Mister T (TV series)
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Mister T was an animated series that aired on NBC in 1983 starring Mr. T. It was created by Ruby-Spears. Mr. T is a coach to the U.S. gymnastics team who travel the world. Mr. T and his gymnasts get involved in various mysteries and try to solve them.
At the beginning of each episode, a live action segment is shown to explain what is going on. At the end of each episode, Mr. T narrates a moral lesson for the audience to learn.
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[edit] Cast of characters
- Mr. T, the title character
- Ms. Priscilla Bisby, the team's well-mannered driver who loves mystery novels
- Jeff Harris, the wise guy of the team with an ego the size of Brooklyn
- Woody Daniels, an African-American gymnast and Jeff's friendly rival
- Robin O'Neill, a redhead that's eager to jump into any situation
- Kim Nakamura, a Japanese girl that's daughter to a scientist
- Spike, Robin's little brother who hero-worships Mr. T
- Skye Redfern, a Native American gymnast
- Garcia Lopez, a Latin-American gymnast who's big brother Miguel is an archeologist
- Vince D'Amato, an Italian-American who has dreams of being a movie star
- Courtney Howard, an African-American girl gymnast whose father is a major in the military
- Grant Kline, an ex-gang member who turned his life around thanks to Jeff
- Bulldozer (Dozer for short), Mr. T's bulldog with his same mohawk
[edit] List of episodes
| # | Episode title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | "Mystery of the Golden Medallion" | A new member of the gymnastics team tries to fit in. Elsewhere, men in black suits smash gold medals apart as if looking for something valuable inside them. This takes the team searching around San Francisco for answers to their first mystery. |
| 02 | "Mystery of the Forbidden Monastery" | Someone on the team has told the team to meet in New Mexico. While there, they come across a monastery where no one goes. When the team investigates, they start disappearing mysteriously. Is the monastery that forbidden? |
| 03 | "Mystery of the Mind-Thieves" | As the team visits Seattle, Kim's father, Mr. Nakamura, is on urgent business with other scientists. However, a mysterious person using a mind-controlling device steals the minds of the scientists including Mr. Nakamura to obtain certain knowledge. The team plans to find out the mystery and save the scientists and their minds from this evil foe. |
| 04 | "Mystery on the Rocky Mountain Express" | The team travels from Salt Lake City on the Rocky Mountain Express to reach another gymnastics meet in Chicago. However, three hooded criminals steal a top-secret biological virus and smuggled it on board. Also on board is a chimpanzee whose immune to the virus. Can this monkey of a mystery be solved? |
| 05 | "The Hundred-Year-Old Mystery" | Mr. T and the team are in Mississippi planning to turn a rundown plantation called "Magnolia House" into a gymnastics camp, but a gang of street car thugs called the Ghost Riders threatened to eliminate the team. Rumor has it that the original owner of Magnolia House left something behind, but what could it be and can the mystery be solved? |
| 06 | "The Crossword Mystery" | While in Washington, D.C., Ms. Bisby does a crossword puzzle finding a clue to the puzzle. However, once the word was said, Ms. Bisby falls into a hypnotic state. And she's not the only one. Two college professors are also hypnotized. Can the team discover the mastermind of this crossword caper and save Ms. Bisby in time? |
| 07 | "The Ninja Mystery" | The team has a meet in New York City not too far from a movie location. At the same time, a mysterious ninja is robbing stores nearby and is looking for something in particular. Can Mr. T and the team unravel the mystery before the ninja makes a clean getaway? |
| 08 | "Dilemma of the Double-Edged Dagger" | Mr. T was placed under arrest while the team was in Mexico City where strange thefts from a museum happened. With Mr. T in jail, the team try to help by finding the real criminals and uncover an ancient pyramid. Once inside, the team discovers 4 Aztec warriors standing in their way. Can this mystery in Mexico be solved before it's too late? |
| 09 | "Secret of the Spectral Sister" | Mr. T and the team visit Robin and Spike's parents in Chicago. Robin receives a phone call allegedly from her long-lost sister, Cathy, who had died in a plane crash 5 years before. At the same time, two burglars were looking around in Cathy's old room for something that Cathy worked on before her death. Can the team find out more about Cathy and solve this mystery? |
| 10 | "Mystery of the Silver Swan" | Bisby's late-night run-in with a classic car called the "Silver Swan" prompts the team staying at Lake Tahoe to investigate. Unknowingly, a local car dealer, museum staff and the car maker's original owner are part of an illegal automobile ring planning to sell duplicate copies of the Silver Swan. Robin tries to do everything for the team so she can get credit for this caper, but will her selfish act cost the team a victory? Only Mr. T knows for sure if this car caper will be put to rest. |
| 11 | "Case of the Casino Caper" | "Whatever happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" unless Mr. T and the team get involved in a high-stakes operation. Career criminals Hampton and Selby posing as soldiers plan on stealing the Million Dollar Jackpot at the Golden Horseshoe. Courtney tries to go solo to stop the thieves, but her actions might cost the team plenty. It's all or nothing for Mr. T to stop a Sherman tank from making a clean getaway. |
| 12 | "Fade Out at 50,000 Feet" | The team takes a rest in Miami and sees an air show starring Jeff's cousin "The Great Marco". During his air show stunt, he turns up missing causing Jeff to worry. Meanwhile, Woody has fallen for a woman named Vanetta Price whose involved in something Woody doesn't want to know. His jealousy almost got him and the team in hot water as they make their way into the Everglades to try and solve this swamp of a mystery. |
| 13 | "Riddle of the Runaway Wheels" | The team heads into Monterey Bay to see an auto stunt show done by the Turbo Team in order to impress a Hollywood director to use their cars for his movie. However, a woman and two men are after something and plan on using the Turbo Team's prize automobile, the UltraCar to take it. Mr. T's wheels are spinning to solve this mystery before this caper speeds out of control. |
| 14 | "Mystery in Paradise" | A disappointing loss at the meet doesn't stop the team from having a good time in Hawaii. Courtney's fear of water would have to be tested when she and the rest of the team encounter modern-day pirates stealing valuable jewels. Mr. T hopes to turn this trouble in paradise into a final luau for the pirates and still have time to enjoy Hawaii with the team. |
| 15 | "Mystery of the Black Box" | The team are in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada for a little skiing before their big meet when they catch a supersonic jet crashing down. Mr. T recovers a black box from the wreckage before it exploded. However, he and the team are now being chased by a group of spies called Snow Raiders who are desperate to get that black box from the team at any cost. It'll take nerves of steel to solve this mystery in the Great White North. |
| 16 | "Mystery of the Panthermen" | On Manzanita Island in the San Francisco Bay, people are being abducted by a group called the Panthermen who handle a giant panther. Mr. T and the team plan on investigating to uncover clues to the disappearances, while Jeff meets with a businessman who plans on turning the island into a tourist attraction. But can this transaction lead to the Panthermen's motives for mass kidnappings? That's what Mr. T is here for, to scratch the surface of this big cat caper. |
| 17 | "Mystery of the Ghost Fleet" | The team is in Baltimore for a meet and Kim puts herself on a crash diet. Suddenly, Mr. T spotted a lifejacket belonging to a ship called the Argo which the locals say doesn't exist. Mr. T sets out to investigate where the Argo sank, but as they reach it, the ship blows up. Something's very fishy about this mystery and Mr. T is hoping to catch a bite to solve it. |
| 18 | "Mystery of the Ancient Ancestor" | The team is in Arizona near a town called Busted Springs owned by the corrupt Rundle family who harbors a bitter grudge against Skye's ancestors. To get to the bottom of this Wild West mystery, Mr. T, the team and Bisby's nephew "Showbiz" Ronny, they plan to help Skye and find out the truth behind the Redfern/Rundle ruckus 75 years ago. |
| 19 | "Magical Mardi Gras Mystery" | Mr. T and the team has some time to celebrate Mardi Gras while in New Orleans before the big meet. Ross Howard, Courtney's uncle, was once a con man and now goes under Cadabra the Great performing magic acts. However, when a jazz singer's diamond jewelry disappears during a magic act, everyone suspects Uncle Ross reverted back to his wicked ways. Someone is framing Cadabra the Great for these crimes and that's what Mr. T needs to find out to close the curtain on this boggle in the bayou. |
| 20 | "Mystery of the Disappearing Oasis" | Although Mr. T hates flying, he takes his team to Cairo, Egypt to meet Joanna Bakara, Kim's pen pal. Joanna's father is an Egyptologist trying to piece the mystery of the Pyramid of Amenhotep while his greedy comrade Dr. Fasiri and his henchmen kidnap Joanna and her father to get the ruby Joanna wears. Jeff knows why the ruby was important to unlock the mystery and sets off on his own, but will his hero attitude make him and the team disappear in the sands of the desert? |
| 21 | "Fortune Cookie Caper" | In the heart of New York City's Chinatown, Mr. T and the team stumbles onto a mysterious string of arsons involving rare goods, including rare books from Jeff's parents' bookstore. The team finds out that Mr. Fong, the owner of a Chinese restaurant, is using fortune cookies with codes and a hired arsonist called the Phantom Firebug as cover to smuggle every rare item out of the country. Can Mr. T put an end to this mystery of the Orient? |
| 22 | "U.F.O. Mystery" | Woody's stubbornness about his eyesight might have cost him a win at the meet in Rapid City, and it continued to get him into more trouble. He was on his way to see Professor Andrews to see his latest inventions including Mr. T II, a robot version of Mr. T, but the professor was kidnapped. Suddenly, Woody spots a U.F.O. flying overhead. Suddenly, Mr. T and the rest of the team are caught up in an out-of-this-world mystery and an alleged abduction. Can Mr. T crack this cosmic caper wide open? |
| 23 | "Mystery of the Stranger" | "Never ever go with strangers!" That's the lesson Spike had to learn the hard way. While the team was in Hollywood performing as stunt doubles, Spike was kidnapped by a couple and was put in the back of their van where two other children were also kidnapped. The couple plan on using them for ransom to go to the islands. They never figured on crossing Mr. T, and when you cross T, you got trouble with a capital T. |
| 24 | "Cape Cod Mystery" | At the Cape Cod meet, Robin scores a perfect 10, but Spike's accidental picture of what looked like a sea monster overshadows her achievement, causing Robin to be jealous of Spike. For retribution, Robin hopes to take a clearer picture of the monster, but finds herself being captured by oil smugglers planning to steal oil from the Nantucket inlet. Mr. T, Spike, and the rest of the team must find Robin and get to the bottom of this deep sea mystery. |
| 25 | "The Williamsburg Mystery" | The team are in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia to help restoring an old house. Spike ignoring his reading problem lands him in a mess of trouble when two crooks posing as Colonial soliders raids a Colonial home for directions to a secret cave where a valuable diary is buried. Luckily, Spike makes it out OK, but he has to put his pride in check, while Mr. T and the team get to the bottom of this colossal Colonial caper. |
| 26 | "Mission of Mercy" | After a successful charity meet, Mr. T takes the team to the city of Samana to receive a cargo ship full of food, water and surplus aid to the village. Unfortunately, a crooked businessman named Saber hires mercenaries to hijack the ship and plan on selling the goods on the black market. Mr. T must now lead his team to find Saber and put him and his gang behind bars, and at the same time to teach the team about how situations in other countries are much different then where they live and rely on surviving in the desert. |
| 27 | "Mystery of the Open Crates" | Heading back to Chicago, Mr. T visits an old friend named Jimmy Stone who is opening a youth center. At the same time, Courtney visits the gym to hopefully train with gold medallist Sally Owen, which Courtney finds out is more interested in herself than others. Sally's actions would later get her barred for life, but the real big issue is a shady drug dealer named Speedy and his henchmen who plan on framing Jimmy in which to use the youth center for his drug operations. Jimmy helped T get out of a gang during his youth and it's up to T to help him stop Speedy before everything comes tumbling down. |
| 28 | "The Playtown Mystery" | Just because someone's young, it doesn't make them worthless. Jeff and Woody know that for a fact now. Back then, while the team was having a free tour of the Play Town amusement park, Spike saw two of its mascots, Marvin Mouse and Dingy Dog, acting suspicious and no one wanted to believe him. In truth, they were career criminals dressed as mascots in order to retrieve gold bars from an active gold refinery in Play Town's Frontier Town section. Can Mr. T shut the doors on this mystery, help Spike, and go for the gold? |
| 29 | "The Comeback Mystery" | Heading back to New York City, the team does charity work and a new member of the team named Grant Kline has just signed up. Grant done athletic programs at the same high school as Jeff, but he has a falling out with his old friends, a group of bullies called the Chain Gang and their leader, Blade. They had Grant keep quiet about their activities or they would tell the police about his previous mistake of helping the Chain Gang steal a car. Mr. T hopes to help Grant erase his past and correct his mistakes in order to break the links to the Chain Gang.
TRIVIA: Although it's instrumental, you can hear a snipet of DeBarge's song Rhythm of the Night. |
| 30 | "The Cape Kennedy Caper" | The series ends with an out-of-this-world caper from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida's Cape Canaveral. Robin brought her camera to take pictures for her school which Woody tries to take without permission. Suddenly, Robin sees two spies trying to take a photo from inside the shuttle. The spies have been hired by terrorists to blow up the shuttle as soon as it reaches orbit. Unfortunately for Robin, she got captured, and it's up to Mr. T and the team to stop the launch, save Robin and bring the spies to justice in this mystery of a final frontier. |
[edit] Quotes
- Mr. T: "Take it from me, Mr. T." "I pity the fool!"
- Ms. Bisby: "Oh my stars and garters!"
- Robin: "What the hairy heck?"
- Jeff: "My eagle eyes even amaze me!"
[edit] Trivia
- Almost every episode has the word Mystery in its title.
- Mr. T's fear of flying is similar to that of his A-Team character, B.A. Baracus.
- It inspired a parody on Saturday Night Live's TV Funhouse sketch, where Mr. T aggressively attempts to find work.
- On April 1, 2006, as part of an evening of April Fool's Day programming pranks, the Adult Swim programming block of Cartoon Network aired the pilot episode of Mr. T in place of a scheduled rerun of the anime series Cowboy Bebop while Cartoon Network's sister station Boomerang had Mr. T compete against some of the channel's animated stars.
- On May 20, 2006, after the April Fool's prank sparked hype from nostalgic fans, Mr. T returns to the airwaves every morning (except Saturday morning) at 5:30 a.m. on Adult Swim. Sunday morning has Mr. T following Chuck Norris' Karate Kommandos.
