The A-Team where a four man Special Forces commando unit during Vietnam. Their Commanding Officer was one Colonel Samuel Morrison (Steve in "The Sound of Thunder" and Samuel in the 5th season Trial episodes.), Morrison gave the Team orders to rob the Bank of Hanoi in an effort to help bring the war to an end. They succeeded, but Morrison's headquarter where destroyed that same night in an artillery barrage along with Morrison and no proof therefore remained that they were acting under orders.
Murdock was pronounced mentally ill and was therefore discharge by the army on the grounds of insanity based on his paranoid anxiety delusions and intermittent memory loss and sent to Veteran's Administration Hospital in Westwood, California under the care of Dr. Alan M. Richter. Smith, Baracus and Peck were sent to Fort Bragg under the commend of Colonel Lynch, where they quickly escaped and began working as "Soldiers of Fortune. Outriders. Counterculture nutburgers who'll do anything, anywhere." while on the run, continually scamming Murdock out of the Hospital to assit in their little jobs.
They tended to always take on the cause of the underdog: small businessmen & women being forced out of business by greedy developers/mafia-types. Often (especially in later 3rd and 4th season episodes), they tended to stumble into trouble situations more than being directly hired. Although their fees were generally quite high, it was more often than not the case that the Team took on jobs for free or expenses only, or ended up agreeing to a 10% cut on the profits of a business's future earnings.
Each character had their own strenghts: Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith was a master of disguise, Lieutenant Templeton Arthur "Faceman" Peck was a charming conman, Captain H.M "Howling Mad" Murdock was the team's pilot, whilst Sergeant Bosco Albert "B.A" Baracus provided driving and engineering skills. |
