Episodes
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During seasons 4–7, the show revolved more around social issues such as guns and runaway teens than did the episodes in seasons 1–3, which were mostly about MacGyver's adventures working for the United States government, and then later the Phoenix Foundation.
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[edit] Season 1
| # | Title | Plot Summary | First broadcast |
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | Pilot | A mysterious explosion demolishes an underground lab. Can MacGyver single-handedly rescue the trapped scientists, and stop a deadly chemical leak? | 29th September 1985 |
| 002 | The Golden Triangle | While retrieving a poison-filled canister from a crash site in Burma, MacGyver is forced to take on a powerful drug lord when he is mistaken for a narcotics agent. | 6th October 1985 |
| 003 | Thief Of Budapest | In Budapest, MacGyver obtains vital microfilmed information hidden inside a watch. But when the watch is stolen, MacGyver has to find the thief: a young Gypsy girl. | 13th October 1985 |
| 004 | The Gauntlet | MacGyver goes up against an entire army when he helps an American journalist escape across the border of a South American dictatorship. | 21st October 1985 |
| 005 | The Heist | A Virgin Islands casino owner steals $60 million in diamonds. MacGyver and an American senator's daughter plot to steal them back from the casino's impregnable vault. | 3rd November 1985 |
| 006 | Trumbo's World | Deep in the primitive Amazon jungle, MacGyver teams with an entomologist friend and a local plantation owner to battle an invading horde of killer ants. | 10th November 1985 |
| 007 | Last Stand | Armed robbers make the mistake of accidentally taking MacGyver hostage. Now, their inadvertent captive uses his extraordinary skills to thwart the gang and free the other hostages. | 17th November 1985 |
| 008 | Hellfire | MacGyver's friends strike oil, but an out-of-control fire threatens to destroy all they own. They turn to MacGyver as the only one who can extinguish the inferno and save the oil. | 27th November 1985 |
| 009 | The Prodigal | A protected Federal witness wants to come out of hiding to visit his dying mother. | 8th December 1985 |
| 010 | Target MacGyver | MacGyver destroys a Middle-Eastern nuclear reactor, whose operators then set a professional assassin on him. Mac goes to visit his grandfather in order to lie low, but the assassin tracks him down. | 22nd December 1985 |
| 011 | Nightmares | MacGyver is poisoned with a hallucinogenic drug and he only has a short time to find and take the antidote before the poison kills him. | 15th January 1986 |
| 012 | Deathlock | When MacGyver is taken to a safehouse following an operation, it turns out that the place has been boobytrapped by an assassin. | 22nd January 1986 |
| 013 | Flame's End | An old girlfriend is in trouble and calls MacGyver when she discovers a plot to steal Uranium from the nuclear reactor where she works. | 29th January 1986 |
| 014 | Countdown | MacGyver teams up with an old buddy from 'Nam to defuse a time bomb aboard a cruise ship loaded with passengers. | 5th February 1986 |
| 015 | The Enemy Within | MacGyver must discover the identity of a mole within the agency who is responsible for the deaths of four top agents. | 12th February 1986 |
| 016 | Every Time She Smiles | While trying to escape Bulgaria with secret microfilm, MacGyver meets a beautiful American actress who accidentally gets him caught by the secret police. | 19th February 1986 |
| 017 | To Be A Man | Sent to Afghanistan to retrieve a downed satellite, MacGyver is shot down and wounded. He is sheltered by a woman and her son and must rely on their help to escape the Red Army. | 5th March 1986 |
| 018 | Ugly Duckling | MacGyver helps out a young genius computer hacker who gets kidnapped by arms dealers who need help with stolen missiles. | 12th March 1986 |
| 019 | Slow Death | MacGyver helps Indian tribesmen who hijack a train in search for two men who sold them poisons disguised as medicine. | 2nd April 1986 |
| 020 | The Escape | MacGyver cooks up an elaborate plot to break a medical missionary out of a prison in French North Africa; once they escape, a big surprise awaits. | 16th April 1986 |
| 021 | A Prisoner Of Conscience | MacGyver must fake insanity so that he and Pete can get into a Russian mental hospital and break out a political dissident. | 30th April 1986 |
| 022 | The Assassin | MacGyver helps to nab an assassin and then must disguise himself as the assassin in order to unravel the rest of the plot. | 7th May 1986 |
[edit] Season 2
| # | Title | Plot Summary | First broadcast |
|---|---|---|---|
| 023 | The Human Factor | When MacGyver is sent in to test security at a top secret military lab, the artificially intelligent central computer traps him inside and he has to outsmart it to escape. | September 22, 1986 |
| 024 | The Eraser | A hitman passes himself off as a father looking for his lost son, causing MacGyver to help him find his target. | September 29, 1986 |
| 025 | Twice Stung | MacGyver and some friends from the Phoenix Foundation must con a con man in order win back a man's life savings. | October 6, 1986 |
| 026 | The Wish Child | MacGyver must rescue the brother of a friend when the boy gets tricked by scam artists to pass himself as the fulfillment of ancient Chinese legend. | October 20, 1986 |
| 027 | Final Approach | MacGyver is stranded in the wilderness with a group of teenage gang members; he must get them to put aside their differences long enough to survive the ordeal. | October 27, 1986 |
| 028 | Jack Of Lies | MacGyver's friend, Jack Dalton, tricks him into going to Central America to rescue a botanist, but it turns out to be an old friend of theirs. | November 3, 1986 |
| 029 | The Road Not Taken | MacGyver runs into an old girlfriend when he and Pete go into Southeast Asia to help a group of orphans escape soldiers intent on killing them. | November 10, 1986 |
| 030 | Eagles | MacGyver is sent up into the mountains to find out about two endangered eagles; he also finds poachers who try to kill him. | November 17, 1986 |
| 031 | Silent World | A group of international thieves try to steal a top secret missile and MacGyver's deaf friend has dreams that help them catch the bad guys. | November 24, 1986 |
| 032 | Three For The Road | MacGyver, a has been actor and the actor's wife are on the run from mob when they accidentally come into possession of counterfeit money. | December 15, 1986 |
| 033 | Phoenix Under Siege | MacGyver and his grandfather stop by the foundation on their way to a hockey game to pick up the tickets; terrorists are there setting a bomb and trap MacGyver and his grandfather in the building. | January 5, 1987 |
| 034 | Family Matter | When Pete's ex-wife and son are kidnapped by a disgruntled former agent, MacGyver must come to the rescue. | January 12, 1987 |
| 035 | Soft Touch | MacGyver rescues a political prisoner from Russia and, while protecting him, MacGyver must foil a plot to assassinate a South American government official. | January 19, 1987 |
| 036 | Birth Day | MacGyver must help a pregnant woman escape her ex-convict husband who intends to murder her after she discovers a secret about him. | February 2, 1987 |
| 037 | Pirates | MacGyver must rescue a friend when she is kidnapped by pirates convinced she can lead them to sunken treasure. | February 9, 1987 |
| 038 | Out In The Cold | MacGyver and Pete are skiing when a mob informant plants microfilm on MacGyver; after getting back home the mob comes after them. | February 16, 1987 |
| 039 | Dalton, Jack Of Spies | Jack fakes his own death and MacGyver must help him clear his name after he is accused of murdering a CIA agent. | February 23, 1987 |
| 040 | Partners | A surprise enemy (Murdock) kidnaps Macgyver and Pete on the 7th anniversary of their friendship with Jack. | 2nd March 1987 |
| 041 | Bushmaster | When MacGyver goes to South America to rescue a downed pilot, the pilot's daughter stows away on the trip to try and help. | March 23, 1987 |
| 042 | Friends | Jack lures MacGyver to the Phoenix Foundation for a surprise birthday party where many of his friends from past adventures are waiting; this makes him reconsider his recently tendered resignation. | April 6, 1987 |
| 043 | D.O.A.: MacGyver | MacGyver's friend is killed after telling him of a bomb to be planted at a funeral; while escaping his friend's killers, he receives a head injury which causes amnesia. | April 27, 1987 |
| 044 | For Love Or Money | MacGyver must work with an agent he doesn't like in order to break a political prisoner out of Czechoslovakia. | May 4, 1987 |
[edit] Season 3
| # | Title | Plot Summary | First broadcast |
|---|---|---|---|
| 045 | Lost Love (Part 1) | While protecting a priceless Chinese artifact, MacGyver encounters an old flame, whom he thought was dead. | September 21, 1987 |
| 046 | Lost Love (Part 2) | While protecting a priceless Chinese artifact, MacGyver try to rescue his love from danger. | September 28, 1987 |
| 047 | Back From The Dead | MacGyver helps a former hit-man in the witness protection program after the mob rediscovers him. | October 5, 1987 |
| 048 | Ghost Ship | While on an assignment to plant beacons in the wilderness, MacGyver stumbles upon something unexpected. | October 19, 1987 |
| 049 | Fire And Ice | After his friend is killed, MacGyver must go after the killer, who is also a diamond thief and a diplomat with immunity. | October 26, 1987 |
| 050 | GX-1 | MacGyver and another agent he doesn't like much must beat the Soviets to find a downed experimental USAF fighter jet. | November 2, 1987 |
| 051 | Jack In The Box | MacGyver's friend's antics get them both thrown into a Southern work camp with a corrupt warden. | November 9, 1987 |
| 052 | The Widowmaker | While grieving over the loss of a friend, MacGyver's old nemesis, Murdoc, finds him and tries to end what he started years ago. | November 16, 1987 |
| 053 | Hell Week | MacGyver is picked to judge a contest at his old college, but an upset student makes a bomb which MacGyver must defuse. | November 23, 1987 |
| 054 | Blow Out | MacGyver must figure out why terrorists are trying to kill a fellow agent. | December 21, 1987 |
| 055 | Kill Zone | When a virus that causes things to grow old quickly is accidentally unleashed, MacGyver must stop it. | January 4, 1988 |
| 056 | Early Retirement | Pete is framed for an accident, and MacGyver has to prove his innocence before those who framed him carry out their plan. | January 18, 1988 |
| 057 | Thin Ice | While helping his hospitalized high school hockey coach take the school team to the state championship, MacGyver must deal with the star player's bad temper. | February 1, 1988 |
| 058 | The Odd Triple | Jack Dalton unwittingly gets MacGyver involved in a high profile jewelry heist; Pete must come to their rescue. | February 29, 1988 |
| 059 | The Negotiator | A real estate developer tries to have MacGyver killed when his environmental study threatens a major oceanfront development project. | March 7, 1988 |
| 060 | The Spoilers | MacGyver and a hermit from the mountains work to try and stop a group from illegally dumping toxic waste. | March 14, 1988 |
| 061 | Mask Of The Wolf | MacGyver and Jack must help an elderly Native American try and stop two men intent on stealing a tribal artifact. | March 28, 1988 |
| 062 | Rock The Cradle | MacGyver and Jack are stuck caring for an abandoned baby while looking for the mother, who is on the run. | April 18, 1988 |
| 063 | The Endangered | MacGyver goes to visit and old girlfriend who is now a park ranger and must help her stop a group of poachers. | May 2, 1988 |
| 064 | Murderer's Sky | When an elderly Chinese man is murdered by criminals who want to take over his business, MacGyver and the man's grandson must work together to thwart the criminals. | May 9, 1988 |
[edit] Season 4
| # | Title | Plot Summary | First broadcast |
|---|---|---|---|
| 065 | The Secret Of Parker House | MacGyver is a ghostbuster in a spooky old house inherited by Penny Parker who is a dead ringer for her insane aunt, who once lived in the house. | October 31, 1988 |
| 066 | Blood Brothers | Back in his childhood home town, MacGyver is haunted by memories of his youth where a friend was killed by a gun while preventing his friend's son from using a gun to defend himself against hoodlums. | November 21, 1988 |
| 067 | The Outsiders | MacGyver saves an Amish village from being bulldozed by land developers. | November 28, 1988 |
| 068 | On A Wing And A Prayer | Thornton and a nun are taken hostage by Central American rebels. | December 5, 1988 |
| 069 | Collision Course | An important sports car race demonstrating new engine technology is sabotaged so MacGyver must drive the race car. | December 12, 1988 |
| 070 | The Survivors | MacGyver and Thornton discover the wreckage of a DEA plane shot down by drug smugglers during annual wilderness survival training. | January 9, 1989 |
| 071 | Deadly Dreams | MacGyver helps the police pursue an escaped psychopath, who turns out to be a puppet of Dr. Zito. | January 16, 1989 |
| 072 | MA Dalton | Jack Dalton and MacGyver search for Dalton's mother who is a fugitive from a bounty hunter. | January 23, 1989 |
| 073 | Cleo Rocks | A shadowy figure lurks backstage to manipulate Penny Parker in suspicious rock musical. | February 6, 1989 |
| 074 | Fraternity Of Thieves | Leaks from a classified Phoenix technology system suggests a double agent working at the foundation. | February 13, 1989 |
| 075 | The Battle Of Tommy Giordano | MacGyver's friend wins custody of her son, causing her ex-husband to involve his uncle, the head of a crime family. | February 20, 1989 |
| 076 | The Challenge | A Challenger club youth is framed for theft by a bigot who's trying to shut the club down. | February 27, 1989 |
| 077 | Runners | MacGyver protects a runaway girl; her bitter past reminds him of some of his own. | March 13, 1989 |
| 078 | Gold Rush | An easy US-Soviet salvage operation in Alaska is complicated by competition. | March 27, 1989 |
| 079 | The Invisible Killer | A wilderness stress reduction outing for Phoenix employees turns paranoid when escaped convicts are nearby. | April 10, 1989 |
| 080 | Brainwashed | Jack Dalton is brainwashed to assassinate a foreign country's president. | April 24, 1989 |
| 081 | Easy Target | Terrorists hold MacGyver and Thornton while they cripple the city with a futuristic device. | May 1, 1989 |
| 082 | Renegade | MacGyver pursues a mentally disturbed man who has stolen a deadly bacteria. | May 8, 1989 |
| 083 | Unfinished Business | MacGyver, Thornton and Jack Dalton are stalked by an elusive escaped convict in the woods. | May 15, 1989 |
[edit] Season 5
| # | Title | Plot Summary | First broadcast |
|---|---|---|---|
| 084 | Legend Of The Holy Rose (Part 1) | MacGyver is enticed by an archaeologist friend to join her quest for the Holy Grail. | September 18, 1989 |
| 085 | Legend Of The Holy Rose (Part 2) | MacGyver and Zoe's search is interrupted by Von Leer stealing ancient artifacts they need. | September 25, 1989 |
| 086 | The Black Corsage | MacGyver joins bounty hunter Frank Colton to track Bulgarian scientist Sophia Ross running from bandits looking for an ancient gem. | October 2, 1989 |
| 087 | Cease Fire | Assisting the negotiations between two countries at a Swiss conference, MacGyver is framed for an assassination attempt on president Habad. | October 9, 1989 |
| 088 | Second Chance | MacGyver heads a project bringing young Amerasians to the U.S., but his companion meets the son he didn't know he had. | October 16, 1989 |
| 089 | Halloween Knights | The ruthless Murdoc asks MacGyver's help to free his innocent sister, being held captive by the "Homicide International Trust". | October 30, 1989 |
| 090 | Children Of Light | Chinese student Mei Jan arrives at MacGyver's home claiming to be his foster daughter, but secretly holds evidence of the massacre at Tiananmen Square. | November 6, 1989 |
| 091 | Black Rhino | In Africa, MacGyver helps Billy Colton nail a poacher who butchers endangered black rhinos for their valuable horns. | November 13, 1989 |
| 092 | The Ten Percent Solution | MacGyver investigates a WWII concentration camp survivor's claim to a masterpiece painting as they uncover a splinter Nazi plot to auction stolen artworks to finance its plot to create an "Aryan Nation". | November 20, 1989 |
| 093 | Two Times Trouble | MacGyver's rock singer friend Roxie thinks her twin sister Carla is trying to kill her. | December 11, 1989 |
| 094 | The Madonna | MacGyver helps a priest friend search on Christmas Eve for a church's stolen Madonna statue with the involvement of an unusual homeless woman staying at the Challenger Club, who seems surrounded by minor miracles. | December 18, 1989 |
| 095 | Serenity | MacGyver dreams that he is in the Old West aiming to retire with a claim to a Montana ranch home, but encounters resistance from neighbor rancher Thornton. | January 8, 1990 |
| 096 | Live And Learn | MacGyver & Pete start a program in a high dropout high school. MacGyver helps a student who struggles between an academic path to electrical engineering and his construction working father. | January 15, 1990 |
| 097 | Log Jam | MacGyver infiltrates a logging company with ties to the Yakuza. | February 5, 1990 |
| 098 | The Treasure Of Manco | MacGyver helps a friend find some Incan treasure in Peru and crosses paths with another old friend who is the leader of a rebel army. . | February 12, 1990 |
| 099 | Jenny's Chance | MacGyver, Jack Dalton, and Pete Thornton go undercover as a computer geek, a drug lord, and a dirty bookie to force a dangerous money launderer to give up. | February 19, 1990 |
| 100 | Deep Cover | A spy steals a prototype stealth submarine by seducing its main engineer. | February 26, 1990 |
| 101 | The Lost Amadeus | An eccentric woman leads MacGyver on a wild adventure to save a priceless violin and the virtuoso owner. | March 19, 1990 |
| 102 | Hearts Of Steel | A bitter executive of a closed steel mill seeks vengeance by kidnapping the daughter of the corporate raider responsible for the closure. | April 9, 1990 |
| 103 | Rush To Judgement | MacGyver is a juror in an intense murder trial, and can't resist investigating on his own. | April 16, 1990 |
| 104 | Passages | On the way to his ailing grandfather, MacGyver detours to pursue a thief of an Egyptian artifact linked to the afterlife. Attacked by the thief, he is hospitalized and in a coma in which he reconnects with his deceased grandfather and parents. | April 30, 1990 |
[edit] Season 6
| # | Title | Plot Summary | First broadcast |
|---|---|---|---|
| 105 | Tough Boys | MacGyver tracks youth vigilantes and their leader who are terrorizing the neighborhood crack ring. | September 17, 1990 |
| 106 | Humanity | MacGyver appeals to bring secret files to public view but colides with an elite corpsman loyal to Romania's dead tyrant Ceauşescu. | September 24, 1990 |
| 107 | The Gun | The gun used in an assassination of 20 years and a present day cop killing is sought by both a crazed anarchist and MacGyver, who needs it to clear a friend accused of the shooting. | October 1, 1990 |
| 108 | Twenty Questions | MacGyver intervenes with a teenage friend for a drinking problem involving her in several burglaries. | October 8, 1990 |
| 109 | The Wall | MacGyver reunites an East German expatriate with his granddaughter, who might be involved with two ex-Stasi agents. | October 22, 1990 |
| 110 | Lesson In Evil | Dr. Zito, the notorious murderer, escapes after a sanity hearing and leaves clues to face off with MacGyver. | October 29, 1990 |
| 111 | Harry's Will | A kooky bunch of crooks and an elderly ex-con pursue MacGyver's inherited station wagon thought to hold treasure. | November 5, 1990 |
| 112 | MacGyver's Women | MacGyver dreams he's in the Old West to defend three women from outlaws. | November 12, 1990 |
| 113 | Bitter Harvest | Investigation of a murdered migrant farm worker organizer leads to a farmer using illegal pesticides. | November 19, 1990 |
| 114 | The Visitor | A pair of smooth talking "extraterrestrials" promise to transport a desperate rural family to a trouble free planet, for a price. | December 3, 1990 |
| 115 | Squeeze Play | A baseball counterfeit memorabilia ring attempts to blackmail the daughter of a former baseball player. | December 17, 1990 |
| 116 | Jerico Games | MacGyver reunites with a high school sweetheart, now the wife of a media mogul sponsoring an international sports competition. | January 7, 1991 |
| 117 | The Wasteland | MacGyver investigates an out of control industrial developer, while his son and daughter maneuver him out of the family business. | January 21, 1991 |
| 118 | Eye Of Osiris | MacGyver helps find the Eye of Osiris on an archaeological dig. | February 4, 1991 |
| 119 | High Control | MacGyver goes undercover as a biker to help a recent parolee who is getting framed by his old biker gang. | February 11, 1991 |
| 120 | There But For The Grace | MacGyver helps find the murderer of a pastor. | February 18, 1991 |
| 121 | Blind Faith | Pete has troubles with glaucoma and MacGyver takes his place in getting a video tape from a train that has major political ramifications for a small latin american country | March 4, 1991 |
| 122 | Faith, Hope & Charity | While tracking a Gray Wolf, MacGyver is caught in a bear trap and found by two ladies who run a bed & breakfast where he recooperates while mobsters search for treasure. | March 18, 1991 |
| 123 | Strictly Business | Murdoc comes out of retirement and tries to clear his almost spotless killing record by killing MacGyver; MacGyver ends up with amnesia on a remote farm. | April 8, 1991 |
| 124 | Trail Of Tears | A power company tries to run a new power line near an Indian reservation. | April 22, 1991 |
| 125 | Hind-Sight | Pete is awaiting glaucoma surgery and feeling useless, but MacGyver reminds him of why he needs Pete. | May 6, 1991 |
[edit] Season 7
| # | Title | Plot Summary | First broadcast |
|---|---|---|---|
| 126 | Honest Abe | A friend's son's bar mitzvah is interrupted by MacGyver being needed in the fictitious Caribbean nation of San Rochelle to rescue a prototype helicopter. An undercover CIA agent and a terrorist delay MacGyver. | September 16, 1991 |
| 127 | The Hood | MacGyver's houseboat destruction forces him into a new neighborhood where he meets a young woman in trouble with hit men. | September 23, 1991 |
| 128 | Obsessed | Nightmares about Murdoc affect MacGyver as he provides security at the criminal trial of a deposed dictator. | September 30, 1991 |
| 129 | The Prometheus Syndrome | A psychopathic arsonist kills one of MacGyver's friends. | October 7, 1991 |
| 130 | The Coltons | The bounty hunters search for a young woman who is an important murder witness. | October 14, 1991 |
| 131 | The Walking Dead | A student activist is kidnapped and Haitian voodoo is used for extortion. | October 21, 1991 |
| 132 | Good Knight MacGyver (Part 1) | A concussion sends MacGyver to King Arthur's Court, where his strange ways threaten Merlin's magic, but they also save magician. | November 4, 1991 |
| 133 | Good Knight MacGyver (Part 2) | MacGyver finishes helping Merlin to free Galahad's Cecilia and stop wicked Morgana. | November 11, 1991 |
| 134 | Deadly Silents | MacGyver helps a silent movie comedian save the remaining prints of his work which are stolen by a dramatic pair. | November 18, 1991 |
| 135 | Split Decision | MacGyver's boxer buddy Earl Dent struggles with custody of his daughter against bad bookies who want him to throw his comeback fight. | December 2, 1991 |
| 136 | Gunz 'N Boyz | A Challenger Club youth gets too deep in gang violence. | December 16, 1991 |
| 137 | Off The Wall | A slumlord unjustly evicts MacGyver's young graffiti artist friend and his grandmother. | December 30, 1991 |
| 138 | The Stringer | MacGyver helps a Chinese dissident and gets help from an unexpected source: his son. | January 6, 1992 |
| 139 | Mountain Of Youth | MacGyver and Jack Dalton search for the fountain of youth. | January 13, 1992 |
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