MacGyver — Season 4
His mind is the ultimate weapon.
About this season
He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed with only a knapsack filled with everyday items he picks up along the way, he improvises his way out of every peril the bad guys throw at him. Making a bomb out of chewing gum? Fixing a speeding car's breaks... while he's riding in it? Using soda pop to cook up tear gas? That's all in a day's adventures for MacGyver. He's part Boy Scout, part genius. And all hero.
Episodes (19)
1. The Secret of Parker House
7.5Aired 31 October 1988 • 45 min
MacGyver accompanies Penny Parker to an old house she inherited from her Aunt Betty, who mysteriously died 30 years before. When strange things start happening, Penny is sure that the house is haunted.
2. Blood Brothers
7.0Aired 21 November 1988 • 45 min
MacGyver returns to his home town of Mission City, Minnesota to meet up with two old friends, Chuck and Neil, so they can dig up a time capsule they buried twenty-five years before. However, MacGyver is hesitant to dig the capsule up because he is still haunted by the death of his old friend Jesse, who died when MacGyver was young. But now MacGyver has another problem to deal with. Chuck's and Neil's sons, Danny and Sean, have gotten wrapped up in a drug deal, and the dealer is after Danny. Danny takes off to hide, and now MacGyver must find him, before the drug dealer does.
3. The Outsiders
7.5Aired 28 November 1988 • 45 min
MacGyver helps an Amish family, who saved his life, from having their farm seized by the government.
4. On a Wing and a Prayer
7.0Aired 5 December 1988 • 45 min
Central American rebels capture Pete and a nun during a coup d'état, and it's up to MacGyver and Jack to rescue them.
5. Collision Course
7.0Aired 12 December 1988 • 45 min
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.
6. The Survivors
8.0Aired 9 January 1989 • 45 min
While on assignment to test field agents for the Phoenix Foundation, MacGyver and Pete discover the wreckage of a DEA plane shot down by dangerous drug smugglers.
7. Deadly Dreams
8.5Aired 16 January 1989 • 45 min
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.
8. Ma Dalton
7.0Aired 23 January 1989 • 45 min
After Jack receives momentos of his father from an anonymous sender, he and MacGyver launch a search for Jack's mother, who's been missing since he was boy—and they aren't the only ones hunting for her.
9. Cleo Rocks
8.3Aired 6 February 1989 • 45 min
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.
10. Fraternity of Thieves
7.0Aired 13 February 1989 • 45 min
Pete is conflicted when he discovers that the Phoenix Foundation employee selling classified information turns out to be his son.
11. The Battle of Tommy Giordano
7.7Aired 20 February 1989 • 45 min
The young son of MacGyver's co-worker is kidnapped by the boy's father. MacGyver must go and retrieve the boy from the house of the boy's uncle—a powerful mob boss.
12. The Challenge
7.5Aired 27 February 1989 • 45 min
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.
13. Runners
4.2Aired 13 March 1989 • 45 min
MacGyver helps a young runaway with a vicious pimp and a tragic secret about her policeman father.
14. Gold Rush
6.5Aired 27 March 1989 • 45 min
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.
15. The Invisible Killer
8.5Aired 10 April 1989 • 45 min
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.
16. Brainwashed
7.0Aired 24 April 1989 • 45 min
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.
17. Easy Target
7.0Aired 1 May 1989 • 45 min
MacGyver and Pete are captured by terrorists intent on wiping out a nearby city with an electromagnetic pulse, unless their leader is freed.
18. Renegade
7.0Aired 8 May 1989 • 45 min
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.
19. Unfinished Business
7.0Aired 15 May 1989 • 45 min
Jack, MacGyver, and Pete review their past adventures while on a gold-panning expedition, unaware they're being stalked by a vengeful killer.