Episode
MacGyver: Rush to Judgement
Overview
MacGyver risks judicial displeasure when he breaks jury sequester to investigate the scene of a racially charged murder, and discovers evidence that drastically alters the interpretation of the facts.
Details
- Series
- MacGyver
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 20
- Air date
- 1990-04-16
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Rush to Judgement is Episode 20 in Season 5 of MacGyver. It aired on 1990-04-16. The runtime is 45 min.
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MacGyver is reunited with Lisa, whose help cleared him of assassination charges in Switzerland, when a steel plant executive kidnaps her as revenge against her cold corporate-raider father.
Episode 21: Passages
Frantic with worry about his gravely-ill Grandpa Harry, MacGyver experiences a strange near-death phenomena, seeing his parents again, when he's injured by a man who's stolen an ancient Egyptian relic.
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Episode 18: The Lost Amadeus
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Episode 17: Deep Cover
Pete and Mac try to help when a Phoenix Foundation engineer is seduced and betrayed by a spy seeking her prototype for a new stealth technology for submarines.
Episode 16: Jenny's Chance
MacGyver, Dalton, and Thornton go undercover to expose a murderous money launderer.
Episode 15: The Treasure of Manco
MacGyver and a friend race with a group of dedicated guerillas to locate a valuable Incan treasure.
Episode 14: Log Jam
MacGyver tries to help an environmentally active friend find out what happened to a company whistle-blower about to expose the illegal practices of a large logging firm.
Episode 13: Live and Learn
MacGyver tries to inspire a promising but unmotivated high school student, despite the negative efforts of a cynical teacher and the boy's skeptical father.
Episode 12: Serenity
Exhausted MacGyver dreams he's a Civil War vet trying to claim a home in Montana that's threatened by a neighboring rancher who looks a lot like Pete Thornton. But this Pete has hired Murdoc to kill Mac...
Episode 11: The Madonna
On Christmas Eve, MacGyver tries to help the priest of a poor church locate a stolen Madonna figure, help his friend Cynthia figure out how to keep the Challenger Club solvent and figure out a strange street woman who seems to have a miracle up her sleeve.
Episode 10: Two Times Trouble
MacGyver tries to help an old friend who believes her jealous twin sister is trying to kill her.
Episode 9: The Ten Percent Solution
The Phoenix Foundation's purchase of a Nazi art treasure leads Mac to a holocaust survivor who claims family ownership of the painting, and to a group working to create their own ‘Aryan nation’.