The WORST episodes of MacGyver (2016)
Every episode of MacGyver (2016) ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of MacGyver (2016)!
Young Angus "Mac" MacGyver works for a clandestine organization within the U.S. government, relying on his unconventional problem-solving skills to save lives.
#1 - Abduction + Memory + Time + Fireworks + Dispersal
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/30/2021
When Mac and Riley go missing and wake up 24 hours later in a corn field with no memory of how they got there, they must unravel the mystery to find who took them, and how to get rid of the nanotrackers in their bodies, no matter the cost.
#2 - Banh Bao + Sterno + Drill + Burner + Mason
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/8/2021
Mac’s meeting with Desi’s parents goes sideways when her brother finds himself in trouble and desperately needs their help. Also, Russ and Matty must ask an old nemesis for assistance when their new recruitment candidate is kidnapped.
#3 - Jack + Kinematics + Safe Cracker + MgKNO3 + GTO
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/15/2021
Using a cryptic postcard as their only clue, Mac and the team must solve a fallen friend’s final case and bring him justice.
#4 - Quarantine + N95 + Landline + Telescope + Social Distance
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/22/2021
During COVID-19’s first stay-at-home order, as Mac, Bozer and Riley quarantine together, they try to stop a crime in progress at their neighbor’s house. Also, Russ’ romantic fling takes on a longer and more complicated turn when they quarantine together.
#5 - Golden Lancehead + Venom + Pole Vault + Blood + Baggage
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/5/2021
The secret experimental cancer treatment Mac’s developing with a friend is discovered when culprits ransack their lab, kidnap Mac’s partner and plan to use the research to create a powerful new nerve agent.
#6 - SOS + Hazmat + Ultrasound + Frequency + Malihini
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/12/2021
Mac and team rush to help when Matty’s former mentor, Ian Cain, and his embassy staff come down with a deadly, mysterious illness. Also, Taylor and Bozer work with Jerry Ortega to infiltrate a Codex cell.
#7 - Rails + Pitons + Pulley + Pipe + Salt
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/19/2021
When Mac and the team are unable to prevent Department of Defense intel from falling into Codex’s hands, Mac must scale a vertical cliff using only gear he can cobble together himself to prevent the info’s transmission.
#8 - Diamond + Quake + Carbon + Comms + Tower
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/5/2021
While on a mission to hunt down a Codex lead, Mac and the team discover Murdoc hacked their comms and has recorded them for months. Now, Mac and the team must stop Murdoc, who is working with Andrews, as they plot to kill thousands and reveal each Phoenix member’s most-guarded secrets.
#9 - C8H7ClO + Nano-Trackers + Resistance + Maldives + Mind Games
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/26/2021
Mac and Riley head overseas together to prevent a governmental collapse and inadvertently inhale new deadly microscopic technology.
#10 - Royalty + Marriage + Vivaah Sanskar + Zinc + Henna
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/2/2021
Mac, Desi and Russ go undercover during a royal Indian wedding to protect a princess whose policies could put her life in danger. Also, Russ and Sophia come face-to-face at the wedding, Bozer suspects Riley is up to her old hacking ways and Matty runs down a lead in hopes of getting to the bottom of Mac and Riley’s ingested nano-trackers.
#11 - Barn Find + Engine Oil + La Punzonatura + Lab Rats + Tachometer
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/9/2021
While Mac and the team delve into the world of Italian car culture in order to track down a crime boss-in-hiding, Mac must lean on Desi when he discovers that he losing the ability to control his hands. Also, Mac and Desi move in together and Riley reveals the truth about her secret team of hackers to Russ.
#12 - H2O + Orthophosphates + Mission City + Corrosion + Origins
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/16/2021
Mac and Desi travel with Bozer to his childhood home when his aunt dies in a tragic accident, however, they soon discover she may have been murdered for trying to expose the city’s contaminated water supply. Also, Riley, Matty and Russ continue to follow leads on their nano-trackers investigation.
#13 - Eclipse + USMC-1856707 + Step Potential + Chain Lock + Ma
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/18/2020
When Russ is kidnapped, Mac and the team must break out a previously murderous psychopath, now pacifist, from prison to help find him. Also, while on the run, Mac and Desi are forced to confront their relationship issues.
#14 - Thief + Painting + Auction + Viro-486 + Justice
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/11/2020
When Taylor’s former protégé is killed while preventing a bio-weapon from falling into the wrong hands, Mac and the team must find the weapon so Desi can pull off the ultimate heist before it’s sold to a terrorist cell.
#15 - The Rising
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2016
Angus “Mac” MacGyver and Jack Dalton, special agents for the Department of External Services (DXS), join forces to recover a missing bioweapon that has the ability to destroy hundreds of thousands of people with one single drop.
#16 - Murdoc + Helman + Hit
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/5/2019
When Nicholas Helman resurfaces to carry out a killing spree, the Phoenix is forced to get help from the one person who knows him best… his protégé, Murdoc.
#17 - Dia de Muertos + Sicarios + Family
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/2018
When Oversight’s attempt to capture a drug cartel’s leader goes bad, MacGyver and Jack rush to Mexico to pull their boss out while racing through the heart of the country during Dia de Muertos celebrations. Also, Bozer and Riley use Halloween as a distraction to gather intel on a man accused of treason.
#18 - Matty + Ethan + Fidelity
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/2018
Matty reveals a shocking secret to the team: she has a husband who’s been undercover in a criminal organization called D-Company for eight years. When his status as a CIA agent comes out, Matty needs MacGyver to find and extract her husband before it’s too late.
#19 - Fence + Suitcase + Americium-241
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/11/2019
The Phoenix teams up with a woman who’s a soccer mom by day but a master thief by night to catch one of her contacts, an underworld criminal, who has hired her to steal a dirty bomb.
#20 - Father + Bride + Betrayal
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/1/2019
An international crime boss offers Matty a deal she can’t refuse – he’ll surrender himself into her custody if he’s allowed to return to the United States to watch his daughter walk down the aisle. MacGyver and team crash the wedding to ensure the crime lord doesn’t run, only to discover they’re not the only ones lying in wait at the event.
#21 - Lidar + Rogues + Duty
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/22/2019
The Phoenix must recover the body of a pilot whose plane crashed while testing an experimental laser mapping system that MacGyver designed. Also, Riley tries to identify the hacker who tricked a SWAT team into arresting her and Elwood.
#22 - Seeds + Permafrost + Feather
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/15/2019
MacGyver and team are asked to solve a locked-door mystery when a man working inside a remote, ultra-secure international seed vault disappears.
#23 - Friends + Enemies + Border
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/12/2019
MacGyver and Desi help a group of Syrian refugees who are being pursued by human traffickers. Also, in Los Angeles, Bozer is trapped in Oversight's car, which is rigged to explode.
#24 - No-Go + High-Voltage + Rescue
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/26/2019
When two American tourists go missing while doing a “No-Go Scavenger Hunt” through some of the world’s most dangerous countries, the Phoenix team goes undercover as backpackers to find them and bring them home alive.
#25 - Treason + Heartbreak + Gum
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/3/2019
Matty’s ex-husband, Ethan, asks her for help when a criminal organization, S-Company, kidnaps his wife and daughter, forcing Matty to decide if she’s willing to commit treason in order to help him save his family. Also, Riley joins Billy Colton and Mama Colton on a mission to Paris and makes a heartbreaking discovery.