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The Best Episodes of MacGyver Season 2

Every episode of MacGyver Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of MacGyver Season 2!

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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 with only a knapsack filled with everyday items he picks

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    MacGyver Season 2 Episode 18 - Partners
    8.2/10(464 votes)

    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.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writers:Bill Froehlich, Mark Lisson

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  2. MacGyver Season 2 Episode 11 - Phoenix Under Siege
    8.1/10(481 votes)

    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.

    Director:Gilbert M. Shilton
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. MacGyver Season 2 Episode 1 - The Human Factor
    8.0/10(501 votes)

    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."

    Director:Charles Correll
    Writer:Robin Bernheim Burger

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  4. MacGyver Season 2 Episode 10 - Three for the Road
    7.7/10(427 votes)

    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.

    Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.
    Writers:John J. Sakmar, Kerry Lenhart

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  5. MacGyver Season 2 Episode 16 - Out in the Cold
    7.7/10(402 votes)

    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.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Stephen Kronish

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  6. MacGyver Season 2 Episode 21 - D.O.A.: MacGyver
    7.6/10(393 votes)

    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.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Jaison Starkes

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  7. MacGyver Season 2 Episode 2 - The Eraser
    7.5/10(446 votes)

    S2:E2

    Mac inadvertently leads a hit man to his target, believing that he's helping a father find his lost son.

    Director:Paul Krasny
    Writer:Stephen Kronish

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  8. MacGyver Season 2 Episode 6 - Jack of Lies
    7.5/10(431 votes)

    S2:E6

    MacGyver, returning home one night, walks into his apartment, only to everything he owns missing from his apartment. Initially suspecting a robbery, MacGyver eventually comes to the conclusion that his old friend Jack Dalton is the one responsible for the theft.

    Director:Charles Correll
    Writers:John J. Sakmar, Kerry Lenhart

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  9. MacGyver Season 2 Episode 12 - Family Matter
    7.5/10(397 votes)

    S2:E12

    Pete's ex-wife and son are kidnapped down in Louisiana while on an archaeological trip. The kidnappers demand that Pete comes to Louisiana in exchange for letting his family go. But when he gets there, it soon becomes apparent that they don't plan to let any of them go.

    Director:Alexander Singer
    Writer:Paul A. Magistretti

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  10. MacGyver Season 2 Episode 14 - Birth Day
    7.5/10(391 votes)

    S2:E14

    MacGyver's fishing trip is cut short when he meets a very pregnant woman whose husband is out to kill her. Accidentally, she found out that his half-way home for ex-cons is really a recruiting place for new crimes. Mac and the woman are chased into a warehouse where they are trapped.

    Director:James L. Conway
    Writer:Rob Hedden

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  11. MacGyver Season 2 Episode 17 - Dalton, Jack of Spies
    7.5/10(387 votes)

    S2:E17

    Dalton, who is believed to be dead, recruits MacGyver to help uncover a CIA mole.

    Director:Bob Sweeney
    Writers:John J. Sakmar, Kerry Lenhart

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  12. MacGyver Season 2 Episode 3 - Twice Stung
    7.4/10(427 votes)

    S2:E3

    MacGyver and Pete have a surprise party planned for a colleague, but when the colleague doesn't show up, MacGyver goes looking for him, and finds him on the verge of committing suicide. When questioned why he would do such a thing, Kelly explains that a con artist has swindled him out of his life savings. MacGyver tells Pete about Kelly's situation and the two of them decide that they will get Kelly's money back from the con.

    Director:Paul Krasny
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. MacGyver Season 2 Episode 8 - Eagles
    7.4/10(434 votes)

    S2:E8

    While hang gliding in the west, MacGyver crosses paths with an escaped felon who shot and wounded a rare eagle. Now, with the help of his new friend Susan Cooper and her son Darin, MacGyver must heal the eagle and trap the felon before he kills more eagles.

    Director:Paul Krasny
    Writer:George Lee Marshall

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  14. MacGyver Season 2 Episode 22 - For Love or Money
    7.4/10(374 votes)

    S2:E22

    MacGyver is forced to work with a ruthless freelance agent to rescue a human rights activist who is being held in a psychiatric hospital in Czechoslovakia. The rescue is an apparent success, until the secret police then kidnap the activist's wife to get him back.

    Director:James L. Conway
    Writers:Doug Heyes, Jr.

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  15. MacGyver Season 2 Episode 7 - The Road Not Taken
    7.3/10(417 votes)

    S2:E7

    MacGyver and Pete head to Asia to rescue a nun, who is an old friend of Pete's, and the orphaned children she takes care of from aggressive regime troops. While there, MacGyver runs into someone he never expected, his old fiancee, Debra. Now MacGyver must complete his mission, work out his differences with Debra, and escape from the troops, all before the troops find them.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Chuck Bowman

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  16. MacGyver Season 2 Episode 15 - Pirates
    7.3/10(378 votes)

    S2:E15

    While on an expedition to find a Spanish treasure fleet, Dr. Barbara Ortega's boat is hi-jacked by modern-day pirates. They steal the small amount of treasure that she has already found - including the ship's log, which is the key to finding the whole fleet - and take off. When she makes it public that she was hi-jacked, the Phoenix Foundation sends MacGyver to help. Now, MacGyver and Barbara must recover the ship's log, so she can find the treasure before the pirates do.

    Director:Bruce Kessler
    Writer:Stephen Kandel

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  17. MacGyver Season 2 Episode 19 - Bushmaster
    7.3/10(378 votes)

    S2:E19

    When MacGyver is sent to rescue an American pilot held in Central America for supposed espionage, his wargame-trained daughter tags along, but she didn't quite come prepared for the real thing. MacGyver must now rescue the pilot while keeping his daughter safe from the soldiers.

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writer:Rob Hedden

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  18. MacGyver Season 2 Episode 5 - Final Approach
    7.2/10(443 votes)

    S2:E5

    MacGyver goes to the mountains to lead four ex-gangster teens on a Phoenix Foundation funded rehabilitation trip. When he gets there, he finds that this task may be a little more complicated then he thought. All of the kids are very rebellious and one of them has a bad grudge against another one. A couple of days later when MacGyver is returning with the kids, their plane crashes in the middle of the wilderness and one of them is injured. Now, MacGyver must fix the plane and help the kids work out their differences so they can save their friend.

    Director:Alexander Singer
    Writer:Rob Hedden

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  19. MacGyver Season 2 Episode 13 - Soft Touch
    7.2/10(415 votes)

    S2:E13

    MacGyver puts up Penny Parker for a few days while she's looking for a job as a singing telegram. But on her first day, she happens to witness two thugs torturing a man. Unfortunately, she can't find her way back, and when she does, MacGyver thinks this may be the start of something bigger as the victim is a Federal agent.

    Director:Charles Correll
    Writers:Joan Brooker, Nancy Eddo

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  20. MacGyver Season 2 Episode 4 - The Wish Child
    6.9/10(436 votes)

    S2:E4

    While MacGyver goes to pick up a Chinese friend's brother from a birthday party, he witnesses something strange: Paul is being called "The Wish Child." It seems that a greedy businessman has wrapped him up in a scam, because he looks exactly like a boy from an old legend that owns the secret of immortality. Now, MacGyver must try to talk him out of this, because Paul is starting to believe he really is The Wish Child!

    Director:Charles Correll
    Writers:Bill Froehlich, Stephen Kandel

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  21. MacGyver Season 2 Episode 9 - Silent World
    6.9/10(402 votes)

    S2:E9

    While helping the Phoenix Foundation test a new missile-guidance system for the government, MacGyver's efforts are hampered by men who are trying to steal it. When the men escape with it, MacGyver turns to his deaf friend, who has been having premonition-type dreams of this happening. Now MacGyver must try and analyze her dreams so that he can find the men who stole the system.

    Director:James L. Conway
    Writer:Stephen Kandel

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  22. MacGyver Season 2 Episode 20 - Friends
    6.5/10(401 votes)

    S2:E20

    MacGyver's friends throw a birthday party for him, but he's somberly reflecting on his past and future. While reflecting, MacGyver decides to leave the Phoenix Foundation to get married and have a family. Can Pete convince him of how important he is to the Foundation and get him to change his mind?

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Stephen Kronish

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Partners" is the best rated episode of "MacGyver" season 2. It scored 8.2/10 based on 464 votes. Directed by Cliff Bole and written by Bill Froehlich, Mark Lisson, it aired on 3/2/1987. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Phoenix Under Siege".