MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) is a modern-day "knight-errant", a person people turn to in a crisis. He has a penchant for arriving on the scene in the eleventh hour, when the clock is ticking ominously and innocent lives often are at stake.

MacGyver is a packrat, collecting ordinary items of seemingly little value and stashing them in his knapsack "for a rainy day". And it is these same items that he uses to improvise his way out of trouble. MacGyver's ingenious solutions to seemingly insurmountable problems may seem like science fiction but they are all based on scientific fact.

Episodes comprise:

1. Pilot
2. The Golden Triangle
3. Thief of Budapest
4. The Gauntlet
5. The Heist
6. Trumbo's World
7. Last Stand
8. Hellfire
9. The Prodigal
10. Target MacGyver
11. Nightmares
12. Deathlock
13. Flame's End
14. Countdown
15. The Enemy Within
16. Every Time She Smiles
17. To Be a Man
18. Ugly Duckling
19. Slow Death
20. The Escape
21. A Prisoner of Conscience
22. The Assassin