- Somebody is bullying somebody else.
- One of the victims goes looking for the A-Team to help them out and ends up getting contacted by Hannibal in disguise.
- Hannibal (in disguise) goes to whoever is doing the bullying and asks them to stop; they refuse, he takes off the disguise, and tells them that now they're going to face the wrath of The A-Team.
- The team builds something in preparation for the big confrontation, but we don't see exactly what they're building, just a series of closeup shots of welding and connecting things.
- Murdock does something crazy (often annoying B.A. in the process).
- B.A. does something awesome.
- One of the group being victimized is an attractive woman that Face hooks up with.
- There's a climactic battle in which whatever the A-Team built is revealed, and which often has lots of guns being fired but nobody actually getting killed or even hit.
- The villain surrenders.
- Conclusion.
Monday, October 28, 2019
The A-Team Episode Plot Outline (or, how being a writer for The A-Team must have been one of the easiest jobs ever)
At lunch last week I got into a discussion about classic TV shows, and one show that ended up getting mentioned was that 80s guilty pleasure show The A-Team. While talking about the show, I realized that at least half the episodes consisted of the following plot:
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