Missions:

Just select on a mission number to learn more about each mission



001: Pilot
002: Crusher/Golden Triangle
003: Pegasus/Thief of Bagdad
004: Map/Gauntlet
005: Heist
006: Whitewater/Trumbo's World
007: Last Stand
008: Hellfire
009: Prodigal
010: Kitchen Magic/Target MacGyver
011: Nightmares
012: Funeral in Berlin/Deathlock
013: Flame's End
014: Countdown
015: Enemy Within
016: Every Time She Smiles
017: To Be A Man
018: Ugly Duckling
019: Slow Death
020: Escape
021: A Prisoner of Conscience
022: Assasin
023: Human Factor
024: Eraser
025: Twice Stung
026: Wish Child
027: Final Approach
028: Eagles
029: Jack Of Lies
030: Road Not Taken
031: Silent World
032: Three For The Road
033: Pheonix Under Siege
034: Family Matter
035: Soft Touch
036: Birthday
037: Pirates
038: Out in the Cold
039: Dalton, Jack of Spies
040: Partners
041: Bushmaster
042: Friends
043: DOA MacGyver
044: For Love or Money
045 & 046: Lost Love
047: Back From The Dead
048: Ghost Ship
049: Fire & Ice
050: GX - 1
051: Jack In The Box
052: Widowmaker
053: Hell Week
054: Blow Out
055: Kill Zone
056: Early Retirement
057: Thin Ice
058: The Odd Triple
059: Negotiator
060: Spoilers
061: Mask of the Wolf
062: Rock The Cradle
063: Endangered
064: Murder's Sky
065: Secret Of Parker House
066: Blood Brothers
067: Outsiders
068: On A Wing And A Prayer
069: Collision Course
070: Survivors
071: Deadly Dreams
072: Ma Dalton
073: Cleo Rocks
074: Fraternity Of Thieves
075: Battle Of Tommy Giordane
076: Challenge
077: Runners
078: Gold Rush
079: Invisible Killer
080: Brainwashed
081: Easy Target
082: Renegade
083: Unfinished Business
084 & 085: Legend Of The Holy Rose
086: Black Corsage
087: Cease Fire
088: Second Chance
089: Halloween Knights
090: Children Of Light
091: Black Rhino
092: Ten Percent Solution
093: Two Times Trouble
094: Madonna
095: Serenity
096: Live & Learn
097: Log Jam
098: Treasure of Manco
099: Jenny's Chance
100: Deep Cover
101: Lost Amadeus
102: Hearts Of Steel
103: Rush To Judgement
104: Passages
105: Tough Boys
106: Humanity
107: Gun
108: Twenty Questions
109: Wall
110: Lesson in Evil
111: Harry's Will
112: MacGyver's Women
113: Bitter Harvest
114: Visitor
115: Squeez Play
116: Jerico Games
117: Wasteland
118: Eye Of Osiris
119: High Control
120: There But For The Grace
121: Blind Faith
122: Faith Hope & Charity
123: Strictly Business
124: Trail of Tears
125: Hind-Sight
126: Honest Abe
127: Hood
128: Obsessed
129: Prometheus Syndrome
130: Coltons
131: Walking Dead
132 & 133: Good Knight MacGyver
134: Deadly Silents
135: Split Decision
136: Gunz 'N Boys
137: Off The Wall
138: Stringer
139: Mountain Of Youth
140: Lost Treasure Of Atlantis
141: Trail To Doomsday


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001 PILOT:

Gambit

   MacGyver rescues a downed Air Force pilot from his Mongolian captors.

Main Mission

   When the Government has an impossible mission, it calls on MacGyver, a laid-back former special-forces agent. In the opener, MacGyver is tasked to rescue scientists trapped in an under-ground lab protected by a deadly security system. MacGyver also has to stop an acid leak before the it reaches the aquifer.

MacGyverisms

Disarmed missle with a paperclip
Matches & rope got rifle to shoot itself
Smashed pistol barrel to use as rocket thruster
Kicked grate to test for hidden laser
Lit cigarette with hidden laser
Smoked cigarette to find hidden laser
Used binocular eyepiece to catch laser beam
Aimed laser beam at source to "kill" it
Knotted fire hose to build up water pressure
Used said hose to lift steel beam
Tested heat on door with a stick (it caught fire)
Milk Chocolate candy stops sulphuric acid leak
Used shirt to filter gases
Sodium metal & cold capsule explosive
Flipped lights in morse code

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002 CRUSHER/GOLDEN TRIANGLE:

Gambit

   In a junkyard, MacGyver uses a magnet to retrieve stolen documents, then escapes a car about to be flattened.

Main Mission

    MacGyver is mistaken for a narc when he tries to retrieve a canister filled with a deadly chemical from the site of a plane crash in the heart of Asia's opium trade, the "Golden Triangle."

MacGyverisms


Picked up thieves in car with heavy duty magnet
Inflate raft to pop a flare
Bamboo thing with alcohol & fire ash
Winched a helicopter

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003 PEGASUS/THIEF OF BUDAPEST:

Gambit

   MacGyver retrieves a stolen horse and gets picked up - literally - by a helicopter.

Main Mission

    In Budapest, a young gypsy steals a watch containing microfilm that MacGyver was supposed to receive from a Russian double agent.

MacGyverisms

Stole horse, got it picked up with helicopter
Lightbulbs between boards simulate flat tire sound
Weed Killer Bomb
Magnifying Glass using hair & white wine
Mess up traffic signal with credit card

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004 MAP/GAUNTLET:

Gambit

    MacGyver retrieves a top-secret map, then uses it to escape his pursuers in the desert.

Main Mission

    MacGyver must help an investigative reporter get out of a Latin American country with incriminating evidence which links a general to an illegal arms dealer.

MacGyverisms

Used SAK to push key out of lock other side of door
Key fell on map previously slid under door
Slid map out with key on it
Used map as pea shooter distraction
Rolled map around bar to knock bad person
Slid down sand dune on map
Used map & duct tape to patch hole in hot air balloon
Camera timer & "silly putty" explosive
Noise: Duct tape, firecrackers, candle on church bell
Hooked cable wire on car axle to stop car
Used Kate Connally's compact as rear view mirror
Threw Kate Connally on someone for distraction
Made car go w/ belt thru steering wheel & stick shift

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005 HEIST:

Main Mission

    In the Virgin Islands, MacGyver and a senator's daughter must recover $60 million in stolen diamonds earmarked for an African relief fund.

MacGyverisms

Distraction: String & paper clip women's dress zipper
Buffed dice with powder soap on shoe shine machine
Hid buffed dice in drink after winning (GOT CAUGHT!)
Electric cord tied door handle shut
Pushed bar cart by igniting CO2 tanks
Magnet in Chris' shoe screws up roulette wheel
Marked card with Chris' ring
Picked lock with SAK (TWICE IN THIS EP!)
Wired fuse box lights to alarm clock with hands
Picked 2:10 as time because wires would touch
Coat hanger & Mirror on camera to fool security camera
After sneak in room, yank above device off w/string
Found laser beam with cigar ashes
Plastic tube used to "route" the laser
Limbo'd under above tube
Let bird out of cage to set off motion detector
Faked musical notes with wine-filled crystal goblets
Used piece of glass lamp for funnel
"Funneled" diamonds down the drainpipe
Fire ext. & car jack, I think USA left something out..
Put parachute on car
Drove car out of plane at 20,000 feet

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006 WHITEWATER/TRUMBO'S WORLD

Gambit

    In the Pyrenees, MacGyver rescues a prisoner, then makes a daring escape with her by raft.

Main Mission

    In Brazil, MacGyver helps a plantation owner defend his land from an army of ants that threatens to destroy the jungle(in clips from "The Naked Jungle," a 1954 George Pal movie).

MacGyverisms

Used SAK to snitch towel off laundry line
Moved shower pipe on fire, "hot water"
Log lifted door out
Kerosene soaked rope lit so bad guys can't follow
Jumper Cable, generator, money makes arc welder
Rope over post, twist to lift canoe off person
Hose, metal pipe, gasoline = flame thrower
Nitrate, cellulose, acid = nitro manite
Melted garden hose spread on net = ant-repel suit
Blew up ants with aforementioned nitro manite

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007 LAST STAND

Main Missions

    MacGyver stumbles into a hostage crisis at a desert airstrip that armored-car robbers have taken over.

MacGyverisms

Bike bars, rust, flare, used as torch
Cotton, Engine Starter Fluid, fertilizer = bomb
Wrap above in newspaper and duct tape
Light bulb melt ice down a tube
Above water went to door lock, froze, broke door
Hung on for dear life on an airplane rudder
Daveism-Knocked guy down with helicopter

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008 HELLFIRE

Main Mission

    In Wyoming, MacGyver visits a couple of old friends from his hellcatting days, and turns "hellfighter" to cap an oil-well fire that's burning out of control.

MacGyverisms

Used gum wrapper to fix fuse
Tested nitroglycerin on barrel
Fix truck with pen spring
Drove truck with nitro downhill w/o brakes

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009 PRODIGAL

Main Mission

    MacGyver is hired to arrange a new life for a protected Federal witness, who's testifying against his mobster brother, and to help him visit his sick mother before she dies.

MacGyverisms

Hot wire car with paper clip
Used SAK to pick trunk lock
Loosened lug nuts of bad guys car
Used string to turn on saw
Distraction: Drywall & wood chips thru a saw
Drained radiator on bad guys car
Soda, fizzies, dry ice simulated smoke
Posed as tow truck driver to take Paulie
Dropped car off truck in narrow alley to block chasers
Used string & rod to trip someone
Used SAK to pick ANOTHER lock
Rod & electrical cord used as harpoon
Telescope, camphor balls, cleaning fluid, cloth
to "fire" the harpoon
Went across harpooned cord with pulley and handles

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010 KITCHEN MAGIC/TARGET MACGYVER

Gambit

    Mac rescues a lady general at a beachhouse, then nabs her kidnappers using common kitchen equipment.

Main Mission

    While visiting his estranged grandfather in Colorado, MacGyver is tracked and hunted down by a contract killer.

MacGyverisms

Pick Lock with SAK
Stack pans on ice, heat w/Toaster Oven
Spread cooking oil on floor
Use hose as "trip wire"
Cover "bad guys" with outdoor chaise
Reeds under wood to "fake" breathing
Blowdart, using reeds & anesthetic-type plant
Decoy using a stuffed jacket
Pine cones & pine pitch as "land mines"
Used "loco weed" as anesthetic
Grain dust down a funnel, light it
Harry strung wire to use a "remote tripper"
Sawed post halfway
Harry used pine nuts as "blasting caps"

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011 NIGHTMARES

Main Mission

    Returning from East Germany with information, MacGyver is captured by German agents and given a mind-disorienting drug. He has 6 hours to give up the information or die.

MacGyverisms

Diversion-Alarm from string, goblet, silverware
Gum wrapper fishing lure
Hid evidence in concrete base of lamp post
Water down belt into electrical outlet is "shocker"
Cot springs & cot used to "sling shot" the door open
TV tube, jumper cable, battery "shocked" bad guys
Fire hose out window faked out bad guys
Air out of tire with nail
Water jugs hung on rope, let go, WHAM
Lit rope on fire to activate smoke alarm
Hit iron bar on fire hydrant to make magnet

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012 FUNERAL IN BERLIN/DEATHLOCK

Gambit

    Posing as a corpse, Mac escapes Berlin by coffin-turned-jet-ski.

Main Mission

    MacGyver is caught in a mansion that's been booby-trapped electronically by an old nemesis.

MacGyverisms

Casket becomes a jetski
Held armor out to test for booby traps
Metal bowl & electric juicer jam TV signals
Batteries, wires, mixer, rubber band, cart move armor
Vinegar & Baking Soda smoke screen
Spread out metal duct pipe for "warning alarm"
Rewired & disconnected "bad guys" TV signals
Used mirror as periscope
Got some "trigger" to squirt water at bad guy

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013 FLAME'S END

Main Mission

    MacGyver's ex-college girlfriend discovers the theft of uranium at a nuclear plant and thinks someone is trying to kill her.

MacGyverisms

Magnesium oxide bomb
Cut wires to speed up time clock to open door
Use a pistol as a wrench

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014 COUNTDOWN

Main Mission

    MacGyver and an ex-Army buddy have just hours to defuse two sophisticated bombs aboard a cruise ship.

MacGyverisms

Made a robot to open fridge and grab eggs
Turned cargo net into a rapel line
Dental probe coated with vasoline to go thru seal
HOW TO DEFUSE THIS VACUUM BOMB:
1. Score neon tube with sharpening stone
2. Break at score, quickly plug w/cork
3. Slide neon tube SLOWLY thru silicon seal
4. Pop cork against sharp object inside bomb
5. Release of neon sucks phosphorus inside tube
6. Pull tube out, you will hear a BANG
7. Milk & dash of liquid oven cleaner in pastry tube
8. Remove cylinder seals, sniff for chemical content
9. Put milky stuff in each cylinder
10. After liquid clears, drain cylinders
11. AW MAN!!! secondary part activates!!!!!!!
12. Tell Pete you'll play golf (you HATE golf!)
13. Tell Pete to do some cross matches
14. Pete comes back and tells you who is VIKING
15. "Innocently" ask the bad guy which fuse to pull
16. Purposely do the exact opposite!

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015 ENEMY WITHIN

Main Mission

    MacGyver must protect a defector who can identify the killer of three DXS agents.

MacGyverisms

Fix brake line while car is in motion using steering fluid
Nylon = adiphic acid, hexmethylene diamene, & iron
Mirror, wires, spiral ash tray for hypnosis
Candle holder, electric cord, rubber = Defibrillator

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016 EVERY TIME SHE SMILES

Main Mission

    MacGyver is in Bulgaria to obtain microfilm, but his plans for a quick getaway are stymied by an American who involves him in her lovers' quarrel with a Bulgarian security officer.

MacGyverisms

Used coat rack to break wall
Hooked coat wire on conveyor to break wall wire
Rode on conveyor belt
Speeded up merry-go-round
Dropped rings in merry-go-round mesh gears
The rings screwed up the gears and threw off bad guys
Made gas from pest control, soap flakes, tile cleaner
Fused with lard, newspaper, oven cleaner
Placed above on cookie sheet with gas jet
Jumped on oil truck
Put hose on oil truck exhaust
Mixed above with water for explosion

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017 TO BE A MAN

Main Mission

    Shot down and wounded by Soviets in Afghanistan while recovering satellite, MacGyver is rescued, healed, and guided out by Afghan woman and her son.

MacGyverisms

Rewired booby trap to prevent detonation
Used satellite parts & plastic shield as hang glider
Used Butane burner as torpedo
Fixed gasket on manual water pump
Hid under straw and knocked support down
Fire Extinguisher, water, & spike; broke off boulder

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018 UGLY DUCKLING

Main Mission

    Black marketeers are after Kate, a 15-year-old genius, who's the only one capable of fixing their stolen missile's guidance system.

MacGyverisms

Speaker & oscillator hurt bad guys ears
"Kateism"-made transistor radio into SAR-SAT
"Kateism"-jumper cables & battery burned off bars
Cooled Hot bars with hydrocarbon spray can
Cactus juice powered a transistor radio
Triangulation: 2 radios, car antena, watch, wire, sun
Headlight, mirror, binocular lens to fire gun
Got missle to counteract another missle

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019 SLOW DEATH

Main Mission

    MacGyver's train trip through India is derailed by a hijacker seeking revenge on two unidentified Westerners who sold his son, a doctor, poisonous medicine.

MacGyverisms


Made doll from handkerchief and sock
Salt, Seltzer, green olives as distraction
Moonshine & matches to force bad guys off
Rewired starter on train to overload
Lie Detector from Blood Pressure pump & alarm clock

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020 ESCAPE

Main Mission

    In North Africa MacGyver is hired by woman to spring her brother, a missionary, from prison. But the scheme turns out different than MacGyver expected.

MacGyverisms

Ball, kerosene, newspaper, cotton = hot air balloon
Spatula attached to ceiling fan simulates helicopters
PCP & "volitle liquid" on clothes for explosive
Wire, washtub, ice, PCP for timed explosive
Tape recorder against microphone simulated sirens
Emptied grenade powder on cement for explosive

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021 A PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE

Main Mission

    MacGyver and Thornton infiltrate a Soviet mental hospital to rescue a friend who's being held as a political prisoner.

MacGyverisms

Potato on tailpipe caused car to backfire
Blanket, gas, rope, life jacket jammed boat gears
Hanging bucket with mop slid thru simulated "mopping"
Caulk & "hardening agent" got someone stuck on bucket

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022 ASSASSIN

Main Mission

    MacGyver tries to prevent the assassination of an archbishop by a killer who's a master of disguise.

MacGyverisms

Put board across exit "wheel gougers" to drive over

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023 HUMAN FACTOR

Main Mission

    A malfunctioning computer interprets MacGyver's test of its security system as the real thing, trapping MacGyver and the computer's designer inside a top-secret lab with only 30 minutes of air.

MacGyverisms

Got past security checkpoint hanging under car
Newspaper, magnify glass, watch crystal = telescope
Tightrope walked over laser trap floor
Plaster dust & coat simulated handprint for sensor
Mirror, mop, & pail redirected and shorted laser beam
Used pants to hang on pipe over boiling water
Magnets, matches, & paper shorted heat seeking robots
Cut cable to stop fan from sucking out air
Used wires to short fuses to start electrical overload
Used overloaded sparking cable to destroy computer
Opened mined door, hoping Pete had detonated mines
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024 ERASER

Main Mission

    MacGyver inadvertently leads a hit man to his target, a man the Government wants alive for selling information to the East Germans, and the mob wants dead for double-crossing some foreign clients.

MacGyverisms

Rode ON elevator, instead of IN it
Used wire to short a keypad combination lock
Rewired car phone to lock car doors on incoming call
Used metal tube, rag, & gas as tordedo
Mirror image of guy shot, fake blood included
Run foil between lips to simulate police siren

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025 TWICE STUNG

Main Mission

    MacGyver and Thornton operate a private sting to get back the life savings of a friend who was swindled by a dangerous con artist.

MacGyverisms

Fire hose attached to elevator broke door
Flashlight battery & matches connect to floodlight
reversed wiring to short out lock

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026 WISH CHILD

Main Mission

    In Chinatown, MacGyver tries to rescue a friend's brother from a scam in which he's being passed off as the reincarnation of an ancient Chinese legend.

MacGyverisms

RC Toy used as distraction to "bad" teenager
Watch crystal, firecracker to burst crate
Rope & umbrella used as grappling hook
Gunpowder & bandana in keyhole, hit door, burst lock
Fire extinguisher smoke screen
Block door with fire extinguisher pin

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027 FINAL APPROACH

Main Mission

    MacGyver and four street youths on a rehab program that he's bringing home from a camping trip struggle for survival after their plane crashes in the mountains.

MacGyverisms

Made parachute into tent
Forced snake away with "fire smoke"
Log bark used as water trough
"Watered" mountain lion away with above trough
Tube and earpiece from headset used as stethoscope
Sighting tool from branches & earrings
Got kids to make mud trough
Hollowed log as "spare tire" on airplane

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028 EAGLES

Main Mission

    While on assignment, MacGyver runs afoul of an escaped felon who's shot and wounded a rare golden eagle.

MacGyverisms

Broke arrow to splint eagle's wing
Used Pen as bird feeder
ball bearing, propane stove & grinder blew up shed
Used Bicycle inner tube as sling shot
Hang glided eggs down from nest

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029 JACK OF LIES

Main Mission

    Jack Dalton needs MacGyver's help to free a "botanist" who's being held hostage in Central America by drug smugglers. (Introduces Jack Dalton. Some commentary on MacGyver's years right after college with Jack and Mike.)

MacGyverisms

Unscrewed lightbulb with cardboard tube
"Sling shotted" an oxygen cylinder
Plugged fuel leak with stick
"Sneaked in" in a coffin
Poured wine on battery to charge it up
Hooked battery to rope and prop for snare

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030 ROAD NOT TAKEN

Main Mission

    MacGyver meets up with his former love on a job in Southeast Asia, where they're being pursued by government troops after a plan to rescue a nun and some orphans.

MacGyverisms

Baseball string tied to door as "alert system"
Animal Fat & Kerosene in can as flare
Made vines into a sling shot
Rosary beads in sun made flame set sling shot off
Used wire from broom as a saw
Fertilizer and rag in can inside bamboo for rocket

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031 SILENT WORLD

Main Mission

    The recurring nightmares of MacGyver's deaf friend may be the clue to finding arms dealers who have stolen a missile-guidance system, piece by piece.

MacGyverisms

Plastic trash bag, branch, made delayed starter
Put snare outside front door

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032 THREE FOR THE ROAD

Main Mission

    MacGyver gets involved with an aging actor and his wife when his contact is shot and dumps the evidence for a counterfeiting group (a satchel of phony $20's) in the couple's `56 Caddy convertible.

MacGyverisms

Used paper clip for fuse (didn't work!)
Used convertible top cover to stop car
Used convertible top to stop car
Used Ball point pen case to fix fuel line
Muffler, seat stuffing, gas, knob used as cannon
Collected gas from tank with tail light cover
Horn, handle, horseshoe, battery, wire is doorbell
Made flowers from newspaper

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033 PHOENIX UNDER SIEGE

Main Mission

    MacGyver and his grandfather are hunted by terrorists while trapped at the Phoenix Foundation building. Flashbacks reveal deaths of MacGyver's father and grandmother.

MacGyverisms

Electro magnet from dry cell, copper wire, iron pipe
Create static electricity on wire, zap electric lock
"Harryism"-rubbed ropes against chair to free feet
"Harryism"-kicked phone buttons to say on 5th floor
Disarmed a bomb with hockey ticket

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034 FAMILY MATTER

Main Mission

    Thornton's ex-wife and son are kidnapped and held hostage by old DXS colleague who wants Thornton in exchange for their release.

MacGyverisms

Sneaked directional watch under car
Put coat on Oar, tied it to boat
Float money in life jacket as "message"
Wire & rope made remote starter for engine
Explosive with gas can & oil soaked rag
Bamboo bazookas filled with methane mud

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035 SOFT TOUCH

Main Mission

    MacGyver becomes embroiled in an assassination plot when his scatterbrained friend Penny Parker sees thugs torturing a Federal agent.

MacGyverisms

Wheel Chair Magnesium, rags, pipe shattered lock
Roped someone with speaker wire

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036 BIRTH DAY

Main Mission

    MacGyver is trapped inside an abandoned factory with a pregnant woman who's being chased by her husband because she has evidence that could send him back to prison.

MacGyverisms

Made driving ramp with boards & barrels
Lifted Jeep with boat crane
Weight on fishing pole, knocked out someone
Water soaked sail bag, signal flags, helium filled

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037 PIRATES

Main Mission

    Modern-day pirates, using Navy SEAL tactics, steal an 18th century Spanish captain's log that could lead them to a sunken treasure fleet. Shot polystyrene balls with vaccuum cleaner

MacGyverisms


Bilge pump water into boat bumper (didn't work!)
Compressed Gas under water burst boat hatch
Kept mine trip wire taught with string
Used nail to wedge button on land mine

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038 OUT IN THE COLD

Main Mission

    On a skiing trip, MacGyver is targeted by the mob after a man secretly slips him some microfilm.

MacGyverisms

The Parachute thru the ski pole trick!
Squirted someone in face with packet of soy sauce
Used water as magnifying lens on broken microscope
Hid in dry clean bag on conveyer
Electrified fence by putting wire against it

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039 DALTON, JACK OF SPIES

Main Mission

    Jack Dalton fakes his death to duck a CIA operation that was supposed to ferret out a mole in the agency, but things get complicated when he and MacGyver are framed for murder.

MacGyverisms

Released side car from bike to go thru narrow alley
Shoved motor bike at bad guys
Distraction: Cannon and powder
Hid inside crate
Braced dump truck to stop sledge mechanism
Used hooked bar to turn off sledge
Goofed, turned on the dumper instead
HUNG ON FOR DEAR LIFE while dump truck drove

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040 PARTNERS

Main Mission

    On the 7th anniversary of their mutual meeting, MacGyver and Thornton are lured into a trap by an assassin they thought had been killed on the first case they worked on together.

MacGyverisms

Shoestring, wrench, door handle attached to gas pedal
"Peteism" Pulled Mac off bed with displacement charge
Oil can, pantihose, battery, exhaust blew off door

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041 BUSHMASTER

Main Mission

    The daughter of an American cargo pilot being held prisoner in Latin America tags along on MacGyver's rescue mission.

MacGyverisms

Used rock & string to make rifle shoot itself
Sent mouse thru drain to get freon
Used freon to shatter lock
Put egg whites on radiator to clog holes in radiator

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042 FRIENDS

Main Mission

    At a surprise birthday party thrown for MacGyver by Pete Thornton & his friends, MacGyver reviews his life-threatening career and ponders resignation.

MacGyverisms

Just clips of old MacGyverisms

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043 DOA MACGYVER

Main Mission

    An amnesiac MacGyver is hunted by terrorists who believe he knows of their plan to assassinate U.S. military figures with an explosive device.

MacGyverisms

Slap 2X4 against concrete, sounds like a gun
Muriadic Acid & Amonia make fog screen
Made name plate into bicycle chain guard
Kicked boat stand down to knock bad guy down
Figured out, from conversation, coat was a bomb
Stuffed said coat into jar, threw under bad guys' car

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044 FOR LOVE OR MONEY

Main Mission

    MacGyver and a ruthless, free-lance mercenary pose as honeymooners in Czechoslovakia to free a political prisoner from asylum.

MacGyverisms

Made fake blood from red wine and ketchup
Carbon, oxygen, & glove smoke bomb in potatoe dish
Nitro tablet & alcohol explosive
Attached baling wire to ignition to "stun"
Scared everyone with grenade with explosive removed

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045 & 046 LOST LOVE (Two Part ep)

Main Mission

    MacGyver is assigned to protect China's national treasure, when a former love he thought dead appears, needing his help to escape from Soviet agents who want her and the artifact.

    Risking a diplomatic crisis to save Lisa, MacGyver has less than 24 hours to break his own security system to steal the Ming Dragon, then finds out it was all a set-up to catch him.

MacGyverisms

Rode down log carrier
Entered building thru vent pipe
Duct tape over latch so vent won't close
Lowered himself with rope & carabriners
Found hidden laser with climber's chalk
Arnold Palmer's birthday unlocks combination lock
Breathed on window, wrote numbers on vapor
Hydraulic suctions, plastic tube, remote lift glass
Used clamps for pressure to "fake out" weight lock
Post-It note and rope for "distraction" to escape
Kisses Lisa, pulls out her hair pin to pick handcuffs
Used handcuffs to pick lock

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047 BACK FROM THE DEAD

Main Mission

    Jimmy "The Eraser" Kendall returns in his new identity as a minor-league baseball coach, but his appearance in a sports magazine draws the attention of his former employer's thugs.

MacGyverisms

Used fire hose to slide across high wire
Used SAK to drop net on someone
Threw spear at dial, steam pressure hit bad guys

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048 GHOST SHIP

Main Mission

    Setting survey markers in Alaska, MacGyver comes upon a seemingly abandoned ship with a stowaway Russian girl aboard, and a Sasquatch.

MacGyverisms

Made oars from branch & tent bag
Extracted water from stone with metal tube
Fishing reel & line as trip wire, pole as slingshot
Put ?? in pipe, flush water??????

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049 FIRE & ICE

Main Mission

    A thief kills MacGyver's old friend, leaving a trail of stolen jewels that leads straight to a foreign consulate.

MacGyverisms

Attached hose to rake head, used as climbing rope
Graphite from pencil to make fingerprints show up

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050 GX-1

Main Mission

    A secret high-tech plane goes down in the Alps, and MacGyver reluctantly allows Nikki to accompany him across the East German border - racing to beat the Soviets aided by a pshycic, to the wreckage.

MacGyverisms

Pine needles between shirt layers for warmth
Made shoes from duct tape and plastic mat
Made hot air balloon from shed, tent, gas cylinders

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051 JACK IN THE BOX

Main Mission

    MacGyver gets a taste of redneck justice when he gets tossed into a prison labor camp during a mission to the rural South.

MacGyverisms

Made acetylene from carbide & water
Hooked bad guy up to cable, cable drug him to mud
Put dynamite in suitcase

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052 WIDOWMAKER

Main Mission

    MacGyver goes into mourning when long-time friend Mike Forester dies in a mountaineering accident, but a pyromaniac with a score to settle forces MacGyver to concentrate on matters at hand.

MacGyverisms

Car antenae, jump cable, battery used as arc welder
Belt & rope used to climb pole
Cut phone wire to tap morse code
Used a bracelet for above morse code

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053 HELL WEEK

Main Mission

    A frustrated physics student at MacGyver's alma mater becomes a ticking time bomb when a school contest turns into a family war.

MacGyverisms

"Rymanism"-Fix leak with gum
Acedic Acid & Amonia smoke screen for motion detector
Jam elevator with dustpan
Difuse bomb by "cooking" mercury with wires

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054 BLOW OUT

Main Mission

    Political terrorism hits close to home when Nikki, who accidentally witnessed a terrorist bombing, is targeted by the bomber, who fears she can identify him.

MacGyverisms

Tear Gas: Hot water bottle, soda, vinegar, spices
Hung dripping yellow paint under car
Moved desk to displace weight for weight bomb
Fill bomb truck with cement

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055 KILL ZONE

Main Mission

    Wildlife begins to perish mysteriously, and MacGyver discovers the culprit: an uncontrollably mutating organism that speeds up the aging process.

MacGyverisms

Used Transmitter from satellite as a radio
Tubing, freon, & gas to seal silicon leak
Hot wired an elevator to speed it up

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056 EARLY RETIREMENT

Main Mission

    Thornton mediates the Phoenix Foundation's talks between the UN and a rabidly anti-American subversive, until a suspicious explosion forces him to resign - and the man who takes his job could be connected to murder and sabotage.

MacGyverisms

Steam Pressure Hose Smoke Screen

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057 THIN ICE

Main Mission

    A high-school hockey player has a chance to go pro - if he plays dirty enough. But when a fight on the ice lands an opposing player in the hospital, MacGyver tries to teach the youth about sportsmanship.

MacGyverisms

Replaced solenoid spring with flashlight spring

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058 THE ODD TRIPLE

Main Mission

    Jack Dalton sucks MacGyver into his latest scheme to pilot an heiress back to France after she purchases a fortune in jewels. But when MacGyver and Jack Dalton accomplish the mission, they're arrested.

MacGyverisms

Fire hose on the bad guys trick!
used wine to wriggle out of having hands tied
Nitro cannisters on wine cask to break down wall
DALTONISM! Smoke flare in the suitcase

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059 NEGOTIATOR

Main Mission

    MacGyver is tasked to do an environmental-impact study before builders can start a project, and when bribery fails, the devloper hires a beautiful woman to get rid of him.

MacGyverisms

Fire extinguisher to get rid of chase car
Used jumper cables to zap Debra

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060 SPOILERS

Main Mission

    MacGyver enlists a reclusive, troubled Vietnam veteran to help track whoever is dumping toxic waste in mountain streams.

MacGyverisms

Smoke screen

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061 MASK OF THE WOLF

Main Mission

    Jack Dalton talks MacGyver into accompanying an elderly Native American on a search for a legendary wolf mask, but two mercenaries have plans of their own for the artifact.

MacGyverisms

Copper & zinc mixture to lift tomb door
Used a hemp fuse for above

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062 ROCK THE CRADLE

Main Mission

    Jack Dalton nearly kills MacGyver in a plane ride and later, in the hangar, finds a baby tagged "Jack Jr." strapped into the cockpit, and a fortune in counterfeit bills in the bassinet.

MacGyverisms

Fixed plane landing gear while in mid air
Built a baby crib from Hockey sticks
Distract bad guys with a remote control plane
Used Fire Hose on bad guys

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063 ENDANGERED

Main Mission

    MacGyver visits an ex-girl friend, a ranger at a wildlife reserve, only to have his vacation turned into a bloody confrontation by poachers who are killing off endangered species.

MacGyverisms

Matches & rum for diversion
Took distributor cap from bad guys car
Speared bandana across river to fool bad guys
Forked branch, pegs, fishing line sling shot a dart
Logs & limonite make pointing arrow
Covered ranger with branches
Rope, matches, and coat on vine simulated "approach"
Flashlight barrel & cord used to shoot dart

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064 MURDER'S SKY

Main Mission

    The takemver of a Chinese mogul's company involves a deadly ninja, and it's up to MacGyver and the mogul's young heir, his grandson, to halt the escalating bloodshed.

MacGyverisms

Hi-Fi speakers & cable simulate "sonar"
Knocked out lights with window cleaner
Hid behind paper "rock walls"

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065 SECRET OF THE PARKER HOUSE

Main Mission

    MacGyver must act as a ghoulish ghostbuster in a spooky old house inherited by his friend, Penny Parker, a dead ringer for her insane aunt, who once lived in the house.

MacGyverisms

Pencil Erasers & Clay on skull remade Aunt Betty
Lit Candle detected draft to find secret door
Pipe on pressure steamer to torpedo the wall

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066 BLOOD BROTHERS

Main Mission

    Back in his home town, MacGyver finds past and present overlapping as he remembers a fatal shooting accident from his youth while trying to stop his old friend's son from using a gun to defend himself against drug-dealing hoodlums.

MacGyverisms

Young Mac made a cart from a bicycle
Drain Cleaner & Phenolphthalen Solution=fake blood

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067 OUTSIDERS

Main Mission

    After a jeep accident in Pennsylvania, MacGyver is rescued by Amish family and helps intervene in a standoff between Amish who won't leave their land and a construction company waiting to bulldoze it.

MacGyverisms

Used barrels to support "dirt tunnel"

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068 ON A WING AND A PRAYER

Main Mission

    It appears that Thornton and old flame who is now a nun haven't a prayer after they're taken hostage by Central American rebels, until MacGyver asks Jack Dalton and his seaplane to rescue them.

MacGyverisms

Threw lantern on crates for diversion
Patched sea-plane gash with lifejacket material
Rope plane and rev up for take-off on short runway
MacGyver "flew economy" on a sea-plane!

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069 COLLISION COURSE

Main Mission

    MacGyver returns to his racing roots to test a car engine designed by the Foundation, but a rival car-owner has some dirty tricks up his sleeve.

MacGyverisms

Silver nitrate tests for chlorine in water

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070 SURVIVORS

Main Mission

    During routine survival training in the woods, MacGyver and Thornton discover the wreckage of a DEA plane, which MacGyver determines was shot down by drug smugglers.

MacGyverisms

Climber's pick and ropes to slide between rock walls
Stuffed a coat to look like a person

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071 DEADLY DREAMS

Main Mission

    MacGyver joins a police task force pursuing an escaped psychopath, a man MacGyver suspects is a pawn in a larger scheme.

MacGyverisms

Used motor oil to see thru frosted window
Soaked matches with water to keep from exploding
"Zetoism"-torn book cover plastic used as cup
"Zetoism"-Drain Cleaner & water simulate heart attack
"Zetoism"-Transport mixture via toilet paper roll
"Crossism"-Tape matches to door, light propane
"Crossism"-Phosphorus lanterns in plastic jugs

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072 MA DALTON

Main Mission

    Jack Dalton and MacGyver search for Dalton's mother and learn that she's a fugitive being pursued by a bounty hunter.

MacGyverisms

Used lug wrench to disconnect himself from car

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073 CLEO ROCKS

Main Mission

    Murdoc poses as a musical's director, using MacGyver's friend Penny Parker as a pawn in a crazed play of vengeance against MacGyver.

MacGyverisms

Tested sulfur on spoon over torch
String & SAK released a wire
Stunned Murdoc with electric cord

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074 FRATERNITY OF THIEVES

Main Mission

    A highly classified Phoenix technology system could be compromised by espionage, and one of the culprits is someone within the Foundation, close to the heart of Pete Thornton.

MacGyverisms

Sodium Thiosulft. & Dis. Water antidote prussic Acid
Rewired Helipad signal lights

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075 BATTLE OF TOMMY GIORDANO

Main Mission

    MacGyver's friend wins custody of her son, prompting her ex-husband to seek the help of his uncle - "the absolute, undisputed head" of a crime family - to steal young Tommy Giordano back.

MacGyverisms

Hot wired phone for listening to calls in next room
Sock over the tailpipe, so car couldn't start
Used telephone wire to bolt door shut
Alcohol-Ammonia-Acid used with toy for smoke screen

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076 CHALLENGE

Main Mission

    A youth from an inner-city club run by MacGyver's friend is framed for a theft by a racist who'll stop at nothing to shut the club down.

MacGyverisms

Used alcohol to test ink print

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077 RUNNERS

Main Mission

    MacGyver offers protection to a runaway girl, and as he helps her cope with her bitter past, he unveils a tragic memory of his own.

MacGyverisms

Tied car to garbage dump with hose

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078 GOLD RUSH

Main Mission

    MacGyver joins a U.S.-Soviet team in Alaska trying to retrieve millions in gold from a wrecked World War II transport plane, but they're left out in the cold when they discover someone's gotten there first.

MacGyverisms

Used pin and map to amplify old dictaphone
Vodka, string, oxygen to blow out snow
Disarm weight mine with backpack pole
Rode plane cargo door like sled

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079 INVISIBLE KILLER

Main Mission

    In the Cascades, MacGyver leads a group of Phoenix employees into the mountains to reduce stress levels, but stress is replaced by paranoia when it's learned that murderous convicts are on the loose.

MacGyverisms

Remote Sling Shot to throw leaves & dirt in guy's face
Shot vinegar & pepper through the telescope
Rope Snare Trap with pulley in fire lookout

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080 BRAINWASHED

Main Mission

    A power-hungry couple seeking to overthrow a foreign government have "programmed" Jack Dalton to assassinate the country's president.

MacGyverisms

No MacGyverisms, just figured out the "programming"

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081 EASY TARGET

Main Mission

    MacGyver and Pete Thornton are held hostage by terrorists bent on crippling the nearby metropolitan area with a sophisticated electronic device.

MacGyverisms

Replaced grenade pin with lift ticket wire
Took explosisve from grenade, blew out door
Jammed door, had Pete hold a "trip" wire
Rewired walkie talkies for "short" distraction
Made an electro magnet "short" itself

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082 RENEGADE

Main Mission

    A mentally disturbed man steals a precious vial of deadly bacteria, and MacGyver is shocked when a confrontation with the thief reveals that he's a friend who once saved his life.

MacGyverisms

Hot wire elevator with SAK
Light bulb aim at motion detector to hide motion
Yanked "any old wire" to difuse bomb, GOT LUCKY
Roped prop on helicopter

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083 UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Main Mission

    A beautiful woman with a mission returns to kill MacGyver.

MacGyverisms

Daltonism-Used Feet knock Deborah down w/rock
No "isms," except for clips from past shows

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084 & 085 LEGEND OF THE HOLY ROSE (Two part ep)

Main Mission

    MacGyver is exhausted after a rescue in Colombia, but archaeologist Zoe Ryan entices him to join her quest for the Holy Grail, which someone else has designs on.

    MacGyver and Zoe's search for the Holy Rose may be halted permanently by Von Leer, who has stolen the artifacts they need to unlock its secrets.

MacGyverisms

Stowed away in a hot tub crate
Built a two seat airplane for rescue
Used his shoes to escape from pendulum torture
Used flag to climb castle to rescue Zoe
Used bellows as a pea shooter

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086 BLACK CORSAGE

Main Mission

    MacGyver teams with a bounty hunter to track down a Bulgarian scientist on the run from "techno-bandits" who are seeking the location of an ancient gem.

MacGyverisms

PHROGISM-pushed door open with nose
PHROGISM-dog rerouted Mac & Colton out of fish chopper
Cut ropes on fish teeth
Start Merry Go Round to distract bad guys
Used SAK to pick lock
Rigged cord to shut cover when jewelry picked up

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087 CEASE FIRE

Main Mission

    In Switzerland for peace negotiations between two countries, MacGyver becomes a fugitive when he's framed for an assassination attempt on one nation's president.

MacGyverisms

Wire, battery, jumper cable as "arc welder"
Lisa "doubletalks" bad guys
Rope self to cable car
Cut off bomb with SAK

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088 SECOND CHANCE

Main Mission

    MacGyver heads a project bringing young Amerasians to the U.S. for medical treatment, and his companion meets a thieving youth who's the son he didn't know he had.

MacGyverisms

Shot a syringe through rolled up paper
Exploded a gate lock

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089 HALLOWEEN KNIGHTS

Main Mission

    MacGyver's not sure whether it's a trick or a treat when his ruthless rival Murdoc asks for help to free his innocent sister, who's being held captive by a vengeful ex-employer.

MacGyverisms

Pool Chalk, candle wax makes thumbprint impression
Apple & cabbage deflects rifle with motion detector
Garbage Can Lid deflects rifle with motion detector
Tent cloth prevents motion detector from working
Pouring kerosene on self repels snakes

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090 CHILDREN OF LIGHT

Main Mission

    A Chinese student trailed by agents of the People's Republic arrives at MacGyver's home claiming to be his foster daughter, while secretly holding evidence of the bloodletting at Tiananmen Square.

MacGyverisms

Vise Grip forced heavy pipe to burst down door
Used metal pole to slide down cord used as rope

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091 BLACK RHINO

Main Mission

    In Africa, MacGyver tries to help the wildest of the Colton brothers nail a poacher who's butchering endangered black rhinos for their valuable horns.

MacGyverisms

No MacGyverisms

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092 TEN PERCENT SOLUTION

Main Mission

    MacGyver looks into a concentration-camp survivor's familial claim to a masterpiece painting, and the two uncover a neo-Nazi group that's auctioning off stolen artworks to finance its plot to create an "Aryan Nation."

MacGyverisms

Earring, tube, light bulb broke thru metal door

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093 TWO TIMES TROUBLE

Main Mission

    MacGyver is put in double jeopardy by a rock-singer friend who thinks her twin is trying to kill her.

MacGyverisms

Climbed out of elevator, and up shaft
Camera lens = magnifying glass
Got fingerprint with tempura paint and tape
Figured out double life, dressed up as Carla
While underwater in tank, breathed on bubble pipe
Kicked light bulb, cut straightjacket on broken glass

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094 MADONNA

Main Mission

    On Christmas Eve, MacGyver helps his priest friend search for a statue of the Madonna taken from a church near the Challengers Club, for which a homeless woman has a pocketful of minor miracles.

MacGyverisms

Rolled stage on barbells

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095 SERENITY

Main Mission

    MacGyver dreams he's a Civil War veteran in the Old West who gains a claim to a home on the range in Montana, but he meets resistance from a neighboring rancher in the form of Pete Thornton.

MacGyverisms

No MacGyverisms

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096 LIVE & LEARN

Main Mission

    MacGyver reaches out to a promising high-school student as part of a Phoenix mentor program, but he has to get around a cynical teacher and the youth's no-nonsense father for his message to take hold.

MacGyverisms

Glycerol & water to recover a burned paper
Lifted cement slab off someone

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097 LOG JAM

Main Mission

    MacGyver infiltrates a logging company on behalf of an environmentalist friend who believes that a company whistle-blower was cut down before he could expose the management's illegal activity.

MacGyverisms

Squirt fire hose at a killer

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098 TREASURE OF MANCO

Main Mission

    MacGyver helps a friend search for a lost Inca treasure that's also sought by greedy guerillas looking for a way to finance a bloody revolution.

MacGyverisms

Used SAK to dig out grout seal on rock
Stood on stone to activate Inca mechanism

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099 JENNY'S CHANCE

Main Mission

    MacGyver, Jack Dalton and Pete Thornton go undercover as a computer geek, a drug lord, and a dirty big-time bookie to make a murderous money launderer come clean.

MacGyverisms

Wire & microchip makes high frequency noise
Everybody was somebody else!!!!!

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100 DEEP COVER

Main Mission

    A drug cartel spy steals a prototype stealth submarine by seducing the main engineer.

MacGyverisms

Flare, oxygen, wire, popped submarine cover
Pinned bad guys with raft
Hooked boat to dock
Cable "hooked" bad guy

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101 LOST AMADEUS

Main Mission

    A slightly off-key woman leads MacGyver on a wild chase to save a priceless violin - and the virtuoso who owns it - from hoods.

MacGyverisms

LULUISM-took key while looking over someone's shoulder
LULUISM-"Therapied" guy to distraction, then hit
Hid inside grate
Hair pin opens lock
Lit kerosene lamp in trash, activates CO2 Extinguisher
Cut ropes against scroll saw blade

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102 HEARTS OF STEEL

Main Mission

    A steel executive whose mill has been shut down seeks vengeance by kidnapping the daughter of the corporate raider responsible for the closure.

MacGyverisms

Swung on Cable to knock bad guy down
Heavy electro-magnet lifted car

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103 RUSH TO JUDGEMENT

Main Mission

    As a juror in a racially charged murder trial, MacGyver can't resist digging up more facts on his own, which courts the wrath of the judge, even though he may be on to the truth.

MacGyverisms

Used SAK to pick lock on soft drink dispenser
Made soft drink dispenser shoot cans for distraction
Pushed cart to knock bag lady down
Spilled perfume to put dogs off scent trail
Dressed manequins in Macs clothes to fool dogs

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104 PASSAGES

Main Mission

    While waiting to fly home to his ailing grandfather, MacGyver pursues a thief who's stolen an Egyptian artifact tied to ancient beliefs about the afterlife.

MacGyverisms

HARRYISM-Gum wrapper fishing lure
Fire hose threaded on boat axle winches door open
Used boat cable to jump from ship
Drew symbol in baby powder to tell Pete something

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105 TOUGH BOYS

Main Mission

    MacGyver is on the trail of a group of youth vigilantes and their leader, who are taking explosive measures to blow away the crack ring gripping their neighborhood.

MacGyverisms

Picked lock w/SAK
Cowboy roped a bomb w/electrical cord
Attempted to disarm bomb w/ string & copper tube
Didn't work, got lucky, bomb was phony
Paint can handle & lawn mower rope pull lift door bolt
Used oozie as wrench to turn on fire hose
Thread said hose thru ladder, squirt bad guys

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106 HUMANITY

Main Mission

    An elite corps still loyal to Romania's dead tyrant Ceauscescu sabotages a plan to uncover his secret files and, in the chaotic aftermath of their assault, MacGyver tries to appeal to one agent's sense of humanity.

MacGyverisms

Phone & Speaker to listen to "clicks" in comb. lock
Threw bomb in safe after opening it

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107 GUN

Main Mission

    A gun used in an assassination 20 years ago and in a present-day cop killing is sought by both a crazed anarchist and MacGyver, who needs it to clear a friend accused of the shooting.

MacGyverisms

Used (??) to pry box open
Explosive: Grenade detonator, copper wire, dry cell

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108 TWENTY QUESTIONS

Main Mission

    MacGyver tries to get Lisa Woodman to admit she has a drinking problem that's already led to her involvement in a string of burglaries.

MacGyverisms

Last computer file accessed = next house robbery
Threw picture for distraction
Lamp, small figure, table, = LARGE shadow on curtain
Chained truck so it wouldn't go over edge

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109 WALL

Main Mission

    MacGyver seeks to reunite an East German expatriate with his granddaughter Maria, who may be in cahoots with two ex-Stasi agents who want a stash of gold in the old man's possession.

MacGyverisms

Signal Flare to detect laser beam
Used "slimy goo" to get ropes off hands
Used hand puppet as distraction
Toy Blimp as distraction
Dropped snare drum on bad guy

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110 LESSON IN EVIL

Main Mission

    MacGyver's murderous nemesis Dr. Zito escapes after a sanity hearing and leaves a trail of clues intended to give MacGyver a crash course in evil.

MacGyverisms

ZETOISM-Use pin to pick lock
Mac deciphered Zeto's code
Jumped on bell rope, caused bell to hit Zeto

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111 HARRY'S WILL

Main Mission

    MacGyver tangles with crazy crooks and an elderly ex-con in pursuit of a treasure thought hidden in a Nomad station wagon willed to MacGyver by his grandfather.

MacGyverisms

SAK to pick lock
Used wire to pull air pump hose
Inflated doubled-over inner tube to raise car
DIVINE INTERVENTION gave clue to Harry's puzzle

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112 MACGYVER'S WOMEN

Main Mission

    After an embarrassing scene with Maria, Lt. Murphy, and Jenny, MacGyver dreams he is back in Serenity, where he must rescue all three from the Hole in the Wall Gang and their ruthless leader, Kid Curry.

MacGyverisms

Used belt hook to cut ropes
Roped building, horse pulled building down
Alcohol poured on seeds in stove mimics gunshots

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113 BITTER HARVEST

Main Mission

    MacGyver picks up where a murdered farm-worker left off by investigating a grower's possible use of illegal pesticides.

MacGyverisms

Sunglasses, Nail Polish Remover, Lamp = spectroscope
Used homemade spectroscope to analyze stick for "fix"
Kicked off welded bar, cut ropes on welds
Breathed oxygen from hole left from kicking bar
Squirted wine from tank at bad guy

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114 VISITOR

Main Mission

    MacGyver believes he's seeing a close encounter of the con kind when a couple of "extraterrestrials" promise to transport a desperate rural family to a utopian, trouble-free planet - for a price.

MacGyverisms

SAK to pick lock
VORTEX caused distraction
VORTEX posts Mac's bail
VORTEX shorts out the flame thrower
Uranium, amonia, nepalm, wires = chemical plasma
Spear salted wires to power lines = chemical plasma

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115 SQUEEZE PLAY

Main Mission

    MacGyver goes to bat for a former baseball player who's being blackmailed by a counterfeit-memorabilia ring.

MacGyverisms

Pull out brick to listen in room
Record tone dials to figure out phone number
Kent McCord bats ball to cause sign to fall

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116 JERICO GAMES

Main Mission

    MacGyver happily reunites with his high-school sweetheart, who's now the embittered wife of a media-mogul sponsoring an international sports competition.

MacGyverisms

Jerico pin picks lock
Mac escaped by hanging on under truck
Metal rod pushed window out of incinerator
Used same rod to push incinerator handle to OFF
Rod & string to open latch on incinerator door

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117 WASTELAND

Main Mission

    MacGyver seeks to halt a land developer who's on the verge of creating an environmental ruin, while the man's son and daughter have a more malicious plan to run him out of the family business.

MacGyverisms

Propeller Parachute man to hospital

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118 EYE OF OSIRIS

Main Mission

    MacGyver helps a cranky archaeologist and his adventuresome assistant search for the tomb of Alexander the Great, but their work's cursed by a vengeful villain.

MacGyverisms

Sugar/Water to dry Sand impression for plaster mold

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119 HIGH CONTROL

Main Mission

    A parolee with the will to go straight nevertheless needs the aid of MacGyver to battle his old biker gang seeking to blackmail him.

MacGyverisms

Found Biotoxin in Teddy Bear
Used broken glass to break ropes
Squirt ether thru pump hose to knock someone out
Mixed explosive, put on bike, hit car with it

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120 THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE

Main Mission

    MacGyver enters the world of the homeless to investigate the murder of an old friend from high school.

MacGyverisms

Stapled coat to ground, person was in coat
Blown up rubber glove & light bulb thing

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121 BLIND FAITH

Main Mission

    Pete Thornton's old flame, a political dissident, is in danger as she seeks to shed light on atrocities committed in her Latin American country.

MacGyverisms

Steam Pressure Hose Shot Gun
Used grinder to cut ropes
Jam Door with a Crowbar
Used Display Shelf as Bullet Proof Barrier
Used Jumper Cables to make "stunner"

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122 FAITH HOPE & CHARITY

Main Mission

    While tracking the endangered gray wolf, MacGyver is side-tracked by murderous mobsters prowling for stolen loot, but he gets help from two charitable women named Faith and Hope.

MacGyverisms

Made a Crutch from Hat Rack
Ropes against saw to cut binds
Made wheelchair from Baby Carriage
Saw thru stair support to stop bad guys
Found a secret tunnel
Cayene Pepper on a mop in someone's face
Pull Stair Carpet runner to trip someone
Vaccuum Cleaner in the Chili, squirt at someone

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123 STRICTLY BUSINESS

Main Mission

    Murderous Murdoc decides to come out of "retirement" and hit the one target that's always eluded him: MacGyver.

MacGyverisms

Used Rifle to prop Booby Trap wires

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124 TRAIL OF TEARS

Main Mission

    A land dispute pits a Native American advocate, willing to us explosive measures,against electric-company representatives, willing to kill.

MacGyverisms

T-Bar inside tube for rocket to break door
Used feather as cotter pin to stop bomb

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125 HIND-SIGHT

Main Mission

    Awaiting the operation to treat Pete Thornton's glaucoma, MacGyver and Thornton look back on many of the adversities they've overcome in the past.

MacGyverisms

Clips of old MacGyverisms

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126 HONEST ABE

Main Mission

    MacGyver is whisked away from the Bar Mitzvah of his friend's son by the boy's grandfather Abe, who gets MacGyver tangled in a web of international intrigue involving an eccentric Caribbean dictator and a high-tech helicopter.

MacGyverisms

Use Flashlight Morse Code to access helicopter
{"Waxed" cloth thru candle for a fuse
{thread above fuse into keyhole
{Pour Brandy into bellows, flush thru keyhole
{Lit fuse by stiking metal hoop on concrete floor
Fired helicopter weapons by shaving & flashing mirrror

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127 HOOD

Main Mission

    Having lost his houseboat to fire, MacGyver moves into a Bohemian section of town and flies into action when a young woman in his new neighborhood walks into trouble with hit men.

MacGyverisms

Speared skeleton hand to pull lever
Candle Wax enhanced printing on burned matchbook
Hid in Laundry Cart, kicked someone
Knocked scaffolding down w/ fire hose & elevator

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128 OBSESSED

Main Mission

    Recurring nightmares about Murdoc make MacGyver sleepless and on edge as he provides security at the criminal trial of a deposed dictator.

MacGyverisms

Used shoes to pull cart with nitrogen toward him
Used Nitrogen to break rope
Stuffed cloth in the intake of rocket to mess it up
Squirted "409 Cleaner" on light bulb for diversion
Murdocism-Dart in payment briefcase

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129 PROMETHEUS SYNDROME

Main Mission

    Efforts to help smoke out a psychopathic arsonist turn personal for MacGyver.

MacGyverisms

Used bomb to break down door
Pulled bomb pin with officer badge
Used above pin to unhook motion sensor in bomb
Used walkie talkie magnet against bomb circuit

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130 COLTONS

Main Mission

    The Colton family aids an Amerasian girl, lone witness to a Chinatown murder, who is fleeing from the Chinese mafia.

MacGyverisms

Got the dog to bring acid to him to cut rope

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131 WALKING DEAD

Main Mission

    MacGyver finds himself in deep trouble when a friend's activist daughter is kidnapped and turned into a zombie by a group of Haitian extortionists.

MacGyverisms

Grab rope thru knothole in coffin
Knotted rope, swaying truck broke coffin
Throw Mama L.'s "magic dust"
Wire, brick, barrel as distraction
Escaped in cloud of magic powder

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132 & 133 GOOD KNIGHT MACGYVER (Two part ep)

Main Mission

    A bonk on the head sends MacGyver back in time to King Arthur's Court, where his futuristic ways are a threat to Merlin's magic, but they also might prove that the magician didn't try to do in the King.

    Seeking to clear his family's name, MacGyver continues his quest with Merlin to free Galahad's beloved Cecilia and to foil the plan of wicked Morgana, who's got gunpowder.

MacGyverisms

"Ducked" on horse to prevent joust jab
Cowboy-roped a knight
Sliced standing rope with SAK
Pewter goblet, 4 eggs, & potash for poison antidote
Alcohol, candle, wire, metal, glass; isolated tinadium
Soda & vinegar in bag is fire extinguisher
Corkscrew on SAK pulled Mac out of pits
High pitch dog whistle from metal tube & paper?
Lighter & "black powder" make letters show up on rock
Polished barrette with amonia to make mirror
Wet cloth strips, quills, silk, knife makes kite
Vitriol & zinc make hydrogen gas in a boda bag
Used said gassed boda bag to fly kite
Said kite caught fire and blew off jail door

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134 DEADLY SILENTS

Main Mission

    MacGyver acts on behalf of an old silent-movie comedian whose only remaining prints of his work are stolen by a pair with a penchant for special effects.

MacGyverisms


SAK thru wallet, poke curtain, slide down curtain
Used shoe as "grappling hook"
Pulled prop down on "bad guys"

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135 SPLIT DECISION

Main Mission

    MacGyver's boxer buddy Earl Dent fights to retain custody of his daughter, but some bad bookmakers want him to take a dive in his comeback bout.

MacGyverisms

Homemade boxing training devices
Sodium Thiosulfate & water is "chill bag"
Knocks window with crane truck

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136 GUNZ 'N BOYS

Main Mission

    A Challenger Club youth takes the heat for the fatal shooting of a gang member murdered by a weapons dealer who makes a killing exploiting street violence.

MacGyverisms

Tore off Air Conditioner to get in warehouse
Lit whiskey covered kindling in wastebasket for flame
Used flame, Duct Pipe, cinch belt to torpedo beer keg
Picked lock with champaigne cork wire

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137 OFF THE WALL

Main Mission

    MacGyver goes to the wall for a young graffiti-artist friend and his grandmother, who's been evicted by a slum-lord to make way for a development project.

MacGyverisms

Heat Coil & Coat hanger to break plastic hand ties
Threw bomb down chute, hit car

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138 STRINGER

Main Mission

    In his last regular-series adventure, MacGyver takes on the dangerous cause of a Chinese dissident and gets help from an unexpected source - his son.

MacGyverisms

Water Pressure Hose "Turbo" Lift
Smoke screen down a funnel

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139 MOUNTAIN OF YOUTH

Main Mission

    MacGyver joins Jack Dalton in Kabulstan on a search for a fountain of youth in a land that appears to be a real Shangri-La - and finds himself battling nuclear terrorists in the process.

MacGyverisms

Test tube & scarf to split wire
Put stopper in door to jam it so it wouldn't lock

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140 LOST TREASURE OF ATLANTIS

Main Mission

    MacGyver, his archaeology professor, and an old friend team up to search for the legendary treasure of Atlantis, but an enterprising Englishman and his partner want the treasure for other reasons.

MacGyverisms

Replaced Medal used to hold bars with lens cap
Now, HOW did they get out of the rock pile???
How to get out of Jail with an electrically
charged floor:
1. Attach chain to wooden chair.
2. Place chair on electric floor.
3. Make sure you don't step on electric part!
4. Hop on chair, don't touch floor.
5. Lean back in chair.
6. Fill keyhole with butane gas from lighter.
7. Jump off chair.
8. Push light hanging from cord against door
to ignite the butane.
9. BAM, door is open.
Take apart gun, use pin to pick handcuff locks.
How to get a car with no engine to "go:"
1. Put booster rockets on side of car
2. Hook the car to a box of grenades.
3. BAM, building door is blown off, car goes.
Used the booby trap stalactites to cut rope
Candle in armor to burn rope for distraction
Used SAK to start the plane
How to get out of a volcano:
1. Thread rope thru funnel
2. Throw funnel with rope to top
3. Hope it "catches," it does
4. Loop rope thru pulley
5. Put coat over steam pipe
6. The pressure of steam forces coat out
7. Rope moves, hang on, get out

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141 TRAIL TO DOOMSDAY

Main Mission

    In England, MacGyver investigates the mystery of his friend's murder and discovers a secret nuclear weapons facility in the process.

MacGyverisms

Air nozzle w/powder to distract bad guy
Wet rag w/charcoal used as gas mask
Used eyeglasses as magnifier
Use belt as a pole grip to climb pole
Used vaccuum switch and hose to distract bad guy
Screw driver blocks door
Tone generator of oscilloscope rewired uranium separator
Used insulation to crawl on "hot" uranium pipes
Red & Black lead wires and tennis racket used as tricket wrench
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