The Worst Episodes of MacGyver
Every episode of MacGyver ranked from worst to best. Explore 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 with only a knapsack filled with everyday items he picks up along the way, he improvises his way out of every peril the bad guys throw at him. Making a bomb out of chewing gum? Fixing a speeding car's breaks... while he's riding in it? Using soda pop to cook up tear gas? That's all in a day's adventures for MacGyver. He's part Boy Scout, part genius. And all hero.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "MacGyver" is "Hind-Sight", rated 6.2/10 from 264 user votes. It was directed by Michael Preece and written by N/A. "Hind-Sight" aired on 5/6/1991 and is rated 0.0 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Walking Dead".
6.2/10 264 votes#1 - Hind-Sight
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 5/6/1991
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: N/A
6.2/10 257 votes#2 - Walking Dead
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1991
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.
Director: Michael Preece
Writer: N/A
6.4/10 262 votes#3 - The 'Hood
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1991
Mac helps his new neighbors to rescue one of their own after she overhears two hitmen planning a job.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: N/A
6.4/10 294 votes#4 - The Coltons
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1991
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.
Director: Bill Gereghty
Writer: N/A
6.5/10 352 votes#5 - Friends
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/6/1987
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?
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Stephen Kronish
6.5/10 293 votes#6 - Honest Abe
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1991
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.
Director: Michael Caffey
Writer: N/A
6.5/10 255 votes#7 - Gunz 'n Boyz
Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 12/16/1991
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: N/A
6.6/10 406 votes#8 - To Be a Man
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/5/1986
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
Writer: Don Mankiewicz
6.6/10 293 votes#9 - Unfinished Business
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 5/15/1989
Jack, MacGyver, and Pete review their past adventures while on a gold-panning expedition, unaware they're being stalked by a vengeful killer.
Director: Charles Correll
Writer: N/A
6.6/10 244 votes#10 - There But for the Grace
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 2/18/1991
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: N/A
6.7/10 662 votes#11 - The Golden Triangle
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/1985
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.
Director: Paul Stanley, Donald Petrie
Writer: Terry Nation, Dennis Foley
6.7/10 266 votes#12 - Squeeze Play
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/1990
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: N/A
6.7/10 256 votes#13 - Split Decision
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1991
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.
Director: Michael Caffey
Writer: David Rich
6.7/10 244 votes#14 - Off the Wall
Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 12/30/1991
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.
Director: Michael Preece
Writer: N/A
6.8/10 334 votes#15 - Thin Ice
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 2/1/1988
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: N/A
6.8/10 273 votes#16 - Twenty Questions
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1990
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: N/A
6.9/10 624 votes#17 - Thief of Budapest
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/1985
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.
Director: Lee H. Katzin, John Patterson
Writer: Terry Nation, Stephen Downing, Joe Viola
6.9/10 377 votes#18 - The Wish Child
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/1986
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!
Director: Charles Correll
Writer: Bill Froehlich
6.9/10 351 votes#19 - Silent World
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/24/1986
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.
Director: James L. Conway
Writer: N/A
6.9/10 272 votes#20 - Second Chance
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1989
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.
Director: Michael Caffey
Writer: N/A
6.9/10 281 votes#21 - Live and Learn
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 1/15/1990
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: N/A
6.9/10 269 votes#22 - Log Jam
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 2/5/1990
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.
Director: Bill Gereghty
Writer: Lee Maddux
6.9/10 287 votes#23 - Tough Boys
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1990
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: N/A
6.9/10 266 votes#24 - Jerico Games
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 1/7/1991
Mac is reunited with a high school sweetheart whose husband is a wealthy man sponsoring an international sports competition.
Director: Bill Gereghty
Writer: N/A
7.0/10 448 votes#25 - The Enemy Within
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/12/1986
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.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: David Abramowitz