The search for the lost city of Atlantis was also a key plot point during the seventh season of Richard Dean Anderson's later series Stargate SG-1.

Brian Blessed (Professor Atticus), Oliver Ford Davies (Professor Carson) and Hugh Quarshie (Inspector Rhodes) would all later appear in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace together. They played Boss Nass, Governor Sio Bibble and Captain Panaka respectively.

This TV movie was filmed during April and May 1993 in London, England.

(MacGyver does a MacGyverism)
Professor Atticus: That's neat.
MacGyver: Neat?
Professor Atticus: Neat

Professor Atticus: Come on, MacGyver. Still dawdling after all these years? You haven't changed.
MacGyver: What, you have? You're the only man I'd know who'd plan an archeological dig in the middle of a civil war.
Professor Atticus: Whatever happened to that eager young student at university who was so anxious to explore ancient ruins and solve the mysteries of the ages.
MacGyver: He remembers his last experience with you.
Professor Atticus: You're not still bothered by that minor mishap?
MacGyver: We were buried alive. That's minor?
Professor Atticus: If I've always taught you anything in university, it's that the search for truth is never easy, MacGyver.

Professor Atticus: I could barely afford the telegram I sent asking you to come. I hated to deceive you like that, but I had no option. You must believe me. I was at the end of my rope, MacGyver. Oh, please understand, you were the only person I could turn to.
MacGyver: Story of my life.

Professor Atticus: Bravo. I always said you were my brightest student. If only you'd applied yourself at university...
MacGyver: Professor!
Professor Atticus: Quite right. Carry on.

Professor Atticus: You sure this will work?
MacGyver: No.
Professor Atticus: Good, that's the MacGyver I know.

Kelly Ward: It's been torn apart.
MacGyver: All right, don't touch anything. I'll call the police.
Professor Atticus: Nonsense! This is how it always looks. A neat office is the product of an empty mind.

MacGyver: There's no key for the magneto switch.
Kelly Ward: That's what I was trying to tell you. I removed it so they couldn't take off with the artifacts.
MacGyver: That's a great idea. Where is it?
Kelly Ward: Out there.
MacGyver: That's a bad idea.

Atticus: But finding the treasure of Atlantis means more than wealth. It would prove that Atlantis really did exist, and there were times when people didn't live by war and conquest, but worshiped peace and knowledge. And if we were like that once, maybe we can be like that again.

Professor Atticus: The planets must be orbiting closer to the alignment.
Kelly Ward: Or the gravitational shift of the alignment's making the volcano unstable.
MacGyver: I hate when that happens.

Kelly Ward: Why should we help you?
Lord Cyril Cleeve: Because the length of your lives is directly proportionate to how useful you are to me.

MacGyverisms:
* A lens cap to substitute for a medallion to keep a trap mechanism from triggering
* A wooden chair to balance out across an electrified floor
* A cigarette lighter to heat a lock, and then a light bulb swung into the mechanism to blow it open
* The spring action from a rifle as a lockpick for manacles
* The tail end of two missiles attached to an engineless jeep to provide a short-use propulsion system
* A falling stalactite trap to cut ropes tying him
* The mace in the hands of a suit of armor, the hand tied to a table holding china and a candle propped in the armor's hand as a delayed fuse to cause a distraction
* A funnel-like object with a rope attached, jammed into an ancient steam vent and released to fire it up and hook on the rim of a volcano as a grappling hook