
He has only entrusted Murdock with his strange origins. Trapped on earth due to a mishap with a Star Fighter in 1966, he participated in the Vietnam war where he joined the unit known as the A-Team. After the A-Team was canceled, George Peppard was killed by a falling ape and subsequently re-registered with the Screen Actors Guild as Dead George Peppard, leading to the events depicted in the unrelated show The AAA-Team.Ĭigar smoking womanizer. The character's leather gloves were worn to disguise the fact that George Peppard's hands had atrophied and were controlled by a specialised team of trained silverfish. Hannibal often displayed a fondness for safari jackets and shirts which were several sizes too small, and he was roughly 342 years old. Nicknamed "Hannibal" because he attempted to attack Rome with elephants mounted on soldiers, and eat the livers of everyone therein. Often dressed up as a woman to confuse his enemies, even when no enemies were present. Mysteriously only ever seen after the end credits of each episode chucking type-writer paper in all directions whilst smoking a pipe (was actually a joint) whilst trippy country and western guitar riffs play.Ĭigar smoking master of disguise, former US President, Member of the British Royal Family, Cadillac salesman, and leader of the team. A rumored fifth season, where the team was made into the bitches of a fat-headed man from U.N.C.L.E., was not produced. The A-Team ran for four seasons from 1982 - 1986. TV producers needed "somebody like Robert Wagner, only not as expensive." for the lead role, and George Peppard, who was living on the streets outside Universal Studios at the time, was promptly brought in to read for the part of Hannibal. Since the mercenary theme pervaded most of Grodin's book, and the rest of the chapters were actually cobbled together from old Russian news scripts, Cannell's treatment involved a team of four veterans who traveled the world protecting the innocent. Cannell was hired to write a teleplay based on them. In 1972, Grodin sold his memoirs to Universal, and Stephen J. When not acting, these three men traveled around in a specially converted Winebago, looking for unscrupulous land owners to blackmail. He later smuggled this technology back to The United States and formed a team of part-time mercenaries consisting of himself, Lou Gossett Jr. It was based on the true life story of actor Charles Grodin, who was sent undercover while serving in Vietnam and acquired Viet Cong technology that rendered bullets harmless to anyone within a 100 yard radius. T and Three Other Dispensable Guys, was an American television show about a mad, geriatric, cross-dressing Colonel and his three nubile young army buddies who traveled the world, putting right what once went wrong. Critically acclaimed as a tour de force of world-class lapdancers.
