Chopping Spree

Episode aired Feb 14, 1984
TV-PG
49m

IMDb RATING

7.2/10

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Action Adventure Crime

The team goes after the crooked car dealer who stole B.A.'s van.The team goes after the crooked car dealer who stole B.A.'s van.The team goes after the crooked car dealer who stole B.A.'s van.

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IMDb RATING

7.2/10

369

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Face becomes a car salesman for a crooked used car dealer called Sam Friendly (Dennis Franz).

He sells out of state cars cheaply, then a few weeks later steals them back and off they go to a chop shop for used parts.

Hannibal pretends to be a British concert promoter to smoke out Friendly after the A Team van has been stolen.

This leave BA upset and angry. Murdock is keen on horticulture and worried that his plant has been stolen as it was in the van.

Friendly is in cahoots with a mobster for an urgent job. The A Team can apprehend two bad guys in short shrift.

A good action adventure, Franz is wonderfully sleazy. The mobster Tony Victor gives a bit more spin to the plot.

George Peppard's English accent was at least better than Dick Van Dyke's but not by much.

Prismark10
May 23, 2021
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Trivia
In chopping spree there is an aerial view of a car wash that face uses to wash his car after a failed chase. That car wash was the same one used in the 1976 movie Car Wash the footage used is from the movie itself though it was an alternate clip. if you check out the cars parked at the shell station beside the Hot Dog House you will see they are the same in the TV show and in the movie but the street traffic is different between the two.

Goofs
After Face constantly drops hints about how the team should be working on another job in Saudi Arabia, he at one point says they should be sitting on the banks of the Nile, which is a long way from Saudi Arabia.

Quotes
Capt. H.M. "Howling Mad" Murdock: [B.A.'s van has been stolen] Wait a minute, wait a minute... The little guy is in the v-v-van. They got my plant! He's been plantnabbed. Oh, they'll probably cut off a leaf and send it to me to prove they got it!