Every week, we’ll build a tank out of something…
The A-Team. You know you watched it. I know I did. I don't remember all the seasons. It was back in the time when what happened one show to another was pretty much separated from all the rest of the shows around it, but I liked it. It was cool. And they built a tank at the end of every episode. Or at least that's the way it seemed to me.
Murdock, he got to be the comic relief, and could fly the helicopter. (How did they ever afford the fuel?) Face, he was the pretty boy (Though I frequently imagined that he was really Starbuck in disguise, living on earth...) who was actually a master of disguise on the show. There was Hannibal, who always loved it when a plan came together, and B.A. (Mr. T.) who was the muscle. Together they would usually take the case of some hot guest star, and off they'd go being all noble and clever, like little vigilantes.
Then, between the commercial break that split the last two acts, they would build a Frankenstein monster of a tank out of some poor sedan or Jeep, and be ready to take it into battle against the enemy. I could almost count on it.
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