History Trivia / TheATeam

** Culea was also reputed to be difficult on-set, often demanding more action-based roles. This led to the producers unceremoniously dropping the character, unlike Heasley, whose character was at least given a proper exit. According to the Reunion special, Peppard commended Heasley on her last day, praising her professional attitude.
** Even though he was hired specifically because it was thought his friendship with Peppard and his offscreen affability would help get Peppard and Mr. T back on the same page, Creator/RobertVaughn stated in a late career interview that Peppard had warned him that T was "crazy". Vaughn thought that Peppard was exaggerating at first, but stated "Mr. T would come in to work at 7AM with his entourage and he would be talking (Vaughn then did an impression of a motor mouthed Mr. T) and then when we would finish the day's shoot at 7PM or later, he was STILL talking. I think he was clinically insane". While Vaughn didn't actively dislike T, it was clear that he grated on his nerves.

** Creator/MrT and Creator/GeorgePeppard didn't get along very well on the set. Arguments were fed by the fact that Mr. T became the real star of the show despite Peppard's being a "proper movie actor". Things got even worse when Peppard learned that Mr. T was paid more than he was. It got so bad that Peppard wouldn't even speak to Mr. T directly, using Creator/DirkBenedict to relay messages between the two. It was reported that they were able to patch up things before Peppard's death in 1994.

* TropeNamer for:
** ATeamFiring: Nobody is ''ever'' shot in one of the shootouts.
** ATeamMontage: ...at about the 48-minute mark in ''every'' episode.

* CreatorChosenCasting:
** Frank Lupo and Stephen J. Cannell wrote the role of Face with Creator/DirkBenedict in mind, but Creator/{{NBC}} insisted that the part should be played by another actor, hence why he's played by Tim Dunigan in the pilot.
** The role of B. A. Baracus was written specifically for Creator/MrT.

** Creator/GeorgePeppard would often do last-minute script edits before shooting (often consisting of, "I'm not saying ''that, that,'' or ''that,'' pal.")

* NamesTheSame: Watching the credits one may notice one of the members of the sound department for the show is named Fast Eddie. "Fast" Eddie Mahler was a Hollywood sound mixer during the the 1980's, and worked camera crew on ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''. No relation to [[Tropers/FastEddie the founder / former head admin]] of Website/ThisVeryWiki.

* NamesTheSame: Watching the credits one may notice one of the members of the sound department for the show is named Fast Eddie. "Fast" Eddie Mahler was a Hollywood sound mixer during the the 1980's, and worked camera crew on ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''. No relation to [[Tropers/FastEddie the founder / former head admin]] of Wiki/ThisVeryWiki.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $110 million. Box office, $77,222,099 (domestic), $177,238,796 (worldwide). Sadly the final film released during producer Stephen J. Cannell's life (he received posthumous credits on ''21 and 22 Jump Street''). Another one of the producers, Iain Smith, didn't have a major film billing until ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', writer/actor Brian Bloom didn't deal with major league cinema again, and ''The A-Team'' series has yet to return to action outside of the video game ''VideoGame/LegoDimensions'' (a game driven in part by nostalgia franchises of TheEighties, which may be a damning compliment for the A-Team).

-->It was a guy's show. It was male-driven. It was written by guys. It was directed by guys. It was acted by guys. It's about what guys do. We talked the way guys talked. We were the boss. We were the God. We smoked when we wanted. We shot guns when we wanted. We kissed the girls and made them cry...when we wanted. It was the last truly masculine show.

* RealLifeRelative: Joe Carnahan's father John appears as [[TheDanza Judge Carnahan]].

** Creator/JohnSingleton was originally set to direct when the project was at Universal. His cast included Creator/MelGibson as Hannibal, Creator/ChristianBale as Face, Creator/JimCarrey as Murdock and Wrestling/DwayneJohnson as B.A.
** Whilst only Creator/DirkBenedict and Dwight Schultz took up the invitation, a cameo was also offered to Mr. T - he declined, with Mr. T saying in different interviews that it was because he felt the film was too violent or because he wanted to actually reprise his role of B.A. Baracus.

** Music/IceCube was considered for B.A.

** Mr. T turned down a cameo, as he felt it would not be right for him to appear if it was not as Barracus (also because he did not want people to think he would have a big role in the remake). Otherwise, his opinion about it has been disputed: aside from the statement that he did not mind a remake, it was initially informed that he loved the film, later it was leaked that he thought it was too graphic and violent, and finally it was oficially stated that he had not even watched the film at the time of those claims.

* ThrowItIn: An extremely frequent occurrence, if grudgingly. There was a heck of a lot of {{Improv}} going on by the actors and notably Dwight Schultz, and though the writers frequently got mad by how the actors would go off-script or ad-lib lines, they often (if grudgingly) agreed that it should be kept in.

-->It was a guy's show. It was male-driven. It was written by guys. It was directed by guys. It was acted by guys. It's about what guys do. We talked the way guys talked. We were the boss. We were the God. We smoked when we wanted. We shot guns when we wanted. We kissed the girls and made them cry ... when we wanted. It was the last truly masculine show.
** Even though he was hired specifically because it was thought his friendship with George Peppard and his offscreen affability would help get Peppard and Mr. T back on the same page, Robert Vaughn stated in a late career interview that Peppard had warned him that T was "crazy". Vaughn thought that Peppard was exaggerating at first, but stated "Mr. T would come in to work at 7AM with his entourage and he would be talking (Vaughn then did an impression of a motor mouthed Mr. T) and then when we would finish the day's shoot at 7PM or later, he was STILL talking. I think he was clinically insane". While Vaughn didn't actively dislike T, it was clear that he grated on his nerves.

*** "It was a guy's show. It was male-driven. It was written by guys. It was directed by guys. It was acted by guys. It's about what guys do. We talked the way guys talked. We were the boss. We were the God. We smoked when we wanted. We shot guns when we wanted. We kissed the girls and made them cry ... when we wanted. It was the last truly masculine show."

** Peppard made it clear to both Melinda Culea and Marla Heasley that he didn't want their characters on the show. On Heasley's first day on set Peppard took her aside and told her "We don't want you on the show. None of the guys want you here. The only reason you're here is because the network and the producers want you. For some reason they think they need a girl." Ironically or not, on her last day of work Peppard took her aside again, saying: "I'm sorry that this is your last day, but remember what I said the very first day, that we didn't want a girl, has nothing to do with you. You were very professional, but no reason to have a girl."
*** While the other male actors weren't as hostile towards Culea or Heasley as Peppard was, they ended up siding with him on the issue, with Creator/DirkBenedict later remarking "It was a guy's show. It was male-driven. It was written by guys. It was directed by guys. It was acted by guys. It's about what guys do. We talked the way guys talked. We were the boss. We were the God. We smoked when we wanted. We shot guns when we wanted. We kissed the girls and made them cry ... when we wanted. It was the last truly masculine show."

** Creator/MrT and Creator/GeorgePeppard didn't get along very well on the set. Arguments were fed by the fact that Mr. T became the real star of the show despite Peppard's being a "proper movie actor". Things got even worse when Peppard learned that Mr. T was paid more than he was. It was reported that they were able to patch up things before Peppard's death in 1994.

* NamesTheSame: One that may be a bit amusing to members of Wiki/ThisVeryWiki. Watching the credits one may notice one of the members of the sound department for the show is named... Tropers/FastEddie. (No relation, naturally.)

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** Creator/JamesCoburn was originally considered for Hannibal.

* CastTheExpert: Three cast members have prior U.S. military experience: Creator/GeorgePeppard served as an artillery Sergeant in the Marines, while Eddie Velez served in the Air Force, and Creator/MrT was an MP in the U.S. Army. Creator/RobertVaughn was a drill Sergeant in the Army as well.

* OutOfOrder: "[[Recap/TheATeamS5E13TheGreyTeam The Grey Team]]" was always intended to be the show's final episode, and it was for a couple of years. This changed in March of 1987 when the season 5 re-runs decided to include a MissingEpisode, that being the original un-aired penultimate episode, "[[Recap/TheATeamS5E12WhithoutReservations Without Reservations]]". However, the re-runs showed this episode ''after'' "The Grey Team" and the DVD set for season 5 also puts it at the end. Amusingly, Murdock's t-shirt in "The Grey Team" bears the Latin phrase "FINI" or "THE END", while his t-shirt in "Without Reservations" says "Almost FINI".