Seasons & episodes
S4 · E4On a Wing and a Prayer 1988-12-05 · 45 min
Central American rebels capture Pete and a nun during a coup d'état, and it's up to MacGyver and Jack to rescue them.
S4 · E5Collision Course 1988-12-12 · 45 min
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.
S4 · E6The Survivors 1989-01-09 · 45 min
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.
S4 · E7Deadly Dreams 1989-01-16 · 45 min
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.
S4 · E8Ma Dalton 1989-01-23 · 45 min
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.
S4 · E9Cleo Rocks 1989-02-06 · 45 min
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.
S4 · E10Fraternity of Thieves 1989-02-13 · 45 min
Pete is conflicted when he discovers that the Phoenix Foundation employee selling classified information turns out to be his son.
S4 · E11The Battle of Tommy Giordano 1989-02-20 · 45 min
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.
S4 · E12The Challenge 1989-02-27 · 45 min
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.
S4 · E13Runners 1989-03-13 · 45 min
MacGyver helps a young runaway with a vicious pimp and a tragic secret about her policeman father.
S4 · E14Gold Rush 1989-03-27 · 45 min
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.
S4 · E15The Invisible Killer 1989-04-10 · 45 min
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.
S4 · E16Brainwashed 1989-04-24 · 45 min
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.
S4 · E17Easy Target 1989-05-01 · 45 min
MacGyver and Pete are captured by terrorists intent on wiping out a nearby city with an electromagnetic pulse, unless their leader is freed.
S4 · E18Renegade 1989-05-08 · 45 min
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.
S4 · E19Unfinished Business 1989-05-15 · 45 min
Jack, MacGyver, and Pete review their past adventures while on a gold-panning expedition, unaware they're being stalked by a vengeful killer.
S5 · E1Legend of the Holy Rose (1) 1989-09-18 · 45 min
MacGyver and an old friend dash around the world searching for the artifacts necessary to locate the Holy Grail, just one step ahead of a ruthless man on the same trail, who will do anything to get to it before they do.
S5 · E2Legend of the Holy Rose (2) 1989-09-25 · 45 min
MacGyver and an old friend dash around the world searching for the artifacts necessary to locate the Holy Grail, just one step ahead of a ruthless man on the same trail.
S5 · E3The Black Corsage 1989-10-02 · 45 min
Mac and a bounty hunter join forces with a bulldog named Frog to track down a Bulgarian defector who was the accidental witness at a murder and who is now being stalked by the killer, who needs a map she doesn't know she possesses.
S5 · E4Cease Fire 1989-10-09 · 45 min
During some tough negotiations between two neighbouring states, one side plants a sniper in the vicinity. When Mac discovers the sniper, he fights him, but loses the man and the accusations go out against Mac. Wounded and forced to run, he hides at a private girls' school, where one of the young ladies becomes his only hope to prevent further bloodshed.
S5 · E5Second Chance 1989-10-16 · 45 min
MacGyver and an old friend discover a gang ripping off medical supplies from a Phoenix Foundation clinic in Asia, and an Amerasian son the friend never knew he had.
S5 · E6Halloween Knights 1989-10-30 · 45 min
An old nemesis enlists MacGyver's help to rescue someone important to him—and she's scheduled to be executed during a Halloween Party put on by a professional assassination organization.
S5 · E7Children of Light 1989-11-06 · 45 min
MacGyver's Chinese foster daughter arrives unexpectedly from China, carrying videotape of the massacre in Tianamen Square and a list of fax machine phone numbers vital to the continuing freedom movement.
S5 · E8Black Rhino 1989-11-13 · 45 min
MacGyver takes off for Africa, where the youngest of the Colton brothers has decided to take on deadly rhino poachers single-handedly.