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SEASON ONE
001 PILOT
Airdate: 29 September 1985
Writer: Thackary Pallor
Director: Alan Smithee
Guest Cast: Michael Lerner as Gantner, Dana Elcar as Andy Colson, Paul
Stewart as Dr. Steubens, Michael C. Gwynne as Dr. Burke,Olaf Pooley as Dr. Sidney Marlow,
Shavar Ross as MacGyver's"little brother," Darlanne Fluegel as Barbara Spencer.
MacGyver is called in as a last hope to stop a deadly acid leak and save scientists
trapped in an underground lab by a mysterious explosion.
Opening Gambit: MacGyver rescues a downed Air Force pilot from his Mongolian
captors.
002 THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE
Airdate: 06 October 1985
Opening Gambit Writer: Terry Nation
Opening Gambit Director: Donald Petrie
Writer: Dennis Foley
Director: Paul Stanley
Guest Cast: Joan Chen as Lin, George Lee Cheung as General Narai, Clyde
Kusatsu as Anek, Keye Luke as Prasert, Benjamin Lum as Truang, Bryan Price as Chan, James
Saito as Ming.
While retrieving a poison-filled canister from a crash site in Burma, MacGyver is forced
to take on a powerful drug lord when he is mistaken for a narcotics agent.
Opening Gambit: The crusher
MacGyver tracks down stolen documents and captures the criminals as they exchange
the documents in an old car-wrecking yard.
003 THIEF OF BUDAPEST
Airdate: 13 October 1985
Opening Gambit Writers: Terry Nation & Stephen Downing
Opening Gambit Director: Lee H. Katzin
Writer: Joe Viola
Director: John Patterson
Guest Cast: Michael Constantine as Jan Messic, Bruce Abbott as Kossov, Kelly McClain as
Yanna, Sue Kiel as Reena.
In Budapest, MacGyver races against KGB agents to find a young gypsy girl who has stolen a
watch containing microfilm from a Russian double agent.
Opening Gambit: Pegasus
MacGyver retrieves a stolen horse and gets picked up, literally ,by a helicopter.
004 THE GAUNTLET
Airdate: 21 October 1985
Opening Gambit Writer: Judy Burns
Opening Gambit Director: Lee H. Katzin
Writer: Stephen Kandel
Director: Lee H. Katzin
Guest Cast: Robin Curtis as Kate Connelly, John Vernon as Ryerson, Gregory Sierra as
General Antonio Vasquez.
MacGyver goes up against an entire army when he helps an American Journalist escape across
the boarder of a South American dictatorship.
Opening Gambit: Map
MacGyver is assigned to retrieve a map, but ends up having to use the map as tool of
escape when he is chased by the owners of the map.
005 THE HEIST
Airdate: 03 November 1985>
Teleplay: James Schmerer
Writers: Larry Alexander & James Schmerer
Director: Alan Smithee
Guest Cast: Vernon Wells as Catlin, Victoria Bass as Tiffany, John Carter
as Senator Rhodes, Doran Clark as Chris Rhodes.
In the Virgin Islands, MacGyver and a senator's daughter must recover $60 million in
stolen diamonds from the crocked casino owner’s impenetrable vault.
006 TRUMBO'S WORLD
Airdate: 10 November 1985
Opening Gambit Writer: Stephen Kandel
Opening Gambit Director: Lee H. Katzin
Writer: Stephen Kandel
Director: Donald Petrie
Guest Cast: David Ackroyd as Trumbo, Peter Jurasik as Dr. Charles Alden.
Deep in the Amazon jungle MacGyver teams up with a local plantation owner to battle an
invading horde of killer ants. (includes clips from "The Naked Jungle," a 1954
George Pal movie).
Opening Gambet: White water
MacGyver must rescue a captured scientist from her Pyrenee captors.
007 LAST STAND
Airdate: 17 November 1985
Writer: Judy Burns
Director: John Florea
Guest Cast: Harry Caesar as Al Tennyson, Steve Franken, Jackie Earle
Haley, Art Hindle as Dave Redding, Kay Lenz as Kelly Nelson, Michael McGuire as Andrews,
Anthony Penya, Lewis Van Bergen as Buddy.
MacGyver must use his extraordinary skills to free hostages and thwart the armored-car
robbers who are holding them at a desert air-strip.
008 HELLFIRE
Airdate: 27 November 1985
Teleplay: Stephen Kandel, James Schmerer, & Douglas Brooks West
Story: Douglas Brooks West
Director: Richard Colla
Guest Cast: Cooper Huckabee as Bill Farren, Nana Visitor as Laura Farren,
Rudy Ramos as Pete Torgut.
MacGyvers friends strike oil, but an out of control fire threatens to destroy all they
own. They turn to MacGyver as the only one who can extinguish the inferno and save the
oil.
009 THE PRODIGAL
Airdate: 08 December 1985
Teleplay: David Abramowitz
Story: Paul Savage & David Abramowitz
Director: Alexander Singer
Guest Cast: Robert Romanus as Frank Bennett, Richard Romanus as
Joey Bennett, Carl Franklin as Wiley, Angela Clarke as Caterina Bennett.
A protected Federal witness wants to come out of hiding to visit his dying mother. Can
MacGyver protect him from the mob and the feds?
010 TARGET MacGYVER
Airdate: 22 December 1985
Opening Gambit Writer: Terry Nation
Opening Gambit Director: Lee H. Katzin
Teleplay: Mike Marvin, Stephen Kandel, & James Schmerer
Story: Mike Marvin
Director: Ernest Pintoff
Guest Cast: John Anderson as Harry Jackson, D'Mitch Davis as Axminster.
A team of assassins targets MacGyver while on a fishing trip with his long-estranged
grandfather, forcing them to put aside their differences to defend themselves against the
gang of highly trained killers.
Opening Gambet: Kitchen magic
MacGyver must rescue a Lady general held captive at a local beach house.
011 NIGHTMARES
Airdate: 15 January 1986
Writer: James Schmerer
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest Cast: Tammy Lauren as Lisa Allen, Dana Elcar as Pete Thornton,
Robert O'Reilly as Curt Neilson, J.P. Bumstead as Barrett, Mike Mancini as Crisp.
Returning from East Germany with information, MacGyver is captured by German agents and
given an hallucinogenic drug giving him 6 hours to either hand over the information or die
from the drug.
012 DEATHLOCK
Airdate: 22 January 1986
Opening Gambit Writer: Jerry Ludwig
Opening Gambit Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Stephen Kandel
Director: Alexander Singer
Guest Cast: Wendy Schaal as Karen Blake, Christopher Neame as Quayle,
Dana Elcar as Pete Thornton.
A safehouse turns out to be anything but, when MacGyver discovers it is jam-packed with
deadly booby traps set by a vengeful enemy.
Opening Gambet: Funeral in Berlin
Posing as a corpse, Mac escapes Berlin by turning his coffin into a jet-ski.
(includes clips from the 1966 film"funeral in Berlin" staring Michael Caine)
013 FLAMES END
Airdate: 29 January 1986
Teleplay: Stephen Kandel
Story: Hannah Louise Shearer
Director: Bruce Seth Green
Guest Cast: Tannis Montgomery as Any Austin, Conlan Carter as Ed Train,
Robert Englund as Tim Wexler.
The theft of uranium from a nuclear power plant reunites MacGyver with an old
girlfriend… and the hunt for the thief threatens to set off a nuclear reaction.
014 COUNTDOWN
Airdate: 05 February 1986
Writers: David Ketchum & Tony DiMarco
Director: Stan Jolley
Guest Cast: Ellen Bry as Carole Tanner, Steven Williams as Charlie
Robinson, Dana Elcar as Pete Thornton, Michael Cavanaugh as Donahue.
MacGyver races against the clock, and certain death as he tries to disarm two
sophisticated bombs on a cruise ship in the middle of the Pacific ocean.
015 THE ENEMY WITHIN
Airdate: 12 February 1986
Writer: David Abramowitz
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest Cast: Victoria Fyodorova as Viktoria Tomanova, Lynn-Holly Johnson
as Ingrid Bannister, Michael W. Goodwin as Craig Bannister, Dana Elcar as Pete Thornton,
Beau Starr as Lem.
A mole inside the DXS has betrayed four agents to their deaths.
Will MacGyver be next? The traitor is closer than he ever imagined.
016 EVERY TIME SHE SMILES
Airdate: 19 February 1986
Writer: James Schmerer
Director: Charles Correll
Guest Cast: Teri Hatcher as Penny Parker, Kai Wulff as Stephan Frolov,
Michael Fox as Burak, Milos Kirek as Petrovich.
MacGyvers quick getaway from Bulgaria with stolen microfilm is stymied by an American who
involves him in her lovers' quarrel with a Bulgarian security officer.
017 TO BE A MAN
Airdate: 05 March 1986
Writer: Don Mankiewicz
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest Cast: Persis Khambatta as Zia, Dana Elcar as Pete Thornton, Sid
Haig as Khalil, Allan Kolman as the Captain, Ajay Naidu as Ahmed.
Shot down and wounded by Soviets in Afghanistan, MacGyver is given refuge by an Afghan
woman and her son.
018 UGLY DUCKLING
Airdate: 12 March 1986
Writer: Larry Gross
Director: Charles Correll
Guest Cast: Darcy Marta as Kate Lafferty, Lee deBroux as Hatcher, Dana
Elcar as Pete Thornton, Richard McKenzie as Willis, Ned Bellamy as Larkin.
MacGyver must rescue a teenage computer whiz who's kidnapped by weapons dealers to help
arm their stolen missile.
019 SLOW DEATH
Airdate: 02 April 1986
Writer: Stephen Kandel
Director: Don Weis
Guest Cast: Frances Bergen as Eleanor Kingman, Kenneth Danziger as
Peter Kramer, Anthony DeFonte as Hassan, Alan Fudge as Paul Webster, Carrell
Myers, Tracey Reed, Pamela Roylance as Diana Kingman, Warwick Sims as James
Grant, Mark Tymchyshyn as Andy Ellis.
MacGyver's train trip through India is derailed by a hijacker seeking revenge on two
unidentified Westerners who sold his village doctor, poisonous medicine.
020 THE ESCAPE
Airdate: 16 April 1986
Writers: Fred McKnight & Stephen Kandel
Director: Don Chaffey
Guest Cast: Kristina Wayborn as Sara Ashford, Paul Verdier as Francois,
John De Lancie as Brian Ashford, Miguel Fernandes as Khan, Vic Polizos as the Commandant.
MacGyver’s elaborate plot to spring a missionary from a North African jail works
perfectly… Until MacGyver discovers that nothing is as it seems.
021 A PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE
Airdate: 30 April 1986
Writer: Stephen Kandel
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest Cast: Elya Baskin as Demetri, Larry Dobkin as Alexander Karsoff,
Dana Elcar as Pete Thornton, Marvin Kaplan as the Chess Master, Paul Koslo as Dr. Suvarin,
Sharon Maughan, Jane Merrow, Tim Rossovich as the Political Prisoner.
MacGyver and Thornton infiltrate a Soviet mental hospital to rescue a friend who's being
held as a political prisoner. But find getting
out isn’t as easy as getting in.
022 THE ASSASSIN
Airdate: 07 May 1986
Writer: James Schmerer
Director: Charles Correll.
Guest Cast: Corrine Bohrer as Terry Ross, Anthony DeLongis as Piedra,
Richard Yniguez as Emilio, Dana Elcar as Pete Thornton.
MacGyver tries to prevent the assassination of an archbishop by a master of disguise.
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