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The Worst Episodes of MacGyver

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The Worst Episodes of MacGyver

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  1. 4.0/10(2 votes)

    #1 - Jerico Games

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    S6:E12

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

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    Director:Bill Gereghty
    Writer:N/A
  2. 5.2/10(5 votes)

    #2 - Phoenix Under Siege

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    S2:E11

    While retrieving tickets for a hockey game at the Phoenix Foundation, MacGyver and his grandpa Harry get caught in the middle of a woman's plot to blow up the building using a bomb that she herself made. They try to escape, but are locked in. Now they must figure another way out before she activates the bomb.

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    Writer:N/A
  3. 5.3/10(2 votes)

    #3 - Runners

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    S4:E13

    MacGyver helps a young runaway with a vicious pimp and a tragic secret about her policeman father.

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  4. 5.7/10(3 votes)

    #4 - Honest Abe

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    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.

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    Writer:N/A
  5. 6.0/10(3 votes)

    #5 - Last Stand

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    S1:E7

    When MacGyver is on his way to a vacation, he takes the wrong way and ends up at a small airstrip where everybody seems to be behaving strangely. Too late, he discovers that the airstrip has been taken hostage, and he has been caught in the middle of a plane-hijacking attempt.

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    Director:John Florea
    Writer:Judy Burns
  6. 6.5/10(2 votes)

    #6 - Friends

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    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. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Hellfire

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    S1:E8

    During a trip to visit some friends, an accident starts a fire in an oil well owned by MacGyver's friends. MacGyver and his buddy then go to fetch dynamite in an abandonned mine at great peril to themselves after they decide the dynamite is the only feasible way the fire can be put out. However, when they use it, the fire only becomes more intense. Can MacGyver and his Hellfire friend survive the incredible heat to put out the fire and save the oil buried underneath the well?

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  9. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Flame's End

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    S1:E13

    An old girlfriend of MacGyver's contacts him for help after she discovers evidence of uranium thefts from a nuclear processing plant where she works.

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  10. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - The Enemy Within

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    S1:E15

    After a daring escape from East Germany where he gets rescued, and in the process saves a fellow operative with a quick mechanical fix, MacGyver thinks that he deserves some peaceful vacation time. But Pete lures him into baby-sitting a Russian defector who can identify KGB agents.

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  11. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Every Time She Smiles

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    S1:E16

    MacGyver is on his way out of Bulgaria with a secret microfilm, when he meets Penny Parker, a beautiful, talkative American, who is on the run from her lover, a man named Stephan Frolov. She stashes some jewels on MacGyver, thus making him a suspect, and now MacGyver and Penny must flee Bulgaria together.

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  12. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - To Be a Man

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    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.

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    Director:Cliff Bole
  13. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Ugly Duckling

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    S1:E18

    A 15-year-old genius accidentally hacks into a defective missile guidance system and attracts the attention of both the FBI and some black marketeers, who think that she may fix it for them. It's up to MacGyver to save her from being kidnapped by either side.

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  14. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Slow Death

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    S1:E19

    At the beginning of the episode, MacGyver literally has to jump onto a moving train that he missed earlier to return top-secret files and documents to the U.S. Government. Soon after, a local tribe stops the train. They take all passengers hostage until the men responsible for the death of the tribal leader's son is found among the passengers.

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    Director:Don Weis
  15. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - The Escape

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    S1:E20

    When a mother superior at a religious mission in North Africa asks MacGyver to help a young woman with something, he is glad to help. However, when he finds out the young woman wants him to break her brother out of jail, he may have taken on more than he expected.

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  16. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - A Prisoner of Conscience

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    S1:E21

    Pete Thornton investigates the supposed death of an old friend, a prominent Russian dissident, and finds he must get his friend's daughter Maria out of the country before the secret police arrest her for an alleged conspiracy. However, while in Russia, Pete bumps into MacGyver, who followed him from the United States. While disappointed MacGyver followed him, Pete gladly welcomes MacGyver into his plans when the secret police arrive to take Maria into custody. Following a high speed boat chase to escape the police, Pete and MacGyver find out from Maria that her father is not dead, he is being held in a maximum security ward at a state mental institution. To get into the mental hospital, MacGyver plays the part of a mad patient and Pete plays the part of a doctor who has been assigned to him. With the help of the other patients, MacGyver is able to escape into Ward Zero, where Pete's friend is held. MacGyver breaks him out and hides him with the other patients.

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    Director:Cliff Bole
  17. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - The Assassin

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    S1:E22

    Posing as a watchmaker who manufactures bomb timers, MacGyver manages to catch a master killer—Piedra—before he attempts an assassination on a high-profile target. However, Piedra isn't about to be stopped for long.

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  18. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - The Human Factor

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    S2:E1

    MacGyver and Pete are testing a new security system at the Strategic Research Development Administration. MacGyver successfully bypasses the security and meets Dr. Jill Ludlam, the system's designer. She tries to turn off the security system, but it doesn't realize that it was just a test. MacGyver and Dr. Ludlam are then forced to find a way out, as the security system, named Sandy, tries to destroy the "intruders."

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  19. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - The Eraser

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    S2:E2

    Mac inadvertently leads a hit man to his target, believing that he's helping a father find his lost son.

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  20. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Twice Stung

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    S2:E3

    MacGyver and Pete have a surprise party planned for a colleague, but when the colleague doesn't show up, MacGyver goes looking for him, and finds him on the verge of committing suicide. When questioned why he would do such a thing, Kelly explains that a con artist has swindled him out of his life savings. MacGyver tells Pete about Kelly's situation and the two of them decide that they will get Kelly's money back from the con

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  21. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - The Wish Child

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    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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  22. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Final Approach

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    S2:E5

    MacGyver goes to the mountains to lead four ex-gangster teens on a Phoenix Foundation funded rehabilitation trip. When he gets there, he finds that this task may be a little more complicated then he thought. All of the kids are very rebellious and one of them has a bad grudge against another one. A couple of days later when MacGyver is returning with the kids, their plane crashes in the middle of the wilderness and one of them is injured. Now, MacGyver must fix the plane and help the kids work out their differences so they can save their friend.

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  23. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Jack of Lies

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    S2:E6

    MacGyver, returning home one night, walks into his apartment, only to everything he owns missing from his apartment. Initially suspecting a robbery, MacGyver eventually comes to the conclusion that his old friend Jack Dalton is the one responsible for the theft.

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  24. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - The Road Not Taken

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    S2:E7

    MacGyver and Pete head to Asia to rescue a nun, who is an old friend of Pete's, and the orphaned children she takes care of from aggressive regime troops. While there, MacGyver runs into someone he never expected, his old fiancee, Debra. Now MacGyver must complete his mission, work out his differences with Debra, and escape from the troops, all before the troops find them.

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    Director:Cliff Bole
  25. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - Eagles

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    S2:E8

    While hang gliding in the west, MacGyver crosses paths with an escaped felon who shot and wounded a rare eagle. Now, with the help of his new friend Susan Cooper and her son Darin, MacGyver must heal the eagle and trap the felon before he kills more eagles.

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  26. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Silent World

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    S2:E9

    While helping the Phoenix Foundation test a new missile-guidance system for the government, MacGyver's efforts are hampered by men who are trying to steal it. When the men escape with it, MacGyver turns to his deaf friend, who has been having premonition-type dreams of this happening. Now MacGyver must try and analyze her dreams so that he can find the men who stole the system.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Jerico Games" is the worst rated episode of "MacGyver". It scored 4/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Bill Gereghty and written by N/A, it aired on 1/7/1991. This episode scored 1.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Phoenix Under Siege".