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The Worst Episodes of The A-Team

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A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit."

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    The A-Team Season 5 Episode 10 - The Crystal Skull
    5.8/10(4 votes)

    #1 - The Crystal Skull

    S5:E10

    The A-Team's effort to secure a valuable religious artifact involves them with warring island tribes who mistake Murdoch for a God and some unusual missionaries.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Bill Nuss

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  2. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 8 - Holiday in the Hills
    6.3/10(7 votes)

    #2 - Holiday in the Hills

    S1:E8

    B.A.'s fear of flying is justified when the A-Team's plane crashes in the backwoods where they must battle mountain men to keep a man from being burned at the stake.

    Director:Arnold Laven
    Writer:Babs Greyhosky

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  3. The A-Team Season 4 Episode 6 - Body Slam
    6.3/10(6 votes)

    #3 - Body Slam

    S4:E6

    Hulk Hogan asks his old friend B.A. for the A-Team's help against a mobster who is out to close down a youth center for no apparent reason.

    Director:Craig R. Baxley
    Writer:Bill Nuss

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  4. The A-Team Season 5 Episode 4 - Quarterback Sneak
    6.4/10(5 votes)

    #4 - Quarterback Sneak

    S5:E4

    The A-Team uses a football game as a cover to sneak a chemical warfare scientist out of East Germany.

    Director:Craig R. Baxley
    Writer:Paul Bernbaum

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  5. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 1 - Diamonds 'n Dust
    6.5/10(6 votes)

    #5 - Diamonds 'n Dust

    S2:E1

    The A-Team agrees to transport explosives to a Zimbabwe diamond mine after the owner dies trying to do it himself.

    Director:Ron Satlof
    Writer:Patrick Hasburgh

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  6. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 14 - The Battle of Bel Air
    6.5/10(4 votes)

    #6 - The Battle of Bel Air

    S2:E14

    The A-Team must rescue an employee of a security firm after she warns them about an ambush.

    Director:Gilbert M. Shilton
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  7. The A-Team Season 5 Episode 11 - The Spy Who Mugged Me
    6.5/10(4 votes)

    #7 - The Spy Who Mugged Me

    S5:E11

    Murdock poses as suave secret agent to catch a killer before he can complete another assignment.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Paul Bernbaum

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  8. The A-Team Season 4 Episode 2 - Where Is the Monster When You Need Him?
    6.6/10(5 votes)

    #8 - Where Is the Monster When You Need Him?

    S4:E2

    The A-Team must make do with movie prop guns against the real things when they are attacked while helping Hannibal and a friend film a low-budget movie in Mexico.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Stephen J. Cannell

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  9. The A-Team Season 4 Episode 19 - Mission of Peace
    6.6/10(5 votes)

    #9 - Mission of Peace

    S4:E19

    Senior citizens hire the A-Team to protect their historic Texas mission home and tourist attraction from land developers.

    Director:Craig R. Baxley
    Writer:Steven L. Sears

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  10. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 3 - Pros and Cons
    6.7/10(7 votes)

    #10 - Pros and Cons

    S1:E3

    B.A.'s friend is held in a prison where the warden holds fight-to-the-death-boxing matches whose winner receives short-lived freedom.

    Director:Ron Satlof
    Writer:Stephen J. Cannell

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  11. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 9 - West Coast Turnaround
    6.7/10(6 votes)

    #11 - West Coast Turnaround

    S1:E9

    The A-Team delivers produce to the market for a farmer who is slowly being driven out of business by a land-hungry rancher.

    Director:Guy Magar
    Writers:Patrick Hasburgh, Stephen J. Cannell

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  12. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 21 - Semi-Friendly Persuasion
    6.7/10(3 votes)

    #12 - Semi-Friendly Persuasion

    S2:E21

    The A-Team faces an especially challenging mission when their pacifist clients forbid the use of violence against bigots trying to run their community off its land.

    Director:Craig R. Baxley
    Writer:Danny Lee Cole

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  13. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 13 - In Plane Sight
    6.8/10(5 votes)

    #13 - In Plane Sight

    S2:E13

    The A-Team employs a new method to prepare B.A. for a flight to South America, where drug smugglers are holding an innocent pilot prisoner.

    Director:Tony Mordente
    Writer:Babs Greyhosky

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  14. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 16 - Pure-Dee Poison
    6.8/10(5 votes)

    #14 - Pure-Dee Poison

    S2:E16

    The A-Team helps a southern minister stop the manufacture of lethal moonshine.

    Director:Dennis Donnelly
    Writer:Chris Bunch

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  15. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 22 - Curtain Call
    6.8/10(5 votes)

    #15 - Curtain Call

    S2:E22

    The A-Team reminisces (via flashbacks) about an injured Murdock as they look for a doctor and try to avoid a pursuing Decker.

    Director:Dennis Donnelly
    Writer:Stephen Katz

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  16. The A-Team Season 3 Episode 2 - The Bend in the River
    6.8/10(4 votes)

    #16 - The Bend in the River

    S3:E2

    Tawnia asks the A-Team to find her fiancé, an archaeologist last seen on an Amazon expedition that was attacked by a pirate.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writers:Stephen J. Cannell, Frank Lupo

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  17. The A-Team Season 5 Episode 2 - Trial by Fire
    6.8/10(6 votes)

    #17 - Trial by Fire

    S5:E2

    The A-Team's court martial begins and a surprising motive for the death of Colonel Morrison is revealed.

    Directors:Sidney Hayers, Les Sheldon
    Writer:Tom Blomquist

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  18. The A-Team Season 5 Episode 12 - The Grey Team
    6.8/10(5 votes)

    #18 - The Grey Team

    S5:E12

    The A-Team must bring a girl in who has stolen a briefcase from her father, filled with material she believes he's selling to the Soviets.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Tom Blomquist

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  19. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 2 - Children of Jamestown
    7.0/10(10 votes)

    #19 - Children of Jamestown

    S1:E2

    After the A-Team rescues a girl from a crazed cult leader, they are captured by the man's followers and made the quarry of a death hunt.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Stephen J. Cannell

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  20. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 6 - The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas
    7.0/10(7 votes)

    #20 - The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas

    S1:E6

    The A-Team gets involved in a mob power play when two girls ask them to find their college professor who went to Las Vegas with a perfect gambling system and never came back.

    Director:Bruce Kessler
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  21. The A-Team Season 1 Episode 11 - Till Death Do Us Part
    7.0/10(6 votes)

    #21 - Till Death Do Us Part

    S1:E11

    The A-Team has to rescue a reluctant bride being forced to marry her late father's business partner.

    Director:Guy Magar
    Writers:Babs Greyhosky, Frank Lupo

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  22. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 7 - Labor Pains
    7.0/10(5 votes)

    #22 - Labor Pains

    S2:E7

    The A-Team helps migrant workers to organize against a landowner that is forcing them to live and work under slave-labor conditions.

    Director:Arnold Laven
    Writer:Richard Christian Matheson

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  23. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 10 - Steel
    7.0/10(6 votes)

    #23 - Steel

    S2:E10

    The A-Team looks into sabotage at a construction site.

    Director:Gilbert M. Shilton
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  24. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 11 - The White Ballot
    7.0/10(7 votes)

    #24 - The White Ballot

    S2:E11

    Face replaces a candidate who was killed while running for sheriff against a corrupt incumbent, and ends up getting the military after the whole A-Team when his photo is published in the newspaper.

    Director:Dennis Donnelly
    Writer:Jeff Ray

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  25. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 12 - The Maltese Cow
    7.0/10(6 votes)

    #25 - The Maltese Cow

    S2:E12

    Old friends who own a restaurant sponsored by the A-Team face an extortion threat from a Chinese tong.

    Director:Dennis Donnelly
    Writers:Richard Christian Matheson, Tom Szollosi

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Crystal Skull" is the worst rated episode of "The A-Team". It scored 5.8/10 based on 4 votes. Directed by Michael O'Herlihy and written by Bill Nuss, it aired on 11/28/1986. This episode scored 0.5 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Holiday in the Hills".