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The Best Episodes of MacGyver Season 3

Every episode of MacGyver Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of MacGyver Season 3!

The Best Episodes of MacGyver Season 3

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 Lost Love (1)
    7.2/10(354 votes)

    #1 - Lost Love (1)

    S3:E1

    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.

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  2. Background image for Lost Love (2)
    7.3/10(341 votes)

    #2 - Lost Love (2)

    S3:E2

    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.

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  3. Background image for Back From the Dead
    7.0/10(344 votes)

    #3 - Back From the Dead

    S3:E3

    Jimmy Kendall, living undercover after testifying against his Mob bosses, surfaces when he becomes the manager for a winning baseball team.

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    7.8/10(444 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. Background image for Fire and Ice
    7.4/10(346 votes)

    #5 - Fire and Ice

    S3:E5

    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.

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    Director:Alan Simmonds
    Writer:Rick Husky
  6. Background image for GX-1
    7.5/10(337 votes)

    #6 - GX-1

    S3:E6

    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.

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  8. Background image for Jack in the Box
    7.4/10(343 votes)

    #7 - Jack in the Box

    S3:E7

    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.

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  9. Background image for The Widowmaker
    8.4/10(482 votes)

    #8 - 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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  10. Background image for Hell Week
    8.0/10(402 votes)

    #9 - 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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  11. Background image for Blow Out
    7.6/10(336 votes)

    #10 - Blow Out

    S3:E10

    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.

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    Director:Cliff Bole
  12. Background image for Kill Zone
    7.2/10(363 votes)

    #11 - Kill Zone

    S3:E11

    An impulsive scientist who cuts corners in her research work creates an uncontrollably mutating organism that speeds up the aging process.

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  13. Background image for Early Retirement
    7.2/10(330 votes)

    #12 - Early Retirement

    S3:E12

    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.

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    Director:Cliff Bole
  14. Background image for Thin Ice
    6.8/10(345 votes)

    #13 - Thin Ice

    S3:E13

    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.

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    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Rick Drew
  15. Background image for The Odd Triple
    7.3/10(322 votes)

    #14 - The Odd Triple

    S3:E14

    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.

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  16. Background image for The Negotiator
    7.9/10(376 votes)

    #15 - 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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    7.4/10(339 votes)

    #16 - The Spoilers

    S3:E16

    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.

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  18. Background image for Mask of the Wolf
    7.4/10(333 votes)

    #17 - Mask of the Wolf

    S3:E17

    Jack and Mac help an ancient Indian search for a wolf mask that two mercenaries are also eager to have.

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    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Rock the Cradle
    7.2/10(325 votes)

    #18 - Rock the Cradle

    S3:E18

    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.

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  20. Background image for The Endangered
    7.7/10(344 votes)

    #19 - The Endangered

    S3:E19

    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.

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  21. Background image for Murderers' Sky
    7.5/10(322 votes)

    #20 - Murderers' Sky

    S3:E20

    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.

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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 354 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)".