MacGyver: Season 4
Paramount (1988)
TV Series  /  Action, Adventure, Television
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IMDB   7.7
916 mins Canada / English
DVD  Region 1   Mature young audience
Richard Dean Anderson MacGyver
Michael Des Barres Murdoc
Elyssa Davalos Nikki Carpenter
Dana Elcar Pete Thornton
Teri Hatcher Penny Parker
Bruce McGill Jack Dalton
Robin Mossley Wilt Bozer
Susan Chapple Helen Wilson
Director
Charles Correll
Michael Preece
Producer Henry Winkler
John Rich
Writer John Sheppard
Rick Drew

There's never been another hero like MacGyver. Brilliantly brought to life by Richard Dean Anderson, MacGyver is the ultimate all-American good guy.In the action-packed fourth season, old friends and old enemies return to complicate MacGyver's life, including strong-willed Penny (teri Hatcher), and murderous Murdoc (Michael Des Barres). Not to mention the usual drug smugglers, terrorists, rebels and killers Mac must bring to justice. It's more edge-of-the-seat adventure from one of the most exciting television series of all time!Disc 1- The Secret Of Parker House- Blood Brothers- The Outsiders- On A Wing And A PrayerDisc 2- Collision Course- The Survivors- Deadly Dreams- Ma DaltonDisc 3- Cleo Rocks- Fraternity of Thieves- The Battle Of Tommy Giordano- The ChallengeDisc 4- Runners- Gold Rush- The Invisible Killer- BrainwashedDisc 5- Easy Target- Renegade- Unfinished Business
Episodes
 60 mins    31/10/1988  1.  The Secret of Parker House
MacGyver accompanies his friend Penny Parker to an old house she has inherited from her Aunt Betty, who mysteriously died 30 years before. When strange things start happening, Penny is sure that the house is haunted. However, MacGyver tries to convince her that there's no such thing as ghosts, but then he starts witnessing the strange events, too.
Director:  Mike Vejar  / Gene Hanson  Writer:  John Sheppard  / Rick Drew 
Guest starring:  Gisele MacKenzie,  Arlen Dean Snyder, Ray Young
 60 mins    21/11/1988  2.  Blood Brothers
MacGyver returns to his home town of Mission City, Minnesota to meet up with two old friends, Chuck and Neil, so they can dig up a time capsule they buried twenty-five years before. However, MacGyver is hesitant to dig the capsule up because he is still haunted by the death of his old friend Jesse, who died when MacGyver was young. But now MacGyver has another problem to deal with. Chuck's and Neil's sons, Danny and Sean, have gotten wrapped up in a drug deal, and the dealer is after Danny. Danny takes off to hide, and now MacGyver must find him, before the drug dealer does.
Director:  Charlie Correll  Writer:  Rick Drew 
Guest starring:  Dirk Blocker, Bernie Coulson, Ramon Franco, Michel McNeilly,  Jason Priestley
 60 mins    28/11/1988  3.  The Outsiders
MacGyver helps an Amish family, who saved his life, from having their farm seized by the government.
Director:  Mike Vejar  Writer:  Michelle Poteet Lisanti 
Guest starring:  Kaj-Erik Eriksen, Gustaf Kristjanson, Allan Lysell, Ruth DeSosa, Vicky Wauchope
 60 mins    05/12/1988  4.  On a Wing and a Prayer
Central American rebels capture Pete and a nun, and it's up to Mac and Jack to rescue them. But, Jack's plane is sub par, and they go down in the middle of enemy territory.
Director:  Charlie Correll  Writer:  John Whelpley 
Guest starring:  Bruce McGillJenny Gago, Garwin Sanford, Susan Walden
 60 mins    12/12/1988  5.  Collision Course
When a friend of Mac's is injured in a crash, Mac agrees to test the new racing engine designed by the Phoenix Foundation. However a business rival has other plans for him, and he has someone from the inside to help him.
Director:  Chuck Bowman  Writer:  Paul B. Margolis 
Guest starring:  Patrick WayneKai Wulff, Katey Wright, G. Gordon Liddy, Kymberly Sheppard,  Peter Williams
 60 mins    09/01/1989  6.  The Survivors
While on assignment for the Phoenix Foundation to test field agents to make sure they are still in shape, MacGyver finds out he now has another agent to test: Pete. Things take a turn for the worse when MacGyver and Pete head into the wilderness where they stumble upon a wrecked plane and pictures of two dangerous drug smugglers who shot it down.
Director:  Michael Caffey  Writer:  W. Reed Moran 
Guest starring:  Gerry Bean, Dale Wilson
 60 mins    16/01/1989  7.  Deadly Dreams
MacGyver gets involved in the search for an escaped serial killer. Soon he comes to the conclusion that the killer had help from another prisoner—an even more sinister man.
Director:  Les Landau  Writer:  Stephen Downing 
Guest starring:  Kim Zimmer, W. Morgan Sheppard,  Gary Chalk, Brenda Crichlow, Todd Jeffries, Jeff Irvine
 60 mins    23/01/1989  8.  Ma Dalton
Jack receives mementos of his father from an anonymous sender. This triggers a search for Jack´s mother, who has been missing since Jack was a boy. But when he finally gets to meet her, she turns out to be a fugitive in fear of her life, and Jack´s presence only complicate things more.
Director:  Rob Bowman  Writer:  John Whelpley 
Guest starring:  Bruce McGill, Ed Nelson,  Les Carlson, Constance Towers, Richard Lawson, Andrew Kavadas, Freda Perry
 60 mins    06/02/1989  9.  Cleo Rocks
Penny Parker's big chance in a major professional role is threatened from two directions: a money shortage and several deaths linked to the musical she is set to perform in.
Director:  Chuck Bowman  Writer:  John Sheppard  / Rick Drew 
Guest starring:  Robert Donner,  Michael Des BarresTeri Hatcher, Max Reimer
 60 mins    13/02/1989  10.  Fraternity of Thieves
When Pete's son, Michael, returns to work for the foundation, neither Pete nor MacGyver see that Michael has used his connections to get closer to a Phoenix Foundation technology system in order to steal it and to sell it to the mysterious Papillion. But Papillion has plans of his own for Michael and his gang.
Director:  Michael Preece  Writer:  Grant Rosenberg 
Guest starring:  James Karen, Hank Stratton, Robert Metcalfe,  Don Galloway, John Payne
 60 mins    20/02/1989  11.  The Battle of Tommy Giordano
When a kid is kidnapped by his estranged father, MacGyver tries to help the mother, a Phoenix employee, to rescue the boy. But the father is the son of an aging organized crime kingpin whose control is being threatened by subordinates.
Director:  Mike Vejar  Writer:  Marianne Clarkson 
Guest starring:  Penny Peyser, Tony Dakota, Peter Yunker, Peter Blackwood,  Joseph Wiseman, Charles André
 60 mins    27/02/1989  12.  The Challenge
An inner city youth club is threatened when a black resident is framed for auto theft by a neighborhood racist who'll stop at nothing to close the center—even murder.
Director:  Dana Elcar  Writer:  Chris Haddock 
Guest starring:  Cuba Gooding Jr., Michael MacRae, Roxanne Reese, Michael D. Roberts
 60 mins    13/03/1989  13.  Runners
MacGyver helps a young runaway with a vicious pimp and a tragic secret about her policeman father.
Director:  Michael Caffey  Writer:  Joel Schwartz 
Guest starring:  Holly Fields, Gerald Anthony, Roxanne Reese, Jeff Pomerantz
 60 mins    27/03/1989  14.  Gold Rush
MacGyver joins a joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. team trekking into the Alaskan wilderness to retrieve a huge amount of Russian gold from a downed plane only to learn that someone has beaten them to it.
Director:  Bill Gereghty  Writer:  David Engelbach 
Guest starring:  Colleen Winton, Lee Patterson, Walter Gotell
 60 mins    10/04/1989  15.  The Invisible Killer
MacGyver heads up a trip with four other Phoenix Foundation employees into the wilderness as part of a stress reduction program. After discovering that a prison bus accident has freed several prisoners, the employees begin to question each other's behavior. MacGyver must now figure out which man, if any, is not to be trusted before it's too late.
Director:  Dana Elcar  Writer:  Chris Haddock 
Guest starring:  James SloyanAdam Arkin, Jean Bruce Scott, Andrew Rhodes, Julie Downing,  Blu Mankuma
 60 mins    24/04/1989  16.  Brainwashed
Jack Dalton is brainwashed by an African politician and his wife to assassinate the leader of an African nation, who is in town for an awards ceremony.
Director:  Michael Caffey  Writer:  John Sheppard 
Guest starring:  Bruce McGillRoger Aaron Brown, Cyndi James Gossett, Janet Hodgkinson, Linda Darlow, Raymond St. Jacques, Joanna Piros
 60 mins    01/05/1989  17.  Easy Target
MacGyver and Pete are captured by terrorists intent on wiping out a nearby city with an electromagnetic pulse, unless their leader is freed.
Director:  Charlie Correll  Writer:  Rick Drew 
Guest starring:  Wolf Muser, Ruth Britt,  Tom Everett, Frank Ferrucci
 60 mins    08/05/1989  18.  Renegade
MacGyver works hard to retrieve the anthrax bacillus stolen by a former Navy commando who once saved his life, and is now suffering the effects of an old head wound.
Director:  Michael Caffey  / Robert Bielak  Writer:  Chris Haddock 
Guest starring:  Marshall Teague, Patrie Allen, Don Stroud, Stephen Furst
 60 mins    15/05/1989  19.  Unfinished Business
Jack, MacGyver, and Pete review their past adventures while on a gold-panning expedition, unaware they're being stalked by a vengeful killer.
Director:  Charlie Correll  Writer:  Marianne Clarkson 
Guest starring:  Bruce McGill, Kristian Alfonso,  Vernon WellsLance LeGaultJudy GeesonLuke AskewMichael Des Barres
Edition Details
Edition Full Screen
Series MacGyver
Release Date 16/12/2005
Packaging Digipak
Screen Ratio 1.33:1
Audio Tracks English Dolby Digital 2.0
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Discs/Tapes 5
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