Season 1

Richard Dean Anderson stars as MacGyver, a resourceful and daring modern-day hero. MacGyver is called in as a last resort to rescue two scientists trapped in a high security underground laboratory as leaking acid threatens the New Mexico water system.
OPENING GAMBIT: MacGyver rescues a downed Air Force pilot from his Mongolian captors.

The Golden Triangle

MacGyver is mistaken for a narc when he tries to retrieve a canister filled with a deadly chemical from a plane that crashed near opium fields in Burma
OPENING GAMBIT: CRUSHER: In a junkyard, MacGyver uses a magnet to retrieve stolen documents, then escapes from a car about to be flattened.

Thief of Budapest

In Budapest, a young Gypsy steals a watch containing microfilm that MacGyver was supposed to receive from a Russian double agent.
OPENING GAMBIT: PEGASIS: MacGyver retrieves a stolen horse and gets picked up - literally - by a helicopter.

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

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

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).
OPENING GAMBIT: WHITEWATER: In the Pyrenees, MacGyver rescues a prisoner, then makes a daring escape with her by raft.

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

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.

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.

Target MacGyver

While visiting his estranged grandfather in Colorado, MacGyver is tracked and hunted down by a contract killer.
OPENING GAMBIT: KITCHEN MAGIC: Mac rescues a lady general at a beachhouse, then nabs her kidnappers using common kitchen equipment.

MacGyver escapes from foreign agents, but only after being injected with a hallucinogen that will kill him in six hours if he can't get the antidote.

MacGyver is caught in a mansion that's been booby-trapped electronically by an old nemesis.
OPENING GAMBIT: FUNERAL IN BERLIN: Posing as a corpse, Mac escapes Berlin by a coffin-turned-jet-ski.

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

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

The Enemy Within

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

Every Time She Smiles

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.

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

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

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.

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

A Prisoner of Conscience

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

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