A-Team Welding Gear in a shed

[Muffrats]

Why were there always welding facilities and sheets of metal in a nearby shed when the members of the A-Team were in a sticky situation? The villains are fools for also locking them in a hut full of tools in the first place. I think welding gas has to be kept outside of buildings under lock and key - doesn't it?

[andy hughes]

Well of course, you are absolutely right, but remember, the A-Team existed in a parallel universe where an actor of the size and unpleasant demenour of 'B.A.' could wander round the place sporting enough jewelry round his neck to give a hippo a hernia, topped off with a (at the time) hairstyle that was as laughable as it was unusual, and still no-one spotted this 'most wanted crew' of deadbeats who seeemed to survive with no apparent source of regular income. Alongside that scenario, the notion of entire workshops kitted out with the level of tooks and materials a Formula One team would drool over, as a place to imprison these muppets is really not that far-fetched. Come on, get with the spirit of the programme!

[sft42]

Yeah and how come no matter how many rounds they fired from their automatic rifles or bombed cars no one ever got killed, and they never ever bust an axle on that big black van even though it flew about forty feet and landed at the front all the time? It's all a product of the american thinking at the time that they were invincible and could do anything.

[Stav]

If none of this stuff happened, or the stuff suggested by sft42, then it would be an increadably dull programme which no one would have watched. Thank god it wasnt!!

[jasper99]

The real reason is that A-Team villians were taught at the same school of villany as those in Bond films. Ergo leaving the A-Team alone in a shed with tools or, in the case of Bond, not just shooting him to kill him, but loosely binding him in front of some Heath Robinson death ray.

[Muffrats]

The next question should be: can you name them all? heres your starter...Peck (or pecka)

[goodsy]

Look! - you aint gettin me on no plane fool!!! P.S wasn't it Dirk Benedict,Dwight Schultz,Mr.T. and George Peppard? - Sad eh!?! anyway you geezers have made me giggle, i'm off to the pub to discuss this seminar further.

[Spacemanbob]

First of all, the members of the original A-Team. John "Hannibal" Smith, Templeton "Faceman" Peck, B.A. Baracus, and "Howling Mad" Murdock. I seem to recall their GMC van busting an axle at least once, while being pursued (again) by Colonel Decker's minions. I love this show immensly, as it is NOT reality television.

[Muffrats]

aahhh, forgot about her. she is in fact: Melinda Culea - Amy Amanda Allen "Triple A"

[cblanc]

We had quite a discussion about this in the pub the other night. I figured that being a writer for the A Team had to be the easiest job in the world. Firstly think of a profession: miner? OK that will do. Next, make sure he has a young nubile daughter \ grandaughter \ niece for Face (or very occasionally Murdoch) to take into the barn. Now write in a few baddie miners to come and try to muscle in on business and give mr miner a beating and we have chapter 1 written already. This stuff writes itself!! You then have to write about how to contact Hannibal, how to break Murdoch out of hospital and how to get BA to fly and we're almost halfway through. Give the baddies a beating, Face can do some flirting, baddies come back and lock the A Team in a hardware store or some such place. 2 1\2 mins of welding later and the A Team are triumphant heroes but here comes Decker!! and off into the sunset!! Oh and Amy was later replaced by the lovely Tanya, (Marla Heasley) and the team were joined by Frankie Santana in the last season where they were told what to do bu Robert Vaughan

[dizzy dee]

I'm sure I can remember watching an episode where Face was played by a different actor. Am I losing it or has anyone elae seen it?

[Muffrats]

Try this site for those unanswered questions that are keeping you awake at night!! It has a discussion forum for all you addicts http://www.ateamresource.com/