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The Worst Episodes of MacGyver

Every episode of MacGyver ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of MacGyver!

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
    6.2/10(277 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(273 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(311 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(274 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(314 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(377 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(254 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(267 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(443 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(320 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(721 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(267 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(255 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(357 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(289 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(291 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 Jerico Games
    6.8/10(278 votes)

    #18 - 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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  20. Background image for Thief of Budapest
    6.9/10(685 votes)

    #19 - 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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  21. Background image for The Wish Child
    6.9/10(409 votes)

    #20 - 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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  22. Background image for Silent World
    6.9/10(378 votes)

    #21 - Silent World

    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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  23. Background image for The Madonna
    6.9/10(328 votes)

    #22 - The Madonna

    S5:E11

    On Christmas Eve, MacGyver tries to help the priest of a poor church locate a stolen Madonna figure, help his friend Cynthia figure out how to keep the Challenger Club solvent and figure out a strange street woman who seems to have a miracle up her sleeve.

    Writer:Unknown
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  24. Background image for Live and Learn
    6.9/10(299 votes)

    #23 - 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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  25. Background image for Log Jam
    6.9/10(290 votes)

    #24 - Log Jam

    S5:E14

    MacGyver tries to help an environmentally active friend find out what happened to a company whistle-blower about to expose the illegal practices of a large logging firm.

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  26. Background image for Tough Boys
    6.9/10(301 votes)

    #25 - 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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Worst Episodes Summary

"Hind-Sight" is the worst rated episode of "MacGyver". It scored 6.2/10 based on 277 votes. Directed by Michael Preece and written by Unknown, it aired on 5/6/1991. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Walking Dead".