Season 4

1988–1989

Oct 31, 1988 · 45m

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.

E2. Blood Brothers

Nov 21, 1988 · 45m

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.

E3. The Outsiders

Nov 28, 1988 · 45m

MacGyver helps an Amish family, who saved his life, from having their farm seized by the government.

E4. On a Wing and a Prayer

Dec 5, 1988 · 45m

Central American rebels capture Pete and a nun during a coup d'état, and it's up to MacGyver and Jack to rescue them.

E5. Collision Course

Dec 12, 1988 · 45m

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.

E6. The Survivors

Jan 9, 1989 · 45m

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.

E7. Deadly Dreams

Jan 16, 1989 · 45m

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.

E8. Ma Dalton

Jan 23, 1989 · 45m

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.

E9. Cleo Rocks

Feb 6, 1989 · 45m

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.

E10. Fraternity of Thieves

Feb 13, 1989 · 45m

Pete is conflicted when he discovers that the Phoenix Foundation employee selling classified information turns out to be his son.

E11. The Battle of Tommy Giordano

Feb 20, 1989 · 45m

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.

E12. The Challenge

Feb 27, 1989 · 45m

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.

E13. Runners

Mar 13, 1989 · 45m

MacGyver helps a young runaway with a vicious pimp and a tragic secret about her policeman father.

E14. Gold Rush

Mar 27, 1989 · 45m

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.

E15. The Invisible Killer

Apr 10, 1989 · 45m

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.

E16. Brainwashed

Apr 24, 1989 · 45m

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.

E17. Easy Target

May 1, 1989 · 45m

MacGyver and Pete are captured by terrorists intent on wiping out a nearby city with an electromagnetic pulse, unless their leader is freed.

E18. Renegade

May 8, 1989 · 45m

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.

E19. Unfinished Business

May 15, 1989 · 45m

Jack, MacGyver, and Pete review their past adventures while on a gold-panning expedition, unaware they're being stalked by a vengeful killer.