80's tv show...really bugging me now

[MargeB]

I'm trying to remember this 80's TV show, there was a big black guy in it, with chains, who hated planes, a guy with a cigar, some other suave guy, some idiot, maybe someone else, and a van, they were wrongly convicted, but always managed to escape using a tracktor and some pipes. Anyone know what it was? Really bugging me now. The X factor, something like that.

[Dakota]

The X Factor??  How silly billy is that!

It was the Dukes of Hazard

[Shipstabber]

Damn, I think I remember that show - what WAS it called?

BTW does anyone remember the '70s programme about a rich oil family? The son had initials for a name he got shot once and there was also a poor family that they rowed with. They lived somewhere in America, possibly Dallas.

[Dakota]

That was called Dynasty Shipstabber!

[hannahjo]

Oh! And did they always manage to convert something like a nasty mean tank into a safe but effective crime fighting machine like a cabbage gun? And they always defeated their enemies (who had machine guns) with this cabbage gun?! Hmmm rings a bell, can�t quite think of it though�

[MargeB]

please, both of you, stop. I'm hurting myself laughing here...

[Loosehead]

It was the B-Squad.

[Cockney_si]

It was the A team.

Best one i saw was when then cut up a van, buried the parts in seperate holes and later dug them all up and put it all back together, started first time!!!

[Loosehead]

And they where terrible shots as no one ever got shot in the entire show.

The baddies always locked them in a branch of B&Q and the big guy would knock up a death star out of the contents of the hardware section and a roll of gaffer tape. The bad guys never learnt.

[kags]

In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the ...........

[andy hughes]

..... Spice Girls!!!!

[Aa01]

was there something about vets in Vietnam?

[MargeB]

Nah, You're thinking of 'If only they could talk'.

[Peri]

Does anyone know the name of the programme thats on a few times a week - all I know is that the street its set in is called Coronation Street. ?  I would be grateful for any answers.

[Aa01]

peri - if the street in the programme is 'Coronation Street' and if it's a soap opera you are thinking of then I can tell you the programme/soap, is called Coronation Street

[MargeB]

Coronation Street meets A-Team. Now THAT I would watch.

"I ain't gettin in no pub fool."

[marcoddy]

ha ha ha ha, wicked question... cockney-si... shame on you for actually answering.

[brachiopod]

Mr 'E'  (him with the large necklaces of sausages round his neck) :-

"Ah wornt be getting in nor dam't plane, Ashley, I say I worn't be getting in nor dam't plane. "

[Peri]

lol i say lol

[Peri]

Or we could have corrie meets dallas and Richard Hillman could re appear in one of Bettys hotpots

[gerry]

Last Of The Summer Wine?