MacGyver 1985

An underground lab is destroyed by a mysterious explosion. MacGyver is sent in to rescue the trapped scientists and stop a deadly chemical leak.

Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Lerner, Dana Elcar
Director(s): Jerrold Freedman
Writer(s): Thackary Pallor

MacGyver is sent to Burma to retrieve a poison-filled canister from a crash site. While there, a drug lord mistakes MacGyver for a narcotics agent, forcing him into a confrontation.

Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Joan Chen, George Cheung
Director(s): Paul Stanley
Writer(s): Terry Nation, Lee David Zlotoff, Dennis Foley

MacGyver obtains a watch in Budapest that contains top secret information on microfilm. However, a young Gypsy girl steals the watch from MacGyver and he must get it back.

Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Constantine, Bruce Abbott
Director(s): John Patterson
Writer(s): Terry Nation, Stephen Downing, Lee David Zlotoff

MacGyver is sent to Central America to rescue an American journalist and escape out of the country. The dictator of the country and his army pursue MacGyver, making the escape very difficult.

Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Robin Curtis, John Vernon
Director(s): Lee H. Katzin
Writer(s): Judy Burns, Lee David Zlotoff, Stephen Kandel

An American senator has $60 million in diamonds stolen from him by a Virgin Islands casino owner. MacGyver goes with the senator's daughter to steal the diamonds back from his high-security vault.

Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Vernon Wells, Victoria Bass
Director(s): Alan Smithee
Writer(s): Lee David Zlotoff, James Schmerer, Larry Alexander

Deep in the Amazon jungle, a horde of killer ants is destroying everything in its path. MacGyver helps his entomologist friend and the plantation owner to battle the ants before the plantation is destroyed.

Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, David Ackroyd, Peter Jurasik
Director(s): Donald Petrie
Writer(s): Stephen Kandel, Lee David Zlotoff

MacGyver is taken hostage by some armed robbers at an airport. MacGyver uses his ingenuity to try to free himself along with the other hostages while simultaneously trying to stop the criminals.

Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Harry Caesar, Steve Franken
Director(s): John Florea
Writer(s): Lee David Zlotoff, Judy Burns

MacGyver visits some friends who are are drilling for oil. Their oil well catches fire and burns out of control. MacGyver is the only one who can stop the fire and save his friends' oil strike.

Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Cooper Huckabee, Nana Visitor
Director(s): Richard A. Colla
Writer(s): Lee David Zlotoff, Stephen Kandel, James Schmerer

MacGyver is assigned to protect a person in the Federal Witness Protection Program. The man he is protecting wants to come out of hiding to visit his dying mother. MacGyver must protect him from the Mob and from the Feds.

Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Richard Romanus, Robert Romanus
Director(s): Alexander Singer
Writer(s): Lee David Zlotoff, David Abramowitz, Paul Savage

There is a contract out on MacGyver so he leaves town and visits his Grandfather whom he hasn't seen in years. Soon the two are fighting for their lives in a cat and mouse hunt with the killers.

Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, John Anderson, D'Mitch Davis
Director(s): Ernest Pintoff
Writer(s): Terry Nation, Lee David Zlotoff, Mike Marvin

MacGyver is kidnapped by enemy agents to retrieve sensitive information he stole from them. To get him to talk, they inject MacGyver with a hallucinogenic drug that will kill him in six hours, unless an antidote they have is administered.

Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Tammy Lauren, Dana Elcar
Director(s): Cliff Bole
Writer(s): Lee David Zlotoff, James Schmerer

An enemy of MacGyver's fills a supposed safe house with several deadly booby traps to exact his revenge on MacGyver.

Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Wendy Schaal, Christopher Neame
Director(s): Alexander Singer
Writer(s): Jerrold L. Ludwig, Lee David Zlotoff, Stephen Kandel

A theft of uranium occurs at a nuclear power plant where an ex-girlfriend of MacGyver's works. She enlists his help to catch the thief which endangers hers and MacGyver's lives.

Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Tannis G. Montgomery, Conlan Carter
Director(s): Bruce Seth Green
Writer(s): Lee David Zlotoff, Stephen Kandel, Hannah Louise Shearer

A cruise ship is the target of a terrorist attack and has three bombs hidden aboard. MacGyver and a friend from the agency are asked to dismantle the bombs before it's too late for the crew and passengers.

Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Ellen Bry, Steven Williams
Director(s): Stan Jolley
Writer(s): Lee David Zlotoff, David Ketchum, Tony DiMarco

Four agents have been betrayed by a mole inside the Agency, leading to their deaths. MacGyver must discover who it is before he becomes the next victim.

Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Viktoriya Fyodorova, Lynn-Holly Johnson
Director(s): Cliff Bole
Writer(s): Lee David Zlotoff, David Abramowitz, Bruce David

In Bulgaria, MacGyver collects a top-secret microfilm and attempts to smuggle it out of the country. At the airport he meets a mysterious beautiful American girl, who turns out to have ties to the Bulgarian Secret Police.

Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Teri Hatcher, Kai Wulff
Director(s): Charles Correll
Writer(s): Lee David Zlotoff, James Schmerer

While on a rescue mission in Soviet Afghanistan, MacGyver is shot and wounded. An Afghan woman and her son risk their lives to give refuge to MacGyver. A wounded MacGyver must now outwit the Russian Army to complete his mission.

Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Persis Khambatta, Dana Elcar
Director(s): Cliff Bole
Writer(s): Lee David Zlotoff, Don Mankiewicz, Fred McKnight

MacGyver is sent to rescue a teenage computer hacker kidnapped by weapons dealers who want her to arm a missile system they stole.

Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Darcy Marta, Lee de Broux
Director(s): Charles Correll
Writer(s): Lee David Zlotoff, Larry Gross, Fred McKnight

MacGyver finds himself on a train that gets hijacked by Indian tribesmen. He tries to help them find the Westerners who sold tainted medicine to their tribe and resolve the situation peacefully.

Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Frances Bergen, Kenneth Danziger
Director(s): Don Weis
Writer(s): Lee David Zlotoff, Stephen Kandel, Fred McKnight

Complications arise when MacGyver forms a plan to free a missionary from a North African jail.

Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Kristina Wayborn, Paul Verdier
Director(s): Don Chaffey
Writer(s): Lee David Zlotoff, Fred McKnight, Stephen Kandel

To infiltrate a mental institution to free a political prisoner who is a friend of Pete's, MacGyver must feign madness. Getting in is the easy part...

Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Elya Baskin, Lawrence Dobkin
Director(s): Cliff Bole
Writer(s): Lee David Zlotoff, Stephen Kandel

An assassin is primed to knock off a high-ranking official when MacGyver is called in. But in order to foil a master of disguises, Mac must don the best disguise of all...

Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Corinne Bohrer, Anthony De Longis
Director(s): Charles Correll
Writer(s): Lee David Zlotoff, James Schmerer