Thursday, February 2, 2023

The A-Team: The Say Uncle Affair

From IMDb- "Stockwell is contacted by Ivan Trigorin, aka "Brown Fox", his former partner at the CIA for nearly ten years. The Russian is looking for a top secret stealth bomber the Americans have stolen from the Soviets and starts torturing the General for information. Carla informs the A-Team they have 36 hours to find Stockwell, or the entire operation will cease to be and they will become fugitives once more."  This is from the A-Team, Season 5, episode 6.

The A-Team had been dropping in the ratings, which is no surprise, since they had used the same formula for four years.  In season five the producers added Napoleon Solo, I mean, Robert Vaughn to the cast, got the team conditional pardons, and had them do impossible missions.  It didn't work, as the last season only got 13 episodes.  Perhaps they should have done this in season four.  Anyway, since Robert Vaughn was added to the cast, they did an homage to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. with David McCallum as a former partner of the general.  The former Illya Kuryakin is still pretty cool.  The episode was shot like a 60s action show, which was nice.  Even more amazing, the villain gets roasted alive (as far as we know).  This might be the only death on the A-Team.
 

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