"Mexican Slayride" is the feature-length pilot episode of the action adventure television series The A-Team.

The A-Team, consisting of Col. John "Hannibal" Smith, Lt. Templeton "The Faceman" Peck ("Face"), and Sgt.

Despite Lynch's interference and several chases, Face manages to release the fourth member of the A-Team, Capt.

In Mexico, the team discovers that Amy's reporter friend has been kidnapped by a marijuana cultivator and gang leader named Malavita Valdez.

With the A-Team captured by the Mexican gang leader, they escape when Hannibal knocks out one of the guards, and they attempt to flee by truck but are chased down by the guerrillas.

Luckily for the A-Team, local villagers come to help them, led by Murdock and Face, who had evaded capture previously.

When NBC executives first reviewed the pilot episode of The A-Team, they were not enthused with the character of Murdock, whom they found too over-the-top.