Episode
MacGyver: Blow Out
Overview
MacGyver teams up with colleague Nikki Carpenter to find out who is behind the attempts on her life. When they find out that the man who tried to kill her is connected to two terrorists who blew up a local post office, MacGyver and Nikki must find out what the terrorist's next target is before it's too late.
Details
- Series
- MacGyver
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 1987-12-21
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Blow Out is Episode 10 in Season 3 of MacGyver. It aired on 1987-12-21. The runtime is 45 min.
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A desperate physics student goes off the deep end and boobytraps a college lab when he fails to win a science competition and to live up to his father's high expectations.
Episode 11: Kill Zone
An impulsive scientist who cuts corners in her research work creates an uncontrollably mutating organism that speeds up the aging process.
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Episode 12: Early Retirement
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Episode 7: Jack in the Box
MacGyver and Jack Dalton are arrested in Arkansas by a corrupt sheriff who arrests people to make them work in a labor camp used for mining gold. MacGyver wants to escape, but Jack has other ideas: He wants to find five million dollars his uncle Charlie left in the mines years before.
Episode 13: Thin Ice
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Episode 6: GX-1
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Episode 14: The Odd Triple
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Episode 5: Fire and Ice
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Episode 15: The Negotiator
MacGyver becomes infatuated with a woman while conducting environmental-impact studies. However, what MacGyver does not know is that the woman was hired to "persuade" him to skip the studies—and if necessary, kill him.
Episode 4: Ghost Ship
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Episode 16: The Spoilers
After MacGyver witnesses someone dumping toxic waste that's polluting mountain streams, he and Pete enlist a reclusive mountain man nicknamed "Earthquake" to help lead them to the culprit. Things become complicated, though, as Earthquake's flashbacks to his military service in the Vietnam War make him unstable and threaten their case.