The WORST episodes of Touched by an Angel
Every episode of Touched by an Angel ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Touched by an Angel!
Tess and Monica are two angels sent to earth to help people with their problems. Helping them are Andrew and the new angel, Gloria.
#1 - Saving Grace (1)
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1998
After Russell Greene’s brother Joe caused the death of a father and son, the widow started to drink, neglect her living son, and send threatening letters to Joe. Joe leaves town to work on an oil rig. Part 2 of the cross-over concludes on Promised Land S03E01.
#2 - The Road Home (aka Joe's Return - 2 part episode)
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1997
Joe Greene returns to his brother Russell’s home where his son is living. On the drive, he causes an accident that kills two people and puts a child in the hospital. He does not tell anyone. Part 2 of the cross-over concludes on Promised Land S02E01.
#3 - Sympathy for the Devil
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/1995
Monica helps a man who seems to have all he needs, and only wants his family to be healthy and happy. But his life is about to be upset with evil. An old friend of Monica’s is there to work with the man, but she is the source of evil.
#4 - Crisis of Faith
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/2/1997
A minister is involved in a car accident and his son dies in the other car. Now he is beginning to doubt God just when the son’s surviving friend, whom he convinced not to steal the church’s teen-center money to run away from her overbearing father, has even more need to talk to him.
#5 - Into the Light
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1996
A man is arrested in a sting operation for bribery, but since he has a heart condition he is sentenced to community service at a hospital. Tess and Monica pose as nurses. The man sees Andrew and knows who he is, but not how to react.
#6 - Bringer of Light
Season 7 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/11/2001
Andrew is a teacher who shows his students the stars and the mighty universe. A teenager believes in God and the universe and wants her mother who is dying of cancer to believe.
#7 - Interview with an Angel
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1995
Tess tells Monica she must answer a newspaper ad looking for an angel. Monica replies and says she is an angel. Callie is someone who doubts. Monica tells Callie about a case she has worked on.
#8 - Quality Time
Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/2/2000
The angels must help a teenager whose family lives on a time-line for every activity. The teen is diagnosed with diabetes and it interrupts her athletic schedule and the parents’ life as they try to open a new restaurant.
#9 - Smokescreen
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/19/1997
Marc is a distinguished lawyer who returns to his old neighborhood. He represents a tobacco company in a class action suit. What Mark does not know is that his mother who worked for the tobacco company has lung cancer.
#10 - Birthmarks
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/11/1996
A man dying of cancer and his wife return to his father’s farm. The couple has a surrogate mother carrying their child. The father says he will not accept the child as his grandson.
#11 - A Feather on the Breath of God
Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/2002
A woman with a young child begins to work at a funeral home to earn money to pay for her own funeral. Unbeknownst to the funeral director, they are father and daughter.
#12 - Angel of Death
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/9/1997
Tess works with new angel Celeste. A magician promotes himself as the angel of death but has a terrible secret from his past that haunts him. Celeste works as the magician’s assistant.
#13 - The Sky Is Falling
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1996
Monica is assigned to help Leonard, who has fears of Halloween. Monica first worked with Leonard in 1938, the day that Orson Welles broadcast his War of the Worlds radio story. Both Monica and Leonard carry dread from that day.
#14 - Bar Mitzvah
Season 6 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/12/2000
An elderly man no longer believes in God. When he finds out his devout son is dying from a brain tumor, he must find his own faith again.
#15 - Manny
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/14/1994
The angels help with a social event for a well-known doctor, his wife, and his mother. A young child shows up at their home, claiming to be the child they agreed to sponsor. The wife welcomes the child, but the doctor and his mother are worried.
#16 - The Bells of St. Peter's
Season 8 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/4/2002
Maggie and Brian are busy doctors. Maggie finds it hard to stop working, while Brian wants time off together. Maggie’s mother Rose wants to go to Rome but cannot go alone due to health. Can she convince Maggie and Brian to go with her?
#17 - The Violin Lesson
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/22/1996
Monica must help a violin-maker finish a violin he started thirty years ago when his son was born. His son has come home to die due to AIDS, and the father must finish the violin as a tribute to his son’s life.
#18 - The Pact
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1997
At a summer camp, four teenage girls are planning to commit suicide because they are HIV-positive and feel they are going to die anyway. They come with attitudes as well. The angels must help them see life is worth living.
#19 - Unidentified Female
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1995
Monica is sent to help a woman who witnesses a man getting shot.
#20 - Last Call
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/30/1997
Monica is told she can use one miracle to help someone at a bar, but as all the patrons seem to need help, she does not know how to decide which person to give it to.
#21 - The One That Got Away
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/6/1996
Friends who have not seen each other since law school get together for a wedding of one of the group. Monica and Tess act as wedding coordinators. Monica is to help a man right a wrong and, with a woman, come to terms with a suicide.
#22 - Anatomy Lesson
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/7/1999
After a little girl falls in an abandoned airshaft, a man dies of a heart attack while running to get help. Monica must help the coroner do an autopsy to discover what he was doing when he died to save the little girl.
#23 - Clipped Wings
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/16/1997
Monica is due for her angel evaluation. She runs into Kathleen, a fallen angel who tricks Monica into another meeting room. Andrew and Tess wait for Monica in the right place. The angels recall previous assignments.
#24 - Forget Me Not
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/12/1997
A librarian’s daughter feels smothered by her mother. The mother tries to do everything for her daughter, not allowing her daughter to make her own decisions and live her own life. Monica must help the mother and daughter.
#25 - Pandora's Box
Season 6 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/21/2000
With a new computer in the house, a young daughter accidentally clicks a link to a porn site. When the father takes control to change the site, he becomes interested in online porn and it starts to affect his home and work life.