• Air date: 16 Sep '91 14 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 (14)
    • 1. Honest Abe

      16 Sep '91
      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.
    • 2. The 'Hood

      23 Sep '91
      Mac helps his new neighbors to rescue one of their own after she overhears two hitmen planning a job.
    • 3. Obsessed

      30 Sep '91
      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.
    • 4. The Prometheus Syndrome

      07 Oct '91
      MacGyver becomes personally involved in the effort to find a psychopathic arsonist.
    • 5. The Coltons

      14 Oct '91
      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.
    • 6. The Walking Dead

      21 Oct '91
      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.
    • 7. Good Knight MacGyver (1)

      04 Nov '91
      A genealogy investigation and a knock on the head takes Mac back to King Arthur's court, where he must use his knowledge to prove Merlin innocent of harming the King, find the fair Cecilia and foil Morgana's attempt to take over the throne.
    • 8. Good Knight MacGyver (2)

      11 Nov '91
      A genealogy investigation and a knock on the head takes Mac back to King Arthur's court, where he must use his knowledge to prove Merlin innocent of harming the King, find the fair Cecilia and foil Morgana's attempt to take over the throne.
    • 9. Deadly Silents

      18 Nov '91
      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.
    • 10. Split Decision

      02 Dec '91
      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.
    • 11. Gunz 'N Boyz

      16 Dec '91
      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.
    • 12. Off the Wall

      30 Dec '91
      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.
    • 13. The Stringer

      25 Apr '92
      While working with Chinese dissidents to expose illegal labor camps, MacGyver gets unexpected help from a young photojournalist who claims to be his son!
    • 14. Mountain of Youth

      21 May '92
      MacGyver joins Jack Dalton in Kabulstan on a search for a fountain of youth, but finds himself battling nuclear terrorists in the process.