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== Recurring characters ==
*'''[[Jack Dalton (MacGyver)|Jack Dalton]]''' (portrayed by [[Bruce McGill]]; [[George Eads]] in 2016 version): is an aviator and old friend of MacGyver's with a weakness for [[get-rich-quick scheme]]s that invariably get both of them into trouble. He always wears a peaked cap and twitches his left eye when lying. In 2016 reboot, the character is a agent for Phoenix and MacGyver's partner.
*'''[[Murdoc]]''' (portrayed by [[Michael Des Barres]]; [[David Dastmalchian]] in 2016 version): is MacGyver's most frequent opponent. He is a master assassin who never fails—except when MacGyver gets involved. Murdoc is a master of disguise, as well as highly skilled and creative in the use of [[booby trap]]s. Murdoc's signature for each hit is to take photographs of his victims at the moment of their deaths. His first appearance in the series is presented as his second run-in with MacGyver. Murdoc returns for revenge for their first encounter—to the surprise of MacGyver, as Murdoc had apparently been killed. Murdoc's revenge scheme not only fails, but results in him apparently being killed again. This became a recurring theme: each of Murdoc's subsequent appearances ends in another apparently certain "death", which he incredibly survives, to return in a later episode. In 2016 reboot, the character is a hired hitman who's targets is enemies and MacGyver.
*'''Wilt Bozer''' (portrayed by Robin Mossley; [[Justin Hires]] in 2016 version): Episodes - ''[[List of MacGyver episodes (season 5)|Serenity]]'', ''The Lost Amadeus'', ''[[List of MacGyver episodes (season 5)|Hearts of Steel]]'', and ''[[List of MacGyver episodes (season 6)|MacGyver's Women]]''. In 2016 reboot, the character is a agent for Phoenix and MacGyver's partner.
*'''Helen Wilson''' (portrayed by Susan Chapple): Episodes - ''[[List of MacGyver episodes (season 3)|The Odd Triple]]'', ''[[List of MacGyver episodes (season 3)|The Spoilers]]'', ''[[List of MacGyver episodes (season 3)|Rock the Cradle]]'', ''[[List of MacGyver episodes (season 4)|Cleo Rocks]]'', ''[[List of MacGyver episodes (season 4)|The Battle of Tommy Giordano]]'', ''[[List of MacGyver episodes (season 6)|Blind Faith]]'', and ''[[List of MacGyver episodes (season 6)|Strictly Business]]''
*'''Penny Parker'''<ref>{{cite book|first=Ruby A|last=Sampson|isbn=9780595386581|title=TV Gems of the Past: for Trivia & Crosswords Puzzles|publisher=[[iUniverse]]|year=2006|url=http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/059538658X/qid=1227910297/ref=sib_books_pg?ie=UTF8&keywords=%26%2334%3BPenny%20Parker%26%2334%3B%20MacGyver&p=S0EY&checkSum=zIH0e0ftizeYnrUVdve%252FJIOTQdo4ztmxDNCmCX24T9k%253D#reader|page=505}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|publisher=[[Gale Group]]|isbn=078765115X|title=Contemporary Theatre Film & Television V43|author=Gale|year=2002|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LeZkAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Penny+Parker%22+MacGyver&dq=%22Penny+Parker%22+MacGyver&ei=FiowSbj4LZ-aMrXViMsD&pgis=1|page=154}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first=Carlos|last=Arrieta|url=http://www.lavozdeanza.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=7e659863-b53f-48ce-961c-7c168d312dac|title=Famous former students|work=La Voz Weekly|date=May 17, 2004|accessdate=January 27, 2016}}</ref> (portrayed by [[Teri Hatcher]]): Penny Parker and MacGyver meet in line at an airport in [[Bulgaria]] when she tries to smuggle some jewels out of the country in his pocket.<ref>Season 1, Episode 16 - "[[List of MacGyver episodes (season 1)|Every Time She Smiles]]".</ref> With little talent, but big dreams, her pursuit of a show business career gets her into trouble more than once; she was once used by Murdoc as an unwitting pawn in an attempt to eliminate MacGyver. She was also the spitting image of her late aunt Betty Parker, who was murdered in 1958 by her boyfriend, and was suffering from lead poisoning.,<ref>Season 4, Episode 1 - "[[List of MacGyver episodes (season 4)|The Secret of Parker House]]".</ref> Penny isn't exactly stupid, but she tends to act without thinking things through, and has only a shaky grasp of how the world works.
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*'''Harry Jackson''' (portrayed by [[John Anderson (actor)|John Anderson]]): is MacGyver's grandfather who helped raise MacGyver after his grandmother and father were killed in a car accident when MacGyver was aged nine. Seven years later, Harry left MacGyver to work in [[Alaska]], sending money to MacGyver and his mother. At this time, MacGyver and Harry lost contact, but beginning in season one, ''MacGyver'' and Harry meet again in the episode "Target MacGyver" after eighteen years without contact.<ref>Stated by MacGyver as "it's been six..seven...eighteen years"</ref> Harry appears in the five episodes "Target MacGyver" (season 1), "Phoenix Under Siege", "Friends" (both season 2) "Passages" (season 5) and "Harry's Will" (season 6). After another eighteen years, Harry and MacGyver meet again in the season one episode, "[[List of MacGyver episodes (season 1)|Target MacGyver]]", in which MacGyver and his grandfather work together to defeat an assassin named Axminster ([[D'Mitch Davis]]). Harry dies of a heart attack in the fifth season finale episode "[[List of MacGyver episodes (season 5)|Passages]]".
*'''Nikki Carpenter'''<ref>{{cite web|first=Patrick|last=Fiekers|url=http://www.digitalvd.de/dvd-heimkino-news/8598,MacGyver-auf-DVD-Zweite-Staffel-erscheint-noch-rechtzeitig-vor-Weihnachten.html|title=''MacGyver'' auf DVD: Zweite Staffel erscheint noch rechtzeitig vor Weihnachten|work=DVD Digital|date=November 28, 2008|accessdate=January 27, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|isbn=9780595386581|first=Ruby A|last=Sampson|title=TV Gems of the Past: for Trivia & Crosswords Puzzles|publisher=[[iUniverse]]|year=2006|url=http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/059538658X/qid=1227911032/ref=sib_books_pg?ie=UTF8&keywords=%26%2334%3BNikki%20Carpenter%26%2334%3B%20MacGyver&p=S07K&checkSum=%252BZEdG7aj0fkAfjYTFLkrHhQaRr71KmBBEYF%252FjFrkCQg%253D#reader|page=239}}</ref> (portrayed by [[Elyssa Davalos]]; [[Tracy Spiridakos]] in 2016 version): Nikki Carpenter joins the Phoenix Foundation in the third season. She often has differences of opinion with MacGyver, although the two eventually come to respect each other as professionals.
*'''Maria Romburg''' (portrayed by [[Brigitta Stenberg]]): Maria appears in the sixth season initially to scam a friend of MacGyver's. She changes sides, joins the Phoenix Foundation, and becomes a love interest of MacGyver. In 2016 reboot, the character is a former agent for the DXS and MacGyver's former girlfriend who went rogue.
*'''Mei Jan'''<ref>Season 5, Episode 7 - "[[List of MacGyver episodes (season 5)|Children of Light]]". Mei Jan's mission was to broadcast the [[Tiananmen Square protests of 1989|Tiananmen Square protests]] nationally to gain public interest.</ref> (portrayed by [[Michele Chan]]) (initially calling herself '''Sue Ling'''):is MacGyver's foster daughter who enlists MacGyver's help in completing her mission for the Chinese student movement. She later reveals that the real Sue Ling was killed in the [[Tiananmen Square protests of 1989]].
*'''Cynthia Wilson''' (portrayed by Roxanne Reese): Introduced with her husband Booker ([[Michael D. Roberts]]) in "[[List of MacGyver episodes (season 4)|The Challenge]]", Cynthia runs the ''Challenger's Club'', a program for troubled inner-city teens. In episodes where MacGyver tries to help runaways or other youths, he invariably sends them to the ''Challenger's Club'' as a safe haven.
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