The BEST episodes of MacGyver season 4
Every episode of MacGyver season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of MacGyver season 4!
MacGyver follows the adventures of the laid-back, extremely resourceful secret agent Angus MacGyver. He prefers non-violent conflict resolution whenever possible and refuses to carry or use a gun.
#1 - The Outsiders
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/28/1988
MacGyver helps an Amish family, who saved his life, from having their farm seized by the government.
#2 - The Challenge
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/27/1989
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.
#3 - The Secret of Parker House
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/31/1988
MacGyver accompanies his friend Penny Parker to an old house she has inherited from her Aunt Betty, who mysteriously died 30 years before. When strange things start happening, Penny is sure that the house is haunted. However, MacGyver tries to convince her that there's no such thing as ghosts, but then he starts witnessing the strange events, too.
#4 - The Invisible Killer
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/10/1989
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.
#5 - On a Wing and a Prayer
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/5/1988
Central American rebels capture Pete and a nun, and it's up to Mac and Jack to rescue them. But, Jack's plane is sub par, and they go down in the middle of enemy territory.
#6 - Collision Course
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/12/1988
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.
#7 - Unfinished Business
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/15/1989
Jack, MacGyver, and Pete review their past adventures while on a gold-panning expedition, unaware they're being stalked by a vengeful killer.
#8 - Easy Target
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/1/1989
MacGyver and Pete are captured by terrorists intent on wiping out a nearby city with an electromagnetic pulse, unless their leader is freed.
#9 - Deadly Dreams
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/16/1989
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.
#10 - The Survivors
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/9/1989
While on assignment for the Phoenix Foundation to test field agents to make sure they are still in shape, MacGyver finds out he now has another agent to test: Pete. Things take a turn for the worse when MacGyver and Pete head into the wilderness where they stumble upon a wrecked plane and pictures of two dangerous drug smugglers who shot it down.
#11 - Renegade
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/8/1989
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.
#12 - Cleo Rocks
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/6/1989
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.
#13 - Fraternity of Thieves
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/13/1989
When Pete's son, Michael, returns to work for the foundation, neither Pete nor MacGyver see that Michael has used his connections to get closer to a Phoenix Foundation technology system in order to steal it and to sell it to the mysterious Papillion. But Papillion has plans of his own for Michael and his gang.
#14 - Blood Brothers
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/21/1988
MacGyver returns to his hometown to find himself haunted by the memories of a fatal shooting accident when he was a kid. While he is there, he helps two teenagers battle the local drug dealers.
#15 - Gold Rush
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/27/1989
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.
#16 - Ma Dalton
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/23/1989
Jack receives mementos of his father from an anonymous sender. This triggers a search for Jack´s mother, who has been missing since Jack was a boy. But when he finally gets to meet her, she turns out to be a fugitive in fear of her life, and Jack´s presence only complicate things more.
#17 - Brainwashed
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/24/1989
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.
#18 - The Battle of Tommy Giordano
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/20/1989
When a kid is kidnapped by his estranged father, MacGyver tries to help the mother, a Phoenix employee, to rescue the boy. But the father is the son of an aging organized crime kingpin whose control is being threatened by subordinates.
#19 - Runners
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/13/1989
MacGyver helps a young runaway with a vicious pimp and a tragic secret about her policeman father.