7.2/10341 votes#1 - Lost Love (1)
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1987
While helping the People's Republic of China secure a priceless national treasure—The Ming Dragon—in a San Diego museum, MacGyver runs into a Lisa, a woman that he had loved and thought was long dead. MacGyver learns that Lisa has been alive all these years and needs his help escaping the KGB.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Jerrold L. Ludwig
7.3/10329 votes#2 - Lost Love (2)
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1987
The KBG have Lisa in their grasp, and MacGyver must get The Ming Dragon for them to free Lisa. MacGyver enlists the help of his old buddy, Jack Dalton, to help him steal it.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Jerrold L. Ludwig
7.0/10333 votes#3 - Back From the Dead
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1987
Jimmy Kendall, living undercover after testifying against his Mob bosses, surfaces when he becomes the manager for a winning baseball team.
Director: James L. Conway
Writer: Stephen Kronish
7.9/10425 votes#4 - Ghost Ship
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1987
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.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: Stephen Kandel
7.4/10336 votes#5 - Fire and Ice
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/1987
A jewel thief with diplomatic immunity kills Mac's friend. But there are more people involved in the crime - and Mac can't be sure who's on his side.
Director: Alan Simmonds
Writer: Rick Husky
7.5/10323 votes#6 - GX-1
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1987
Mac and Nikki race to recover equipment from a downed experimental plane before the Soviets, who are using a psychic to guide them to the wreckage.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: Calvin Clements Jr.
7.4/10330 votes#7 - Jack in the Box
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/1987
MacGyver and Jack Dalton are arrested in Arkansas by a corrupt sheriff who arrests people to make them work in a labor camp used for mining gold. MacGyver wants to escape, but Jack has other ideas: He wants to find five million dollars his uncle Charlie left in the mines years before.
Director: James L. Conway
Writer: David Rich
8.4/10458 votes#8 - The Widowmaker
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1987
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.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: John Whelpley
8.0/10384 votes#9 - Hell Week
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/1987
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.
Director: James L. Conway
Writer: Leonard Mlodinow, Scott Rubenstein
7.6/10323 votes#10 - Blow Out
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/21/1987
MacGyver teams up with colleague Nikki Carpenter to find out who is behind the attempts on her life. When they find out that the man who tried to kill her is connected to two terrorists who blew up a local post office, MacGyver and Nikki must find out what the terrorist's next target is before it's too late.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: W. Reed Moran
7.2/10346 votes#11 - Kill Zone
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 1/4/1988
An impulsive scientist who cuts corners in her research work creates an uncontrollably mutating organism that speeds up the aging process.
Director: Chuck Bowman
Writer: N/A
7.2/10317 votes#12 - Early Retirement
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/18/1988
While testing a new nuclear bomb defusing team at the Phoenix Foundation, a deadly explosion kills three men. Pete blames himself for not inspecting their equipment better and resigns from his job out of guilt. However, Pete is replaced by a not-so-trustworthy man—one who may have been connected to the explosion.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: N/A
6.8/10333 votes#13 - Thin Ice
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 2/1/1988
While back in Minnesota to fill in as coach for a high-school hockey team, MacGyver tries to change the attitude of a callous player who has a shot at playing for the pros. But when this kid's ambition lands another player in the hospital, MacGyver must try and find out what or who is pushing him so hard to succeed.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: N/A
7.3/10311 votes#14 - The Odd Triple
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 2/29/1988
After returning home from a long assignment, MacGyver has an unwelcome surprise. Jack Dalton is waiting and wants him to help with a new scheme. A wealthy woman has just acquired some invaluable jewels, needing Jack to fly her back to her home in France. Things seem to be going fine, that is, until they land. Jack and MacGyver are arrested and accused of theft.
Director: James L. Conway
Writer: N/A
8.0/10362 votes#15 - The Negotiator
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 3/7/1988
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.
Director: Charles Correll
Writer: N/A
7.5/10326 votes#16 - The Spoilers
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 3/14/1988
After MacGyver witnesses someone dumping toxic waste that's polluting mountain streams, he and Pete enlist a reclusive mountain man nicknamed "Earthquake" to help lead them to the culprit. Things become complicated, though, as Earthquake's flashbacks to his military service in the Vietnam War make him unstable and threaten their case.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: Stephen Kandel
7.4/10320 votes#17 - Mask of the Wolf
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 3/28/1988
Jack and Mac help an ancient Indian search for a wolf mask that two mercenaries are also eager to have.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: N/A
7.2/10314 votes#18 - Rock the Cradle
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 4/18/1988
Mac and Jack return from a flight to find an abandoned baby in Jack's hangar, complete with a desperate note from the mother and his own endowment fund hidden in his diapers.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: N/A
7.7/10329 votes#19 - The Endangered
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 5/2/1988
While visiting an old girlfriend who's a park ranger at a wildlife reserve, MacGyver runs into deadly poachers who are intent on hunting animals on the reserve. When MacGyver tries to uncover their plot, they come after him. Now it's a race against time to escape the poachers, save the animals, and save their own lives.
Director: Charles Correll
Writer: N/A
7.6/10306 votes#20 - Murderers' Sky
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 5/9/1988
When the head of a American-Chinese shipping company is attacked in his office by a killer, MacGyver and the man's grandson—who is heir to the company—must find out who was behind the attempt on his life.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of MacGyver Season 3
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Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Lost Love (1)" is the best rated episode of "MacGyver" season 3. It scored 7.2/10 based on 341 votes. Directed by Cliff Bole and written by Jerrold L. Ludwig, it aired on 9/21/1987. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Lost Love (2)".