The WORST episodes of MacGyver (2016)
Every episode of MacGyver (2016) ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of MacGyver (2016)!
Young Angus "Mac" MacGyver works for a clandestine organization within the U.S. government, relying on his unconventional problem-solving skills to save lives.
#1 - The Rising
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2016
Angus “Mac” MacGyver and Jack Dalton, special agents for the Department of External Services (DXS), join forces to recover a missing bioweapon that has the ability to destroy hundreds of thousands of people with one single drop.
#2 - Metal Saw
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/2016
MacGyver and the team attempt to rescue Sarah, Jack’s former CIA partner/ex-girlfriend who went missing in Venezuela after she obtained evidence to take down an international arms dealer.
#3 - Awl
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/2016
MacGyver and the team are in Malaysia to extract a terrorist group’s money man, Ralph, who holds key intel on an impending attack. But the mission goes south when the man is shot, and now, with only a driver’s license and hand sanitizer available, MacGyver must keep Ralph alive in order to learn the terrorists’ plans.
#4 - Wire Cutter
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/2016
Mac and Jack partner with older versions of themselves, a Russian bomb programmer and his estranged handler, to shut down a Soviet-era warhead in Moscow. But when the antiquated computer needed to disable the warhead becomes inoperable, Mac must find a way to fix it with only duct tape and wire in time to prevent a new Cold War.
#5 - Rails + Pitons + Pulley + Pipe + Salt
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/19/2021
When Mac and the team are unable to prevent Department of Defense intel from falling into Codex’s hands, Mac must scale a vertical cliff using only gear he can cobble together himself to prevent the info’s transmission.
#6 - C8H7ClO + Nano-Trackers + Resistance + Maldives + Mind Games
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/26/2021
Mac and Riley head overseas together to prevent a governmental collapse and inadvertently inhale new deadly microscopic technology.
#7 - Quarantine + N95 + Landline + Telescope + Social Distance
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/22/2021
During COVID-19’s first stay-at-home order, as Mac, Bozer and Riley quarantine together, they try to stop a crime in progress at their neighbor’s house. Also, Russ’ romantic fling takes on a longer and more complicated turn when they quarantine together.
#8 - Dia de Muertos + Sicarios + Family
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/2018
When Oversight’s attempt to capture a drug cartel’s leader goes bad, MacGyver and Jack rush to Mexico to pull their boss out while racing through the heart of the country during Dia de Muertos celebrations. Also, Bozer and Riley use Halloween as a distraction to gather intel on a man accused of treason.
#9 - H2O + Orthophosphates + Mission City + Corrosion + Origins
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/16/2021
Mac and Desi travel with Bozer to his childhood home when his aunt dies in a tragic accident, however, they soon discover she may have been murdered for trying to expose the city’s contaminated water supply. Also, Riley, Matty and Russ continue to follow leads on their nano-trackers investigation.
#10 - Toothpick
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/2016
Using only an armrest, a curtain rod, and a toothpick, MacGyver must fix a sabotaged train in order to protect a whistleblower who has proof that her boss is selling weapons to U.S. enemies.
#11 - Royalty + Marriage + Vivaah Sanskar + Zinc + Henna
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/2/2021
Mac, Desi and Russ go undercover during a royal Indian wedding to protect a princess whose policies could put her life in danger. Also, Russ and Sophia come face-to-face at the wedding, Bozer suspects Riley is up to her old hacking ways and Matty runs down a lead in hopes of getting to the bottom of Mac and Riley’s ingested nano-trackers.
#12 - Eclipse + USMC-1856707 + Step Potential + Chain Lock + Ma
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/18/2020
When Russ is kidnapped, Mac and the team must break out a previously murderous psychopath, now pacifist, from prison to help find him. Also, while on the run, Mac and Desi are forced to confront their relationship issues.
#13 - Guts + Fuel + Hope
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/2018
MacGyver and Riley, with the help of Vasil, a distraught father, must find a way to drive a tanker filled with liquid oxygen through a region occupied by rebels and deliver it to a children’s hospital before they run out. Also, Riley helps MacGyver decide whether or not to allow his father back into his life.
#14 - Wrench
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/2016
Using only a wrench and rope, MacGyver must diffuse a bomb set near the United Nations by his old nemesis, “The Ghost”, a notorious criminal whose work killed his mentor, and track him down before he strikes again.
#15 - Can Opener
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/2016
MacGyver is tasked to go undercover as an inmate in a maximum security prison to break out El Noche, a notorious drug kingpin, using only batteries and salt, and track him to his cartel’s secret location and dismantle it.
#16 - Seeds + Permafrost + Feather
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/15/2019
MacGyver and team are asked to solve a locked-door mystery when a man working inside a remote, ultra-secure international seed vault disappears.
#17 - Roulette Wheel + Wire
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/2017
MacGyver and the team go undercover in a high stakes casino to steal diamonds from a vault before a terrorist group gets there first and trades the jewels for a weapon of mass destruction.
#18 - Ruler
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/24/2017
Bozer’s first overseas mission goes terribly wrong when Mac and the team are blamed for a terrorist bombing and the Phoenix Foundation is forced to disavow them. Using a ruler and coconut oil to make disguises, the team must avoid authorities and clear their names without any support from back home.
#19 - Compass
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/31/2017
Mac and Jack help Mac’s close friend from M.I.T. after she fakes her own death to prevent someone from killing her in order to suppress her scientific research.
#20 - SOS + Hazmat + Ultrasound + Frequency + Malihini
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/12/2021
Mac and team rush to help when Matty’s former mentor, Ian Cain, and his embassy staff come down with a deadly, mysterious illness. Also, Taylor and Bozer work with Jerry Ortega to infiltrate a Codex cell.
#21 - Corkscrew
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/2016
When MacGyver comes face to face with Murdoc, an international assassin hired to kill him, Mac must defend both himself and Bozer, armed with only a corkscrew and paper towel rolls. Also, Bozer feels completely betrayed when he finally learns Mac’s true identity.
#22 - Bozer + Booze + Back to School
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/2018
MacGyver, Riley, Bozer and Leanna go undercover on a college campus to smoke out a deep-cover operative who is recruiting students to carry out deadly attacks around the world. Also, Jack joins bounty hunter Billy Colton in the hunt for a bail jumper but is concerned when he finds out Billy offered Riley a job.
#23 - Barn Find + Engine Oil + La Punzonatura + Lab Rats + Tachometer
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/9/2021
While Mac and the team delve into the world of Italian car culture in order to track down a crime boss-in-hiding, Mac must lean on Desi when he discovers that he losing the ability to control his hands. Also, Mac and Desi move in together and Riley reveals the truth about her secret team of hackers to Russ.
#24 - Improvise
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/2018
Three months after quitting the Phoenix Foundation and moving to Nigeria, Mac puts aside his differences with his father and returns when he hears Jack is the target of a murderous dictator he double-crossed.
#25 - Abduction + Memory + Time + Fireworks + Dispersal
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/30/2021
When Mac and Riley go missing and wake up 24 hours later in a corn field with no memory of how they got there, they must unravel the mystery to find who took them, and how to get rid of the nanotrackers in their bodies, no matter the cost.