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List Price: $49.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 8132
Released: January 31, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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The A-Team - Season Three Reviews:
Waiting for the movie! 
2009-10-18 - What can I say. I'm getting myself ready for the upcoming movie. If you are a diehard fan you need to get this ! See ya at the movies...
Season three set was great, no problems at all 
2008-08-24 - Some other reviews stated that Season Three of The A-Team had some major problems with some of the episodes freezing up and stopping and going back to the main screen as if the rest of the episode was missing. I recently bought The A-Team-Season three and I had no problems at all. All the episodes played great. This is a great Season to watch and I am looking foward to purchasing season four of the A-Team.
Mercenaries For Hire
2008-01-25 - I like this 1984-85 Season of The A-Team, but I noticed in the second half of the 3rd Season that this show started lacking some of the interesting and sophisticated actions that the first 2 seasons of The A-Team had and therefore I don't think the Third Season was as good or as successful as the First Season or the Second Season, especially since this show was obviously no longer in its honeymoon phase anymore by the time it kicked off its Third Season in September of 1984.
For instance, in the 3rd Season, The A-Team went back to being 4 guys again, since Amy Allen(Melinda Culea) was fired from the show in the 2nd half of the 2nd Season and then Tawnia Baker(Marla Heasley)quit the show in the 3rd Season, due to sexual harrassment issues.
Therefore, in the "Fire" episode, The A-Team went back to just 4 guys with no female reporter co-stars, unlike they had in the 1st Season and the 2nd Season, plus "Fire" was the episode when their overzealous Army nemesis(Colonel Decker) was supposedly replaced by the hard-nosed(Colonel Briggs) as the A-Teams new nemesis, since the abrasive Col.Briggs(Charles Napier) had said at the beginning of the "Fire" episode to Hannibal "Hey Smith, You've Played Out Your Last Tricks On Lynch & Decker" and mentions later on at the Fire station in the middle of the "Fire" episode to Hannibal "All that garbage about Lynch & Decker admiring you while they were chasing you was stupid" with Hannibal replying to Briggs by saying "Whatever happened to Decker, they shipped him off to Alaska because he never caught us?", which indicated that Briggs was supposedly anticiping on replacing Decker indicating that Decker had ran out of steam just like the equally incompetent Col.Lynch(Bill Lucking) did.
But then Decker returned to the show 4 episodes later in "The Island" episode with the A-Team talking about watching out for Decker as if Decker was never even replaced and as if Decker never even departed from the show and as if Decker was never even replaced in the first place, plus they never mentioned Briggs name on the show again after the "FIRE" episode, but I think Briggs would've been a great permanent replacement for Decker, since Col.Briggs(Charles Napier) seemed like a tougher nemesis than the tough as nails Col.Decker(Lance LeGault) and the overzealous Col. Lynch(Bill Lucking) were along with the fact that Briggs had seemed determined to succeed where Decker & Lynch failed with the A-Team as well, despite the fact that Briggs was just as incompetent as Lynch & Decker both were.
In addition it turned out that the only reason why Decker was briefly replaced by Briggs in the "Fire" episode was due to the fact that Lance LeGault(Decker) couldn't show up for filming on the set that week, which therefore prompted the writers & producers of this show to improvise by bringing in Briggs as a temporary replacement for Decker to pursue Hannibal, Face, and B.A. as the A-Team's Army nemesis in Decker's absence, but I'm sure the producers reason for bringing Decker back after the "Fire" episode was due to the fact that more people preferred Decker to Briggs, despite the fact that Briggs would've been a wonderful permanent replacement for Decker as well as Lynch, but I personally preferred Decker to Briggs and Lynch, but I still preferred Briggs to Lynch, since Lynch was a more clumsy military nemesis than Decker and Briggs were.
Additionally, it was kinda interesting seeing the A-Team's old nemesis(Col. Lynch) return for one last time in the "Showdown" episode when the A-Team impersonators get their butts kicked by Hannibal and BA after trying to make the real A-Team look bad by attempting to tarnish The A-Team's reputation as a front for a rock promoters drug deal while Lynch ends up biting the dust again in the process, but it would've been better if they would've shown Decker in the "Showdown" episode instead, but my hunch on why they had decided to show Lynch in that episode instead of Decker may have perhaps been due to Lance LeGault(Decker) being unable to show up for filming on the set during the week they were filming the "Showdown" episode just like LeGault was unable to do during the week of filming the "Fire" episode.
Therefore, the producers and director may have decided to bring in Lynch instead of Decker for the "Showdown" episode in order to help Bill Lucking(Lynch) sub for Lance LeGault(Decker)by using a cover story plot for that episode by saying that the military decided to give Lynch one more chance at capturing the A-Team, which of course results in Lynch biting the dust again.
Overall, the 3rd Season wasn't too shabby, but the first half of the 1984-85 Season was when it was much better, since they showed some more interesting and sophisticated episodes in the Third Season like "Fire", "Showdown", "Sheriffs Of Rivertown", "Breakout", "Hot Styles", "Bullets & Bikinis", "Trouble On Wheels", etc.
But I personally don't think the 3rd Season was as good as the first 2 seasons, plus I think the 1984-85 Season would've been better if Tawnia had become a permanent and full-time co-star of The A-Team instead of departing the show, because I stopped watching this show in the second half of the Third Season since it started getting kind of boring without any female co-star team members, because the show just didn't feel the same without Amy or Tawnia on the team since the show didn't have Amy or Tawnia's smiles or chipper personalities anymore, especially without Amy, which was the only real female co-star and team member of The A-Team, since Amy was always included in the credits of that show during the introduction in all the episodes of the First Season and during the 9 episodes of the Second Season, unlike Tawnia, which would only show Tawnia's real name on the credits on the guest stars names credits at the beginning of most of the last 9 episodes of the 1983-84 Season before Tawnia departed in "The Bend In The River" episode.
Therefore, this 1984-85 Season would've been better if Tawnia would've become a permanent co-star in the 3rd Season or or if they would've found a new female co-star to replace Tawnia, but since the 1984-85 Season was the first season without a female co-star, that kind of started making this show quite a bit less enjoyable, especially less enjoyable than the first 2 seasons, which is why I stopped watching this show on NBC after the first half of the Third Season.
Unfortunately, Marla Heasley(Tawnia) quit the show in the Fall of 1984 due to the fact that none of the main characters wanted a female co-star on the show in the first place which inclined George Peppard, Mr. T, Dirk Benedict, and Dwight Schultz to all keep ganging up on Marla Heasley during her whole time as a co-star on The A-Team, which of course caused tension between Marla Heasley & the rest of the co-stars on the show.
In The A-Team's Third Season; I also enjoyed seeing
-Barry Van-Dyke in the "Bend In The River" episode before his days as Stingfellow Hawke's younger brother(St. John Hawke) on the new AIRWOLF
-Joe Santos in the "Trouble On Wheels" episode, whom played Rockford's often flustered cop buddy(Detective Dennis Becker) on THE ROCKFORD FILES and Magnum's cynical cop buddy(Lt. Page) on MAGNUM, P.I.
-Mills Watson in the "Trouble On Wheels" episode after his Deputy Perkins days on SHERIFF LOBO
-James Callahan in "The Island" episode before his CHARLES IN CHARGE days
-James Luisi in the "Trouble On Wheels" episode after his co-starring days on THE ROCKFORD FILES as Becker's rigid fellow officer(Lt. Chapman)
-Stephanie Kramer in the "Fire" episode during her Sgt. D.D. McCall days on HUNTER
-Dana Elcar in the "Double Heat" episode before his co-starring days on MACGYVER
-Marta DuBois in the "Bend In The River" episode during her co-starring days as Magnum's long lost wife(Michelle) on MAGNUM, P.I.
-Robert Davi in "The Sheriff's Of Rivertown" episode before his PROFILER days
-Richard Moll in the "Bend In The River" episode during his co-starring days as Bull Shannon on NIGHT COURT
-Richard Herd in the "Waste Em" episode after his co-starring days as Capt. Sheridan on TJ HOOKER and during his co-starring days on V-The Series.
-Markie Post in the "Hot Styles" episode during her co-starring days on THE FALL GUY and before her co-starring days on NIGHT COURT
-Ismael Carlo in the "Sheriffs Of Rivertown" episode before his co-starring days on DAYS OF OUR LIVES
-Vincent Baggetta after his co-starring days on the short-lived TV series EDDIE CAPRA MYSTERIES, which came out on NBC in the Fall of 1978.
This season also takes me all the way back to memory lane when NBC's motto was "Let's All BE THERE", since that was their slogan on NBC from the Summer of 1984 thru the Summer of 1986 and takes me all the way back to my childhood days when I was living in my hometown(El Centro, CA) since I grew up in the Imperial Valley, which is a small remote desert community with very little to do for fun or entertainment.
So this review should be helpful to anyone who watched this show religiously during it's 4-year run on NBC.
Great company!
2007-12-29 - I bought this for my son, and he loves this series. the product arrived new and sealed, very fast shipping too.
Best Season Yet!
2007-12-08 - I will start off by saying that I had no problems with my dvd set for Season 3, it didn't freeze up, or anything like that. But I have to say for any A-Team fan, this is the best season of the show yet. Seasons 1-2 were still kind of building up to this season if that makes sense. I found seasons 1-2 kind of confused in where they wanted to take the show. This season really is the peak of the show. This season has it all. It has action, adventure, comedy, maybe even a bit of drama thrown into the mix. I always got a kick out of Murdock, and he'll always be my favourite character. The things he says and does has me in stitches. I think the way he feeds off of Faceman and B.A. is genius.
One thing I do have to complain about with this set is Universal's use of the dreaded DOUBLE SIDED DISCS. Man I hate these! I don't know who ever invented these things, but they are complete crap. I've heard nothing but complaints from fans about the discs not working, to having glitches, to getting scratched too easily. Luckily for me I've had no problems with them, but I still don't like them. I'm a fan of Artwork, or at least a logo of the show or something on the disc itself. I really liked the discs on Miami Vice seasons 3-5, and wish they would do this to other shows, and eliminate the double sided discs altogether, but I don't think we'll see that happening.
So for any A-Team fans thinking of buying this season I give it the thumbs up. The only thing is the picture quality isn't as up to par as I'd like, but is still way better quality than watching it on tv, and the sound is only either Mono or Stereo. I'm guessing Mono. Dolby 5.1 for this show would sound amazing, but maybe they'll do that in the future.
I give this season 5 stars.
