<Tr> <Th> Original network </Th> <Td> NBC </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Original release </Th> <Td> January 23, 1983 (1983 - 01 - 23)--March 8, 1987 (1987 - 03 - 08) </Td> </Tr> <P> The A-Team is an American action - adventure television series that ran on NBC from 1983 to 1987 about former members of a fictitious United States Army Special Forces unit . The members, after being court - martialed "for a crime they didn't commit", escaped from military prison and, while still on the run, worked as soldiers of fortune . The series was created by Stephen J. Cannell and Frank Lupo . A feature film based on the series was released by 20th Century Fox in 2010 . </P> <P> The A-Team was created by writers and producers Stephen J. Cannell and Frank Lupo at the behest of Brandon Tartikoff, NBC's Entertainment president . Cannell was fired from ABC in the early 1980s, after failing to produce a hit show for the network, and was hired by NBC; his first project was The A-Team . Brandon Tartikoff pitched the series to Cannell as a combination of The Dirty Dozen, Mission Impossible, The Magnificent Seven, Mad Max and Hill Street Blues, with "Mr. T driving the car". </P>

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