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MacGyver :: Pilot (01x01)
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| Title: | Pilot |
| Episode #: | 01x01 |
| Production Number: | 001 |
| Original Airdate: | Sunday September 29th, 1985 |
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Episode Summary |
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A bomb goes off in a classified laboratory, sealing off the lower levels. The explosion traps two valuable scientists and unleashes an acid leak. MacGyver is called in to help the two trapped scientists escape.
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Opening Gambit: MacGyver rescues a downed Air Force pilot from his Mongolian captors.
| Jerrold Freedman directed the episode under the pseudonym "Alan Smithee."
| Filming locations: Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles
| Richard Dean Anderson (MacGyver) and Dana Elcar (Andy Colson) are the only actors to appear in both this episode and the finale, "Mountain of Youth".
| Dana Elcar (Andy Colson) would later play Peter Thornton, the Director of Operations at the Phoenix Foundation. He was a recurring guest star during the first season and later joined the regular cast for the second and subsequent series.
| Two of the MacGyverisms presented here were examined on Mythbusters in the episode "MacGyver Myths." The "chocolate creating a resin" was proven truth, while the sodium explosive was proven false.
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MacGyver: God, I hate heights.
| Gantner: They calculate the chances of anyone getting through to Marlowe and Stubens is... well, it's not great.
MacGyver: Well, give me "not great" on a scale of one to ten.
Gantner: Minus three.
| Colson: The only way to get down to the first level is through the elevator, and we can't even open the doors up here. The whole shaft is protected by laser.
MacGyver: Infra-red or gas discharge?
Colson: Gas. CO2, ten thousand watts.
MacGyver: You take your elevator shafts pretty seriously.
| MacGyver: Well, the bag's not for what I take, Colson - it's for what I find along the way.
| Barbara: Don't tell me you know how to make a bomb out of a stick of chewing gum?
MacGyver: Why, you got some?
| Barbara: I'd kiss you, MacGyver, but I've got this cold.
MacGyver: So what's a little cold between friends, huh?
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MacGyverisms:
* Paper clip to defuse a missile
* Branch and string to rig a rifle to fire, with burning matches as a timer
* Flare gun with a narrowed barrel as a rocket thruster
* Cigarette smoke to spot laser beams
* Binocular lens to reflect a laser back on itself
* Fire hose filled with water as a makeshift hydraulic lift
* Shirt used as improvised gas masks.
* Chocolate bars used to react with sulphuric acid and create a seal
* Sodium placed in a cold capsule and placed in a thermos as a timed explosive.
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