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"Mexican Slayride" is the feature-length pilot episode of the action adventure television series The A-Team. The pilot aired in its complete form originally, airing in North America on January 23, 1983. In syndication the pilot has been cut up into two parts, creating two episodes.
Season 1 clearly sets up that John "Hannibal" Smith is a jobbing actor, that happens to work at Universal. This also explains his access to make-up, costumes, props, set dressings, etc over the entire series run. Throughout the entire run of the series, only once did any member of the team call Hannibal by his real name - John.
B.A. bursts into the Mexican bar while making his entrance in Season 1's "Mexican Slayride" (as previous version). B.A. wears a construction hat while crushing a car on a modified construction vehicle in Season 2's "Steel". B.A. winks at the end of Season 2's "Chopping Spree".
Summary"In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. 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 t...
Mexican Slayride: Directed by Rod Holcomb. With George Peppard, Melinda Culea, Tim Dunigan, Dwight Schultz. The A-Team is hired by Amy Allen to rescue a missing foreign correspondent in Mexico.
Jan 23, 1983 · Mexican Slayride: Part 1 ... that the A-Team really exists and ends up hiring them to rescue one of her fellow reporters who has been kidnapped by Mexican outlaws. ...
Jan 23, 1983 · Mexican Slayride, Pt. 1. S1 E1: Amy Amanda Allen is a beautiful young journalist who has decided to defy her newspaper's orders by trying to locate Al Massey, a colleague who has disappeared in Mexico during an assignment. After several clandestine meetings with Hannibal, she manages to convince the A-Team to take her case.
