The A-Team - Season Three | 
 enlarge | Directors: Arnold Laven, Craig R. Baxley, David Hemmings, Dennis Donnelly, James Fargo
Actors: George Peppard, Mr. T, Dirk Benedict, Dwight Schultz, Don Stroud
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 13232
Format: Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Published)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 0
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 3
Running Time: 1196 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 1
MPN: MCAD29249D
ISBN: 1417073829
UPC: 025192924927
EAN: 9781417073825
ASIN: B000BUE5CI
Theatrical Release Date: January 23, 1983
Release Date: January 31, 2006
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Product Description
The a-team season 3 was its highest rated season ever. Now fans can reacquaint themselves with all 25 episodes. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 01/31/2006
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 Season three set was great, no problems at all August 24, 2008
L. Capuano (United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Some other reviews stated that Season Three of The A-Team had some major problems with some of the episodes freezing up and stopping and going back to the main screen as if the rest of the episode was missing. I recently bought The A-Team-Season three and I had no problems at all. All the episodes played great. This is a great Season to watch and I am looking foward to purchasing season four of the A-Team.
THE A-TEAM ROCKS! January 25, 2008
Taheen Lopez (United States- San Diego, CA)
I love this 1984-85 Season of The A-Team, but I noticed in the second half of the 3rd Season that this show started lacking some of the interesting and sophisticated actions that the first 2 seasons of The A-Team had and therefore, I don't think the Third Season was as successful as the First Season or the Second Season.
For instance, in the 3rd Season, The A-Team went back to being 4 guys again, since Amy Allen(Melinda Culea) departed from the cast in the 2nd half of the 2nd Season, which was the 1983-84 Season and then Tawnia Baker(Marla Heasley) departed from the cast in the "Bend In The River" episode, which was only the 2nd episode of The A-Team's 3rd Season.
Therefore, in the "Fire" episode, The A-Team went back to just 4 guys with no reporter co-stars, unlike they had in the 1st Season and the 2nd Season, plus "Fire" was the episode when the exasperated Colonel Decker was supposedly replaced by the hard nosed Colonel Briggs as the teams new nemesis, since Briggs had said at the beginning of the "Fire" episode to Hannibal "Hey Smith, You've Played Out Your Last Tricks On Lynch & Decker", which meant that Briggs was supposedly anticiping on replacing Decker, but then Decker returned 4 episodes later in "The Island" episode with the A-Team talking about watching out for Decker as if Decker was never even replaced and as if Decker never even departed from the show and as if Decker was never even replaced in the first place, plus they never mentioned Briggs name on the show again after the "FIRE" episode, but I think Briggs would've been a great permanent replacement for Decker, since Col.Briggs(Charles Napier) seemed like a tougher nemesis than Col.Decker(Lance LeGault) and Col. Lynch(Bill Lucking) were along with the fact that Briggs had seemed determined to succeed where Lynch and Decker failed with The A-Team as well.
I also liked seeing Col. Lynch return for one last time in the "Showdown" episode when the A-Team impersonators get their butts kicked by Hannibal and BA after trying to make the real A-Team look bad by attempting to tarnish The A-Team's reputation while Lynch ends up failing again in the process.
Overall, the 3rd Season wasn't too shabby, but the first half of the 1984-85 Season was when it was much better, since they showed some more interesting and sophisticated episodes in the Third Season like "Fire", "Showdown", "Sheriffs Of Rivertown", "Breakout", "Hot Styles", "Bullets & Bikinis", etc.
But I personally don't think the 3rd Season was as good as the first 2 seasons, plus I think the 1984-85 Season would've been better if Tawnia had become a permanent and full-time co-star of The A-Team instead of departing thw show, because I stopped watching this show in the second half of the Third Season since it started getting kind of boring without any female co-star team members, because the show just didn't feel the same without Amy or Tawnia on the team, especially without Amy, which was the only real female co-star and team member of The A-Team, since Amy was always included in the credits of that show during the introduction in all the episodes of the First Season and during the 9 episodes of the Second Season, unlike Tawnia, which would only show Tawnia's real name on the credits on the guest stars credits at the beginning of most of the last 9 episodes of the 1983-84 Season.
Therefore, this 1984-85 Season would've been better if Tawnia would've become a permanent co-star in the 3rd Season or or if they would've found a new female co-star to replace Tawnia, but since the 1984-85 Season was the first season without a female co-star, that kind of started making this show quite a bit less enjoyable, especially less enjoyable than the first 2 seasons, which is why I stopped watching this show on NBC after the first half of the Third Season.
In The A-Team's Third Season; I also enjoyed seeing
-Barry Van-Dyke in the "Bend In The River" episode before his days as Stingfellow Hawke's younger brother(St. John Hawke) on the new AIRWOLF
-Joe Santos in the "Trouble On Wheels" episode, whom played Rockford's flustered cop buddy(Det. Dennis Becker) on THE ROCKFORD FILES and Magnum's cop buddy(Lt. Page) on MAGNUM, P.I.
-Mills Watson in the "Trouble On Wheels" episode after his Deputy Perkins days on SHERIFF LOBO
-James Callahan in "The Island" episode before his CHARLES IN CHARGE days
-James Luisi in the "Trouble On Wheels" episode after his co-starring days on THE ROCKFORD FILES as Becker's rigid fellow officer(Lt. Chapman)
-Stephanie Kramer in the "Fire" episode during her Sgt. D.D. McCall days on HUNTER
-Dana Elcar in the "Double Heat" episode before his MACGYVER days
-Marta DuBois in the "Bend In The River" episode during her days as playing Magnum's long lost wife(Michelle) on MAGNUM, P.I.
-Robert Davi in "The Sheriff's Of Rivertown" episode before his PROFILER days
-Richard Moll in the "Bend In The River" episode during his NIGHT COURT days
-Richard Herd in the "Waste Em" episode after his TJ HOOKER days
This season also takes me all the way back to memory lane when NBC's motto was "Let's All BE THERE".
So this review should be helpful to anyone who watched this show religiously during it's 4-year run on NBC.
Great company! December 29, 2007
Amy J. Fetzer
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this for my son, and he loves this series. the product arrived new and sealed, very fast shipping too.
Best Season Yet! December 8, 2007
Pamela Walters (Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I will start off by saying that I had no problems with my dvd set for Season 3, it didn't freeze up, or anything like that. But I have to say for any A-Team fan, this is the best season of the show yet. Seasons 1-2 were still kind of building up to this season if that makes sense. I found seasons 1-2 kind of confused in where they wanted to take the show. This season really is the peak of the show. This season has it all. It has action, adventure, comedy, maybe even a bit of drama thrown into the mix. I always got a kick out of Murdock, and he'll always be my favourite character. The things he says and does has me in stitches. I think the way he feeds off of Faceman and B.A. is genius.
One thing I do have to complain about with this set is Universal's use of the dreaded DOUBLE SIDED DISCS. Man I hate these! I don't know who ever invented these things, but they are complete crap. I've heard nothing but complaints from fans about the discs not working, to having glitches, to getting scratched too easily. Luckily for me I've had no problems with them, but I still don't like them. I'm a fan of Artwork, or at least a logo of the show or something on the disc itself. I really liked the discs on Miami Vice seasons 3-5, and wish they would do this to other shows, and eliminate the double sided discs altogether, but I don't think we'll see that happening.
So for any A-Team fans thinking of buying this season I give it the thumbs up. The only thing is the picture quality isn't as up to par as I'd like, but is still way better quality than watching it on tv, and the sound is only either Mono or Stereo. I'm guessing Mono. Dolby 5.1 for this show would sound amazing, but maybe they'll do that in the future.
I give this season 5 stars.
Better Than When I watched As A Teen... September 15, 2007
S. Cantrell (Kentucky)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I use to watch The A-Team with my dad when I was a teenager. We both loved the show. I just got the whole series on DVD and love watching the episodes again. Great DVD set for any fans of the A-Team series, when it was on TV. Thanks!
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