The A-Team: The Complete Series [Blu-ray]

Overview

Making its first appearance as a two-hour TV movie on January 23, 1983, the weekly, hour-long NBC series The A-Team was one of several tongue-in-cheek adventure programs produced by Stephen J. Cannell. George Peppard starred as Col. John "Hannibal" Smith, cigar-chomping leader of a team of soldiers performing daring undercover missions during the Vietnam War. One such mission obliged Smith's team to rob the Bank of Hanoi, but unfortunately they knocked over the bank four days after the war ended and had no way of proving that they were following orders. Arrested and thrown into a military prison, Smith and company managed to escape and thereafter devoted their lives not only to clearing their names but to performing acts of crime-fighting derring-do all over the world -- for a price, of course. Each member of the A-Team has a peculiar speciality. Hannibal Smith is adept at clever disguises and is able to quick-think his way out of any jam. His huge, hulking, chain necklace-wearing black teammate Sgt. Boscoe "B.A." Baracus (Mr. T) -- the initials euphemistically stood for "Bad Attitude" -- is a mechanical expert who can fashion weapons out of all manner of everyday household appliances and who is afraid of absolutely nothing except for flying in an airplane (the other team members had to drug, hypnotize, or cold-cock B.A. to get him off the ground). The A-Team's ace pilot Capt. H.M. Murdock (Dwight Schultz) is known as "Howling Mad" not only because of his willingness to take huge risks, but also because he probably is a little off his chump, which is why the other team members have to break him out of a mental institution whenever he is needed. And handsome Lt. "Faceman" Templeton Peck is the team's requisite smooth talker, con artist, and jack of all trades. During the series' first season, the A-Team was assisted by sympathetic girl reporter Amy Allen (Melinda Culea); in later episodes, the requisite female team members included Tawnia Baker (Marla Heasley) and Carla (Judy Ledford). No matter where their missions took them, the A-Team was doggedly pursued by the military authorities, represented at various junctures by Colonels Lynch (William Lucking) and Decker (Lance Le Gault). The series' format changed a bit during the final season with the A-Team members being afforded the opportunity to redeem themselves by retired General Hunt Stockwell (Robert Vaughn), who dispatched the team on covert government missions with the promise that their names would be cleared after they toted up enough brownie points. At this juncture, weasely special-effects expert "Dishpan" Frankie Sanchez (Eddie Velez) joined the team. Although it never cracked the top 20 ratings throughout its five-season run, The A-Team nevertheless enjoyed a large and enthusiastic following -- and was applauded by certain pressure groups for its overall lack of mayhem and murder (though there was plenty of action and explosions!). The series remained on NBC until June 14, 1987.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/28/2022
UPC:	0810103682115
Original Release:	1983
Rating:	TV-14
Source:	Universal
Sound:	[DTS 5.1-Channel Surround Sound, Dolby AC-3 Surround Sound]
Language:	English
Time:	79:58:00
Sales rank:	13,576

Scene Index

Introduction ix

My Half: Kind Candor xvi

Part I The Emotional Ingredients 1

Gratitude 3

Self-Awareness 11

Accountability 17

Optimism 23

Empathy 27

Kindness 33

Tenacity 39

Curiosity 45

Patience 51

Conviction 55

Humility 59

Ambition 65

Part II Real-Life Scenarios 69

Part III Exercises 175

Conclusion 191

The inspiration Behind This Book 195

Acknowledgments 197

Notes 199

Editorial Reviews

07/29/2019

Arnold’s debut is a lyrical but long-winded portrayal of a woman reckoning with the disappointments of her life. Ash passes her days swimming at a deserted lake with her seven-year-old daughter, Charlie. When she senses Charlie grow distant as she gets older, Ash commits an unforgivable act while trying to reconnect. This sets in motion the crumbling of Ash’s emotional world, revealing memories of an affair with her yoga instructor, a capricious bisexual woman, and a complicated relationship with her father. Ash slips into a depression that confines her to bed, forcing her husband into the arms of a family friend who comes by to care for Charlie. The narrator’s idiosyncratic, troubled personality is expressed through her obsessive interest in sounds and words. During her first date with her husband, she tells him that she collects words, stating that “finding the right word is like finding a pebble on a whole beach of pebbles.” Arnold uses language like a set of dominoes, connecting endings of sentences to beginnings with sounds and phrases to create an artful tumble of prose. However, the novel’s high style comes at the price of momentum, and it becomes opaque to the point of being inaccessible. With very little plot, Arnold’s novel asks questions of profound moral consequence that get lost in the fogginess of its narrator. (July)

Publishers Weekly

Any serious student of Reformed theology needs to sit at the feet of Petrus van Mastricht. The challenge has been that to do so you needed to know Latin or Dutch. Thanks to the herculean efforts of the folks at the Dutch Reformed Translation Society and Reformation Heritage Books, English readers can now learn the art of ‘living for God through Christ.’” —Stephen J. Nichols, president of Reformation Bible College and chief academic officer of Ligonier Ministries


“With each translation of the formative Reformed theologians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries comes the possibility of our churches being renewed by forgotten treasures. This is one of those gold mines. So important is van Mastricht that even Descartes felt obliged to respond to his critiques and Jonathan Edwards drew deeply from the well of his Theoretical-Practical Theology. It is a distinct pleasure to recommend this remarkable gem.” —Michael Horton, J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics, Westminster Seminary California


“The very title of this work, Theoretical-Practical Theology, indicates why, three centuries ago, Petrus van Mastricht’s work appealed to Scottish ministers who studied under him or read his theology. Not least of these was his student James Hog, who would later famously republish The Marrow of Modern Divinity. In making van Mastricht’s classic available in English for a new generation of students, pastors, and scholars, the Dutch Reformed Translation Society and Reformation Heritage Books are giving a great gift to the Christian church as a whole, and to students, pastors, and scholars in particular.” —Sinclair B. Ferguson, Chancellor’s Professor of Systematic Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary; and teaching fellow, Ligonier Ministries

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