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Lieutenant Templeton "Faceman" Peck (played by Dirk
Benedict).
Has the most complicated (and conflicting) bios of all
the Team members. Birth date (according to "Trial by Fire") is supposedly
December 7, 1950. However, this seems highly unlikely so I don't put much
weight in that fact. Social Security #522-70-5444.
He was orphaned when
he was approximately 4 years old. He is mentioned as living at two
different orphanages: Sacred Heart (run by Father Magill, mentioned in early AT
episodes) and Angel's Guardian (mentioned in "Beneath the Surface"). The
AT books mention two other names (St. Mary's and St. Bartholomew's), but I don't
take the novels as cannon and it seems the author probably just made that
up.
Peck may have been transferred from Sacred Heart to Angel's
Guardian when he was in his early teens.
He went to college where he met
Leslie Bektall, who ended up leaving him and leaving school in fact to become a
nun ("The Only Chrch in Town"). That would be in 1968, according to the
fact that he states in the episode it happened 15 years ago. He then
begins his career in the Army. Now, TAT was supposedly part of the Fifth
Special Forces Group. Generally these Special Forces groups are trained at
Fort Bragg and have on average 3 years of military service behind
them...therefore it seems we have many to assume that he either showed
exceptional abilities and advanced much quicker than usual through the system or
he conned his way into Special Forces. We don't know of anything about
exactly when and how he ended up on TAT, although BA points out once that if
Hannibal hadn't put Face into his unit in 'Nam (and thereby under his protective
custody) he'd most likely be in jail already. so we can assume he was
acting as a con man from early in life.
In the 5th season episode "Family Reunion", we also learn that
Face's father was actually a man named "A.J. Bancroft", a man who was a wanted
criminal for being involved in some sort of government conspiracy years
before. His original birthname according to A.J. was "Richard". It
also turned out he had a half-sister named Ellen.
"Hannibal, you want all these things, a taxi-cab, a garbage truck, a
tv-store.
Y' know, I don't keep all this stuff in a coffee can in my
backyard y'know!!"
(The Out Of Towners)
"The Jazz is
kinda like nature's way of sticking your finger in a light socket.
Our problem
is, Hannibal likes it."
(Labor Pains)
"I lie, I cheat, I steal
and I just don't get any respect."
Sheriff: "Come on Colonel, the Bank of
Hanoi ?"
Hannibal: "Yeah, we kinda liked that one
ourselves."
Face: "Could say we had a 'yen' for
some extra money."
(Bad Day at
Black Rock)
Hannibal: "Look, we maybe running out of road on this
one."
Face: "Are you nuts? Cut the John Wayne stuff! We're in real
trouble here. Get creative!"
( The Beast from
the Belly of a Boeing )
"We're probably the only guys
to survive an aeroplane crash...only to be killed minutes later by an irate
passenger."
(Holidays in the Hills)
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