1. Tough Boys
Air date: 1990-09-17 · 60 min
MacGyver's pacifist policies are put to the test by a militant youth leader he hooks up with to find out who has been organizing a gang of youthful vigilantes using extreme measures to clean the neighborhood crack problem.
Open episode 1 ↗2. Humanity
Air date: 1990-09-24 · 60 min
MacGyver and Thornton are left to the mercies of a Romanian agent still loyal to his deposed leader Ceausescu after a mission to obtain his secret files is sabotaged.
Open episode 2 ↗3. The Gun
Air date: 1990-10-01 · 60 min
MacGyver searches for a gun used in an assassination twenty years ago and in a present day cop killing to clear a friend.
Open episode 3 ↗4. Twenty Questions
Air date: 1990-10-08 · 60 min
MacGyver tries to help his teenage friend Lisa admit she has a drinking problem, but it takes a brush with the law when she's implicated in a string of home break-ins to really wake her up.
Open episode 4 ↗5. The Wall
Air date: 1990-10-22 · 60 min
MacGyver helps reunite an East German girl with her grandfather in America, unaware that she's been recruited by two bitter former Stasi agents who believe the old man possesses a store of hidden gold.
Open episode 5 ↗6. Lesson in Evil
Air date: 1990-10-29 · 60 min
Dr. Zito returns to menace MacGyver and Murphy when he escapes after his latest sanity hearing, leaving a series of nasty clues designed to give Mac a crash course in evil.
Open episode 6 ↗7. Harry's Will
Air date: 1990-11-05 · 60 min
When Mac tries to claim the station wagon left to him by his late Grandpa Harry, it starts a strange chase that leads him to an ex-con with a dream of running a restaurant, a soup kitchen in need of money, and a gang of crooks out for themselves.
Open episode 7 ↗8. MacGyver's Women
Air date: 1990-11-12 · 60 min
MacGyver is accused of having a fear of commitment by the women in his life. A dream takes him back to the Old West where the women are mail-order brides.
Open episode 8 ↗9. Bitter Harvest
Air date: 1990-11-19 · 60 min
MacGyver goes undercover to investigate the death of a farm-worker organizer during an investigation of illegal pesticide use.
Open episode 9 ↗10. The Visitor
Air date: 1990-12-03 · 60 min
Mac uncovers an out-of-this-world scam when he investigates some mysterious indentations in a farmer's field.
Open episode 10 ↗11. Squeeze Play
Air date: 1990-12-17 · 60 min
Mac defends a former player's daughter being blackmailed by a baseball memorabilia-counterfeiting ring trading on her father's name.
Open episode 11 ↗12. Jerico Games
Air date: 1991-01-07 · 60 min
Mac is reunited with a high school sweetheart whose husband is a wealthy man sponsoring an international sports competition.
Open episode 12 ↗13. The Wasteland
Air date: 1991-01-21 · 60 min
Mac seeks to stop a shortsighted developer whose latest project will create an environmental ruin and could result in his premature death at the hands of his greedy children.
Open episode 13 ↗14. Eye of Osiris
Air date: 1991-02-04 · 60 min
Mac helps out on an archelogical dig for Alexander the Great's tomb. But the expedition seems to be followed by bad luck. Several incidents nearly causes a shut-down. Then Mac finds clues leading to Alex's tomb. Unfortunally, the accidents are not coincidental, and they meet a very vengeful man who traps them inside the grave...
Open episode 14 ↗15. High Control
Air date: 1991-02-11 · 60 min
Mac tries to help an acquaintance just out of prison stay on the straight and narrow despite the efforts of his old biker gang to blackmail him into rejoining them.
Open episode 15 ↗16. There But for the Grace
Air date: 1991-02-18 · 60 min
Mac feels a personal involvement in the death of a priest who worked among the homeless and takes to the streets himself to find the killer.
Open episode 16 ↗17. Blind Faith
Air date: 1991-03-04 · 60 min
An old sweetheart of Pete Thornton's appeals to him for help when she tries to reveal the atrocities being committed in her Latin American homeland.
Open episode 17 ↗18. Faith, Hope & Charity
Air date: 1991-03-18 · 60 min
Mac finds himself being cared for by two determined ladies running a bed and breakfast in an isolated spot chosen as a drop spot by two murderous mobsters with an untrustworthy partner.
Open episode 18 ↗19. Strictly Business
Air date: 1991-04-08 · 60 min
After his sister dies in an avalanche, Murdoc decides to resume working for his former employer, HIT. In order to regain their trust, he has to take on MacGyver once again.
Open episode 19 ↗20. Trail of Tears
Air date: 1991-04-26 · 60 min
A land dispute over the building an electricity station pits a fanatical Native American, convinced he has been given a mission by his spiritual ancestors, against the power company and MacGyver, who's just as sure that the Indian spirits are opposed to the man's violent plans.
Open episode 20 ↗21. Hind-Sight
Air date: 1991-05-06 · 60 min
As Pete waits for glaucoma surgery, he and MacGyver reminisce about their past adventures and try to figure out who has been sending some vaguely threatening messages to Pete.
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