The A-Team (TV Series) Labor Pains (1983) User Reviews

Labor Pains

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 12 June 2020]

This is the episode where you can see a reaction from the makers of The A Team regarding the level of violence it featured.

You see a transition where members of The A Team stop using guns to fight the bad guys and convert machinery to fire off cabbages as missiles.

This is not an episode that Dwight Schultz would likely to be proud of as he is now a conservative podcaster.

A bad capitalist land owner is exploiting his crop pickers. They are paid slave wages, live in tents and have to pay high prices in the local shops.

The A Team arrive just in time after evading Colonel Decker when they see a local store owner refusing to serve them. The A Team helps them to organise a union.

There was a trend in this show to highlight the plight of exploited labourers. Maybe because it was not based in the big city, as guys on the run they often went to small remote towns. Maybe there was some truth in what was going on in small town America in the 1980s.

The bad guys include familiar faces such as Charles Napier and John Vernon. Noted black director Carl Franklin has a small role.

The ateam in the Garden

[aramis-112-804880 · 7/10 · 14 February 2024]

On the run from the military, the A-Team happens up on a community where workers are being exploited.

One of the workers is Penny Peyser, who was in the sleeper hit comedy of 1978, "The On-laws."

It's obvious from other reviews from this episode they don't "get" this show. They have no understanding of "The A-Team." Or capitalism. Or much of anything else.

And since the bad guys are trying to thwart free voting, they must be Democrats.

It's great to see the Team being more clever, solving problems more creatively than usual by a cabbage-gun. Don't take it so seriously, people. It's all in good fun. But some people live in fear that others enjoy things they can't. How sad. That's probably why they practice censorship.

Union shenanigans from the boys

[Leofwine_draca · 5/10 · 29 November 2017]

LABOR PAINS is one of the less interesting A-TEAM episodes from season two, feeling very much like it goes through the motions rather than offering anything new. It's a politically-charged storyline about a ruthless land owner keeping his owners in virtual slavery, so our boys decide to form a union to clean things up. The action is silly here and Dwight Schultz is annoying, and that cabbage-launching climax really is too much. A pity, as screen veterans John Vernon and Charles Napier are wasted as the villains of the hour.

More idiotic than the rest

[unclemc-95710 · 1/10 · 27 October 2022]

Another flimsy plot that's poorly executed with lousy acting. Par for the course with this series. But at least this one didn't end with a stuntman clearly visible on the skids of a helicopter.

Too many continuity errors and bloopers to mention.

How on earth this series made it beyond one season is a mystery to me.

Every episode is a more far-fetched version of the previous, and usually a ripoff of the Dukes of Hazzard television show but with worse acting- if that's even possible.

Everyone associated with this series should be embarrassed, and that includes the people of America who watched it.