Episode
MacGyver: Toothpick
Overview
Using only an armrest, a curtain rod, and a toothpick, MacGyver must fix a sabotaged train in order to protect a whistleblower who has proof that her boss is selling weapons to U.S. enemies.
Details
- Series
- MacGyver
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 2016-10-21
- Runtime
- 42 min
Episode context
Toothpick is Episode 5 in Season 1 of MacGyver. It aired on 2016-10-21. The runtime is 42 min.
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Episode 4: Wire Cutter
Mac and Jack partner with older versions of themselves, a Russian bomb programmer and his estranged handler, to shut down a Soviet-era warhead in Moscow. But when the antiquated computer needed to disable the warhead becomes inoperable, Mac must find a way to fix it with only duct tape and wire in time to prevent a new Cold War.
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Using only a wrench and rope, MacGyver must diffuse a bomb set near the United Nations by his old nemesis, “The Ghost”, a notorious criminal whose work killed his mentor, and track him down before he strikes again.
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