Stunt double spots - When a double was used for one of the team

Recycled footage - Footage that originally came from another episode, or pre-existing footage (note, very common stock footage of the A-Team van, either driving along the street or in the country, are not listed (yet at least))

Re-recorded dialogue - Commonly known as ADR or 'looping', sometimes sections of dialogue will be re-recorded after filming, due to the like of background noise on the original, or sometimes to alter the wording slightly

Recycled music - Unlike many shows, 'The A-Team' had a score written specifically for each episode. But this didn't stop certain pieces being recycled now and again.

Why do the staff at the V.A. hospital never recognise Face when he comes to break Murdock out? He seldom wears a disguise. You'd think they'd have a big picture up saying "Beware of this man!".

Both B.A.'s van, and (to a lesser extent) Face's Corvette sometimes appear from nowhere, no matter where the team are located. They also subsequently disappear - often the team seem to leave them behind, only for them to reappear again.

Why do the Military Police sometimes recognise B.A.'s van, but on other occasions fail to recognise it? What's more, it's very distinctive, making it hard to forget. 

When Valdez is looking for Al Massey, he has a white shirt on. But when they are chasing Massey's truck, in shots of Valdez in the jeep, he suddenly has a different coloured shirt on (these shots seem to have been filmed from later in the story, where The A-Team are chasing the bandits out of town).

On the chase around the film set, the double for Face can be seen in several shots to be wearing sunglasses. But Face in the close up shots is not - he removed them when he was talking to Hannibal.

On the original film prints of this story, when the first of Colonel Lynch's two backup cars careers through the bush and falls into the lake, there is a black line on the bottom two thirds or so of the screen, where there seemed to be some problem where the shot was filmed. On later videotape prints, the picture is zoomed in to eliminate the black line.

If you are very sharp eyed, you can spot a slight jump in the film - after the tour bus has gone through the 'separated' waters, there is a slight jump as we see the Aquamaniac following behind in the convertible. 

When Hannibal submerges Lynch's car on the Moses film set, there is a shot of the water flowing backwards! After the first shot of the car being submerged ,there is a shot of Hannibal smiling, then look carefully - the water is rising back out of the river and going back into the spouts on the side.

At the end of the scene where Amy visits Murdock at the hospital, Murdock's final line is "...and wait until you're contacted". But this line was obviously added in post-production, as it is clear that he does not say it on-screen.

Nitpick: Colonel Lynch goes to visit Murdock at the V.A. Hospital, certain that he is not really insane and is still working with The A-Team. The team have been wanted for ten years, why has Lynch taken so long to visit?

When Colonel Lynch is visiting Murdock at the hospital, some of his dialogue, such as "...You were The A-Team's pilot in 'Nam..." is clearly ADR'd.

Many videotape prints of this story have a slight audio problem at one point - on the jet, when Hannibal and Face strap B.A. in as he starts to wake up, the audio dips for a few seconds over Face's dialogue, making it hard to hear what he is saying.

When "Mr. Lee" (Hannibal) wakes Amy up in her car, her arm jumps from rubbing her neck to being down by her side in one shot.

The stock shots of the front of the L.A. Courier Express are seen again in the first season episodes 'Holiday In The Hills' and 'One More Time'. The shots also turn up in several other shows, such as the first season 'Riptide' episode 'Diamonds Are For Never'.

Watch the passenger door on the convertible Rambler as Hannibal, Amy and unconscious B.A. arrive at the airport – on the far-off shot (looking through at them from under the jet, as Face runs over to Hannibal) we see Amy close the door; but on the next shot, close up of Face talking to Hannibal, the door is back open and we see it closing again. We hear the sound of it closing the second time but not the first.

A “blink or you’ll miss it” slight continuity error - in the scene on the jet, after Amy’s misquotes “Women and people of high birth are very trustworthy”, she is looking sideways, up at Hannibal; but in the very next shot from further back, she is looking forwards.

Shots of the Lear jet, include several shots unused here, appear in the third season episode 'Sheriffs Of Rivertown'.

The shots of the air controllers in the tower is stock footage that can be seen in episodes of many other shows, including 'The Rockford Files' and 'Knight Rider', and the first season 'Riptide' episode 'Diamonds Are For Never'. It is used again in 'The A-Team'  at the end of the first season's 'The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas'.

The shot looking out of the cabin behind what’s supposed to be Murdock and Hannibal as the jet is coming in to land at the airport in Mexico is quite clearly stock footage. The two characters seen in the shot don’t even have similar clothing to Murdock and Hannibal; they seem to be dressed in commercial pilots uniforms.

In the bar fight sequence, George Peppard's stunt double can be spotted several times.

In the scenes where B.A. is seen wearing his dungarees, they are undone on his right shoulder (left when looking at him). But when himself, Hannibal and Amy are held tied-up outback of the bar, they are suddenly undone on the opposite shoulder. In the next scene, when they are freed, both shoulders are done up.  

The shot of Face in the bi-plane when he drops the papers over the edge, is actually back-to-front – if you freeze-frame at the right moment (or if you just have a particularly sharp eye), you can see that the lettering on the papers is back-to-front! The following shot of Murdock is also reversed (notice his headset suddenly has the microphone on the opposite side).

When Hannibal is firing down from the bell tower at Valdez and his bandits, the shots of Murdock and Face swooping down in the bi-plane seems to be exactly the same shot from earlier when they came in to land.

In the section of the armed bus chasing the bandits out of town, on the shot which is looking up at the vehicles from the road (near Valdez crying “Caramba”), watch as after the bus passes, the dust suddenly disappears as the bi-plane flies over. The film was obviously abridged here by a few seconds.

In  the shot of the armored bus firing it's cannon, causing the jeep to flip over (the shot used at the start of the opening credits on seasons 1-4), there is obviously a ramp hidden behind some foliage to turn the jeep over.

In the scene, while Hannibal, B.A. and Amy are captured, where Face tries to con Miguel the film commissioner one last time, his final line "...We are out of here" clearly does not match his mouth.

When Hannibal, B.A. and co. are escaping from the guerrillas, when Hannibal throws a grenade at one of the jeeps causing it to flip over (the shot used at the end of the opening credits on season 1-4) there is again clearly a ramp hidden behind the foliage.

In the scene when the team are on their way back to the airport, when B.A. is drugged  and falls forwards asleep onto the steering wheel, judging by the position his head hits the wheel there’s no way the horn could sound.

On the opening trailer, there is a shot from the climax of Martin James clutching a gun his bible and yelling "For I am God, and I will slay them!". This was not used in the actual story.

In the A-Team van, Hannibal's dialogue as we see the close up of the wheel spike is quite clearly added in in post production, as it sounds different, and then suddenly cuts back to his regular dialogue.

Nitpick: The team rescue Sheila Rogers from the cult. What about the other 'children'? Were they just going to leave them there?

This could possibly just be due to the angle, but when the A-Team van races up and stops by the helicopter, it seems to stop much further back than in the next shot.

An amusing moment - when Hannibal, Face, B.A. and Amy are captured and loaded into the followers' van, one of the followers catches the horn, giving a sudden honk.

The shots of Hannibal looking around when he arrives at the camp are actually taken from the Pilot where he looks around at the villages that have come to help - notice that the wooden buildings behind him suddenly disappear and there are trees instead.

In the compound when Hannibal, Face, B.A. and Amy are captured, the shots of the children watching as they are led to the wooden hut are used again as they are "put on trial".

When Hannibal, Face, Amy and B.A. run off from the dry ravine, as B.A. gets up, something (probably filming equipment) briefly drops into shot in the top right section of the shot for a moment.

When Hannibal, Face, Amy and B.A. are on the run from the cult, a shot looking up from the road at the jeeps racing along  actually taken from the Pilot where bandits were in the jeeps - if you look carefully, you can see Al Massey's crashed pick-up at the side of the road.  

When they arrive at the Coulton Farm, and we see Face scouting about in the bushes, his dialogue of “... preacher's got one look-out, but that’s all he needs...” is ADR'd. His lips to not seem to match much at all, indicating that the dialogue may have been changed in post-production.

I'm no gun expert, but when Face is brawling with the Brother outside the farm, the sound effect of the Brother's rifle firing is clearly dubbed on in post-production, as it makes the sound of a completely different firearm, more like a pistol or something.

When B.A., Hannibal, Amy and the injured Face arrive at Coulton Farm's front door, the shadow of a sound boom can briefly be seen to fall into shot. (Not visible on all prints. If you are watching on DVD, try zooming out)

Nitpick: When Hannibal and B.A. crash into the camp in the jeep and use the flame thrower, wouldn't they risk hurting the 'children' (who, note, have all suddenly disappeared)?

One of the big explosions at the compound is recycled later in the season in 'One More Time'.

After Face launches one of the canisters of gas at a jeep, there is another brief shot similar to those previously recycled from the Pilot, again looking up from the ground.

When Murdock drops the dynamite down on to the jeeps, the far-off shot shows the helicopter door to be open before he opens it in the close-up.

In a couple of shots during the climatic battle, if you look very carefully, the flame thrower on the back of the jeep can be seen to be shooting water (unless this was petrol or similar substance that failed to ignite? I think water is more likely around the main actors).

Something to look out for: In the final scene, when Hannibal walks into Revered James' hut, watch the rest of the team outside in the jeep - Face yanks Murdock's hat off his head and puts it on, and Murdock grabs it back again.

The shot of the jeep that is seen to flip over at the end of the closing credits is reversed from as it appears in the actual episode.

Not really a double spot as such, but Jase's fighting opponent at the start of the episode is Mr. T's stunt double, Tony Brubaker (He also played the fake B.A. in the memorable third season episode 'Showdown!'). 

When B.A. goes to the restaurant to get Hannibal, he is wearing his dungarees. When the pair leave, he is suddenly wearing his denim sleeveless jacket over them. 

When B.A. leads Hannibal from the restaurant to the van, for a brief second before he slides the side door open, the reflections of the filming crew can be seen. (Freeze frame the scene to see this)

When the van arrives at the library and Amy opens the side down, the back doors are obviously open as light is shining through (presumably so the interior of the van isn't too dark for filming), and you can see the shadow of Face waiting to get out.

The sequence of the Sheriff’s car, as it races off after pulling B.A., Hannibal and Murdock over, was re-used (from a slightly different camera angle) near the start of the season’s closing episode, ‘A Nice Place To Visit’.

There is no front license plate on the car that B.A., Hannibal and Murdock race around in; when the car goes to crash into the front of the Sheriff's office, it suddenly has one. When the shot changes to the inside of the office, it has suddenly disappeared again.

Also, as the car is racing towards the Sheriff’s office, we see a shot of it that is quite clearly taken from the previous section where it was racing through the town street.

As the car races along, about to smash into the front of the Sheriff's office, as it turns, the shot is reversed - the license plate (the one that disappears and reappears!) is back-to-front.

....Furthermore, on the exterior shot of the car crashing into the front of the Sheriff's office, the ramp can be seen to slide forward - a piece of wood from it is visible in the bottom right corner.

Nitpick: We all know that The A-Team never kill anyone, so how did Hannibal know that no-one was on the other side of the wall when he crashes the car into the Sheriff's Office? Another thing that's not to be asked!

The car smashing into the front of the building was re-used, in a previously unused angle, for the flashback of the team robbing the Bank of Hanoi in the fifth season's 'Trial By Fire'.

When Sheriff Norm comes into the wrecked Office, the film is reversed back-to-front - notice that his Sheriff's badge is now suddenly on the other side of his uniform!

Nitpick:  How come no report of members of the team being arrested got back to Colonel Lynch? Surely they were fingerprinted at least after they were arrested – in the third season’s ‘Breakout!’, when B.A. and Murdock are arrested, B.A.’s fingerprints soon reach Colonel Decker. Oh well, such questions are not to be asked!

Furthermore, Beyond the risk of being arrested, they even use their real names (Hannibal and B.A. are definitely referred to as “John Smith” and “Baracus”).

When Amy is in Warden Beale's office before Face arrives and the Warden learns towards her, her hair changes - and her parting seems to change position (reversed shot?)

The exterior shots of the prison are standard stock footage shots, which pop up in many other series and films (such as the 1979 Clint Eastwood film 'Escape From Alcatraz', and which turn up in several episodes of ‘Knight Rider’). Some are used again in The A-Team in the fourth  season episode ‘The Heart Of Rock ‘N Roll’.

In the scene in the prison yard, where Deke tries to get Hannibal to turn out his pockets, in the shot of B.A. after Hannibal’s line “He’s the tough guy…”, the men standing behind B.A. completely change position. The man standing to the right behind him is right across the other side of the shot on the more far-off shot!

In the scene in the prison gym where Warden Beale tells Hannibal that B.A. is leaving, Hannibal's arms jump from down at his sides, to having one on his chest, between shots.

When Face and Hannibal lock Dr. Ericson inside Murdock's cell, her cry of "Hey, what's going on?!" is clearly ADR'd.

Several of the shots as the prison goes onto alert as the alarm of escape is raised, are quite clearly stock footage shots. The shot of the huge search light being aimed down from the top of a wall clearly is, as the officer by it is wearing a completely different uniform to the officers seen in this episode (it’s black, not grey, for a start).

After Murdock and Hannibal have escaped from the prison on their 'hot air chairs', it is quite clearly doubles of them being used when Face picks them up in the car.

A minor continuity error: when Warden Beale is just about to start the fight between Jase and B.A., the man on the far left of the front row behind him can see bending over, betting with the man in front of him. This shot cuts to a close up shot of the front row cheering as the fight starts; in this shit, the man is back crouching over his seat.

When Face, Hannibal and Murdock arrive outside the barn where B.A. and Jase are being forced to fight, Hannibal has his jacket on. Yet when he goes to the van to get a gun, he (or rather, a double) has no jacket on.

In addition to the above blooper, we see Hannibal walk round to the side of the van and hear the side-door slide open (we can’t actually see as the camera shot is from the other side of the van), yet in the next shot (with aforementioned body double) we see him open the box under the back seat which houses the guns, which would be accessed through the back doors of the van, not the side-door.

In the scene in the barn after the A-Team van has burst in, where Face says “All you boys in the front row, you wanna sit down, face the camera?”, followed by a shot of Murdock holding the camera, with Face still visible in the background. Face adds “We wanna give everyone a chance”; visually, we see his mouth move briefly, but has stopped when we hear this line! It was obviously looped in post-production. My lip-reading skills aren’t super, but it looks like he’s saying something like “Face the camera”.

In the scene after Hannibal, in disguise, has lead Officer Maloney to the back room, watch the shot where B.A. says "And what about your family?" - the audio does not match his face. The audio has him saying it quite calmly, whereas visually he can be seen to snap the line.

Several far off shots of the bikers on their way to town is stock footage - notice the front wheels are of a different style.

The music as Hannibal, B.A. and Murdock dress the hotel room is recycled from the scene where B.A. follows Joey in 'Pros and Cons'.

The music that plays as the terrorists chase the team as they race in the truck to meet Murdock's plane, was used in 'The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas'. After that, as Murdock lands the plane, music from the Pilot is reused.

Nitpick: When the mobsters arrive, Amy tells B.A. that they’re here on here radio, then a few moment later, we hear that she calls Face and Murdock to tell them the same thing. Wouldn't they all be turned to the same radio frequency?

In the shots in the squad car before they take off after the truck, the shots of Face looking diagonally back at Murdock do not seem to have Hannibal and B.A. in the car. Likewise, in the shots of Hannibal and B.A., Face and Murdock do not seem to be in the car.

In the sequence where Hannibal is on the motorcycle, being pursued by Lynch, and on the way to pick up Face, if you look very quickly, there is a very brief shot (looking from the wheel of Lynch's car) where Face is already on the back of the motorcycle.

Just before Face gets out of the taxicab going through the carwash, there is a man outside his door wiping down the car. As Face gets out, the man is suddenly at the back of the car.

In the shot of B.A. jumping forward on the plane and ordering the hijacker to "drop your gun", his lips do not sync up at all with what he is saying.

The opening pursuit is a ‘compilation’ of previously used Police chase scenes in the series, taken from ‘The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas’ (some of which was pre-existing stock footage anyway), and the Sheriff's car racing off in ‘Pros And Cons’ (though in a different angle to the one used in that episode).