Episode list for
"MacGyver" (1985)

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Episode Count: 139
Season: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7
Year: 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992

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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot

Original Air Date: 29 September 1985
In the opening gambit, Mac must retrieve a top-secret pentagon rocket which crashed in Central Asia on a desolate, barren rock mountain and is already guarded by hostile soldiers. Mac's mountaineering, engineering and flying skills are put to good, daring and ingenious use... In the main story, Mac's scientist friend Gantner calls a big favor: an explosion in his top-secret science lab has trapped a group of researchers and caused a leak of extremely corrosive acid which will take only hours to contaminate the water in several US states, so the whole lab will be destroyed using an even worse counter-agent, regardless of the trapped people, unless Mac can stop the leakage and pass the good news. First Mac must get past a laser security system, for him simpler then a smoke-screen. When he is trough one scientist refuses to be evacuated, she helps him get to her research partner trapped in a cave-in. The army is getting restless, preparing a nuclear warhead, and was the explosion even an accident in the first place?

Season 1, Episode 2: The Golden Triangle

Original Air Date: 6 October 1985
Macgyver is sent to Burma to recover some material lost in a plane crash. While there he is taken prisoner by a drug lord who suspects him of being a narcotics agent. MacGyver must team up with local villagers to save the day.

Season 1, Episode 3: Thief of Budapest

Original Air Date: 13 October 1985
MacGyver sneaks in a Middle Eastern tribal leader's camp to return a priceless thoroughbred, the theft of which was fared to start a tribal war which might sparkle a big one, is cornered, wins the duel unarmed on horseback and is picked up with the precious mount; that story ends well right there. Just back, Mac is personally asked to receive confidential information from fellow secret agent Nikolaj Grodsky in then communist Hungary's capital Budapast. He catches gypsy girl Jana picking his knife from his pocket, only to find after he lets her go she struck again already. The thief picked Nikolaj's pocket too, unnoticed, just before he's terminally hit by a car when running for Russian agent Kossov, who searches the corps in vain for his watch but sees Mac and Jana on traffic camera recordings and orders both brought in, helped by Hungarian police inspector Jan Messic. When Mac finds Jana, she tells him in tears to fear for her family as she already passed the watch to her brother Bruno; once they find Bruno and the others in Borza political prison, Mac springs them free in his surprising explosive way, only to hear the watch was already sold to gypsy fence Reena, who lets him take it when Kossov and Messic arrive. The four gypsies asks Mac to take them to America, so it's a hot race to the Austrian border...

Season 1, Episode 4: The Gauntlet

Original Air Date: 20 October 1985
In the opening gambit, Mac gets a map with a troublesome Arab regime's plans from a heavily guarded garrison and uses its cleverly as main tool for his surprise escape. In the main story, Mac is sent by a publisher to retrieve press photographer Kate Connelly from a corrupt Central American country, but she insists to finish her assignment first, so he helps her exposing the secret police chief, General Antonio Vasquez, who is suspected to plan a coup, making a secret arms deal with mobster Dave Ryerson, an old adversary of Mac. They are caught, but Mac uses all his tricks to escape and get the photos out too, impressive enough to turn her into a frisky friend, while the army uses all its resource to chase them to the Mexican border stream...

Season 1, Episode 5: The Heist

Original Air Date: 3 November 1985
U.S. Senator Rhodes asks Mac to help his daughter Chris on the Virgin Islands to get back the diamonds which got stolen by Daniel Sims, the accountant he hired for his African famine charity and got shot himself by his accomplice Catlin, a former mercenary, who runs a hotel and casino on the Virgin Islands. Mac decides to steal the rocks back from his casino's top-security vault, which he plans to infiltrate, for once in Bond style (tuxedo), by cheating and asking his considerable winnings to be stored there. Catlin was warned and spots his tricked dice, but after a daring escape they return by the back-door with an elaborate diversion, at least Mac has learned the stones are not in the official vault but the private one in Catlin's office. However there are more surprises on both sides..

Season 1, Episode 6: Trumbo's World

Original Air Date: 10 November 1985
Deep in a Brazilian jungle, MacGyver must defend a plantation compound from an unstoppable army of ants which are eating everything in their path.

Season 1, Episode 7: Last Stand

Original Air Date: 17 October 1985
On one of Mac's favorite trips down Memory Lane, looking in vain for his late father's favorite, perfect fishing spot, he gets lost as usual, this time ending up in a diner run by a boy's mother Kelly Nielson. As soon as the other guests lose patience, Mac gets held at gun-point with her and the black cook by a bunch of criminals who took over the road café two hours earlier to rob a passing money transport from Dallas. Mac saves the driver's life by making a non-lethal blowtorch to open the 'can', only to see him shot anyhow. Mac now teams up with the other male hostage, Kelly's friend, traumatized Vietnam veteran helicopter pilot Dave Redding, and learns the troublesome fiends' plan to commit a hijack on the adjoining flying school's airstrip, which they try to counter, either obeying to survive or cleverly sabotaging, with more highly original McGyverisms, using anything around...

Season 1, Episode 8: Hellfire

Original Air Date: 27 November 1985
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 abandoned 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...?

Season 1, Episode 9: The Prodigal

Original Air Date: 8 December 1985
A man wants to testify against his mobster brother in Federal Court,and Macgyver has the job of keeping him safe. There's a problem though. The man's mother is dying,and he wants to visit her. Can Macgyver help him visit his mother,and protect him from his brother at the same time.

Season 1, Episode 10: Target MacGyver

Original Air Date: 22 December 1985
There is a contract out on MacGyver so he leaves town and visits his Grandfather whom he hasn't seen in years. Soon the two are fighting for their lives in a cat and mouse hunt with the killers.

Season 1, Episode 11: Nightmares

Original Air Date: 15 January 1986
MacGyver has some very important information that enemy agents want. They know that MacGyver hid it and that he will never voluntarily tell them where it is. So, they inject him with a narcotic drug that will kill him in three hours unless he can steal the anecdote before his time runs out.

Season 1, Episode 12: Deathlock

Original Air Date: 22 January 1986
After returning from a dangerous mission in East Germany, MacGyver is sent to a safe house by his friend Pete Thornton. Unknown to the two men, an agent who is after MacGyver knows about their hiding place and will stop at nothing to finish the two of them off.

Season 1, Episode 13: Flame's End

Original Air Date: 29 January 1986
MacGyver responds to a call for help from an old girl friend when she suspects someone is trying to kill her. MacGyver finds himself in the middle of a mystery concerning robberies from a nearby nuclear power plant. An accident occurs and the reactor goes critical. Now it's up to MacGyver...

Season 1, Episode 14: Countdown

Original Air Date: 5 February 1986
A cruise ship is the target of a terrorist attack and has three bombs hidden aboard. MacGyver and a friend from the agency are asked to dismantle the bombs before it's too late for the crew and passengers.

Season 1, Episode 15: The Enemy Within

Original Air Date: 12 February 1986
MacGyver is facing betrayal as he tries to uncover the identity of an Agency mole. Other agents have already died at the hands of the infiltrator. MacGyver must prepare for the shocking truth when the killer's face is revealed.

Season 1, Episode 16: Every Time She Smiles

Original Air Date: 19 February 1986
While working a job in Bulgaria, MacGyver meets an extraordinary American girl, one who is a bit more than she seems. Meanwhile Mac must deal with the overzealous secret police and the fact that a very important microfilm has been smuggled out of the country by his beautiful new friend...

Season 1, Episode 17: To Be a Man

Original Air Date: 26 February 1986
An American satellite containing sensitive information lands in Afghanistan. It's up to Macgyver to keep it out of Russian hands.

Season 1, Episode 18: Ugly Duckling

Original Air Date: 12 March 1986

Season 1, Episode 19: Slow Death

Original Air Date: 26 March 1986
Mac dashes out of a taxi to run and jump onto the rain to Rashmir with proof about illegal arms trade in the Indian subcontinent. Alas the train is hijacked in tribal 'bandit country' by local men who consider it a matter of justice to find and execute two criminals. Mac gets the train out, but they catch up at the bridge Hassan's other band of villagers blows up. In order to prevent fellow Western passenger-hostages starving, Mac and the others must identify the two Anglo-Saxon businessmen who sold the village dispensary poison instead of medicines; an escape attempt and a luggage search fail, but Mac improvises a lie-detector. Meanwhile some of them deal with their halted lives and reconsider their past and future...

Season 1, Episode 20: The Escape

Original Air Date: 2 April 1986
Just when Mac has finished soccer-coaching the boys of a North African Catholic orphanage, Brian Ashford's sisters Sara convinces him to break her innocently framed brother Brian, a medical missionary, from prison. So Mac lightly assaults two cops who beat up an old peddler, and is told by the warden ('commandant') Western privilege is no longer his share, nothing for nothing. Mac befriends old Frenchman Francois Villars, who helps him find out trustee Khan is the key man in luxury who runs a PCP drugs lab, with whom he ingratiates himself thanks to his technical fixing skills, and that Brian is in the political ward. The warden has every room wired, including where Mac's visiting 'wife' Ashley comes arrange transport to wait outside for the boys' escape, but Mac knew about the wiring, so his escape plan is double-bottomed. However there are more two-faced hidden agendas, in- and outside...

Season 1, Episode 21: A Prisoner of Conscience

Original Air Date: 30 April 1986
Pete Thornton feels guilty when a Russian friend of his is arrested for fraternizing with an American. Since Pete was that American, he and Macgyver set out to release Pete's friend from the sanitarium where he is being held. To do this MacGyver must masquerade as a crazy inmate.

Season 1, Episode 22: The Assassin

Original Air Date: 7 May 1986
An assassin is primed to knock off a high-ranking official when MacGyver is called in. But in order to foil a master of disguises, Mac must don the best disguise of all...

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Season 2

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Season 2, Episode 1: The Human Factor

Original Air Date: 22 September 1986
sent to test the security system at a top secret research center MacGyver finds himself at odds against an ambitious doctor and her highly advanced computer system. MacGyver breaks through the security system only to get trapped inside the research center with a computer that is going to kill him by pumping all the oxygen out of the center.

Season 2, Episode 2: The Eraser

Original Air Date: 29 September 1986
When MacGyver is lured into helping a man find his son, he quickly learns the true history of his new friend. Can Jimmy "The Eraser" Kendall really turn his life around with Mac's help, or will they become targets themselves?

Season 2, Episode 3: Twice Stung

Original Air Date: 6 October 1986
MacGyver is shocked to find Kelly Sutton, a Phoenix Foundation working bee, trying to commit suicide, saying it's to put his three kids trough college after loosing his life savings in a swamp land deal pulled by never convicted con artist James Crowe. Mac convinces Pete, who couldn't possibly involve the Foundation in such a murky business, to set up a scam to outsmart the crook and win $400,000 back; greenhorn analyst Joanne Remmings, who researches such plots, is grudgingly semi-admitted to take part. First they hook Crowe by pretending Pete is a dirty cop artificially made to win by Mac, thus lured into putting up the cash for a cocaine transaction, which they deliberately make go wrong, and ultimately promise to go steal a fortune in cash from police evidence custody, each time complicated with Joanne...

Season 2, Episode 4: The Wish Child

Original Air Date: 20 October 1986
In Santa Monica, a sunny paradise for the Minnesota boy, Mac accepts to get his martial arts sparring partner Lisa's 14 year-old brother Paul Chan. Only a Macgyverism gets him access to the Chinatown establishment where scientist Dr. Shen Wei is authenticating the teenager as the legendary Wish Child, so Shen can advise the Hong Kong magnate Lee Wenying that Paul is the real one; Lee pays crime baron Ston's finder's fee. Mac is knocked down and can barely escape from Lee's cargo freighter, before learning from petty crook Sam and Dr. Shen enough to go after the boy, whose presence would allow the aging Lee to survive his life-span, reason to keep the kid captured, but Mac is determined to rescue him...

Season 2, Episode 5: Final Approach

Original Air Date: 27 October 1986
Mac is not amused when Peter fixes the Phoenix Foundation flight simulator to crash just before he actually takes a bunch of probation trouble youths camping by airplane, without any budget. Their regular counselor takes reinforcements as an insult and splits; Mac wins some respect by his ingenious bush cooking skills. The pilot who was to return the party a few days later gets a heart-attack, so they crash in the wilderness. The rebellious ruffians (boys and one disputed girl) prove quite a handful to get out of trouble -most of which they keep creating- even with macgyverisms, but a serious grudge between gang leaders and a medical emergency really push Mac's resourcefulness to the limit, but at least now they all pull together...

Season 2, Episode 6: Jack of Lies

Original Air Date: 3 November 1986
MacGyver's old friend Jack Dalton asks his help in freeing a friend that was captured by a corrupt government in South America. Mac agrees to help, only to find that he's getting into more than he bargained for.

Season 2, Episode 7: The Road Not Taken

Original Air Date: 10 November 1986
The new dictatorial regime in a neighbor country of Thailand is eliminating adversaries. Mac and Pete fly and rappel to the rescue of an orphanage run there by Pete's platonic friend, Catholic nun Margareth. To Mac's surprise, her assistant is his own former girlfriend Debra Easton, now a religious novice, who helps him keep ahead with the orphans of the surprisingly resourceful captain Chanthara, who was barely outsmarted by Macgyverisms but shot both their rescue helicopter and its pilot Jimmy; Debra fall out, Mac dives after her, so Pete shouts the code Bulgaria: pick-up there in eight hours. While Mac and his mate run for the captain's men, escape after capture and face their own doubts, Pete and sister Margareth face theirs, repairs to the helicopter and a traitor in the refugee camp run by French MD Gilbert Arnaud.

Season 2, Episode 8: Eagles

Original Air Date: 17 November 1986
Mac happily volunteers for a Phoenix foundation mission: helping protect the golden eagle. The pair he is sent to check on lives on a steep mountain; during his first attempt to approach it by para-glider, they get attacked in flight by a rich poacher and his criminal accomplices in a helicopter, who shoot the male by gun, far out of reach, and wound the female by crossbow before taking off; Mac descends to get the female, nearby, and teams up there with bright ten year-old Darin Cooper, who learned a lot about eagles from his late granddad. They bring the wounded eagle to the cabin where Darin's over-protective single mother Susan brought him in an attempt to mend her bond with the growing boy, who needs more space to become a man and instantly takes to understanding father figure Mac, nurse it and realize the male and probable chicks must be found, raising them is not a single parent job with eagles. With improvised extra climbing gear Mac risks his life dangling on and up the mountain, but ultimately gets the male down, only to find the fiends, who fear a witness, have taken hold of the Coopers. Macgiverisms win the battle one to two. Last task is to follow the healed male to the nest and get the chicks, who need human nursing after the female sadly dies, and they're in an even less accessible spot...

Season 2, Episode 9: Silent World

Original Air Date: 24 November 1986
Mac and Pete present a Phoenix foundation invention to a school for the deaf/mute: it converts sounds into waves to feel. The teacher Carrie Linden has strange, scary, symbolic dreams involving lightening, a Moor on a horse, a steel skeleton, a limousine and Mac's dead. A U.S. Army jeep is robbed of secret Moloch missile warheads by a fake sheriff and his deputies in South Carolina, they travel far to steal from an exhibition another part of the rocket. After a lightening bolts-marked van nearly runs them over, Mac convinces Pete to bring Carrie to dream researchers. They decide to take her along to a military test of the device, where she recognizes the fake sheriff, whose team escapes after a fire-fight, killing one of their own, and Mac realizes they are stealing Moloch missiles part by part. Mac helps Carrie identify the Braden Lake from her dream by its shape, and takes her there do 'decypher' the rest of the dream, successfully, but they're attacked by the missile thieves who kidnap her. It's high time for major Macgyverisms and brave, clever fighting...

Season 2, Episode 10: Three for the Road

Original Air Date: 15 December 1986
MacGyver's rental car dies, so he hitches a ride with an elderly couple who came into possession of the counterfeit money Mac came to pick up from a mob contact as evidence. Three mobsters try to recover the money.

Season 2, Episode 11: Phoenix Under Siege

Original Air Date: 5 January 1987
To Mac's surprise, for the first time in 20 years his grandpa Harry, who raised the genius after his parents's untimely death in a car accident, accepted on that anniversary to join him for a hockey game. However Mac forgot the tickets, so they look for them in Pete's office, just when the Phoenix Foundation building is penetrated by ruthless killer Victoria James alias Susan Murphy, who was hired by the terrorist Liberation Front to plant a bomb which Mac disarmed in Kuwait and now wants to destroy it with its record before it's traced to her. After noticing Mac, she negotiates the front to pay her $100,000 extra to kill him and uses the Front stooges she planned to kill anyhow, but a few Macgyverisms overcome their clumsy attempts to imprison and kill Mac, while she deletes the bomb's inventory file and holds Harry hostage. The duel to the death is on...

Season 2, Episode 12: Family Matter

Original Air Date: 12 January 1987
While Pete's wife Connie, an archaeologist, and their adolescent son Michael, who resents his absentee father, are on a dig in Louisisiana, they are kidnapped by the men of mercenary Frank Bonner, a former agency colleague of Pete whom he blames for the death of the Bonner family in a Yemeni tribal pacification mission which went wring after Frank embezzled agency funds, planning a gruesome revenge: make Pete watch his own loved-ones die. MacGyver flies ahead so he can bug the gang's car at the meeting point. Even as they change vehicle, Mac works out where and sees trough Obadiah Moss they planted there to point him into the bayou, so he can make a surprising entry, frees Michael and together with him returns for his parents, pulling Macgyverisms all the time.

Season 2, Episode 13: Soft Touch

Original Air Date: 19 January 1987
Mac goes to a nuclear plant in Siberia to spring Yuri Demetri, a Soviet Russian political prisoner on account of his father's defection. Back in the States, Mac is not amused to find penniless Penny Parker invited herself to stay in his Californian home, but allows her to house-sit a few days. At her new job, as singing telegram, airhead Penny accidentally bursts into the wrong house, where Columbian drugs cartel-employed killers are decibel-torturing federal agent Robert Julian, a potential witness to their next hit by voice recognition-triggered bomb in Jack Larson's wheelchair to kill politician Javier Estevez in Phoenix Foundation-secured city-hall; she escapes and tells Mac. Later Penny recognizes on TV Derek Thompson, Estevez's corrupt aid who she saw at the torture, but the goons kidnap her and Yuri, planning to eliminate all embarrassing witnesses. Mac tails them to a warehouse, where he starts pulling his tricks to save his two friends who were left in a cooling cell (walk-in freezer) to die from frost, next he must handle the bomb last-minute.

Season 2, Episode 14: Birth Day

Original Air Date: 2 February 1987
Elaine Harryman, wife of ex-con Andrew Harryman, discovers the horrible truth about her husbands malicious affairs, and threatens to divulge them to the police, which does not sit well with her husband Andrew, who then decides to have her killed. She takes flight on foot, and runs into MacGyver, and the chase is on...

Season 2, Episode 15: Pirates

Original Air Date: 9 February 1987
The USNavy enlists the Phoenix Foundation's help to find out who used its SEALs diving techniques to commit three pirate robberies in two weeks. Next victim is archaeologist Barbara Ortega's crew, which just found the log and some coins of a 17th century Spanish treasure fleet. The 'pirate captain' Gar Manning planned to sell the gold back to Ortega, but overhears her explaining about the valuable log to Mac, so his team eliminates the sole witness, kidnaps Barbara and leaves Mac in a sinking yacht; yet he escapes and works out with Pete and the Navy that the ideal hiding place for once psychiatry-test-refused SEAL-applicant Gar is Navy exercise site Goat Island, so Mac approaches it in SEAL style, only to find it dangerous in several ways....

Season 2, Episode 16: Out in the Cold

Original Air Date: 16 February 1987
A certain Phil is followed by the gang men of mob boss Sam Leland, who have orders to get hold of an incriminating microfilm and kill him, so he hides it in a ski stick which he exchanges after deliberately bumping into Mac, who took reluctant and wining boss Pete to spend their 'bonus' vacation on the ski piste. First Max and the the stick get buried in an avalanche, but he cleverly finds a way to indicate where he is trapped. After the rescue, Pete stupidly breaks his foot, so Mac has to nurse the demanding, grumpy boss 'without fussing' over him and his cask. Then the criminals try kidnapping first Mac, who gets away, and then Pete, so Mac comes to the rescue, and discovers the stick is the key...

Season 2, Episode 17: Dalton, Jack of Spies

Original Air Date: 23 February 1987
When Mac -alone- attends eternal prankster Jack Dalton's church funeral, he finds the scoundrel staged it to escape enemy spies whose packages his new messenger service Jack-be-Quick was to deliver but betrayed to the CIA. They escape by sidecar, but are blamed by CIA and police for the murder on Jack's CIA contact Light and betrayed by absent Pete's substitute's CIA friend, so they turn to Light's female partner Shadow, still chased by double agents, she's focused on the CIA rotten apples and a top-secret encryption device. Mac sneaks the others in at the auction the enemy uses as contraband cover, but...

Season 2, Episode 18: Partners

Original Air Date: 2 March 1987
Mac and Pete are trapped in a large truck, destination unknown. They reminisce about how they first met and started to work together, while dealing with an assassin named Murdoc. Murdoc has a messy end planned for the two of them, but is seemingly killed instead by the final explosion.

Season 2, Episode 19: Bushmaster

Original Air Date: 23 March 1987
Kelly Henderson may beat Mac and Pete for the Phoenix Foundation's field exercise trophy, they are send by boss Jeff Moore, who pilots the dropping plane personally, as rescue team when her dad Joe Henderson is arrested and expected to be convicted to death as alleged spy after his plane crashed on its way to Panama, yet Kelly stowed away so she can jump with them in the banana republic San Perez, which just had colonel Salazar's military coup. Their contact is Lt. Paul Parra, Joe's army-appointed defense counsel. As Kelly packed a small arsenal but no passport, they are arrested at the first check-point, but Mac starts working his magic with a mere handful of dust...

Season 2, Episode 20: Friends

Original Air Date: 6 April 1987
Mac returns from the field shaken by too many near death experiences. Determined to resign, he realizes over the course of a birthday party how much the people he's helped mean to him.

Season 2, Episode 21: D. O. A.: MacGyver

Original Air Date: 27 April 1987
Mac meets an old contact to learn of a planned assassination. During the meet the hit men kill the contact, and wound Mac, causing amnesia. Assisted by the captain of the boat he escapes on, Mac stumbles towards the scene, confused as to who the real target is.

Season 2, Episode 22: For Love or Money

Original Air Date: 4 May 1987
An activist for civil rights in Chzecloslovokia is arrested by the government. He is thrown into a psychiatric hospital as a political prisoner and held there. The Pheonix Foundation devises a plan to free him, but it involves Macgyver posing as a newly-wed with a woman that he despises.

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Season 3

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Season 3, Episode 1: Lost Love: Part 1

Original Air Date: 21 September 1987

Season 3, Episode 2: Lost Love: Part 2

Original Air Date: 28 September 1987

Season 3, Episode 3: Back from the Dead

Original Air Date: 5 October 1987
Jimmy 'The Eraser' Kendall, a man MacGyver helped put into the witness protection program, has been spotted by he mob. They've kidnapped his daughter and grandson, and they want Jimmy back, or else.

Season 3, Episode 4: Ghost Ship

Original Air Date: 19 October 1987
While mapping some wilderness in Alaska, MacGyver discovers an abandoned ship. On it, a Russian stowaway tells him that the crew were all scared off, by Bigfoot!

Season 3, Episode 5: Fire and Ice

Original Air Date: 26 October 1987

Season 3, Episode 6: GX-1

Original Air Date: 2 November 1987
Experiemental US fighter jet gets shot down over East Germany and MacGyver is sent in to demolish the wreckage, while Soviets who backed by a psychic are trying to reach it first.

Season 3, Episode 7: Jack in the Box

Original Air Date: 9 November 1987

Season 3, Episode 8: The Widowmaker

Original Air Date: 16 November 1987
While scaling the cliff face known as "The Widowmaker," Mac loses his best friend. Before he can properly grieve, he is forced to run from an old enemy who is now hunting him down. With the help of a colleague, Mac finds his way back to the Widowmaker and fighting for his life on the same ledge that took his best friend.

Season 3, Episode 9: Hell Week

Original Air Date: 23 November 1987
MacGyver is asked by his former professor to be a judge for a university physics competition - a competition that Mac himself has won. The professor's son, pumped and primed to win the prize, is deceived and ultimately defeated. The aftermath proves deadly, as Mac deals with the son's depression and endless uphill battle to make his father proud.

Season 3, Episode 10: Blow Out

Original Air Date: 21 December 1987

Season 3, Episode 11: Kill Zone

Original Air Date: 4 January 1988
When a satellite carrying a genetic experiment crashes to earth MacGyver is sent in to recover. When he arrives he discovers that the experiment mutated in space and now ages animals at a vast rate. It is taken back to the lab but the scientist in charge doesn't want to destroy it.

Season 3, Episode 12: Early Retirement

Original Air Date: 18 January 1988

Season 3, Episode 13: Thin Ice

Original Air Date: 1 February 1988

Season 3, Episode 14: The Odd Triple

Original Air Date: 29 February 1988
MacGyver agrees to accompany Jack on a flight to bring a rich woman and her recently acquired jewels to France. However, as soon as they land in France they are arrested for theft and regardless of their pleas, accused of complicity.

Season 3, Episode 15: The Negotiator

Original Air Date: 7 March 1988
When MacGyver's research into the wildlife around the planned building site of a marina threatens to cause a shutdown of the project, the owner hires a beautiful woman to persuade MacGyver to change his mind... by any means necessary.

Season 3, Episode 16: The Spoilers

Original Air Date: 14 March 1988

Season 3, Episode 17: Mask of the Wolf

Original Air Date: 28 March 1988

Season 3, Episode 18: Rock the Cradle

Original Air Date: 18 April 1988

Season 3, Episode 19: The Endangered

Original Air Date: 2 May 1988

Season 3, Episode 20: Murderers' Sky

Original Air Date: 9 May 1988

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Season 4

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Season 4, Episode 1: The Secret of Parker House

Original Air Date: 31 October 1988

Season 4, Episode 2: Blood Brothers

Original Air Date: 21 November 1988

Season 4, Episode 3: The Outsiders

Original Air Date: 28 November 1988

Season 4, Episode 4: On a Wing and a Prayer

Original Air Date: 5 December 1988
Pete is taken prisoner during a coup d'état by the rebels in Barraca. MacGyver must enlist Jack to help rescue Pete.

Season 4, Episode 5: Collision Course

Original Air Date: 12 December 1988
MacGyver is a test driver for a racing team using a new Phoenix developed engine, and when the team faces sabotage that injures the team's race driver, MacGyver must deal with his traumatic past that had made him quit racing and face an old rival again.

Season 4, Episode 6: The Survivors

Original Air Date: 9 January 1989

Season 4, Episode 7: Deadly Dreams

Original Air Date: 16 January 1989
When a killer escapes from prison, MacGyver joins the search. But the escapee is not only a dangerous fugitive - he is a pawn to a much more brilliant mind still locked in prison, using the escapee to exact revenge on the female cop that put him away.

Season 4, Episode 8: Ma Dalton

Original Air Date: 23 January 1989

Season 4, Episode 9: Cleo Rocks

Original Air Date: 6 February 1989
MacGyver's friend Penny is the star of a new hit musical. MacGyver shows up to give her all the support she needs only to find out that the director is really an old friend of MacGyver's and Pete's in disguise. But, once again MacGyver saves the day.

Season 4, Episode 10: Fraternity of Thieves

Original Air Date: 13 February 1989

Season 4, Episode 11: The Battle of Tommy Giordano

Original Air Date: 20 February 1989

Season 4, Episode 12: The Challenge

Original Air Date: 27 February 1989
Ray, an ex-gang member gets into some trouble with the police and a local shop owner. With the help of MacGyver, he unravels an anti-semitic community in the neighborhood surrounding the challenger's club.

Season 4, Episode 13: Runners

Original Air Date: 13 March 1989

Season 4, Episode 14: Gold Rush

Original Air Date: 27 March 1989

Season 4, Episode 15: The Invisible Killer

Original Air Date: 10 April 1989
MacGyver takes a group of Phoenix Foundation employees for recreational trip into the wilderness but learns that someone of the group might be an escaped criminal.

Season 4, Episode 16: Brainwashed

Original Air Date: 24 April 1989

Season 4, Episode 17: Easy Target

Original Air Date: 1 May 1989
MacGyver and Pete Thornton are caught as hostages by a terrorist group that intends to hit a city with an Electro Magnetic Pulse weapon, which would cripple the entire city.

Season 4, Episode 18: Renegade

Original Air Date: 8 May 1989

Season 4, Episode 19: Unfinished Business

Original Air Date: 15 May 1989

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Season 5

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Season 5, Episode 1: Legend of the Holy Rose: Part 1

Original Air Date: 18 September 1989
After a haranguing episode in South America, MacGyver returns home to find himself taken hostage in his own houseboat by an old archaeologist friend. She is there to garner his help in tracking down a hidden treasure for which only she has the clues. But at what cost?

Season 5, Episode 2: Legend of the Holy Rose: Part 2

Original Air Date: 25 September 1989
The search for the Holy Rose takes MacGyver and Zoe to the British Museum where Mac has an ax to grind with a rival treasure-hunter. Eventually they end up in France where the searchers make a dazzling discovery, and just in time to save them from the clutches of a blood-thirsty jewel magnate.

Season 5, Episode 3: The Black Corsage

Original Air Date: 2 October 1989

Season 5, Episode 4: Cease Fire

Original Air Date: 9 October 1989
While in Geneva, MacGyver is wounded during an attempted assassination. He is helped by an American girl at a Swiss boarding school who protects and assists him in nailing the people responsible. Mac's efforts even find him hanging from a ski lift half way up a mountain...

Season 5, Episode 5: Second Chance

Original Air Date: 16 October 1989

Season 5, Episode 6: Halloween Knights

Original Air Date: 30 October 1989
MacGyver's nemesis Murdoc returns, but this time to strike a deal with his enemy. Murdoc's sister is going to be killed by Murdoc's former employers, HIT. Mac agrees to help, but must keep his guard up if he is going to trust Murdoc at all.

Season 5, Episode 7: Children of Light

Original Air Date: 6 November 1989

Season 5, Episode 8: Black Rhino

Original Air Date: 13 November 1989
MacGyver trails a friend to Africa where he witnesses the cruel slaughter of the endangered Black Rhino. When he joins the activists hoping the prevent the poaching, Mac meets up with the man behind the scheme - Ladysmith.

Season 5, Episode 9: The Ten Percent Solution

Original Air Date: 20 November 1989
"Third Park Attack - Streets Declared Unsafe", reads The Observer headline. A Mr Brand, who is running for Congress, is giving a speech on TV, claiming that his goal is to make the streets safe for the people. Meanwhile, at Carlyle Auction House, Pete is makes the winning bid on a valuable Rubens painting The Phoenix Foundation is planning to donate to a museum, to prevent it from being hidden from the public in some private vault. Just at that very moment, a distraught man rushes in, claiming the painting belongs to his family. The man claims the ERR (Einsatzstab Rosenberg Reichminister, WWII Nazi art looters) stole the painting. There is a villainous-looking man observing and reporting to someone over a mobile phone. Something is going on... *****SPOILER WARNING***** Yep, those damn Neo-Nazis are at it again, planning to overtake five states, which equals 10% of The USA (hence the title), funding their election campaigns with paintings stolen from the Jewish people during WWII.

Season 5, Episode 10: Two Times Trouble

Original Air Date: 11 December 1989

Season 5, Episode 11: The Madonna

Original Air Date: 18 December 1989
It's almost Christmas. A figure of The Madonna disappears from a church. MacGyver and Pete, who are on their way to to deliver gifts to a local youth center, see and old homeless lady being harassed by two punks and chase them away. They take the lady to the youth center, where she gets shelter. Sadly, the center is under a threat of being shut down because of lack of money. Pete can't help because the Phoenix Foundation budget is already locked for the next six months. The priest from the church speaks on TV, petitioning for information on The Madonna. MacGyver decides to help. But in the unfolding events, the old lady has a role to play as well.

Season 5, Episode 12: Serenity

Original Air Date: 8 January 1990
MacGyver is burnt out because of the Phoenix Foundation's demanding tasks and decides to take a leave. Also, in his answering machine, there are messages from Jack, who has yet another crazy fortune-making idea, and Penny, who is asking for a favor. MacGyver tries to watch a western on TV, but falls asleep on the couch. In his dream, he is in post-Emancipation Old West, arriving in a town called Serenity. There he meets incarnations of Jack, Penny, Wilt Bozer, Milt Bozer, Billy Colton, and, of course, his nemesis, Murdoc... But the Bad Guy is Pete!

Season 5, Episode 13: Live and Learn

Original Air Date: 15 January 1990
Students are dropping out of high school. The Phoenix Foundation has chosen a school with a high drop-out rate and to test their pilot program for lowering the number of drop-outs there. MacGyver gives a physics demonstration using Deron, a young Afro-American football player in high school. He's only interested in sports, but MacGyver tries to make him believe that by concentrating in studying, he could go way further than to Superbowl. Tony is another kid who doesn't bother to take part in science projects - he finds it much more stimulating to sabotage them. MacGyver sees hope for Tony and chooses him as a test subject in the program, but the George Fraley, the toughest critic against soft methods on problem youth thinks Tony is a lost cause. The program requires two positive role models for the subject: one teacher and one outside volunteer. MacGyver nominates himself and Fraley. Tony's dad is a workman at a construction site where the project is two weeks behind schedule. The project manager gives the foreman the order to "be creative". Could the plots for Tony's school and his father's construction site possibly converge?

Season 5, Episode 14: Log Jam

Original Air Date: 5 February 1990

Season 5, Episode 15: The Treasure of Manco

Original Air Date: 12 February 1990
MacGyver is at the University of San Marcos, Lima, Peru, to attend the funeral of a brilliant archaeologist, who was murdered in the mountains. And he never found the Inca treasure he searched 15 years for. His daughter Maria is determined to carry his work. The treasure could change the entire economy of Peru, for the good or the bad. For good, if the money obtained from selling the treasure would be used for education. For bad, if MacGyver's old school-buddy Enrique could use it to fund a revolution. Hesitantly, MacGyver agrees to help Maria.

Season 5, Episode 16: Jenny's Chance

Original Air Date: 19 February 1990
A jockey refuses to have any part on a horse race fixed by his employer, a wealthy man called Mr. Henderson. The jockey threatens to go to the police, so Mr. Henderson throws him in a stall with a horse and activates a device which makes the horse crazy. The jockey is stomped to death by the horse. The jockey's daughter Jenny arrives to find his body. The police investigate his death and conclude that it was an accident but Jenny has found evidence that makes her believe it was not, so she calls Jack Dalton and MacGyver to investigate what has happened.

Season 5, Episode 17: Deep Cover

Original Air Date: 26 February 1990
MacGyver is part of a group that is testing remote-controlled unmanned submarines for the DEA's Submarine Interdiction Program, which was looking good until the drug cartel equipped their drug boats with sonar. Fortunately, MacGyver's group has come up with a device called ERMA, that is capable of creating false sonar readings, thus making a DEAD sub equipped with one invisible to all cartel sonar. Of course, the cartel would be VERY interested in getting their hands on such a device...

Season 5, Episode 18: The Lost Amadeus

Original Air Date: 19 March 1990

Season 5, Episode 19: Hearts of Steel

Original Air Date: 9 April 1990

Season 5, Episode 20: Rush to Judgement

Original Air Date: 16 April 1990

Season 5, Episode 21: Passages

Original Air Date: 30 April 1990
Attacked by criminals, MacGyver finds himself in a coma, bordering death. He experiences an incredible vision as he is reunited with his recently departed grandfather Harry and his long-dead parents. They help to realize the importance of his life and give him the strength to save himself and identify his attackers.

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Season 6

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Season 6, Episode 1: Tough Boys

Original Air Date: 17 September 1990

Season 6, Episode 2: Humanity

Original Air Date: 24 September 1990

Season 6, Episode 3: The Gun

Original Air Date: 1 October 1990

Season 6, Episode 4: Twenty Questions

Original Air Date: 8 October 1990

Season 6, Episode 5: The Wall

Original Air Date: 22 October 1990

Season 6, Episode 6: Lesson in Evil

Original Air Date: 29 October 1990
The infamous Dr. Zito escapes from court during his insanity hearing. MacGyver and the police, including the same officer responsible for Zito's incarceration, are now the victims of Zito's sadistic games.

Season 6, Episode 7: Harry's Will

Original Air Date: 5 November 1990
MacGyver's grandfather Harry has passed away. In his will, he says that the thing he has left to MacGyver is in a certain garage. The attorney has a problem: he can't find MacGyver's first name in the will. MacGyver tells him it's because HE DOESN'T HAVE ONE. Although Harry used to call him Bud. Meanwhile, an old man named Cody, who knew Harry, is released from prison - what are the odds, eh? Outside, a biker chick called Big Mama and his man called Dent have been waiting for Cody's release. They don't alert him to their present, but start following Cody. But someone is following them in a black car with darkened windows. MacGyver arrives at the garage and is given a riddle. And an old car. Cody arrives at another garage, hoping to find the car there, but it has been moved to the garage where MacGyver is. Big Mama drops Dent at the "wrong" garage to interrogate the owner in order to find what Cody was looking for and then she follows Cody. The black car follows her. MacGyver has just finished polishing the car when Cody arrives. It turns he has met MacGyver and his grandfather before he went to jail. He wants to know if MacGyver has found anything unusual in the car... MacGyver gets suspicious. Big Mama is outside, waiting for Dent, who tells her that Cody is after a '57 Nomad. Cody tricks MacGyver for leaving him alone with the car for a while and finds a hidden envelope - addressed to HIM. Then Big Mama and Dent drive in. Things are starting to get complicated...

Season 6, Episode 8: MacGyver's Women

Original Air Date: 12 November 1990
Maria (from #6.5, 'The Wall) has been offered a position at the university and she's considering leaving the Phoenix Foundation. That way she could settle down with MacGyver. But commitment is "not an easy thing" for him to talk about. MacGyver takes Maria to his place, only to find Kate Murphy (from #6.6, 'Lesson in Evil') there! Then some young woman called Jenny bursts down from upstairs. Turns out she's with Kate. Over some Chinese, the women gang up against MacGyver and The Old West gets mentioned. MacGyver retreats upstairs and starts to watch a western on video but, once again falls asleep. Cue again a dream, where MacGyver lives in the Old West, a town called Serenity (#5.12, 'Serenity'), among familiar faces like the Bozer brothers.

Season 6, Episode 9: Bitter Harvest

Original Air Date: 19 November 1990

Season 6, Episode 10: The Visitor

Original Air Date: 3 December 1990
While driving through a small town, MacGyver sees something resembling a UFO landing, and starts to investigate.

Season 6, Episode 11: Squeeze Play

Original Air Date: 17 December 1990
Mama Colton, MacGyver, and the daughter of a baseball legend join forces to take down a group of criminals that produce counterfeit baseball cards and other baseball related collector's items.

Season 6, Episode 12: Jerico Games

Original Air Date: 7 January 1991
The Phoenix Foundation is one of the organizers of "Jerico Games" - an international ice hockey tournament. MacGyver meets his Russian friend, Sergej (from #1.15, 'The Enemy Within'), who introduces MacGyver to Nikolai Rostov, of whom NHL is very interested in. To MacGyver's surprise, Nikolai has been accommodated at his place! MacGyver goes to find the person in charge of athlete housing, only to find out that it is Ellen, his high school sweetheart from 20 years before. Old feelings resurface, but why is someone secretly taking photos of them?

Season 6, Episode 13: The Wasteland

Original Air Date: 21 January 1991
MacGyver arrives at a wasteland test site owned by Phoenix Foundation. There he finds an envelope waiting for him, containing an audio cassette with instructions to play it. A voice tells that he will be waiting for MacGyver ahead and then proceeds to describe how the area once busy with living things died. Even the air is hazardous to breathe. The voice is convinced that this is what will happen to the town of Maple Ridge if constructor Bartlett's City Development Program becomes a reality.

Season 6, Episode 14: Eye of Osiris

Original Air Date: 4 February 1991
MacGyver is helping archaeologists to find the tomb of Alexander The Great, but soon learns that they are not the only ones out there looking for it.

Season 6, Episode 15: High Control

Original Air Date: 11 February 1991

Season 6, Episode 16: There But for the Grace

Original Air Date: 18 February 1991
Two guys whack a priest in the head with a metal pipe, drag him into a construction site and proceed to rob him of everything valuable. Meanwhile, MacGyver and a woman are attending a hearing about the homeless situation in the area and start wondering why Father Jim is late. The woman is Rachel, Father Jim's assistant whom he had instructed to say to MacGyver "black and blue" should he be late. It's an old expression from their hockey days, a call for help. Then the word arrives: Father Jim has been taken to hospital in a critical condition. His speak makes of little sense. He mumbles something of Danny and Doc. The police deem in unlikely that the muggers will be caught. Then the doctor comes with the news: Father Jim has expired. It's time for MacGyver to start an investigation of his own.

Season 6, Episode 17: Blind Faith

Original Air Date: 4 March 1991
A man has been killed in broad daylight and Pete is at the scene. A stranger passes Pete by and whispers into his ear: "It's off." When Pete is looking at sketches of the suspects, MacGyver notices that Pete has trouble with his vision. Agent Stams from DXS arrives to meet Pete. Phoenix took on the job of returning Samantha Lora, a political fugitive, to her home country. Samantha's supporters were going to deliver a video tape stolen from San Pablo presidential palace, a tape showing summary executions of 200 political prisoners, when they ran into a death squad waiting for them. Pete was supposed to get the tape because they have a 6 p.m. deadline for a media conference about its contents at a local broadcasting station (exactly why the tape would be worthless after that is left unexplained), but the man who has it took off when the death squad appeared and his whereabouts are unknown. Samantha is the only one who knows how to contact him. And for her, Phoenix has arrived a safe place until her transport to San Pablo leaves. Pete and MacGyver go to pick up Samantha when she arrives undercover. Samantha calls the number at which the man with the tape can be contacted. He then calls her back and agrees a time and place where he will deliver the tape. MacGyver gets to be the pick-up man. But underlings of the president of San Pablo are on his tail...

Season 6, Episode 18: Faith, Hope & Charity

Original Air Date: 18 March 1991
MacGyver steps into a bear trap in the woods while tracking a wolf. Luckily for him, two friendly elderly sisters, who are not friends of bear traps, take him home with them and take care of him.

Season 6, Episode 19: Strictly Business

Original Air Date: 8 April 1991
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.

Season 6, Episode 20: Trail of Tears

Original Air Date: 29 April 1991

Season 6, Episode 21: Hind-Sight

Original Air Date: 6 May 1991
MacGyver visits Pete Thornton in the hospital, where Pete is to have eye surgery. They talk and reminisce about their many adventures together.

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Season 7

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Season 7, Episode 1: Honest Abe

Original Air Date: 16 September 1991

Season 7, Episode 2: The 'Hood

Original Air Date: 23 September 1991

Season 7, Episode 3: Obsessed

Original Air Date: 30 September 1991

Season 7, Episode 4: The Prometheus Syndrome

Original Air Date: 7 October 1991

Season 7, Episode 5: The Coltons

Original Air Date: 14 October 1991

Season 7, Episode 6: Walking Dead

Original Air Date: 21 October 1991

Season 7, Episode 7: Good Knight MacGyver: Part 1

Original Air Date: 4 November 1991
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 (a curious Pete look-alike!). Here he must confront some stubborn knights, convince Arthur that he is a friend, and set out in search of his forefathers.

Season 7, Episode 8: Good Knight MacGyver: Part 2

Original Air Date: 11 November 1991
After outwitting the evil Sir Duncan and escaping the clutches of Morgana, MacGyver and Merlin search for the kidnapped Cecilia. They not only free Cecilia and bring Morgana's wizardry to an end, but they find MacGyver's ancestor as well. Here, the first name of our protagonist is finally revealed...

Season 7, Episode 9: Deadly Silents

Original Air Date: 18 November 1991

Season 7, Episode 10: Split Decision

Original Air Date: 2 December 1991

Season 7, Episode 11: Gunz 'n Boyz

Original Air Date: 16 December 1991

Season 7, Episode 12: Off the Wall

Original Air Date: 30 December 1991

Season 7, Episode 13: The Stringer

Original Air Date: 25 April 1992
MacGyver and his young Chinese friend are again at odds with Chinese criminals over labor regulations. During his investigation, Mac is helped by a photojournalist biker named Sam. It turns out that Sam has more than just a passing interest in MacGyver - he believes that MacGyver is his father!

Season 7, Episode 14: The Mountain of Youth

Original Air Date: 21 May 1992

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