Editing The A-Team (section)

===International===
''The A-Team'' has been broadcast worldwide and international response has been varied. In 1984, main cast members George Peppard, Mr. T, Dirk Benedict, and Dwight Schultz were invited to the Netherlands. Peppard was the first to receive the invitation and thus thought the invitation applied only to him. When the other cast members were also invited, Peppard declined.<ref>As told by Dirk Benedict in ''[[Jensen!]]'', a Dutch talk show, broadcast on May 11, 2007.</ref> The immense turn-out for the stars was unforeseen, and they were forced to leave early as a security measure. A video was released in which Schultz apologised and thanked everyone who had attended.<ref>Repeated showing on ''Jensen!'', a Dutch talk show, broadcast on May 11, 2007.</ref>

Although ratings soared during its early seasons, many US television critics described the show largely as cartoonish and thereby wrote the series off. Most reviews focused on acting and the formulaic nature of the episodes, most prominently the absence of actual killing in a show about Vietnam War veterans.

The show was a huge hit in Italy in the mid-1980s to the 1990s. In Indonesia, ''The A-Team'' also gained success as a big hit since the television network [[RCTI]] aired the show in December 1989 until 1994.

{{blockquote|They are all Vietnam veterans. The gradual assimilation of Vietnam into acceptable popular mythology, which began solemnly with ''[[The Deer Hunter]]'', has reached its culmination with ''The A-Team'': No longer a memory to be hurriedly brushed aside, but heroes of a network adventure show. Their enemy is a comic army officer, Col. Lynch, see ''[[Sgt. Bilko (film)|Sgt. Bilko]]'', see ''[[Beetle Bailey]]'', see ''[[M*A*S*H (TV series)|M*A*S*H]]'', whose pursuit of our heroes is doomed to slapstick failure. This is classic right-wing American populism; patriotic, macho, anti-authority, and is unlikely to be understood in Britain, where to be right-wing implies an obsequiousness towards officers and the status quo. But right-wing this series certainly is. The bandits, it turns out, are in league with a group of sinister guerrillas who are trying to destabilise the country. Thanks to the A-Team's hearts and minds policy, the villagers rise up and put them to rout, in a 20-minute series of comic-book battle scenes, over-turning cars and airplane stunt-tricks, in which not a single person is hurt.|source=Mary Harron, ''New Statesman''<ref name="HDTDT">{{cite web|first=Mary |last=Harron |url=http://www.oocities.org/tim_dunigan/art1.html <!--This cite was missing the url, so this url I added may not be the one actually used.--> |title=volume 106, p. 133 |work=[[New Statesman]] |date= July 29, 1983 |access-date=November 25, 2011}}</ref>}}