This is a question thats asked about the A-Team quite alot, but as A-Team creator Stephen J. Cannell pointed out in a recent channel 4 broadcast "Bring Back... The A-Team", The A-Team was a tea time show aimed and marketed towards young teenagers, they did'nt want the the show to dwell upon excessive violence and bloodshed in a series that aired before the watershed it was supposed to be fun and comical, visually making The A-Team appear that they where completely unfamiliar with the concept of aiming their weapons instead just firing randomly in the direction of their enemies. This inturn became the shows running joke leading to the belief that no one was ever shot, killed or died during the shows five year run.
In the first season episode "The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas", gangster Gianni Christian (Charles Cioffi) is thrown from a high-rise hotel window into a swimming pool below although its unclear as to whether he died from the fall or if he was already dead.
In the third season episode "Skins", Kim a Kenyan game warden is ambushed and shot by poachers after he refuses to take the customary cut for turning a blind eye on 'harvesting' animal hides and elephant tusks his body is then placed in his jeep and pushed of a clif, later to have his sister and colleague Kamara Kaboko (Daphne Maxwell) call the A-Team.
In the fith season episode "Family Reunion" Stockwell orders the A-Team to reunite a wanted criminal, A.J. Bancroft (Jeff Corey), with his daughter Ellen (Clare Kirkconnell) within 24 hours. In return, Bancroft will provide evidence that could bring down half the crooked politicians in Washington. Bancroft, who is terminally ill, tells Murdock that Templeton Peck was born Richard Bancroft, his son, unfortunalty dies before he has chance to tell Face.
In Season 5 Hannibal and the A-Team escape their prison cells and have a gun battle with the MPs guarding them. One is clearly seen to be struck and killed, but the scene is revealed to be a dream sequence. Several other episodes also referred to deaths of characters off-screen either during or usually before the start of the episode such as, Ray Brenner's murder in "A Nice Place to Visit".
In the season four finale "The Sound of Thunder", General Fullbright (Jack Ging) uses the needy girl-trick once too often, and is captured by the team, but for once he was looking for them as a prospective client, claiming that he wants them to go to Vietnam and free a POW colonel, a personal friend they presumed killed in action, who might be able to prove the A-Team's innocent. Once there, he comes clean, that he has recently learn't that he has a half-Vietnamese daughter (Tia Carrere) and wants the A-Team to help bring her home. After the rescue Fulbright was convinced and admitted to The A-Team that they were wrongly accused and shouldn�t be fugitives as they were willing to help him at any cost despite their being criminals on the run from him. Unfortunately He was shot during the rescue of his daughter and died, the scene lasted for almost a quarter of the episodes runtime, marking it as the show's most famous on screen death and quite possably the only real death in the shows five year history. Just out of interest, the bunker that the Cong general who shot Fulbright, also blown up, so we can assume he bit the dust as well.
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