MacGyver: Season 3

1987 · 20 episodes · ★ 7.5

What Season 3 of MacGyver

Season 3 of MacGyver Has 20 episodes and premiered on September 21, 1987. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

20episodes

Sep 21, 1987premiered

May 9, 1988latest episode

15 hrtotal runtime

Season 3 Episodes

3x01 Lost Love (1)
Sep 21, 1987 · 45 min
While helping the People's Republic of China secure a priceless national treasure—The Ming Dragon—in a San Diego museum, MacGyver runs into a Lisa, a woman that he had loved and thought was long dead. MacGyver learns that Lisa has been alive all these years and needs his help escaping the KGB.
Directing: Cliff Bole · Writing: Jerrold L. Ludwig · Starring: Bruce McGill, Leslie Bevis, Anthony De Longis, James Hong
3x02 Lost Love (2)
Sep 28, 1987 · 45 min
The KBG have Lisa in their grasp, and MacGyver must get The Ming Dragon for them to free Lisa. MacGyver enlists the help of his old buddy, Jack Dalton, to help him steal it.
Directing: Cliff Bole · Writing: Jerrold L. Ludwig · Starring: Bruce McGill, Leslie Bevis, Anthony De Longis, James Hong
3x03 Back From the Dead
Oct 5, 1987 · 45 min
Jimmy Kendall, living undercover after testifying against his Mob bosses, surfaces when he becomes the manager for a winning baseball team.
Directing: James L. Conway · Writing: Stephen Kronish · Starring: Rebecca Balding, Al Ruscio, Joe Santos, Charles Andre
3x04 Ghost Ship
Oct 19, 1987 · 45 min
While mapping the wilderness for the Phoenix foundation, MacGyver stumbles on a deserted ship and finds a runaway girl who tells him that the rest of crew was driven away by Bigfoot.
Directing: Michael Vejar · Writing: Stephen Kandel · Starring: Byron Chief-Moon, Ken Kirzinger, Katey Wright, Michèle Goodger
3x05 Fire and Ice
Oct 26, 1987 · 45 min
A jewel thief with diplomatic immunity kills Mac's friend. But there are more people involved in the crime - and Mac can't be sure who's on his side.
Directing: Alan Simmonds · Writing: Rick Husky · Starring: Elyssa Davalos, Anthony Stamboulieh, Aharon Ipalé, Jonathon Pallone
3x06 GX-1
Nov 2, 1987 · 45 min
Mac and Nikki race to recover equipment from a downed experimental plane before the Soviets, who are using a psychic to guide them to the wreckage.
Directing: Michael Vejar · Writing: Calvin Clements Jr. · Starring: Walter Gotell, Elyssa Davalos, Karen Campbell, Morris Panych
3x07 Jack in the Box
Nov 9, 1987 · 45 min
MacGyver and Jack Dalton are arrested in Arkansas by a corrupt sheriff who arrests people to make them work in a labor camp used for mining gold. MacGyver wants to escape, but Jack has other ideas: He wants to find five million dollars his uncle Charlie left in the mines years before.
Directing: James L. Conway · Writing: David Rich · Starring: Luke Askew, Bruce McGill, Lance LeGault, Robin Mossley
3x08 The Widowmaker
Nov 16, 1987 · 45 min · ★ 8.4
MacGyver is forced out of his grief over the tragic death of a friend by a madman with a score to settle from their past association.
Directing: Michael Vejar · Writing: John Whelpley · Starring: Bruce McGill, Elyssa Davalos, Lisa Bayliss, Antony Holland
3x09 Hell Week
Nov 23, 1987 · 45 min · ★ 8.4
A desperate physics student goes off the deep end and boobytraps a college lab when he fails to win a science competition and to live up to his father's high expectations.
Directing: James L. Conway · Writing: Leonard Mlodinow, Scott Rubenstein · Starring: John Cameron Mitchell, Lisa Wilcox, Andrew Sabiston, Ted Cole
3x10 Blow Out
Dec 21, 1987 · 45 min
MacGyver teams up with colleague Nikki Carpenter to find out who is behind the attempts on her life. When they find out that the man who tried to kill her is connected to two terrorists who blew up a local post office, MacGyver and Nikki must find out what the terrorist's next target is before it's too late.
Directing: Cliff Bole · Writing: W. Reed Moran · Starring: Bruce Harwood, Elyssa Davalos, Don S. Davis, Dale Wilson
3x11 Kill Zone
Jan 4, 1988 · 45 min
An impulsive scientist who cuts corners in her research work creates an uncontrollably mutating organism that speeds up the aging process.
Directing: Chuck Bowman · Writing: Calvin Clements Jr. · Starring: Judith Chapman, Jay Brazeau, Bill Dow, Pamela Martin
3x12 Early Retirement
Jan 18, 1988 · 45 min
While testing a new nuclear bomb defusing team at the Phoenix Foundation, a deadly explosion kills three men. Pete blames himself for not inspecting their equipment better and resigns from his job out of guilt. However, Pete is replaced by a not-so-trustworthy man—one who may have been connected to the explosion.
Directing: Cliff Bole · Writing: John Whelpley · Starring: Elyssa Davalos, Madison Mason, Ted Stidder, Paul Batten
3x13 Thin Ice
Feb 1, 1988 · 45 min
While back in Minnesota to fill in as coach for a high-school hockey team, MacGyver tries to change the attitude of a callous player who has a shot at playing for the pros. But when this kid's ambition lands another player in the hospital, MacGyver must try and find out what or who is pushing him so hard to succeed.
Directing: Cliff Bole · Writing: Rick Drew · Starring: Martin Milner, Clu Gulager, Kevin Conway, Jeff Schultz
3x14 The Odd Triple
Feb 29, 1988 · 45 min
After returning home from a long assignment, MacGyver has an unwelcome surprise. Jack Dalton is waiting and wants him to help with a new scheme. A wealthy woman has just acquired some invaluable jewels, needing Jack to fly her back to her home in France. Things seem to be going fine, that is, until they land. Jack and MacGyver are arrested and accused of theft.
Directing: James L. Conway · Writing: Stephen Kandel · Starring: Terence Kelly, Bruce McGill, Judy Geeson, Susan Chapple
3x15 The Negotiator
Mar 7, 1988 · 45 min
MacGyver becomes infatuated with a woman while conducting environmental-impact studies. However, what MacGyver does not know is that the woman was hired to "persuade" him to skip the studies—and if necessary, kill him.
Directing: Charles Correll · Writing: Calvin Clements Jr. · Starring: David Ackroyd, Kristian Alfonso, Elyssa Davalos, Ned Bellamy
3x16 The Spoilers
Mar 14, 1988 · 45 min
After MacGyver witnesses someone dumping toxic waste that's polluting mountain streams, he and Pete enlist a reclusive mountain man nicknamed "Earthquake" to help lead them to the culprit. Things become complicated, though, as Earthquake's flashbacks to his military service in the Vietnam War make him unstable and threaten their case.
Directed by: Michael Vejar · Written by: Stephen Kandel · Starring: Branscombe Richmond, Thomas Rosales Jr., Randall 'Tex' Cobb, Emily Kuroda
3x17 Mask of the Wolf
Mar 28, 1988 · 45 min
Jack and Mac help an ancient Indian search for a wolf mask that two mercenaries are also eager to have.
Directing: Cliff Bole · Writing: Calvin Clements Jr., W. Reed Moran · Starring: Gordon Tootoosis, Bruce McGill, Gary Lockwood, Marianne Jones
3x18 Rock the Cradle
Apr 18, 1988 · 45 min
Mac and Jack return from a flight to find an abandoned baby in Jack's hangar, complete with a desperate note from the mother and his own endowment fund hidden in his diapers.
Directing: Michael Vejar · Writing: John Whelpley · Starring: Garwin Sanford, Bruce McGill, Susan Chapple, Mitzi Kapture
3x19 The Endangered
May 2, 1988 · 45 min
While visiting an old girlfriend who's a park ranger at a wildlife reserve, MacGyver runs into deadly poachers who are intent on hunting animals on the reserve. When MacGyver tries to uncover their plot, they come after him. Now it's a race against time to escape the poachers, save the animals, and save their own lives.
Directing: Charles Correll · Writing: Peter Filardi · Starring: Moira Walley-Beckett, John Dennis Johnston, Don S. Davis, Robin Mossley
3x20 Murderers' Sky Season Finale
May 9, 1988 · 45 min
When the head of a American-Chinese shipping company is attacked in his office by a killer, MacGyver and the man's grandson—who is heir to the company—must find out who was behind the attempt on his life.
Directed by: Michael Vejar · Written by: Herman Miller · Starring: Tia Carrere, Ernie Reyes Jr., Roderick Cook, Soon-Tek Oh