Episode

MacGyver: Easy Target

Name: MacGyver: Easy Target
Released: 1989-05-01
Duration: 45 min
Cast: Richard Dean Anderson, Dana Elcar, Bruce McGill, Elyssa Davalos, Robin Mossley

MacGyverSeason 41989-05-01

Overview

MacGyver and Pete are captured by terrorists intent on wiping out a nearby city with an electromagnetic pulse, unless their leader is freed.

Details

Series: MacGyver
Season: Season 4
Episode: Episode 17
Air date: 1989-05-01
Runtime: 45 min

Episode context

Easy Target is Episode 17 in Season 4 of MacGyver. It aired on 1989-05-01. The runtime is 45 min.

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Episode 16: Brainwashed 1989-04-24 | 45 min 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 18: Renegade 1989-05-08 | 45 min 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.

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Episode 15: The Invisible Killer 1989-04-10 | 45 min 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 19: Unfinished Business 1989-05-15 | 45 min Jack, MacGyver, and Pete review their past adventures while on a gold-panning expedition, unaware they're being stalked by a vengeful killer.

Episode 14: Gold Rush 1989-03-27 | 45 min 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 13: Runners 1989-03-13 | 45 min MacGyver helps a young runaway with a vicious pimp and a tragic secret about her policeman father.

Episode 12: The Challenge 1989-02-27 | 45 min 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.

Episode 11: The Battle of Tommy Giordano 1989-02-20 | 45 min The young son of MacGyver's co-worker is kidnapped by the boy's father. MacGyver must go and retrieve the boy from the house of the boy's uncle—a powerful mob boss.

Episode 10: Fraternity of Thieves 1989-02-13 | 45 min Pete is conflicted when he discovers that the Phoenix Foundation employee selling classified information turns out to be his son.

Episode 9: Cleo Rocks 1989-02-06 | 45 min Penny Parker's big chance in a major professional role is threatened from two directions: a money shortage and several deaths linked to the musical she is set to perform in.

Episode 8: Ma Dalton 1989-01-23 | 45 min 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 7: Deadly Dreams 1989-01-16 | 45 min 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.