Young war hero Angus `Mac' MacGyver has an extraordinary knack for unconventional problem solving and an extensive bank of scientific knowledge that he believes can best be put to use saving lives, both of which come in handy when he creates a clandestine organization within the United States government to tackle high-risk missions around the world. Working under the sponsorship of the Department of External Affairs, MacGyver quietly prevents disasters with the help of former CIA agent Jack Dalton.
Using a cell phone and soccer ball, MacGyver and the team search for a Navy SEAL who is believed to be alive in captivity in the Middle East.
Using a necklace and a microwave transmitter, Mac and the team attempt to locate Riley after her first solo mission with a group of dangerous hackers goes off the rails.
MacGyver and the team go undercover in a casino using cufflinks and wire to steal diamonds from a vault before a terrorist group gets there first and trades the jewels for a weapon of mass destruct...
When Murdoc drugs and kidnaps MacGyver, Mac uses a needle and his teeth to escape and join the team to save Murdoc's next victim.
The team is pulled away from their Halloween plans when they head into the dreaded Bermuda Triangle to retrieve the Vice President's son after his plane goes down with a mysterious prisoner on board.
Mac and the team attempt to extinguish a massive oil wellhead fire in a Nigerian village, set by a rebel group that is trying to topple its government by destroying their most valuable resource.
MacGyver uses a heater and tabasco sauce to help a key presidential candidate in Ecuador receive a heart transplant he desperately needs after a rebel group tries to sabotage delivery of the organ.
When MacGyver and Jack 'steal' a priceless painting using a table cloth and a shoe lace in order to draw an infamous stolen art dealer out of hiding, they end up getting conned out of the painting.
Mac and the team follow a group of Indonesian mercenaries who are transporting a lethal amount of stolen nerve gas in the hopes of tracking them to their dangerous leader.
When 32 college students are stranded on a research ship in the Arctic Ocean with no heat and erupting fires, Mac relays how they can stay alive as they await a rescue ship.
The LAPD interrupts the team's Christmas celebration to arrest Mac for terrorism when they find a body in a building destroyed by a bomb that Mac built.
Mac's nemesis The Ghost rigs his house with explosives. Mac uses a karaoke mic and an audio transformer to let the team know that this bomb is a distraction for a bigger one.
While Mac participates in a challenge for government operatives to create robotic combat machines, Mac must help his biggest competitor, Allie, when her vehicle is hacked and heads to the Pentagon.
When the team heads to New Orleans to track down the con artist who is posing as the wife of 'Duke Jacoby', one of Jack's old CIA aliases, Jack finds himself in jeopardy.
After one of Murdoc's go-to assassins agrees to hand over Murdoc to MacGyver in exchange for $10 million, the team finds itself protecting Murdoc from his former mentor, Nicholas Helman, who wants ...
MacGyver, Leanna, Riley and Bozer pose as honeymooning couples at a resort in order to gain information about a Serbian war criminal from his newly married son.
Mac, Jack and Riley set out to find a mobster-turned-informant after he's kidnapped and taken to Chernobyl by an international crime boss who's worried he will deliver incriminating information to ...
When Matty and the team search for a former government tech who stole classified intel, they reunite with the Coltons, the family of bounty hunters, who are pursuing the same man for different reas...
As Mac and the team investigate the suspicious death of Dawn's CIA supervisor, the evidence leads to a dirty CIA agent and a massive counterfeiting ring.
Mac and Jack attempt to rescue a billionaire's son after he is kidnapped by a former Navy SEAL who uses a weapon to cut off power and communication lines to the Shanghai skyscraper where the boy li...
While MacGyver is in Puerto Rico helping his friend rebuild his hurricane-damaged home, he is taken hostage in the bank his friend manages when robbers attempt to steal $2 million.
Mac and Riley are attacked by a group of masked men after the government calls them in to examine a mysterious object that crash-landed in the Nevada desert.
MacGyver gets a shocking surprise when he tries to tell Matty that he's quitting the Phoenix Foundation.