It was basically a cartoon, but with 'real' 'actors'.
I have often found myself in my garage for a couple of hours and I've emerged with a machine-gun mountd on the top of my camper van, bull bars on the front, and a few home made bombs to take out next door's kid's trampoline.
Oh the A Team, what good memories of when the children were young. We still have the A Team vehicle amongst the collection of Matchbox (and other) cars.
The baddies never learn't did they I mean, capture the A-Team, great now let's lock them in a branch of Homebase with handy tank like vehicle and some welding gear!
When it started it was on peaktime on a Friday evening at 9pm. Certainly wasn't for the kids then. Mary Whitehouse said at the time that children shouldn't watch it. Several years later it was on Saturday afternoons. No doubt in 10 years time it will be on CBBC. Times change.