The Worst Episodes of MacGyver

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6.2/10(300 votes)
#1 - Hind-Sight
S6:E215/6/1991
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:Unknown
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Director:Michael Preece
Writer:Unknown
6.2/10(296 votes)
#2 - Walking Dead
S7:E610/21/1991
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:Unknown
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Director:Michael Preece
Writer:Unknown
6.4/10(349 votes)
#3 - The Coltons
S7:E510/14/1991
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:William Gereghty
Writer:Unknown
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Director:William Gereghty
Writer:Unknown
6.4/10(332 votes)
#4 - Honest Abe
S7:E19/16/1991
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:Unknown
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Director:Michael Caffey
Writer:Unknown
6.4/10(296 votes)
#5 - The 'Hood
S7:E29/23/1991
Mac helps his new neighbors to rescue one of their own after she overhears two hitmen planning a job.
Director:Michael Vejar
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Michael Vejar
Writer:Unknown
6.4/10(288 votes)
#6 - Gunz 'n Boyz
S7:E1112/16/1991
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:William Gereghty
Writer:Unknown
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Director:William Gereghty
Writer:Unknown

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6.5/10(402 votes)
#7 - Friends
S2:E204/6/1987
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
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Director:Cliff Bole
Writer:Stephen Kronish
6.5/10(345 votes)
#8 - Unfinished Business
S4:E195/15/1989
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:Marianne Clarkson
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Director:Charles Correll
Writer:Marianne Clarkson
6.6/10(479 votes)
#9 - To Be a Man
S1:E173/5/1986
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
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Director:Cliff Bole
Writer:Don Mankiewicz
6.7/10(784 votes)
#10 - The Golden Triangle
S1:E210/6/1985
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.
Directors:Donald Petrie, Paul Stanley
Writers:Terry Nation, Dennis Foley
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Directors:Donald Petrie, Paul Stanley
Writers:Terry Nation, Dennis Foley
6.6/10(281 votes)
#11 - There But for the Grace
S6:E162/18/1991
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:William Gereghty
Writer:Unknown
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Director:William Gereghty
Writer:Unknown
6.7/10(301 votes)
#12 - Squeeze Play
S6:E1112/17/1990
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:Unknown
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Director:Michael Preece
Writer:Unknown
6.7/10(294 votes)
#13 - Split Decision
S7:E1012/2/1991
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
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Director:Michael Caffey
Writer:David Rich
6.7/10(279 votes)
#14 - Off the Wall
S7:E1212/30/1991
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:Unknown
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Director:Michael Preece
Writer:Unknown
6.8/10(384 votes)
#15 - Thin Ice
S3:E132/1/1988
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
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Director:Cliff Bole
Writer:Rick Drew
6.8/10(319 votes)
#16 - Twenty Questions
S6:E410/8/1990
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:Unknown
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Director:Michael Caffey
Writer:Unknown
6.8/10(315 votes)
#17 - Second Chance
S5:E510/16/1989
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:Unknown
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Director:Michael Caffey
Writer:Unknown
6.9/10(739 votes)
#18 - Thief of Budapest
S1:E310/13/1985
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.
Directors:Lee H. Katzin, John Patterson
Writers:Terry Nation, Joe Viola, Stephen Downing
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Directors:Lee H. Katzin, John Patterson
Writers:Terry Nation, Joe Viola, Stephen Downing
6.9/10(437 votes)
#19 - The Wish Child
S2:E410/20/1986
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
Writers:Bill Froehlich, Stephen Kandel
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Director:Charles Correll
Writers:Bill Froehlich, Stephen Kandel
6.9/10(404 votes)
#20 - Silent World
S2:E911/24/1986
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
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Director:James L. Conway
Writer:Stephen Kandel
6.9/10(330 votes)
#21 - Tough Boys
S6:E19/17/1990
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:Unknown
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Director:Michael Vejar
Writer:Unknown
6.9/10(327 votes)
#22 - Live and Learn
S5:E131/15/1990
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:Unknown
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Director:Harry Harris
Writer:Unknown
6.9/10(308 votes)
#23 - The Gun
S6:E310/1/1990
MacGyver searches for a gun used in an assassination twenty years ago and in a present day cop killing to clear a friend.
Director:William Gereghty
Writer:Unknown
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Director:William Gereghty
Writer:Unknown
6.9/10(302 votes)
#24 - Jerico Games
S6:E121/7/1991
Mac is reunited with a high school sweetheart whose husband is a wealthy man sponsoring an international sports competition.
Director:William Gereghty
Writer:Unknown
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Director:William Gereghty
Writer:Unknown
6.9/10(294 votes)
#25 - Trail of Tears
S6:E204/26/1991
A land dispute over the building an electricity station pits a fanatical Native American, convinced he has been given a mission by his spiritual ancestors, against the power company and MacGyver, who's just as sure that the Indian spirits are opposed to the man's violent plans.
Director:Michael Preece
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Michael Preece
Writer:Unknown