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MacGyver :: Thief of Budapest (01x03)
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Episode Information |
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| Title: | Thief of Budapest |
| Episode #: | 01x03 |
| Production Number: | 004 |
| Original Airdate: | Sunday October 13th, 1985 |
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Episode Summary |
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MacGyver travels to Budapest to recover microfilm secrets hidden inside of a watch. However, a young Gypsy girl steals the watch and MacGyver has to help her and her family out to get it back.
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Episode Notes |
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Opening gambit by Terry Nation, Stephen Downing, and Lee H. Katzin. Main episode by Joe VIola and John Patterson.
| The chase footage is taken from The Italian Job (1967).
| Filming Location: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
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MacGyver: Typical. Just when you're getting ahead, someone changes the odds.
| MacGyver: You know, my life is like a rubber ball. No sooner do I get the horse returned then I bounce right into another assignment.
| Yanna: You Gypsy?
MacGyver: No. Not that I know of. Why?
Yanna: Because it takes a Gypsy to catch a Gypsy.
| Jan Messic: Budapest has gypsies like a dog has fleas.
| MacGyver: Now I want the watch.
Yanna: Gypsies don't need a watch. They don't tell time.
| Yanna: Why do they hate us?
MacGyver: Some people are scared of anybody who runs free.
| MacGyver: The man who said "Life is like a bowl of cherries" had it wrong. It's a bowl of Hungarian goulash. Hot, sticky, and I'm not that hungry.
| MacGyver: No, I really don't drink too much.
Reena: Virtuous? Or suspicious?
MacGyver: Habit.
| Reena: You're American. What are you selling, blue jeans?
| MacGyver: You're okay, Reena. I think I'm going to have to be honest with you.
Reena: Never say that to a Gypsy. It makes us nervous.
| Yanna: We want to go with you.
MacGyver: Where?
Yanna: America! America!
MacGyver: Right, right.
Yanna: The US of A. Clint Eastwood. Coca-Cola.
MacGyver: Yanna...
Yanna: Girls just want to have fun...?
| MacGyver: A credit card can usually get you out of a jam. I'm hoping that this will create one.
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Numerous mismatches during the chase sequence, since the footage is taken from a different movie (see Episode Notes). Many signs seen on the streets of "Hungary" are in Italian, and license plates switch from Hungarian to Italian and back to Hungarian again.
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MacGyverisms:
* Light bulbs wedged between two boards, pulled under a tire to make the driver think the tires have blown
* Sugar, salt, and weed killer mixed with water to form an explosive
* Igniting pepper with a match to create a small fireball
* Bobby pin, dipped in wine, used as a magnifying glass to view a microfilm
* Cutting up a credit card into strips and using it to alter the patterns on traffic light gears
* Taping a transistor radio to a police radio to jam the channel, attached to balloons to get high enough to jam transmissions in a several mile radius
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