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''The A-Team'' is an American action-adventure television series, running from 1983 to 1987, about a fictitious former United States Army Special Forces unit who, after being court-martialed "for a crime they didn't commit", escape from military prison and, while still on the run, work as soldiers of fortune. A feature film based on the series was released by 20th Century Fox in June 2010. ==History== ''The A-Team'' was created by writers and producers Stephen J. Cannell and Frank Lupo at the behest of Brandon Tartikoff, NBC's Entertainment president. Cannell was fired from ABC in the early 1980s, after failing to produce a hit show for the network, and was hired by NBC; his first project was ''The A-Team.'' Brandon Tartikoff pitched the series to Cannell as a combination of ''The Dirty Dozen'', ''Mission Impossible'', ''The Magnificent Seven'', ''Mad Max'' and ''Hill Street Blues'', with "Mr. T driving the car".〔Stephen J. Cannell on ''The A-Team'' Season Five DVD boxset.〕 ''The A-Team'' was not generally expected to become a hit, although Stephen J. Cannell has said that George Peppard suggested it would be a huge hit "before we ever turned on a camera". The show became very popular; the first regular episode, which aired after Super Bowl XVII on January 30, 1983, reached 26.4% of the television audience, placing fourth in the top 10 Nielsen-rated shows. The A-Team was always portrayed as acting on the side of good and helping the oppressed. Cannell was known for having a particular skill at capitalizing on momentary cultural trends, such as the helicopters, machine guns, cartoonish violence, and joyful militarism of this series, which are now recognizable as trademarks of popular entertainment in the 1980s as seen in the TV shows ''Magnum, P.I.'' and ''Airwolf'' as well as the films ''Rambo: First Blood Part II'' and ''Top Gun.'' The show remains prominent in popular culture for its cartoonish, over-the-top violence (in which people were seldom seriously hurt), formulaic episodes, its characters' ability to form weaponry and vehicles out of old parts, and its distinctive theme tune. The show boosted the career of Mr. T, who portrayed the character of B. A. Baracus, around whom the show was initially conceived.〔''Bring Back... The A-Team'' (UK), Mr. T. Broadcast on May 18, 2006.〕〔.〕 Some of the show's catchphrases, such as "I love it when a plan comes together",〔Ranked #96 in TV Land's list of (The 100 Greatest TV Quotes and Catchphrases ). Retrieved on August 17, 2007〕 "Hannibal's on the jazz", and "I ain't gettin' on no plane!" have also made their way onto T-shirts and other merchandise. The show's name comes from the "A-Teams", the nickname coined for U.S. Special Forces' Operational Detachments Alpha (ODA) during the Vietnam War,〔The US Army Special Forces still uses the term ODA for their 12-man direct operations teams..〕 although this connection was never referenced on-screen. In 2003, in research conducted by web-portal Yahoo! amongst 1,000 television viewers, ''The A-Team'' was voted as the one "oldie" television show viewers would most like to see revived, beating out other popular televisions series from the 1980s such as ''The Dukes of Hazzard'' and ''Knight Rider''.〔"'A-Team' is viewers' most-wanted oldie for prime-time revival" by Matthew Beard in ''Independent, The'' (London), published on October 23, 2003.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The A-Team」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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