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MacGyver: Final Approach
MacGyver takes four urban teens into the mountains but when the plane goes down, he must not only engineer a rescue but deal with the vendettas between them.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 2x5 Production Number: 028 Airdate: Monday October 27th, 1986 |
Co-Guest Stars
Recap
MacGyver is practicing his light-plane flight skills. He's flying through an ice storm when the carburetor freezes up and… the flight simulator crashes. Pete arrives and tells him he had the technicians rig it to crash. He notes that all of that wouldn't happen in a real plane, and MacGyver realizes he wants him to fly a plane just like that. Pete says he just wants him to ride in one. He explains that the Phoenix Foundation has set up a pilot program with the National Youth Authorities based on gang research. They take street kids out into the wilderness to rough it as part of their probation. There's a social scientist, Tom Cavanaugh, heading it and he has no street sense. MacGyver points out he wanted the job and Pete tells him he's got it, but there's not much money involved. He offers a bonus: anything MacGyver wants. MacGyver asks for Pete to go with him in a Colorado kayak race...Read the full recap
Episode Quotes
MacGyver: Flying a small plane can be fun. It can also be kind of frightening. Now I've always felt the best way to confront a fear of the ocean is to dive right in. So it seemed like the smart way to deal with the fear of flying light planes was to take a train or a bus. Now it's possible the carburetor froze up in this ice storm I was flying through, but that didn't explain why I wasn't getting a decent throttle response. Nor was there any indication as to why the controls felt they were stuck in cement. It did not look good for the home team.
Pete: All of this would never happen in a real plane.
MacGyver: Why do I feel all this has a point? You want me to fly a plane just like that, don't you?
Pete: No, absolutely not. I would never ask you to do that. You only have to ride in one.
MacGyver: Why do I feel all this has a point? You want me to fly a plane just like that, don't you?
Pete: No, absolutely not. I would never ask you to do that. You only have to ride in one.
Pete: We've really extended the funds on this, so there's very little money involved. I mean, like none.
MacGyver: Pete, when has that ever stopped me?
MacGyver: Pete, when has that ever stopped me?
MacGyver: First impressions are very important. And with this group, I knew it'd be critical. So I decided to make a grand entrance... through their noses.
MacGyver: Somebody want to fill me in?
Ramon: Nothing to fill in. The man's got a problem. We've all got problems. That's life, White Bread.
Ramon: Nothing to fill in. The man's got a problem. We've all got problems. That's life, White Bread.
MacGyver: There's a time to be Daniel Boone, and a time to be a plumber. This one called for the latter.
Gina: Where'd you find him?
MacGyver: Having lunch with a mountain lion.
MacGyver: Having lunch with a mountain lion.
MacGyver: Things started disappearing from lockers; everybody knew it was Andy but nobody could prove it. Then one day I open up mine, and my knife is gone. I knew who did it. So I waited until after school, and I busted his nose.
Luther: Yeah? But you got your knife back, right?
MacGyver: That's right. When I got home, it was sittin' on my desk, right where I left it. You sure you got your facts straight, Luther? Think about it.
Luther: Yeah? But you got your knife back, right?
MacGyver: That's right. When I got home, it was sittin' on my desk, right where I left it. You sure you got your facts straight, Luther? Think about it.
Pete: That means that they went down way off course. Doesn't it?
Search Coordinator: There's a thousand square miles of rough wilderness out there. I'm sorry, it's not very hopeful.
Pete: You don't know MacGyver.
Search Coordinator: There's a thousand square miles of rough wilderness out there. I'm sorry, it's not very hopeful.
Pete: You don't know MacGyver.
MacGyver: All I got to do is find an airport, get them to lay down some foam, and land. That's all.
Ramon: If you can do what you just did, you could land this thing on the moon.
Ramon: If you can do what you just did, you could land this thing on the moon.
Episode References
MacGyverisms:
* Making a tent out of a parachute
* A hot coal from a campfire to lure a rattlesnake out
* A hollowed out log to redirect water from a stream to scare off a mountain lion
* Rubber tubing from a plane, combined with a radio headset, to make a stethoscope
* A hollowed out log, 3' long, as a front ski on a plane, and mud in front of the plane in a trough for the ski to follow
* Earrings mounted on two branches in the shape of a T, to make a surveyor's sighting tool
* Making a tent out of a parachute
* A hot coal from a campfire to lure a rattlesnake out
* A hollowed out log to redirect water from a stream to scare off a mountain lion
* Rubber tubing from a plane, combined with a radio headset, to make a stethoscope
* A hollowed out log, 3' long, as a front ski on a plane, and mud in front of the plane in a trough for the ski to follow
* Earrings mounted on two branches in the shape of a T, to make a surveyor's sighting tool
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | Lee David Zlotoff |
| • Executive Producer | Henry Winkler | John Rich (1) |
| • Supervising Producer | Bill Froehlich | Mark Lisson | Stephen Downing |
| • Producer | Victor Hsu | Michael Greenburg (1) |
| • Co-Producer | Stephen Kandel |
| • Associate Producer | Steven Milkis |
| • Editor | Robert Dorsett | Stuart Bass |
| • Casting | Nan Dutton |
| • Unit Production Manager | Sam C. Freedle |
| • 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 | Anne Winsor | Rudolph Garcia |
| • Hairstylist | Jo McCarthy |
| • Make-up | Joe McKinney |
| • Set Decorator | Mary Swanson |
| • Location Manager | Bud Aronson |
| • 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 | Stephen Kronish |
| • Costume Supervisor | Thomas Welsh |
| • Main Title Theme | Randy Edelman |
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