MacGyver: Season 4

1988 · 19 episodes · ★ 7.3

What Season 4 of MacGyver

Season 4 of MacGyver It has 19 episodes and aired October 31, 1988. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

19episodes

Oct 31, 1988aired

May 15, 1989latest episode

14.3 hrtotal runtime

Season 4 Episodes

4x01 The Secret of Parker House
Oct 31, 1988 · 45 min
MacGyver accompanies Penny Parker to an old house she inherited from her Aunt Betty, who mysteriously died 30 years before. When strange things start happening, Penny is sure that the house is haunted.
Directed by: Michael Vejar · Written by: Gene Hanson, Rick Drew, John Sheppard · Starring: Teri Hatcher, Gisele MacKenzie, Arlen Dean Snyder, Ray Young
4x02 Blood Brothers
Nov 21, 1988 · 45 min
MacGyver returns to his home town of Mission City, Minnesota to meet up with two old friends, Chuck and Neil, so they can dig up a time capsule they buried twenty-five years before. However, MacGyver is hesitant to dig the capsule up because he is still haunted by the death of his old friend Jesse, who died when MacGyver was young. But now MacGyver has another problem to deal with. Chuck's and Neil's sons, Danny and Sean, have gotten wrapped up in a drug deal, and the dealer is after Danny. Danny takes off to hide, and now MacGyver must find him, before the drug dealer does.
Directed by: Charles Correll · Written by: Rick Drew · Starring: Dirk Blocker, Jason Priestley, J. Douglas Stewart, Kerry Hutchings
4x03 The Outsiders
Nov 28, 1988 · 45 min
MacGyver helps an Amish family, who saved his life, from having their farm seized by the government.
Directed by: Michael Vejar · Writing credits: Michelle Poteet Lisanti · Starring: Kaj-Erik Eriksen, Allan Lysell, Gustaf Kristjanson, Ruth de Sosa
4x04 On a Wing and a Prayer
Dec 5, 1988 · 45 min
Central American rebels capture Pete and a nun during a coup d'état, and it's up to MacGyver and Jack to rescue them.
Directed by: Charles Correll · Written by: John Whelpley · Starring: Bruce McGill, Jenny Gago, Susan Walden, Pedro Salvín
4x05 Collision Course
Dec 12, 1988 · 45 min
When a friend of Mac's is injured in a crash, Mac agrees to test the new racing engine designed by the Phoenix Foundation. However a business rival has other plans for him, and he has someone from the inside to help him.
Directed by: Chuck Bowman · Written by: Paul B. Margolis · Starring: G. Gordon Liddy, Patrick Wayne, Kai Wulff, Katey Wright
4x06 The Survivors
Jan 9, 1989 · 45 min
While on assignment to test field agents for the Phoenix Foundation, MacGyver and Pete discover the wreckage of a DEA plane shot down by dangerous drug smugglers.
Directed by: Michael Caffey · Written by: W. Reed Moran · Starring: Dale Wilson, Gerry Bean, Donna Cox
4x07 Deadly Dreams
Jan 16, 1989 · 45 min
MacGyver gets involved in the search for an escaped serial killer. Soon he comes to the conclusion that the killer had help from another prisoner—an even more sinister man.
Directed by: Les Landau · Written by: Stephen Downing · Starring: Kim Zimmer, William Morgan Sheppard, Garry Chalk, Brenda Crichlow
4x08 Ma Dalton
Jan 23, 1989 · 45 min
After Jack receives momentos of his father from an anonymous sender, he and MacGyver launch a search for Jack's mother, who's been missing since he was boy—and they aren't the only ones hunting for her.
Directed by: Rob Bowman · Writing credits: John Whelpley · Starring: Bruce McGill, Richard Lawson, Constance Towers, Ed Nelson
4x09 Cleo Rocks
Feb 6, 1989 · 45 min
Penny Parker's big chance in a major professional role is threatened from two directions: a money shortage and several deaths linked to the musical she is set to perform in.
Directed by: Chuck Bowman · Written by: John Sheppard, Rick Drew · Starring: Teri Hatcher, Robert Donner, Susan Chapple, Max Reimer
4x10 Fraternity of Thieves
Feb 13, 1989 · 45 min
Pete is conflicted when he discovers that the Phoenix Foundation employee selling classified information turns out to be his son.
Directed by: Michael Preece · Writing credits: Grant Rosenberg · Starring: James Karen, Hank Stratton, Don Galloway, Robert Metcalfe
4x11 The Battle of Tommy Giordano
Feb 20, 1989 · 45 min
The young son of MacGyver's co-worker is kidnapped by the boy's father. MacGyver must go and retrieve the boy from the house of the boy's uncle—a powerful mob boss.
Directed by: Michael Vejar · Writing credits: Marianne Clarkson · Starring: Joseph Wiseman, Susan Chapple, Charles Andre, Penny Peyser
4x12 The Challenge
Feb 27, 1989 · 45 min
An inner city youth club is threatened when a black resident is framed for auto theft by a neighborhood racist who'll stop at nothing to close the center—even murder.
Directed by: Dana Elcar · Written by: Chris Haddock · Starring: Michael D. Roberts, Cuba Gooding Jr., Roxanne Reese, Michael MacRae
4x13 Runners
Mar 13, 1989 · 45 min
MacGyver helps a young runaway with a vicious pimp and a tragic secret about her policeman father.
Directed by: Michael Caffey · Written by: Joel Schwartz · Starring: Byron Chief-Moon, Gerald Anthony, Jeff Pomerantz, Roxanne Reese
4x14 Gold Rush
Mar 27, 1989 · 45 min
MacGyver joins a joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. team trekking into the Alaskan wilderness to retrieve a huge amount of Russian gold from a downed plane only to learn that someone has beaten them to it.
Directed by: William Gereghty · Written by: David Engelbach · Starring: Walter Gotell, Lee Patterson, Colleen Winton
4x15 The Invisible Killer
Apr 10, 1989 · 45 min
MacGyver heads up a trip with four other Phoenix Foundation employees into the wilderness as part of a stress reduction program. After discovering that a prison bus accident has freed several prisoners, the employees begin to question each other's behavior. MacGyver must now figure out which man, if any, is not to be trusted before it's too late.
Directed by: Dana Elcar · Writing credits: Chris Haddock · Starring: Jean Bruce Scott, Adam Arkin, James Sloyan, Blu Mankuma
4x16 Brainwashed
Apr 24, 1989 · 45 min
Jack Dalton is brainwashed by an African politician and his wife to assassinate the leader of an African nation, who is in town for an awards ceremony.
Directed by: Michael Caffey · Written by: John Sheppard · Starring: Roger Aaron Brown, Bruce McGill, Raymond St. Jacques, Linda Darlow
4x17 Easy Target
May 1, 1989 · 45 min
MacGyver and Pete are captured by terrorists intent on wiping out a nearby city with an electromagnetic pulse, unless their leader is freed.
Directed by: Charles Correll · Written by: Rick Drew · Starring: Tom Everett, Frank Ferrucci, Wolf Muser, Ruth Britt
4x18 Renegade
May 8, 1989 · 45 min
MacGyver works hard to retrieve the anthrax bacillus stolen by a former Navy commando who once saved his life, and is now suffering the effects of an old head wound.
Directed by: Michael Caffey · Written by: Chris Haddock · Starring: John Novak, Stephen Furst, Darcia Carnie, Vince Deadrick Jr.
4x19 Unfinished Business Season Finale
May 15, 1989 · 45 min
Jack, MacGyver, and Pete review their past adventures while on a gold-panning expedition, unaware they're being stalked by a vengeful killer.
Directed by: Charles Correll · Writing credits: Marianne Clarkson · Starring: Bruce McGill, Kristian Alfonso, Barry Greene