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Season 5 - Episode Guide

Episodes

Legend of the Holy Rose (1)

Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: Sep 18, 1989

Legend of the Holy Rose (1)

An archaeologist friend pays MacGyver a visit to get his help in using a map to find an ancient artifact called the Holy Rose.

Legend of the Holy Rose (2)

Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: Sep 25, 1989

Legend of the Holy Rose (2)

MacGyver and his archaeologist friend continue on to London and France in their search for the Holy Rose. Along the way they come across a notorious jewel magnate who has deadly intentions.

The Black Corsage

Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: Oct 2, 1989

The Black Corsage

Mac and a bounty hunter join forces with a bulldog named Frog to track down a Bulgarian defector who was the accidental witness at a murder and who is now being stalked by the killer, who needs a map she doesn't know she possesses.

Cease Fire

Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: Oct 9, 1989

Cease Fire

While in Geneva, MacGyver is wounded in an assassination attempt. He is framed as the sniper and meets an American schoolgirl who helps him in clearing his name.

Second Chance

Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: Oct 16, 1989

Second Chance

Renegade America service men steal everything that's not nailed down in Thailand, creating a life-threatening situation. MacGyver helps set things right, while helping an old friend get acquainted with a son he never knew he had.

Halloween Knights

Episode: 5x06 | Airdate: Oct 30, 1989

Halloween Knights

MacGyver's nemesis Murdoc begs MacGyver's help to rescue his sister from his former employer. She is about to to be executed during a Halloween Party and to save her MacGyver and Murdoc have to beat a dangerous obstacle course.

Children of Light

Episode: 5x07 | Airdate: Nov 6, 1989

Children of Light

MacGyver's Chinese foster daughter arrives unexpectedly from China, carrying videotape of the massacre in Tianamen Square and a list of fax machine phone numbers vital to the continuing freedom movement.

Black Rhino

Episode: 5x08 | Airdate: Nov 13, 1989

Black Rhino

MacGyver trails a friend, Billy Colton, to Africa where he witnesses the cruel slaughter of the endangered Black Rhino. When he joins the activists, hoping to prevent the poaching, Mac meets up with the men behind the scheme - Ladysmith.

The Ten Percent Solution

Episode: 5x09 | Airdate: Nov 20, 1989

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.'

Two Times Trouble

Episode: 5x10 | Airdate: Dec 11, 1989

Two Times Trouble

MacGyver tries to help an old friend who believes her jealous twin sister is trying to kill her.

The Madonna

Episode: 5x11 | Airdate: Dec 18, 1989

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.

Serenity

Episode: 5x12 | Airdate: Jan 8, 1990

Serenity

Exhausted from being overworked, MacGyver falls asleep watching an old western. He dreams that he is in the Old West where he encounters Murdoc and Pete who conspire to force MacGyver off his land.

Live and Learn

Episode: 5x13 | Airdate: Jan 15, 1990

Live and Learn

MacGyver is participating in a project to help potential high school drop outs. One of the students work at a construction site with his dad. While there, the kid discovers that the site may be unsafe after witnessesing a safety inspector being bribed.

Log Jam

Episode: 5x14 | Airdate: Feb 5, 1990

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.

The Treasure of Manco

Episode: 5x15 | Airdate: Feb 12, 1990

The Treasure of Manco

A friend of MacGyver's is killed in Peru looking for a mythical treasure. MacGyver helps his daughter to continue her father's quest.

Jenny's Chance

Episode: 5x16 | Airdate: Feb 19, 1990

Jenny's Chance

MacGyver organizes a gambling sting operation in order to catch the murderer of a horse trainer, a money launderer for a Cuban drug lord.

Deep Cover

Episode: 5x17 | Airdate: Feb 26, 1990

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.

The Lost Amadeus

Episode: 5x18 | Airdate: Mar 19, 1990

The Lost Amadeus

A strange young woman gets Mac involved with a priceless violin and an eccentric maestro being sought by syndicate hoods.

Hearts of Steel

Episode: 5x19 | Airdate: Apr 9, 1990

Hearts of Steel

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.

Rush to Judgement

Episode: 5x20 | Airdate: Apr 16, 1990

Rush to Judgement

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.

Passages

Episode: 5x21 | Airdate: Apr 30, 1990

Passages

After the death of his grandfather, MacGyver tries to stop the theft of an Egyptian artifact and is critically injured. He finds himself on the Ship of the Dead... with his dead relatives.

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