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The Worst Episodes of MacGyver

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The Worst Episodes of MacGyver

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  1. 6.2/10(271 votes)

    #1 - Hind-Sight

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    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.

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    Writer:N/A
  2. 6.2/10(266 votes)

    #2 - Walking Dead

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    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.

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    Writer:N/A
  3. 6.4/10(303 votes)

    #3 - 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
  4. 6.4/10(268 votes)

    #4 - The 'Hood

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    S7:E2

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

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    Director:Michael Vejar
    Writer:N/A
  5. 6.4/10(304 votes)

    #5 - The Coltons

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    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.

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    Writer:N/A
  6. 6.5/10(362 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. 6.5/10(262 votes)

    #7 - Gunz 'n Boyz

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    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.

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    Director:Bill Gereghty
    Writer:N/A
  9. 6.6/10(421 votes)

    #8 - 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
  10. 6.6/10(307 votes)

    #9 - Unfinished Business

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    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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  11. 6.6/10(250 votes)

    #10 - There But for the Grace

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    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.

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    Director:Bill Gereghty
    Writer:N/A
  12. 6.7/10(683 votes)

    #11 - The Golden Triangle

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    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. 6.7/10(276 votes)

    #12 - Squeeze Play

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    S6:E11

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

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    Writer:N/A
  14. 6.7/10(263 votes)

    #13 - Split Decision

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    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.

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    Writer:David Rich
  15. 6.7/10(249 votes)

    #14 - Off the Wall

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    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.

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  16. 6.8/10(345 votes)

    #15 - Thin Ice

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    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.

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    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Rick Drew
  17. 6.8/10(284 votes)

    #16 - Second Chance

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    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.

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    Writer:N/A
  18. 6.8/10(284 votes)

    #17 - Twenty Questions

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    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.

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  19. 6.8/10(273 votes)

    #18 - 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
  20. 6.9/10(644 votes)

    #19 - Thief of Budapest

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    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. 6.9/10(394 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. 6.9/10(362 votes)

    #21 - 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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  23. 6.9/10(293 votes)

    #22 - Live and Learn

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    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.

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    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:N/A
  24. 6.9/10(282 votes)

    #23 - Log Jam

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    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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  25. 6.9/10(294 votes)

    #24 - Tough Boys

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    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.

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    Director:Michael Vejar
    Writer:N/A
  26. 6.9/10(276 votes)

    #25 - The Gun

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    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.

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    Director:Bill Gereghty
    Writer:N/A

Worst Episodes Summary

"Hind-Sight" is the worst rated episode of "MacGyver". It scored 6.2/10 based on 271 votes. Directed by Michael Preece and written by N/A, it aired on 5/6/1991. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Walking Dead".