Oh how the rosy spectacles of childhood hid the truth from my tiny eyes. I used to love the A-team.... but then I saw "Taxi Driver".
Every week, the baddies (evil roughnecks or mysterious pyjama wearing cultists) are seen beating up the goodies (a wholesome young/old/couple/family plus dog/cat and ailing farm/restaurant).
The goodies seek out (or bump into) the A team and plead for help (which they can never pay for). The A-team break out their insane comrade from a top security hospital by sticking a toupee on him/dressing him up as a doctor/gardener and then turn up to fight the baddies. They get themselves beaten up (as befits a group of fairly camp and somewhat elderly actors, B.A. excepted).
They are locked into a shed or garage within which is stored all the component parts for an armoured tractor upon which is mounted a cabbage catapult or a ketchup cannon. Riding this (usually painted bright orange and green) the A-team burst out of their shed and taken on the heavily baddies who gratefully fall off roofs when struck by a cabbage or other vegetable oriented weapon.
Refusing all payment (except food and coy offers of sexual gratification) the A-team get back in their van and are on their way just before the military police arrive scattering chickens/garbage cans everywhere. The "mp"s end up leaping a hundred yards into a lake/compost heap/dump truck as our heroes disappear down the road.
Every week, the baddies (evil roughnecks or mysterious pyjama wearing cultists) are seen beating up the goodies (a wholesome young/old/couple/family plus dog/cat and ailing farm/restaurant).
The goodies seek out (or bump into) the A team and plead for help (which they can never pay for). The A-team break out their insane comrade from a top security hospital by sticking a toupee on him/dressing him up as a doctor/gardener and then turn up to fight the baddies. They get themselves beaten up (as befits a group of fairly camp and somewhat elderly actors, B.A. excepted).
They are locked into a shed or garage within which is stored all the component parts for an armoured tractor upon which is mounted a cabbage catapult or a ketchup cannon. Riding this (usually painted bright orange and green) the A-team burst out of their shed and taken on the heavily baddies who gratefully fall off roofs when struck by a cabbage or other vegetable oriented weapon.
Refusing all payment (except food and coy offers of sexual gratification) the A-team get back in their van and are on their way just before the military police arrive scattering chickens/garbage cans everywhere. The "mp"s end up leaping a hundred yards into a lake/compost heap/dump truck as our heroes disappear down the road.