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MacGyver: Trumbo's World
Mac and his friend, ornithologist Dr. Charles Alden, travel to South America and discover that a horde of ants are ravaging the countryside. Mac is forced to take refuge at a plantation owned by misanthropic Trumbo, and rig an increasingly desperate series of defenses against the marauding ants.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 1x6 Production Number: 005 Airdate: Sunday November 10th, 1985 |
Recap
In the Pyrenees, MacGyver arrives to rescue an American geologist, Dr. Andrea Gates, caught between warring local factions. Removing his clothes, MacGyver dons the towel and slips in to the camp and goes to the outdoor showers. As he walks through the camp, he spots the shower water pipe near the cooking fire. He edges the pipe onto the fire and then goes to the locked cabin where the tourist is kept. He uses a wooden board as a lever to lift the door off its hinges. Gates hugs him and they don soldier uniforms. MacGyver then douses a rope with kerosene from a lantern as the shower water reaches the steaming point. MacGyver and Gates slip out and head for a nearby cliff: the soldiers spot them and follow...Read the full recap
Episode Notes
The episode saves on cost by using footage from The Naked Jungle (1954).
Lee H. Katzin directed the opening gambit; Donald Petrie directed the main episode.
Episode Quotes
MacGyver: That's when I usually get a call; when somebody's in trouble and needs some rescuing.
MacGyver: Ah, what a life I lead. Riding the rapids in the Pyrenees Mountains one day, and the next crossing half the world to help out a friend with a very weird problem in a very strange part of the Amazon. I think I should get an unlisted phone number.
Lucien Trumbo: I don't waste time on the impossible.
MacGyver: Well, I don't know how good ants are at swimming, but I'd be willing to bet a good fire would get their attention.
Lucien Trumbo: We're out of gasoline, and we're out of miracles.
MacGyver: So now's the time to start thinking.
MacGyver: So now's the time to start thinking.
Episode References
MacGyverisms:
* Swiss Army Knife on string to hook a towel
* Moving an outdoor shower's water pipe onto a cooking fire as a distraction
* Wooden board to lever a door up off its hinges
* Rope doused in kerosene and lit on fire to prevent pursuit
* Barbed wire across a river to deflate a rubber boat
* Fifty-cent pieces and jumper cables to create a makeshift arc welder
* Rope and a bamboo pole to turn the rope and make a winch
* Gasoline, thickened with household elements, combined with a garden hose to create a makeshift flamethrower
* Fertilizer, plant cellulose, and acid to make nitromanide (stable nitroglycerin)
* Melted garden hose on plastic sheeting to make a protective rubber suit against ants
* Swiss Army Knife on string to hook a towel
* Moving an outdoor shower's water pipe onto a cooking fire as a distraction
* Wooden board to lever a door up off its hinges
* Rope doused in kerosene and lit on fire to prevent pursuit
* Barbed wire across a river to deflate a rubber boat
* Fifty-cent pieces and jumper cables to create a makeshift arc welder
* Rope and a bamboo pole to turn the rope and make a winch
* Gasoline, thickened with household elements, combined with a garden hose to create a makeshift flamethrower
* Fertilizer, plant cellulose, and acid to make nitromanide (stable nitroglycerin)
* Melted garden hose on plastic sheeting to make a protective rubber suit against ants
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | Lee David Zlotoff |
| • Executive Producer | Jerry Ludwig | Henry Winkler | John Rich (1) |
| • Supervising Producer | Stephen Downing |
| • Producer | Terry Nation |
| • Co-Producer | Judy Burns (1) |
| • Associate Producer | Steven Milkis |
| • Production Designer | Stan Jolley |
| • Editor | Jay Scherberth |
| • Casting | Pam Polifroni | Joanne Koehler |
| • Line Producer | Vin DiBona |
| • Unit Production Manager | David Menteer |
| • First Assistant Director | Robert M. Rolsky (2) |
| • Second Assistant Director | Gary Law (1) |
| • Music | Randy Edelman |
| • Music Editor | Steve Danforth |
| • Costume Designer | Thomas Welsh | Sharlene Williams | Rudolph Garcia |
| • Hairstylist | Lynn Del Kail |
| • Make-up | Dee Manges |
| • Set Decorator | Bryan Thetford |
| • Property Master | Peter McWade |
| • Script Supervisor | Kathy Barrett (1) |
| • Director of Photography | Donald H. Birnkrant |
| • Stunt Coordinator | Vince Deadrick, Jr. (1) |
| • Sound Mixer | Dean Hodges |
| • Special Effects | Billy Myatt |
| • Executive Story Editor | Stephen Kandel |
| • Main Title Theme | Randy Edelman |
| • Senior Producer | Robert Hargrove |
| • Administrative Supervisor | Delia Circelli |
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