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| Season 1, Episode 1: PilotOriginal Air Date—29 September 1985
An underground lab is destroyed by a mysterious explosion. Macgver is sent in to rescue the trapped scientists and stop a deadly chemical leak. |
| Original Air Date—6 October 1985
Macgyver is sent to Burma to recover some material lost in a plane crash. While there he is taken prisoner by a drug lord who suspects him of being a narcotics agent. MacGyver must team up with local villagers to save the day. |
| Original Air Date—13 October 1985
MacGyver obtains a watch in Budapest that contains top secret information on microfilm. However, a young Gypsy girl steals the watch from MacGyver and he must get it back. |
| Original Air Date—20 October 1985
MacGyver is sent to South America to rescue an American journalist and escape out of the country. The dictator of the country and his army pursue MacGyver, making the escape very difficult. |
| Season 1, Episode 5: The HeistOriginal Air Date—3 November 1985
An American senator has $60 million in diamonds stolen from him by a Virgin Islands casino owner. MacGyver goes with the senator's daughter to steal the diamonds back from his high-security vault. |
| Original Air Date—10 November 1985
Deep in a Brazilian jungle, MacGyver must defend a plantation compound from an unstoppable army of ants which are eating everything in their path. |
| Season 1, Episode 7: Last StandOriginal Air Date—17 November 1985
MacGyver is taken hostage by some armed robbers at an airport. MacGyver uses his ingenuity to try to free himself along with the other hostages while simultaneously trying to stop the criminals. |
| Season 1, Episode 8: HellfireOriginal Air Date—27 November 1985
MacGyver visits some friends who are are drilling for oil. Their oil well catches fire and burns out of control. MacGyver is the only one who can stop the fire and save his friends' oil strike. |
| Original Air Date—8 December 1985
MacGyver is assigned to protect a person in the Federal Witness Protection Program. The man he is protecting wants to come out of hiding to visit his dying mother. MacGyver must protect him from the Mob and from the Feds. |
| Original Air Date—22 December 1985
There is a contract out on MacGyver so he leaves town and visits his Grandfather whom he hasn't seen in years. Soon the two are fighting for their lives in a cat and mouse hunt with the killers. |
| Season 1, Episode 11: NightmaresOriginal Air Date—15 January 1986
MacGyver is kidnapped by enemy agents to retrieve sensitive information he stole from them. To get him to talk, they inject MacGyver with a hallucinogenic drug that will kill him in six hours, unless an antidote they have is administered. |
| Season 1, Episode 12: DeathlockOriginal Air Date—22 January 1986
An enemy of MacGyver's fills a supposed safe house with several deadly booby traps to exact his revenge on MacGyver. |
| Original Air Date—29 January 1986
A theft of uranium occurs at a nuclear power plant where an ex-girlfriend of MacGyver's works. She enlists his help to catch the thief which endangers hers and MacGyver's lives. |
| Season 1, Episode 14: CountdownOriginal Air Date—5 February 1986
A cruise ship is the target of a terrorist attack and has three bombs hidden aboard. MacGyver and a friend from the agency are asked to dismantle the bombs before it's too late for the crew and passengers. |
| Original Air Date—12 February 1986
Four agents have been betrayed by a mole inside the Agency, leading to their deaths. MacGyver must discover who it is before he becomes the next victim. |
| Original Air Date—19 February 1986
In Bulgaria, MacGyver meets a mysterious beautiful American girl. In assisting her, he discovers that she is smuggling top secret microfilm out of the country. The Bulgarian Secret Police arrive to complicate matters even further. |
| Original Air Date—26 February 1986
While on a rescue mission in Soviet Afghanistan, MacGyver is shot and wounded. An Afghan woman and her son risk their lives to give refuge to MacGyver. A wounded MacGyver must now outwit the Russian Army to complete his mission. |
| Original Air Date—12 March 1986
MacGyver is sent to rescue a teenage computer hacker kidnapped by weapons dealers who want him to arm a missile system they stole. |
| Season 1, Episode 19: Slow DeathOriginal Air Date—26 March 1986
MacGyver finds himself on a train that gets hijacked by Indian tribesmen. He tries to help them find the Westerners who sold tainted medicine to their tribe and resolve the situation peacefully. |
| Season 1, Episode 20: The EscapeOriginal Air Date—2 April 1986
Complications arise when MacGyver forms a plan to free a missionary from a North African jail. |
| Original Air Date—30 April 1986
To infiltrate a mental institution to free a political prisoner who is a friend of Pete's, MacGyver must feign madness. Getting in is the easy part... |
| Original Air Date—7 May 1986
An assassin is primed to knock off a high-ranking official when MacGyver is called in. But in order to foil a master of disguises, Mac must don the best disguise of all... |
| Original Air Date—22 September 1986
sent to test the security system at a top secret research center MacGyver finds himself at odds against an ambitious doctor and her highly advanced computer system. MacGyver breaks through the security system only to get trapped inside the research center with a computer that is going to kill him by pumping all the oxygen out of the center. |
| Season 2, Episode 2: The EraserOriginal Air Date—29 September 1986
When MacGyver is lured into helping a man find his son, he quickly learns the true history of his new friend. Can Jimmy "The Eraser" Kendall really turn his life around with Mac's help, or will they become targets themselves? |
| Original Air Date—6 October 1986
MacGyver is shocked to find Kelly Sutton, a Phoenix Foundation working bee, trying to commit suicide, saying it's to put his three kids trough college after loosing his life savings in a swamp land deal pulled by never convicted con artist James Crowe. Mac convinces Pete, who couldn't possibly involve the Foundation in such a murky business, to set up a scam to outsmart the crook and win $400,000 back; greenhorn analyst Joanne Remmings, who researches such plots, is grudgingly semi-admitted to take part. First they hook Crowe by pretending Pete is a dirty cop artificially made to win by Mac, thus lured into putting up the cash for a cocaine transaction, which they deliberately make go wrong, and ultimately promise to go steal a fortune in cash from police evidence custody, each time complicated with Joanne... |
| Original Air Date—20 October 1986
In Santa Monica, a sunny paradise for the Minnesota boy, Mac accepts to get his martial arts sparring partner Lisa's 14 year-old brother Paul Chan. Only a Macgyverism gets him access to the Chinatown establishment where scientist Dr. Shen Wei is authenticating the teenager as the legendary Wish Child, so Shen can advise the Hong Kong magnate Lee Wenying that Paul is the real one; Lee pays crime baron Ston's finder's fee. Mac is knocked down and can barely escape from Lee's cargo freighter, before learning from petty crook Sam and Dr. Shen enough to go after the boy, whose presence would allow the aging Lee to survive his life-span, reason to keep the kid captured, but Mac is determined to rescue him... |
| Original Air Date—27 October 1986
Mac is not amused when Peter fixes the Phoenix Foundation flight simulator to crash just before he actually takes a bunch of probation trouble youths camping by airplane, without any budget. Their regular counselor takes reinforcements as an insult and splits; Mac wins some respect by his ingenious bush cooking skills. The pilot who was to return the party a few days later gets a heart-attack, so they crash in the wilderness. The rebellious ruffians (boys and one disputed girl) prove quite a handful to get out of trouble -most of which they keep creating- even with macgyverisms, but a serious grudge between gang leaders and a medical emergency really push Mac's resourcefulness to the limit, but at least now they all pull together... |
| Original Air Date—3 November 1986
MacGyver's old friend Jack Dalton asks his help in freeing a friend that was captured by a corrupt government in South America. Mac agrees to help, only to find that he's getting into more than he bargained for. |
| Original Air Date—10 November 1986
The new dictatorial regime in a neighbor country of Thailand is eliminating adversaries. Mac and Pete fly and rappel to the rescue of an orphanage run there by Pete's platonic friend, Catholic nun Margareth. To Mac's surprise, her assistant is his own former girlfriend Debra Easton, now a religious novice, who helps him keep ahead with the orphans of the surprisingly resourceful captain Chanthara, who was barely outsmarted by Macgyverisms but shot both their rescue helicopter and its pilot Jimmy; Debra fall out, Mac dives after her, so Pete shouts the code Bulgaria: pick-up there in eight hours. While Mac and his mate run for the captain's men, escape after capture and face their own doubts, Pete and sister Margareth face theirs, repairs to the helicopter and a traitor in the refugee camp run by French MD Gilbert Arnaud. |
| Season 2, Episode 8: EaglesOriginal Air Date—17 November 1986
Mac happily volunteers for a Phoenix foundation mission: helping protect the golden eagle. The pair he is sent to check on lives on a steep mountain; during his first attempt to approach it by para-glider, they get attacked in flight by a rich poacher and his criminal accomplices in a helicopter, who shoot the male by gun, far out of reach, and wound the female by crossbow before taking off; Mac descends to get the female, nearby, and teams up there with bright ten year-old Darin Cooper, who learned a lot about eagles from his late granddad. They bring the wounded eagle to the cabin where Darin's over-protective single mother Susan brought him in an attempt to mend her bond with the growing boy, who needs more space to become a man and instantly takes to understanding father figure Mac, nurse it and realize the male and probable chicks must be found, raising them is not a single parent job with eagles. With improvised extra climbing gear Mac risks his life dangling on and up the mountain, but ultimately gets the male down, only to find the fiends, who fear a witness, have taken hold of the Coopers. Macgiverisms win the battle one to two. Last task is to follow the healed male to the nest and get the chicks, who need human nursing after the female sadly dies, and they're in an even less accessible spot... |
| Original Air Date—24 November 1986
Mac and Pete present a Phoenix foundation invention to a school for the deaf/mute: it converts sounds into waves to feel. The teacher Carrie Linden has strange, scary, symbolic dreams involving lightening, a Moor on a horse, a steel skeleton, a limousine and Mac's dead. A U.S. Army jeep is robbed of secret Moloch missile warheads by a fake sheriff and his deputies in South Carolina, they travel far to steal from an exhibition another part of the rocket. After a lightening bolts-marked van nearly runs them over, Mac convinces Pete to bring Carrie to dream researchers. They decide to take her along to a military test of the device, where she recognizes the fake sheriff, whose team escapes after a fire-fight, killing one of their own, and Mac realizes they are stealing Moloch missiles part by part. Mac helps Carrie identify the Braden Lake from her dream by its shape, and takes her there do 'decypher' the rest of the dream, successfully, but they're attacked by the missile thieves who kidnap her. It's high time for major Macgyverisms and brave, clever fighting... |
| Original Air Date—15 December 1986
MacGyver's rental car dies, so he hitches a ride with an elderly couple who came into possession of the counterfeit money Mac came to pick up from a mob contact as evidence. Three mobsters try to recover the money. |
| Original Air Date—5 January 1987
To Mac's surprise, for the first time in 20 years his grandpa Harry, who raised the genius after his parents's untimely death in a car accident, accepted on that anniversary to join him for a hockey game. However Mac forgot the tickets, so they look for them in Pete's office, just when the Phoenix Foundation building is penetrated by ruthless killer Victoria James alias Susan Murphy, who was hired by the terrorist Liberation Front to plant a bomb which Mac disarmed in Kuwait and now wants to destroy it with its record before it's traced to her. After noticing Mac, she negotiates the front to pay her $100,000 extra to kill him and uses the Front stooges she planned to kill anyhow, but a few Macgyverisms overcome their clumsy attempts to imprison and kill Mac, while she deletes the bomb's inventory file and holds Harry hostage. The duel to the death is on... |
| Original Air Date—12 January 1987
While Pete's wife Connie, an archaeologist, and their adolescent son Michael, who resents his absentee father, are on a dig in Louisisiana, they are kidnapped by the men of mercenary Frank Bonner, a former agency colleague of Pete whom he blames for the death of the Bonner family in a Yemeni tribal pacification mission which went wring after Frank embezzled agency funds, planning a gruesome revenge: make Pete watch his own loved-ones die. MacGyver flies ahead so he can bug the gang's car at the meeting point. Even as they change vehicle, Mac works out where and sees trough Obadiah Moss they planted there to point him into the bayou, so he can make a surprising entry, frees Michael and together with him returns for his parents, pulling Macgyverisms all the time. |
| Season 2, Episode 13: Soft TouchOriginal Air Date—19 January 1987
Mac goes to a nuclear plant in Siberia to spring Yuri Demetri, a Soviet Russian political prisoner on account of his father's defection. Back in the States, Mac is not amused to find penniless Penny Parker invited herself to stay in his Californian home, but allows her to house-sit a few days. At her new job, as singing telegram, airhead Penny accidentally bursts into the wrong house, where Columbian drugs cartel-employed killers are decibel-torturing federal agent Robert Julian, a potential witness to their next hit by voice recognition-triggered bomb in Jack Larson's wheelchair to kill politician Javier Estevez in Phoenix Foundation-secured city-hall; she escapes and tells Mac. Later Penny recognizes on TV Derek Thompson, Estevez's corrupt aid who she saw at the torture, but the goons kidnap her and Yuri, planning to eliminate all embarrassing witnesses. Mac tails them to a warehouse, where he starts pulling his tricks to save his two friends who were left in a cooling cell (walk-in freezer) to die from frost, next he must handle the bomb last-minute. |
| Season 2, Episode 14: Birth DayOriginal Air Date—2 February 1987
Elaine Harryman, wife of ex-con Andrew Harryman, discovers the horrible truth about her husbands malicious affairs, and threatens to divulge them to the police, which does not sit well with her husband Andrew, who then decides to have her killed. She takes flight on foot, and runs into MacGyver, and the chase is on... |
| Season 2, Episode 15: PiratesOriginal Air Date—9 February 1987
The USNavy enlists the Phoenix Foundation's help to find out who used its SEALs diving techniques to commit three pirate robberies in two weeks. Next victim is archaeologist Barbara Ortega's crew, which just found the log and some coins of a 17th century Spanish treasure fleet. The 'pirate captain' Gar Manning planned to sell the gold back to Ortega, but overhears her explaining about the valuable log to Mac, so his team eliminates the sole witness, kidnaps Barbara and leaves Mac in a sinking yacht; yet he escapes and works out with Pete and the Navy that the ideal hiding place for once psychiatry-test-refused SEAL-applicant Gar is Navy exercise site Goat Island, so Mac approaches it in SEAL style, only to find it dangerous in several ways.... |
| Original Air Date—16 February 1987
A certain Phil is followed by the gang men of mob boss Sam Leland, who have orders to get hold of an incriminating microfilm and kill him, so he hides it in a ski stick which he exchanges after deliberately bumping into Mac, who took reluctant and wining boss Pete to spend their 'bonus' vacation on the ski piste. First Max and the the stick get buried in an avalanche, but he cleverly finds a way to indicate where he is trapped. After the rescue, Pete stupidly breaks his foot, so Mac has to nurse the demanding, grumpy boss 'without fussing' over him and his cask. Then the criminals try kidnapping first Mac, who gets away, and then Pete, so Mac comes to the rescue, and discovers the stick is the key... |
| Original Air Date—23 February 1987
When Mac -alone- attends eternal prankster Jack Dalton's church funeral, he finds the scoundrel staged it to escape enemy spies whose packages his new messenger service Jack-be-Quick was to deliver but betrayed to the CIA. They escape by sidecar, but are blamed by CIA and police for the murder on Jack's CIA contact Light and betrayed by absent Pete's substitute's CIA friend, so they turn to Light's female partner Shadow, still chased by double agents, she's focused on the CIA rotten apples and a top-secret encryption device. Mac sneaks the others in at the auction the enemy uses as contraband cover, but... |
| Season 2, Episode 18: PartnersOriginal Air Date—2 March 1987
Mac and Pete are trapped in a large truck, destination unknown. They reminisce about how they first met and started to work together, while dealing with an assassin named Murdoc. Murdoc has a messy end planned for the two of them, but is seemingly killed instead by the final explosion. |
| Season 2, Episode 19: BushmasterOriginal Air Date—23 March 1987
Kelly Henderson may beat Mac and Pete for the Phoenix Foundation's field exercise trophy, they are send by boss Jeff Moore, who pilots the dropping plane personally, as rescue team when her dad Joe Henderson is arrested and expected to be convicted to death as alleged spy after his plane crashed on its way to Panama, yet Kelly stowed away so she can jump with them in the banana republic San Perez, which just had colonel Salazar's military coup. Their contact is Lt. Paul Parra, Joe's army-appointed defense counsel. As Kelly packed a small arsenal but no passport, they are arrested at the first check-point, but Mac starts working his magic with a mere handful of dust... |
| Season 2, Episode 20: FriendsOriginal Air Date—6 April 1987
Mac returns from the field shaken by too many near death experiences. Determined to resign, he realizes over the course of a birthday party how much the people he's helped mean to him. |
| Original Air Date—27 April 1987
Mac meets an old contact to learn of a planned assassination. During the meet the hit men kill the contact, and wound Mac, causing amnesia. Assisted by the captain of the boat he escapes on, Mac stumbles towards the scene, confused as to who the real target is. |
| Original Air Date—4 May 1987
An activist for civil rights in Chzecloslovokia is arrested by the government. He is thrown into a psychiatric hospital as a political prisoner and held there. The Pheonix Foundation devises a plan to free him, but it involves Macgyver posing as a newly-wed with a woman that he despises. |
| Original Air Date—21 September 1987
Soviet agents use a former lover of MacGyver's, who he thought to be dead, as a pawn to steal a valuable Chinese jade dragon statue. |
| Original Air Date—28 September 1987
Jack Dalton helps MacGyver to steal back the jade dragon statue in order to free his former lover being held captive. However, it turns out she may be working with the Russians. |
| Original Air Date—5 October 1987
Jimmy 'The Eraser' Kendall, a man MacGyver helped put into the witness protection program, has been spotted by he mob. They've kidnapped his daughter and grandson, and they want Jimmy back, or else. |
| Season 3, Episode 4: Ghost ShipOriginal Air Date—19 October 1987
While mapping some wilderness in Alaska, MacGyver discovers an abandoned ship. On it, a Russian stowaway tells him that the crew were all scared off, by Bigfoot! |
| Original Air Date—26 October 1987
An insurance investigator friend of MacGyver's is killed by a diamond thief with diplomatic immunity. Nikki Carpenter, the friend's sister, is teamed up with Macgyver against his wishes to get the diplomat deported. |
| Season 3, Episode 6: GX-1Original Air Date—2 November 1987
Experiemental US fighter jet gets shot down over East Germany and MacGyver is sent in to demolish the wreckage, while Soviets who backed by a psychic are trying to reach it first. |
| Original Air Date—9 November 1987
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| Original Air Date—16 November 1987
While scaling the cliff face known as "The Widowmaker," Mac loses his best friend. Before he can properly grieve, he is forced to run from an old enemy who is now hunting him down. With the help of a colleague, Mac finds his way back to the Widowmaker and fighting for his life on the same ledge that took his best friend. |
| Season 3, Episode 9: Hell WeekOriginal Air Date—23 November 1987
MacGyver is asked by his former professor to be a judge for a university physics competition - a competition that Mac himself has won. The professor's son, pumped and primed to win the prize, is deceived and ultimately defeated. The aftermath proves deadly, as Mac deals with the son's depression and endless uphill battle to make his father proud. |
| Season 3, Episode 10: Blow OutOriginal Air Date—21 December 1987
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| Season 3, Episode 11: Kill ZoneOriginal Air Date—4 January 1988
When a satellite carrying a genetic experiment crashes to earth MacGyver is sent in to recover. When he arrives he discovers that the experiment mutated in space and now ages animals at a vast rate. It is taken back to the lab but the scientist in charge doesn't want to destroy it. |
| Original Air Date—18 January 1988
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| Season 3, Episode 13: Thin IceOriginal Air Date—1 February 1988
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| Original Air Date—29 February 1988
MacGyver agrees to accompany Jack on a flight to bring a rich woman and her recently acquired jewels to France. However, as soon as they land in France they are arrested for theft and regardless of their pleas, accused of complicity. |
| Original Air Date—7 March 1988
When MacGyver's research into the wildlife around the planned building site of a marina threatens to cause a shutdown of the project, the owner hires a beautiful woman to persuade MacGyver to change his mind... by any means necessary. |
| Original Air Date—14 March 1988
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| Original Air Date—28 March 1988
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| Original Air Date—18 April 1988
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| Original Air Date—2 May 1988
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| Original Air Date—9 May 1988
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| Original Air Date—31 October 1988
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| Original Air Date—21 November 1988
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| Original Air Date—28 November 1988
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| Original Air Date—5 December 1988
Pete is taken prisoner during a coup d'état by the rebels in Barraca. MacGyver must enlist Jack to help rescue Pete. |
| Original Air Date—12 December 1988
MacGyver is a test driver for a racing team using a new Phoenix developed engine, and when the team faces sabotage that injures the team's race driver, MacGyver must deal with his traumatic past that had made him quit racing and face an old rival again. |
| Original Air Date—9 January 1989
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| Original Air Date—16 January 1989
When a killer escapes from prison, MacGyver joins the search. But the escapee is not only a dangerous fugitive - he is a pawn to a much more brilliant mind still locked in prison, using the escapee to exact revenge on the female cop that put him away. |
| Season 4, Episode 8: Ma DaltonOriginal Air Date—23 January 1989
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| Season 4, Episode 9: Cleo RocksOriginal Air Date—6 February 1989
MacGyver's friend Penny is the star of a new hit musical. MacGyver shows up to give her all the support she needs only to find out that the director is really an old friend of MacGyver's and Pete's in disguise. But, once again MacGyver saves the day. |
| Original Air Date—13 February 1989
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| Original Air Date—20 February 1989
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| Original Air Date—27 February 1989
Ray, an ex-gang member gets into some trouble with the police and a local shop owner. With the help of MacGyver, he unravels an anti-semitic community in the neighborhood surrounding the challenger's club. |
| Season 4, Episode 13: RunnersOriginal Air Date—13 March 1989
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| Season 4, Episode 14: Gold RushOriginal Air Date—27 March 1989
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| Original Air Date—10 April 1989
MacGyver takes a group of Phoenix Foundation employees for recreational trip into the wilderness but learns that someone of the group might be an escaped criminal. |
| Original Air Date—24 April 1989
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| Original Air Date—1 May 1989
MacGyver and Pete Thornton are caught as hostages by a terrorist group that intends to hit a city with an Electro Magnetic Pulse weapon, which would cripple the entire city. |
| Season 4, Episode 18: RenegadeOriginal Air Date—8 May 1989
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| Original Air Date—15 May 1989
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| Original Air Date—18 September 1989
After a haranguing episode in South America, MacGyver returns home to find himself taken hostage in his own houseboat by an old archaeologist friend. She is there to garner his help in tracking down a hidden treasure for which only she has the clues. But at what cost? |
| Original Air Date—25 September 1989
The search for the Holy Rose takes MacGyver and Zoe to the British Museum where Mac has an ax to grind with a rival treasure-hunter. Eventually they end up in France where the searchers make a dazzling discovery, and just in time to save them from the clutches of a blood-thirsty jewel magnate. |
| Original Air Date—2 October 1989
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| Season 5, Episode 4: Cease FireOriginal Air Date—9 October 1989
While in Geneva, MacGyver is wounded during an attempted assassination. He is helped by an American girl at a Swiss boarding school who protects and assists him in nailing the people responsible. Mac's efforts even find him hanging from a ski lift half way up a mountain... |
| Original Air Date—16 October 1989
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| Original Air Date—30 October 1989
MacGyver's nemesis Murdoc returns, but this time to strike a deal with his enemy. Murdoc's sister is going to be killed by Murdoc's former employers, HIT. Mac agrees to help, but must keep his guard up if he is going to trust Murdoc at all. |
| Original Air Date—6 November 1989
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