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MacGyver: Blow Out
After Nikki is mugged, the mugger later tries to kill her. MacGyver must help her find out who he is, and what his next target is.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 3x10 Production Number: 054 Airdate: Monday December 21st, 1987 |
Co-Guest Stars
Recap
MacGyver, suffering from a bad cold, goes to the grocery store to try and find the ingredients for an old home remedy. Two hoods break in and rob the store and MacGyver makes an improvised tear gas bomb with spices, baking soda, vinegar, and a hot water bottle. He punctures the bag and sprays it into one hood's face and an old lady takes out the other thug. The first hood makes a run for it and MacGyver brings him down by throwing a can. Everyone in the store applauds. ..Read the full recap
Episode Notes
Richard Dean Anderson (MacGyver) and Don S. Davis (Cement Truck Driver) would later star in Stargate SG-1 together from 1997 to 2004. They played Colonel Jack O'Neill and Major General George Hammond respectively. They also appear in the season 6 Stargate SG-1 episode "Frozen" with Bruce Harwood (Juice).
Episode Quotes
MacGyver: Excuse me, could you tell me where where I could find some eucalyptus leaves?
Box Boy: Australia.
MacGyver: Thanks for your help.
Box Boy: Australia.
MacGyver: Thanks for your help.
Nikki Carpenter: I'm a professional, and you make up stuff as you go along.
MacGyver: Whatever works.
MacGyver: Whatever works.
Nikki Carpenter: MacGyver, I need to talk to you.
MacGyver: You? And me? Talk?
MacGyver: You? And me? Talk?
Pete: You two amaze me, you know that? She comes to you for help and then won't ask for it. And then you come to me to tell me that you're worried about her. Did you two ever think of having a normal conversation?
Nikki Carpenter: MacGyver, you could have been... What if that cement truck hadn't been there?
MacGyver: I'd have gone to Plan B.
Pete: What was that?
MacGyver: I don't know. Plan A worked.
MacGyver: I'd have gone to Plan B.
Pete: What was that?
MacGyver: I don't know. Plan A worked.
Episode References
MacGyverisms:
* Cayenne pepper and garlic powder mixed in a hot water bottle, along with baking soda and vinegar, shaken up and sprayed into a hood's face to blind him
* A paint can, punctured to leave a slow leak, attached to the fender of a car to follow it from a distance
* A man's corpse in a swivel chair to provide the weight on a pressure pad to keep it from triggering an explosive
* Cement from a cement truck to cover a bomb in the back of a truck, suppressing the explosive
* Cayenne pepper and garlic powder mixed in a hot water bottle, along with baking soda and vinegar, shaken up and sprayed into a hood's face to blind him
* A paint can, punctured to leave a slow leak, attached to the fender of a car to follow it from a distance
* A man's corpse in a swivel chair to provide the weight on a pressure pad to keep it from triggering an explosive
* Cement from a cement truck to cover a bomb in the back of a truck, suppressing the explosive
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | Lee David Zlotoff |
| • Executive Producer | Henry Winkler | John Rich (1) | Stephen Downing |
| • Supervising Producer | Calvin Clements, Jr. (2) |
| • Producer | Michael Greenburg (1) | Stephen Kandel |
| • Co-Producer | John Whelpley |
| • Associate Producer | Hudson Hickman |
| • Editor | George Potter |
| • Casting | Fiona Jackson | Barbara Hanley | Cathy Henderson |
| • First Assistant Director | Peter Dashkewytch |
| • Second Assistant Director | David Markowitz |
| • Music Editor | Steve Danforth |
| • Costume Designer | Thomas Welsh |
| • Hairstylist | Ian C. Ballard |
| • Make-up | Jan Newman |
| • Key Grip | Nick Kuchera |
| • Set Decorator | Dominique Fauquet-LeMaitre |
| • Location Manager | Gordon Hardwick |
| • Property Master | Pat O'Brien |
| • Construction Coordinator | Charles Leitrants |
| • Script Supervisor | Susan Weir (1) |
| • Production Coordinator | Elaine Fleming |
| • Post Production Supervisor | Bruce Williams |
| • Supervising Sound Editor | William H. Angarola |
| • Gaffer | Len Wolfe |
| • Director of Photography | William Gereghty (1) |
| • Story Editor | Rick Drew |
| • Stunt Coordinator | Vince Deadrick, Jr. (1) |
| • Art Director | Rex Raglan |
| • Production Manager | Robert Frederick |
| • Sound Mixer | Eric Batut |
| • Special Effects | Billy Myatt |
| • Executive Story Editor | Reed Moran |
| • Costume Supervisor | Thomas Welsh |
| • Main Title Theme | Randy Edelman |
| • Assistant Costume Designer | Stephanie Nolin |
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