[spacebandit]

being in my teenage years when The A Team first apepared - I went off it after a few episodes

here we have these Mercenaries, Soldiers Of Fortune - real full-on serious "bad ass" Vietnam vets, taking on evil people and groups, all armed to the teeth who won't take sh*t ftom any do-gooders - and no-one ever got killed.

Cosmetic perfectly placed theatrical bandages covering wildly coloured
stage make-up bruising was about as serious as it got.

"I'd have got away with it if it wasn't for you damned pesky meddling mercenaries!

how I fondly remembered the first series of Starsky and Hutch, before the moral majority loons got their teeth into it and it practically became a daytime level drama, same for Miami Vice