5.8/10269 votesLoading...#1 - The Crystal Skull
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1986
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
6.2/10295 votesLoading...#2 - Quarterback Sneak
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1986
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
6.5/10330 votesLoading...#3 - Semi-Friendly Persuasion
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 3/8/1984
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
6.5/10276 votesLoading...#4 - Uncle Buckle-Up
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/17/1985
The A-Team discovers a kiddie show is a front for a heroin ring when Hannibal auditions for a part.
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Writer: Danny Lee Cole
6.5/10271 votesLoading...#5 - The Grey Team
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/30/1986
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
- 6.6/10342 votesLoading...
#6 - Curtain Call
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 3/15/1984
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
6.6/10317 votesLoading...#7 - Hot Styles
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/11/1984
Face's latest girl friend is rather ungrateful after the A-Team rescues her from mobsters.
Director: Tony Mordente
Writer: Stephen Katz
6.6/10286 votesLoading...#8 - Skins
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/29/1985
The A-Team travels to Kenya to deal with game poachers who have included a game warden among their kills.
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Writer: Mark Jones
6.6/10293 votesLoading...#9 - Moving Targets
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/12/1985
A Middle Eastern potentate hires the A-Team to protect his about-to-be-married daughter despite her ideas to the contrary.
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Writer: Mark Jones
6.6/10266 votesLoading...#10 - The Theory of Revolution
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1986
The outbreak of a revolution interferes with the planned rescue of three Americans from a Third World Country.
Director: Sidney Hayers
Writer: Steven L. Sears, Burt Pearl
6.6/10271 votesLoading...#11 - Alive at Five
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1986
Face plans to leave the A-Team but gets involved in the rescue of a newswoman from a paranoid mob chief.
Director: Craig R. Baxley
Writer: Bill Nuss
6.6/10257 votesLoading...#12 - Point of No Return
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1986
Stockwell refuses to allow the A-Team to go after Hannibal when he fails to check in while on a solo mission in hostile territory.
Director: Bob Bralver
Writer: Burt Pearl
6.7/10302 votesLoading...#13 - The Bells of St. Mary's
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1984
Threats from their old record label prompt a singing group who went to school with Face to ask the A-Team for help.
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
6.7/10288 votesLoading...#14 - Waste 'Em!
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 3/5/1985
The A-Team discovers a plot to dump toxic waste when they try to protect a man and his blind sister from harassment.
Director: Sidney Hayers
Writer: Mark Jones
6.7/10276 votesLoading...#15 - Trouble Brewing
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 5/7/1985
Two sisters ask the A-Team for help when they are pressured to convert their all-natural soda pop bottling plant into a brewery.
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Writer: Steven L. Sears, Burt Pearl
6.7/10273 votesLoading...#16 - The A-Team is Coming, The A-Team is Coming
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/21/1986
Soviet spys need the A-Teams help in preventing the theft of an American satellite weapon, whose disappearance would disrupt world peace.
Director: David Hemmings
Writer: Steve Beers
6.7/10296 votesLoading...#17 - Dishpan Man
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1986
The A-Team is blackmailed by retired General Stockwell, who kidnaps Hannibal and threatens to have him prosecuted if the A-Team fails to secure the release of hostages held on a plane in Spain.
Director: Tony Mordente
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
6.8/10426 votesLoading...#18 - Diamonds 'n Dust
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1983
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
6.8/10372 votesLoading...#19 - Labor Pains
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1983
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
6.8/10346 votesLoading...#20 - The White Ballot
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/1983
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
6.8/10326 votesLoading...#21 - Pure-Dee Poison
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/31/1984
The A-Team helps a southern minister stop the manufacture of lethal moonshine.
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Writer: Chris Bunch
- 6.8/10321 votesLoading...
#22 - The Bend in the River Part 2
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/1984
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
Writer: Frank Lupo, Stephen J. Cannell
6.8/10303 votesLoading...#23 - The Island
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 10/30/1984
An Army doctor who once saved B.A.'s life calls in his debt by asking the A-Team to help deal with the thugs who have taken over the tropical island where he has set up a medical practice.
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Writer: Mark Jones
6.8/10312 votesLoading...#24 - Sheriffs of Rivertown
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/20/1984
The A-Team travels to South America where they become the law in a town built to house workers of a power plant that has been experiencing a number of fatal accidents.
Director: Dennis Donnelly
Writer: Mark Jones
6.8/10290 votesLoading...#25 - Road Games
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/5/1985
Face infiltrates a gambling ring to clear a man's gambling debts and to save the foster home he runs.
Director: Dennis Donnelly, Nicholas Sgarro
Writer: Mark Jones, Stephen Katz
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...
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Network:NBC
Worst Episodes Summary
"The Crystal Skull" is the worst rated episode of "The A-Team". It scored 5.8/10 based on 269 votes. Directed by Michael O'Herlihy and written by Bill Nuss, it aired on 11/28/1986. This episode scored 0.4 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Quarterback Sneak".