Best MacGyver Episodes
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- DirectorCharles CorrellStarsRichard Dean AndersonDana ElcarMoira Walley-BeckettMacGyver 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.
- DirectorMichael VejarStarsRichard Dean AndersonDana ElcarMichael Des BarresMacGyver'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.
- DirectorDana ElcarStarsRichard Dean AndersonDana ElcarJames SloyanMacGyver takes a group of Phoenix Foundation employees for a recreational trip into the wilderness but learns that someone of the group might be an escaped criminal.
- DirectorJames L. ConwayStarsRichard Dean AndersonDana ElcarLawrence DobkinAn 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.
- DirectorLee H. KatzinStarsRichard Dean AndersonRobin CurtisJohn VernonMacGyver is sent to Central 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.
- DirectorGilbert M. ShiltonStarsRichard Dean AndersonDana ElcarJohn AndersonMacGyver 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.
- DirectorWilliam GereghtyStarsRichard Dean AndersonDana ElcarJohn AndersonWhile 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.
- DirectorCharles CorrellStarsRichard Dean AndersonDana ElcarKristian AlfonsoWhen 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.
- DirectorMichael CaffeyStarsRichard Dean AndersonDana ElcarHolly FieldsA 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.
- DirectorMichael CaffeyStarsRichard Dean AndersonDana ElcarCecilia HartMacGyver 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.
- DirectorJerrold FreedmanStarsRichard Dean AndersonMichael LernerDana ElcarAn underground lab is destroyed by a mysterious explosion. MacGyver is sent in to rescue the trapped scientists and stop a deadly chemical leak.
- DirectorMichael VejarStarsRichard Dean AndersonDana ElcarKatey WrightWhile 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!
- DirectorLes LandauStarsRichard Dean AndersonDana ElcarKim ZimmerAn 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.
- DirectorWilliam GereghtyStarsRichard Dean AndersonDana ElcarTeri HatcherExhausted 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.
- DirectorAlan Crosland Jr.StarsRichard Dean AndersonDana ElcarEdward MulhareMacGyver 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.
- DirectorMichael PreeceStarsRichard Dean AndersonDana ElcarAudrey LandersA 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.
- DirectorCliff BoleStarsRichard Dean AndersonDana ElcarJonathan GoldsmithA 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.
- DirectorWilliam GereghtyStarsRichard Dean AndersonDana ElcarBrooks GardnerMacGyver saves the life of a Romanian soldier who has taken him hostage. MacGyver then tries to appeal to the soldier's sense of humanity.
- DirectorMichael VejarStarsRichard Dean AndersonDana ElcarTeri HatcherPenny Parker asks MacGyver to accompany her in inspecting an old house that she inherited from her aunt, an apparently haunted house.
- DirectorMichael CaffeyStarsRichard Dean AndersonDana ElcarIrene DeBariA 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 videotape stolen from San Pablo presidential palace 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, 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 arranged 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...
- DirectorCharles CorrellStarsRichard Dean AndersonDana ElcarDirk BlockerMacGyver 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.
- DirectorDana ElcarStarsRichard Dean AndersonDana ElcarMichael MacRaeRay, an ex-gang member, gets into some trouble with the police and a local shop owner. With the help of MacGyver, he unravels a racist community in the neighborhood surrounding the challenger's club.
- DirectorPaul KrasnyStarsRichard Dean AndersonDana ElcarJulie CobbTwo rare golden eagles facing extinction are helped by MacGyver. He must simultaneously confront the poacher trying to kill the eagles and eliminate MacGyver.
- DirectorBill CorcoranStarsRichard Dean AndersonDana ElcarMichele B. ChanWhen 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.
- DirectorCliff BoleStarsRichard Dean AndersonTammy LaurenDana ElcarMacGyver 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.