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The Best Episodes of MacGyver Season 6

Every episode of MacGyver Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of MacGyver Season 6!

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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 6 Episode 6 - Lesson in Evil
    7.8/10(355 votes)

    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.

    Director:William Gereghty
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. MacGyver Season 6 Episode 19 - Strictly Business
    7.8/10(334 votes)

    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.

    Director:Michael Vejar
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. MacGyver Season 6 Episode 14 - Eye of Osiris
    7.6/10(332 votes)

    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...

    Director:Michael Vejar
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. MacGyver Season 6 Episode 2 - Humanity
    7.3/10(303 votes)

    S6:E2

    MacGyver and Thornton are left to the mercies of a Romanian agent still loyal to his deposed leader Ceausescu after a mission to obtain his secret files is sabotaged.

    Director:William Gereghty
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. MacGyver Season 6 Episode 5 - The Wall
    7.3/10(309 votes)

    S6:E5

    MacGyver helps reunite an East German girl with her grandfather in America, unaware that she's been recruited by two bitter former Stasi agents who believe the old man possesses a store of hidden gold.

    Director:Michael Preece
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. MacGyver Season 6 Episode 15 - High Control
    7.2/10(280 votes)

    S6:E15

    Mac tries to help an acquaintance just out of prison stay on the straight and narrow despite the efforts of his old biker gang to blackmail him into rejoining them.

    Director:Michael Caffey
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. MacGyver Season 6 Episode 17 - Blind Faith
    7.2/10(295 votes)

    S6:E17

    An old sweetheart of Pete Thornton's appeals to him for help when she tries to reveal the atrocities being committed in her Latin American homeland.

    Director:Michael Caffey
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. MacGyver Season 6 Episode 18 - Faith, Hope & Charity
    7.2/10(305 votes)

    S6:E18

    Mac finds himself being cared for by two determined ladies running a bed and breakfast in an isolated spot chosen as a drop spot by two murderous mobsters with an untrustworthy partner.

    Director:William Gereghty
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. MacGyver Season 6 Episode 7 - Harry's Will
    7.1/10(371 votes)

    S6:E7

    When Mac tries to claim the station wagon left to him by his late Grandpa Harry, it starts a strange chase that leads him to an ex-con with a dream of running a restaurant, a soup kitchen in need of money, and a gang of crooks out for themselves.

    Director:William Gereghty
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. MacGyver Season 6 Episode 13 - The Wasteland
    7.1/10(310 votes)

    S6:E13

    Mac seeks to stop a shortsighted developer whose latest project will create an environmental ruin and could result in his premature death at the hands of his greedy children.

    Director:Michael Caffey
    Writer:Robert Hamner

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  11. MacGyver Season 6 Episode 8 - MacGyver's Women
    7.0/10(337 votes)

    S6:E8

    Macgyver's reluctance to commit to a permanent relationship causes him to dream an Old West scenario where he defends three of his lady friends from some ornery outlaws as he drives their wagon cross country.

    Director:Michael Preece
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. MacGyver Season 6 Episode 9 - Bitter Harvest
    7.0/10(300 votes)

    S6:E9

    MacGyver goes undercover to investigate the death of a farm-worker organizer during an investigation of illegal pesticide use.

    Director:Michael Vejar
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. MacGyver Season 6 Episode 10 - The Visitor
    7.0/10(326 votes)

    S6:E10

    Mac uncovers an out-of-this-world scam when he investigates some mysterious indentations in a farmer's field.

    Director:William Gereghty
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. MacGyver Season 6 Episode 3 - The Gun
    6.9/10(308 votes)

    S6:E3

    MacGyver searches for a gun used in an assassination twenty years ago and in a present day cop killing to clear a friend.

    Director:William Gereghty
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. MacGyver Season 6 Episode 12 - Jerico Games
    6.9/10(302 votes)

    S6:E12

    Mac is reunited with a high school sweetheart whose husband is a wealthy man sponsoring an international sports competition.

    Director:William Gereghty
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. MacGyver Season 6 Episode 20 - Trail of Tears
    6.9/10(293 votes)

    S6:E20

    A land dispute over the building an electricity station pits a fanatical Native American, convinced he has been given a mission by his spiritual ancestors, against the power company and MacGyver, who's just as sure that the Indian spirits are opposed to the man's violent plans.

    Director:Michael Preece
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. MacGyver Season 6 Episode 1 - Tough Boys
    6.8/10(330 votes)

    S6:E1

    MacGyver's pacifist policies are put to the test by a militant youth leader he hooks up with to find out who has been organizing a gang of youthful vigilantes using extreme measures to clean the neighborhood crack problem.

    Director:Michael Vejar
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. MacGyver Season 6 Episode 4 - Twenty Questions
    6.8/10(319 votes)

    S6:E4

    MacGyver tries to help his teenage friend Lisa admit she has a drinking problem, but it takes a brush with the law when she's implicated in a string of home break-ins to really wake her up.

    Director:Michael Caffey
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. MacGyver Season 6 Episode 11 - Squeeze Play
    6.7/10(300 votes)

    S6:E11

    Mac defends a former player's daughter being blackmailed by a baseball memorabilia-counterfeiting ring trading on her father's name.

    Director:Michael Preece
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. MacGyver Season 6 Episode 16 - There But for the Grace
    6.6/10(279 votes)

    S6:E16

    Mac feels a personal involvement in the death of a priest who worked among the homeless and takes to the streets himself to find the killer.

    Director:William Gereghty
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. MacGyver Season 6 Episode 21 - Hind-Sight
    6.1/10(299 votes)

    S6:E21

    As Pete waits for glaucoma surgery, he and MacGyver reminisce about their past adventures and try to figure out who has been sending some vaguely threatening messages to Pete.

    Director:Michael Preece
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 6 Ratings Summary

"Lesson in Evil" is the best rated episode of "MacGyver" season 6. It scored 7.8/10 based on 355 votes. Directed by William Gereghty and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/29/1990. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Strictly Business".