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MacGyver: The Prodigal
A mobster wants to testify against his brother and goes into protective custody. However, when he wants to visit his dying mother, MacGyver has to help him escape from the Feds.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 1x9 Production Number: 009 Airdate: Sunday December 08th, 1985 |
Co-Guest Stars
Recap
MacGyver is enjoying a rare morning at home while waiting for his 10 a.m. appointment with a Frank Bennett. Frank arrives and asks MacGyver to help him disappear. According to the Federal Marshal, Wiley, Frank is going to testify before the government crime commission but Frank hasn't decided yet. Wiley is running late and MacGyver goes inside to call him. Two men pull up and grab Frank, then haul him into their car. MacGyver takes Frank's car, hot-wiring it with a paper clip, and follows the thugs. The thugs tell Frank that his brother Joey just wants to talk to them and insist that Joey needs him. They go to a lumberyard warehouse and MacGyver climbs over the fence and watches while Joey Bennett and his uncle Vincent pull up and go inside. MacGyver breaks into the trunk of Joey's car and takes out a tire jack, then unfastens the wheel screws on the car...Read the full recap
Episode Quotes
MacGyver: There's got to be a gigantic secret factory somewhere puttin' out nothing but junk mail.
MacGyver: Now, technically I'm driving a stolen car, following a kidnapping . . . and I still haven't had my first cup of coffee.
Frank Bennett: We're brothers, Joey. It's just a word: it stopped meaning anything a long time ago.
Joey Bennett: No trouble, right? Not here… but I owe you.
MacGyver: I'd love to collect sometime.
MacGyver: I'd love to collect sometime.
MacGyver: I know a brick wall when it falls on me.
MacGyver: Lots of people think a car runs on gas. Only one-third correct. A car also runs on air and water.
MacGyver: With all due respect, sir, I do what I do the way I do it.
MacGyver: This problem's kinda tricky: no place to go, and no way to get there.
Episode References
MacGyverisms:
* Paper clip to hotwire a car
* Table saw to shoot pieces of lumber and shop vac to blow sawdust as a distraction
* Soda pop poured over dry ice, pop rocks added, to simulate smoke from a fire
* A length of pole on string, placed on stairs and rigged to be pulled up so someone trips over it
* Camphor balls and cleaner fluid as propellant, telescope and a metal spike as a makeshift cannon to fire the spike over a fence, pulleys to cross over on the cable attached to the spike
* Paper clip to hotwire a car
* Table saw to shoot pieces of lumber and shop vac to blow sawdust as a distraction
* Soda pop poured over dry ice, pop rocks added, to simulate smoke from a fire
* A length of pole on string, placed on stairs and rigged to be pulled up so someone trips over it
* Camphor balls and cleaner fluid as propellant, telescope and a metal spike as a makeshift cannon to fire the spike over a fence, pulleys to cross over on the cable attached to the spike
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | Lee David Zlotoff |
| • Executive Producer | Jerry Ludwig | Henry Winkler | John Rich (1) |
| • Supervising Producer | Stephen Downing |
| • Co-Producer | Stephen Kandel |
| • Associate Producer | Steven Milkis |
| • Production Designer | Stan Jolley |
| • Editor | David Wages | Joe Ravetz |
| • Casting | Pam Polifroni | Joanne Koehler |
| • Line Producer | Vin DiBona |
| • Unit Production Manager | David Menteer |
| • First Assistant Director | Britt Lomond (2) |
| • Second Assistant Director | Gary Law (1) | Merri D. Howard |
| • Music | Randy Edelman |
| • Music Editor | Steve Danforth |
| • Costume Designer | Rudolph Garcia |
| • Hairstylist | Lynn Del Kail |
| • Make-up | David Dittmar |
| • Set Decorator | Bryan Thetford |
| • Property Master | Peter McWade |
| • Script Supervisor | Kathy Barrett (1) |
| • Director of Photography | Frank Raymond |
| • Story Editor | David Abramowitz | James Schmerer |
| • Stunt Coordinator | Vince Deadrick, Jr. (1) |
| • Sound Mixer | Dean Hodges |
| • Special Effects | Steve Galich |
| • Costume Supervisor | Thomas Welsh |
| • Main Title Theme | Randy Edelman |
| • Senior Producer | Robert Hargrove |
| • Administrative Supervisor | Delia Circelli |
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