Episode
MacGyver: Gold Rush
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- MacGyver
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 14
- Air date
- 1989-03-27
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Gold Rush is Episode 14 in Season 4 of MacGyver. It aired on 1989-03-27. The runtime is 45 min.
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