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The Best Episodes of MacGyver

Every episode of MacGyver ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of MacGyver!

The Best Episodes of MacGyver

He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed...

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  1. Background image for Deadly Dreams
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #1 - Deadly Dreams

    S4:E7

    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.

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  2. Background image for The Invisible Killer
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #2 - The Invisible Killer

    S4:E15

    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.

    Director:Dana Elcar
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  3. Background image for Legend of the Holy Rose (1)
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #3 - Legend of the Holy Rose (1)

    S5:E1

    MacGyver and an old friend dash around the world searching for the artifacts necessary to locate the Holy Grail, just one step ahead of a ruthless man on the same trail, who will do anything to get to it before they do.

    Writer:Unknown
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  4. Background image for Legend of the Holy Rose (2)
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #4 - Legend of the Holy Rose (2)

    S5:E2

    MacGyver and an old friend dash around the world searching for the artifacts necessary to locate the Holy Grail, just one step ahead of a ruthless man on the same trail.

    Writer:Unknown
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  5. Background image for Halloween Knights
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #5 - Halloween Knights

    S5:E6

    An old nemesis enlists MacGyver's help to rescue someone important to him—and she's scheduled to be executed during a Halloween Party put on by a professional assassination organization.

    Writer:Unknown
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  6. Background image for Passages
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #6 - Passages

    S5:E21

    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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Lesson in Evil
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #7 - Lesson in Evil

    S6:E6

    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.

    Director:Bill Gereghty
    Writer:Unknown
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  9. Background image for Eye of Osiris
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #8 - Eye of Osiris

    S6:E14

    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...

    Director:Michael Vejar
    Writer:Unknown
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  10. Background image for Strictly Business
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #9 - Strictly Business

    S6:E19

    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.

    Director:Michael Vejar
    Writer:Unknown
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  11. Background image for The Widowmaker
    8.3/10(496 votes)

    #10 - The Widowmaker

    S3:E8

    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.

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  12. Background image for Cleo Rocks
    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #11 - Cleo Rocks

    S4:E9

    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.

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  13. Background image for Phoenix Under Siege
    8.1/10(445 votes)

    #12 - Phoenix Under Siege

    S2:E11

    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.

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  14. Background image for Partners
    8.1/10(430 votes)

    #13 - Partners

    S2:E18

    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.

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  15. Background image for Countdown
    8.0/10(520 votes)

    #14 - Countdown

    S1:E14

    A mysterious person who calls himself "Viking" has just bombed the cruise ship Victoria, underway in the North Pacific Ocean. He demands six million dollars or another bomb will go off within hours. So MacGyver gets called in, along with his old Vietnam bomb-defusal partner, Charlie Robinson, to disarm it. But when they get there, they find out there's more than one bomb on the ship. Complications arise when MacGyver's partner sets off one of the bombs, and the bomber decides that DXS operated in bad faith and refuses to hand over the bomb-disarming instructions after he gets the extortion money.

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  16. Background image for Hell Week
    8.0/10(413 votes)

    #15 - Hell Week

    S3:E9

    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.

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  17. Background image for The Survivors
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - The Survivors

    S4:E6

    While on assignment to test field agents for the Phoenix Foundation, MacGyver and Pete discover the wreckage of a DEA plane shot down by dangerous drug smugglers.

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  18. Background image for The Battle of Tommy Giordano
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #17 - The Battle of Tommy Giordano

    S4:E11

    The young son of MacGyver's co-worker is kidnapped by the boy's father. MacGyver must go and retrieve the boy from the house of the boy's uncle—a powerful mob boss.

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  19. Background image for The Ten Percent Solution
    8.0/10(5 votes)

    #18 - The Ten Percent Solution

    S5:E9

    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’.

    Writer:Unknown
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  20. Background image for The Assassin
    7.9/10(449 votes)

    #19 - The Assassin

    S1:E22

    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.

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  21. Background image for The Human Factor
    7.9/10(460 votes)

    #20 - The Human Factor

    S2:E1

    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."

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  22. Background image for The Negotiator
    7.9/10(384 votes)

    #21 - The Negotiator

    S3:E15

    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.

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  23. Background image for The Stringer
    7.9/10(328 votes)

    #22 - The Stringer

    S7:E13

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

    Director:Michael Vejar
    Writer:Unknown
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  24. Background image for Pilot
    7.8/10(2.4k votes)

    #23 - Pilot

    S1:E1

    When a science lab studying the ozone layer mysteriously explodes, MacGyver is called in to rescue the scientists that are trapped underground. It's soon discovered that the explosion cracked a tank of sulfuric acid, and MacGyver is in a race against time before the Army uses a missile to seal up the base.

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  25. Background image for Ghost Ship
    7.8/10(457 votes)

    #24 - Ghost Ship

    S3:E4

    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.

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  26. Background image for Target MacGyver
    7.7/10(530 votes)

    #25 - Target MacGyver

    S1:E10

    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.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Deadly Dreams" is the best rated episode of "MacGyver". It scored 8.5/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Les Landau and written by Stephen Downing, it aired on 1/16/1989. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Invisible Killer".