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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. 8.5/10(2 votes)

    #1 - 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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  2. 8.5/10(2 votes)

    #2 - 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.

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    Director:Bill Gereghty
    Writer:N/A
  3. 8.5/10(2 votes)

    #3 - 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...

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    Director:Michael Vejar
    Writer:N/A
  4. 8.5/10(2 votes)

    #4 - 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.

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    Director:Michael Vejar
    Writer:N/A
  5. 8.4/10(481 votes)

    #5 - 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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  6. 8.2/10(397 votes)

    #6 - 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.

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    Director:Dana Elcar
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  8. 8.1/10(394 votes)

    #7 - 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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  9. 8.1/10(378 votes)

    #8 - 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.

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    Writer:N/A
  10. 8.0/10(498 votes)

    #9 - 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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  11. 8.0/10(3 votes)

    #10 - Three For the Road

    S2:E10

    A retired actor and his wife stop at a motel on the way to Los Angeles. MacGyver rescues them from a drunkard who nearly makes a mark on their car. MacGyver is supposed to meet a mobster-turned-informant at the motel, but the meeting goes wrong. The mob shows up and kills MacGyver's friend before he can give MacGyver what he promised. Instead the bag lands in the old couple's car, where the old actor finds it and discovers it full of money.

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  12. 8.0/10(2 votes)

    #11 - Out in the Cold

    S2:E16

    When MacGyver and Pete go skiing, a man switches poles with MacGyver, only moments before being gunned down and killed by his former friends. But the gunshot starts an avalanche, which covers MacGyver completely, leaving it up to Pete to convince the mountain rangers to stage a search and rescue before the next avalanche comes. As MacGyver finally is dug up, the gangsters are there, waiting for him, and whatever is hidden in that ski pole.

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  13. 8.0/10(3 votes)

    #12 - D.O.A.: MacGyver

    S2:E21

    MacGyver is called to a meeting with a former British spy, who has learned of a group of terrorists that will use a new plastic explosive in a vengeful attack on the U.S. army. This explosive can be hidden anywhere. However, before the spy can give MacGyver all the details he is shot. MacGyver flees through a window and is picked up by a boat. The female who owns the boat soon learns that the man she has rescued doesn't have any memory.

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    Director:Cliff Bole
  14. 8.0/10(402 votes)

    #13 - 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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  15. 8.0/10(426 votes)

    #14 - The Secret of Parker House

    S4:E1

    MacGyver accompanies Penny Parker to an old house she inherited from her Aunt Betty, who mysteriously died 30 years before. When strange things start happening, Penny is sure that the house is haunted.

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    Director:Michael Vejar
    Writer:N/A
  16. 7.9/10(437 votes)

    #15 - 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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  17. 7.9/10(375 votes)

    #16 - 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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  18. 7.9/10(333 votes)

    #17 - 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.

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    Writer:N/A
  19. 7.9/10(341 votes)

    #18 - 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.

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    Writer:N/A
  20. 7.9/10(323 votes)

    #19 - 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!

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    Director:Michael Vejar
    Writer:N/A
  21. 7.8/10(2.4k votes)

    #20 - 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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  22. 7.8/10(442 votes)

    #21 - 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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  23. 7.8/10(327 votes)

    #22 - 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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  24. 7.8/10(345 votes)

    #23 - 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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  25. 7.8/10(353 votes)

    #24 - 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.

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    Writer:N/A
  26. 7.8/10(320 votes)

    #25 - Cease Fire

    S5:E4

    During some tough negotiations between two neighbouring states, one side plants a sniper in the vicinity. When Mac discovers the sniper, he fights him, but loses the man and the accusations go out against Mac. Wounded and forced to run, he hides at a private girls' school, where one of the young ladies becomes his only hope to prevent further bloodshed.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Partners" is the best rated episode of "MacGyver". It scored 8.5/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Cliff Bole and written by Bill Froehlich, Mark Lisson, it aired on 3/2/1987. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Lesson in Evil".