The WORST episodes of The A-Team

Every episode of The A-Team ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The A-Team!

The A-Team is about a group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel who 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.

Last Updated: 12/7/2025Network: NBCStatus: Ended
Moving Targets
star
6.26
142 votes

#1 - 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.

Directors: Dennis Donnelly
Writer: Mark Jones
The Sound of Thunder
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6.37
78 votes

#2 - The Sound of Thunder

Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/13/1986

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.

Writer: Frank Lupo
Wheel of Fortune
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6.56
75 votes

#3 - Wheel of Fortune

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/14/1986

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.

Directors: David Hemmings
The A-Team Is Coming, the A-Team Is Coming
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6.65
95 votes

#4 - 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.

Directors: David Hemmings
Showdown!
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6.74
191 votes

#5 - Showdown!

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/1984

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.

Directors: James Fargo
Writer: Milt Rosen
The Doctor Is Out
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6.74
88 votes

#6 - The Doctor Is Out

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/10/1985

The A-Team travels to South America to find Murdock's psychiatrist, accompanied by a woman claiming to be his daughter.

Directors: David Hemmings
Water, Water Everywhere
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6.75
273 votes

#7 - Water, Water Everywhere

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1983

A land developer is trying to run three disabled Vietnam vets off the desert property they're renovating.

Directors: Stanley Ellis
Skins
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6.77
120 votes

#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.

Directors: Dennis Donnelly
Writer: Mark Jones
Champ!
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6.79
150 votes

#9 - Champ!

Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/22/1985

B.A. goes undercover as a boxer in order to put a drug-trafficking ring out of business.

Writer: Stephen Katz
Cup a' Joe
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6.80
137 votes

#10 - Cup a' Joe

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/8/1985

A restaurateur tries to force the owners of a small diner to sell out to him after he arranges for a new freeway off-ramp to be built nearby.

Directors: Craig R. Baxley
A Little Town with an Accent
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6.80
69 votes

#11 - A Little Town with an Accent

Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/6/1986

The A-Team discovers an organized crime kingpin believed to be dead is behind the intimidation of several gas station owners.

Semi-Friendly Persuasion
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6.81
189 votes

#12 - Semi-Friendly Persuasion

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/8/1984

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.

Directors: Craig R. Baxley
Hot Styles
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6.84
161 votes

#13 - 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.

Directors: Tony Mordente
Writer: Stephen Katz
Sheriffs of Rivertown
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6.85
182 votes

#14 - Sheriffs of Rivertown

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/27/1984

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.

Directors: Dennis Donnelly
Writer: Mark Jones
Beneath the Surface
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6.91
96 votes

#15 - Beneath the Surface

Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/4/1986

Face returns to his orphanage for a reunion and meets an old friend's sister, who's worried about her brother's disappearance, and an old girlfriend, who is in cahoots with Fulbright to trap Face for the reward.

Bullets and Bikinis
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6.93
239 votes

#16 - Bullets and Bikinis

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1984

Two girls ask the A-Team to take over their beachfront hotel after an alleged mobster keeps making bigger and bigger buyout offers that they refuse to take.

Directors: Dennis Donnelly
Writer: Mark Jones
The Heart of Rock n' Roll
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6.95
132 votes

#17 - 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.

Directors: Tony Mordente
Writer: Frank Lupo
Alive at Five
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6.95
103 votes

#18 - 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.

Directors: Craig R. Baxley
Writer: Bill Nuss
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Body Slam
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6.97
101 votes

#19 - Body Slam

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1985

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.

Directors: Craig R. Baxley
Writer: Bill Nuss
Quarterback Sneak
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7.00
103 votes

#20 - 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.

Directors: Craig R. Baxley
The Bend in the River (1)
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7.01
231 votes

#21 - The Bend in the River (1)

Season 3 - Episode 2 - 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.

Say It with Bullets
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7.02
235 votes

#22 - Say It with Bullets

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/17/1984

A WAC asks the A-Team to investigate the death of her brother, who was involved in arms trafficking at a military base.

Directors: Dennis Donnelly
When You Comin' Back, Range Rider? (1)
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7.02
252 votes

#23 - When You Comin' Back, Range Rider? (1)

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1983

The A-Team must duck their Army pursuers as they try to stop wild horse rustlers.

Writer: Frank Lupo
The Crystal Skull
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7.02
106 votes

#24 - 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.

Writer: Bill Nuss
The Bells of St. Mary's
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7.02
147 votes

#25 - The Bells of St. Mary's

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/4/1984

Threats from their old record label prompt a singing group who went to school with Face to ask the A-Team for help.

Directors: Dennis Donnelly