MacGyver: Season 2

1986 · 22 episodes · ★ 7.3

What Season 2 of MacGyver

Angus MacGyver works for the Phoenix Foundation, based in Los Angeles, and collaborates with the Department of External Services, a U.S. government agency. A trained physicist and former explosives expert in Vietnam, he prefers to think things through rather than resort to violence. Each assignment forces him to solve problems in the field, with lives at stake and only the materials he has on hand. His missions take him from a military base whose security system turns against him to a desert where four kids are lost after a plane crash. Along the way, he crosses paths with friends in trouble, con artists and mobsters. Jack Dalton, Pete Thornton and Penny Parker join the lead character on several of these cases.

22episodes

Sep 22, 1986premiered

May 4, 1987latest episode

16.5 hrtotal runtime

Season 2 Episodes

2x01 The Human Factor
Sep 22, 1986 · 45 min
MacGyver and Pete are testing a new security system at the Strategic Research Development Administration. MacGyver successfully bypasses the security and meets Dr. Jill Ludlam, the system's designer. She tries to turn off the security system, but it doesn't realize that it was just a test. MacGyver and Dr. Ludlam are then forced to find a way out, as the security system, named Sandy, tries to destroy the "intruders."
Directed by Charles Correll · Written by Robin Bernheim Burger · Starring June Chadwick, Peter Haskell, Peter Kwong
2x02 The Eraser
Sep 29, 1986 · 45 min
Mac inadvertently leads a hit man to his target, believing that he's helping a father find his lost son.
Directed by Paul Krasny · Written by Stephen Kronish · Starring Morgan Stevens, Michael Francis Kelly, Richard Jamison, Henry Jones
2x03 Twice Stung
Oct 6, 1986 · 45 min
MacGyver and Pete have a surprise party planned for a colleague, but when the colleague doesn't show up, MacGyver goes looking for him, and finds him on the verge of committing suicide. When questioned why he would do such a thing, Kelly explains that a con artist has swindled him out of his life savings. MacGyver tells Pete about Kelly's situation and the two of them decide that they will get Kelly's money back from the con.
Directing: Paul Krasny · Writing: Mark Lisson, Bill Froehlich · Starring: Al Fann, Steve Eastin, Rex Ryon, Michael Francis Kelly
2x04 The Wish Child
Oct 20, 1986 · 45 min
While MacGyver goes to pick up a Chinese friend's brother from a birthday party, he witnesses something strange: Paul is being called "The Wish Child." It seems that a greedy businessman has wrapped him up in a scam, because he looks exactly like a boy from an old legend that owns the secret of immortality. Now, MacGyver must try to talk him out of this, because Paul is starting to believe he really is The Wish Child!
Directing: Charles Correll · Writing: Bill Froehlich, Stephen Kandel · Starring: George Takei, James Pax, Tia Carrere, Clyde Kusatsu
2x05 Final Approach
Oct 27, 1986 · 45 min
MacGyver goes to the mountains to lead four ex-gangster teens on a Phoenix Foundation funded rehabilitation trip. When he gets there, he finds that this task may be a little more complicated then he thought. All of the kids are very rebellious and one of them has a bad grudge against another one. A couple of days later when MacGyver is returning with the kids, their plane crashes in the middle of the wilderness and one of them is injured. Now, MacGyver must fix the plane and help the kids work out their differences so they can save their friend.
Directed by Alexander Singer · Written by Rob Hedden · Starring Ricky Paull Goldin, Pamela Gidley, Ramón Franco, David Harris
2x06 Jack of Lies
Nov 3, 1986 · 45 min
MacGyver, returning home one night, walks into his apartment, only to everything he owns missing from his apartment. Initially suspecting a robbery, MacGyver eventually comes to the conclusion that his old friend Jack Dalton is the one responsible for the theft.
Directed by Charles Correll · Written by John J. Sakmar, Kerry Lenhart · Starring Patricia McPherson, Bruce McGill, Gregory Sierra, Silvana Gallardo
2x07 The Road Not Taken
Nov 10, 1986 · 45 min
MacGyver and Pete head to Asia to rescue a nun, who is an old friend of Pete's, and the orphaned children she takes care of from aggressive regime troops. While there, MacGyver runs into someone he never expected, his old fiancee, Debra. Now MacGyver must complete his mission, work out his differences with Debra, and escape from the troops, all before the troops find them.
Directed by Cliff Bole · Written by Stephen Kronish, Chuck Bowman · Starring Salome Jens, Richard Partlow, Marilyn Jones, Patrick Gorman
2x08 Eagles
Nov 17, 1986 · 45 min
While hang gliding in the west, MacGyver crosses paths with an escaped felon who shot and wounded a rare eagle. Now, with the help of his new friend Susan Cooper and her son Darin, MacGyver must heal the eagle and trap the felon before he kills more eagles.
Directed by Paul Krasny · Written by George Lee Marshall · Starring Christopher Stone, Julie Cobb, Danny Cooksey, Michael MacRae
2x09 Silent World
Nov 24, 1986 · 45 min
While helping the Phoenix Foundation test a new missile-guidance system for the government, MacGyver's efforts are hampered by men who are trying to steal it. When the men escape with it, MacGyver turns to his deaf friend, who has been having premonition-type dreams of this happening. Now MacGyver must try and analyze her dreams so that he can find the men who stole the system.
Directing: James L. Conway · Writing: Stephen Kandel · Starring: Jack Colvin, Geoffrey Lewis, Mary Beth Barber, Ji-Tu Cumbuka
2x10 Three for the Road
Dec 15, 1986 · 45 min
A retired actor and his wife stop at a motel on the way to Los Angeles. MacGyver rescues them from a drunkard who nearly makes a mark on their car.MacGyver is supposed to meet a mobster-turned-informant at the motel, but the meeting goes wrong. The mob shows up and kills MacGyver's friend before he can give MacGyver what he promised. Instead the bag lands in the old couple's car, where the old actor finds it and discovers it full of money.
Directed by Alan Crosland, Jr. · Written by John J. Sakmar, Kerry Lenhart · Starring Edward Mulhare, Anne Rogers, Richard Hatch, Dennis Stewart
2x11 Phoenix Under Siege
Jan 5, 1987 · 45 min · ★ 5.7
While retrieving tickets for a hockey game at the Phoenix Foundation, MacGyver and his grandpa Harry get caught in the middle of a woman's plot to blow up the building using a bomb that she herself made. They try to escape, but are locked in. Now they must figure another way out before she activates the bomb.
Directing: Gilbert M. Shilton · Writing: Stephen Kronish · Starring: Tricia O'Neil, John Anderson, Richard Lineback, Harry Beer
2x12 Family Matter
Jan 12, 1987 · 45 min
Pete's ex-wife and son are kidnapped down in Louisiana while on an archaeological trip. The kidnappers demand that Pete comes to Louisiana in exchange for letting his family go. But when he gets there, it soon becomes apparent that they don't plan to let any of them go.
Directing: Alexander Singer · Writing: Paul A. Magistretti · Starring: Scott Coffey, Penelope Windust, Don Gordon, Beau Billingslea
2x13 Soft Touch
Jan 19, 1987 · 45 min
MacGyver puts up Penny Parker for a few days while she's looking for a job as a singing telegram. But on her first day, she happens to witness two thugs torturing a man. Unfortunately, she can't find her way back, and when she does, MacGyver thinks this may be the start of something bigger as the victim is a Federal agent.
Directed by Charles Correll · Written by Joan Brooker, Nancy Eddo · Starring Teri Hatcher, Vincent Schiavelli, Michael Ensign, Hugh Farrington
2x14 Birth Day
Feb 2, 1987 · 45 min
MacGyver's fishing trip is cut short when he meets a very pregnant woman whose husband is out to kill her. Accidentally, she found out that his half-way home for ex-cons is really a recruiting place for new crimes. Mac and the woman are chased into a warehouse where they are trapped.
Directing: James L. Conway · Writing: Rob Hedden · Starring: Toni Kalem, Joe Lambie, David L. Crowley, Paul Drake
2x15 Pirates
Feb 9, 1987 · 45 min
While on an expedition to find a Spanish treasure fleet, Dr. Barbara Ortega's boat is hi-jacked by modern-day pirates. They steal the small amount of treasure that she has already found - including the ship's log, which is the key to finding the whole fleet - and take off. When she makes it public that she was hi-jacked, the Phoenix Foundation sends MacGyver to help. Now, MacGyver and Barbara must recover the ship's log, so she can find the treasure before the pirates do.
Directing: Bruce Kessler · Writing: Stephen Kandel · Starring: Cliff Potts, Nicholas Worth, Marta DuBois, Steven M. Gagnon
2x16 Out in the Cold
Feb 16, 1987 · 45 min
When MacGyver and Pete go skiing, a man switches poles with MacGyver, only moments before being gunned down and killed by his former friends. But the gunshot starts an avalanche, which covers MacGyver completely, leaving it up to Pete to convince the mountain rangers to stage a search and rescue before the next avalanche comes. As MacGyver finally is dug up, the gangsters are there, waiting for him, and whatever is hidden in that ski pole.
Directing: Cliff Bole · Writing: Stephen Kronish · Starring: Robert Pastorelli, Michael Corbett, Jonathan Goldsmith, Michael Constantine
2x17 Dalton, Jack of Spies
Feb 23, 1987 · 45 min
Dalton, who is believed to be dead, recruits MacGyver to help uncover a CIA mole.
Directing: Bob Sweeney · Writing: John J. Sakmar, Kerry Lenhart · Starring: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Bruce McGill, Lee Purcell, Curt Lowens
2x18 Partners
Mar 2, 1987 · 45 min
MacGyver and Pete meet at a wrecking yard, both thinking that the other one arranged the meeting. Soon an unknown assailant captures them inside a big truck. Their only clue is an obituary for them and Jack Dalton.
Directing: Cliff Bole · Writing: Bill Froehlich, Mark Lisson · Starring: Bruce McGill, Iris Klein, Michael Des Barres, Caleb Asch
2x19 Bushmaster
Mar 23, 1987 · 45 min
When MacGyver is sent to rescue an American pilot held in Central America for supposed espionage, his wargame-trained daughter tags along, but she didn't quite come prepared for the real thing. MacGyver must now rescue the pilot while keeping his daughter safe from the soldiers.
Directed by Don Chaffey · Written by Rob Hedden · Starring John Schuck, Renée Estevez, Sandy McPeak, Bert Rosario
2x20 Friends
Apr 6, 1987 · 45 min
MacGyver's friends throw a birthday party for him, but he's somberly reflecting on his past and future. While reflecting, MacGyver decides to leave the Phoenix Foundation to get married and have a family. Can Pete convince him of how important he is to the Foundation and get him to change his mind?
Directed by Cliff Bole · Written by Stephen Kronish · Starring Teri Hatcher, Robin Curtis, Tim Rossovich, John Anderson
2x21 D.O.A.: MacGyver
Apr 27, 1987 · 45 min
MacGyver is called to a meeting with a former British spy, who has learned of a group of terrorists that will use a new plastic explosive in a vengeful attack on the U.S. army. This explosive can be hidden anywhere. However, before the spy can give MacGyver all the details he is shot. MacGyver flees through a window and is picked up by a boat. The female who owns the boat soon learns that the man she has rescued doesn't have any memory.
Directing: Cliff Bole · Writing: Jaison Starkes · Starring: Nana Visitor, Clive Revill, John Pleshette, Priscilla Morrill
2x22 For Love or Money Season Finale
May 4, 1987 · 45 min
MacGyver is forced to work with a ruthless freelance agent to rescue a human rights activist who is being held in a psychiatric hospital in Czechoslovakia. The rescue is an apparent success, until the secret police then kidnap the activist's wife to get him back.
Directed by James L. Conway · Written by Doug Heyes, Jr. · Starring Deborah Adair, Walter Addison, Oksana Olijar, Reuven Bar-Yotam