MacGyver: Season 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of MacGyver Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
Legend of the Holy Rose (1)
Sep 18, 1989 · 45 min
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 d
Legend of the Holy Rose (2)
Sep 25, 1989 · 45 min
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.
The Black Corsage
Oct 2, 1989 · 45 min
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 kill
Cease Fire
Oct 9, 1989 · 45 min
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 ac
Second Chance
Oct 16, 1989 · 45 min
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.
Halloween Knights
Oct 30, 1989 · 45 min
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 organiz
Children of Light
Nov 6, 1989 · 45 min
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 conti
Black Rhino
Nov 13, 1989 · 45 min
MacGyver takes off for Africa, where the youngest of the Colton brothers has decided to take on deadly rhino poachers single-handedly.
The Ten Percent Solution
Nov 20, 1989 · 45 min
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 ‘
Two Times Trouble
Dec 11, 1989 · 45 min
MacGyver tries to help an old friend who believes her jealous twin sister is trying to kill her.
The Madonna
Dec 18, 1989 · 45 min
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
Serenity
Jan 8, 1990 · 45 min
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 hi
Live and Learn
Jan 15, 1990 · 45 min
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.
Log Jam
Feb 5, 1990 · 45 min
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.
The Treasure of Manco
Feb 12, 1990 · 45 min
MacGyver and a friend race with a group of dedicated guerillas to locate a valuable Incan treasure.
Jenny's Chance
Feb 19, 1990 · 45 min
MacGyver, Dalton, and Thornton go undercover to expose a murderous money launderer.
Deep Cover
Feb 26, 1990 · 45 min
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.
The Lost Amadeus
Mar 19, 1990 · 45 min
A strange young woman gets Mac involved with a priceless violin and an eccentric maestro being sought by syndicate hoods.
Hearts of Steel
Apr 9, 1990 · 45 min
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-raide
Rush to Judgement
Apr 16, 1990 · 45 min
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 interpre
Passages
Apr 30, 1990 · 45 min
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 an