Episode

MacGyver: The Outsiders

Name: MacGyver: The Outsiders
Released: 1988-11-28
Duration: 45 min
Cast: Richard Dean Anderson, Dana Elcar, Bruce McGill, Elyssa Davalos, Robin Mossley

MacGyverSeason 41988-11-28

Overview

MacGyver helps an Amish family, who saved his life, from having their farm seized by the government.

Details

Series: MacGyver
Season: Season 4
Episode: Episode 3
Air date: 1988-11-28
Runtime: 45 min

Episode context

The Outsiders is Episode 3 in Season 4 of MacGyver. It aired on 1988-11-28. The runtime is 45 min.

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Episode 2: Blood Brothers 1988-11-21 | 45 min MacGyver returns to his home town of Mission City, Minnesota to meet up with two old friends, Chuck and Neil, so they can dig up a time capsule they buried twenty-five years before. However, MacGyver is hesitant to dig the capsule up because he is still haunted by the death of his old friend Jesse, who died when MacGyver was young. But now MacGyver has another problem to deal with. Chuck's and Neil's sons, Danny and Sean, have gotten wrapped up in a drug deal, and the dealer is after Danny. Danny takes off to hide, and now MacGyver must find him, before the drug dealer does.

Episode 4: On a Wing and a Prayer 1988-12-05 | 45 min Central American rebels capture Pete and a nun during a coup d'état, and it's up to MacGyver and Jack to rescue them.

More episodes from this season

Episode 1: The Secret of Parker House 1988-10-31 | 45 min MacGyver accompanies Penny Parker to an old house she inherited from her Aunt Betty, who mysteriously died 30 years before. When strange things start happening, Penny is sure that the house is haunted.

Episode 5: Collision Course 1988-12-12 | 45 min When a friend of Mac's is injured in a crash, Mac agrees to test the new racing engine designed by the Phoenix Foundation. However a business rival has other plans for him, and he has someone from the inside to help him.

Episode 6: The Survivors 1989-01-09 | 45 min 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 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.

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