• Air date: 17 Sep '90 21 episodes
      MacGyver is an American action-adventure television series created by Lee David Zlotoff. Henry Winkler and John Rich were the executive producers. The show ran for seven seasons on ABC in the United States and various other networks abroad from 1985 to 1992. The series was filmed in Los Angeles during seasons 1, 2 and 7, and in Vancouver during seasons 3–6. The show's final episode aired on April 25, 1992, on ABC. Episode List The show follows secret agent Angus MacGyver, played by Richard Dean Anderson, who works as a troubleshooter for the fictional Phoenix Foundation in Los Angeles and as an agent for a fictional United States government agency, the Department of External Services. Educated as a scientist, MacGyer served as a Bomb Team Technician/EOD during the Vietnam War. Resourceful and possessed of an encyclopedic knowledge of the physical sciences, he solves complex problems with everyday materials he finds at hand, along with his ever-present duct tape and Swiss Army knife. He...
  • List of Episodes (21)
    • 1. Tough Boys

      17 Sep '90
      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.
    • 2. Humanity

      24 Sep '90
      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.
    • 3. The Gun

      01 Oct '90
      MacGyver searches for a gun used in an assassination twenty years ago and in a present day cop killing to clear a friend.
    • 4. Twenty Questions

      08 Oct '90
      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.
    • 5. The Wall

      22 Oct '90
      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.
    • 6. Lesson in Evil

      29 Oct '90
      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.
    • 7. Harry's Will

      05 Nov '90
      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.
    • 8. MacGyver's Women

      12 Nov '90
      Macgyver's reluctance to commit to a permanent relationship causes him to dream an Old West scenario where he defends three of his lady friends from some ornery outlaws as he drives their wagon cross country.
    • 9. Bitter Harvest

      19 Nov '90
      MacGyver goes undercover to investigate the death of a farm-worker organizer during an investigation of illegal pesticide use.
    • 10. The Visitor

      03 Dec '90
      Mac uncovers an out-of-this-world scam when he investigates some mysterious indentations in a farmer's field.
    • 11. Squeeze Play

      17 Dec '90
      Mac defends a former player's daughter being blackmailed by a baseball memorabilia-counterfeiting ring trading on her father's name.
    • 12. Jerico Games

      07 Jan '91
      Mac is reunited with a high school sweetheart whose husband is a wealthy man sponsoring an international sports competition.
    • 13. The Wasteland

      21 Jan '91
      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.
    • 14. Eye of Osiris

      04 Feb '91
      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...
    • 15. High Control

      11 Feb '91
      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.
    • 16. There but For the Grace

      18 Feb '91
      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.
    • 17. Blind Faith

      04 Mar '91
      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.
    • 18. Faith, Hope & Charity

      18 Mar '91
      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.
    • 19. Strictly Business

      08 Apr '91
      After enlisting MacGyver's help in saving his sister (from a previous episode), Murdoc wants to come out of retirement, but his former employers at Homicide International request that he take out MacGyver as a demonstration of his sincere desire to rejoin them. Knowing that MacGyver is the only contract that he failed to execute, Murdocs agrees to ""clear"" his otherwise perfect record. MacGyver, returning home one night, finds Murdoc waiting for him at his dinner table- with dinner waiting. Mur
    • 20. Trail of Tears

      26 Apr '91
      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.
    • 21. Hind-Sight

      06 May '91
      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.