Seasons & episodes
S0 · E1MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis 1994-05-14 · 93 min
Hunting artifacts attributed to Zenon (an ancient scientist from Atlantis), MacGyver and his old professor end up searching for the lost city.
S0 · E2MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday 1994-11-24 · 93 min
A close friend of MacGyver is murdered. In searching for a reason for this assassination, MacGyver discovers a secret nuclear weapons plant right in the center of Britain.
S0 · E3Young MacGyver 2003-01-09 · 47 min
The nephew of MacGyver leaves school and joins the Phoenix Foundation. As expected the younger MacGyver finds his talents closely match his uncle's.
S0 · E4MacGyver MasterCard Commercial 2006-02-05 · 9 min
Richard Dean Anderson reprises his role as MacGyver in this parody via MasterCard and advertising agency McCann Erickson that aired during Super Bowl XL in 2006.
S0 · E5Mercedes-Benz: MacGyver and the New Citan 2012-09-18 · 11 min
Richard Dean Anderson reprises his role as a now-retired MacGyver running a home repairs business with his daughter, when a last-minute Saturday job to fix a corporate high-rise building's air conditioning turns into a mission to stop criminals selling top-secret military equipment.
S1 · E1Pilot 1985-09-29 · 49 min
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.
S1 · E2The Golden Triangle 1985-10-06 · 48 min
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.
S1 · E3Thief of Budapest 1985-10-13 · 48 min
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.
S1 · E4The Gauntlet 1985-10-21 · 49 min
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.
S1 · E5The Heist 1985-11-03 · 45 min
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.
S1 · E6Trumbo's World 1985-11-10 · 45 min
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.
S1 · E7Last Stand 1985-11-17 · 48 min
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.
S1 · E8Hellfire 1985-11-27 · 45 min
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?
S1 · E9The Prodigal 1985-12-08 · 45 min
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.
S1 · E10Target MacGyver 1985-12-22 · 45 min
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.
S1 · E11Nightmares 1986-01-15 · 45 min
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.
S1 · E12Deathlock 1986-01-22 · 45 min
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.
S1 · E13Flame's End 1986-01-29 · 45 min
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.
S1 · E14Countdown 1986-02-05 · 47 min
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.
S1 · E15The Enemy Within 1986-02-12 · 45 min
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.
S1 · E16Every Time She Smiles 1986-02-19 · 45 min
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.
S1 · E17To Be a Man 1986-03-05 · 45 min
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.
S1 · E18Ugly Duckling 1986-03-12 · 45 min
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.
S1 · E19Slow Death 1986-04-02 · 45 min
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.