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The Worst Episodes of MacGyver

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

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Genres:Action & AdventureDramaFamilyCrimeWestern
Network:ABC

Worst Episodes Summary

"Hind-Sight" is the worst rated episode of "MacGyver". It scored 6.2/10 based on 265 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".

  • Hind-Sight
    6.2/10265 votes
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    #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

  • Walking Dead
    6.2/10258 votes
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    #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

  • The Coltons
    6.4/10294 votes
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    #3 - 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

  • Friends
    6.5/10357 votes
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    #4 - 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

  • Honest Abe
    6.5/10295 votes
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    #5 - 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

  • The 'Hood
    6.5/10262 votes
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    #6 - 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

  • Gunz 'n Boyz
    6.5/10256 votes
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    #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

  • To Be a Man
    6.6/10413 votes
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    #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

  • Unfinished Business
    6.6/10295 votes
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    #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

  • There But for the Grace
    6.6/10244 votes
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    #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

  • The Golden Triangle
    6.7/10670 votes
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    #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

  • Squeeze Play
    6.7/10266 votes
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    #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

  • Split Decision
    6.7/10258 votes
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    #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

  • Off the Wall
    6.7/10244 votes
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    #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

  • The Wish Child
    6.8/10385 votes
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    #15 - 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, Stephen Kandel

  • Thin Ice
    6.8/10336 votes
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    #16 - 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: Rick Drew

  • Twenty Questions
    6.8/10273 votes
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    #17 - 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

  • Thief of Budapest
    6.9/10632 votes
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    #18 - 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

  • Silent World
    6.9/10356 votes
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    #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: Stephen Kandel

  • Second Chance
    6.9/10275 votes
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    #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

  • Live and Learn
    6.9/10284 votes
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    #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

  • Log Jam
    6.9/10273 votes
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    #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

  • Tough Boys
    6.9/10288 votes
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    #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

  • Jerico Games
    6.9/10266 votes
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    #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

  • The Enemy Within
    7.0/10453 votes
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    #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