A-TEAM talking about watching out for Decker as if Decker was never even replaced and as if Decker never even departed from the show in the first place, plus they never mentioned Briggs name on the show again after the "Fire" episode, but I think Briggs would've been a great permanent replacement for Decker and as luck would have it Lance LeGault was also playing Magnum's bitter Navy nemesis(Col. Green)on MAGNUM, P.I. at the time as well, but it turns out that the only reason why Briggs was the teams nemesis in the "Fire" episode was due to Lance Le Gault(Decker)not being able to show up for filming that week, so the producers had to improvise by getting an Army interim nemesis in Decker's absence. Overall, the 3rd Season was okay, but the first half of the 1984-85 Season was when it was better, since they showed some more interesting and sophisticated episodes in the Third Season like "Fire", "Showdown", "Sheriffs Of Rivertown", "Breakout", "Hot Styles", "Bullets & Bikinis", "Trouble On Wheels", etc. Overall I personally don't think the 3rd Season was as good as the first 2 seasons, especially since the A-TEAM wasn't a fivesome anymore, plus I think the 1984-85 Season would've been better if Tawnia had become a permanent and full-time co-star of The A-Team instead of departing the show, because I stopped watching this show in the second half of the Third Season since it started getting stale and boring with the ousting of Amy and Tawnia and without any female co-star team members, because the show just didn't feel the same without Amy or Tawnia on the team anymore since the show didn't have Amy or Tawnia's smiles or chipper personalities anymore, especially without the spunky Amy, which was the only real female co-star and team member of the A-TEAM, since Amy was always included in the credits of that show during the introduction in all the episodes of the First Season and during the 9 episodes of the Second Season when the A-TEAM was a fivesome like they were originally, unlike Tawnia which would only show her real name on the credits on the guest stars names credits at the beginning of most of the last 9 episodes of the 1983-84 Season by displaying "Also Starring Marla Heasley as Tawnia Baker" which was of course before her last appearance in "The Bend In The River" episode. Therefore, this 1984-1985 Season would've been much better and a lot more interesting if Tawnia would've become a permanent co-star in the 3rd Season or or if they would've found a new female co-star to replace Tawnia in the Autumn of 1984, but since this was the first season without a female co-star as well as the first season when THE A-TEAM became a foursome permanently leaving us to mourn the loss of Amy & Tawnia from here on, that started making this show quite a bit less enjoyable and a lot more stale, especially less enjoyable than the first 2 seasons, which is why I stopped watching this show on NBC in the Winter of 1985 when this show was in the second half of this season along with the fact that the double-sided discs on this DVD box set of THE A-TEAM skip & freeze too much on top of that which is probably why Universal released a complete series DVD box set with all 5 seasons on single-sided discs to overcompensate for the skipping & freezing that kept occuring on the 2-sided discs. It was also nice being able to watch these episodes complete and uncut like they were originally shown on NBC as well as commercial-free instead of having to watch them edited with all those deleted scenes and additional commercials in between when the A-TEAM was shown in reruns on Cozi-TV, FX, TV Land, TNN, and Retro TV. I also liked the way Universal had each of these episodes posted with a brief summary along with their original air-dates too. For instance 9/18/84: BULLETS & BIKINIS 9/25/84: THE BEND IN THE RIVER 10/2/84: FIRE 10/16/84: TIMBER 10/23/84: DOUBLE HEAT 10/30/84: TROUBLE ON WHEELS 11/13/84: THE ISLAND 11/20/84: SHOWDOWN 11/27/84: SHERIFFS OF RIVERTOWN 12/4/84: THE BELLS OF ST. MARYS 12/11/84: HOT STYLES 12/18/84: BREAKOUT 1/8/85: CUP A' JOE 1/15/85: THE BIG SQUEEZE 1/22/85: CHAMP 1/29/85: SKINS 2/5/85: ROAD GAMES 2/12/85: MOVING TARGETS 2/26/85: KNIGHTS OF THE ROAD 3/5/85: WASTE 'EM 4/2/85: BOUNTY 4/9/85: BEVERLY HILLS ASSAULT 5/7/85: TROUBLE BREWING 5/14/85: INCIDENT AT CRYSTAL LAKE In the A-TEAM's Third Season; I also enjoyed seeing guest stars like *Dennis Franz in the "Beverly Hills Assault" episode before his co-starring days as the sassy Det. Norman Buntz on HILL STREET BLUES and as the abrasive Det. Andy Sipowitz on NYPD BLUE *Barry Van-Dyke in the "Bend In The River" episode before his days as Stingfellow Hawke's long-lost MIA kid brother(St. John Hawke)on the new AIRWOLF series *Joe Santos in the "Trouble On Wheels" episode, whom played Rockford's often exasperated cop buddy(Det. Dennis Becker)on the ROCKFORD FILES and also played Magnum's cop buddy(Lt. Nolan Page) on MAGNUM, P.I. in Magnum's last 2 seasons *Morgan Woodward in the "Showdown" episode during his co-starring days on DALLAS *Mills Watson in the "Trouble On Wheels" episode after his co-starring days as the doofus(Deputy Perkins)on SHERIFF LOBO *James Callahan in "The Island" episode before his co-starring days as Walter Powell on CHARLES IN CHARGE *James Luisi in the "Trouble On Wheels" episode after his co-starring days on the ROCKFORD FILES as the dry-humored private investigator Jim Rockford's bitter police nemesis(Lt. Doug Chapman)& during his co-starring days on the soap operas DAYS OF OUR LIVES & ANOTHER WORLD which by the way reunites with former co-star(Joe Santos)in the "Trouble On Wheels" episode since Chapman was Becker's disgruntled superior officer on the ROCKFORD FILES *Stephanie Kramer in the "Fire" episode during her co-starring days as the brassy homicide police detective(Sgt. D.D. McCall)on HUNTER *Dana Elcar in the "Double Heat" episode before his co-starring days on MACGYVER *Marta DuBois in the "Bend In The River" episode during her co-starring days as Thomas Magnum's long lost estranged wife(Michelle Hue) on MAGNUM, P.I. *Robert Davi in "The Sheriff's Of Rivertown" episode before his co-starring days on PROFILER *Richard Moll in the "Bend In The River" episode during his co-starring days as baliff(Bull Shannon)on NIGHT COURT *Richard Herd in the "Waste Em" episode after his co-starring days as Sgt. Hooker's hard-nosed superior officer(Capt. Sheridan) on TJ HOOKER and during his co-starring days on V-The Series. *Markie Post in the "Hot Styles" episode during her co-starring days as Colt Seavers agent(Terri Michaels)on THE FALL GUY and before her co-starring days on NIGHT COURT *Ismael Carlo in the "Sheriffs Of Rivertown" episode before his co-starring days on DAYS OF OUR LIVES & SANTA BARBARA *Vincent Baggetta in the "Bullets & Bikinis" episode after his co-starring days on the short-lived TV series EDDIE CAPRA MYSTERIES, which came out on NBC in the Fall of 1978. Something else I noticed about this season was I noticed that in the "Bullets & Bikinis" episode that they had used clips from the movie SPRING BREAK just like they had used a clip from the movie AIRPLANE in THE BELLY OF THE BEAST OF BOEING episode, which was quite intriguing. This 1984-85 Season also takes me all the way back to memory lane when NBC's motto was "Let's All BE THERE", since that was their slogan on NBC from the Summer of 1984 thru the Summer of 1986. By the way, THE A-TEAM movie is scheduled to be released in theatres on Friday June 11th, 2010. So this review should be helpful to anyone who watched this show religiously during it's 4-year run on NBC.

Ahh, the way it used to be : lots of action without bloodshed, car crashes, chases, no profanity, and the good guys always win! A must have for anyone who used to watch the show on TV and now has children they would like to share it with. An added bonus; no embarassing commercials!

I like the way it was delivered the way it was as described really pleased

I PURCHASED THE A-TEAM DVD'S FOR MY GRANDSONS (13 AND 10) AND THEY REALLY LIKE THEM. THERE IS LOTS OF ACTION AND THE MAJOR COMMENT THEY BOTH MADE WAS THAT EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE LOTS OF GUN ACTION SEQUENCES, NO ONE GETS KILLED. (INTERESTING!)

J’ai reçu les DVDs le premier jour indiqué par la fourchette de dates! Donc vraiment bien et produit conforme à la description ! Parfait!

Top Filme mit dem schon leider viel zu früh verstorbenen Hannibal Darsteller George Peppard. Jetzt habe ich alle Seasons und nun brauch es im normalen Fernsehprogramm nichts mehr brauchbares spielen da ich ja jetzt Top Actionfilme zum Superpreis erworben habe

Man muß in einem Alter sein, wo man das Original A-Team im Fernsehen in den 80er gesehen hat.Die Serie hält was sie verspricht.Action, Spaß, Spannung und Witz halten sich die Waage und unterhalten bestens.Das Geld ist beim A-Team bestens angelegt.