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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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Episodes

7 seasons · 139 episodes
Season 122 ep. · 1985–1986
  1. Episode 1: Pilot

    Sep 29, 1985 · 49 min

    When a science lab studying the ozone layer mysteriously explodes, MacGyver is called in to rescue the scientists that are trapped underground. It's soon discovered that the explosion cracked a tank of sulfuric acid, and MacGyver is in a race against time before the Army uses a missile to seal up the base.

  2. Episode 2: The Golden Triangle

    Oct 6, 1985 · 48 min

    When MacGyver tries to retrieve a canister filled with a deadly chemical in Burma, he stumbles right into an area known as the Golden Triangle, where the military uses farmers as slaves on the opium fields. MacGyver is mistaken for a narcotics agent and is captured, but convinces the slaves to fight their oppression. MacGyver assists by setting several traps at the slave camp, and when the army returns to suppress the unrest, the real action begins.

  3. Episode 3: Thief of Budapest

    Oct 13, 1985 · 48 min

    MacGyver travels to Budapest to meet with a Russian double agent who is in possession of a watch containing information about other Russian spies. However, before MacGyver can take the watch, the agent is killed and the watch is stolen. Now MacGyver must work with the Gypsies to get it back.

  4. Episode 4: The Gauntlet

    Oct 21, 1985 · 49 min

    MacGyver attempts to get a reporter out of a Central American country with evidence linking a general to an illegal arms dealer. As they reach the border, it is clear escaping to Mexico will be no easy task, as the general and the arms dealer have every imaginable route severely guarded.

  5. Episode 5: The Heist

    Nov 3, 1985 · 45 min

    When $60 million worth of stolen diamonds destined for a relief charity end up in the hands of casino owner Jack Catlin, MacGyver must head to the Virgin Islands to try and get them back. With the help of Chris Rhodes, a senator's daughter, MacGyver masterminds a plan to break into Catlin's vault and steal them back.

  6. Episode 6: Trumbo's World

    Nov 10, 1985 · 45 min

    MacGyver comes along on a expedition to Brazil with his friend, entomologist Dr. Alden. They meet with a landowner and recluse, Trumbo, who is initially hostile. However, when they realize that a mile-wide column of army ants is moving through the jungle, they team together to mount a defense.

  7. Episode 7: Last Stand

    Nov 17, 1985 · 48 min

    When MacGyver is on his way to a vacation, he takes the wrong way and ends up at a small airstrip where everybody seems to be behaving strangely. Too late, he discovers that the airstrip has been taken hostage, and he has been caught in the middle of a plane-hijacking attempt.

  8. Episode 8: Hellfire

    Nov 27, 1985 · 45 min

    During a trip to visit some friends, an accident starts a fire in an oil well owned by MacGyver's friends. MacGyver and his buddy then go to fetch dynamite in an abandonned mine at great peril to themselves after they decide the dynamite is the only feasible way the fire can be put out. However, when they use it, the fire only becomes more intense. Can MacGyver and his Hellfire friend survive the incredible heat to put out the fire and save the oil buried underneath the well?

  9. Episode 9: The Prodigal

    Dec 8, 1985 · 45 min

    A man wants to testify against his mobster brother in Federal Court, and MacGyver has the job of keeping him safe, but the man's mother is dying and he wants to visit her.

  10. Episode 10: Target MacGyver

    Dec 22, 1985 · 45 min

    After blowing away a nuclear facility under the control of an aggressive world leader, MacGyver returns home for some peace and quiet, only to find his boss waiting for him. He advises MacGyver that a contract is out on his life and he needs to skip town for awhile.

  11. Episode 11: Nightmares

    Jan 15, 1986 · 45 min

    When MacGyver comes home with some important documents, he's drugged by enemy agents and told that he will die in six hours if he doesn't retrieve the documents for them. But MacGyver, using an old prisoner trick, escapes. Now the only problem is convincing someone that he's not just another drunk.

  12. Episode 12: Deathlock

    Jan 22, 1986 · 45 min

    MacGyver is trapped in a mansion with Pete, a code expert, and a government agent who may or may not be on their side. However, an old nemesis has electronically booby-trapped the entire mansion to make sure they can't go anywhere.

  13. Episode 13: Flame's End

    Jan 29, 1986 · 45 min

    An old girlfriend of MacGyver's contacts him for help after she discovers evidence of uranium thefts from a nuclear processing plant where she works.

  14. Episode 14: Countdown

    Feb 5, 1986 · 47 min

    A mysterious person who calls himself "Viking" has just bombed the cruise ship Victoria, underway in the North Pacific Ocean. He demands six million dollars or another bomb will go off within hours. So MacGyver gets called in, along with his old Vietnam bomb-defusal partner, Charlie Robinson, to disarm it. But when they get there, they find out there's more than one bomb on the ship. Complications arise when MacGyver's partner sets off one of the bombs, and the bomber decides that DXS operated in bad faith and refuses to hand over the bomb-disarming instructions after he gets the extortion money.

  15. Episode 15: The Enemy Within

    Feb 12, 1986 · 45 min

    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.

  16. Episode 16: Every Time She Smiles

    Feb 19, 1986 · 45 min

    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.

  17. Episode 17: To Be a Man

    Mar 5, 1986 · 45 min

    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.

  18. Episode 18: Ugly Duckling

    Mar 12, 1986 · 45 min

    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.

  19. Episode 19: Slow Death

    Apr 2, 1986 · 45 min

    At the beginning of the episode, MacGyver literally has to jump onto a moving train that he missed earlier to return top-secret files and documents to the U.S. 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.

  20. Episode 20: The Escape

    Apr 16, 1986 · 45 min

    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.

  21. Episode 21: A Prisoner of Conscience

    Apr 30, 1986 · 45 min

    Pete Thornton investigates the supposed death of an old friend, a prominent Russian dissident, and finds he must get his friend's daughter Maria out of the country before the secret police arrest her for an alleged conspiracy. However, while in Russia, Pete bumps into MacGyver, who followed him from the United States. While disappointed MacGyver followed him, Pete gladly welcomes MacGyver into his plans when the secret police arrive to take Maria into custody. Following a high speed boat chase to escape the police, Pete and MacGyver find out from Maria that her father is not dead, he is being held in a maximum security ward at a state mental institution. To get into the mental hospital, MacGyver plays the part of a mad patient and Pete plays the part of a doctor who has been assigned to him. With the help of the other patients, MacGyver is able to escape into Ward Zero, where Pete's friend is held. MacGyver breaks him out and hides him with the other patients.

  22. Episode 22: The Assassin

    May 7, 1986 · 45 min

    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 222 ep. · 1986–1987
  1. Episode 1: The Human Factor

    Sep 22, 1986 · 45 min

    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."

  2. Episode 2: The Eraser

    Sep 29, 1986 · 45 min

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

  3. Episode 3: Twice Stung

    Oct 6, 1986 · 45 min

    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.

  4. Episode 4: The Wish Child

    Oct 20, 1986 · 45 min

    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!

  5. Episode 5: Final Approach

    Oct 27, 1986 · 45 min

    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.

  6. Episode 6: Jack of Lies

    Nov 3, 1986 · 45 min

    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.

  7. Episode 7: The Road Not Taken

    Nov 10, 1986 · 45 min

    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.

  8. Episode 8: Eagles

    Nov 17, 1986 · 45 min

    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.

  9. Episode 9: Silent World

    Nov 24, 1986 · 45 min

    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.

  10. Episode 10: Three for the Road

    Dec 15, 1986 · 45 min

    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.

  11. Episode 11: Phoenix Under Siege

    Jan 5, 1987 · 45 min

    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.

  12. Episode 12: Family Matter

    Jan 12, 1987 · 45 min

    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.

  13. Episode 13: Soft Touch

    Jan 19, 1987 · 45 min

    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.

  14. Episode 14: Birth Day

    Feb 2, 1987 · 45 min

    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.

  15. Episode 15: Pirates

    Feb 9, 1987 · 45 min

    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.

  16. Episode 16: Out in the Cold

    Feb 16, 1987 · 45 min

    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.

  17. Episode 17: Dalton, Jack of Spies

    Feb 23, 1987 · 45 min

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

  18. Episode 18: Partners

    Mar 2, 1987 · 45 min

    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.

  19. Episode 19: Bushmaster

    Mar 23, 1987 · 45 min

    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.

  20. Episode 20: Friends

    Apr 6, 1987 · 45 min

    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?

  21. Episode 21: D.O.A.: MacGyver

    Apr 27, 1987 · 45 min

    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.

  22. Episode 22: For Love or Money

    May 4, 1987 · 45 min

    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 320 ep. · 1987–1988
  1. Episode 1: Lost Love (1)

    Sep 21, 1987 · 45 min

    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.

  2. Episode 2: Lost Love (2)

    Sep 28, 1987 · 45 min

    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.

  3. Episode 3: Back From the Dead

    Oct 5, 1987 · 45 min

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

  4. Episode 4: Ghost Ship

    Oct 19, 1987 · 45 min

    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.

  5. Episode 5: Fire and Ice

    Oct 26, 1987 · 45 min

    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.

  6. Episode 6: GX-1

    Nov 2, 1987 · 45 min

    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.

  7. Episode 7: Jack in the Box

    Nov 9, 1987 · 45 min

    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.

  8. Episode 8: The Widowmaker

    Nov 16, 1987 · 45 min

    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.

  9. Episode 9: Hell Week

    Nov 23, 1987 · 45 min

    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.

  10. Episode 10: Blow Out

    Dec 21, 1987 · 45 min

    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.

  11. Episode 11: Kill Zone

    Jan 4, 1988 · 45 min

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

  12. Episode 12: Early Retirement

    Jan 18, 1988 · 45 min

    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.

  13. Episode 13: Thin Ice

    Feb 1, 1988 · 45 min

    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.

  14. Episode 14: The Odd Triple

    Feb 29, 1988 · 45 min

    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.

  15. Episode 15: The Negotiator

    Mar 7, 1988 · 45 min

    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.

  16. Episode 16: The Spoilers

    Mar 14, 1988 · 45 min

    After MacGyver witnesses someone dumping toxic waste that's polluting mountain streams, he and Pete enlist a reclusive mountain man nicknamed "Earthquake" to help lead them to the culprit. Things become complicated, though, as Earthquake's flashbacks to his military service in the Vietnam War make him unstable and threaten their case.

  17. Episode 17: Mask of the Wolf

    Mar 28, 1988 · 45 min

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

  18. Episode 18: Rock the Cradle

    Apr 18, 1988 · 45 min

    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.

  19. Episode 19: The Endangered

    May 2, 1988 · 45 min

    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.

  20. Episode 20: Murderers' Sky

    May 9, 1988 · 45 min

    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 419 ep. · 1988–1989
  1. Episode 1: The Secret of Parker House

    Oct 31, 1988 · 45 min

    MacGyver accompanies Penny Parker to an old house she inherited from her Aunt Betty, who mysteriously died 30 years before. When strange things start happening, Penny is sure that the house is haunted.

  2. Episode 2: Blood Brothers

    Nov 21, 1988 · 45 min

    MacGyver returns to his home town of Mission City, Minnesota to meet up with two old friends, Chuck and Neil, so they can dig up a time capsule they buried twenty-five years before. However, MacGyver is hesitant to dig the capsule up because he is still haunted by the death of his old friend Jesse, who died when MacGyver was young. But now MacGyver has another problem to deal with. Chuck's and Neil's sons, Danny and Sean, have gotten wrapped up in a drug deal, and the dealer is after Danny. Danny takes off to hide, and now MacGyver must find him, before the drug dealer does.

  3. Episode 3: The Outsiders

    Nov 28, 1988 · 45 min

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

  4. Episode 4: On a Wing and a Prayer

    Dec 5, 1988 · 45 min

    Central American rebels capture Pete and a nun during a coup d'état, and it's up to MacGyver and Jack to rescue them.

  5. Episode 5: Collision Course

    Dec 12, 1988 · 45 min

    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.

  6. Episode 6: The Survivors

    Jan 9, 1989 · 45 min

    While on assignment to test field agents for the Phoenix Foundation, MacGyver and Pete discover the wreckage of a DEA plane shot down by dangerous drug smugglers.

  7. Episode 7: Deadly Dreams

    Jan 16, 1989 · 45 min

    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.

  8. Episode 8: Ma Dalton

    Jan 23, 1989 · 45 min

    After Jack receives momentos of his father from an anonymous sender, he and MacGyver launch a search for Jack's mother, who's been missing since he was boy—and they aren't the only ones hunting for her.

  9. Episode 9: Cleo Rocks

    Feb 6, 1989 · 45 min

    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.

  10. Episode 10: Fraternity of Thieves

    Feb 13, 1989 · 45 min

    Pete is conflicted when he discovers that the Phoenix Foundation employee selling classified information turns out to be his son.

  11. Episode 11: The Battle of Tommy Giordano

    Feb 20, 1989 · 45 min

    The young son of MacGyver's co-worker is kidnapped by the boy's father. MacGyver must go and retrieve the boy from the house of the boy's uncle—a powerful mob boss.

  12. Episode 12: The Challenge

    Feb 27, 1989 · 45 min

    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.

  13. Episode 13: Runners

    Mar 13, 1989 · 45 min

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

  14. Episode 14: Gold Rush

    Mar 27, 1989 · 45 min

    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.

  15. Episode 15: The Invisible Killer

    Apr 10, 1989 · 45 min

    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.

  16. Episode 16: Brainwashed

    Apr 24, 1989 · 45 min

    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.

  17. Episode 17: Easy Target

    May 1, 1989 · 45 min

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

  18. Episode 18: Renegade

    May 8, 1989 · 45 min

    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.

  19. Episode 19: Unfinished Business

    May 15, 1989 · 45 min

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

Season 521 ep. · 1989–1990
  1. Episode 1: Legend of the Holy Rose (1)

    Sep 18, 1989 · 45 min

    MacGyver and an old friend dash around the world searching for the artifacts necessary to locate the Holy Grail, just one step ahead of a ruthless man on the same trail, who will do anything to get to it before they do.

  2. Episode 2: Legend of the Holy Rose (2)

    Sep 25, 1989 · 45 min

    MacGyver and an old friend dash around the world searching for the artifacts necessary to locate the Holy Grail, just one step ahead of a ruthless man on the same trail.

  3. Episode 3: The Black Corsage

    Oct 2, 1989 · 45 min

    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.

  4. Episode 4: Cease Fire

    Oct 9, 1989 · 45 min

    During some tough negotiations between two neighbouring states, one side plants a sniper in the vicinity. When Mac discovers the sniper, he fights him, but loses the man and the accusations go out against Mac. Wounded and forced to run, he hides at a private girls' school, where one of the young ladies becomes his only hope to prevent further bloodshed.

  5. Episode 5: Second Chance

    Oct 16, 1989 · 45 min

    MacGyver and an old friend discover a gang ripping off medical supplies from a Phoenix Foundation clinic in Asia, and an Amerasian son the friend never knew he had.

  6. Episode 6: Halloween Knights

    Oct 30, 1989 · 45 min

    An old nemesis enlists MacGyver's help to rescue someone important to him—and she's scheduled to be executed during a Halloween Party put on by a professional assassination organization.

  7. Episode 7: Children of Light

    Nov 6, 1989 · 45 min

    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.

  8. Episode 8: Black Rhino

    Nov 13, 1989 · 45 min

    MacGyver takes off for Africa, where the youngest of the Colton brothers has decided to take on deadly rhino poachers single-handedly.

  9. Episode 9: The Ten Percent Solution

    Nov 20, 1989 · 45 min

    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’.

  10. Episode 10: Two Times Trouble

    Dec 11, 1989 · 45 min

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

  11. Episode 11: The Madonna

    Dec 18, 1989 · 45 min

    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.

  12. Episode 12: Serenity

    Jan 8, 1990 · 45 min

    Exhausted MacGyver dreams he's a Civil War vet trying to claim a home in Montana that's threatened by a neighboring rancher who looks a lot like Pete Thornton. But this Pete has hired Murdoc to kill Mac...

  13. Episode 13: Live and Learn

    Jan 15, 1990 · 45 min

    MacGyver tries to inspire a promising but unmotivated high school student, despite the negative efforts of a cynical teacher and the boy's skeptical father.

  14. Episode 14: Log Jam

    Feb 5, 1990 · 45 min

    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.

  15. Episode 15: The Treasure of Manco

    Feb 12, 1990 · 45 min

    MacGyver and a friend race with a group of dedicated guerillas to locate a valuable Incan treasure.

  16. Episode 16: Jenny's Chance

    Feb 19, 1990 · 45 min

    MacGyver, Dalton, and Thornton go undercover to expose a murderous money launderer.

  17. Episode 17: Deep Cover

    Feb 26, 1990 · 45 min

    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.

  18. Episode 18: The Lost Amadeus

    Mar 19, 1990 · 45 min

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

  19. Episode 19: Hearts of Steel

    Apr 9, 1990 · 45 min

    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.

  20. Episode 20: Rush to Judgement

    Apr 16, 1990 · 45 min

    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.

  21. Episode 21: Passages

    Apr 30, 1990 · 45 min

    Frantic with worry about his gravely-ill Grandpa Harry, MacGyver experiences a strange near-death phenomena, seeing his parents again, when he's injured by a man who's stolen an ancient Egyptian relic.

Season 621 ep. · 1990–1991
  1. Episode 1: Tough Boys

    Sep 17, 1990 · 45 min

    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.

  2. Episode 2: Humanity

    Sep 24, 1990 · 45 min

    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.

  3. Episode 3: The Gun

    Oct 1, 1990 · 45 min

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

  4. Episode 4: Twenty Questions

    Oct 8, 1990 · 45 min

    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.

  5. Episode 5: The Wall

    Oct 22, 1990 · 45 min

    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.

  6. Episode 6: Lesson in Evil

    Oct 29, 1990 · 45 min

    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.

  7. Episode 7: Harry's Will

    Nov 5, 1990 · 45 min

    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.

  8. Episode 8: MacGyver's Women

    Nov 12, 1990 · 45 min

    Macgyver's reluctance to commit to a permanent relationship causes him to dream an Old West scenario where he defends three of his lady friends from some ornery outlaws as he drives their wagon cross country.

  9. Episode 9: Bitter Harvest

    Nov 19, 1990 · 45 min

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

  10. Episode 10: The Visitor

    Dec 3, 1990 · 45 min

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

  11. Episode 11: Squeeze Play

    Dec 17, 1990 · 45 min

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

  12. Episode 12: Jerico Games

    Jan 7, 1991 · 45 min

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

  13. Episode 13: The Wasteland

    Jan 21, 1991 · 45 min

    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.

  14. Episode 14: Eye of Osiris

    Feb 4, 1991 · 45 min

    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...

  15. Episode 15: High Control

    Feb 11, 1991 · 45 min

    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.

  16. Episode 16: There But for the Grace

    Feb 18, 1991 · 45 min

    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.

  17. Episode 17: Blind Faith

    Mar 4, 1991 · 45 min

    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.

  18. Episode 18: Faith, Hope & Charity

    Mar 18, 1991 · 45 min

    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.

  19. Episode 19: Strictly Business

    Apr 8, 1991 · 45 min

    Murdoc wants to come out of retirement, but his former employers at Homicide International request that he take out MacGyver as a demonstration of his sincere desire to rejoin them.

  20. Episode 20: Trail of Tears

    Apr 26, 1991 · 45 min

    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.

  21. Episode 21: Hind-Sight

    May 6, 1991 · 45 min

    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 714 ep. · 1991–1992
  1. Episode 1: Honest Abe

    Sep 16, 1991 · 45 min

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

  2. Episode 2: The 'Hood

    Sep 23, 1991 · 45 min

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

  3. Episode 3: Obsessed

    Sep 30, 1991 · 45 min

    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.

  4. Episode 4: The Prometheus Syndrome

    Oct 7, 1991 · 45 min

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

  5. Episode 5: The Coltons

    Oct 14, 1991 · 45 min

    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.

  6. Episode 6: Walking Dead

    Oct 21, 1991 · 45 min

    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.

  7. Episode 7: Good Knight MacGyver (1)

    Nov 4, 1991 · 45 min

    A genealogy investigation and a knock on the head takes Mac back to King Arthur's court, where he must use his knowledge to prove Merlin innocent of harming the King, find the fair Cecilia and foil Morgana's attempt to take over the throne.

  8. Episode 8: Good Knight MacGyver (2)

    Nov 11, 1991 · 45 min

    A genealogy investigation and a knock on the head takes Mac back to King Arthur's court, where he must use his knowledge to prove Merlin innocent of harming the King, find the fair Cecilia and foil Morgana's attempt to take over the throne.

  9. Episode 9: Deadly Silents

    Nov 18, 1991 · 45 min

    Mac tries to help an old silent film star retrieve the only existing prints of his work from a pair of special-effects obsessed fans.

  10. Episode 10: Split Decision

    Dec 2, 1991 · 45 min

    Mac's friend Earl Dent looks to him for help when he fights to retain custody of his teenage daughter while preparing for a boxing comeback that bookmakers want him to throw.

  11. Episode 11: Gunz 'n Boyz

    Dec 16, 1991 · 45 min

    Mac and the Challenger Club try to help a boy prepared to take the rap for another boy murdered by weapons dealers exploiting the fear and suspicion in the neighborhood.

  12. Episode 12: Off the Wall

    Dec 30, 1991 · 45 min

    Mac battles a callous slumlord when a young graffiti artist asks for help when his grandmother faces eviction from the apartment where she's spent her life.

  13. Episode 13: The Stringer

    Apr 25, 1992 · 45 min

    While working with Chinese dissidents to expose illegal labor camps, MacGyver gets unexpected help from a young photojournalist who claims to be his son!

  14. Episode 14: The Mountain of Youth

    May 21, 1992 · 45 min

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