<P> The show's ties to the Vietnam War are fully dealt with in the opening arc of the fifth season, dubbed "The Court - Martial (Part 1--3)", in which the team is finally court - martialed for the robbery of the bank of Hanoi . The character of Roderick Decker makes a return on the witness stand, and various newly introduced characters from the A-Team's past also make appearances . The team, after a string of setbacks, decides to plead guilty to the crime and they are sentenced to be executed . They escape this fate and come to work for a General Hunt Stockwell, leading into the remainder of the fifth season . </P> <P> The show ran for five seasons on the NBC television network, from January 23, 1983 to December 30, 1986 (with one additional, previously unbroadcast episode shown on March 8, 1987), for a total of 98 episodes . </P> <P> The A-Team revolves around the four members of a former commando outfit, now mercenaries . Their leader is Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith (George Peppard), whose plans tend to be unorthodox but effective . Lieutenant Templeton Peck (Dirk Benedict; Tim Dunigan appeared as Templeton Peck in the pilot), usually called "Face" or "Faceman", is a smooth - talking con man who serves as the team's appropriator of vehicles and other useful items, as well as the team's second - in - command . The team's pilot is Captain H.M. "Howling Mad" Murdock (Dwight Schultz), who has been declared insane and lives in a Veterans' Administration mental institution for the show's first four seasons . Finally, there is the team's strong man, mechanic and Sergeant First Class Bosco "B.A.", or "Bad Attitude", Baracus (Mr. T). </P> <P> The team belonged to the 5th Special Forces as seen in the left side shoulder patch on Hannibal's uniform in the episode A Nice Place to Visit . A patch on Hannibal's uniform on the right shoulder in the episode "A Nice Place To Visit" indicates abelonged to the 101st Airborne during a prior combat assignment, but that patch was replaced by the 1st Air Cavalry Division patch in the episode "Trial by Fire". The patch worn on the left sleeve according to uniform wear in the Army is the current assignment of the person wearing it and in the episode A Nice Place to Visit shows that the team was assigned to the Special Forces with a tab Airborne over the shoulder patch . Also their berets in that episode are green and have the tab of the 5th Special Forces in Vietnam on them . In the episode "West Coast Turnaround", Hannibal stated they were with the 5th Special Forces Group . Then, in episode "Bad Time on the Border", Hannibal refers to his friends as "ex-Green Berets". Though the name they have adopted comes from the "A-Teams", the nickname coined for Special Forces Operational Detachments Alpha, these detachments usually consisted of twelve members; whether the four were considered a "detachment" of their own or had once had eight compatriots who were killed in action was never revealed . In the episode A Nice Place to Visit Ray Brenner is stated to have been a Major and part of Hannibal's team in Vietnam . </P>

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