The BEST episodes of MacGyver season 6

Every episode of MacGyver season 6, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of MacGyver season 6!

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.

Last Updated: 11/13/2024Network: ABC (US)Status: Ended
Lesson in Evil
star
8.31
157 votes

#1 - Lesson in Evil

Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/1990

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.

Directors: Bill Gereghty
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Strictly Business
star
8.16
178 votes

#2 - Strictly Business

Season 6 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/8/1991

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.

Directors: Mike Vejar
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The Visitor
star
7.98
130 votes

#3 - The Visitor

Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/3/1990

Mac uncovers an out-of-this-world scam when he investigates some mysterious indentations in a farmer's field.

Directors: Bill Gereghty
Writer: Brad Radnitz
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Humanity
star
7.77
126 votes

#4 - Humanity

Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1990

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.

Directors: Bill Gereghty
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Tough Boys
star
7.64
150 votes

#5 - Tough Boys

Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1990

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.

Directors: Mike Vejar
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High Control
star
7.61
138 votes

#6 - High Control

Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/11/1991

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.

Directors: Michael Caffey
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Eye of Osiris
star
7.59
138 votes

#7 - Eye of Osiris

Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/4/1991

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...

Directors: Mike Vejar
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The Wall
star
7.46
144 votes

#8 - The Wall

Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/1990

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.

Directors: Michael Preece
Writer: Rick Drew
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Harry's Will
star
7.39
142 votes

#9 - Harry's Will

Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1990

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.

Directors: Bill Gereghty
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Bitter Harvest
star
7.34
105 votes

#10 - Bitter Harvest

Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/1990

MacGyver goes undercover to investigate the death of a farm-worker organizer during an investigation of illegal pesticide use.

Directors: Mike Vejar
Writer: Michael Kane
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Jerico Games
star
7.21
105 votes

#11 - Jerico Games

Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/7/1991

Mac is reunited with a high school sweetheart whose husband is a wealthy man sponsoring an international sports competition.

Directors: Bill Gereghty
Watch Now:Apple TV
Blind Faith
star
7.18
129 votes

#12 - Blind Faith

Season 6 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/4/1991

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.

Directors: Michael Caffey
Watch Now:Apple TV
Faith, Hope & Charity
star
7.07
98 votes

#13 - Faith, Hope & Charity

Season 6 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/18/1991

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.

Directors: Bill Gereghty
Writer: Brad Radnitz
Watch Now:Apple TV
The Gun
star
6.99
113 votes

#14 - The Gun

Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1990

MacGyver searches for a gun used in an assassination twenty years ago and in a present day cop killing to clear a friend.

Directors: Bill Gereghty
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There But for the Grace
star
6.95
132 votes

#15 - There But for the Grace

Season 6 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/18/1991

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.

Directors: Bill Gereghty
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Trail of Tears
star
6.81
124 votes

#16 - Trail of Tears

Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/26/1991

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.

Directors: Michael Preece
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Squeeze Play
star
6.75
131 votes

#17 - Squeeze Play

Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/1990

Mac defends a former player's daughter being blackmailed by a baseball memorabilia-counterfeiting ring trading on her father's name.

Directors: Michael Preece
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Twenty Questions
star
6.59
113 votes

#18 - Twenty Questions

Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1990

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.

Directors: Michael Caffey
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The Wasteland
star
6.59
128 votes

#19 - The Wasteland

Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/21/1991

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.

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Hind-Sight
star
6.56
127 votes

#20 - Hind-Sight

Season 6 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/6/1991

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.

Directors: Michael Preece
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MacGyver's Women
star
6.22
104 votes

#21 - MacGyver's Women

Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1990

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.

Directors: Michael Preece
Watch Now:Apple TV