The A-Team: Pure-Dee Poison


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Pure-Dee Poison
Season 2, Episode 17

An old friend of Face's hires the gang to break up a moonshine operation. George Peppard and Dirk Benedict star


General Movie/Drama

Cast & Crew

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Mr T (Actor) .. BA Baracus
George Peppard (Actor) .. Hannibal Smith
Dirk Benedict (Actor) .. Face
Dwight Schultz (Actor) .. Howling Mad Murdock
Marla Heasley (Actor) .. Tawnia Baker
Bo Hopkins (Actor) .. Charles Drew
John Amos (Actor) .. Father
Tony O'Neill (Actor) .. Frank
Steve Sander (Actor) .. Burt
Tracy Reed (Actor) .. Stephanie
Chris Bunch (Writer)
Alan Cole (Writer)

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Did You Know..

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Mr T (Actor) .. BA Baracus
George Peppard (Actor) .. Hannibal Smith
Dirk Benedict (Actor) .. Face
Born: March 01, 1945 in Helena, Montana
Best Known For: Playing ladies' man "Face" in The A-Team.
Early-life: Born Dirk Niewoehner on March 1, 1945, in Helena, Montana. Benedict initially tried out for a school play following a dare by a friend. He later won the lead role of Gaylord Ravenal in Show Boat. The next three years were filled with many more musical productions. Upon graduation, Benedict began a two-year training programme under John Fernald, who had headed the Rada in London for 15 years. He then played repertory theatre in Seattle and in Ann Arbor, Michigan. An agent sent him to an audition which resulted in a co-starring role with Diana Rigg and Keith Michell in Abelard and Heloise, first on Broadway, then in Los Angeles.
Career: After further stage work, he appeared as a guest lead on Hawaii Five-O. The producers of a psycho-thriller called Sssssss saw his performance and promptly cast him as the lead in that movie. He next played the psychotic wife-beating husband of Twiggy in her American film debut, W. His career break came in 1978 when he appeared as Lieutenant Starbuck in the movie and TV series Battlestar Galactica. Four years later, Benedict gained further popularity in what is arguably his most famous role, as conman Lieutenant Templeton "Face" Peck in 1980s action series The A-Team. He played this high-profile role from 1982 to 1986. In 1987, Benedict took the title role of Shakespeare's Hamlet at the Abbey Theatre. Both his performance and the entire play were panned by critics. Since then he has worked sparingly, but won new fans with his appearance on Celebrity Big Brother on Channel 4 in 2007. He played King Rat in Dick Whittington in 2010 at the Milton Keynes Theatre and appeared in Peter Falk's iconic role as Lieutenant Columbo in that year's stage tour of Prescription Murder.
Quote: On the A-Team: "I enjoyed it immensely. By nature I'm terribly serious, so as an actor I tend to want to be silly. It was a comedic show, almost like a cartoon. We just had to hang on to enough reality to make it possible for adults to watch it. The actors I worked with, especially Mr T and Dwight Schultz, were very funny people. It was pretty much four years of laughter."
Trivia: He survived prostate cancer in the 1970s.
Dwight Schultz (Actor) .. Howling Mad Murdock
Marla Heasley (Actor) .. Tawnia Baker
Bo Hopkins (Actor) .. Charles Drew
John Amos (Actor) .. Father
Tony O'Neill (Actor) .. Frank
Steve Sander (Actor) .. Burt
Tracy Reed (Actor) .. Stephanie
Chris Bunch (Writer)
Alan Cole (Writer)
Dennis Donnelly (Director)

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