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Season 1

  • S01E01 Pilot

    • September 29, 1985
    • ABC (US)

    An underground lab is destroyed by a mysterious explosion. MacGyver is sent in to rescue the trapped scientists and stop a deadly chemical leak.

  • S01E02 The Golden Triangle

    • October 6, 1985
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S01E03 Thief of Budapest

    • October 13, 1985
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S01E04 The Gauntlet

    • October 21, 1985
    • ABC (US)

    MacGyver attempts to get a reporter out of a Central American country with evidence linking a general to an illegal arms dealer. As MacGyver and Kate 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. There is no turning back. MacGyver must figure out how to get across the border, as his life, as well as Kate's, hangs in the balance.

  • S01E05 The Heist

    • November 3, 1985
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S01E06 Trumbo's World

    • November 10, 1985
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S01E07 Last Stand

    • November 17, 1985
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S01E08 Hellfire

    • November 27, 1985
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S01E09 The Prodigal

    • December 8, 1985
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S01E10 Target MacGyver

    • December 22, 1985
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S01E11 Nightmares

    • January 15, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S01E12 Deathlock

    • January 22, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S01E13 Flame's End

    • January 29, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S01E14 Countdown

    • February 5, 1986
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S01E15 The Enemy Within

    • February 12, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S01E16 Every Time She Smiles

    • February 19, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S01E17 To Be a Man

    • March 5, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S01E18 Ugly Duckling

    • March 12, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S01E19 Slow Death

    • April 2, 1986
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S01E20 The Escape

    • April 16, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S01E21 A Prisoner of Conscience

    • April 30, 1986
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S01E22 The Assassin

    • May 7, 1986
    • ABC (US)

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

Season 2

  • S02E01 The Human Factor

    • September 22, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    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."

  • S02E02 The Eraser

    • September 29, 1986
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S02E03 Twice Stung

    • October 6, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    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

  • S02E04 The Wish Child

    • October 20, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    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!

  • S02E05 Final Approach

    • October 27, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S02E06 Jack of Lies

    • November 3, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S02E07 The Road Not Taken

    • November 10, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S02E08 Eagles

    • November 17, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S02E09 Silent World

    • November 24, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S02E10 Three for the Road

    • December 15, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S02E11 Phoenix Under Siege

    • January 5, 1987
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S02E12 Family Matter

    • January 12, 1987
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S02E13 Soft Touch

    • January 19, 1987
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S02E14 Birth Day

    • February 2, 1987
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S02E15 Pirates

    • February 9, 1987
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S02E16 Out in the Cold

    • February 16, 1987
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S02E17 Dalton, Jack of Spies

    • February 23, 1987
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S02E18 Partners

    • March 2, 1987
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S02E19 Bushmaster

    • March 23, 1987
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S02E20 Friends

    • April 6, 1987
    • ABC (US)

    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?

  • S02E21 D.O.A.: MacGyver

    • April 27, 1987
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S02E22 For Love or Money

    • May 4, 1987
    • ABC (US)

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

Season 3

  • S03E01 Lost Love (1)

    • September 21, 1987
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S03E02 Lost Love (2)

    • September 28, 1987
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S03E03 Back from the Dead

    • October 5, 1987
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S03E04 Ghost Ship

    • October 19, 1987
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S03E05 Fire and Ice

    • October 26, 1987
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S03E06 GX-1

    • November 2, 1987
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S03E07 Jack in the Box

    • November 9, 1987
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S03E08 The Widowmaker

    • November 16, 1987
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S03E09 Hell Week

    • November 23, 1987
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S03E10 Blow Out

    • December 21, 1987
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S03E11 Kill Zone

    • January 4, 1988
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S03E12 Early Retirement

    • January 18, 1988
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S03E13 Thin Ice

    • February 1, 1988
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S03E14 The Odd Triple

    • February 29, 1988
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S03E15 The Negotiator

    • March 7, 1988
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S03E16 The Spoilers

    • March 14, 1988
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S03E17 Mask of the Wolf

    • March 28, 1988
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S03E18 Rock the Cradle

    • April 18, 1988
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S03E19 The Endangered

    • May 2, 1988
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S03E20 Murderers' Sky

    • May 9, 1988
    • ABC (US)

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

Season 4

  • S04E01 The Secret of Parker House

    • October 31, 1988
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S04E02 Blood Brothers

    • November 21, 1988
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S04E03 The Outsiders

    • November 28, 1988
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S04E04 On a Wing and a Prayer

    • December 5, 1988
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S04E05 Collision Course

    • December 12, 1988
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S04E06 The Survivors

    • January 9, 1989
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S04E07 Deadly Dreams

    • January 16, 1989
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S04E08 Ma Dalton

    • January 23, 1989
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S04E09 Cleo Rocks

    • February 6, 1989
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S04E10 Fraternity of Thieves

    • February 13, 1989
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S04E11 The Battle of Tommy Giordano

    • February 20, 1989
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S04E12 The Challenge

    • February 27, 1989
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S04E13 Runners

    • March 13, 1989
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S04E14 Gold Rush

    • March 27, 1989
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S04E15 The Invisible Killer

    • April 10, 1989
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S04E16 Brainwashed

    • April 24, 1989
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S04E17 Easy Target

    • May 1, 1989
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S04E18 Renegade

    • May 8, 1989
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S04E19 Unfinished Business

    • May 15, 1989
    • ABC (US)

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

Season 5

  • S05E01 Legend of the Holy Rose (1)

    • September 18, 1989
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S05E02 Legend of the Holy Rose (2)

    • September 25, 1989
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S05E03 The Black Corsage

    • October 2, 1989
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S05E04 Cease Fire

    • October 9, 1989
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S05E05 Second Chance

    • October 16, 1989
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S05E06 Halloween Knights

    • October 30, 1989
    • ABC (US)

    Murdoc enlists MacGyver's help to rescue his sister from his former employer. She is scheduled to be executed during a Halloween Party put on by the professional assassination organization.

  • S05E07 Children of Light

    • November 6, 1989
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S05E08 Black Rhino

    • November 13, 1989
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S05E09 The Ten Percent Solution

    • November 20, 1989
    • ABC (US)

    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.’

  • S05E10 Two Times Trouble

    • December 11, 1989
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S05E11 The Madonna

    • December 18, 1989
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S05E12 Serenity

    • January 8, 1990
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S05E13 Live and Learn

    • January 15, 1990
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S05E14 Log Jam

    • February 5, 1990
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S05E15 The Treasure of Manco

    • February 12, 1990
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S05E16 Jenny's Chance

    • February 19, 1990
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S05E17 Deep Cover

    • February 26, 1990
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S05E18 The Lost Amadeus

    • March 19, 1990
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S05E19 Hearts of Steel

    • April 9, 1990
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S05E20 Rush to Judgement

    • April 16, 1990
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S05E21 Passages

    • April 30, 1990
    • ABC (US)

    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 6

  • S06E01 Tough Boys

    • September 17, 1990
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S06E02 Humanity

    • September 24, 1990
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S06E03 The Gun

    • October 1, 1990
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S06E04 Twenty Questions

    • October 8, 1990
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S06E05 The Wall

    • October 22, 1990
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S06E06 Lesson in Evil

    • October 29, 1990
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S06E07 Harry's Will

    • November 5, 1990
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S06E08 MacGyver's Women

    • November 12, 1990
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S06E09 Bitter Harvest

    • November 19, 1990
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S06E10 The Visitor

    • December 3, 1990
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S06E11 Squeeze Play

    • December 17, 1990
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S06E12 Jerico Games

    • January 7, 1991
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S06E13 The Wasteland

    • January 21, 1991
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S06E14 Eye of Osiris

    • February 4, 1991
    • ABC (US)

    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...

  • S06E15 High Control

    • February 11, 1991
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S06E16 There But for the Grace

    • February 18, 1991
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S06E17 Blind Faith

    • March 4, 1991
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S06E18 Faith, Hope & Charity

    • March 18, 1991
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S06E19 Strictly Business

    • April 8, 1991
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S06E20 Trail of Tears

    • April 26, 1991
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S06E21 Hind-Sight

    • May 6, 1991
    • ABC (US)

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

Season 7

  • S07E01 Honest Abe

    • September 16, 1991
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S07E02 The 'Hood

    • September 23, 1991
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S07E03 Obsessed

    • September 30, 1991
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S07E04 The Prometheus Syndrome

    • October 7, 1991
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S07E05 The Coltons

    • October 14, 1991
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S07E06 Walking Dead

    • October 21, 1991
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S07E07 Good Knight MacGyver (1)

    • November 4, 1991
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S07E08 Good Knight MacGyver (2)

    • November 11, 1991
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S07E09 Deadly Silents

    • November 18, 1991
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S07E10 Split Decision

    • December 2, 1991
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S07E11 Gunz 'n Boyz

    • December 16, 1991
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S07E12 Off the Wall

    • December 30, 1991
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S07E13 The Stringer

    • April 25, 1992
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S07E14 The Mountain of Youth

    • May 21, 1992
    • ABC (US)

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

  • SPECIAL 0x1 Lost Treasure of Atlantis

    • May 14, 1994

    MacGyver, his archaeology professor, and an old friend team up to search for the legendary treasure of Atlantis, but an enterprising Englishman and his partner want the treasure for other reasons.

  • SPECIAL 0x2 Trail to Doomsday

    • November 24, 1994

    In England, MacGyver investigates the mystery of his friend's murder and discovers a secret nuclear weapons facility in the process.

Additional Specials

  • SPECIAL 0x3 MasterCard Commercial

    • February 2, 2006
    • ABC (US)

  • SPECIAL 0x4 MacGyver and the New Citan

    • September 18, 2012
    • ABC (US)

    The 10-minute commercial, in which Richard Dean Anderson provides voiceover for his character’s thoughts and actions, harkens back to early episodes of the MacGyver television series.

  • SPECIAL 0x5 Young MacGyver

    • January 1, 2003
    • ABC (US)

    Angus Macgyver’s nephew quits school and joins The Phoenix Foundation. But he finds it difficult to follow in the shoes of his famous uncle.