Bullet Points: Ruckus (1980)
I will always remember 2024 as the year that I experienced some 80’s action gems for the first time. Watching 1980’s Defiance and 1985’s Naked Vengeance for the first time earlier this year really made me...
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Essential Episodes: The A-Team
The A-Team are helping me put the “A” in Actionversary! It’s been a decade that this site has delivered discussions, reviews, podcasts, and all sorts of coverage of action-oriented cinema and television, and I’m happy to...
The Checklist: The A-Team (S1 Ep6) “Black Day at Bad Rock”
The standard operating procedure for The Checklist is for me to select a television series that I want to cover and then with the help of Alexa, randomly select an episode from that series’ run to...
Bulletproof Podcast: Episode 85 – The A-Team
Ahead of its 40th Anniversary, The Bulletproof Podcast takes a look back at the series premiere of the classic action/adventure series, The A-Team! Join your hosts Chris the Brain and Chad Cruise along with special guest,...
The Checklist: The A-Team (S4 Eps 1 & 2) “Judgement Day”
Season 4 of The A-Team kicked off with a special two-hour season premiere that aired on September 24, 1985. The episode titled “Judgement Day” had The A-Team on a “globetrotting” adventure (courtesy of stock footage and...
No Surrender Cinema: Body Slam
This edition of No Surrender Cinema comes at you courtesy of some good ol’ fashioned family viewing. Thanks to the good folks over at Kino Lorber, Body Slam is now on Blu-Ray, and yours truly made sure to...
The Checklist: The A-Team (S1 Ep4) “Pros and Cons”
The A-Team is the television equivalent of comfort food for me. Going back and watching this series instantly takes me back to simpler, stress free times. Except when I watch The A-Team now, I can’t help...
The Checklist: The A-Team (S3 Ep6) “Double Heat”
It is Anniversary Month here at Bulletproof Action! As we prepare to celebrate our 6th anniversary later this month, it is a great time to reflect on the past and the evolution of the site. For...
The Checklist: The A-Team (S5 Ep9) “Point of No Return”
If you grew up in the 1980’s chances are high that The A-Team holds a special place in your heart. But even the most devoted fans of The A-Team started tuning out in the final season....
The Checklist: The A-Team (S4 Ep11) “The Doctor Is Out”
If there was such a thing as the Bulletproof Action Network on television, it would probably look a lot like Robert Rodriguez’s El Rey Network. There are times I will turn on El Rey and wonder...
