MacGyver - Season 1

MacGyver - Season 1

Season 1

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Episodes22
DatesSep 29, 1985 - May 7, 1986
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Episodes

Pilot
Season 1Episode 160 min

Pilot

A bomb goes off in a classified laboratory, sealing off the lower levels. The explosion traps two valuable scientists and unleashes an acid leak. MacGyver is called in to help the two trapped scientists escape.

Sep 29, 1985
The Golden Triangle
Season 1Episode 260 min

The Golden Triangle

MacGyver is sent to Burma to retrieve a poison-filled canister from a crash site. While there, a drug lord mistakes MacGyver for a narcotics agent, forcing him into a confrontation.

Oct 6, 1985
Thief of Budapest
Season 1Episode 360 min

Thief of Budapest

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.

Oct 13, 1985
The Gauntlet
Season 1Episode 460 min

The Gauntlet

MacGyver is sent to Central 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.

Oct 21, 1985
The Heist
Season 1Episode 560 min

The Heist

MacGyver must infiltrate a Caribbean casino and steal back over a hundred pounds of uncut diamonds from the criminal who took them.

Nov 3, 1985
Trumbo's World
Season 1Episode 660 min

Trumbo's World

Deep in the Amazon jungle, a horde of killer ants is destroying everything in its path. MacGyver helps his entomologist friend and the plantation owner to battle the ants before the plantation is destroyed.

Nov 10, 1985
Last Stand
Season 1Episode 760 min

Last Stand

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.

Nov 17, 1985
Hellfire
Season 1Episode 860 min

Hellfire

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.

Nov 27, 1985
The Prodigal
Season 1Episode 960 min

The Prodigal

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.

Dec 8, 1985
Target MacGyver
Season 1Episode 1060 min

Target MacGyver

After MacGyver completes an overseas mission, he takes a vacation to lie low and bond with his estranged grandfather Harry Jackson. However, an assassin named Axminister finds out where MacGyver is and goes after both men.

Dec 22, 1985
Nightmares
Season 1Episode 1160 min

Nightmares

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.

Jan 15, 1986
Deathlock
Season 1Episode 1260 min

Deathlock

An enemy of MacGyver's fills a supposed safe house with several deadly booby traps to exact his revenge on MacGyver.

Jan 22, 1986
Flame's End
Season 1Episode 1360 min

Flame's End

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.

Jan 29, 1986
Countdown
Season 1Episode 1460 min

Countdown

A mysterious person, who calls himself "Viking", has just bombed a cruise ship. He demands six million dollars or another bomb will go off within hours. So MacGyver, with an old friend from Vietnam, Charlie Robinson, is sent to disarm it. But when they get there, they find out there's more then one bomb on the ship.

Feb 5, 1986
The Enemy Within
Season 1Episode 1560 min

The Enemy Within

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.

Feb 12, 1986
Every Time She Smiles
Season 1Episode 1660 min

Every Time She Smiles

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.

Feb 19, 1986
To Be a Man
Season 1Episode 1760 min

To Be a Man

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.

Mar 5, 1986
Ugly Duckling
Season 1Episode 1860 min

Ugly Duckling

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.

Mar 12, 1986
Slow Death
Season 1Episode 1960 min

Slow Death

MacGyver is somewhere in Asia to retrieve documents for his 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.

Apr 2, 1986
The Escape
Season 1Episode 2060 min

The Escape

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.

Apr 16, 1986
A Prisoner of Conscience
Season 1Episode 2160 min

A Prisoner of Conscience

Pete is made to believe that his Russian friend, Alexander Kharsov, is dead. When he realizes he's alive and being held in a mental hospital, he enlists MacGyver's help. Helped by Mariah, Alexander's daughter, they will try to get him out of there before he is killed.

Apr 30, 1986
The Assassin
Season 1Episode 2260 min

The Assassin

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.

May 7, 1986

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