MacGyver season 1 - Metacritic

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ABC
Sep 29, 1985

ABC
Sep 29, 1985

Summary MacGyver is a different kind of hero: he doesn't use weapons, he's afraid of heights, and he's an expert at making complicated machines out of ordinary things quickly. He works in the employ of The Phoenix Foundation, a think tank dedicated to improving mankind. Pete Thornton gave MacGyver his assignments, occasionally getting involved h...

Created By: Lee David Zlotoff

ABC
Sep 29, 1985

ABC
Sep 29, 1985

Season 1

7 Seasons

Season Premiere: Sep 29, 1985

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Summary MacGyver is a different kind of hero: he doesn't use weapons, he's afraid of heights, and he's an expert at making complicated machines out of ordinary things quickly. He works in the employ of The Phoenix Foundation, a think tank dedicated to improving mankind. Pete Thornton gave MacGyver his assignments, occasionally getting involved h...

Created By: Lee David Zlotoff

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Episode 1 • Sep 29, 1985 • 49 m

An underground lab is destroyed by a mysterious explosion. MacGyver is sent in to rescue the trapped scientists and stop a deadly chemical leak.

Episode 2 • Oct 6, 1985 • 1 h

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.

Episode 3 • Oct 13, 1985 • 1 h

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.

Episode 4 • Oct 21, 1985 • 49 m

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.

Episode 5 • Nov 3, 1985 • 48 m

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.

Episode 6 • Nov 10, 1985 • 49 m

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.

Episode 7 • Nov 17, 1985 • 1 h

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.

Episode 8 • Nov 27, 1985 • 49 m

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.

Episode 9 • Dec 8, 1985 • 1 h

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.

Episode 10 • Dec 22, 1985 • 47 m

Target MacGyver

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.

Episode 11 • Nov 30, 1985 • 48 m

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.

Episode 12 • Nov 30, 1985 • 48 m

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

Episode 13 • Jan 29, 1986 • 48 m

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.

Episode 14 • Feb 5, 1986 • 47 m

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.

Episode 15 • Feb 12, 1986 • 47 m

The Enemy Within

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.

Episode 16 • Feb 19, 1986 • 1 h

Every Time She Smiles

In Bulgaria, MacGyver collects a top-secret microfilm and attempts to smuggle it out of the country. At the airport he meets a mysterious beautiful American girl, who turns out to have ties to the Bulgarian Secret Police.

Episode 17 • Feb 26, 1986 • 48 m

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.

Episode 18 • Mar 12, 1986 • 49 m

MacGyver is sent to rescue a teenage computer hacker kidnapped by weapons dealers who want her to arm a missile system they stole.

Episode 19 • Apr 2, 1986 • 47 m

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.

Episode 20 • Apr 16, 1986 • 49 m

Complications arise when MacGyver forms a plan to free a missionary from a North African jail.

Episode 21 • Apr 30, 1986 • 1 h

A Prisoner of Conscience

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...

Episode 22 • May 7, 1986 • 1 h

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...

7 Seasons

Top Cast

Richard Dean Anderson

MacGyver

Dana Elcar

Pete Thornton, King Arthur, Andy Colson

Bruce McGill

Jack Dalton, 'The Great Sheldrake'

Robin Mossley

Wilt, Wilt Bozer, Alexander Shannon

Elyssa Davalos

Nikki Carpenter, Lisa

Michael Des Barres

Murdoc

Susan Chapple

Helen Wilson, Helen

Teri Hatcher

Penny Parker

Kevin Hayes

Newscaster, Reporter, Vince King

John Anderson

Harry Jackson

Dale Wilson

Colin Yardrow, Crandell, Dennis, Erik Dunlop, Sundance

Bruce Harwood

Willis, Juice

Jackson Davies

Captain Mike Kiley, Detective Mike Kiley, Father Pat Lafferty, Police Lieutenant Mike Kiley, Sam Mulligan

Claire Vardiel

Eunice, Betty, Dr. Sylvia Warner, Pam

Kai Wulff

Hans Visser, Ladysmith, Major Stepan Frolov, Nicolas Von Leer

Cuba Gooding Jr.

Billy Colton, Ray Collins

Robert Donner

Milt Bozer, Benjamin Wintergreen, Vince

James Hong

Chu, Kuang, Lee Wenying

Christopher Neame

Duncan, Erich von Leer, Quayle, Von Leer

Allan Lysell

Dorman, Sheriff, Walker, Wrightman

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