[edit] Introduction

This is a het ship in A-Team fandom pairing H.M. Murdock with Kelly Stevens. It is notable and popular with fans, as actors Dwight Schultz and Wendy Fulton are married in real life.

[edit] The Subtext and Maintext

In the episode Bounty, Murdock is captured by bounty hunters who want to use him as a way to capture The A-Team. He escapes from them and finds refuge with a veterinary doctor named Kelly Stevens. During their brief time together before the team finds Murdock and takes out the bad guys, they develop a clear affection for each other--although he does not tell her exactly who his friends are, nor that he resides in a mental hospital in Los Angeles.

At the end of the episode, Kelly travels to L.A. and finds Murdock, and the door is left open for a relationship to develop between them although it was never further mentioned or explored on the series. Many fans would write stories continuing their relationship from the point it left off with in canon, and for many writers of het Murdock fiction, this is their OTP.

[edit] Timeline

Below is a partial timeline of events that took place in this ship community.