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MacGyver Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1985 - 1986
Episode 1
Pilot
Sun, Sep 29, 1985 55 mins
MacGyver must rescue scientists trapped in an underground lab protected by a deadly security system. Gantner: Michael Lerner. Reggie: Shavar Ross. Barbara Spencer: Darlanne Fluegel. Dr. Burke: Michael C. Gwynne.
Episode 2
The Golden Triangle
Mon, Jun 10, 1985 55 mins
MacGyver is taken for a narc when he tries to retrieve a canister filled with a deadly chemical from a plane that crashed in Burma. Prasert: Keye Luke. Chan: Bryan Price. Truang: Benjamin Lum. Anek: Clyde Kusatsu. Lin: Joan Chen.
Episode 3
The Thief of Budapest
Sun, Oct 13, 1985 55 mins
In Budapest, a Gypsy steals a watch containing microfilm that MacGyver was supposed to receive from a Soviet double agent. Jan Messic: Michael Constantine. Kossov: Bruce Abbott. Reena: Sue Kiel. Alex: E.M. Margolese.
Episode 4
The Gauntlet
Mon, Oct 21, 1985 55 mins
MacGyver helps an investigative reporter (Robin Curtis) get out of a Latin American country with incriminating evidence linking a general to an illegal arms dealer. MacGyver: Richard Dean Anderson. Ryerson: John Vernon. Gen. Higuera: Gregory Sierra.
Episode 5
The Heist
Sun, Nov 3, 1985 55 mins
MacGyver must get into a Virgin Islands casino vault to recover $60 million in diamonds that belong to a U.S. famine-relief charity. Catlin: Vernon Wells. Chris Rhodes: Doran Clark. Tiffany: Victoria Bass. Senator Rhodes: John Carter.
Episode 6
Trumbo's World
Sun, Nov 10, 1985 55 mins
MacGyver helps a plantation owner defend his land from ants denuding the jungle (in clips from the 1954 movie "The Naked Jungle"). Trumbo: David Ackroyd. Charles Alder: Peter Jurasik. Luiz: Will Gotay. MacGyver: Richard Dean Anderson.
Episode 7
Last Stand
Sun, Nov 17, 1985 55 mins
MacGyver stumbles into a hostage situation at a desert airstrip that armored-car robbers have taken over while awaiting their flight out of the country. Kelly Nelson: Kay Lenz. Dave Redding: Art Hindle. Buddy: Lewis Van Bergen. MacGyver: Richard Dean Anderson.
Episode 8
Hell Fire
Wed, Nov 27, 1985 55 mins
MacGyver helps a friend cap an oil-well fire that's burning out of control. Bill Farren: Cooper Huckabee. Laura: Nana Visitor. Peter Torgut: Rudy Ramos.
Episode 9
The Prodigal
Sun, Dec 8, 1985 55 mins
MacGyver must devise a way for a witness, who's testifying against his brother, to visit his dying mother. Joey: Richard Romanus. Frank: Robert Romanus. Wiley: Carl Franklin.
Episode 10
Target MacGyver
Sun, Dec 22, 1985 55 mins
While visiting his estranged grandfather in Colorado, MacGyver is hunted down by a contract killer. Axminster: D'Mitch Davis. Suzanne: Jeannie Elias. Black: Robert Miano. Boy: Huck Liggett. Harry: John Anderson.
Episode 11
Nightmares
Wed, Jan 15, 1986 55 mins
MacGyver escapes from foreign agents---after being injected with a hallucinogen that will kill him in six hours if he can't get the antidote. Lisa: Tammy Lauren. Thornton: Dana Elcar. Neilson: Robert O'Reilly. Barrett: J.P. Bumstead.
Episode 12
Deathlock
Wed, Jan 22, 1986 55 mins
MacGyver is caught in a mansion that's been booby-trapped electronically by an old nemesis. Karen: Wendy Schaal. Quayle: Christopher Neame. Thornton: Dana Elcar. Mrs. Chung: Beulah Quo.
Episode 13
Flame's End
Wed, Jan 29, 1986 55 mins
An old friend of MacGyver's, who uncovered a theft from a nuclear processing plant, thinks someone is trying to kill her. Amy: Tannis Montgomery. Ed Train: Conlan Carter. Tim Wexler: Robert Englund. MacGyver: Richard Dean Anderson. Thornton: Dana Elcar.
Episode 14
Countdown
Wed, Feb 5, 1986 55 mins
MacGyver and a buddy have to defuse two sophisticated bombs aboard a cruise ship. Richard Dean Anderson, Dana Elcar. Robinson: Steven Williams. Donahue: Michael Cavanaugh. Carole: Ellen Bry. Suzanne: Robin Pearson Rose.
Episode 15
The Enemy Within
Wed, Feb 12, 1986 55 mins
MacGyver must protect a defector who can identify the killer of three agents. Viktoria Tomanova: Victoria Fyodorova. Bannister: Michael Goodwin. Ingrid Bannister: Lynn-Holly Johnson.
Episode 16
Every Time She Smiles
Wed, Feb 19, 1986 55 mins
MacGyver's in Bulgaria to obtain microfilm, but his getaway plans are stymied by a tourist (Teri Hatcher), who involves him in her lovers' quarrel with a security officer. MacGyver: Richard Dean Anderson. Stepan Frolov: Kai Wulff. Petrovich: Milos Kirek.
Episode 17
To Be a Man
Wed, Mar 5, 1986 55 mins
In Afghanistan, wounded and hunted, MacGyver is given refuge by an Afghan woman and her son (Persis Khambatta, Ajay Naidu). Khalil: Sid Haig. Captain: Allan Kolman.
Episode 18
Ugly Duckling
Wed, Mar 12, 1986 55 mins
Black marketeers are after a 15-year-old genius (Darcy Marta) who's the only one capable of fixing a missile's guidance system. MacGyver: Richard Dean Anderson. Hatcher: Lee de Broux. Thornton: Dana Elcar. Willis: Richard McKenzie. Larkin: Ned Bellamy.
Episode 19
Slow Death
Wed, Apr 2, 1986 55 mins
MacGyver and a trainload of passengers are taken hostage by a tribal chieftain seeking the men responsible for his son's death.
Episode 20
The Escape
Wed, Apr 16, 1986 55 mins
MacGyver gets himself tossed into a North African prison in order to spring an American missionary.
Episode 21
Prisoner of Conscience
Wed, Apr 30, 1986 55 mins
MacGyver and Thornton infiltrate a Soviet mental hospital to rescue a friend who's being held as a political prisoner.
Episode 22
The Assassin
Wed, May 7, 1986 55 mins
In the Season 1 finale, MacGyver tries to prevent the assassination of an archbishop by a killer who's a master of disguise.
