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Melinda was forced to leave the show midway through the second season. With an already abbreviated first season, this left us with a paucity of A-Team episodes with her in the cast. More's the pity. Melinda had been disappointed with the reduced prominence of her character in season two. Her role in the first season was already questionable, since it sometimes appeared that the writers were shoehorning her character into the plot. In the second season, it sometimes looked as though she pretty much faded into the background. |
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People magazine article once said, "Recently, the show aired its dirty linen following the firing of former model Melinda Culea, 28, the token woman on the Team. She was dumped after she taped the first 10 shows of the Team's second season and was replaced this month by Maria Heasley, 25. 'Melinda was very unhappy about the size and importance of her role,' says Peppard. 'She came on the set frustrated, angry, a terribly discontented woman.'" Frankly, I don't blame her. |
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The article went on to say, "[Peppard] said she wanted more time on camera and wanted to join in the fight scenes with a few karate chops. T says she wanted more money, Culea reportedly made $15,000 per show at first and later about $20,000 (versus T's $40,000 or so--which, though not as much as the veteran Peppard's salary, still adds up to about $1 million a year)." |
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