10.0/101 votes#1 - Trick or Trick
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1978
Ponch and Jon find themselves having to deal with a bewildering array of petty thefts and false alarms when on patrol during Halloween.
Director: Phil Bondelli
Writer: James Schmerer
10.0/101 votes#2 - Forty Tons of Trouble
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 1/11/1981
A gang of thieves steals construction equipment, while the CHP drag race threatens to be a real drag. Robert Englund (A Nightmare on Elm Street films) costars.
Director: Gordon Hessler
Writer: James Schmerer
10.0/101 votes#3 - Death is a Four Letter Word
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 11/6/1985
A 17-year-old girl is killed in a struggle during the filming of a porn movie, and when her dumped body is found, it turns out to be the niece of Hooker's colleague, Detective Max Brodsky. Hooker takes charge of the case, with Stacy going undercover as a potential porn star to get inside the production company; but Brodsky's obsession with nailing the killers himself jeopardises the whole investigation...
Director: Bruce Seth Green
Writer: James Schmerer
8.0/101 votes#4 - High Flyer
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1978
Jon and Ponch attempt to catch a gang of thieves who have been stripping car parts from parked vehicles. And Ponch fakes illness in order to conceal his fear of flying.
Director: Gordon Hessler
Writer: James Schmerer
7.2/105 votes#5 - The Survivor
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/13/1973
The Enterprise finds a long-lost explorer.
Director: Hal Sutherland
Writer: James Schmerer
7.0/101 votes#6 - The Heist
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/1985
When $60 million worth of stolen diamonds destined for a relief charity end up in the hands of casino owner Jack Catlin, MacGyver must head to the Virgin Islands to try and get them back. With the help of Chris Rhodes, a senator's daughter, MacGyver masterminds a plan to break into Catlin's vault and steal them back.
Director: Paul Stanley
Writer: James Schmerer
7.0/101 votes#7 - Nightmares
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/15/1986
When MacGyver comes home with some important documents, he's drugged by enemy agents and told that he will die in six hours if he doesn't retrieve the documents for them. But MacGyver, using an old prisoner trick, escapes. Now the only problem is convincing someone that he's not just another drunk.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: James Schmerer
7.0/101 votes#8 - Every Time She Smiles
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/19/1986
MacGyver is on his way out of Bulgaria with a secret microfilm, when he meets Penny Parker, a beautiful, talkative American, who is on the run from her lover, a man named Stephan Frolov. She stashes some jewels on MacGyver, thus making him a suspect, and now MacGyver and Penny must flee Bulgaria together.
Director: Charles Correll
Writer: James Schmerer
7.0/101 votes#9 - The Assassin
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/7/1986
Posing as a watchmaker who manufactures bomb timers, MacGyver manages to catch a master killer—Piedra—before he attempts an assassination on a high-profile target. However, Piedra isn't about to be stopped for long.
Director: Charles Correll
Writer: James Schmerer
6.7/103 votes#10 - The Funny Girl / Butch and Sundance
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/18/1978
In "The Funny Girl" a TV comedian wishes to become a nobody again and lead a simpler life. In "Butch and Sundance" two friends wish to become Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, for thrills and adventure.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: James Schmerer
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"Trick or Trick" is the best rated episode written by James Schmerer. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Phil Bondelli. It aired on 10/21/1978 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Forty Tons of Trouble".