The BEST episodes of MacGyver season 5
Every episode of MacGyver season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of MacGyver season 5!
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 - Legend of the Holy Rose (1)
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1989
An archaeologist friend pays MacGyver a visit to get his help in using a map to find an ancient artifact called the Holy Rose.
#2 - Legend of the Holy Rose (2)
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1989
MacGyver and his archaeologist friend continue on to London and France in their search for the Holy Rose. Along the way they come across a notorious jewel magnate who has deadly intentions.
#3 - Jenny's Chance
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/19/1990
MacGyver organizes a gambling sting operation in order to catch the murderer of a horse trainer, a money launderer for a Cuban drug lord.
#4 - Black Rhino
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/1989
MacGyver trails a friend, Billy Colton, to Africa where he witnesses the cruel slaughter of the endangered Black Rhino. When he joins the activists, hoping to prevent the poaching, Mac meets up with the men behind the scheme - Ladysmith.
#5 - The Black Corsage
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1989
Mac and a bounty hunter join forces with a bulldog named Frog to track down a Bulgarian defector who was the accidental witness at a murder and who is now being stalked by the killer, who needs a map she doesn't know she possesses.
#6 - Rush to Judgement
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/16/1990
MacGyver risks judicial displeasure when he breaks jury sequester to investigate the scene of a racially charged murder, and discovers evidence that drastically alters the interpretation of the facts.
#7 - The Ten Percent Solution
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/1989
The Phoenix Foundation's purchase of a Nazi art treasure leads Mac to a holocaust survivor who claims family ownership of the painting, and to a group working to create their own ‘Aryan nation.’
#8 - Two Times Trouble
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/11/1989
MacGyver tries to help an old friend who believes her jealous twin sister is trying to kill her.
#9 - Second Chance
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1989
Renegade America service men steal everything that's not nailed down in Thailand, creating a life-threatening situation. MacGyver helps set things right, while helping an old friend get acquainted with a son he never knew he had.
#10 - Children of Light
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1989
MacGyver's Chinese foster daughter arrives unexpectedly from China, carrying videotape of the massacre in Tianamen Square and a list of fax machine phone numbers vital to the continuing freedom movement.
#11 - The Lost Amadeus
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/19/1990
A strange young woman gets Mac involved with a priceless violin and an eccentric maestro being sought by syndicate hoods.
#12 - Log Jam
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/5/1990
MacGyver tries to help an environmentally active friend find out what happened to a company whistle-blower about to expose the illegal practices of a large logging firm.
#13 - Serenity
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/8/1990
Exhausted from being overworked, MacGyver falls asleep watching an old western. He dreams that he is in the Old West where he encounters Murdoc and Pete who conspire to force MacGyver off his land.
#14 - Halloween Knights
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/1989
Murdoc enlists MacGyver's help to rescue his sister from his former employer. She is scheduled to be executed during a Halloween Party put on by the professional assassination organization.
#15 - Cease Fire
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1989
While in Geneva, MacGyver is wounded in an assassination attempt. He is framed as the sniper and meets an American schoolgirl who helps him in clearing his name.
#16 - Deep Cover
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/26/1990
Pete and Mac try to help when a Phoenix Foundation engineer is seduced and betrayed by a spy seeking her prototype for a new stealth technology for submarines.
#17 - The Treasure of Manco
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/12/1990
A friend of MacGyver's is killed in Peru looking for a mythical treasure. MacGyver helps his daughter to continue her father's quest.
#18 - The Madonna
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/18/1989
On Christmas Eve, MacGyver tries to help the priest of a poor church locate a stolen Madonna figure, help his friend Cynthia figure out how to keep the Challenger Club solvent and figure out a strange street woman who seems to have a miracle up her sleeve.
#19 - Live and Learn
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/15/1990
MacGyver tries to inspire a promising but unmotivated high school student, despite the negative efforts of a cynical teacher and the boy's skeptical father.
#20 - Hearts of Steel
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/9/1990
MacGyver is reunited with Lisa, whose help cleared him of assassination charges in Switzerland, when a steel plant executive kidnaps her as revenge against her cold corporate-raider father.
#21 - Passages
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/30/1990
Frantic with worry about his gravely-ill Grandpa Harry, MacGyver experiences a strange near-death phenomena, seeing his parents again, when he's injured by a man who's stolen an ancient Egyptian relic.