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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!

Worst episode
S5E10 The Crystal Skull
5.8321 votes
Best episode
S2E21 Semi-Friendly Persuasion
7.8462 votes
Top season
Season 1
7.4avg
Binge time
3d 6h
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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(321 votes)

    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 5 Episode 4 - Quarterback Sneak
    6.3/10(353 votes)

    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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  3. The A-Team Season 4 Episode 12 - Wheel of Fortune
    6.5/10(332 votes)

    S4:E12

    Murdock's fortunes rise and fall as he uses Face's system to win big on "Wheel of Fortune" but then is kidnapped during a plot to steal a Soviet gunship.

    Director:David Hemmings
    Writer:Bill Nuss

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  4. The A-Team Season 5 Episode 12 - The Grey Team
    6.6/10(335 votes)

    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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  5. The A-Team Season 5 Episode 5 - The Theory of Revolution
    6.6/10(314 votes)

    S5:E5

    The outbreak of a revolution interferes with the planned rescue of three Americans from a Third World Country.

    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writers:Steven L. Sears, Burt Pearl

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  6. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 22 - Curtain Call
    6.7/10(390 votes)

    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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  7. The A-Team Season 3 Episode 12 - Breakout!
    6.7/10(375 votes)

    S3:E12

    After being taken hostage by bankrobbers B.A. and Murdock are named as accomplices and put in jail until Decker can come and get them.

    Director:Dennis Donnelly
    Writer:Mark Jones

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  8. The A-Team Season 3 Episode 19 - Knights of the Road
    6.7/10(345 votes)

    S3:E19

    The A-Team comes to the aid of an auto mechanic being driven out of business by a ruthless competitor.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writers:Steven L. Sears, Burt Pearl

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  9. The A-Team Season 5 Episode 9 - Point of No Return
    6.7/10(310 votes)

    S5:E9

    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

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  10. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 1 - Diamonds 'n Dust
    6.8/10(496 votes)

    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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  11. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 8 - There's Always a Catch
    6.8/10(436 votes)

    S2:E8

    The A-Team must once again duck Decker as they try to stop an extortionist plaguing a small fishing village.

    Director:Ron Satlof
    Writer:Richard Christian Matheson

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  12. The A-Team Season 3 Episode 11 - Hot Styles
    6.8/10(361 votes)

    S3:E11

    Face's latest girl friend is rather ungrateful after the A-Team rescues her from mobsters.

    Director:Tony Mordente
    Writer:Stephen Katz

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  13. The A-Team Season 5 Episode 1 - Dishpan Man
    6.8/10(353 votes)

    S5:E1

    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

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  14. The A-Team Season 3 Episode 17 - Road Games
    6.8/10(339 votes)

    S3:E17

    Face infiltrates a gambling ring to clear a man's gambling debts and to save the foster home he runs.

    Directors:Dennis Donnelly, Nicholas Sgarro
    Writers:Stephen Katz, Mark Jones

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  15. The A-Team Season 4 Episode 14 - Members Only
    6.8/10(325 votes)

    S4:E14

    Face's chances of getting into an exclusive country club are severely hampered by the A-Team's battles on club property with a crooked bank president.

    Director:Tony Mordente
    Writer:Bill Nuss

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  16. The A-Team Season 5 Episode 7 - Alive at Five
    6.8/10(322 votes)

    S5:E7

    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

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  17. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 12 - The Maltese Cow
    6.9/10(407 votes)

    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:Tom Szollosi, Richard Christian Matheson

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  18. The A-Team Season 2 Episode 17 - It's a Desert Out There
    6.9/10(385 votes)

    S2:E17

    The sophisticated commando tactics used by a gang for robbing busloads of tourists suggests to the A-Team that they're preparing for a bigger score.

    Director:Arnold Laven
    Writer:Bruce Cervi

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  19. The A-Team Season 3 Episode 8 - Showdown!
    6.9/10(366 votes)

    S3:E8

    Col. Lynch stakes out a Wild West show that has been terrorized by a group of A-Team impostors, sure that the real guys won't be able to ignore them.

    Director:James Fargo
    Writer:Milt Rosen

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  20. The A-Team Season 5 Episode 6 - The Say UNCLE Affair
    6.9/10(362 votes)

    S5:E6

    Stockwell is kidnapped by his former partner who has "gone bad" and the A-Team has 18 hours to find him or forever loose any chances of securing a pardon.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Terry D. Nelson

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  21. The A-Team Season 3 Episode 21 - Bounty
    6.9/10(341 votes)

    S3:E21

    Murdock is kidnapped by bounty hunters that hope to use him as bait to capture the rest of the A-Team. When the Team arrives to rescue him, they find he has fallen in love with a veteranarian that's helped save him.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Stephen Katz

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  22. The A-Team Season 3 Episode 24 - Incident at Crystal Lake
    6.9/10(326 votes)

    S3:E24

    The A-Team's planned fishing vacation at a lakeside retreat is ruined when Decker and his men show up.

    Director:Tony Mordente
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  23. The A-Team Season 4 Episode 19 - Mission of Peace
    6.9/10(319 votes)

    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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  24. The A-Team Season 4 Episode 22 - The Sound of Thunder
    6.9/10(305 votes)

    S4:E22

    General Fulbright captures the A-Team then offers to let them prove their innocence by accompanying him to Vietnam and rescuing a POW who could clear their names.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Frank Lupo

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  25. The A-Team Season 4 Episode 20 - The Trouble with Harry
    6.9/10(302 votes)

    S4:E20

    Hulk Hogan comes to visit B.A. but the reunion is interrupted by a cry for help from a troubled youth with an alcoholic father.

    Director:David Hemmings
    Writer:Bill Nuss

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Crystal Skull" is the worst rated episode of The A-Team. It scored 5.8/10 from 321 votes. Directed by Michael O'Herlihy and written by Bill Nuss, it aired on November 28, 1986. This episode scored 0.5 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Quarterback Sneak".

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