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The A-Team: Harder Than it Looks

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The rescue of a kidnapping victim looks easy until the ransom is left behind and the victim insists on bringing along one of her captors. Hannibal has to decide fast, while he delivers the money. Read full recap »

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Writers:: Frank Lupo

Director:: Ivan Dixon

Stars:: Dwight Schultz (Captain H.M. "Howling Mad" Murdock); Dirk Benedict (Lt. Templeton "Faceman" Peck); Mr. T (Sgt. Bosco "B.A." Baracus); George Peppard (Col. John "Hannibal" Smith)

Guest Star:: Suzzane Albershardt (Laura); Anthony De Longis; Cherie Midren (Kathryn); Steven Keats (Ramon); Kevyn Major Howard (Marcus); Lori Lethin (Jennifer Teasdale); Frank Annese

The dam shown in the establishing shot that begins the last part of the episode is Hoover Dam. It is located on the Colorado River, which forms the border that divides Arizona and Nevada. edit »
Marcus: We've got three teams out covering this entire area here.

The lighthouse used for the GLA's hideout is the Point Vincente lighthouse in Palos Verdes. The area Marcus is describing is actually the Los Verdes Golf Course; the map on the blackboard is semi-accurate, except that it's California State Highway 107 that runs past the real lighthouse (the blackboard reads "Highway 105") and there is no "Flat Road" in the area. edit »
Hannibal: (while throwing a grenade) Come and get it!

This shot actually appears twice in the same chase sequence; later in the sequence, Hannibal throws a second grenade -- it's the same shot as the first, but without the line of dialogue. edit »

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Marcus: What're you going to do to me?
Murdock: Use your imagination, or you can borrow mine. edit »
Ramon: You're all dead men!
Face: Really? Gee, I didn't think I'd feel this good after I was dead!
(to everyone in the room)
I want to thank you all for coming to the funeral. edit »
Murdock: The Colonel really bends my mind out of shape, ya know?
B.A.: Man, if your mind was bent out of shape, it'd be straight, fool. edit »
Murdock: (in a game show host voice) Jennifer, you've won an all expenses paid kidnapping with the terrorist of your choice. edit »

Murdock: We gotta pop a Brodie and get moving.

A "Brodie" is a wild, flamboyant, or even suicidal leap, named after Steve Brodie, who claimed to have jumped off the Brookyln Bridge on July 23, 1886, and survived. Whether he was telling the truth or not, his alleged stunt eventually turned his last name into a slang term. edit »
Face: Fair's fair in love and war ... and all that stuff.

According to Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, "All's fair in love and war" appears in the 1850 novel Frank Fairleigh by Francis Edward Smedley. edit »
Murdock: (to Face) Well, I'm gonna go get my gun. And then I'll catch you on the flip side.

Back in the days when radio DJs played vinyl records instead of CDs, a DJ might choose to let a record play through to the end of one side without interruption; "I'll catch you on the flip side" meant that he wouldn't talk again until it was time to turn the record over to play the other side. edit »
Face: B.A. did 15 rounds with Godzilla.

The first Godzilla film -- called Godzilla, of course -- was released in 1954 by the Japanese film studio Toho Company Ltd., which has made 28 Godzilla films to date. edit »
Hannibal: We stand for truth, justice, and the American way.

Hannibal echoes here a phrase strongly associated with Superman after it was used in the intro to the 1950s TV series Adventures of Superman. The series, which ran from 1952-1958, described Superman at the beginning of each episode as fighting "a never-ending battle for truth, justice and the American way!" The phrase was first associated with Superman a decade earlier when it was used briefly for a couple of years (1942-1944) in the Adventures of Superman radio show, which ran from 1940-1951. edit »