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MacGyver

Sun, Sep 29, 1985
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Synopsis

He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed with only a knapsack filled with everyday items he picks up along the way, he improvises his way out of every peril the bad guys throw at him. Making a bomb out of chewing gum? Fixing a speeding car's breaks... while he's riding in it? Using soda pop to cook up tear gas? That's all in a day's adventures for MacGyver. He's part Boy Scout, part genius. And all hero.

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Cast

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  • Richard Dean Anderson
    Richard Dean Anderson
    as Angus MacGyver
  • Dana Elcar
    Dana Elcar
    as Pete Thornton
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Episodes

7 seasons · 139 episodes

Ended · 139 aired
Season 1
22 episodes · 22 aired
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  • E1
    Pilot
    Aired · Sun, Sep 29, 1985 · 60m

    A bomb goes off in a classified laboratory, sealing off the lower levels. The explosion traps two valuable scientists and unleashes an acid leak. MacGyver is called in to help the two trapped scientists escape.

  • E2
    The Golden Triangle
    Aired · Sun, Oct 6, 1985 · 60m

    MacGyver is sent to Burma to retrieve a poison-filled canister from a crash site. While there, a drug lord mistakes MacGyver for a narcotics agent, forcing him into a confrontation.

  • E3
    Thief of Budapest
    Aired · Sun, Oct 13, 1985 · 60m

    MacGyver obtains a watch in Budapest that contains top secret information on microfilm. However, a young Gypsy girl steals the watch from MacGyver and he must get it back.

  • E4
    The Gauntlet
    Aired · Mon, Oct 21, 1985 · 60m

    MacGyver is sent to Central America to rescue an American journalist and escape out of the country. The dictator of the country and his army pursue MacGyver, making the escape very difficult.

  • E5
    The Heist
    Aired · Sun, Nov 3, 1985 · 60m

    MacGyver must infiltrate a Caribbean casino and steal back over a hundred pounds of uncut diamonds from the criminal who took them.

  • E6
    Trumbo's World
    Aired · Sun, Nov 10, 1985 · 60m

    Deep in the Amazon jungle, a horde of killer ants is destroying everything in its path. MacGyver helps his entomologist friend and the plantation owner to battle the ants before the plantation is destroyed.

  • E7
    Last Stand
    Aired · Sun, Nov 17, 1985 · 60m

    MacGyver is taken hostage by some armed robbers at an airport. MacGyver uses his ingenuity to try to free himself along with the other hostages while simultaneously trying to stop the criminals.

  • E8
    Hellfire
    Aired · Wed, Nov 27, 1985 · 60m

    MacGyver visits some friends who are are drilling for oil. Their oil well catches fire and burns out of control. MacGyver is the only one who can stop the fire and save his friends' oil strike.

  • E9
    The Prodigal
    Aired · Sun, Dec 8, 1985 · 60m

    MacGyver is assigned to protect a person in the Federal Witness Protection Program. The man he is protecting wants to come out of hiding to visit his dying mother. MacGyver must protect him from the Mob and from the Feds.

  • E10
    Target MacGyver
    Aired · Sun, Dec 22, 1985 · 60m

    After MacGyver completes an overseas mission, he takes a vacation to lie low and bond with his estranged grandfather Harry Jackson. However, an assassin named Axminister finds out where MacGyver is and goes after both men.

  • E11
    Nightmares
    Aired · Wed, Jan 15, 1986 · 60m

    MacGyver is kidnapped by enemy agents to retrieve sensitive information he stole from them. To get him to talk, they inject MacGyver with a hallucinogenic drug that will kill him in six hours, unless an antidote they have is administered.

  • E12
    Deathlock
    Aired · Wed, Jan 22, 1986 · 60m

    An enemy of MacGyver's fills a supposed safe house with several deadly booby traps to exact his revenge on MacGyver.

  • E13
    Flame's End
    Aired · Wed, Jan 29, 1986 · 60m

    A theft of uranium occurs at a nuclear power plant where an ex-girlfriend of MacGyver's works. She enlists his help to catch the thief which endangers hers and MacGyver's lives.

  • E14
    Countdown
    Aired · Wed, Feb 5, 1986 · 60m

    A mysterious person, who calls himself "Viking", has just bombed a cruise ship. He demands six million dollars or another bomb will go off within hours. So MacGyver, with an old friend from Vietnam, Charlie Robinson, is sent to disarm it. But when they get there, they find out there's more then one bomb on the ship.

  • E15
    The Enemy Within
    Aired · Wed, Feb 12, 1986 · 60m

    After a daring escape from East Germany where he gets rescued, and in the process saves a fellow operative with a quick mechanical fix, MacGyver thinks that he deserves some peaceful vacation time. But Pete lures him into baby-sitting a Russian defector who can identify KGB agents.

  • E16
    Every Time She Smiles
    Aired · Wed, Feb 19, 1986 · 60m

    MacGyver is on his way out of Bulgaria with a secret microfilm, when he meets Penny Parker, a beautiful, talkative American, who is on the run from her lover, a man named Stephan Frolov. She stashes some jewels on MacGyver, thus making him a suspect, and now MacGyver and Penny must flee Bulgaria together.

  • E17
    To Be a Man
    Aired · Wed, Mar 5, 1986 · 60m

    In Afghanistan, wounded and hunted by the Soviets, MacGyver is given refuge by an Afghan woman and her son. But they are themselves at the mercy of an Afghan thug, who will kill MacGyver if he finds him at his woman.

  • E18
    Ugly Duckling
    Aired · Wed, Mar 12, 1986 · 60m

    A 15-year-old genius accidentally hacks into a defective missile guidance system and attracts the attention of both the FBI and some black marketeers, who think that she may fix it for them. It's up to MacGyver to save her from being kidnapped by either side.

  • E19
    Slow Death
    Aired · Wed, Apr 2, 1986 · 60m

    MacGyver is somewhere in Asia to retrieve documents for his government. Soon after, a local tribe stops the train. They take all passengers hostage until the men responsible for the death of the tribal leader's son is found among the passengers.

  • E20
    The Escape
    Aired · Wed, Apr 16, 1986 · 60m

    When a mother superior at a religious mission in North Africa asks MacGyver to help a young woman with something, he is glad to help. However, when he finds out the young woman wants him to break her brother out of jail, he may have taken on more than he expected.

  • E21
    A Prisoner of Conscience
    Aired · Wed, Apr 30, 1986 · 60m

    Pete is made to believe that his Russian friend, Alexander Kharsov, is dead. When he realizes he's alive and being held in a mental hospital, he enlists MacGyver's help. Helped by Mariah, Alexander's daughter, they will try to get him out of there before he is killed.

  • E22
    The Assassin
    Aired · Wed, May 7, 1986 · 60m

    Posing as a watchmaker who manufactures bomb timers, MacGyver manages to catch a master killer—Piedra—before he attempts an assassination on a high-profile target. However, Piedra isn't about to be stopped for long.

Season 2
22 episodes · 22 aired
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  • E1
    The Human Factor
    Aired · Mon, Sep 22, 1986 · 60m

    MacGyver and Pete are testing a new security system at the Strategic Research Development Administration. MacGyver successfully bypasses the security and meets Dr. Jill Ludlam, the system's designer. She tries to turn off the security system, but it doesn't realize that it was just a test. MacGyver and Dr. Ludlam are then forced to find a way out, as the security system, named Sandy, tries to destroy the "intruders."

  • E2
    The Eraser
    Aired · Mon, Sep 29, 1986 · 60m

    Mac inadvertently leads a hit man to his target, believing that he's helping a father find his lost son.

  • E3
    Twice Stung
    Aired · Mon, Oct 6, 1986 · 60m

    MacGyver and Pete have a surprise party planned for a colleague, but when the colleague doesn't show up, MacGyver goes looking for him, and finds him on the verge of committing suicide. When questioned why he would do such a thing, Kelly explains that a con artist has swindled him out of his life savings. MacGyver tells Pete about Kelly's situation and the two of them decide that they will get Kelly's money back from the con

  • E4
    The Wish Child
    Aired · Mon, Oct 20, 1986 · 60m

    While MacGyver goes to pick up a Chinese friend's brother from a birthday party, he witnesses something strange: Paul is being called "The Wish Child." It seems that a greedy businessman has wrapped him up in a scam, because he looks exactly like a boy from an old legend that owns the secret of immortality. Now, MacGyver must try to talk him out of this, because Paul is starting to believe he really is The Wish Child!

  • E5
    Final Approach
    Aired · Mon, Oct 27, 1986 · 60m

    MacGyver goes to the mountains to lead four ex-gangster teens on a Phoenix Foundation funded rehabilitation trip. When he gets there, he finds that this task may be a little more complicated then he thought. All of the kids are very rebellious and one of them has a bad grudge against another one. A couple of days later when MacGyver is returning with the kids, their plane crashes in the middle of the wilderness and one of them is injured. Now, MacGyver must fix the plane and help the kids work out their differences so they can save their friend.

  • E6
    Jack of Lies
    Aired · Mon, Nov 3, 1986 · 60m

    MacGyver, returning home one night, walks into his apartment, only to everything he owns missing from his apartment. Initially suspecting a robbery, MacGyver eventually comes to the conclusion that his old friend Jack Dalton is the one responsible for the theft.

  • E7
    The Road Not Taken
    Aired · Mon, Nov 10, 1986 · 60m

    MacGyver and Pete head to Asia to rescue a nun, who is an old friend of Pete's, and the orphaned children she takes care of from aggressive regime troops. While there, MacGyver runs into someone he never expected, his old fiancee, Debra. Now MacGyver must complete his mission, work out his differences with Debra, and escape from the troops, all before the troops find them.

  • E8
    Eagles
    Aired · Mon, Nov 17, 1986 · 60m

    While hang gliding in the west, MacGyver crosses paths with an escaped felon who shot and wounded a rare eagle. Now, with the help of his new friend Susan Cooper and her son Darin, MacGyver must heal the eagle and trap the felon before he kills more eagles.

  • E9
    Silent World
    Aired · Mon, Nov 24, 1986 · 60m

    While helping the Phoenix Foundation test a new missile-guidance system for the government, MacGyver's efforts are hampered by men who are trying to steal it. When the men escape with it, MacGyver turns to his deaf friend, who has been having premonition-type dreams of this happening. Now MacGyver must try and analyze her dreams so that he can find the men who stole the system.

  • E10
    Three for the Road
    Aired · Mon, Dec 15, 1986 · 60m

    A retired actor and his wife stop at a motel on the way to Los Angeles. MacGyver rescues them from a drunkard who nearly makes a mark on their car. MacGyver is supposed to meet a mobster-turned-informant at the motel, but the meeting goes wrong. The mob shows up and kills MacGyver's friend before he can give MacGyver what he promised. Instead the bag lands in the old couple's car, where the old actor finds it and discovers it full of money.

  • E11
    Phoenix Under Siege
    Aired · Mon, Jan 5, 1987 · 60m

    While retrieving tickets for a hockey game at the Phoenix Foundation, MacGyver and his grandpa Harry get caught in the middle of a woman's plot to blow up the building using a bomb that she herself made. They try to escape, but are locked in. Now they must figure another way out before she activates the bomb.

  • E12
    Family Matter
    Aired · Mon, Jan 12, 1987 · 60m

    Pete's ex-wife and son are kidnapped down in Louisiana while on an archaeological trip. The kidnappers demand that Pete comes to Louisiana in exchange for letting his family go. But when he gets there, it soon becomes apparent that they don't plan to let any of them go.

  • E13
    Soft Touch
    Aired · Mon, Jan 19, 1987 · 60m

    MacGyver puts up Penny Parker for a few days while she's looking for a job as a singing telegram. But on her first day, she happens to witness two thugs torturing a man. Unfortunately, she can't find her way back, and when she does, MacGyver thinks this may be the start of something bigger as the victim is a Federal agent.

  • E14
    Birth Day
    Aired · Mon, Feb 2, 1987 · 60m

    MacGyver's fishing trip is cut short when he meets a very pregnant woman whose husband is out to kill her. Accidentally, she found out that his half-way home for ex-cons is really a recruiting place for new crimes. Mac and the woman are chased into a warehouse where they are trapped.

  • E15
    Pirates
    Aired · Mon, Feb 9, 1987 · 60m

    While on an expedition to find a Spanish treasure fleet, Dr. Barbara Ortega's boat is hi-jacked by modern-day pirates. They steal the small amount of treasure that she has already found - including the ship's log, which is the key to finding the whole fleet - and take off. When she makes it public that she was hi-jacked, the Phoenix Foundation sends MacGyver to help. Now, MacGyver and Barbara must recover the ship's log, so she can find the treasure before the pirates do.

  • E16
    Out in the Cold
    Aired · Mon, Feb 16, 1987 · 60m

    When MacGyver and Pete go skiing, a man switches poles with MacGyver, only moments before being gunned down and killed by his former friends. But the gunshot starts an avalanche, which covers MacGyver completely, leaving it up to Pete to convince the mountain rangers to stage a search and rescue before the next avalanche comes. As MacGyver finally is dug up, the gangsters are there, waiting for him, and whatever is hidden in that ski pole.

  • E17
    Dalton, Jack of Spies
    Aired · Mon, Feb 23, 1987 · 60m

    Dalton, who is believed to be dead, recruits MacGyver to help uncover a CIA mole.

  • E18
    Partners
    Aired · Mon, Mar 2, 1987 · 60m

    MacGyver and Pete meet at a wrecking yard, both thinking that the other one arranged the meeting. Soon an unknown assailant captures them inside a big truck. Their only clue is an obituary for them and Jack Dalton.

  • E19
    Bushmaster
    Aired · Mon, Mar 23, 1987 · 60m

    When MacGyver is sent to rescue an American pilot held in Central America for supposed espionage, his wargame-trained daughter tags along, but she didn't quite come prepared for the real thing. MacGyver must now rescue the pilot while keeping his daughter safe from the soldiers.

  • E20
    Friends
    Aired · Mon, Apr 6, 1987 · 60m

    MacGyver's friends throw a birthday party for him, but he's somberly reflecting on his past and future. While reflecting, MacGyver decides to leave the Phoenix Foundation to get married and have a family. Can Pete convince him of how important he is to the Foundation and get him to change his mind?

  • E21
    D.O.A.: MacGyver
    Aired · Mon, Apr 27, 1987 · 60m

    MacGyver is called to a meeting with a former British spy, who has learned of a group of terrorists that will use a new plastic explosive in a vengeful attack on the U.S. army. This explosive can be hidden anywhere. However, before the spy can give MacGyver all the details he is shot. MacGyver flees through a window and is picked up by a boat. The female who owns the boat soon learns that the man she has rescued doesn't have any memory.

  • E22
    For Love or Money
    Aired · Mon, May 4, 1987 · 60m

    MacGyver is forced to work with a ruthless freelance agent to rescue a human rights activist who is being held in a psychiatric hospital in Czechoslovakia. The rescue is an apparent success, until the secret police then kidnap the activist's wife to get him back.

Season 3
20 episodes · 20 aired
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  • E1
    Lost Love (1)
    Aired · Mon, Sep 21, 1987 · 60m

    While helping the People's Republic of China secure a priceless national treasure—The Ming Dragon—in a San Diego museum, MacGyver runs into a Lisa, a woman that he had loved and thought was long dead. MacGyver learns that Lisa has been alive all these years and needs his help escaping the KGB.

  • E2
    Lost Love (2)
    Aired · Mon, Sep 28, 1987 · 60m

    The KBG have Lisa in their grasp, and MacGyver must get The Ming Dragon for them to free Lisa. MacGyver enlists the help of his old buddy, Jack Dalton, to help him steal it.

  • E3
    Back from the Dead
    Aired · Mon, Oct 5, 1987 · 60m

    Jimmy Kendall, living undercover after testifying against his Mob bosses, surfaces when he becomes the manager for a winning baseball team.

  • E4
    Ghost Ship
    Aired · Mon, Oct 19, 1987 · 60m

    While mapping the wilderness for the Phoenix foundation, MacGyver stumbles on a deserted ship and finds a runaway girl who tells him that the rest of crew was driven away by Bigfoot.

  • E5
    Fire and Ice
    Aired · Mon, Oct 26, 1987 · 60m

    A jewel thief with diplomatic immunity kills Mac's friend. But there are more people involved in the crime - and Mac can't be sure who's on his side.

  • E6
    GX-1
    Aired · Mon, Nov 2, 1987 · 60m

    Mac and Nikki race to recover equipment from a downed experimental plane before the Soviets, who are using a psychic to guide them to the wreckage.

  • E7
    Jack in the Box
    Aired · Mon, Nov 9, 1987 · 60m

    MacGyver and Jack Dalton are arrested in Arkansas by a corrupt sheriff who arrests people to make them work in a labor camp used for mining gold. MacGyver wants to escape, but Jack has other ideas: He wants to find five million dollars his uncle Charlie left in the mines years before.

  • E8
    The Widowmaker
    Aired · Mon, Nov 16, 1987 · 60m

    MacGyver is forced out of his grief over the tragic death of a friend by a madman with a score to settle from their past association.

  • E9
    Hell Week
    Aired · Mon, Nov 23, 1987 · 60m

    A desperate physics student goes off the deep end and boobytraps a college lab when he fails to win a science competition and to live up to his father's high expectations.

  • E10
    Blow Out
    Aired · Mon, Dec 21, 1987 · 60m

    MacGyver teams up with colleague Nikki Carpenter to find out who is behind the attempts on her life. When they find out that the man who tried to kill her is connected to two terrorists who blew up a local post office, MacGyver and Nikki must find out what the terrorist's next target is before it's too late.

  • E11
    Kill Zone
    Aired · Mon, Jan 4, 1988 · 60m

    An impulsive scientist who cuts corners in her research work creates an uncontrollably mutating organism that speeds up the aging process.

  • E12
    Early Retirement
    Aired · Mon, Jan 18, 1988 · 60m

    While testing a new nuclear bomb defusing team at the Phoenix Foundation, a deadly explosion kills three men. Pete blames himself for not inspecting their equipment better and resigns from his job out of guilt. However, Pete is replaced by a not-so-trustworthy man—one who may have been connected to the explosion.

  • E13
    Thin Ice
    Aired · Mon, Feb 1, 1988 · 60m

    While back in Minnesota to fill in as coach for a high-school hockey team, MacGyver tries to change the attitude of a callous player who has a shot at playing for the pros. But when this kid's ambition lands another player in the hospital, MacGyver must try and find out what or who is pushing him so hard to succeed.

  • E14
    The Odd Triple
    Aired · Mon, Feb 29, 1988 · 60m

    After returning home from a long assignment, MacGyver has an unwelcome surprise. Jack Dalton is waiting and wants him to help with a new scheme. A wealthy woman has just acquired some invaluable jewels, needing Jack to fly her back to her home in France. Things seem to be going fine, that is, until they land. Jack and MacGyver are arrested and accused of theft.

  • E15
    The Negotiator
    Aired · Mon, Mar 7, 1988 · 60m

    MacGyver becomes infatuated with a woman while conducting environmental-impact studies. However, what MacGyver does not know is that the woman was hired to "persuade" him to skip the studies—and if necessary, kill him.

  • E16
    The Spoilers
    Aired · Mon, Mar 14, 1988 · 60m

    MacGyver enlists a recluse nicknamed "Earthquake" to help find a person who is dumping toxic waste and polluting mountain streams.

  • E17
    Mask of the Wolf
    Aired · Mon, Mar 28, 1988 · 60m

    Jack and Mac help an ancient Indian search for a wolf mask that two mercenaries are also eager to have.

  • E18
    Rock the Cradle
    Aired · Mon, Apr 18, 1988 · 60m

    Mac and Jack return from a flight to find an abandoned baby in Jack's hangar, complete with a desperate note from the mother and his own endowment fund hidden in his diapers.

  • E19
    The Endangered
    Aired · Mon, May 2, 1988 · 60m

    While visiting an old girlfriend who's a park ranger at a wildlife reserve, MacGyver runs into deadly poachers who are intent on hunting animals on the reserve. When MacGyver tries to uncover their plot, they come after him. Now it's a race against time to escape the poachers, save the animals, and save their own lives.

  • E20
    Murderers' Sky
    Aired · Mon, May 9, 1988 · 60m

    When the head of a American-Chinese shipping company is attacked in his office by a killer, MacGyver and the man's grandson—who is heir to the company—must find out who was behind the attempt on his life.

Season 4
19 episodes · 19 aired
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  • E1
    The Secret of Parker House
    Aired · Mon, Oct 31, 1988 · 60m

    MacGyver accompanies his friend Penny Parker to an old house she has inherited from her Aunt Betty, who mysteriously died 30 years before. When strange things start happening, Penny is sure that the house is haunted. However, MacGyver tries to convince her that there's no such thing as ghosts, but then he starts witnessing the strange events, too.

  • E2
    Blood Brothers
    Aired · Mon, Nov 21, 1988 · 60m

    MacGyver returns to his hometown to find himself haunted by the memories of a fatal shooting accident when he was a kid. While he is there, he helps two teenagers battle the local drug dealers.

  • E3
    The Outsiders
    Aired · Mon, Nov 28, 1988 · 60m

    MacGyver helps an Amish family, who saved his life, from having their farm seized by the government.

  • E4
    On a Wing and a Prayer
    Aired · Mon, Dec 5, 1988 · 60m

    Central American rebels capture Pete and a nun, and it's up to Mac and Jack to rescue them. But, Jack's plane is sub par, and they go down in the middle of enemy territory.

  • E5
    Collision Course
    Aired · Mon, Dec 12, 1988 · 60m

    When a friend of Mac's is injured in a crash, Mac agrees to test the new racing engine designed by the Phoenix Foundation. However a business rival has other plans for him, and he has someone from the inside to help him.

  • E6
    The Survivors
    Aired · Mon, Jan 9, 1989 · 60m

    While on assignment for the Phoenix Foundation to test field agents to make sure they are still in shape, MacGyver finds out he now has another agent to test: Pete. Things take a turn for the worse when MacGyver and Pete head into the wilderness where they stumble upon a wrecked plane and pictures of two dangerous drug smugglers who shot it down.

  • E7
    Deadly Dreams
    Aired · Mon, Jan 16, 1989 · 60m

    MacGyver gets involved in the search for an escaped serial killer. Soon he comes to the conclusion that the killer had help from another prisoner—an even more sinister man.

  • E8
    Ma Dalton
    Aired · Mon, Jan 23, 1989 · 60m

    Jack receives mementos of his father from an anonymous sender. This triggers a search for Jack´s mother, who has been missing since Jack was a boy. But when he finally gets to meet her, she turns out to be a fugitive in fear of her life, and Jack´s presence only complicate things more.

  • E9
    Cleo Rocks
    Aired · Mon, Feb 6, 1989 · 60m

    Penny Parker's big chance in a major professional role is threatened from two directions: a money shortage and several deaths linked to the musical she is set to perform in.

  • E10
    Fraternity of Thieves
    Aired · Mon, Feb 13, 1989 · 60m

    When Pete's son, Michael, returns to work for the foundation, neither Pete nor MacGyver see that Michael has used his connections to get closer to a Phoenix Foundation technology system in order to steal it and to sell it to the mysterious Papillion. But Papillion has plans of his own for Michael and his gang.

  • E11
    The Battle of Tommy Giordano
    Aired · Mon, Feb 20, 1989 · 60m

    When a kid is kidnapped by his estranged father, MacGyver tries to help the mother, a Phoenix employee, to rescue the boy. But the father is the son of an aging organized crime kingpin whose control is being threatened by subordinates.

  • E12
    The Challenge
    Aired · Mon, Feb 27, 1989 · 60m

    An inner city youth club is threatened when a black resident is framed for auto theft by a neighborhood racist who'll stop at nothing to close the center—even murder.

  • E13
    Runners
    Aired · Mon, Mar 13, 1989 · 60m

    MacGyver helps a young runaway with a vicious pimp and a tragic secret about her policeman father.

  • E14
    Gold Rush
    Aired · Mon, Mar 27, 1989 · 60m

    MacGyver joins a joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. team trekking into the Alaskan wilderness to retrieve a huge amount of Russian gold from a downed plane only to learn that someone has beaten them to it.

  • E15
    The Invisible Killer
    Aired · Mon, Apr 10, 1989 · 60m

    MacGyver heads up a trip with four other Phoenix Foundation employees into the wilderness as part of a stress reduction program. After discovering that a prison bus accident has freed several prisoners, the employees begin to question each other's behavior. MacGyver must now figure out which man, if any, is not to be trusted before it's too late.

  • E16
    Brainwashed
    Aired · Mon, Apr 24, 1989 · 60m

    Jack Dalton is brainwashed by an African politician and his wife to assassinate the leader of an African nation, who is in town for an awards ceremony.

  • E17
    Easy Target
    Aired · Mon, May 1, 1989 · 60m

    MacGyver and Pete are captured by terrorists intent on wiping out a nearby city with an electromagnetic pulse, unless their leader is freed.

  • E18
    Renegade
    Aired · Mon, May 8, 1989 · 60m

    MacGyver works hard to retrieve the anthrax bacillus stolen by a former Navy commando who once saved his life, and is now suffering the effects of an old head wound.

  • E19
    Unfinished Business
    Aired · Mon, May 15, 1989 · 60m

    Jack, MacGyver, and Pete review their past adventures while on a gold-panning expedition, unaware they're being stalked by a vengeful killer.

Season 5
21 episodes · 21 aired
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  • E1
    Legend of the Holy Rose (1)
    Aired · Mon, Sep 18, 1989 · 60m

    An archaeologist friend pays MacGyver a visit to get his help in using a map to find an ancient artifact called the Holy Rose.

  • E2
    Legend of the Holy Rose (2)
    Aired · Mon, Sep 25, 1989 · 60m

    MacGyver and his archaeologist friend continue on to London and France in their search for the Holy Rose. Along the way they come across a notorious jewel magnate who has deadly intentions.

  • E3
    The Black Corsage
    Aired · Mon, Oct 2, 1989 · 60m

    Mac and a bounty hunter join forces with a bulldog named Frog to track down a Bulgarian defector who was the accidental witness at a murder and who is now being stalked by the killer, who needs a map she doesn't know she possesses.

  • E4
    Cease Fire
    Aired · Mon, Oct 9, 1989 · 60m

    While in Geneva, MacGyver is wounded in an assassination attempt. He is framed as the sniper and meets an American schoolgirl who helps him in clearing his name.

  • E5
    Second Chance
    Aired · Mon, Oct 16, 1989 · 60m

    Renegade America service men steal everything that's not nailed down in Thailand, creating a life-threatening situation. MacGyver helps set things right, while helping an old friend get acquainted with a son he never knew he had.

  • E6
    Halloween Knights
    Aired · Mon, Oct 30, 1989 · 60m

    MacGyver's nemesis Murdoc begs MacGyver's help to rescue his sister from his former employer. She is about to to be executed during a Halloween Party and to save her MacGyver and Murdoc have to beat a dangerous obstacle course.

  • E7
    Children of Light
    Aired · Mon, Nov 6, 1989 · 60m

    MacGyver's Chinese foster daughter arrives unexpectedly from China, carrying videotape of the massacre in Tianamen Square and a list of fax machine phone numbers vital to the continuing freedom movement.

  • E8
    Black Rhino
    Aired · Mon, Nov 13, 1989 · 60m

    MacGyver trails a friend, Billy Colton, to Africa where he witnesses the cruel slaughter of the endangered Black Rhino. When he joins the activists, hoping to prevent the poaching, Mac meets up with the men behind the scheme - Ladysmith.

  • E9
    The Ten Percent Solution
    Aired · Mon, Nov 20, 1989 · 60m

    The Phoenix Foundation's purchase of a Nazi art treasure leads Mac to a holocaust survivor who claims family ownership of the painting, and to a group working to create their own ‘Aryan nation.'

  • E10
    Two Times Trouble
    Aired · Mon, Dec 11, 1989 · 60m

    MacGyver tries to help an old friend who believes her jealous twin sister is trying to kill her.

  • E11
    The Madonna
    Aired · Mon, Dec 18, 1989 · 60m

    On Christmas Eve, MacGyver tries to help the priest of a poor church locate a stolen Madonna figure, help his friend Cynthia figure out how to keep the Challenger Club solvent and figure out a strange street woman who seems to have a miracle up her sleeve.

  • E12
    Serenity
    Aired · Mon, Jan 8, 1990 · 60m

    Exhausted from being overworked, MacGyver falls asleep watching an old western. He dreams that he is in the Old West where he encounters Murdoc and Pete who conspire to force MacGyver off his land.

  • E13
    Live and Learn
    Aired · Mon, Jan 15, 1990 · 60m

    MacGyver is participating in a project to help potential high school drop outs. One of the students work at a construction site with his dad. While there, the kid discovers that the site may be unsafe after witnessesing a safety inspector being bribed.

  • E14
    Log Jam
    Aired · Mon, Feb 5, 1990 · 60m

    MacGyver tries to help an environmentally active friend find out what happened to a company whistle-blower about to expose the illegal practices of a large logging firm.

  • E15
    The Treasure of Manco
    Aired · Mon, Feb 12, 1990 · 60m

    A friend of MacGyver's is killed in Peru looking for a mythical treasure. MacGyver helps his daughter to continue her father's quest.

  • E16
    Jenny's Chance
    Aired · Mon, Feb 19, 1990 · 60m

    MacGyver organizes a gambling sting operation in order to catch the murderer of a horse trainer, a money launderer for a Cuban drug lord.

  • E17
    Deep Cover
    Aired · Mon, Feb 26, 1990 · 60m

    Pete and Mac try to help when a Phoenix Foundation engineer is seduced and betrayed by a spy seeking her prototype for a new stealth technology for submarines.

  • E18
    The Lost Amadeus
    Aired · Mon, Mar 19, 1990 · 60m

    A strange young woman gets Mac involved with a priceless violin and an eccentric maestro being sought by syndicate hoods.

  • E19
    Hearts of Steel
    Aired · Mon, Apr 9, 1990 · 60m

    MacGyver is reunited with Lisa, whose help cleared him of assassination charges in Switzerland, when a steel plant executive kidnaps her as revenge against her cold corporate-raider father.

  • E20
    Rush to Judgement
    Aired · Mon, Apr 16, 1990 · 60m

    MacGyver risks judicial displeasure when he breaks jury sequester to investigate the scene of a racially charged murder, and discovers evidence that drastically alters the interpretation of the facts.

  • E21
    Passages
    Aired · Mon, Apr 30, 1990 · 60m

    After the death of his grandfather, MacGyver tries to stop the theft of an Egyptian artifact and is critically injured. He finds himself on the Ship of the Dead... with his dead relatives.

Season 6
21 episodes · 21 aired
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  • E1
    Tough Boys
    Aired · Mon, Sep 17, 1990 · 60m

    MacGyver's pacifist policies are put to the test by a militant youth leader he hooks up with to find out who has been organizing a gang of youthful vigilantes using extreme measures to clean the neighborhood crack problem.

  • E2
    Humanity
    Aired · Mon, Sep 24, 1990 · 60m

    MacGyver and Thornton are left to the mercies of a Romanian agent still loyal to his deposed leader Ceausescu after a mission to obtain his secret files is sabotaged.

  • E3
    The Gun
    Aired · Mon, Oct 1, 1990 · 60m

    MacGyver searches for a gun used in an assassination twenty years ago and in a present day cop killing to clear a friend.

  • E4
    Twenty Questions
    Aired · Mon, Oct 8, 1990 · 60m

    MacGyver tries to help his teenage friend Lisa admit she has a drinking problem, but it takes a brush with the law when she's implicated in a string of home break-ins to really wake her up.

  • E5
    The Wall
    Aired · Mon, Oct 22, 1990 · 60m

    MacGyver helps reunite an East German girl with her grandfather in America, unaware that she's been recruited by two bitter former Stasi agents who believe the old man possesses a store of hidden gold.

  • E6
    Lesson in Evil
    Aired · Mon, Oct 29, 1990 · 60m

    Dr. Zito returns to menace MacGyver and Murphy when he escapes after his latest sanity hearing, leaving a series of nasty clues designed to give Mac a crash course in evil.

  • E7
    Harry's Will
    Aired · Mon, Nov 5, 1990 · 60m

    When Mac tries to claim the station wagon left to him by his late Grandpa Harry, it starts a strange chase that leads him to an ex-con with a dream of running a restaurant, a soup kitchen in need of money, and a gang of crooks out for themselves.

  • E8
    MacGyver's Women
    Aired · Mon, Nov 12, 1990 · 60m

    MacGyver is accused of having a fear of commitment by the women in his life. A dream takes him back to the Old West where the women are mail-order brides.

  • E9
    Bitter Harvest
    Aired · Mon, Nov 19, 1990 · 60m

    MacGyver goes undercover to investigate the death of a farm-worker organizer during an investigation of illegal pesticide use.

  • E10
    The Visitor
    Aired · Mon, Dec 3, 1990 · 60m

    Mac uncovers an out-of-this-world scam when he investigates some mysterious indentations in a farmer's field.

  • E11
    Squeeze Play
    Aired · Mon, Dec 17, 1990 · 60m

    Mac defends a former player's daughter being blackmailed by a baseball memorabilia-counterfeiting ring trading on her father's name.

  • E12
    Jerico Games
    Aired · Mon, Jan 7, 1991 · 60m

    Mac is reunited with a high school sweetheart whose husband is a wealthy man sponsoring an international sports competition.

  • E13
    The Wasteland
    Aired · Mon, Jan 21, 1991 · 60m

    Mac seeks to stop a shortsighted developer whose latest project will create an environmental ruin and could result in his premature death at the hands of his greedy children.

  • E14
    Eye of Osiris
    Aired · Mon, Feb 4, 1991 · 60m

    Mac helps out on an archelogical dig for Alexander the Great's tomb. But the expedition seems to be followed by bad luck. Several incidents nearly causes a shut-down. Then Mac finds clues leading to Alex's tomb. Unfortunally, the accidents are not coincidental, and they meet a very vengeful man who traps them inside the grave...

  • E15
    High Control
    Aired · Mon, Feb 11, 1991 · 60m

    Mac tries to help an acquaintance just out of prison stay on the straight and narrow despite the efforts of his old biker gang to blackmail him into rejoining them.

  • E16
    There But for the Grace
    Aired · Mon, Feb 18, 1991 · 60m

    Mac feels a personal involvement in the death of a priest who worked among the homeless and takes to the streets himself to find the killer.

  • E17
    Blind Faith
    Aired · Mon, Mar 4, 1991 · 60m

    An old sweetheart of Pete Thornton's appeals to him for help when she tries to reveal the atrocities being committed in her Latin American homeland.

  • E18
    Faith, Hope & Charity
    Aired · Mon, Mar 18, 1991 · 60m

    Mac finds himself being cared for by two determined ladies running a bed and breakfast in an isolated spot chosen as a drop spot by two murderous mobsters with an untrustworthy partner.

  • E19
    Strictly Business
    Aired · Mon, Apr 8, 1991 · 60m

    After his sister dies in an avalanche, Murdoc decides to resume working for his former employer, HIT. In order to regain their trust, he has to take on MacGyver once again.

  • E20
    Trail of Tears
    Aired · Fri, Apr 26, 1991 · 60m

    A land dispute over the building an electricity station pits a fanatical Native American, convinced he has been given a mission by his spiritual ancestors, against the power company and MacGyver, who's just as sure that the Indian spirits are opposed to the man's violent plans.

  • E21
    Hind-Sight
    Aired · Mon, May 6, 1991 · 60m

    As Pete waits for glaucoma surgery, he and MacGyver reminisce about their past adventures and try to figure out who has been sending some vaguely threatening messages to Pete.

Season 7
14 episodes · 14 aired
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  • E1
    Honest Abe
    Aired · Mon, Sep 16, 1991 · 60m

    Mac's trip to the airport to pick up a friend's father arriving for his grandson's bar mitzvah turns into a wild international caper involving Caribbean terrorists and a stolen helicopter.

  • E2
    The 'Hood
    Aired · Mon, Sep 23, 1991 · 60m

    Mac helps his new neighbors to rescue one of their own after she overhears two hitmen planning a job.

  • E3
    Obsessed
    Aired · Mon, Sep 30, 1991 · 60m

    The ghost of his archenemy Murdoc leaves MacGyver sleepless and on edge just as he is about to supervise the security of the criminal trial of a deposed dictator, a task that could determine Pete's continued employment at The Phoenix Foundation.

  • E4
    The Prometheus Syndrome
    Aired · Mon, Oct 7, 1991 · 60m

    MacGyver becomes personally involved in the effort to find a psychopathic arsonist.

  • E5
    The Coltons
    Aired · Mon, Oct 14, 1991 · 60m

    Mac's old friends, the bounty-hunting Colton brothers try to find a young woman who's the only witness to a Chinatown murder, aided by their wise and patient mother, their impatient younger brother and their dog, Frog.

  • E6
    Walking Dead
    Aired · Mon, Oct 21, 1991 · 60m

    Mac helps his neighbor, Mama Lorraine, rescue a young student activist who has been kidnapped and turned into a zombie by Haitian terrorists hiding behind a powerful voodoo priest.

  • E7
    Good Knight MacGyver (1)
    Aired · Mon, Nov 4, 1991 · 60m

    While researching his family's genealogy, MacGyver discovers that his family name was disgraced during the Middle Ages. He is then knocked unconscious and, not surprisingly, is transported through dreams to the time of King Arthur. Here he must confront some stubborn knights, convince Arthur that he is a friend, and set out in search of his forefathers.

  • E8
    Good Knight MacGyver (2)
    Aired · Mon, Nov 11, 1991 · 60m

    MacGyver works with Merlin to stop Morgana and save MacGyver's ancestor.

  • E9
    Deadly Silents
    Aired · Mon, Nov 18, 1991 · 60m

    MacGyver goes up against two thieves trying to steal the only print of a rare black-and-white movie, and an old silent-film star helps him.

  • E10
    Split Decision
    Aired · Mon, Dec 2, 1991 · 60m

    Earl Dent asks MacGyver for his help dealing with bookies who want him to throw a fight... which is his only chance to get custody of his daughter.

  • E11
    Gunz 'N Boyz
    Aired · Mon, Dec 16, 1991 · 60m

    Weapon dealers try to stir up racial strife in a neighborhood to sell guns to both sides and make a profit.

  • E12
    Off the Wall
    Aired · Mon, Dec 30, 1991 · 60m

    A graffiti artist asks MacGyver for his help dealing with a slum lord threatening to evict the artist's grandmother from her apartment.

  • E13
    The Stringer
    Aired · Sat, Apr 25, 1992 · 60m

    MacGyver meets the son he never knew he had while investigating Chinese smugglers profiting off of dissident labor.

  • E14
    The Mountain of Youth
    Aired · Thu, May 21, 1992 · 60m

    MacGyver joins Jack Dalton in Kabulstan on a search for a fountain of youth, but finds himself battling nuclear terrorists in the process.