The A-Team was a action/adventure series with 'comic book violence' aimed at young teenages form an original idea pitched to Stephen J. Cannell by NBC Entertainment President Brandon Tartikoff as a cross between The Dirty Dozen, Mission Impossible, Seven Samurai (and its western remake The Magnificent Seven), Mad Max and Hill Street Blues, with "Mr. T driving the car". The show ran on the American NBC network from 1983 to 1987. In total there were five seasons consisting of, 90 one-hour and 4 two-hour episodes, with the premiere of the two-hour pilot episode "Mexican Slayride" airing on 23rd January 1983 as an NBC Sunday Night Movie. |
