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The Worst Episodes of The A-Team

Every episode of The A-Team ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of The A-Team!

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...
Genres:Action & AdventureComedyCrime
Network:NBC
Episodes
98
Avg. Rating
7.0
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S4
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E3
7.2
6.8
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7.1
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6.9

Worst Episodes Summary

"The Crystal Skull" is the worst rated episode of "The A-Team". It scored 5.8/10 based on 279 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".

  • The Crystal Skull
    5.8/10(279)
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    #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

  • Quarterback Sneak
    6.2/10(305)
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    #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

  • Uncle Buckle-Up
    6.5/10(288)
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    #3 - 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

  • The Grey Team
    6.5/10(283)
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    #4 - 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

  • Semi-Friendly Persuasion
    6.6/10(338)
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    #5 - 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

  • Curtain Call
    6.6/10(353)
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    #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

  • Hot Styles
    6.6/10(324)
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    #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

  • Moving Targets
    6.6/10(301)
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    #8 - 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

  • The Theory of Revolution
    6.6/10(273)
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    #9 - 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

  • Alive at Five
    6.6/10(278)
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    #10 - 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

  • Point of No Return
    6.6/10(266)
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    #11 - 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

  • The Bells of St. Mary's
    6.7/10(312)
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    #12 - 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

  • Skins
    6.7/10(293)
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    #13 - 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

  • Waste 'Em!
    6.7/10(296)
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    #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

  • Trouble Brewing
    6.7/10(285)
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    #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

  • The A-Team is Coming, The A-Team is Coming
    6.7/10(285)
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    #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

  • Dishpan Man
    6.7/10(304)
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    #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

  • Diamonds 'n Dust
    6.8/10(433)
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    #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

  • Labor Pains
    6.8/10(378)
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    #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

  • The White Ballot
    6.8/10(352)
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    #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

  • Pure-Dee Poison
    6.8/10(335)
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    #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

  • The Bend in the River Part 2
    6.8/10(330)
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    #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

  • The Island
    6.8/10(308)
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    #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

  • Road Games
    6.8/10(298)
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    #24 - 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 Heart of Rock n' Roll
    6.8/10(325)
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    #25 - The Heart of Rock n' Roll

    Season 4 Episode 6

    Aired 11/5/1985

    Singer Rick James asks the A-Team to help an old rock-and-roll legend whose life in prison has suddenly become very dangerous.

    Director: Tony Mordente

    Writer: Frank Lupo