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.

Last Updated: 11/2/2024Network: CBSStatus: Ended
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Saving Grace (1)
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3.77
26 votes

#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.

Directors: Victor Lobl
The Road Home (aka Joe's Return - 2 part episode)
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4.13
31 votes

#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.

Sympathy for the Devil
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4.45
56 votes

#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.

Crisis of Faith
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5.42
57 votes

#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.

Directors: Peter H. Hunt
Into the Light
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5.83
41 votes

#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.

Directors: Victor Lobl
star
6.06
36 votes

#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.

Interview with an Angel
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6.22
46 votes

#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.

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6.50
6 votes

#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.

Directors: Peter H. Hunt
Smokescreen
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6.77
13 votes

#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.

Directors: Victor Lobl
A Feather on the Breath of God
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6.97
37 votes

#10 - 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.

Directors: Victor Lobl
The Sky Is Falling
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7.00
12 votes

#11 - 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.

Directors: Victor Lobl
Birthmarks
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7.00
19 votes

#12 - 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.

Directors: Peter H. Hunt
Writer: Ken LaZebnik
Angel of Death
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7.00
38 votes

#13 - 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.

Writer: Rob Loos
star
7.00
8 votes

#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.

Directors: Jeff Kanew
Manny
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7.05
63 votes

#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.

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7.05
37 votes

#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?

The Violin Lesson
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7.08
40 votes

#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.

Directors: Peter H. Hunt
The Pact
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7.11
36 votes

#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.

Directors: Bethany Rooney
Last Call
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7.14
35 votes

#19 - 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.

Directors: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Ken LaZebnik
Anatomy Lesson
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7.16
32 votes

#20 - 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.

Directors: Sandor Stern
Writer: Ken LaZebnik
The One That Got Away
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7.16
50 votes

#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.

Clipped Wings
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7.16
37 votes

#22 - 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.

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7.17
35 votes

#23 - 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.

Amazing Grace (1)
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7.18
38 votes

#24 - Amazing Grace (1)

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/23/1997

Tess revisits the Greenes. She tells them God says Josh needs to go with Tess. Josh has to help Monica see, since she is temporarily blinded. They travel to a city filled with tension. Part 2 of the cross-over continues on Promised Land S01E17.

Directors: Victor Lobl
Have You Seen Me?
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7.19
37 votes

#25 - Have You Seen Me?

Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/16/1997

Hank sees a picture of a missing child on a milk carton and realizes it is his younger brother. Monica helps him find out he was adopted. Tess and Andrew must help the real father and the lawyer who helped place the kidnapped boy.