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MacGyver: The Battle of Tommy Giordano
A woman who works at the Phoenix Foundation has her son Tommy kidnapped by his estranged father. MacGyver volunteers to help recover Tommy, only to discover the boy's father is involved with gangsters.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 4x11 Production Number: 075 Airdate: Monday February 20th, 1989 |
Co-Guest Stars
Recap
Outside a courthouse, MacGyver is playing with a 9-year-old boy, Tommy Giordano. MacGyver knows Tommy's mother, Mary Ruth, since he first worked at the Phoenix Foundation. Mary Ruth has gotten a divorce and she and her husband Richard are both suing for custody of Tommy. MacGyver tries to assure Tommy that his parents will understand. The Giordanos come out and Richard complains to his lawyer that he couldn't get visitation rights. The lawyer points out that Richard verbally abused his wife and the judge in court. Mary Ruth tries to get Tommy away but Richard comes after them and tries to explain. Mary Ruth accepts his overture and Richard asks for a minute alone with Tommy. He tells Tommy to call him if Mary Ruth gets hysterical. Tommy mentions that MacGyver is taking him and his mother to the aquarium that afternoon...Read the full recap
Episode Quotes
MacGyver: See, you gotta live somewhere, so somebody has to have custody. They both understand that.
Tommy Giordano: Is that a rule?
MacGyver: It's better. It's a fact.
Tommy Giordano: Like two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen, and it never changes. That kind of fact?
MacGyver: Yeah.
Tommy Giordano: Is that a rule?
MacGyver: It's better. It's a fact.
Tommy Giordano: Like two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen, and it never changes. That kind of fact?
MacGyver: Yeah.
Episode References
MacGyverisms:
* Hooking up a phone room to a neighboring motel room's phone line to listen in, using a coat hanger to shove the phone line over to the neighboring junction box
* A scarf to plug an exhaust pipe and keep a vehicle from starting
* Phone cords to wrap a patio door's handles, preventing the door from opening
* Alcohol and ammonia, mixed with acid descaler, poured into a child's robot toy with an electrical wire to set it off and create a smoke screen
* Hooking up a phone room to a neighboring motel room's phone line to listen in, using a coat hanger to shove the phone line over to the neighboring junction box
* A scarf to plug an exhaust pipe and keep a vehicle from starting
* Phone cords to wrap a patio door's handles, preventing the door from opening
* Alcohol and ammonia, mixed with acid descaler, poured into a child's robot toy with an electrical wire to set it off and create a smoke screen
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | Lee David Zlotoff |
| • Executive Producer | Henry Winkler | John Rich (1) | Stephen Downing |
| • Supervising Producer | Michael Greenburg (1) |
| • Associate Producer | John B. Moranville |
| • Production Designer | Rex Raglan |
| • Editor | Rick Martin (1) |
| • Casting | Victoria Burrows |
| • First Assistant Director | Peter Dashkewytch |
| • Second Assistant Director | Craig Matheson | Paul Etherington |
| • Music | Ken Harrison |
| • Music Editor | Steve Danforth |
| • Hairstylist | Michael Pachal |
| • Make-up | Jan Newman |
| • Key Grip | Nick Kuchera |
| • Set Decorator | Dominique Fauquet-LeMaitre |
| • Location Manager | David Keiss |
| • Property Master | Pat O'Brien |
| • Construction Coordinator | Charles Leitrants |
| • Script Supervisor | Candice Field |
| • Post Production Supervisor | Michael Eliot |
| • Supervising Sound Editor | William H. Angarola |
| • Gaffer | Len Wolfe |
| • Director of Photography | William Gereghty (1) |
| • Story Editor | John Sheppard | Marianne Clarkson |
| • Stunt Coordinator | Vince Deadrick, Jr. (1) |
| • Post Production Coordinator | Paul Rabwin |
| • Coordinating Producer | Hudson Hickman |
| • Sound Mixer | Eric Batut |
| • Special Effects | Henry Millar (1) |
| • Costume Supervisor | Thomas Welsh |
| • Main Title Theme | Randy Edelman |
| • Production Executive | Robert Frederick |
| • Production Office Coordinator | Valerie Gray |
| • Executive Story Consultant | Rick Drew |
| • Assistant To The Executive Producer | Sara Thornberg |
| • Assistant Costume Designer | Stephanie Nolin |
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