Episode
MacGyver: The Challenge
Overview
An inner city youth club is threatened when a black resident is framed for auto theft by a neighborhood racist who'll stop at nothing to close the center—even murder.
Details
- Series
- MacGyver
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1989-02-27
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
The Challenge is Episode 12 in Season 4 of MacGyver. It aired on 1989-02-27. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 10: Fraternity of Thieves
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Episode 14: Gold Rush
MacGyver joins a joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. team trekking into the Alaskan wilderness to retrieve a huge amount of Russian gold from a downed plane only to learn that someone has beaten them to it.
Episode 9: Cleo Rocks
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Episode 15: The Invisible Killer
MacGyver heads up a trip with four other Phoenix Foundation employees into the wilderness as part of a stress reduction program. After discovering that a prison bus accident has freed several prisoners, the employees begin to question each other's behavior. MacGyver must now figure out which man, if any, is not to be trusted before it's too late.
Episode 8: Ma Dalton
After Jack receives momentos of his father from an anonymous sender, he and MacGyver launch a search for Jack's mother, who's been missing since he was boy—and they aren't the only ones hunting for her.
Episode 16: Brainwashed
Jack Dalton is brainwashed by an African politician and his wife to assassinate the leader of an African nation, who is in town for an awards ceremony.
Episode 7: Deadly Dreams
MacGyver gets involved in the search for an escaped serial killer. Soon he comes to the conclusion that the killer had help from another prisoner—an even more sinister man.
Episode 17: Easy Target
MacGyver and Pete are captured by terrorists intent on wiping out a nearby city with an electromagnetic pulse, unless their leader is freed.
Episode 6: The Survivors
While on assignment to test field agents for the Phoenix Foundation, MacGyver and Pete discover the wreckage of a DEA plane shot down by dangerous drug smugglers.
Episode 18: Renegade
MacGyver works hard to retrieve the anthrax bacillus stolen by a former Navy commando who once saved his life, and is now suffering the effects of an old head wound.