8.0/10414 votes#1 - The Secret of Parker House
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 10/31/1988
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.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: N/A
7.5/10347 votes#2 - Blood Brothers
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 11/21/1988
MacGyver returns to his home town of Mission City, Minnesota to meet up with two old friends, Chuck and Neil, so they can dig up a time capsule they buried twenty-five years before. However, MacGyver is hesitant to dig the capsule up because he is still haunted by the death of his old friend Jesse, who died when MacGyver was young. But now MacGyver has another problem to deal with. Chuck's and Neil's sons, Danny and Sean, have gotten wrapped up in a drug deal, and the dealer is after Danny. Danny takes off to hide, and now MacGyver must find him, before the drug dealer does.
Director: Charles Correll
Writer: Rick Drew
7.6/10366 votes#3 - The Outsiders
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 11/28/1988
MacGyver helps an Amish family, who saved his life, from having their farm seized by the government.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: Michelle Poteet Lisanti
7.3/10315 votes#4 - On a Wing and a Prayer
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 12/5/1988
Central American rebels capture Pete and a nun during a coup d'état, and it's up to MacGyver and Jack to rescue them.
Director: Charles Correll
Writer: John Whelpley
7.2/10317 votes#5 - Collision Course
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 12/12/1988
When a friend of Mac's is injured in a crash, Mac agrees to test the new racing engine designed by the Phoenix Foundation. However a business rival has other plans for him, and he has someone from the inside to help him.
Director: Chuck Bowman
Writer: Paul B. Margolis
7.8/10312 votes#6 - The Survivors
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 1/9/1989
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.
Director: Michael Caffey
Writer: W. Reed Moran
7.8/10331 votes#7 - Deadly Dreams
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 1/16/1989
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.
Director: Les Landau
Writer: Stephen Downing
7.1/10294 votes#8 - Ma Dalton
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 1/23/1989
After Jack receives momentos of his father from an anonymous sender, he and MacGyver launch a search for Jack's mother, who's been missing since he was boy—and they aren't the only ones hunting for her.
Director: Rob Bowman
Writer: John Whelpley
8.1/10379 votes#9 - Cleo Rocks
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 2/6/1989
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.
Director: Chuck Bowman
Writer: John Sheppard, Rick Drew
7.1/10298 votes#10 - Fraternity of Thieves
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 2/13/1989
Pete is conflicted when he discovers that the Phoenix Foundation employee selling classified information turns out to be his son.
Director: Michael Preece
Writer: Grant Rosenberg
7.2/10281 votes#11 - The Battle of Tommy Giordano
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 2/20/1989
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.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: Marianne Clarkson
7.3/10334 votes#12 - The Challenge
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 2/27/1989
An inner city youth club is threatened when a black resident is framed for auto theft by a neighborhood racist who'll stop at nothing to close the center—even murder.
Director: Dana Elcar
Writer: Chris Haddock
7.1/10316 votes#13 - Runners
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 3/13/1989
MacGyver helps a young runaway with a vicious pimp and a tragic secret about her policeman father.
Director: Michael Caffey
Writer: Joel Schwartz
7.5/10321 votes#14 - Gold Rush
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 3/27/1989
MacGyver joins a joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. team trekking into the Alaskan wilderness to retrieve a huge amount of Russian gold from a downed plane only to learn that someone has beaten them to it.
Director: Bill Gereghty
Writer: David Engelbach
8.2/10381 votes#15 - The Invisible Killer
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 4/10/1989
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
Writer: Chris Haddock
7.3/10310 votes#16 - Brainwashed
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 4/24/1989
Jack Dalton is brainwashed by an African politician and his wife to assassinate the leader of an African nation, who is in town for an awards ceremony.
Director: Michael Caffey
Writer: John Sheppard
7.3/10304 votes#17 - Easy Target
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 5/1/1989
MacGyver and Pete are captured by terrorists intent on wiping out a nearby city with an electromagnetic pulse, unless their leader is freed.
Director: Charles Correll
Writer: Rick Drew
7.1/10294 votes#18 - Renegade
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 5/8/1989
MacGyver works hard to retrieve the anthrax bacillus stolen by a former Navy commando who once saved his life, and is now suffering the effects of an old head wound.
Director: Michael Caffey
Writer: Chris Haddock
6.6/10297 votes#19 - Unfinished Business
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 5/15/1989
Jack, MacGyver, and Pete review their past adventures while on a gold-panning expedition, unaware they're being stalked by a vengeful killer.
Director: Charles Correll
Writer: Marianne Clarkson
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Season 4 Ratings Summary
"The Secret of Parker House" is the best rated episode of "MacGyver" season 4. It scored 8/10 based on 414 votes. Directed by Michael Vejar and written by N/A, it aired on 10/31/1988. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Blood Brothers".