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Airdate:
Jan. 22, 1986
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Opening Gambit: MacGyver escapes from
East Germany inside a coffin that turns into
a Jet ski when it is tossed into the water.
Main Plot: MacGyver, upon returning
to the United States from a mission, is picked
up by Karen Blake and brought to a safehouse.
At the safehouse is Peter Thornton, MacGyver's
friend and the new deputy chief of the DXS,
and Mrs. Chung, a cryptographer who will decode
the information that MacGyver has obtained.
However, they soon discover that the house
is filled with booby traps that have been
planted by Quayle, an enemy agent who has
been hired to stop MacGyver. Mrs. Chung is
sedated and the house becomes a deadly prison.
Further complicating the situation, MacGyver
soon discovers that Karen is working for Quayle,
who is holding her brother hostage. Of course,
MacGyver successfully bypasses the traps and
captures Quayle. Note: According to this episode,
Pete Thornton, a colonel, first met MacGyver
in the desert. MacGyver had saved Pete's life
by pulling him out of quicksand and putting
him on a camel.
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Guest
Cast
Wendy Schaal as Karen Blake, Christopher Neame
as Quayle, Dana Elcar as Peter Thornton, Beulah
Quo as Mrs. Chung, Erik Holland as Man #1, Tom
Maier as Man #3, Carl Held as Man #2, Frank
Holms as German
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Writer
Stephen Kandel
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Director
Alexander Singer
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Gambit
Writer
Jerry Ludwig
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Gambit
Director
Cliff Bole
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Airdate:
Jan. 29, 1986
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MacGyver
receives a frantic phone call from his college
girlfriend Amy Austin, who now works in a
nuclear power plant. On his way to meet Amy,
MacGyver remembers (via a flashback) how he
had left to travel on a freighter to the Adriatic
and she had remained in college to get her
degree. MacGyver arrives at the meeting site
only to see Amy's car explode, After attending
Amy's funeral, MacGyver finds her very much
alive in the back of his car. Amy, whose roommate
died in the explosion, has feared for her
life ever since she uncovered information
on a uranium theft. MacGyver and Amy head
to the nuclear plant and soon discover that
MacGyver's college friend Tim Wexler, a power
plant employee, and Ed Train, a police officer,
are behind the theft. MacGyver confronts the
criminals but, unfortunately, the confrontation
results in a stray gun shot setting off a
nuclear reaction. Tim, who has come to regret
what he has done, helps MacGyver and Amy stop
the reaction. Note: This episode features
MacGyver's landlord Susan, who appeared occasionally
during the first season.
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Guest
Cast
Tannis
Montgomery as Amy Austin, Conlan Carter as Ed
Train, Robert Englund (V/Nightmare on Elm
Street) as Tim Wexler, Robin Pearson Rose
as Susan, Bill Washington as Kyle, Roger Hampton
as Yale, Ed Williams as the Minister
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Teleplay
Stephen
Kandel
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Story
Hannah
Louise Shearer
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Director
Bruce
Seth Green
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Airdate:
Feb. 12, 1986
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The episode opens in East Germany where MacGyver
makes a pick-up of secret information. He narrowly
escapes (in a MacGyver repaired car) with the
help of fellow agent Craig Bannister. Back in
the United States, MacGyver is introduced to
Ingrid, Craig's newlywed wife and then reports
to Pete Thornton, the new Executive Director
of Operations for the DXS. Pete asks MacGyver
to protect Viktoria Tomanova, a GRU defector
who can hopefully identify a DXS "mole" that
is responsible for the death of four agents
in the past seven weeks. At a party that evening,
a reverend attempts to kill Viktoria. The assassin,
who is clearly brainwashed, dies of a heart
attack as soon as he is apprehended. MacGyver
and Viktoria soon discover that the mole is
Craig Bannister. They learn that Bannister has
been brainwashed by his wife Ingrid, who is
in reality a GRU agent. Ingrid is captured and
Craig is stopped. MacGyver then barely saves
Bannister's life when the brainwashed agent
suffers a heart attack.
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Guest
Cast
Victoria
Fyodorova as Viktoria Tomanova, Lynn-Holly Johnson
as Ingrid Bannister, Michael W. Goodwin as Craig
Bannister, Dana Elcar as Peter Thornton, Beau
Starr as Lem, Douglas Dirkson as Reverend Mather,
Arthur Malet as Pathologist, Richard Balin as
Fritz
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Writer
David
Abramowitz
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Director
Cliff
Bole
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Airdate:
Feb. 19, 1986
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MacGyver
is called in after a bomb goes off on the cruise
ship Victoria. Three additional bombs are found
on board and MacGyver and Charlie Robinson,
who disarmed bombs with MacGyver in Vietnam,
are assigned to disarm them. Meanwhile, Pete
and bomb expert Donahue are responding to the
blackmail demands of a mysterious bomber who
calls himself "Viking." Unfortunately, Charlie
is killed in a failed attempt to disarm one
of the bombs. Viking is paid off but refuses
to give any information on his devices. Therefore,
it is up to MacGyver and Carole, the ship's
first officer (who took command when the captain
was killed in the first bombing), to disarm
the final two bombs. MacGyver, based on the
style of the bombs, begins to suspect that Donahue
is Viking. Pete, on a private communications
line confirms Viking's identity after cross-referencing
Donahue's background. MacGyver and Carole successfully
disarm both bombs when they do the opposite
of what Donahue suggests.
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Guest
Cast
Michael Cavanaugh (Starman) as Michael
Donahue, Ellen Bry (Spiderman) as Carole,
Steven Williams (21 Jump Street) as
Charlie Robinson, Dana Elcar as Peter Thornton,
Robin Pearson Rose as Suzanne (MacGyver's
landlord whose name is spelled differently
in the credits for this episode), Burke Byrnes
as Captain Howard, J. Michael Flynn as Carlysle,
Jeff Abbott as Officer Atkins
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Writers
David Ketchum and Tony DiMarco
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2
Hours - Airdate: Oct. 25, 1983
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MacGyver
is on assignment in Bulgaria obtaining a microfilm
that contains financial information on corrupt
members of the government. At the airport, MacGyver
is arrested and his luggage (including the microfilm)
is confiscated after Penny Parker, a scatterbrained
American dancer and would be actress, drops
Jewels into his pocket. Penny had kept the Jewels
(which she had received as a gift) after breaking
up with Stephan Frolov, her Jealous Bulgarian
boyfriend. Using his ingenuity, MacGyver breaks
Penny and himself out of the airport room that
they were locked in. Meanwhile, Stephan, a major
with the Bulgarian secret police, is informed
by his uncle, General Petrovich, that the Jewelry
that was given to Penny is actually part of
the stolen crown Jewels of Hanover. Since Penny
still has one of the illegal Jewels, Frolov
needs to recover it or Petrovich's financial
corruption will be exposed. Penny and MacGyver
then proceed to Frolov's apartment and recover
the microfilm from MacGyver's luggage. Petrovich
and Frolov soon catch up with MacGyver and Penny,
however, Frolov changes sides when he sees that
his corrupt uncle plans on killing Penny. Frolov
then helps MacGyver and Penny escape from Bulgaria.
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Guest
Cast
Teri
Hatcher as Penny Parker, Kai Wulff as Stephan
Frolov, Michael Fox as Burak, Milos Kirek
as Petrovich, Vladimir Skomarovsky as Anton,
Anthony Caldarella as border guard, Peggy
Rea
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Airdate:
Feb. 26, 1986
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MacGyver
is in Afghanistan to recover a fallen satellite.
Using a homemade glider, he recovers the satellite
but is shot in the process. Fortunately, an
Afghan woman and her young son help MacGyver.
However, Khalil, a local official who has been
harassing the boy and his mother, arrives and
is accidentally killed when he tries to attack
the mother. MacGyver and the family, realizing
that they are no longer safe in Afghanistan,
head towards the Pakistan border. They are stopped
but escape from Soviet soldiers. The boy then
explains that he can not understand why MacGyver
did not kill the soldiers. MacGyver's reply:
he did not have to. They make their way to the
border' and run into one of the same soldiers.
The soldier, who is thankful that his life was
spared, allows MacGyver and the family to cross
the border.
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Guest
Cast
Persis
Khambatta (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)
as the Afghan woman, Ajay Naidu as the son,
Dana Elcar as Peter Thornton, Sid Haig as Khalil,
Allan Kolman as Captain, Michael Shore as the
sergeant, Ron Gilbert as the lieutenant
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Writer
Don
Mankiewicz
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Director
Cliff
Bole
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Airdate:
March 12, 1986
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MacGyver
goes to see Professor Willis, his former teacher.
Willis is soon killed by arms dealers, but not
before asking MacGyver to protect one of his
students. Kate, the student, had broken into
a defense systems computer and discovered a
flaw with an army missile system. Now, she is
sought by the arms dealers as well as an overzealous
government. Kate is soon captured by the arms
dealers and forced to help them test the stolen
missile system. MacGyver arrives and frees Kate.
He then stops the arms dealers from proceeding
with their test. In the process of helping Kate,
MacGyver manages to give the teenage girl (and
former self made "ugly duckling") feelings of
self-worth.
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Guest
Cast
Darcy
Marta as Kate, Lee de Broux as Hatcher, Dana
Elcar as Peter Thornton, Richard Mckenzie as
Willis, Ned Bellamy as Larkin, Melinda 0. Fee
as Carol Lafferty, Russell Johnson as Oslow,
Rob Paulsen as Rogers, Michael Francis Clarke
as Walker
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Writer
Larry Gross
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Director
Charles Correll.
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Airdate:
March 26, 1986
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MacGyver, who has information on a guerrilla
attack, is on board a foreign train that is
hijacked by a man named Hassan. Hassan has stopped
the train in order to locate the two Westerners
that sold bad medicine to his village. The medicine
had cost the village a great deal of money and
had caused the deaths of twenty-six people including
the village doctor, Hassan's son. Andy Gillis,
one of the passengers, is initially blamed after
a failed escape attempt. (Andy had hoped to
get help to save his girlfriend Laura Dillon.)
It is only MacGyver 's intervention that stops
Hassan from taking his revenge on Andy. The
next suspect is Peter Kramer who had blown the
whistle on Andy's escape attempt in order to
keep Hassan's attention away from a large sum
of money in his luggage. Meanwhile, MacGyver
has been trying to convince Hassan that he should
release the passengers and seek a peaceable
solution. In hopes of resolving the problem,
MacGyver builds a lie detector that reveals
that Paul Webster is the crooked Westerner.
MacGyver then helps stop Webster. As a result,
Hassan agrees to release the train. James Grant,
a crippled Doctor, and Diana Kingman, who wants
to get away from her overbearing mother, decide
to go back to Hassan's village and help care
for the sick.
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Guest
Cast
Frances
Bergen as Eleanor Kingman, Kenneth Danziger
as Peter Kramer, Anthony De Fonte as Hassan,
Carrell Myers (Swamp Thing), Tracy Reed,
Pamela Roylance as Diana Kingman, Warwick Sims
as Dr. James Grant, Mark Tymchyshyn as Andy
Ellis, Noel de Souza as Batu Das, Tom Simmons
as Blade, Thomas H. Middleton as Lyman, Elias
Zarou as Badur, Gerald Papasian as Barman, Xahba
Maliza as the little girl
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Writer
Stephen
Kandel
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Director
Don Weiss
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Airdate:
April 2,1986
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MacGyver
is in North Africa helping out at an orphanage
following an earthquake. He is introduced to
Sara Ashford, a woman who needs his help in
freeing her brother Brian from a local prison.
Sara informs him that her brother, a medical
missionary, was arrested so that the crooked
police could get their hands on some valuable
relief supplies. MacGyver agrees to help and
then gets himself thrown in prison when he stops
a police officer from beating a peddler. Once
inside, MacGyver befriends fellow prisoner Francois
and learns that the prison is actually run by
a prisoner named Khan. MacGyver soon obtains
permission to see Brian when he fixes Khan's
record player. After reviewing his escape plan
with Brian, MacGyver offers to fix a machine
in Khan's drug lab. However, MacGyver actually
rigs the machine so that it will explode and
create a diversion. In the confusion of the
explosion, MacGyver and Brian escape. Once outside
the prison, MacGyver learns that Sara is really
a Soviet agent seeking Brian, an arms dealer,
in hopes of recovering some stolen weapons.
Unfortunately, Brian escapes. MacGyver agrees
to help Sara recapture him but only if she allows
him to destroy the weapons. Sara and MacGyver
then locate and destroy Brian's warehouse. The
money from the arms deal is given to the orphanage.
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Guest
Cast
Kristina
Wayborn as Sara Ashford, Paul Verdier as Francois,
John DeLancie (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
as Brian, Miguel Fernandes as Khan, Vic Polizos
as Commandant, Mike Moroff as Fuad, Jeanne Hepple
as Ann, Gary Krakower as Warder, Eric Fleeks
as First Officer.
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Writers
Fred McKnight and Stephen Kandel.
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Director
Don
Chaffey
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Airdate:
: April 30, 1986
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After Pete mysteriously heads to Moscow, MacGyver
follows and learns that his friend has come
to the Soviet Union after hearing that Alexander
Kharsov was accused of spying and killed. Pete
feels responsible since Kharsov, who was helping
Pete to transfer letters and not secrets, was
accused because of his involvement with DXS
agent Pete. MacGyver and Pete rescue Mariah,
Kharsov's daughter, from the authorities and
then learn that Kharsov is not dead but is being
held in a state mental institute in Leningrad.
Pete and Mariah, disguised as a doctor and a
nurse, take MacGyver, who is posing as a mental
patient, into the hospital. Once inside, MacGyver
befriends a patient named Dimitri and learns
that Kharsov is being held in "ward zero." MacGyver,
along with the help of the inmates, then frees
Kharsov. Meanwhile, Pete, Mariah and one of
the Soviet doctors are accused of stealing drugs.
However, MacGyver sedates the institute staff
and they all escape. Mariah decides to go with
Pete and MacGyver to the United States but Kharsov
announce his decision to stay behind and help
others.
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Guest
Cast
Elya Baskin as Dimitri, Larry Dobkin as Alexander
Kharsov, Dana Elcar as Peter Thornton, Marvin
Kaplan as the Chess Master, Paul Koslo as Dr.
Suvarin, Sharon Maughan, Jane Merrow, Tim Rossovich,
Harry Woolf as the supervisor, Stephen Anthony
Henry as Stepanov, Austin Kelly as Boris
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Writer
Stephen Kandel
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Director
Cliff
Bole
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Airdate:
May 7, 1986
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In a sting operation in a clock shop, MacGyver
captures an assassin named Piedra. Meanwhile,
a woman named Terry Ross discovers that her
sister has been murdered. As a result, Terry
decides to work for her sister's escort service
in order to find the killer. MacGyver, following
up on his case against Piedra, poses as the
assassin and ends up on a date with Terry. (The
escort service is being used to transmit information
about assassinations.) MacGyver learns that
an assassination attempt is being planned against
an Archbishop. Unfortunately, Terry then tries
to kill MacGyver since she believes that he
is responsible for her sister's murder. However,
MacGyver manages to convince her that he is
not Piedra. The situation then becomes more
complicated when the real Piedra escapes from
custody. MacGyver proceeds to the Archbishop's
location and recognizes Piedra, who is disguised
as a nun. Terry follows and tries to kill Piedra.
She only changes her mind when MacGyver convinces
her that she should let the law handle it. Piedra,
who soon tries to escape, is killed when he
accidentally stabs himself with his own weapon.
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Guest
Cast
Corrine
Bohrer as Terry Ross, Anthony DeLongis as Piedra,
Richard Yniguez as Emilio, Dana Elcar as Peter
Thornton, Jack Heller as Smith, Mary Gregory
as Eileen Kennedy, Don Diamond as the Archbishop,
Robert Covarrubias as Lopez, Greg Noberg as
Connors, Marco Hernandez as Enrique, Joy Ryan
as Cheri, Peter Harrell as Sawyer, Morgan Saint
John as Eddie, Brenda Strong as Lila
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Writer
James Schmerer
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Director
Charles
Correll
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