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The Worst Episodes of MacGyver

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The Worst Episodes of MacGyver

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 Hind-Sight
    6.1/10(278 votes)

    #1 - Hind-Sight

    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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  2. Background image for Walking Dead
    6.2/10(275 votes)

    #2 - Walking Dead

    S7:E6

    Mac helps his neighbor, Mama Lorraine, rescue a young student activist who has been kidnapped and turned into a zombie by Haitian terrorists hiding behind a powerful voodoo priest.

    Writer:Unknown
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  3. Background image for Honest Abe
    6.4/10(312 votes)

    #3 - Honest Abe

    S7:E1

    Mac's trip to the airport to pick a friend's father arriving for his grandson's bar mitzvah turns into a wild international caper involving Caribbean terrorists and a stolen helicopter.

    Writer:Unknown
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  4. Background image for The 'Hood
    6.4/10(275 votes)

    #4 - The 'Hood

    S7:E2

    Mac helps his new neighbors to rescue one of their own after she overhears two hitmen planning a job.

    Director:Michael Vejar
    Writer:Unknown
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  5. Background image for The Coltons
    6.4/10(316 votes)

    #5 - The Coltons

    S7:E5

    Mac's old friends, the bounty-hunting Colton brothers try to find a young woman who's the only witness to a Chinatown murder, aided by their wise and patient mother, their impatient younger brother and their dog, Frog.

    Writer:Unknown
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  6. Background image for Friends
    6.5/10(383 votes)

    #6 - Friends

    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?

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  8. Background image for There But for the Grace
    6.5/10(255 votes)

    #7 - There But for the Grace

    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:Bill Gereghty
    Writer:Unknown
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  9. Background image for Gunz 'n Boyz
    6.5/10(268 votes)

    #8 - Gunz 'n Boyz

    S7:E11

    Mac and the Challenger Club try to help a boy prepared to take the rap for another boy murdered by weapons dealers exploiting the fear and suspicion in the neighborhood.

    Director:Bill Gereghty
    Writer:Unknown
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  10. Background image for To Be a Man
    6.6/10(448 votes)

    #9 - To Be a Man

    S1:E17

    In Afghanistan, wounded and hunted by the Soviets, MacGyver is given refuge by an Afghan woman and her son. But they are themselves at the mercy of an Afghan thug, who will kill MacGyver if he finds him at his woman.

    Director:Cliff Bole
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  11. Background image for Unfinished Business
    6.6/10(323 votes)

    #10 - Unfinished Business

    S4:E19

    Jack, MacGyver, and Pete review their past adventures while on a gold-panning expedition, unaware they're being stalked by a vengeful killer.

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  12. Background image for The Golden Triangle
    6.7/10(725 votes)

    #11 - The Golden Triangle

    S1:E2

    When MacGyver tries to retrieve a canister filled with a deadly chemical in Burma, he stumbles right into an area known as the Golden Triangle, where the military uses farmers as slaves on the opium fields. MacGyver is mistaken for a narcotics agent and is captured, but convinces the slaves to fight their oppression. MacGyver assists by setting several traps at the slave camp, and when the army returns to suppress the unrest, the real action begins.

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  13. Background image for Squeeze Play
    6.7/10(281 votes)

    #12 - Squeeze Play

    S6:E11

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

    Writer:Unknown
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  14. Background image for Split Decision
    6.7/10(268 votes)

    #13 - Split Decision

    S7:E10

    Mac's friend Earl Dent looks to him for help when he fights to retain custody of his teenage daughter while preparing for a boxing comeback that bookmakers want him to throw.

    Writer:David Rich
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  15. Background image for Off the Wall
    6.7/10(256 votes)

    #14 - Off the Wall

    S7:E12

    Mac battles a callous slumlord when a young graffiti artist asks for help when his grandmother faces eviction from the apartment where she's spent her life.

    Writer:Unknown
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  16. Background image for Thin Ice
    6.8/10(361 votes)

    #15 - 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.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Rick Drew
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  17. Background image for Second Chance
    6.8/10(294 votes)

    #16 - Second Chance

    S5:E5

    MacGyver and an old friend discover a gang ripping off medical supplies from a Phoenix Foundation clinic in Asia, and an Amerasian son the friend never knew he had.

    Writer:Unknown
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  18. Background image for Twenty Questions
    6.8/10(292 votes)

    #17 - Twenty Questions

    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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  19. Background image for Thief of Budapest
    6.9/10(691 votes)

    #18 - Thief of Budapest

    S1:E3

    MacGyver travels to Budapest to meet with a Russian double agent who is in possession of a watch containing information about other Russian spies. However, before MacGyver can take the watch, the agent is killed and the watch is stolen. Now MacGyver must work with the Gypsies to get it back.

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  20. Background image for The Wish Child
    6.9/10(415 votes)

    #19 - The Wish Child

    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!

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  21. Background image for Live and Learn
    6.9/10(302 votes)

    #20 - Live and Learn

    S5:E13

    MacGyver tries to inspire a promising but unmotivated high school student, despite the negative efforts of a cynical teacher and the boy's skeptical father.

    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown
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  22. Background image for Tough Boys
    6.9/10(302 votes)

    #21 - Tough Boys

    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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  23. Background image for The Gun
    6.9/10(282 votes)

    #22 - The Gun

    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:Bill Gereghty
    Writer:Unknown
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  24. Background image for MacGyver's Women
    6.9/10(314 votes)

    #23 - MacGyver's Women

    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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  25. Background image for The Visitor
    6.9/10(301 votes)

    #24 - The Visitor

    S6:E10

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

    Director:Bill Gereghty
    Writer:Unknown
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  26. Background image for Jerico Games
    6.9/10(279 votes)

    #25 - Jerico Games

    S6:E12

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

    Director:Bill Gereghty
    Writer:Unknown
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Worst Episodes Summary

"Hind-Sight" is the worst rated episode of "MacGyver". It scored 6.1/10 based on 278 votes. Directed by Michael Preece and written by Unknown, it aired on 5/6/1991. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Walking Dead".