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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 1 Episode 10 - Target MacGyver
    8.3/10(3 votes)

    S1:E10

    After blowing away a nuclear facility under the control of an aggressive world leader, MacGyver returns home for some peace and quiet, only to find his boss waiting for him. He advises MacGyver that a contract is out on his life and he needs to skip town for awhile.

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    Writer:Stephen Kandel

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  2. undefined Season 1 Episode 6 - Trumbo's World
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    S1:E6

    MacGyver comes along on a expedition to Brazil with his friend, entomologist Dr. Alden. They meet with a landowner and recluse, Trumbo, who is initially hostile. However, when they realize that a mile-wide column of army ants is moving through the jungle, they team together to mount a defense.

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    Writer:Stephen Kandel

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  3. undefined Season 3 Episode 4 - Ghost Ship
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    S3:E4

    While mapping the wilderness for the Phoenix foundation, MacGyver stumbles on a deserted ship and finds a runaway girl who tells him that the rest of crew was driven away by Bigfoot.

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    Writer:Stephen Kandel

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  4. undefined Season 2 Episode 39 - The Penguin Declines
    7.8/10(5 votes)

    S2:E39

    Batman, summoning all the strength he can muster, breaks his chains and frees Robin from the giant clam. The heroes arrange for the Joker's former confederate, Venus, to stay at an apartment while they figure out what to do next. Meanwhile, the Joker has freed the Penguin from Gotham State Prison to continue their crime wave. The Joker tricks Venus into asking Batman to take her to the Batcave. The Dynamic Duo take her to their base of operations (but only after making her fall asleep first). When they arrive, the Joker, Penguin and assorted thugs are revealed to be hiding in the Batmobile's trunk. Batman, however, anticipated this and none of the criminals know where the Batcave is. A figure erupts, with Batman and Robin finally ending the zodiac crimes.

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    Writer:Stephen Kandel

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  5. undefined Season 1 Episode 12 - Deathlock
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    S1:E12

    MacGyver is trapped in a mansion with Pete, a code expert, and a government agent who may or may not be on their side. However, an old nemesis has electronically booby-trapped the entire mansion to make sure they can't go anywhere.

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    Writer:Stephen Kandel

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  6. undefined Season 1 Episode 19 - Slow Death
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    S1:E19

    At the beginning of the episode, MacGyver literally has to jump onto a moving train that he missed earlier to return top-secret files and documents to the U.S. Government. Soon after, a local tribe stops the train. They take all passengers hostage until the men responsible for the death of the tribal leader's son is found among the passengers.

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    Writer:Stephen Kandel

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  7. undefined Season 1 Episode 4 - The Gauntlet
    7.5/10(4 votes)

    S1:E4

    MacGyver attempts to get a reporter out of a Central American country with evidence linking a general to an illegal arms dealer. As they reach the border, it is clear escaping to Mexico will be no easy task, as the general and the arms dealer have every imaginable route severely guarded.

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    Writer:Stephen Kandel

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  8. undefined Season 1 Episode 13 - Flame's End
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    S1:E13

    An old girlfriend of MacGyver's contacts him for help after she discovers evidence of uranium thefts from a nuclear processing plant where she works.

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  9. undefined Season 3 Episode 16 - The Spoilers
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E16

    After MacGyver witnesses someone dumping toxic waste that's polluting mountain streams, he and Pete enlist a reclusive mountain man nicknamed "Earthquake" to help lead them to the culprit. Things become complicated, though, as Earthquake's flashbacks to his military service in the Vietnam War make him unstable and threaten their case.

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    Writer:Stephen Kandel

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  10. undefined Season 1 Episode 21 - A Prisoner of Conscience
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E21

    Pete Thornton investigates the supposed death of an old friend, a prominent Russian dissident, and finds he must get his friend's daughter Maria out of the country before the secret police arrest her for an alleged conspiracy. However, while in Russia, Pete bumps into MacGyver, who followed him from the United States. While disappointed MacGyver followed him, Pete gladly welcomes MacGyver into his plans when the secret police arrive to take Maria into custody. Following a high speed boat chase to escape the police, Pete and MacGyver find out from Maria that her father is not dead, he is being held in a maximum security ward at a state mental institution. To get into the mental hospital, MacGyver plays the part of a mad patient and Pete plays the part of a doctor who has been assigned to him. With the help of the other patients, MacGyver is able to escape into Ward Zero, where Pete's friend is held. MacGyver breaks him out and hides him with the other patients.

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    Writer:Stephen Kandel

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  11. undefined Season 1 Episode 20 - The Escape
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    S1:E20

    When a mother superior at a religious mission in North Africa asks MacGyver to help a young woman with something, he is glad to help. However, when he finds out the young woman wants him to break her brother out of jail, he may have taken on more than he expected.

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  12. undefined Season 2 Episode 4 - The Wish Child
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    S2:E4

    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!

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  13. undefined Season 2 Episode 9 - Silent World
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E9

    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.

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  14. undefined Season 2 Episode 15 - Pirates
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    S2:E15

    While on an expedition to find a Spanish treasure fleet, Dr. Barbara Ortega's boat is hi-jacked by modern-day pirates. They steal the small amount of treasure that she has already found - including the ship's log, which is the key to finding the whole fleet - and take off. When she makes it public that she was hi-jacked, the Phoenix Foundation sends MacGyver to help. Now, MacGyver and Barbara must recover the ship's log, so she can find the treasure before the pirates do.

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  15. undefined Season 3 Episode 14 - The Odd Triple
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E14

    After returning home from a long assignment, MacGyver has an unwelcome surprise. Jack Dalton is waiting and wants him to help with a new scheme. A wealthy woman has just acquired some invaluable jewels, needing Jack to fly her back to her home in France. Things seem to be going fine, that is, until they land. Jack and MacGyver are arrested and accused of theft.

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    Writer:Stephen Kandel

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  16. undefined Season 5 Episode 12 - Serenity
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S5:E12

    Exhausted MacGyver dreams he's a Civil War vet trying to claim a home in Montana that's threatened by a neighboring rancher who looks a lot like Pete Thornton. But this Pete has hired Murdoc to kill Mac...

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  17. undefined Season 1 Episode 8 - Hellfire
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    S1:E8

    During a trip to visit some friends, an accident starts a fire in an oil well owned by MacGyver's friends. MacGyver and his buddy then go to fetch dynamite in an abandonned mine at great peril to themselves after they decide the dynamite is the only feasible way the fire can be put out. However, when they use it, the fire only becomes more intense. Can MacGyver and his Hellfire friend survive the incredible heat to put out the fire and save the oil buried underneath the well?

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    Writer:Stephen Kandel

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  18. undefined Season 2 Episode 37 - The Zodiac Crimes
    7.0/10(6 votes)

    S2:E37

    The Joker and the Penguin team up on a crime wave based on signs of the zodiac. The pair, aided and abetted by a woman known as Venus, keep Batman and Robin on the run. The Dynamic Duo manage to capture the Penguin but the Joker remains on the loose. Batman and Robin figure the Joker's next caper will take place at a museum and lay a trap. But the heroes are captured instead. Now, Batman and Robin face almost certain death; the heroes are to be crushed beneath a giant asteroid on display at the museum.

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    Writer:Stephen Kandel

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  19. undefined Season 1 Episode 17 - True or False-Face
    6.7/10(13 votes)

    S1:E17

    False Face traps Batman and Robin, and binding them to a subway track just minutes before a train is scheduled to come by.

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    Writer:Stephen Kandel

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  20. undefined Season 1 Episode 18 - Holy Rat Race
    6.7/10(13 votes)

    S1:E18

    Alfred contacts Batman by radio from the Batcave. Batman instructs the butler to short circuit a communications device the hero has on his wrist. This enable Batman to get free of his bonds. He and Robin get free just before they would be run over by a subway train. The Dynamic Duo resume their pursuit of False Face, which ends up at an old movie studio.

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  21. undefined Season 2 Episode 38 - The Joker's Hard Times
    6.5/10(6 votes)

    S2:E38

    Batman and Robin narrowly escape the Joker's death trap and quickly get back on the villain's trail. The villain runs the Gothham City Police Department ragged with his crimes based on the zodiac. Meanwhile, Venus, the Joker's accomplice, warms to Batman. Eventually, the Dynamic Duo again corner the Joker. But, once more, the heroes are captured. Now, Batman, Robin and Venus are chained in a shallow pool with a giant clam. The clam swallows Robin and Batman and Venus will be next on its menu.

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    Writer:Stephen Kandel

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  22. undefined Season 1 Episode 6 - Mudd's Women
    6.4/10(64 votes)

    S1:E6

    Rescuing the crew of a ship from an asteroid belt, the Enterprise plays host to conman extraordinaire, the cunning Harry Mudd and his cargo: three beautiful women looking for suitors.

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    Writer:Stephen Kandel

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  23. undefined Season 2 Episode 1 - The Return of Wonder Woman
    6.2/10(5 votes)

    S2:E1

    Wonder Woman convinces her mother, the Queen of the Amazons, that she must once again go into the outside world to help protect the free world from its enemies as well as the secret of Paradise Island and its ancient culture.

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  24. undefined Season 1 Episode 10 - Judgment from Outer Space (1)
    5.8/10(4 votes)

    S1:E10

    Wonder Woman joins forces with a friendly alien from outer space to prevent the destruction of the world.

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    Writer:Stephen Kandel

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  25. undefined Season 1 Episode 11 - Judgment from Outer Space (2)
    5.6/10(5 votes)

    S1:E11

    Wonder Woman realizes that the fate of the world rests on her ability to prove the worth of mankind by saving an alien from outer space.

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Stephen Kandel Ratings Summary

"Target MacGyver" is the best rated episode written by Stephen Kandel. It scored 8.3/10 based on 3 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 12/22/1985 and is rated 0.3 points higher than their second-best episode, "Trumbo's World".