The WORST episodes of MacGyver
Every episode of MacGyver ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of MacGyver!
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 - Gunz 'n Boyz
Season 7 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/16/1991
Mac and the Challenger Club try to help a boy prepared to take the rap for another boy murdered by weapons dealers exploiting the fear and suspicion in the neighborhood.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - Walking Dead
Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1991
Mac helps his neighbor, Mama Lorraine, rescue a young student activist who has been kidnapped and turned into a zombie by Haitian terrorists hiding behind a powerful voodoo priest.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - Deadly Silents
Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1991
Mac tries to help an old silent film star retrieve the only existing prints of his work from a pair of special-effects obsessed fans.
#11 - 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.
#12 - Birth Day
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/2/1987
MacGyver's fishing trip is cut short when he meets a very pregnant woman whose husband is out to kill her. Accidentally, she found out that his half-way home for ex-cons is really a recruiting place for new crimes. Mac and the woman are chased into a warehouse where they are trapped.
#13 - Ugly Duckling
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/12/1986
A 15-year-old genius accidentally hacks into a defective missile guidance system and attracts the attention of both the FBI and some black marketeers, who think that she may fix it for them. It's up to MacGyver to save her from being kidnapped by either side.
#14 - 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.
#15 - The Prometheus Syndrome
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1991
MacGyver becomes personally involved in the effort to find a psychopathic arsonist.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - Friends
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/6/1987
MacGyver's friends throw a birthday party for him, but he's somberly reflecting on his past and future. While reflecting, MacGyver decides to leave the Phoenix Foundation to get married and have a family. Can Pete convince him of how important he is to the Foundation and get him to change his mind?
#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 - Split Decision
Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1991
Mac's friend Earl Dent looks to him for help when he fights to retain custody of his teenage daughter while preparing for a boxing comeback that bookmakers want him to throw.
#21 - 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.
#22 - Hellfire
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/27/1985
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.
#23 - Trumbo's World
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/1985
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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - Deathlock
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/22/1986
MacGyver is trapped in a mansion with Pete, a code expert, and a government agent who may or may not be on their side. However, an old nemesis has electronically booby-trapped the entire mansion to make sure they can't go anywhere.