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MacGyver
On ABC — From Paramount Television · Henry Winkler/John Rich Productions
His mind is the ultimate weapon.
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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 brakes... 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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- E1 PilotNext upSep 29, 1985 · 49 min · ★ 7.5
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Paul Stewart (Dr. Carl Steubens), Michael Lerner (Gantner), Michael C. Gwynne (Dr. Charlie Burke), Shavar Ross (Reggie), Dana Elcar (Andy Colson), Michael Fairman (Gen. Relkwin), Darlanne Fluegel (Barbara Spencer), Olaf Pooley (Dr. Sidney Marlowe)
- E2 The Golden TriangleOct 6, 1985 · 48 min · ★ 7.0
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Keye Luke (Prasert), Joan Chen (Lin), James Saito (Ming), Clyde Kusatsu (Anek), Benjamin Lum (Truang), George Cheung (General Narai), Bryan Price (Chan), Angus Duncan (The General)
- E3 Thief of BudapestOct 13, 1985 · 48 min · ★ 8.0
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Bruce Abbott (Russian Agent Nikolaj Kossov), Michael Constantine (Hungarian Inspector Jan Messic), Nicholas Kadi (Nikolaj Grodsky), Sid Haig (Khan), Kelly McClain (Jana), Sue Kiel (Reena), E.M. Margolese (Alex), Charles Raymond (Stephan)
- E4 The GauntletOct 21, 1985 · 49 min · ★ 7.5
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Robin Curtis (Kate Connelly), Gregory Sierra (General Antonio Vasquez), John Vernon (Dave Ryerson), Sam Vlahos (Diego Montoya), Marco López (Gomez), Socrates Ballis (Captain), Abdul Salem (Camel Driver)
- E5 The HeistNov 3, 1985 · 45 min · ★ 8.3
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: John Carter (U.S. Senator Rhodes), Victoria Bass (Tiffany), Vernon Wells (Catlin), Gavin Buhr (Security Guard (uncredited)), Michael Francis Kelly (Thomas), Richard Jamison (Wilson), Doran Clark (Chris Rhodes), Larry D. Mann (Daniel Sims)
- E6 Trumbo's WorldNov 10, 1985 · 45 min · ★ 8.0
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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.
Guest stars: Peter Jurasik (Dr. Charles Alden), David Ackroyd (Lucien Trumbo), Will Gotay (Luiz), Maurice Sherbanee (Commissioner Santos), Melinda Peterson (Dr. Andrea Gates), Branscombe Richmond (The Guard), Simone Boisseree (Yana), David Cadiente (The Non-Com)
- E7 Last StandNov 17, 1985 · 48 min · ★ 6.5
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Jackie Earle Haley (Turk), Kay Lenz (Kelly Nielson), Art Hindle (Dave Redding), Harry Caesar (Al Tennyson), Steve Franken (Walt, the Pilot), Anthony Pena (Elias), Lewis van Bergen (Buddy), Michael McGuire (Terry Andrews)
- E8 HellfireNov 27, 1985 · 45 min
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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?
Guest stars: Rudy Ramos (Pete Torgut), Cooper Huckabee (Bill Farren), Nana Visitor (Laura Farren)
- E9 The ProdigalDec 8, 1985 · 45 min · ★ 8.0
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Richard Romanus (Joey Bennett), Carl Franklin (Andrew T. Wiley), Angela Clarke (Caterina Bennett), Michael Champion (Larson), John Mahon (Vendor), Katherine Wallach (Carol), James Hess (Vincent Ivory), Stan Kamber (Max)
- E10 Target MacGyverDec 22, 1985 · 45 min · ★ 8.3
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: William Frankfather (Barney), John Anderson (Harry Jackson), Nick Dimitri (Kidnapper (uncredited)), D'Mitch Davis (Axminster), Huck Liggett (Farmboy), Robert Miano (Black)
- E11 NightmaresJan 15, 1986 · 45 min · ★ 8.3
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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.
Guest stars: Dana Elcar (Pete Thornton), Robert O'Reilly (Curt Neilson), Tammy Lauren (Lisa Allen), J.P. Bumstead (Barrett), Michael Mancini (Crisp), Tommy Lamey (Polk), J. Michael Flynn (Carlyle), Kimberley Pistone (Amy)
- E12 DeathlockJan 22, 1986 · 45 min · ★ 7.7
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Dana Elcar (Pete Thornton), Wendy Schaal (Karen Blake), Christopher Neame (Quayle), Beulah Quo (Mrs. Chung), Erik Holland (Man #1), Tom Maier (Man #3), Karl Held (Man #2), Frank Holms (The German)
- E13 Flame's EndJan 29, 1986 · 45 min
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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.
Guest stars: Robert Englund (Tim Wexler), Conlan Carter (Police Chief Ed Train), Tannis G. Montgomery (Amy Diane Austin), Robin Pearson Rose (Susan), Bill Washington (Kyle), Roger Hampton (Yale), Ed Williams (The Minister)
- E14 CountdownFeb 5, 1986 · 47 min
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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.
Guest stars: Dana Elcar (Pete Thornton), Ellen Bry (Carole Tanner), Steven Williams (Charlie Robinson), Michael Cavanaugh (Michael Donahue / Viking), Burke Byrnes (Captain Howard), J. Michael Flynn (Carlysle), Jeff Abbott (Officer Atkins), Robin Pearson Rose (Susan)
- E15 The Enemy WithinFeb 12, 1986 · 45 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Dana Elcar (Pete Thornton), Lynn-Holly Johnson (Ingrid Bannister), Michael Goodwin (Craig Bannister), Viktoriya Fyodorova (Viktoria Tomanova), Beau Starr (GRU Agent Anton Vissarionovich Lem), Douglas Dirkson (Reverend Mather), Arthur Malet (Pathologist Ed), Richard Balin (Fritz)
- E16 Every Time She SmilesFeb 19, 1986 · 45 min
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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.
Guest stars: Teri Hatcher (Penny Parker), Michael Fox (Anton Burak), Kai Wulff (Major Stepan Frolov), Milos Kirek (General Petrovich), Vladimir Skomarovsky (Anton), Anthony Caldarella (Border Guard Constantine), Peggy Rea (Angry Woman At Airport)
- E17 To Be a ManMar 5, 1986 · 45 min
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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.
Guest stars: Dana Elcar (Pete Thornton), Ajay Naidu (Ahmed), Persis Khambatta (Zia), Sid Haig (Khalil), Allan Kolman (Captain Osharansky), Rosalyn Landor (DXS Analyst), Michael Shore (Sergeant Borsov), Ron Gilbert (Lieutenant)
- E18 Ugly DucklingMar 12, 1986 · 45 min
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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.
Guest stars: Dana Elcar (Pete Thornton), Ned Bellamy (Larkin), Melinda O. Fee (Carol Lafferty), Russell Johnson (Oslow), Darcy Marta (Kate Lafferty), Lee de Broux (Hatcher), Richard McKenzie (Willis), Rob Paulsen (Rogers)
- E19 Slow DeathApr 2, 1986 · 45 min
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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.
Guest stars: Alan Fudge (Paul Webster), Tracy Reed (Andrea Collins), Frances Bergen (Eleanor Kingman), Carrell Myers (Laura Dillon), Kenneth Danziger (Peter Kramer), Anthony De Fonte (Hassan), Pamela Roylance (Diana Kingman), Warwick Sims (James Grant)
- E20 The EscapeApr 16, 1986 · 45 min
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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.
Guest stars: Kristina Wayborn (Sara Ashford), John de Lancie (Brian Ashford), Paul Verdier (Francois Villars), Miguel Fernandes (Khan), Vic Polizos (Commandant), Mike Moroff (Fuad), Jeanne Hepple (Sister Ann), Gary Krakower (Warder)
- E21 A Prisoner of ConscienceApr 30, 1986 · 45 min
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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.
Guest stars: Dana Elcar (Pete Thornton), Paul Koslo (Dr. Suvarin), Jane Merrow (Dr. Natalya Petrovitsh), Marvin Kaplan (The Chess Master), Elya Baskin (Yuri Demetri), Lawrence Dobkin (Alexander Karsoff), Tim Rossovich (The Political Prisoner), Harry Woolf (Supervisor)
- E22 The AssassinMay 7, 1986 · 45 min
Synopsis
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.
Guest stars: Dana Elcar (Pete Thornton), Corinne Bohrer (Terry Ross), Anthony De Longis (Piedra the Assassin), Richard Yniguez (Emilio), Jack Heller (General C.W. Smith), Mary Gregory (Sister Eileen Kennedy), Don Diamond (Archbishop Fierro), Robert Covarrubias (Pato Lopez)
Cast & crew
Created by Lee David Zlotoff
Richard Dean Anderson
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