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Season 1


"MacGyver" (1985): Season 1: Episode 1 -- A mysterious explosion demolishes an underground lab.

Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot

Original Air Date—29 September 1985
An underground lab is destroyed by a mysterious explosion. MacGyver is sent in to rescue the trapped scientists and stop a deadly chemical leak.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 1: Episode 2 -- Wihle retreiving 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

Season 1, Episode 2: The Golden Triangle

Original Air Date—6 October 1985
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.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 1: Episode 3 -- In Budapest, MacGyver obtains vital microflimed information hidden inside a watch

Season 1, Episode 3: Thief of Budapest

Original Air Date—13 October 1985
MacGyver obtains a watch in Budapest that contains top secret information on microfilm. However, a young Gypsy girl steals the watch from MacGyver and he must get it back.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 1: Episode 4 -- MacGyver goes up against an entire army when he helps an American journalist escape across the border of a South American dictatorship

Season 1, Episode 4: The Gauntlet

Original Air Date—20 October 1985
MacGyver is sent to South America to rescue an American journalist and escape out of the country. The dictator of the country and his army pursue MacGyver, making the escape very difficult.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 1: Episode 5 -- A Virgin Islands casino owner steals $60 million in diamonds

Season 1, Episode 5: The Heist

Original Air Date—3 November 1985
An American senator has $60 million in diamonds stolen from him by a Virgin Islands casino owner. MacGyver goes with the senator's daughter to steal the diamonds back from his high-security vault.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 1: Episode 6 -- Deep in the primitive Amazon jungle, MacGyver teams with an entomologist friend and a local plantation owner to battle an invading horde of invading ants

Season 1, Episode 6: Trumbo's World

Original Air Date—10 November 1985
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.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 1: Episode 7 -- Armed robbers make the mistake of accidentally taking Macgyver hostage.

Season 1, Episode 7: Last Stand

Original Air Date—17 November 1985
MacGyver is taken hostage by some armed robbers at an airport. MacGyver uses his ingenuity to try to free himself along with the other hostages while simultaneously trying to stop the criminals.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 1: Episode 8 -- MacGyver's friends strike oil, but an out-of-control fire threatens to destroy all they own

Season 1, Episode 8: Hellfire

Original Air Date—27 November 1985
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.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 1: Episode 9 -- A protected Federal witness wants to come out of hiding to visit his hiding mother

Season 1, Episode 9: The Prodigal

Original Air Date—8 December 1985
MacGyver is assigned to protect a person in the Federal Witness Protection Program. The man he is protecting wants to come out of hiding to visit his dying mother. MacGyver must protect him from the Mob and from the Feds.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 1: Episode 10 -- A team of assassins targets MacGyver, who was on a fishing trip with his long estranged grandfather

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.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 1: Episode 11 -- Enemy agents capture MacGyver and poison him with a hallucinogenic drug that will kill him in six hours-unless he can somehow escape and steal the antidote.

Season 1, Episode 11: Nightmares

Original Air Date—15 January 1986
MacGyver is kidnapped by enemy agents to retrieve sensitive information he stole from them. To get him to talk, they inject MacGyver with a hallucinogenic drug that will kill him in six hours, unless an antidote they have is administered.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 1: Episode 12 -- A safehose turns out to be anything but, when MacGyver discovers it is jam-packed with deadly booby traps set by a vengeful enemy

Season 1, Episode 12: Deathlock

Original Air Date—22 January 1986
An enemy of MacGyver's fills a supposed safe house with several deadly booby traps to exact his revenge on MacGyver.

Season 1, Episode 13: Flame's End

Original Air Date—29 January 1986
A theft of uranium occurs at a nuclear power plant where an ex-girlfriend of MacGyver's works. She enlists his help to catch the thief which endangers hers and MacGyver's lives.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 1: Episode 14 -- It's MacGyver against the clock and certain death when he's sent on a mission to save a cruise ship that's been rigged with sophisticated explosive devices

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.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 1: Episode 15 -- A mole inside the Agency has betrayed four agents to their deaths.

Season 1, Episode 15: The Enemy Within

Original Air Date—12 February 1986
Four agents have been betrayed by a mole inside the Agency, leading to their deaths. MacGyver must discover who it is before he becomes the next victim.

Season 1, Episode 16: Every Time She Smiles

Original Air Date—19 February 1986
In Bulgaria, MacGyver meets a mysterious beautiful American girl. In assisting her, he discovers that she is smuggling top secret microfilm out of the country. The Bulgarian Secret Police arrive to complicate matters even further.

Season 1, Episode 17: To Be a Man

Original Air Date—26 February 1986
While on a rescue mission in Soviet Afghanistan, MacGyver is shot and wounded. An Afghan woman and her son risk their lives to give refuge to MacGyver. A wounded MacGyver must now outwit the Russian Army to complete his mission.

Season 1, Episode 18: Ugly Duckling

Original Air Date—12 March 1986
MacGyver is sent to rescue a teenage computer hacker kidnapped by weapons dealers who want him to arm a missile system they stole.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 1: Episode 19 -- In India, angry tribesmen highjack a train to find the Westerners that sold tainted medicine to their village doctor.

Season 1, Episode 19: Slow Death

Original Air Date—26 March 1986
MacGyver finds himself on a train that gets hijacked by Indian tribesmen. He tries to help them find the Westerners who sold tainted medicine to their tribe and resolve the situation peacefully.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 1: Episode 20 -- MacGyver's elaborate plot to spring a missionary from a North African jail works perfectly…until MacGyver discovers that nothing is what is seems to be.

Season 1, Episode 20: The Escape

Original Air Date—2 April 1986
Complications arise when MacGyver forms a plan to free a missionary from a North African jail.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 1: Episode 21 -- MacGyver feings madness to infiltrate a mental institution that holds a political prisoner.

Season 1, Episode 21: A Prisoner of Conscience

Original Air Date—30 April 1986
To infiltrate a mental institution to free a political prisoner who is a friend of Pete's, MacGyver must feign madness. Getting in is the easy part...

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 1: Episode 22 -- In order to capture a brilliant assassin and master of disguises, MacGyver risks death by posing as the killer.

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...

Season 2


"MacGyver" (1985): Season 2: Episode 1 -- When he is sent to check out a technologically advanced system for a military base, MacGyver's expertise is reallly put to the test when he becomes trapped inside by a computer bent on destroying him

Season 2, Episode 1: The Human Factor

Original Air Date—22 September 1986
The military asks MacGyver to check out a new high-tech security system at one of their bases. Complications arise when the computer traps MacGyver inside and attempts to kill him.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 2: Episode 2 -- Believing that he is helping a father find his son, MacGyver befriends a reluctant hitman and leads him to his target

Season 2, Episode 2: The Eraser

Original Air Date—29 September 1986
MacGyver is tricked into believing that he is helping a man find his son. But in reality, MacGyver is unknowingly leading a hit man to his target.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 2: Episode 3 -- When a friend becomes suicidal after being bilked out of his life savings, MacGyver devises an elaborate sting operation to get his money back

Season 2, Episode 3: Twice Stung

Original Air Date—6 October 1986
A friend of MacGyver's becomes suicidal after being swindled out of his life savings. MacGyver orchestrates a reverse scam to get the money back.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 2: Episode 4 -- In Chinatown, MacGyver tries to rescue a friend's young brother, who is involved with scam artists who are presenting him as a mystical Chinese boy

Season 2, Episode 4: The Wish Child

Original Air Date—20 October 1986
MacGyver rescues a friend's young brother in Chinatown who is mixed up with some scam artists presenting him as the Wish Child, a legendary mystical Chinese boy.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 2: Episode 5 -- A small plane carrying MacGyver and four youths crashes in treacherous terrain and yet the elements are nothing compared to the gang members' vendettas against each other

Season 2, Episode 5: Final Approach

Original Air Date—27 October 1986
Macgyver and four youths are stranded in the wilderness after their plane crashes. Gang rivalries among the youth escalate an already precarious situation.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 2: Episode 6 -- MacGyver is asked by an adventurer friend to help recue a botanist being held in Central America

Season 2, Episode 6: Jack of Lies

Original Air Date—3 November 1986
Jack Dalton asks for MacGyver's help in rescuing a botanist in Central America. Once there, MacGyver finds out that the botanist is an old friend.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 2: Episode 7 -- When MacGyver tries to rescue a nun and some orphans from murderous soldiers in Southeast Asia, even he isn't prepared for what he discovers: his old girlfriend is there helping them

Season 2, Episode 7: The Road Not Taken

Original Air Date—10 November 1986
A nun and some orphans are in need of rescuing by MacGyver from murderous soldiers in Southeast Asia. It turns out that the nun's assistant is an old girlfriend of MacGyver's.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 2: Episode 8 -- MacGyver heads to the mountains to find two rare golden eagles on the verge of extinction

Season 2, Episode 8: Eagles

Original Air Date—17 November 1986
Two rare golden eagles facing extinction are helped by MacGyver. He must simultaneously confront the poacher trying to kill the eagles and eliminate MacGyver.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 2: Episode 9 -- A deaf teacher friend is having unexplained nightmares

Season 2, Episode 9: Silent World

Original Air Date—24 November 1986
A teacher of the deaf, who is a friend of MacGyver's, is plagued by nightmares. MacGyver thinks these unexplained nightmares are connected to a plan to hijack a missile-guidance system.

Season 2, Episode 10: Three for the Road

Original Air Date—15 December 1986
MacGyver becomes stranded and is forced to hitch a ride with a retired couple. Unknowingly, they are in possession of stolen counterfeit money that the mob is trying to recover.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 2: Episode 11 -- Work never stops for MacGyver. When he and his grandfather stop by the Agency to retreive some hockey tickets, they stumble upon terrorists attempting to detonate a time bomb.

Season 2, Episode 11: Phoenix Under Siege

Original Air Date—5 January 1987
MacGyver and his grandfather have plans to go to a hockey game. However, when they stop by the Phoenix Foundation to get the tickets, they discover terrorists attempting to blow up a bomb.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 2: Episode 12 -- After a woman and her son are kidnapped by a former agent bent on revenge, MacGyver has to travel to Cajun country and rescue them.

Season 2, Episode 12: Family Matter

Original Air Date—12 January 1987
A former agent seeking revenge kidnap a woman and her son. MacGyver is tasked with the mission of rescuing them.

Season 2, Episode 13: Soft Touch

Original Air Date—19 January 1987
A Russian defector is helped my MacGyver to seek asylum in the U.S. Meanwhile, after Penny Parker comes to stay at MacGyver's for a few days, she accidentally uncovers an assassination plot of a foreign official.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 2: Episode 14 -- MacGyver becomes trapped in an abandoned factory with a pregnant woman fleeing her murderous husband

Season 2, Episode 14: Birth Day

Original Air Date—2 February 1987
A pregnant woman is on the run from her husband who wants her dead after she discovers his dark secret. MacGyver becomes trapped with the woman in an abandoned factory with her delivery inching nearer.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 2: Episode 15 -- Modern-day pirates kidnap an expert they hopewill lead them to $60 million in sunken treasure

Season 2, Episode 15: Pirates

Original Air Date—9 February 1987
An archaeologist is kidnapped by pirates to help them find $60 million in sunken treasure at the bottom of the sea. MacGyver must attempt a rescue on the isolated ocean.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 2: Episode 16 -- While on a ski vacation, a Mob informant plants some microfil on MacGyver, but an avalanche prevents the Mob from getting to it

Season 2, Episode 16: Out in the Cold

Original Air Date—16 February 1987
A Mob informant hides some microfilm on MacGyver, who is on a ski vacation. An avalanche that buries MacGyver prevents the Mob from getting to him, but not for long.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 2: Episode 17 -- While MacGyver is paying his last repects to a friend, two double-crossing CIA agents show up, and suddenly his friend is very much alive and being blamed for the murder of his agency contract

Season 2, Episode 17: Dalton, Jack of Spies

Original Air Date—23 February 1987
While MacGyver is at the viewing of this friend, Jack Dalton, two CIA agents gone bad show up to make sure Jack is dead. MacGyver is surprised to find out that Jack really isn't dead and that he is wanted for murder.

Season 2, Episode 18: Partners

Original Air Date—2 March 1987
Revenge is what is in store for MacGyver when a master-of-disguise hit man, who MacGyver thought long dead, shows up. This causes MacGyver to flashback to their first encounter.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 2: Episode 19 -- When MacGyver is sent to Latin American to rescue a pilot on trial for being a spy, he learns too late that the pilot's daughter has followed him there

Season 2, Episode 19: Bushmaster

Original Air Date—23 March 1987
A pilot is on trial for being a spy in a Central American country and MacGyver is sent to rescue him. Matters become complicated when MacGyver discovers the pilot's daughter has stowed away on the rescue mission.

Season 2, Episode 20: Friends

Original Air Date—6 April 1987
A surprise birthday party is thrown for MacGyver at the Phoenix Foundation, causing him to reflect on old friends and memories, and to consider resigning from his job.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 2: Episode 21 -- After MacGyver is informed of a bomb planted at a funeral, he receives a head injury that causes amnesia

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

Original Air Date—27 April 1987
A head injury causing amnesia makes MacGyver forget about his recent discovery of a bomb planted at a funeral. Will MacGyver's memory return in time, especially with the killer nearby?

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 2: Episode 22 -- In order to free a human rights activist in Czechoslovakia, MacGyver and a female agent he despises have to pose as a honeymooning couple

Season 2, Episode 22: For Love or Money

Original Air Date—4 May 1987
MacGyver and a female agent he despises pose as a married couple to infiltrate a psychiatric hospital in Czechoslovakia to free a human rights activist.

Season 3


"MacGyver" (1985): Season 3: Episode 1 -- A Russian woman MacGyver loved, and who was presumed dead, shows up as a pawn in an attempt by Soviet agents to steal a priceless Chinese dragon

Season 3, Episode 1: Lost Love: Part 1

Original Air Date—21 September 1987
Soviet agents use a former lover of MacGyver's, who he thought to be dead, as a pawn to steal a valuable Chinese jade dragon statue.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 3: Episode 2 -- MacGyver gets his old pal Jack Dalton to help him steal the jade dragon in order to free his old girlfriend, but is crushed when it appears she may actually be working with the Soviets

Season 3, Episode 2: Lost Love: Part 2

Original Air Date—28 September 1987
Jack Dalton helps MacGyver to steal back the jade dragon statue in order to free his former lover being held captive. However, it turns out she may be working with the Russians.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 3: Episode 3 -- The hit man MacGyver helped place in the Witness Protection Program has been spotted by the mob

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.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 3: Episode 4 -- While out mapping the Alaskan wilderness, MacGyver finds a ship with its crew missing

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!

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 3: Episode 5 -- A diamond theif with diplomatic immunity kills MacGyver's investigator friend

Season 3, Episode 5: Fire and Ice

Original Air Date—26 October 1987
An insurance investigator friend of MacGyver's is killed by a diamond thief with diplomatic immunity. Nikki Carpenter, the friend's sister, is teamed up with Macgyver against his wishes to get the diplomat deported.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 3: Episode 6 -- MacGyver and new colleague Nikki Carpenter go undercover as a married couple to look for a downed experimental plane

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.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 3: Episode 7 -- In the deep South, MacGyver and Jack Dalton are arrested, held in a prison camp, and forced to dig for lost millions believed to be buried in a zinc mine

Season 3, Episode 7: Jack in the Box

Original Air Date—9 November 1987
MacGyver goes to a small town in Arkansas to bail Jack Dalton out of another predicament. MacGyver ends up getting arrested along with Jack and sent to a prison camp where there are forced to dig in an abandoned mine for hidden millions of dollars.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 3: Episode 8 -- While mountain climbing with MacGyver, his best friend falls to her death

Season 3, Episode 8: The Widowmaker

Original Air Date—16 November 1987
MacGyver's best friend falls to her death while mountain-climbing with him. MacGyver has no time to mourn when Murdoc shows up looking for revenge.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 3: Episode 9 -- MacGyver is set to judge a phsics competition for his old mentor. But the professor's son, who fails to win the contest and becomes despondent, barricades himself in the lab with a bomb.

Season 3, Episode 9: Hell Week

Original Air Date—23 November 1987
An old mentor of MacGyver's asks him to judge a physics competition. The mentor's son becomes despondent after failing to win the competition and locks himself in the lab with a homemade bomb.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 3: Episode 10 -- A terrorist working with a bomb expert wants Nikki Carpenter dead.

Season 3, Episode 10: Blow Out

Original Air Date—21 December 1987
A terrorist wants Nikki Carpenter dead. MacGyver searches through Nikki's old records to find out who would want to kill her and why.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 3: Episode 11 -- A female scientist sneaks an organism onbaoard a spacecraft that then crashes to Earth, After learning it has mutated into something dangerous, she offers to destroy it… but does she?

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.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 3: Episode 12 -- MacGyver's boss Pete takes full responsibility for a deadly explosion and retires from the Phoenix Organization. But MacGyver thinks the man who replaced Pete sabotaged the warhead.

Season 3, Episode 12: Early Retirement

Original Air Date—18 January 1988
MacGyver's boss Pete oversees the disarming of a nuclear warhead. A deadly explosion at the disarming facility causes Pete to accept full responsibility and retire from the Phoenix Foundation. However, MacGyver soon suspects that the replacement for Pete is responsible for sabotaging the warhead.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 3: Episode 13 -- Before he can help his old hockey coach take a Minnesota team to the state championships, MacGyver must first rein in the star player's violent temper.

Season 3, Episode 13: Thin Ice

Original Air Date—1 February 1988
MacGyver returns to Minnesota to help his old hockey coach take his high school team to the state championships. The toughest part will be dealing with the violent temper of their star player.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 3: Episode 14 -- Jack Dalton gets MacGyver to help him pilot a woman back home to France with her priceless jewels. But once they land, they are arrested for theft.

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.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 3: Episode 15 -- The builder of a marina is afraid MacGyver won't approve his billion-dollar project. So he hires a beautiful woman to either buy him off, scare him off… or kill him off.

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.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 3: Episode 16 -- MacGyver and Pete need the testimony of a mountain man who witnessed toxic waste dumping. But his flahsbacks to his time in Vietnam just might ruin their case.

Season 3, Episode 16: The Spoilers

Original Air Date—14 March 1988
A mountain man who witnessed toxic waste dumping has testimony that is vital for MacGyver and Pete. But his flashbacks back to his time in Vietnam cause him to be unstable and may threaten their case.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 3: Episode 17 -- MacGyver and Jack Dalton plan to help a Native American elder locate a sacred wolf mask. But two mercenaries, who think the mask is preceless, get to him first.

Season 3, Episode 17: Mask of the Wolf

Original Air Date—28 March 1988
A Native American is helped by MacGyver and Jack Dalton to find a sacred wolf mask. However, two mercenaries abduct him to get the mask for themselves.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 3: Episode 18 -- A baby gets left in Jack Dalton's airplane hangar, and he and MacGyver quickly learn to change diapers while looking for the baby's mother - a woman who claims that Jack is the father.

Season 3, Episode 18: Rock the Cradle

Original Air Date—18 April 1988
Jack Dalton and MacGyver suddenly become dads when a baby is left in Jack's airplane hangar. They search for the mother of the baby, who claims that Jack is the father.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 3: Episode 19 -- When MacGyver visits an animal preserve hoping to reuinte with an old girlfriend who is now a park ranger, he ends up helping her battle poachers who are killing endangered animals.

Season 3, Episode 19: The Endangered

Original Air Date—2 May 1988
MacGyver visits an animal preserve to reunite with an old girlfriend who is a park ranger there. Their reunion is complicated by a battle they have with poachers of endangered animals on the preserve.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 3: Episode 20 -- A welathy Chinese shipping magnate has a grandson and only heir living in a monastery, and the teenager actually ends up working with MacGyver as they battle a criminal takeover of the business.

Season 3, Episode 20: Murderers' Sky

Original Air Date—9 May 1988
The grandson and only heir of a rich Chinese shipping magnate is living in a monastery. MacGyver enlists his help to fight a criminal takeover of the business.

Season 4


"MacGyver" (1985): Season 4: Episode 1 -- MacGyver accompanies his friend Penny Parker to an old house she inherited from her aunt, but he suspects foul play when the house appears to be haunted

Season 4, Episode 1: The Secret of Parker House

Original Air Date—31 October 1988
Penny Parker asks MacGyver to accompany her in inspecting an old house that she inherited from her aunt, an apparently haunted house.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 4: Episode 2 -- Back in his hometown, MacGyver is haunted by a fatal shooting accident from his youth, as he tries to help two teenage boys battle the local crack dealers

Season 4, Episode 2: Blood Brothers

Original Air Date—21 November 1988
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.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 4: Episode 3 -- After an Amish family nurses him back to health following a car accident, MacGyver helps them confront a construction crew about to bulldoze them off their land

Season 4, Episode 3: The Outsiders

Original Air Date—28 November 1988
In the middle of nowhere, MacGyver gets involved in a car accident. He is luckily found by an Amish family and nursed back to health. MacGyver then helps the Amish community to confront a construction crew that is trying to force them off their land.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 4: Episode 4 -- MacGyver and Jack Dalton have to pose as arms dealers in order to rescue Pete and a nun from Central American rebels

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.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 4: Episode 5 -- When the driver of Phoenix Foundation race car is blinded, MacGyver reluctantly takes his place

Season 4, Episode 5: Collision Course

Original Air Date—12 December 1988
MacGyver takes the place of a Phoenix Foundation race car driver when the driver is blinded. A former rival of MacGyver's is also in the race and will win at any cost.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 4: Episode 6 -- While testing their survival skills out in the wilderness, Pete and MacGyver find a downed DEA plane, and they have to outwit the murderous drug smugglers who sabotaged it

Season 4, Episode 6: The Survivors

Original Air Date—9 January 1989
MacGyver and Pete go into the wilderness to hone their survival skills. They discover a crashed DEA plane and have to deal with the deadly drug smugglers responsible for sabotaging it.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 4: Episode 7 -- MacGyver searches for an escaped killer who is actually the pawn of a brilliant prisoner intent on revenge against a female detective

Season 4, Episode 7: Deadly Dreams

Original Air Date—16 January 1989
An escaped killer who MacGyver is searching for, is actually the pawn of a mastermind criminal who is still locked up and planning revenge on the female detective who incarcerated him.

Season 4, Episode 8: Ma Dalton

Original Air Date—23 January 1989
Once Jack Dalton finds his long-lost mother, he discovers that she is a fugitive. The police, a bounty hunter, and a corrupt government official are all determined to catch her first.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 4: Episode 9 -- Penny Parker gets the lead in a rock musical, but MacGyver suspects she may be the lure in a trap set by an old nemesis

Season 4, Episode 9: Cleo Rocks

Original Air Date—6 February 1989
MacGyver's friend Penny Parker gets the lead part in a new musical. MacGyver suspects it may be a set up by his arch-nemesis to trap him.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 4: Episode 10 -- The Phoenix Foundation employee selling classified information is someone very close to Pete…his own son

Season 4, Episode 10: Fraternity of Thieves

Original Air Date—13 February 1989
Pete is conflicted when he discovers that the Phoenix Foundation employee selling classified information turns out to be his son.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 4: Episode 11 -- MacGyver helps a co-worker rescue her eight-year-old son, who has been kidnapped by his father and taken to Canada with his father's uncle, a powerful mob boss

Season 4, Episode 11: The Battle of Tommy Giordano

Original Air Date—20 February 1989
The young son of MacGyver's co-worker is kidnapped by the boy's father and taken to Canada. MacGyver must go and retrieve the boy from the house of the boy's uncle, a powerful mob boss.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 4: Episode 12 -- A former teenage gang member, now part of an inner-city youth club where MacGyver volunteers, is framed for theft by a white supremacist

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.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 4: Episode 13 -- While trying to help a teen prostitute leave her pimp and return to her family, MacGyver discovers she is being abused by her father, a cop who blames her for his wife's death

Season 4, Episode 13: Runners

Original Air Date—13 March 1989
A teenage prostitute is trying to leave her pimp and return to her family. As MacGyver helps her to do this, it is revealed that she is also being abused by her father who blames her for the death of his wife.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 4: Episode 14 -- A US-Soviet team heads up to the Arctic to retrieve Russian gold from a downed World War II plane

Season 4, Episode 14: Gold Rush

Original Air Date—27 March 1989
A downed World War II plane in the Arctic is suspected of containing lots of gold. As a joint US-Russian team goes to retrieve the gold that turns up missing, MacGyver thinks that a US soldier is the man responsible for the theft.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 4: Episode 15 -- MacGyver leads a backpacking expedition into the wilderness for a stress-reduction program, but some members of the group are actually convicts from a local prison break

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.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 4: Episode 16 -- For helping an African nation, MavGyver and Jack are to receive medals at a formal ceremony

Season 4, Episode 16: Brainwashed

Original Air Date—24 April 1989
An awards ceremony given by an African nation for help received from MacGyver and Jack, is the setting of an assassination plot of that nation's leader with Jack as the unwitting assassin.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 4: Episode 17 -- Traveling back from a ski weekend, Pete and MacGyver encounter terrorists who plan to cripple a nearby city using electromagnetic technology

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.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 4: Episode 18 -- A mentally disturbed ex-Navy SEAL, who once saved MacGyver's life steals a vial of deadly anthrax

Season 4, Episode 18: Renegade

Original Air Date—8 May 1989
MacGyver must stop an ex-Navy SEAL, who once saved his life, from using a stolen vial of anthrax.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 4: Episode 19 -- While on a gold-panning expedition, MacGyver, Jack and Pate are stalked by a vengeful female assassin who once had a relationship with MacGyver

Season 4, Episode 19: Unfinished Business

Original Air Date—15 May 1989
MacGyver, Jack and Pete go to relax on a gold-panning expedition. Unfortunately, a woman from MacGyver's past stalks them and has murderous intentions in her plan of revenge.

Season 5


"MacGyver" (1985): Season 5: Episode 1 -- MacGyver gets a visit from an archeologist friend who claims to possess her greatest find yet: a map that will lead them to an ancient artifact known as the Holy Rose

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

Original Air Date—18 September 1989
An archaeologist friend pays MacGyver a visit to get his help in using a map to find an ancient artifact called the Holy Rose.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 5: Episode 2 -- The search for the Holy Rose continues in London and France, but turns deadly when MacGyver and his archeologist friend cross paths with a notorious jewel magnate

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

Original Air Date—25 September 1989
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.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 5: Episode 3 -- A female defector guarded by the Phoenix Foundation is witness to a murder, and now holds the key to the whereabouts of a priceless neckless

Season 5, Episode 3: The Black Corsage

Original Air Date—2 October 1989
A female defector, who is a witness to a murder, is protected by the Phoenix Foundation. She also holds the key to the location of a priceless necklace.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 5: Episode 4 -- In Geneva, MacGyver is wounded and framed as a sniper in an assassination attempt

Season 5, Episode 4: Cease Fire

Original Air Date—9 October 1989
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.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 5: Episode 5 -- In Bangkok, MacGyver's friend is surprised with news that he fathered an illegitimate son

Season 5, Episode 5: Second Chance

Original Air Date—16 October 1989
Renegade America service men steal everything that's not nailed down in Thailand, created a life-threatening situation. MacGyver helps set things right, while helping an old friend get acquainted with a son he never knew he had.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 5: Episode 6 -- MacGyver's nemesis Murdoc proposes a deal.  He will help capture a deadly assassin squad if MacGyver will rescue Murdoc's sister, whose execution is scheduled during an elaborate Halloween party.

Season 5, Episode 6: Halloween Knights

Original Air Date—30 October 1989
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.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 5: Episode 7 -- A Chinese student, who has fled her country with a videotape of the Tiananmen Square youth uprising, desperately needs MacGyver's help exposing the atrocities to the world

Season 5, Episode 7: Children of Light

Original Air Date—6 November 1989
When a Chinese college student shows up at MacGyver's front door, she brings with her a continuation of the struggle that began in Tiananmen Square.

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.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 5: Episode 9 -- After A Holocaust survivor disrupts an art auction, MacGyver investigates his claims and uncovers a massive neo-Nazi movement within the American political system

Season 5, Episode 9: The Ten Percent Solution

Original Air Date—20 November 1989
A massive neo-Nazi movement within the American political system is uncovered by MacGyver after investigating the claims by a Holocaust survivor.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 5: Episode 10 -- MacGyver's rock-star friend volunteers her time filming a video for the Rock Against Drugs campaign

Season 5, Episode 10: Two Times Trouble

Original Air Date—11 December 1989
A rock-star friend of MacGyver's is filming a video for the Rock Against Drugs campaign. A series of mysterious accidents that occur during filming convinces her that her twin sister is attempting to kill her.

Season 5, Episode 11: The Madonna

Original Air Date—18 December 1989
MacGyver and the kids at the Challenge Center are taught the true meaning of Christmas by a mysterious homeless woman who comes to stay there.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 5: Episode 12 -- Exhausted from work, MacGyver falls asleep and dreams he is in the Old West, imagining Pete as a rich land owner who hires evil gunslinger Murdoc to force MacGyver off his land

Season 5, Episode 12: Serenity

Original Air Date—8 January 1990
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.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 5: Episode 13 -- A troubled high-school student MacGyver is mentoring drops out of school to work on an unsafe construction site

Season 5, Episode 13: Live and Learn

Original Air Date—15 January 1990
MacGyver is mentoring a troubled high school student who drops out of school to work at a construction site with his dad. While there, the kid discovers that the site may be unsafe when he witnesses a safety inspector being bribed.

Season 5, Episode 14: Log Jam

Original Air Date—5 February 1990
MacGyver goes undercover as a logger in the Pacific Northwest in order to expose the illegal practices of a Japanese businessman.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 5: Episode 15 -- MacGyver travels to Peru where a friend's father was killed, searching for a mythical lost treasure

Season 5, Episode 15: The Treasure of Manco

Original Air Date—12 February 1990
A friend of MacGyver's is killed in Peru looking for a mythical treasure. MacGyver helps his daughter to continue her father's quest.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 5: Episode 16 -- After a horse trainer is murdered, MacGyver devises a gambling sting operation in order to trap the killer, a criminal who launders money for a Cuban drug lord

Season 5, Episode 16: Jenny's Chance

Original Air Date—19 February 1990
MacGyver organizes a gambling sting operation in order to catch the murderer of a horse trainer, a money launderer for a Cuban drug lord.

Season 5, Episode 17: Deep Cover

Original Air Date—26 February 1990
A female scientist designs an innovative sonar detection system for the Phoenix Foundation. The shady owner of a submarine company wants to sell her system to a drug-smuggling cartel.

Season 5, Episode 18: The Lost Amadeus

Original Air Date—19 March 1990
A famous musician is kidnapped by criminals who want a violin originally owned by Mozart as the ransom. A young woman enlists MacGyver's help to defeat the criminals.

Season 5, Episode 19: Hearts of Steel

Original Air Date—9 April 1990
Disgruntled steel-mill workers kidnap the daughter of the industrialist who put them out of work.

Season 5, Episode 20: Rush to Judgement

Original Air Date—16 April 1990
MacGyver is serving as a sequestered member of the jury in a racially-charged trial. MacGyver sneaks out to investigate the crime scene, uncovering new evidence, but also landing him in contempt of court.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 5: Episode 21 -- While lying in a coma near death, MacGyver has an extraordinary vision of the afterlife, reunited with his grandfather and his long-deceased parents

Season 5, Episode 21: Passages

Original Air Date—30 April 1990
While in a coma resulting from a great fall, MacGyver has a near-death experience, where he is reunited with his grandfather Harry and his long-deceased parents.

Season 6


"MacGyver" (1985): Season 6: Episode 1 -- The city’s crack houses are being destroyed by a gang of young vigilantes, and MacGyver suspects they are being trained by an ex-marine from the youth center

Season 6, Episode 1: Tough Boys

Original Air Date—17 September 1990

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 6: Episode 2 -- After MacGyver is taken hostage by a Romanian soldier, he saves the soldier’s life, and then tries to appeal to his sense of humanity

Season 6, Episode 2: Humanity

Original Air Date—24 September 1990

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 6: Episode 3 -- A gun used to assassinate a presidential candidate years ago resurfaces when a cop is shot, and MacGyver’s friend from the youth center is accused of the crime

Season 6, Episode 3: The Gun

Original Air Date—1 October 1990

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 6: Episode 4 -- When he learns that his young friend Lisa was found passed out at a house that was burglarized, MacGyver suspects she might be a teen alcoholic

Season 6, Episode 4: Twenty Questions

Original Air Date—8 October 1990
MacGyver's young friend Lisa has problems with alcohol. She gets arrested for being involved in several burglaries.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 6: Episode 5 -- MacGyver helps reunite an elderly German man with his long-lost granddaughter, not realizing she is now a deadly agent involved in a plot to steal the old man’s gold

Season 6, Episode 5: The Wall

Original Air Date—22 October 1990

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 6: Episode 6 -- Dr. Zito escapes the courthouse after an insanity hearing and proceeds to play an elaborate cat-and-mouse game with MacGyver and the police

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...

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 6: Episode 8 -- After being accused by the women in his life of not being able to commit, MacGyver has a dream that he is in the Old West…with the women as mail-order brides

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

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 6: Episode 10 -- Our hero tries to stop a rural couple from turning over their life savings to two "visitors" who are offering a perfect life on another planet

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.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 6: Episode 11 -- A sports legend is pressured into stealing valuable baseball memorabilia in order to pay off his gambling debts

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

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 6: Episode 16 -- MacGyver poses as one of the homeless in order to find out who killed his friend, a well-loved priest active in the homeless community

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.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 6: Episode 17 -- While suffering from glaucoma, Pete tries to help an old friend expose the mass murder of innocent citizens in her Latin American country

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...

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 6: Episode 18 -- After he steps into an animal trap, MacGyver is rescued by two old ladies who own a nearby inn

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.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 6: Episode 19 -- The evil assassin Murdoc is back! And he’s been ordered to kill the only hit that got away…MacGyver!

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.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 6: Episode 20 -- A dispute over Indian rights pits MacGyver and a Native American attorney against a powerful electric company

Season 6, Episode 20: Trail of Tears

Original Air Date—29 April 1991

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 6: Episode 21 -- As Pete anxiously awaits his glaucoma operation, he and MacGyver try to figure out who has been sending him threatening messages in the hospital

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.

Season 7


"MacGyver" (1985): Season 7: Episode 1 -- MacGyver gets pulled into a crazy plot by his godson’s grandfather, an ex-CIA agent who steals a high-tech helicopter in order to kidnap a dictator

Season 7, Episode 1: Honest Abe

Original Air Date—16 September 1991
A man in security guard uniform, carrying a briefcase, enters a hangar alone. There is a helicopter. The man enters the code that opens a storage room door. Inside the room, he steals a book that says "Stealth Helicopter Operating Manual - Top Secret" and a key-card that opens the helicopter. He replaces the fire extinguisher in the copter with one in his briefcase. Finally, he just flies away in the copter. Elsewhere, MacGyver meets his Jewish godson Jeffrey, who's bar mitsva is going to be on the following day. Jeffrey's father isn't in best terms with his own father, but Jeffrey is convinced that his grandfather will attend the bar mitsva. Jeffrey entrusts the picking up of his grandfather to MacGyver. Granpa tells he has to pick up Jeffrey's present from the post office. He sees a man in suit, wearing an earpiece, standing in guard outside the post office. He asks MacGyver to pick up the packet that is waiting there, addressed to an alias... There is a tracker inside the envelope, so the suits can see that it is moving. When MacGyver exits the post office, the suit pulls a gun on him... what is going on?

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 7: Episode 2 -- When a quirky actress from MacGyver’s neighborhood is abducted by two hit men, MacGyver works with his new bohemian neighbors to find her

Season 7, Episode 2: The 'Hood

Original Air Date—23 September 1991
MacGyver arrives at a new neighborhood in a moving truck. A 'hood of surfer dudes, scantily clad roller-blade girls, bikers that look at the scantily clad roller-blade girls instead of where they are driving to, weirdos that come out of their house every morning at the same time, shouting "I am alive! I am free!", a helpful landlord Mel and an aspiring actress Kelly from across the street. Then there are the two rich old men who have nefarious plans for the 'hood. With neighbors like this, there is no need for criminals, terrorists or Murdock...

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 7: Episode 3 -- MacGyver’s obsession that Murdoc is still alive is interfering with his job and threatening Pete’s position at the Phoenix Organization

Season 7, Episode 3: Obsessed

Original Air Date—30 September 1991

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 7: Episode 4 -- A psychopathic arsonist is setting explosive fires around the city, so MacGyver plays detective in order to track him down before he strikes again

Season 7, Episode 4: The Prometheus Syndrome

Original Air Date—7 October 1991
There is an arsonist, called Prometheus, loose in MacGyver's neighborhood. Naturally, the Fire Inspector and the police are clueless, and have enlisted MacGyver has to do all the real work to catch the arsonist.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 7: Episode 5 -- MacGyver's friends, the bounty-hunting Colton brothers, are hired to find a young woman who is the only witness to a gangland slaying in Chinatown

Season 7, Episode 5: The Coltons

Original Air Date—14 October 1991
Jesse Colton (last seen in #5.5), is shot while looking for his brother Frank (last seen in #5.3) and MacGyver. Luckily for him, he has a bullet-proof vest. He tracks the man, Egan, who shot him and surprises him and his accomplice. Meanwhile, MacGyver and Frank are tied up in a warehouse next to a bomb with a timer that has just over three minutes left in it. Turns out their last-second escape is just about all MacGyver does here - instead Frank and Jesse do all the action here, with some help from the third Colton, Billy (from #5.8). There's a power struggle in Chinatown and they get involved in it.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 7: Episode 6 -- After a student organizer is kidnapped, MacGyver and his neighbor Mama Lorraine have to rescue the girl from a powerful voodoo priest

Season 7, Episode 6: Walking Dead

Original Air Date—21 October 1991
Scum exiled from Haiti has settled down in Little Haiti, in MacGyver's neighborhood. They are selling drugs, collecting protection payments and threatening shopkeepers with "Baron Samdi". It's time for MacGyver to enter the world of Voodoo to save the neighborhood. Starting from the kidnapped girl.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 7: Episode 7 -- While tracing his family roots, MacGyver is knocked unconscious and transported back to the court of King Arthur, where he is asked to free a princess from the clutches of a tyrannical queen

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.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 7: Episode 8 -- The magician Merlin accompanies MacGyver on his quest to rescue the princess, but first they need to stop the evil queen from causing destruction with an early form of gunpowder

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...

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 7: Episode 9 -- Silent-film star Pinky Burnette’s only remaining films get stolen. But when he and MacGyver try to get them back, they encounter a dangerous special-effects expert bent on revenge.

Season 7, Episode 9: Deadly Silents

Original Air Date—18 November 1991
Pinky, a star of silent films, is showing his films to MacGyver. Pinky hopes that The Phoenix Foundation will preserve his films. Pinky and his friend Karl were also good at building sets and making special effects. There was however, a problem: they were both in love with the same girl and became enemies. Two masked men invade Pinky's house and take his films. Can MacGyver retrieve them?

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 7: Episode 10 -- Ex-con Earl Dent desperately needs money in order to retain custody of his teenage daughter, so he asks MacGyver to help him train for a boxing match

Season 7, Episode 10: Split Decision

Original Air Date—2 December 1991
Earl Dent (from #6.7 "Harry's Will" and #6.15 "High Control") is out of money and wants go to boxing as a pro. He enlists MacGyver as his coach.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 7: Episode 11 -- At the Challengers youth center, a former gang member is accused of murdering his rival. But MacGyver suspects a notorious weapons dealer who sells guns to gangs.

Season 7, Episode 11: Gunz 'n Boyz

Original Air Date—16 December 1991
Rival street gangs in MacGyver's neighborhood are recruiting teenagers to sell crack to get money to buy guns with which to wipe out their rivals. Naturally, MacGyver has to solve the problem. Because there is no problem solving of which is too unrealistic for MacGyver.

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 7: Episode 12 -- When his grandmother is suddenly evicted from her apartment, a young graffiti artist enlists MacGyver’s help in battling greedy landlords and corrupt city officials

Season 7, Episode 12: Off the Wall

Original Air Date—30 December 1991
Dempsey & Magruta: Law Offices - some picks their way in there, does some vandalism and foes through the drawers and file cabinets until he finds the file he's looking for. MacGyver pays the bail on a young "graffiti artist". A Rich Businessman in a limo is upset at his underling because he has bought the entire slum area and wants to tear it down but can't because an old lady is contesting the eviction notice served by the underling. The underling claims him down by saying that the judge threw the case out because the old lady did not have a solid case. It's MacGyver to the rescue again...

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 7: Episode 13 -- While working with Chinese dissidents to expose illegal labor camps, MacGyver gets unexpected help…from a young photojournalist who claims to be his son!

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!

"MacGyver" (1985): Season 7: Episode 14 -- Jack Dalton ropes MacGyver into yet another scheme, this time in Kabulstan, where locals claim that water from an ancient spring is a virtual “fountain of youth.”

Season 7, Episode 14: The Mountain of Youth

Original Air Date—21 May 1992
A prophecy predicts that a resourceful man (MacGyver) from the west follows another man (Jack Dalton) to your average completely fictional Ammukash Valley that is supposed to hold the Fountain of Youth. The Valley is, in MacGyver's own words, in your average completely fictional "Kabulstan, a very hostile third world country that does not like strangers". The prophecy says that the resourceful man has something to do with the destiny of the people of the valley.

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Original Air Date—14 May 1994

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Original Air Date—24 November 1994

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