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MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday is a 1994 American television film directed by Charles Correll, based on a script written by Lee David Zlotoff and John Considine . Cast. Plot. MacGyver is in London visiting his friend Paul Moran. When Moran is murdered, MacGyver discovers a secret nuclear weapons factory right in the center of Britain. Categories:
ActorRoleNataliaPeter EganFrederickAlun ArmstrongCapshawNov 24, 1994 · Rate. Action Crime Mystery. A close friend of MacGyver is murdered. In searching of a reason for this assassination, MacGyver discovers a secret nuclear weapons plant right in the center of Britain. Director. Charles Correll. Writers. Lee David Zlotoff. John Considine.
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- Action, Crime, Mystery
- Charles Correll
- 1994-11-24
Good Knight MacGyver: Part 1: Directed by Michael Vejar. With Richard Dean Anderson, Dana Elcar, Time Winters, Christopher Collet. While researching his family's genealogy, MacGyver discovers that his family name was disgraced during the Middle Ages.
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- Action, Adventure, Crime
- Michael Vejar
- 1991-11-04
- There's A "Real" MacGyver.
- His First Name Was Originally Stacey.
- His Last Name Was Inspired by McDonald's.
- The Pilot Was So Bad The Director Had His Name removed.
- Viewers Thought The Show Killed A Rhino.
- Poor Mac Couldn't Have A Girlfriend.
- The Show Paid Fans to Come Up with "Macgyverisms."
- Mac Did Use A Gun—Twice.
- Not Everyone Was A Fan of His No-Bazooka Policy.
- His Floating Home Ended Up on Craigslist.
After Lee David Zlotoff decided his protagonist would be armed with little more than a Swiss Army knife and a formidable intellect, he stumbled upon a gemologist at Caltech named John Koivula, who seemed to have experience in everything from physics to chemistry. WhenMacGyver was ordered by ABC, Koivula became the show’s scientific consultant. Writ...
The seventh (and final) season of MacGyver satisfied fan curiosity by revealing the character’s first name: Angus. (In a not-very-Dickens move, Richard Dean Anderson suggested it because he saw it on a banner in Vancouver.) But prior to the show’s premiere, Paramount publicity circulateda flyer that credited Anderson as playing “Stacey MacGyver.” T...
Zlotoff wanted a masculine-sounding name for the character and had intended to simply call him “Guy,” but friends convinced him that it didn’t sound too compelling. Instead, Zlotoff picked up on the fact that the popularity of McDonald’s was prompting people to facetiously add a “Mc” or "Mac" in front of words. “So I suggested we call our hero MacG...
YouTube Executive producer John Rich told the Archive of American Television that the pilot for MacGyver came in at a running time of 90 minutes—and it was awful. “It was dreary,” Rich said. “It was no good … it was an hour and a half of dreadful.” Over an Easter holiday, Rich re-cut the episode, removing 30 minutes. As a result of the perceived me...
For an episode in which MacGyver confronts poachers, the show’s effects team spent $40,000 crafting a fake rhinoceros for a key scene in which the animal is destroyed. The money made for an effective moment, but it also prompted viewers to call in condemning the producers for victimizing a helpless creature. (In fact, only Richard Dean Anderson was...
While the show was popular for its clever approach to science, it didn’t hurt that Anderson was a former soap opera star and a frequent target of affection for swooning viewers. As a consequence, MacGyver getting romantically involved with a woman in the series was usually met with indignation. When a love interest was introduced for several episod...
Getting MacGyver out of hairy situations using a variety of items within arm’s reach was a clever conceit—and one that got increasingly difficult to orchestrate as the series continued. At one point, John Rich offered viewers a cash rewardif they could submit a scenario for use on the show. While all incoming letters were read, very few had plausib...
YouTube Among the character’s many distinctive traits, his disdain for firearms was possibly the most defining: because MacGyver couldn’t rely on weapons, he was forced to improvise alternative solutions. But in the pilot episode, Anderson (who didn’t like guns, either) is seen shootingan automatic weapon. In a later season, MacGyver used a gun, sm...
When an episode aired in 1988 that depicted the origins of MacGyver’s aversion to guns—it turns out that a boyhood friend was killed by one accidentally—the National Rifle Association went nuclear. "Since that time, we have been on their hit list,” co-executive producer Steve Downing told the Los Angeles Times. “They have been encouraging people no...
For most of the show’s run, MacGyver lived on a pretty cool floating home that was docked in a Vancouver boat yard. When Paramount was done using it, it was sold off, remodeled, and resold in 2012. Since then, it has apparently suffered damage due to the whole foundation-of-water thing. In late 2014, it soldfor under $40,000 on Craigslist, far belo...
There But for the Grace: Directed by William Gereghty. With Richard Dean Anderson, Dana Elcar, Nicolas Coster, Marie Stillin. Two guys whack a priest in the head with a metal pipe, drag him into a construction site and proceed to rob him of everything valuable.
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- Action, Adventure, Crime
- William Gereghty
- 1991-02-18
Lee David Zlotoff (born July 10, 1954) is a producer, director and screenwriter best known as the creator of the TV series MacGyver. He started as a screenwriter for Hill Street Blues in 1981. He then became a producer of Remington Steele in 1982.
Nov 21, 1994 · Scripter John Considine gets low marks for his preposterous and unthreatening villains, and for tacking on an extraneous green message. Not too much is made of the culture clash, but MacGyver...
