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MacGyver: Deadly Silents
Two crooked special effects experts steal the only surviving prints of silent movies from aging star Pinky Burnett, and MacGyver helps Pinky to get them back.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 7x9 Production Number: 134 Airdate: Monday November 18th, 1991 |
Co-Guest Stars
Recap
MacGyver is at the home of silent film star Pinky Burnett watching one of his old movies. Pinky talks about his film star Violet Meredith and how she disappeared once the talkies came out. As two masked men pull up outside and break into the house, Pinky directs MacGyver's attention to a comedy construction scene where the entire facade comes down around him. MacGyver congratulates Pinky and his old partner Carl Bankey on how they pioneered special effects. Pinky admits that his partner retired after the talkies came out and he was a bit of a screwball. He also confesses that he's strapped for cash and is thinking about selling his old prints and found the vintage film. The Phoenix Foundation plans to restore the three rare films so Pinky can show them and make enough money to keep his house. Pinky claims that Carl burned the negatives two months before he died because he hated Pinky so much, but he burned the films to hurt him more. They fought over Violet before she left...Read the full recap
Episode Quotes
MacGyver: Now, give me your wallet.
Pinky Burnett: What are you going to do, rob me or save me?
MacGyver: Just give me the wallet!
Pinky Burnett: What are you going to do, rob me or save me?
MacGyver: Just give me the wallet!
(seeing MacGyver make a daring escape)
Neil: Whoa! Oh whoa! This dude is like so fully awesome.
Karl Meredith: Don't start a fan club just yet, Neil.
Neil: Whoa! Oh whoa! This dude is like so fully awesome.
Karl Meredith: Don't start a fan club just yet, Neil.
MacGyver: Now's not the time to panic, Pinky.
Pinky Burnett: Oh, you kidding? Now's the perfect time to panic.
Pinky Burnett: Oh, you kidding? Now's the perfect time to panic.
Karl Meredith: No one will ever know that you drowned on my father's old lot.
Neil: I like it.
Karl Meredith: Gee, that means the world to me, Neil.
Neil: I like it.
Karl Meredith: Gee, that means the world to me, Neil.
Neil: Hey, what are you going to do with your share of the film profits?
Karl Meredith: I don't know. Maybe start a special effects house.
Neil: I hope it comes out better than the stunts you rigged here.
Karl Meredith: I will not be laughed at by a man whose chief ambition in life is to produce slasher films.
Neil: Chill out, dude. You're losing your sense of humor.
Karl Meredith: I don't know. Maybe start a special effects house.
Neil: I hope it comes out better than the stunts you rigged here.
Karl Meredith: I will not be laughed at by a man whose chief ambition in life is to produce slasher films.
Neil: Chill out, dude. You're losing your sense of humor.
Pinky Burnett: MacGyver, I gotta stop. One of these days I'm going to tell you how old I am and it's going to scare you to death.
MacGyver: You did it, Pinky!
Pinky Burnett: No, it wasn't me. Nuh-uh. It was you and me. As a team, a great team, that's what it was. It was, well it was like Laurel and Hardy. Or the Marx Brothers. Or Abbott & Costello. Oh yeah, they're here, they're all here. Can't you hear them? It's movie magic. Oh god, I love this business.
Pinky Burnett: No, it wasn't me. Nuh-uh. It was you and me. As a team, a great team, that's what it was. It was, well it was like Laurel and Hardy. Or the Marx Brothers. Or Abbott & Costello. Oh yeah, they're here, they're all here. Can't you hear them? It's movie magic. Oh god, I love this business.
Episode References
MacGyverisms:
* A Swiss Army knife driven through a wallet to drive the blade into a backdrop and slide safely down
* A boot hooked to a fire hose as a grappling hook to snag a rope ladder
* A door hinge to break open manacles
* A wooden plank with nails sticking out, buried in the dirt, to blow out tires (Pinky comes up with this one)
* A Swiss Army knife driven through a wallet to drive the blade into a backdrop and slide safely down
* A boot hooked to a fire hose as a grappling hook to snag a rope ladder
* A door hinge to break open manacles
* A wooden plank with nails sticking out, buried in the dirt, to blow out tires (Pinky comes up with this one)
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | Lee David Zlotoff |
| • Executive Producer | Henry Winkler | John Rich (1) | Stephen Downing |
| • Supervising Producer | Michael Greenburg (1) |
| • Producer | Robert Frederick | John B. Moranville |
| • Co-Producer | John Sheppard |
| • Associate Producer | Sara Thornberg |
| • Production Designer | Rex Raglan |
| • Editor | Chip Masamitsu |
| • Casting | Mark Tillman |
| • Unit Production Manager | Joseph M. Ellis |
| • First Assistant Director | Robert Villar |
| • Second Assistant Director | Tomaz Remec |
| • Music | Dennis McCarthy (2) |
| • Music Editor | Steve Danforth |
| • Costume Designer | Bernadette O'Brien | Danielle Veber-Feller |
| • Hairstylist | Vivian McAteer |
| • Make-up | Marvin G. Westmore |
| • Set Decorator | Chuck Pierce |
| • Location Manager | Rowland Kirks |
| • Property Master | Dean Wilson |
| • Script Supervisor | Ray Quiroz |
| • Production Coordinator | Rosie Dean |
| • Supervising Sound Editor | Thierry J. Couturier |
| • Director of Photography | Jack Whitman |
| • Stunt Coordinator | Vince Deadrick, Jr. (1) |
| • Art Director | Robert J. Bacon |
| • Creative Consultant | Rick Mittleman |
| • Coordinating Producer | Thomas R. Polizzi |
| • Sound Mixer | James LaRue |
| • Special Effects | Henry Millar (1) |
| • Costume Supervisor | Thomas Welsh |
| • Main Title Theme | Randy Edelman |
| • Costumer | Robert Moore, Jr. |
| • Casting Associate | Russell Gray (1) |
| • Executive Story Consultant | Brad Radnitz |
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