MacGyver - Season 5

First aired: 9/18/1989 21 episodes

Episodes

1. Legend of the Holy Rose (1)

Aired: 9/18/1989

MacGyver and an old friend dash around the world searching for the artifacts necessary to locate the Holy Grail, just one step ahead of a ruthless man on the same trail, who will do anything to get to it before they do.

2. Legend of the Holy Rose (2)

Aired: 9/25/1989

MacGyver and an old friend dash around the world searching for the artifacts necessary to locate the Holy Grail, just one step ahead of a ruthless man on the same trail.

3. The Black Corsage

Aired: 10/2/1989

Mac and a bounty hunter join forces with a bulldog named Frog to track down a Bulgarian defector who was the accidental witness at a murder and who is now being stalked by the killer, who needs a map she doesn't know she possesses.

4. Cease Fire

Aired: 10/9/1989

During some tough negotiations between two neighbouring states, one side plants a sniper in the vicinity. When Mac discovers the sniper, he fights him, but loses the man and the accusations go out against Mac. Wounded and forced to run, he hides at a private girls' school, where one of the young ladies becomes his only hope to prevent further bloodshed.

5. Second Chance

Aired: 10/16/1989

MacGyver and an old friend discover a gang ripping off medical supplies from a Phoenix Foundation clinic in Asia, and an Amerasian son the friend never knew he had.

6. Halloween Knights

Aired: 10/30/1989

An old nemesis enlists MacGyver's help to rescue someone important to him—and she's scheduled to be executed during a Halloween Party put on by a professional assassination organization.

7. Children of Light

Aired: 11/6/1989

MacGyver's Chinese foster daughter arrives unexpectedly from China, carrying videotape of the massacre in Tianamen Square and a list of fax machine phone numbers vital to the continuing freedom movement.

8. Black Rhino

Aired: 11/13/1989

MacGyver takes off for Africa, where the youngest of the Colton brothers has decided to take on deadly rhino poachers single-handedly.

9. The Ten Percent Solution

Aired: 11/20/1989

The Phoenix Foundation's purchase of a Nazi art treasure leads Mac to a holocaust survivor who claims family ownership of the painting, and to a group working to create their own ‘Aryan nation’.

10. Two Times Trouble

Aired: 12/11/1989

MacGyver tries to help an old friend who believes her jealous twin sister is trying to kill her.

11. The Madonna

Aired: 12/18/1989

On Christmas Eve, MacGyver tries to help the priest of a poor church locate a stolen Madonna figure, help his friend Cynthia figure out how to keep the Challenger Club solvent and figure out a strange street woman who seems to have a miracle up her sleeve.

12. Serenity

Aired: 1/8/1990

Exhausted MacGyver dreams he's a Civil War vet trying to claim a home in Montana that's threatened by a neighboring rancher who looks a lot like Pete Thornton. But this Pete has hired Murdoc to kill Mac...

13. Live and Learn

Aired: 1/15/1990

MacGyver tries to inspire a promising but unmotivated high school student, despite the negative efforts of a cynical teacher and the boy's skeptical father.

14. Log Jam

Aired: 2/5/1990

MacGyver tries to help an environmentally active friend find out what happened to a company whistle-blower about to expose the illegal practices of a large logging firm.

15. The Treasure of Manco

Aired: 2/12/1990

MacGyver and a friend race with a group of dedicated guerillas to locate a valuable Incan treasure.

16. Jenny's Chance

Aired: 2/19/1990

MacGyver, Dalton, and Thornton go undercover to expose a murderous money launderer.

17. Deep Cover

Aired: 2/26/1990

Pete and Mac try to help when a Phoenix Foundation engineer is seduced and betrayed by a spy seeking her prototype for a new stealth technology for submarines.

18. The Lost Amadeus

Aired: 3/19/1990

A strange young woman gets Mac involved with a priceless violin and an eccentric maestro being sought by syndicate hoods.

19. Hearts of Steel

Aired: 4/9/1990

MacGyver is reunited with Lisa, whose help cleared him of assassination charges in Switzerland, when a steel plant executive kidnaps her as revenge against her cold corporate-raider father.

20. Rush to Judgement

Aired: 4/16/1990

MacGyver risks judicial displeasure when he breaks jury sequester to investigate the scene of a racially charged murder, and discovers evidence that drastically alters the interpretation of the facts.

21. Passages

Aired: 4/30/1990

Frantic with worry about his gravely-ill Grandpa Harry, MacGyver experiences a strange near-death phenomena, seeing his parents again, when he's injured by a man who's stolen an ancient Egyptian relic.