
MacGyver is a top agent for the Phoenix Foundation, a progressive agency devoted to righting the wrongs of the world. Even more progressive is the genius MacGyver, who never carries a gun and always thwarts the enemy with vast scientific knowledge - sometimes with little more than a paper clip and the duct tape in his pocket.

MacGyver matches wits with a corrupt military force when he attempts to save a photojournalist from a South American crime syndicate.

MacGyver attempts to recover $60 million in diamonds, destined for famine relief, that were stolen by a con artist.

MacGyver teams up with a local landowner, to battle a huge colony of ants marauding through a dense South American jungle.

Robbers seize millions of dollars in an armored car and take MacGyver as a hostage, who has been caught in the middle of a plane-hijacking attempt.