To me, this has always been the superior version of the A-Team theme. It's way more energetic and in some parts even somewhat darker and more serious, in line with the season 5 storyline, i.e. the Team finally captured and on trial for the murder of Colonel Morrison and then the international espionage plots of the following episodes. Kudos to Mike Post and Pete Carpenter! 👏👏👏👍👍👍
@@davidfos84 The original sounds like it takes influence from themes such as 'Bridge on the River Kwai', 'Where Eagles Dare, 'The Dirty Dozen', but mostly 'The Great Escape' with some 80s rock thrown in...
“Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as ‘soldiers of fortune.’ If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire...THE A-TEAM.”
In 1972 crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime the didn't commit..these me promptly escaped for a maximum security stockade into the Los Angeles underground....
The A-Team ran from January 1983 to March 1987…98 episodes. I wish it had run for six full seasons, from the Fall of 1982 to the Spring of 1988. 25 shows per season, 150 in total, and in the very last episode they are pardoned by the President (a Ronald Reagan lookalike) and are free to go back to “normal” lives.
@@CraigMcfly1985 One of my favorite shows back in the day. The best moments just watching the show every afternoon. Those where the days and simple times.
Even though I prefer the intro with the narration and the iconic scenes of the jeeps being bombed and flying through the air, the helicopters, B.A. kicking open the door, Murdock under the wedding veil, Face pointing his finger and Hannibal in the swamp monster costume, I must say this intro is creative on showing clips on how the team got falsely accused and escaping and with explosions. And how it's instrumental and can be a remix of the original theme. Undeniably catchy!!!!
Me as a recovering alcoholic and drug addict love The A-Team never once did they use drugs alcohol or nothing on that show they always fought dead-set against it The A-Team put away more drug smugglers on that show than any I've seen in my life they always stood up for what was right and always had heart to help you no matter what it took no matter what.
From what I read, the ending of the show was actually "implied" by the t-shirts Murdoch is wearing in the last two episodes. The last episode, though they were originally run out of sequence, is the one where they save little girl who had the KGB documents, because Murdoch's shirt reads "FINI" at the end of the episode. The prior episode (in the order made) -- I think it was the one where Face is shot -- Murdoch's shirt reads "ALMOST FINI." I think they knew the show was going to be cancelled and not given a formal ending, which sucks.
The A-team was one of my favorite shows as a little kid in the 1980's...They were the embodiment of what we all grew up believing America and American's were supposed to be all about...Standing up for the "little guy" and for "justice"...I just wish it were true...
Real skills talents and efforts are deeply appreciated thanks even on the ateam always a classic to watch on TV or my cell phone to the actors and actresses who passed away my thoughts are with your family you may be gone but not forgotten still going strong one of TV best shows ever to the lengarady ateam always a classic to watch really appreciate the memories stay safe and warm out there way to go !! Joe
I definitely prefer the original but I love this theme too. Especially the drums and jumpcuts at the beginning it really helps to bring aboard the tension this season is packed to the brim with. Season 5 always has me on the edge of my seat even if I know how it's all gonna turn out. A wonderful final season for a wonderful show!
One of TV best shows ever to the actors and actresses who passed away my thoughts are with your family you may be gone but not forgotten still going strong after all these years later real skills and talents and efforts are deeply appreciated even on the ateam always a classic to watch on TV or my cell phone appreciate the memories RIP George peppard and Robert Vaughn you may be gone but not forgotten still I love it when a plan comes together one of the best and favorite punch lines ever appreciate the memories great job people you should be amazed and proud !!!! Joe
Tia Carerre was actually supposed the join the A-Team in this season, but her contract with General Hospital at the time prevented it, which is how Eddie Velez came into the picture.
Rumor has it with season 5 (as there were 13 episodes. minus the last 2 that were mixed up in order) There were another 12 episodes slated. I wonder if there are transcripts of what those 12 episodes were and what the original plan of the show was
@@luckychukiye8743 actually, they shouldve ended it with the ending of ep. 12 where they are wondering what they are going to do with the rest of their lives
@@Mr.Proper1 Yes but I still feel they should have gotten a pardon in the official show. The wondering part makes me feel as if there is a cliff hanger you know? I wish the ending was more definitive.
@@Mr.Proper1 This is just one path, but I think they could've gone into business officially as private investigators, security consultants etc...; something that enabled them to continue making the most of their skills.
I was born in the late 90’s and basically grew up on this show along with The Dukes of Hazzard, Knight Rider etc. Very tongue in cheek but worth the hour of Tv. Thank god for bravo tv channel, may it rest in peace! 🤣
Much as I love the original version of the theme, the high-energy synths, drum programming and such that reflected the times back then (oh yes, the mid-late 80's...When everything synthesized was all the rage) only did the one thing that made the theme not only more epic... ...THEY MADE IT EXTREME. 💥👍👊☠️🤟
This is what you get when you have the original theme song and the producers say "no, no, no, it needs to be MORE 1980's sounding"... personally, I love it!
This season was definitely darker and more about Gen. Stockwell (Vaughn) hunting them than them helping others. I doubt it would have even made 5 seasons today.
I love how in the beginning, dozens of trained us military soilders missed every shot from their assault rifles, while the A team blew up the heavily guarded prison with a pistol
The scene where they crash the van through the plane, that was a funny scene in the episode the clip came from. B.A realizes the planes for the team and totals it. Murdoch: You wrecked the plane, what do you have to say for yourself? B.A: *laughs* I ain't getting on no plane.
Damn this is 80's right down to the slow mo of the bus crashing into camera frame while exploding and the theme flourishing at the end....so awesome! Dada da da dahhh da dahh dun!
Why does everyone else get their character named except Dirk? I know it’s a stupid thing to get ticked about but he’s been there for every episode minus the pilot, way more than Eddie Velez! He deserves to at least have his character’s name in the opening credits!
The original was alright, but man, this version flavors up the theme song big time. More badass than ever. Too bad the series didn't have the proper conclusion it deserved.
This theme version is a bit odd really. It starts off sounding very serious with the drums, but then the keyboard kicks in and it sounds more poppy and lightweight than the original theme.
rating dropped which is why the change, well that and George found it tricky to get along. it didn't work at the time and it got axed only to become a classic. funny how it goes sometimes
The show's fifth and final season finds the A-Team captured by General Hunt Stockwell (Robert Vaughn), who decided to allow the team to pay off their debts to society by working with him becoming government agents. During that time, a new member of the team was added: "Dishpan" Frankie Santana (Eddie Velez) a Puerto-Rican American special effects expert.
I dont see him as a a team member, hanniball the plan master, BA the strong one, face the guy who can fix everything and murdock their pilot and last hope on everything, frankie is kinda like amy en tawnia, just a third wheel but not a member
Eddie Velez wasn't really an actual member like Amy and Tawnia weren't. They were all basically tag alongs. The A Team was always Hannibal, Face, Murdock and BA.
When the third season was about to end, the end of the series was already close. The audience had begun to decline, and there was no easy solution in sight. The fourth season was no different, and, although some variations, both aesthetic and plot, were already tried, the audience continued to decline. In the middle of this fourth season, the producer, and the NBC network, were already thinking about canceling it, but Frank Lupo wanted his series, which had become one of the summits in television history, to say goodbye in a big way. . The end of the season was already created taking into account the beginning of the fifth, and for this reason it was modified so that Hannibal Smith's team was captured and remained pending trial. The fifth season was definitely going to be the last, and that's how the writers were approached, with the goal of having creative freedom, but doing something big. The same was passed on to Mike Post and Pete Carpenter, regarding creating a new intro. And, with all this, in the fall of 1986 the final season of the A-Team began, with the introduction of characters like Frankie Santana or Stockwell, and with this wonderful music (which is not a question of whether it is better or worse than the original , but whether it conveyed the grandiose spirit that was wanted to be given to the last season, and I think it does so by far). This last season, despite the fact that it was never able to exceed the audience levels of the first two seasons, it was seen so much that it did far exceed the best audiences obtained in the fourth, which constituted a great farewell.
Gray Fox [ROU] An alternate edit of the intro, the 3rd I think they did that year, shows that shot for a few more seconds as the pilot pedal-turns toward camera.
I kinda dug this version. It was misguided but, they were just trying to be contemporary. I think Mike Post did this with a lot of his more popular themes in their later seasons. Quantum Leap is another one that comes to mind.
To me, this has always been the superior version of the A-Team theme. It's way more energetic and in some parts even somewhat darker and more serious, in line with the season 5 storyline, i.e. the Team finally captured and on trial for the murder of Colonel Morrison and then the international espionage plots of the following episodes. Kudos to Mike Post and Pete Carpenter! 👏👏👏👍👍👍
Agreed, combined with the images of the Vietnam War as you say makes it feel darker. Especially love the segment between 1:07 - 1:22
People like to trash on this theme, and I understand, everyone has an opinion, but I kinda prefer this theme. It really does scream "1986", though.
Totally it has a rhythm.
This theme, to me, is superior and much punchier. Yes, it's of its time but the original theme sounds more '70's than '80's to my ears.
@@davidfos84 The original sounds like it takes influence from themes such as 'Bridge on the River Kwai', 'Where Eagles Dare, 'The Dirty Dozen', but mostly 'The Great Escape' with some 80s rock thrown in...
Don't care what anyone says I love this version of the theme
Shame they don't make TV like this anymore just good fun hour of action and comedy
Watch this every Saturday in the 80’s
They really should make more like this
I agree. This version is better for sure ! More of a modern vibe
Me to sinful to say out loud but the start of the theme rocks major
Me too the theme version is better
“Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as ‘soldiers of fortune.’ If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire...THE A-TEAM.”
In 1972 crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime the didn't commit..these me promptly escaped for a maximum security stockade into the Los Angeles underground....
Not this season.
IF you can find them
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I will find them!
The A-Team ran from January 1983 to March 1987…98 episodes.
I wish it had run for six full seasons, from the Fall of 1982 to the Spring of 1988. 25 shows per season, 150 in total, and in the very last episode they are pardoned by the President (a Ronald Reagan lookalike) and are free to go back to “normal” lives.
Indeed.
I like the original theme with the narration but the new one is just as great with a more modern feel to it with the added synthesizers.
And the precussion.
I love it when my childhood comes together.
Rocky speech was correct. 🤣😂
I first discovered this show in 2009 when I was only 12 and loved the theme.
@@okjeffy6581 I discovered this show way back in the early 90's. The simple and basic times.
Phenomenal comment.
@@CraigMcfly1985 One of my favorite shows back in the day. The best moments just watching the show every afternoon. Those where the days and simple times.
Back in the time period when the music, visual effects, and photography departments of a TV show put SERIOUS thought into their work.
AIRWOLF - KNIGHTRIDER - THE A-TEAM The holy trilogy of 80's excellence!!!!
Honorable mentions to Magnum PI, Automan and Streethawk.
@Geoffrey Walsh Automan is highly underrated.
Macgyver was also killer!
Hunter Season 3 Theme was pretty cool!
No kidding!
THIS INTRO IS AMAZING
The drum beat at the beginning reminds me of The Equalizer.
Daniel Williamson The Equalizer...Another great show.
*utter shit
**fixed**
Not so amazing than the original.
it was a good change actually seeing as they finally got caught., so sad they cancelled it
Even though I prefer the intro with the narration and the iconic scenes of the jeeps being bombed and flying through the air, the helicopters, B.A. kicking open the door, Murdock under the wedding veil, Face pointing his finger and Hannibal in the swamp monster costume, I must say this intro is creative on showing clips on how the team got falsely accused and escaping and with explosions. And how it's instrumental and can be a remix of the original theme. Undeniably catchy!!!!
R.I.P George Peppard and Robert Vaughn
Lukas Röösli Lance LeGault,John Ashley, and Stephen J. Cannell
Liam neeson is still around as the new john Hannibal smith on the a team movie
@@derekkinman7492 While I love Liam Neeson, he is no George Peppard. Sorry...just stating my opinion.
@@OAleathaO odds are liam neeson was chosen to play the new john Hannibal smith on the 2010 a team movie.
@@derekkinman7492 Your comment makes no sense.
I wished they at least 10 more episodes so it will show Gen Stockwell giving their freedom! Season 5 was great!
Too bad they couldn't have done a tv movie or something a few years later to sum things up.
@@benjaminlucas1635
Season 5 intro is even better than the original.
Run it right into 1987.
It was better than Season 4 which killed the show. This intro (the first part is epic though the remix is pretty terrible)
Steven j Cannal had a TV movie planned with the pardon being the goal however, when George Peppard died of cancer the plan was scrapped.
Me as a recovering alcoholic and drug addict love The A-Team never once did they use drugs alcohol or nothing on that show they always fought dead-set against it The A-Team put away more drug smugglers on that show than any I've seen in my life they always stood up for what was right and always had heart to help you no matter what it took no matter what.
For a tenager this is the best series from the past
From what I read, the ending of the show was actually "implied" by the t-shirts Murdoch is wearing in the last two episodes. The last episode, though they were originally run out of sequence, is the one where they save little girl who had the KGB documents, because Murdoch's shirt reads "FINI" at the end of the episode. The prior episode (in the order made) -- I think it was the one where Face is shot -- Murdoch's shirt reads "ALMOST FINI." I think they knew the show was going to be cancelled and not given a formal ending, which sucks.
This was my favourite tv show when I was little !!
"I love it when a plan comes together" he's on the jazz again.
oh hell yeah he was
When isn't he on the jazz?
@@BionicleGio22210 when relaxing 🤣😂
Gotta love Stephen J. Cannell shows. RIP SJC!
RIP Robert Vaughn (1932-2016).
RIP Dana Elcar from McGyver, suffered glaucoma and blindness.
R.I.P Colonel Decker
The A-team was one of my favorite shows as a little kid in the 1980's...They were the embodiment of what we all grew up believing America and American's were supposed to be all about...Standing up for the "little guy" and for "justice"...I just wish it were true...
Most definitely not true 😂
My fav show of all time they don't make them like that anymore to much reality TV now
Sad that it ended in the pizza shop. It needed more episodes and series
Yea bro...wish it too
Brings back so many memories 2 my childhood
Real skills talents and efforts are deeply appreciated thanks even on the ateam always a classic to watch on TV or my cell phone to the actors and actresses who passed away my thoughts are with your family you may be gone but not forgotten still going strong one of TV best shows ever to the lengarady ateam always a classic to watch really appreciate the memories stay safe and warm out there way to go !! Joe
I wished they have a proper ending like The A-Team going on one last mission and then they finally got their full pardon.
Couldnt agree more. Nbc should be ashamed for letting the Ateam end so lamely.
they did get their pardon at the end they all asked what do we do now Hanible said the same thing we been doing lot of people out there needs help
They will have proper ending. 🔜
Of all The A-Team intros I've seen, I'd say that this one is the best.
Need this as a ringtone
Copy link, go-to RUclips to mp3 download it then save it and set as ringtone
I definitely prefer the original but I love this theme too. Especially the drums and jumpcuts at the beginning it really helps to bring aboard the tension this season is packed to the brim with. Season 5 always has me on the edge of my seat even if I know how it's all gonna turn out. A wonderful final season for a wonderful show!
One of TV best shows ever to the actors and actresses who passed away my thoughts are with your family you may be gone but not forgotten still going strong after all these years later real skills and talents and efforts are deeply appreciated even on the ateam always a classic to watch on TV or my cell phone appreciate the memories RIP George peppard and Robert Vaughn you may be gone but not forgotten still I love it when a plan comes together one of the best and favorite punch lines ever appreciate the memories great job people you should be amazed and proud !!!! Joe
great show . Miss my childhood days
Tia Carerre was actually supposed the join the A-Team in this season, but her contract with General Hospital at the time prevented it, which is how Eddie Velez came into the picture.
Interesting
Eddie Velez sucked.
sfactor7 He filled the role like the movie FX.Eddie was a paratrooper.
Wow I did not know that 💪🏽
My favourite intro of The A Team. Great melody!
I really wish they had kept this show going. The A Team was a great series!
The best part would be finally proving their innocence!
Rumor has it with season 5 (as there were 13 episodes. minus the last 2 that were mixed up in order) There were another 12 episodes slated. I wonder if there are transcripts of what those 12 episodes were and what the original plan of the show was
@@luckychukiye8743 actually, they shouldve ended it with the ending of ep. 12 where they are wondering what they are going to do with the rest of their lives
@@Mr.Proper1 Yes but I still feel they should have gotten a pardon in the official show. The wondering part makes me feel as if there is a cliff hanger you know? I wish the ending was more definitive.
@@Mr.Proper1 This is just one path, but I think they could've gone into business officially as private investigators, security consultants etc...; something that enabled them to continue making the most of their skills.
I was born in the late 90’s and basically grew up on this show along with The Dukes of Hazzard, Knight Rider etc. Very tongue in cheek but worth the hour of Tv. Thank god for bravo tv channel, may it rest in peace! 🤣
Much as I love the original version of the theme, the high-energy synths, drum programming and such that reflected the times back then (oh yes, the mid-late 80's...When everything synthesized was all the rage) only did the one thing that made the theme not only more epic...
...THEY MADE IT EXTREME. 💥👍👊☠️🤟
Season 5 intro was way better then the rest
2019 ?? Of coarse you are a team such legendary show
This is what you get when you have the original theme song and the producers say "no, no, no, it needs to be MORE 1980's sounding"... personally, I love it!
My childhood.
This season was definitely darker and more about Gen. Stockwell (Vaughn) hunting them than them helping others.
I doubt it would have even made 5 seasons today.
You obviously didnt watch season 5
i love all the boom boom part
I'm 15 but I remember watching this I miss this show
One of the best theme song remixes ever
Those 80's keyboard tunes are fire!
Stockwell was a very interesting character one of the best they did
I love how in the beginning, dozens of trained us military soilders missed every shot from their assault rifles, while the A team blew up the heavily guarded prison with a pistol
They're THAT good
Thank you for posting ! Excellent Quality :) I love The A-Team
When the A-Team theme meets Jan Hammer...
I remembered the time when they brought Robert Vaughn into the show.
Final season
So annoyed they finished this in the pizza shop!!😭 this deserved more episodes.
You can never replace the original A-Team George Peppard Hannibal rip Dirk Benedict face man
i just started watching this show for the first time in my life, great show that i ordered the complete series dvd set.
R.I.P Hunt Stockwell
No, R.I.P. Robert Vaughn.
TheToonMonkey David stockwell
Bjørn Tveter no, HUNT STOCKWELL. Basic facts. check out 1:20 for proof.
"I work inside the system. I keep my skirts clean, I am a dedicated American patriot."
TheToonMonkey R.I.P Colonel Decker
The scene where they crash the van through the plane, that was a funny scene in the episode the clip came from. B.A realizes the planes for the team and totals it.
Murdoch: You wrecked the plane, what do you have to say for yourself?
B.A: *laughs* I ain't getting on no plane.
@Mike Gaddass Which episode was that?
Damn this is 80's right down to the slow mo of the bus crashing into camera frame while exploding and the theme flourishing at the end....so awesome! Dada da da dahhh da dahh dun!
Why does everyone else get their character named except Dirk? I know it’s a stupid thing to get ticked about but he’s been there for every episode minus the pilot, way more than Eddie Velez! He deserves to at least have his character’s name in the opening credits!
This introduction opening haves a great beat and better than the original one 👌
RIP, Lance LeGault
@Dark Soul I know.
The original was alright, but man, this version flavors up the theme song big time. More badass than ever. Too bad the series didn't have the proper conclusion it deserved.
Intro is great on the soundbar
Echte coole Serie. Was ist in Amerika los? Warum gibt es solche Serien nicht mehr? Coole Sprüche und mega spezial Effekte.
My gosh why are the drums so cool 😎
love this introduction
This theme was a statement that The A Team really meant business this time! Such a shame it never carried on a bit longer!
This theme version is a bit odd really. It starts off sounding very serious with the drums, but then the keyboard kicks in and it sounds more poppy and lightweight than the original theme.
It did..background.. 😂🤣
Love this intro!
very good!!!!! im fan a-team!!!!!! greetings from argentine!!!!!!!
Super secret VHS tape 😆
The A-Team should have returned for its sixth season and they should reunite with both Amy Allen and Tawnia Baker.
Along with the newly arranged Universal and Cannell themes.
rating dropped which is why the change, well that and George found it tricky to get along. it didn't work at the time and it got axed only to become a classic. funny how it goes sometimes
If this series was made a few years later, that definitely would have happened...perhaps even a full 7th season could have been pulled off.
The show's fifth and final season finds the A-Team captured by General Hunt Stockwell (Robert Vaughn), who decided to allow the team to pay off their debts to society by working with him becoming government agents. During that time, a new member of the team was added: "Dishpan" Frankie Santana (Eddie Velez) a Puerto-Rican American special effects expert.
I dont see him as a a team member, hanniball the plan master, BA the strong one, face the guy who can fix everything and murdock their pilot and last hope on everything, frankie is kinda like amy en tawnia, just a third wheel but not a member
And General Hunt Stockwell always wanted to do it 'his way'. The A team preferred to do it 'their way'.
Eddie Velez wasn't really an actual member like Amy and Tawnia weren't. They were all basically tag alongs. The A Team was always Hannibal, Face, Murdock and BA.
Pretty much the original Suicide Squad
I love it when a plan comes together😉
Don’t we all 😂
This was best theme tune even loved 1st one and total spin off what a last series
Went back to childhood ❤❤❤
The precussion in this intro is epic.
I wish it would’ve came into the 90s miss this on the weekends
Dat bass.
When the third season was about to end, the end of the series was already close. The audience had begun to decline, and there was no easy solution in sight. The fourth season was no different, and, although some variations, both aesthetic and plot, were already tried, the audience continued to decline. In the middle of this fourth season, the producer, and the NBC network, were already thinking about canceling it, but Frank Lupo wanted his series, which had become one of the summits in television history, to say goodbye in a big way. . The end of the season was already created taking into account the beginning of the fifth, and for this reason it was modified so that Hannibal Smith's team was captured and remained pending trial. The fifth season was definitely going to be the last, and that's how the writers were approached, with the goal of having creative freedom, but doing something big. The same was passed on to Mike Post and Pete Carpenter, regarding creating a new intro. And, with all this, in the fall of 1986 the final season of the A-Team began, with the introduction of characters like Frankie Santana or Stockwell, and with this wonderful music (which is not a question of whether it is better or worse than the original , but whether it conveyed the grandiose spirit that was wanted to be given to the last season, and I think it does so by far). This last season, despite the fact that it was never able to exceed the audience levels of the first two seasons, it was seen so much that it did far exceed the best audiences obtained in the fourth, which constituted a great farewell.
This is a whole holodeck simulation with Barkley playing Murdoch playing from the A-Team
Los Magnificos😁😃
this theme song version make me feel a soldier
I love the new theme song
That Little Bird firing! :X :X :X :X :D
Gray Fox [ROU] An alternate edit of the intro, the 3rd I think they did that year, shows that shot for a few more seconds as the pilot pedal-turns toward camera.
I love it when a plan comes together!
Don’t we all 😂
CLASSIC SHOW FROM MY CHILDHOOD
I admire Cannell and Lupo's efforts to change the things with season 5...But This is "The A-team", a cartoon with living actors not "Hunter".
Great music !!!!
That still makes me get excited for season 6! It's a pity it never happened!
S6 will happen. 🔫
Rip George peppard was een geweldige serie toen.
love my horses angel
Nu nog steeds!
En in 2019 geniet ik er nog steeds van!
This intro is amazing
RIP georges peppard
Nick Fury should recruit the A-Team.
Fuck yes!!!
RIP George Peppard and Robert Vaughn.
I love it when plans come together - Q ANON
Love it!
nice 👍
you watched to see the Stephen j cannel typewriter at the end of the end credits lol
I miss the voice over of the first one.
The A team in merry old England was peak saturday teatime viewing.
I kinda dug this version. It was misguided but, they were just trying to be contemporary. I think Mike Post did this with a lot of his more popular themes in their later seasons. Quantum Leap is another one that comes to mind.
Howling mad merdock probably spelt wrong lol had me in stitches
They literally show how you spell his name right here 1:07
Eine legende
THE BEST THEME