TV series
His mind is the ultimate weapon.
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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Checked Jul 22, 2026
MacGyver is available to stream on Paramount+, Paramount+ (Via Amazon Prime), Paramount+ (Via Apple TV), and Pluto TV in United States. You can also rent or buy it from Google Play, Amazon, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home. Use the direct links below to open the provider.
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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Episode 1
MacGyver accompanies Penny Parker to an old house she inherited from her Aunt Betty, who mysteriously died 30 years before. When strange things start happening, Penny is sure that the house is haunted.
Directed by Michael VejarWritten by Gene Hanson, Rick Drew, John Sheppard, Gene HansonGuest stars Teri Hatcher, Gisele MacKenzie, Arlen Dean Snyder, Ray Young
Episode 2
MacGyver returns to his home town of Mission City, Minnesota to meet up with two old friends, Chuck and Neil, so they can dig up a time capsule they buried twenty-five years before. However, MacGyver is hesitant to dig the capsule up because he is still haunted by the death of his old friend Jesse, who died when MacGyver was young. But now MacGyver has another problem to deal with. Chuck's and Neil's sons, Danny and Sean, have gotten wrapped up in a drug deal, and the dealer is after Danny. Danny takes off to hide, and now MacGyver must find him, before the drug dealer does.
Directed by Charles CorrellWritten by Rick DrewGuest stars Dirk Blocker, Jason Priestley, J. Douglas Stewart, Kerry Hutchings, Bernie Coulson, Ramón Franco, Michael McNeilly, Dusty Hyland
Episode 3
MacGyver helps an Amish family, who saved his life, from having their farm seized by the government.
Directed by Michael VejarWritten by Michelle Poteet LisantiGuest stars Kaj-Erik Eriksen, Allan Lysell, Gustaf Kristjanson, Ruth de Sosa, Vicki Wauchope, Garry Davey, Dan Zale, Deryl Hayes
Episode 4
Central American rebels capture Pete and a nun during a coup d'état, and it's up to MacGyver and Jack to rescue them.
Directed by Charles CorrellWritten by John WhelpleyGuest stars Bruce McGill, Jenny Gago, Susan Walden, Pedro Salvín, Garwin Sanford
Episode 5
When a friend of Mac's is injured in a crash, Mac agrees to test the new racing engine designed by the Phoenix Foundation. However a business rival has other plans for him, and he has someone from the inside to help him.
Directed by Chuck BowmanWritten by Paul B. MargolisGuest stars G. Gordon Liddy, Patrick Wayne, Kai Wulff, Katey Wright, Don Saunders, Jerry Wasserman, Peter Williams, Pamela Martin
Episode 6
While on assignment to test field agents for the Phoenix Foundation, MacGyver and Pete discover the wreckage of a DEA plane shot down by dangerous drug smugglers.
Directed by Michael CaffeyWritten by W. Reed MoranGuest stars Dale Wilson, Gerry Bean, Donna Cox
Episode 7
MacGyver gets involved in the search for an escaped serial killer. Soon he comes to the conclusion that the killer had help from another prisoner—an even more sinister man.
Directed by Les LandauWritten by Stephen DowningGuest stars Kim Zimmer, William Morgan Sheppard, Garry Chalk, Brenda Crichlow, Todd Jeffries, Jeff Irvine, Alvin Sanders, Stephen Dimopoulos
Episode 8
After Jack receives momentos of his father from an anonymous sender, he and MacGyver launch a search for Jack's mother, who's been missing since he was boy—and they aren't the only ones hunting for her.
Directed by Rob BowmanWritten by John WhelpleyGuest stars Bruce McGill, Richard Lawson, Constance Towers, Ed Nelson, Leslie Carlson, Dwight McFee, Freda Perry, Russell Roberts
Episode 9
Penny Parker's big chance in a major professional role is threatened from two directions: a money shortage and several deaths linked to the musical she is set to perform in.
Directed by Chuck BowmanWritten by John Sheppard, Rick DrewGuest stars Teri Hatcher, Robert Donner, Susan Chapple, Max Reimer, James Hibbard, Michael Des Barres
Episode 10
Pete is conflicted when he discovers that the Phoenix Foundation employee selling classified information turns out to be his son.
Directed by Michael PreeceWritten by Grant RosenbergGuest stars James Karen, Hank Stratton, Don Galloway, Robert Metcalfe, Bill Murdoch, David Ley, David Bloom, John Payne
Episode 11
The young son of MacGyver's co-worker is kidnapped by the boy's father. MacGyver must go and retrieve the boy from the house of the boy's uncle—a powerful mob boss.
Directed by Michael VejarWritten by Marianne ClarksonGuest stars Joseph Wiseman, Susan Chapple, Charles Andre, Penny Peyser, Tony Dakota, Peter Yunker, Howard Storey, Peter Blackwood
Episode 12
An inner city youth club is threatened when a black resident is framed for auto theft by a neighborhood racist who'll stop at nothing to close the center—even murder.
Directed by Dana ElcarWritten by Chris HaddockGuest stars Michael D. Roberts, Cuba Gooding Jr., Roxanne Reese, Michael MacRae, Charles Payne, Paul Bittante, Rob Roy, R. Nelson Brown
Episode 13
MacGyver helps a young runaway with a vicious pimp and a tragic secret about her policeman father.
Directed by Michael CaffeyWritten by Joel SchwartzGuest stars Byron Chief-Moon, Gerald Anthony, Jeff Pomerantz, Roxanne Reese, Ken Camroux-Taylor, Holly Fields, Evon Murphy, Lossen Chambers
Episode 14
MacGyver joins a joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. team trekking into the Alaskan wilderness to retrieve a huge amount of Russian gold from a downed plane only to learn that someone has beaten them to it.
Directed by William GereghtyWritten by David EngelbachGuest stars Walter Gotell, Lee Patterson, Colleen Winton
Episode 15
MacGyver heads up a trip with four other Phoenix Foundation employees into the wilderness as part of a stress reduction program. After discovering that a prison bus accident has freed several prisoners, the employees begin to question each other's behavior. MacGyver must now figure out which man, if any, is not to be trusted before it's too late.
Directed by Dana ElcarWritten by Chris HaddockGuest stars Jean Bruce Scott, Adam Arkin, James Sloyan, Blu Mankuma, Kevin Geer, Julie Downing, Andrew Rhodes
Episode 16
Jack Dalton is brainwashed by an African politician and his wife to assassinate the leader of an African nation, who is in town for an awards ceremony.
Directed by Michael CaffeyWritten by John SheppardGuest stars Roger Aaron Brown, Bruce McGill, Raymond St. Jacques, Linda Darlow, Cynthia L. James, Janet Hodgkinson, Gene Heck, Jano Frandsen
Episode 17
MacGyver and Pete are captured by terrorists intent on wiping out a nearby city with an electromagnetic pulse, unless their leader is freed.
Directed by Charles CorrellWritten by Rick DrewGuest stars Tom Everett, Frank Ferrucci, Wolf Muser, Ruth Britt, Tom Heaton, Don McManus, Jaylene Hamilton, Rod Menzies
Episode 18
MacGyver works hard to retrieve the anthrax bacillus stolen by a former Navy commando who once saved his life, and is now suffering the effects of an old head wound.
Directed by Michael CaffeyWritten by Chris Haddock, Robert BielakGuest stars John Novak, Stephen Furst, Darcia Carnie, Vince Deadrick Jr., Marshall R. Teague, Patrie Allen, Don Stroud, James Kidnie
Episode 19
Jack, MacGyver, and Pete review their past adventures while on a gold-panning expedition, unaware they're being stalked by a vengeful killer.
Directed by Charles CorrellWritten by Marianne ClarksonGuest stars Bruce McGill, Kristian Alfonso, Barry Greene
Episode information updated Jul 24, 2026
Richard Dean AndersonAngus MacGyver
Dana ElcarPete Thornton
Teri HatcherPenny Parker
Mayim BialikLisa Woodman
John AndersonHarry Jackson
Bruce McGillJack Dalton
Richard LawsonJesse Colton
Kimberly ScottMama Lorraine
ABCUnited States
Paramount TelevisionUnited States
Columbia TriStar TelevisionUnited States
