He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed with only a knapsack filled with everyday items he picks up along the way, he improvises his way out of every peril the bad guys throw at him. Making a bomb out of chewing gum? Fixing a speeding car's breaks... while he's riding in it? Using soda pop to cook up tear gas? That's all in a day's adventures for MacGyver. He's part Boy Scout, part genius. And all hero.
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He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed with only a knapsack filled with everyday items he picks up along the way, he improvises his way out of every peril the bad guys throw at him. Making a bomb out of chewing gum? Fixing a speeding car's breaks... while he's riding in it? Using soda pop to cook up tear gas? That's all in a day's adventures for MacGyver. He's part Boy Scout, part genius. And all hero.
Season 1 episodes
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When a science lab studying the ozone layer mysteriously explodes, MacGyver is called in to rescue the scientists that are trapped underground. It's soon discovered that the explosion cracked a tank of sulfuric acid, and MacGyver is in a race against time before the Army uses a missile to seal up the base.
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Directed by Jerrold FreedmanWritten by Thackary PallorGuest stars Paul Stewart, Michael Lerner, Michael C. Gwynne, Shavar Ross, Dana Elcar, Michael Fairman, Darlanne Fluegel, Olaf Pooley
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.
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Directed by Donald Petrie, Paul StanleyWritten by Terry Nation, Dennis FoleyGuest stars Keye Luke, Joan Chen, James Saito, Clyde Kusatsu, Benjamin Lum, George Cheung, Bryan Price, Angus Duncan
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.
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Directed by Lee H. Katzin, John PattersonWritten by Terry Nation, Joe Viola, Stephen DowningGuest stars Bruce Abbott, Michael Constantine, Nicholas Kadi, Sid Haig, Kelly McClain, Sue Kiel, E.M. Margolese, Charles Raymond
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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Directed by Lee H. KatzinWritten by Stephen Kandel, Judy BurnsGuest stars Robin Curtis, Gregory Sierra, John Vernon, Sam Vlahos, Marco López, Socrates Ballis, Abdul Salem
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.
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Directed by Paul StanleyWritten by Larry Alexander, James SchmererGuest stars John Carter, Victoria Bass, Vernon Wells, Gavin Buhr, Michael Francis Kelly, Richard Jamison, Doran Clark, Larry D. Mann
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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Directed by Donald Petrie, Lee H. KatzinWritten by Stephen KandelGuest stars Peter Jurasik, David Ackroyd, Will Gotay, Maurice Sherbanee, Melinda Peterson, Branscombe Richmond, Simone Boisseree, David Cadiente
When MacGyver is on his way to a vacation, he takes the wrong way and ends up at a small airstrip where everybody seems to be behaving strangely. Too late, he discovers that the airstrip has been taken hostage, and he has been caught in the middle of a plane-hijacking attempt.
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Directed by John FloreaWritten by Judy BurnsGuest stars Jackie Earle Haley, Kay Lenz, Art Hindle, Harry Caesar, Steve Franken, Anthony Pena, Lewis van Bergen, Michael McGuire
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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Directed by Richard A. CollaWritten by James Schmerer, Stephen Kandel, Douglas Brooks WestGuest stars Rudy Ramos, Cooper Huckabee, Nana Visitor
A man wants to testify against his mobster brother in Federal Court, and MacGyver has the job of keeping him safe, but the man's mother is dying and he wants to visit her.
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Directed by Alexander SingerWritten by David Abramowitz, Paul SavageGuest stars Richard Romanus, Carl Franklin, Angela Clarke, Michael Champion, John Mahon, Katherine Wallach, James Hess, Stan Kamber
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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Directed by Ernest Pintoff, Lee H. KatzinWritten by Terry Nation, James Schmerer, Stephen Kandel, Mike Marvin, Mike MarvinGuest stars William Frankfather, John Anderson, Nick Dimitri, D'Mitch Davis, Huck Liggett, Robert Miano
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.
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Directed by Cliff BoleWritten by James SchmererGuest stars Dana Elcar, Robert O'Reilly, Tammy Lauren, J.P. Bumstead, Michael Mancini, Tommy Lamey, J. Michael Flynn, Kimberley Pistone
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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Directed by Alexander SingerWritten by Stephen Kandel, Jerry LudwigGuest stars Dana Elcar, Wendy Schaal, Christopher Neame, Beulah Quo, Erik Holland, Tom Maier, Karl Held, Frank Holms
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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Directed by Bruce Seth GreenWritten by Stephen Kandel, Hannah Louise ShearerGuest stars Robert Englund, Conlan Carter, Tannis G. Montgomery, Robin Pearson Rose, Bill Washington, Roger Hampton, Ed Williams
A mysterious person who calls himself "Viking" has just bombed the cruise ship Victoria, underway in the North Pacific Ocean. He demands six million dollars or another bomb will go off within hours. So MacGyver gets called in, along with his old Vietnam bomb-defusal partner, Charlie Robinson, to disarm it. But when they get there, they find out there's more than one bomb on the ship. Complications arise when MacGyver's partner sets off one of the bombs, and the bomber decides that DXS operated in bad faith and refuses to hand over the bomb-disarming instructions after he gets the extortion money.
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Directed by Stan JolleyWritten by David Ketchum, Tony DiMarcoGuest stars Dana Elcar, Ellen Bry, Steven Williams, Michael Cavanaugh, Burke Byrnes, J. Michael Flynn, Jeff Abbott, Robin Pearson Rose
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.
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Directed by Cliff BoleWritten by David AbramowitzGuest stars Dana Elcar, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Michael Goodwin, Viktoriya Fyodorova, Beau Starr, Douglas Dirkson, Arthur Malet, Richard Balin
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.
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Directed by Charles CorrellWritten by James SchmererGuest stars Teri Hatcher, Michael Fox, Kai Wulff, Milos Kirek, Vladimir Skomarovsky, Anthony Caldarella, Peggy Rea
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.
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Directed by Cliff BoleWritten by Don MankiewiczGuest stars Dana Elcar, Ajay Naidu, Persis Khambatta, Sid Haig, Allan Kolman, Rosalyn Landor, Michael Shore, Ron Gilbert
A 15-year-old genius accidentally hacks into a defective missile guidance system and attracts the attention of both the FBI and some black marketeers, who think that she may fix it for them. It's up to MacGyver to save her from being kidnapped by either side.
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Directed by Charles CorrellWritten by Larry GrossGuest stars Dana Elcar, Ned Bellamy, Melinda O. Fee, Russell Johnson, Darcy Marta, Lee de Broux, Richard McKenzie, Rob Paulsen
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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Directed by Don WeisWritten by Stephen KandelGuest stars Alan Fudge, Tracy Reed, Frances Bergen, Carrell Myers, Kenneth Danziger, Anthony De Fonte, Pamela Roylance, Warwick Sims
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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Directed by Don ChaffeyWritten by Stephen Kandel, Fred McKnightGuest stars Kristina Wayborn, John de Lancie, Paul Verdier, Miguel Fernandes, Vic Polizos, Mike Moroff, Jeanne Hepple, Gary Krakower
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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Directed by Cliff BoleWritten by Stephen KandelGuest stars Dana Elcar, Paul Koslo, Jane Merrow, Marvin Kaplan, Elya Baskin, Lawrence Dobkin, Tim Rossovich, Harry Woolf
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.
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Directed by Charles CorrellWritten by James SchmererGuest stars Dana Elcar, Corinne Bohrer, Anthony De Longis, Richard Yniguez, Jack Heller, Mary Gregory, Don Diamond, Robert Covarrubias
