
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 uses traps and his wits to help villagers in the Burmese jungle escape an army of mercenaries.

The KGB and Budapest police pursue MacGyver as he tries to free Gypsies who stole a watch containing secret information.

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.