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The Best Episodes Written By Rob Pearlstein

Every TV Episode Written by Rob Pearlstein Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

Rob Pearlstein Ratings Summary

"Little Boy Lost" is the best rated episode written by Rob Pearlstein. It scored 8.222/10 based on 9 votes. It was directed by Steven A. Adelson. It aired on 10/17/2016 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Rails + Pitons + Pulley + Pipe + Salt".

  • Little Boy Lost
    8.2/109 votes

    #1 - Little Boy Lost

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/2016

    Team Scorpion must find a boy from Ralph’s class who goes missing on a field trip after he accidentally has a run-in with a deadly criminal. Also, Toby gets closer to finding out the identity of Happy’s husband.

    Director: Steven A. Adelson

    Writer: Rob Pearlstein

  • Rails + Pitons + Pulley + Pipe + Salt
    8.2/104 votes

    #2 - Rails + Pitons + Pulley + Pipe + Salt

    Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 2/19/2021

    When Mac and the team are unable to prevent Department of Defense intel from falling into Codex’s hands, Mac must scale a vertical cliff using only gear he can cobble together himself to prevent the info’s transmission.

    Director: Christine Moore

    Writer: Rob Pearlstein

  • Ticker
    8.1/107 votes

    #3 - Ticker

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/14/2016

    When Los Angeles’ blood supply is hacked and deemed unusable because of fear it’s been tainted, Team Scorpion must find the culprit in order to save a young girl in desperate need of a heart transplant.

    Director: Mel Damski

    Writer: Rob Pearlstein

  • Dominoes
    8.0/109 votes

    #4 - Dominoes

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/15/2014

    On Christmas Eve, Team Scorpion races to find a way to save a young boy's life after he is trapped in a beachside cave and the rising tide threatens to drown him.

    Director: Omar Madha

    Writer: Rob Pearlstein

  • The Old College Try
    8.0/106 votes

    #5 - The Old College Try

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/7/2015

    Team Scorpion goes undercover at a university to find a hacker who infiltrates the Federal Reserve and threatens to collapse the world economy.

    Director: Christine Moore

    Writer: Rob Pearlstein

  • The Hole Truth
    8.0/1010 votes

    #6 - The Hole Truth

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/23/2017

    Team Scorpion must save a man teetering on the edge of a massive sink hole that threatens to destroy the Los Angeles water supply forever.

    Director: Sam Hill

    Writer: Rob Pearlstein

  • Charades
    7.9/107 votes

    #7 - Charades

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/18/2015

    Team Scorpion is tasked with uncovering a mole inside the CIA who is being coerced into stealing deadly chemicals. Paige gives Walter a flirting lesson in preparation for the case.

    Director: Christine Moore

    Writer: Rob Pearlstein

  • No-Go + High-Voltage + Rescue
    7.8/104 votes

    #8 - No-Go + High-Voltage + Rescue

    Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 4/26/2019

    When two American tourists go missing while doing a “No-Go Scavenger Hunt” through some of the world’s most dangerous countries, the Phoenix team goes undercover as backpackers to find them and bring them home alive.

    Director: Andrew Karlsruher

    Writer: Rob Pearlstein

  • Kid + Plane + Cable + Truck
    7.8/104 votes

    #9 - Kid + Plane + Cable + Truck

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 2/21/2020

    MacGyver and the team board a plane that’s mid-flight when the pilot has a heart attack, and discover the medical emergency was intentional.

    Director: Lily Mariye

    Writer: Rob Pearlstein

  • True Colors
    7.7/1010 votes

    #10 - True Colors

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/2014

    The members of Team Scorpion must pass a mandated psych evaluation or face being disbanded after they're accused of destroying a priceless work of art in an attempt to protect an art exhibit. Paige enlists the help of the team when Ralph is reluctant to go to his school's Halloween party.

    Director: Jeffrey G. Hunt

    Writer: Rob Pearlstein

  • Sci Hard
    7.7/109 votes

    #11 - Sci Hard

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/2017

    While attending a tech convention, Team Scorpion is taken hostage by a group attempting a virtual heist.

    Director: Dwight H. Little

    Writer: Rob Pearlstein

  • Crossroads
    7.6/107 votes

    #12 - Crossroads

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/30/2015

    To protect a key witness who is en route to testifying against a deadly drug cartel, Team Scorpion takes her on the run, with the cartel hot on their heels.

    Director: Kevin Hooks

    Writer: Rob Pearlstein

  • Kenny and the Jet
    7.5/108 votes

    #13 - Kenny and the Jet

    Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 4/9/2018

    Paige’s maternal side goes into high gear when Team Scorpion must save an unconscious, hypothermic boy stuck in the wheel well of their airborne airplane. Also, Walter’s white lie to Paige starts to take a toll on him, and Paige realizes something’s up.

    Director: Jeff T. Thomas

    Writer: Rob Pearlstein

  • Tesla + Bell + Edison + Mac
    7.5/104 votes

    #14 - Tesla + Bell + Edison + Mac

    Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 4/17/2020

    When Mac is put into a dream state to help him recall key evidence found in Nikola Tesla’s secret lab that could stop Codex’s deadly plot, he encounters Nikola Tesla, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison…and his mother.

    Director: Yangzom Brauen

    Writer: Rob Pearlstein

  • S.O.S.
    7.5/102 votes

    #15 - S.O.S.

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 4/17/2006

    Allison investigates apparently random killings, endangering her family in the process. Bridget has to do a class presentation about her mom's job.

    Director: Tim Squyres

    Writer: Rob Pearlstein

  • Guts + Fuel + Hope
    7.2/105 votes

    #16 - Guts + Fuel + Hope

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/2018

    MacGyver and Riley, with the help of Vasil, a distraught father, must find a way to drive a tanker filled with liquid oxygen through a region occupied by rebels and deliver it to a children’s hospital before they run out. Also, Riley helps MacGyver decide whether or not to allow his father back into his life.

    Director: Peter Weller

    Writer: Rob Pearlstein

  • K9 + Smugglers + New Recruit
    7.2/104 votes

    #17 - K9 + Smugglers + New Recruit

    Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 2/15/2019

    After a surprising introduction to Phoenix’s newest recruit, Desi, MacGyver and team are assigned to escort and protect an ATF (alcohol, tobacco, firearms) gun-sniffing dog who has a bounty on his head, only to discover they’re not the only ones crashing the weapon drop.

    Director: Gabriel Beristain

    Writer: Rob Pearlstein

  • The Bunker Games
    7.1/108 votes

    #18 - The Bunker Games

    Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/15/2018

    Team Scorpion must work with Toby’s nemesis, Quincy Berkstead, and his wife, Amy, Toby’s ex-fiancée, when they are locked inside an artificially intelligent doomsday bunker that aims to kill them. Also, Walter is distracted by his recent dream where he is married to Florence, not Paige.

    Director: Milan Cheylov

    Writer: Rob Pearlstein

  • Cuba Libre
    6.1/109 votes

    #19 - Cuba Libre

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/2015

    Team Scorpion heads to Cuba when a woman from Cabe’s past pleads for him to help catch a Serbian war criminal.

    Director: Mel Damski

    Writer: Rob Pearlstein