The Beast from the Belly of a Boeing
- Episode aired May 3, 1983
- TV-PG
- 49m
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7.6/10
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The A-Team is hired when skyjackers take over an airplane and demand $5 million.The A-Team is hired when skyjackers take over an airplane and demand $5 million.The A-Team is hired when skyjackers take over an airplane and demand $5 million.
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- Airline pilot Larry Hertzog
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- TriviaAs the team lands the plane, there's a scene where it crashes through the airport window. The scene is actually from Airplane! (1980).
- GoofsThe lower level galley used by Murdock to gain access can only be found on either a DC-10 or Lockheed TriStar and not a Boeing 747.
- ConnectionsEdited from Airplane! (1980)
- SoundtracksYou Are My Sunshine
(uncredited)
Written by Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell
Sung by George Peppard and Dirk Benedict
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The Beast from the Belly of a Boeing
From an era when hijacking a plane was as simple as ABC.
The United People's Resistance, a terrorist group has hijacked a plane and demand a ransom. The airline executives call in The A Team. They somehow managed to get hold of them very fast.
Before you know it, Hannibal and Face pretend to be Beller executives and swap themselves for two hostages. Meanwhile Murdock and BA smuggle themselves inside the plane. Murdock is declared sane by his doctor in this episode and relesed from the hospital.
The hijackers plan to parachute out of the plane before ditching it into the sea.
In a sense this was halfway there to be a Die Hard type episode. The main villain is played by Andrew Robinson, memorable as the psycho in Dirty Harry. Xander Berkeley has an early role as an henchman.
It is also a very silly episode as you can sense the producers wanted to shake the formula up a bit. The hijackers ask for permission to take off. When it is refused they then threaten to shoot the passengers. Beller airlines appear to be a two men and a dog operation. To top it all, footage is used from Airplane the Movie.
Hannibal's disguise is so bad. The hijackers actually figure out he is not one of the Beller executives.
On the plane he is temporary blinded by powder burns from a gunshot. So someone else has to attempt to land the plane but the Beller executives plan to crash the plane into the sea!
Even then this is an enjoyably daft episode.
The United People's Resistance, a terrorist group has hijacked a plane and demand a ransom. The airline executives call in The A Team. They somehow managed to get hold of them very fast.
Before you know it, Hannibal and Face pretend to be Beller executives and swap themselves for two hostages. Meanwhile Murdock and BA smuggle themselves inside the plane. Murdock is declared sane by his doctor in this episode and relesed from the hospital.
The hijackers plan to parachute out of the plane before ditching it into the sea.
In a sense this was halfway there to be a Die Hard type episode. The main villain is played by Andrew Robinson, memorable as the psycho in Dirty Harry. Xander Berkeley has an early role as an henchman.
It is also a very silly episode as you can sense the producers wanted to shake the formula up a bit. The hijackers ask for permission to take off. When it is refused they then threaten to shoot the passengers. Beller airlines appear to be a two men and a dog operation. To top it all, footage is used from Airplane the Movie.
Hannibal's disguise is so bad. The hijackers actually figure out he is not one of the Beller executives.
On the plane he is temporary blinded by powder burns from a gunshot. So someone else has to attempt to land the plane but the Beller executives plan to crash the plane into the sea!
Even then this is an enjoyably daft episode.
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