Episode

MacGyver: The Prometheus Syndrome

Name: MacGyver: The Prometheus Syndrome
Released: 1991-10-07
Duration: 45 min
Cast: Richard Dean Anderson, Dana Elcar, Bruce McGill, Elyssa Davalos, Robin Mossley

MacGyverSeason 71991-10-07

Overview

MacGyver becomes personally involved in the effort to find a psychopathic arsonist.

Details

Series: MacGyver
Season: Season 7
Episode: Episode 4
Air date: 1991-10-07
Runtime: 45 min

Episode context

The Prometheus Syndrome is Episode 4 in Season 7 of MacGyver. It aired on 1991-10-07. The runtime is 45 min.

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Episode 6: Walking Dead 1991-10-21 | 45 min Mac helps his neighbor, Mama Lorraine, rescue a young student activist who has been kidnapped and turned into a zombie by Haitian terrorists hiding behind a powerful voodoo priest.

Episode 1: Honest Abe 1991-09-16 | 45 min Mac's trip to the airport to pick a friend's father arriving for his grandson's bar mitzvah turns into a wild international caper involving Caribbean terrorists and a stolen helicopter.

Episode 7: Good Knight MacGyver (1) 1991-11-04 | 45 min A genealogy investigation and a knock on the head takes Mac back to King Arthur's court, where he must use his knowledge to prove Merlin innocent of harming the King, find the fair Cecilia and foil Morgana's attempt to take over the throne.

Episode 8: Good Knight MacGyver (2) 1991-11-11 | 45 min A genealogy investigation and a knock on the head takes Mac back to King Arthur's court, where he must use his knowledge to prove Merlin innocent of harming the King, find the fair Cecilia and foil Morgana's attempt to take over the throne.

Episode 9: Deadly Silents 1991-11-18 | 45 min Mac tries to help an old silent film star retrieve the only existing prints of his work from a pair of special-effects obsessed fans.

Episode 10: Split Decision 1991-12-02 | 45 min Mac's friend Earl Dent looks to him for help when he fights to retain custody of his teenage daughter while preparing for a boxing comeback that bookmakers want him to throw.

Episode 11: Gunz 'n Boyz 1991-12-16 | 45 min Mac and the Challenger Club try to help a boy prepared to take the rap for another boy murdered by weapons dealers exploiting the fear and suspicion in the neighborhood.

Episode 12: Off the Wall 1991-12-30 | 45 min Mac battles a callous slumlord when a young graffiti artist asks for help when his grandmother faces eviction from the apartment where she's spent her life.

Episode 13: The Stringer 1992-04-25 | 45 min While working with Chinese dissidents to expose illegal labor camps, MacGyver gets unexpected help from a young photojournalist who claims to be his son!