The Best Episodes Written By John Whelpley

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   8.3/10(3 votes)

   #1 - The Widowmaker

   S3:E811/16/1987

   MacGyver is forced out of his grief over the tragic death of a friend by a madman with a score to settle from their past association.

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   7.3/10(6 votes)

   #2 - Afterlife

   S2:E155/19/1996

   Linden Stiles struggles to retain his humanity after heis convicted of a murder he didn't commit. When asked to make a frightful choice: accept execution or become the subject of a secret military experiment -- he chooses to live. As the experiment progresses, Stiles fights the dehumanizing influence of injected DNA from an alien lifeform. The attending doctor is troubled by a growing awareness of the inhumanity of the experiment itself, of the men in charge and of her own role. Using his super-human strength, Stiles escapes. Then, hunted by his former compatriots, he faces a decision even more difficult than the one that set him on such a tragic course.

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #3 - Ma Dalton

   S4:E81/23/1989

   After Jack receives momentos of his father from an anonymous sender, he and MacGyver launch a search for Jack's mother, who's been missing since he was boy—and they aren't the only ones hunting for her.

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #4 - Early Retirement

   S3:E121/18/1988

   While testing a new nuclear bomb defusing team at the Phoenix Foundation, a deadly explosion kills three men. Pete blames himself for not inspecting their equipment better and resigns from his job out of guilt. However, Pete is replaced by a not-so-trustworthy man—one who may have been connected to the explosion.

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #5 - Rock the Cradle

   S3:E184/18/1988

   Mac and Jack return from a flight to find an abandoned baby in Jack's hangar, complete with a desperate note from the mother and his own endowment fund hidden in his diapers.

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   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #6 - On a Wing and a Prayer

   S4:E412/5/1988

   Central American rebels capture Pete and a nun during a coup d'état, and it's up to MacGyver and Jack to rescue them.

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   6.8/10(4 votes)

   #7 - Harper 2.0

   S1:E142/12/2001

   Harper finds himself overloaded with information when a dying Perseid transfers data into his brain.

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   6.6/10(27 votes)

   #8 - Invasive Procedures

   S2:E410/17/1993

   Stardate: 47182.1. A jealous Trill, who had waited his entire life to receive a symbiont but never had, decides to steal one. . . Dax's!

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   6.5/10(44 votes)

   #9 - Suddenly Human

   S4:E410/15/1990

   Stardate: 44143.7. A custody battle between Picard and a child's adoptive father arises when a boy showing evidence of abuse is discovered.

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    5.8/10(4 votes)

    #10 - Double or Nothingness

    S4:E410/20/2003

    Dylan plays a dangerous game against two gamblers, but not everything is as real as it seems.

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    5.7/10(3 votes)

    #11 - When Goes Around...

    S5:E610/29/2004

    Dylan encounters Celine, a woman from his past and is trapped in time loops. The two are happy to see each other, but Dylan knows he may have to choose between Celine and the survival of Seefra.

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