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MacGyver: The Wish Child
MacGyver helps a friend's younger brother when he discovers that a con artist is passing off the boy as a mystical "Wish Child."
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 2x4 Production Number: 026 Airdate: Monday October 20th, 1986 Director: Charlie Correll (2)
Story: Stephen Kandel, Brian Lane, Stephen Kronish Teleplay: Stephen Kandel, Bill Froehlich |
Recap
MacGyver is at his apartment sparring with a masked woman and honing his martial art skills. He ends up with his foot in a wastebasket and goes down, then surrenders. His opponent, Lisa Chan, tells him not to telegraph his moves. They're interrupted when someone calls for Lisa: a man offering to finance her marital arts studio. She asks MacGyver to pick up her brother Paul, who is at a birthday party. MacGyver willingly agrees but Lisa warns that the 14-year-old Paul is getting out of her control and is bringing up their parents' death from seven years ago. MacGyver assures her that as long as Paul still has a white streak in his hair...Read the full recap
Episode Quotes
MacGyver: I grew up in Northern Minnesota, and I remember snow drifts that would bury whole parking lots, icicles longer than a hockey stick, and being stuck with three layers of clothing. My favorite, though, was when they announced "Exposed Flesh Warnings" on the radio to prevent frostbite. When I came to California, I found out it's really a small world. They had Exposed Flesh Warnings, too, called "Beach Parties." The type of party that did away with frostbite, did away with most of the clothing, too. But, the beach isn't the only place for a party, and I had some friends who really knew how to party down.
MacGyver: I remember the age when it was cool to be bad. Dumb age.
MacGyver: I used to love museums when I was a kid. You never knew what you'd find inside. I liked mysteries... back then.
MacGyver: Old Minnesota wisdom: If you don't want to be touched, look downright untouchable.
Episode References
MacGyverisms:
* RC car with a dragon head mask placed on it, to distract a guard
* Watch crystal to focus sunlight and set off fireworks
* Blade from an air vent as a chisel, a pipe faucet as a hammer, to pry up a board
* An umbrella with the cloth cut off as a grappling hook, clothesline as rope
* Gunpowder from bullets, wrapped in a bandanna, then pushed into a lock to blow it open by hitting a cartridge pin
* Handle from a fire extinguisher to jam a door
* Rope as a whip to trip a martial artist
* RC car with a dragon head mask placed on it, to distract a guard
* Watch crystal to focus sunlight and set off fireworks
* Blade from an air vent as a chisel, a pipe faucet as a hammer, to pry up a board
* An umbrella with the cloth cut off as a grappling hook, clothesline as rope
* Gunpowder from bullets, wrapped in a bandanna, then pushed into a lock to blow it open by hitting a cartridge pin
* Handle from a fire extinguisher to jam a door
* Rope as a whip to trip a martial artist
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | Lee David Zlotoff |
| • Executive Producer | Henry Winkler | John Rich (1) |
| • Co-Executive Producer | Stephen Downing |
| • Supervising Producer | Bill Froehlich | Mark Lisson |
| • Producer | Kevin Inch |
| • Co-Producer | Stephen Kandel |
| • Associate Producer | Steven Milkis |
| • Editor | Tom Benko |
| • Casting | Nan Dutton |
| • Unit Production Manager | Victor Hsu |
| • First Assistant Director | Patrick A. Duffy (2) |
| • Second Assistant Director | Merri D. Howard | Gary Law (1) |
| • Music | Dennis McCarthy (2) |
| • Music Editor | Steve Danforth |
| • Costume Designer | Rudolph Garcia | Anne Winsor |
| • Hairstylist | Jo McCarthy |
| • Make-up | Bron Roylance |
| • Set Decorator | Mary Swanson |
| • Location Manager | Tony Bowers |
| • Property Master | James A. Rathbun |
| • Script Supervisor | Edle Bakke |
| • Director of Photography | William Gereghty (1) |
| • Story Editor | John J. Sakmar | Kerry Lenhart |
| • Stunt Coordinator | Vince Deadrick, Jr. (1) |
| • Art Director | William Hiney |
| • Sound Mixer | Alan Bernard |
| • Special Effects | Billy Myatt |
| • Executive Story Editor | Brian Lane | Stephen Kronish |
| • Costume Supervisor | Thomas Welsh |
| • Main Title Theme | Randy Edelman |
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