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First Aired: September 29th, 1985

Status: Ended

Genre: Family, Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime, Western

Network: ABC

Summary: He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed with only a knapsack filled with everyday items he picks up along the way, he improvises his way out of every peril the bad guys throw at him. Making a bomb out of chewing gum? Fixing a speeding car's breaks... while he's riding in it? Using soda pop to cook up tear gas? That's all in a day's adventures for MacGyver. He's part Boy Scout, part genius. And all hero.

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Season 6

Episode 1: Tough Boys

Air Date: September 17th, 1990

Summary: MacGyver's pacifist policies are put to the test by a militant youth leader he hooks up with to find out who has been organizing a gang of youthful vigilantes using extreme measures to clean the neighborhood crack problem.

Episode 2: Humanity

Air Date: September 24th, 1990

Summary: MacGyver and Thornton are left to the mercies of a Romanian agent still loyal to his deposed leader Ceausescu after a mission to obtain his secret files is sabotaged.

Episode 3: The Gun

Air Date: October 1st, 1990

Summary: MacGyver searches for a gun used in an assassination twenty years ago and in a present day cop killing to clear a friend.

Episode 4: Twenty Questions

Air Date: October 8th, 1990

Summary: MacGyver tries to help his teenage friend Lisa admit she has a drinking problem, but it takes a brush with the law when she's implicated in a string of home break-ins to really wake her up.

Episode 5: The Wall

Air Date: October 22nd, 1990

Summary: MacGyver helps reunite an East German girl with her grandfather in America, unaware that she's been recruited by two bitter former Stasi agents who believe the old man possesses a store of hidden gold.

Episode 6: Lesson in Evil

Air Date: October 29th, 1990

Summary: Dr. Zito returns to menace MacGyver and Murphy when he escapes after his latest sanity hearing, leaving a series of nasty clues designed to give Mac a crash course in evil.

Episode 7: Harry's Will

Air Date: November 5th, 1990

Summary: When Mac tries to claim the station wagon left to him by his late Grandpa Harry, it starts a strange chase that leads him to an ex-con with a dream of running a restaurant, a soup kitchen in need of money, and a gang of crooks out for themselves.

Episode 8: MacGyver's Women

Air Date: November 12nd, 1990

Summary: Macgyver's reluctance to commit to a permanent relationship causes him to dream an Old West scenario where he defends three of his lady friends from some ornery outlaws as he drives their wagon cross country.

Episode 9: Bitter Harvest

Air Date: November 19th, 1990

Summary: MacGyver goes undercover to investigate the death of a farm-worker organizer during an investigation of illegal pesticide use.

Episode 10: The Visitor

Air Date: December 3rd, 1990

Summary: Mac uncovers an out-of-this-world scam when he investigates some mysterious indentations in a farmer's field.

Episode 11: Squeeze Play

Air Date: December 17th, 1990

Summary: Mac defends a former player's daughter being blackmailed by a baseball memorabilia-counterfeiting ring trading on her father's name.

Episode 12: Jerico Games

Air Date: January 7th, 1991

Summary: Mac is reunited with a high school sweetheart whose husband is a wealthy man sponsoring an international sports competition.

Episode 13: The Wasteland

Air Date: January 21st, 1991

Summary: Mac seeks to stop a shortsighted developer whose latest project will create an environmental ruin and could result in his premature death at the hands of his greedy children.

Episode 14: Eye of Osiris

Air Date: February 4th, 1991

Summary: Mac helps out on an archelogical dig for Alexander the Great's tomb. But the expedition seems to be followed by bad luck. Several incidents nearly causes a shut-down. Then Mac finds clues leading to Alex's tomb. Unfortunally, the accidents are not coincidental, and they meet a very vengeful man who traps them inside the grave...

Episode 15: High Control

Air Date: February 11st, 1991

Summary: Mac tries to help an acquaintance just out of prison stay on the straight and narrow despite the efforts of his old biker gang to blackmail him into rejoining them.

Episode 16: There but For the Grace

Air Date: February 18th, 1991

Summary: Mac feels a personal involvement in the death of a priest who worked among the homeless and takes to the streets himself to find the killer.

Episode 17: Blind Faith

Air Date: March 4th, 1991

Summary: An old sweetheart of Pete Thornton's appeals to him for help when she tries to reveal the atrocities being committed in her Latin American homeland.

Episode 18: Faith, Hope & Charity

Air Date: March 18th, 1991

Summary: Mac finds himself being cared for by two determined ladies running a bed and breakfast in an isolated spot chosen as a drop spot by two murderous mobsters with an untrustworthy partner.

Episode 19: Strictly Business

Air Date: April 8th, 1991

Summary: Murdoc wants to come out of retirement, but his former employers at Homicide International request that he take out MacGyver as a demonstration of his sincere desire to rejoin them.

Episode 20: Trail of Tears

Air Date: April 26th, 1991

Summary: A land dispute over the building an electricity station pits a fanatical Native American, convinced he has been given a mission by his spiritual ancestors, against the power company and MacGyver, who's just as sure that the Indian spirits are opposed to the man's violent plans.

Episode 21: Hind-Sight

Air Date: May 6th, 1991

Summary: As Pete waits for glaucoma surgery, he and MacGyver reminisce about their past adventures and try to figure out who has been sending some vaguely threatening messages to Pete.

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