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The first season is a great season with many exciting parts. However...there is an episode with killer ants that was quite frightening for my neices and nephews.
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One of my favorite shows, as a kid at least. It gets repetitive, but it's still fun to watch an episode or two every once in awhile. If you grew up with Macgyver as a kid, you know how great it was. It was like a 47 minute b-action movie. Sometimes nonstop action. Macgyver made a great debut in it's first season, and would go strong for years after. Season one has a few really good episodes, but my favorite by far is "Thief of Budapest". It starts out with a cold intro, meaning it doesn't have anything to do with the episode. Macgyver has to steal back a valuable horse because people may go to war over it. He has a pole vs sword duel on horses with a big mustache guy and Macgyver of course wins, and to top it off he rams his horse into a couple other guys on horses who were circling around him. Then there's something I've never seen before. A helicopter comes flying above Macgyver and has a strap attached to it which Macgyver puts on the horse and the helipcopter flies them away. Breathtaking. Then the episode actually starts. There's an amazing painful looking stunt, a bar fight, a fun car chase with a bunch of Mini Coopers going down stairs and other cool stuff, Macgyver makes out with a hot gypsy woman, he slides down a slanted roof Jackie Chan style, and they don't even use a stunt double. Such an awesome episode.
People seem to be mad that the only way you can get the 2 TV movies is to buy the Macgyver complete series box set. Maybe I'm just one of the few people that don't really care for the Macgyver movies. I'm happy that I bought all of the seasons seperately. I've seen the complete series box set and it has like 20 discs all stacked on top of eachother. There's no way I'd pay a hundred dollars for that.
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As a kid I loved MacGyver - the quick witted secret agent who, given a stick of gum and a hair comb, could get out of any situation.
As an adult I still love MacGyver but for very different reasons.
There are the clever scientific escapes that could give the Mythbusters a couple of seasons worth of material, but this is not the best part. The episodes are so badly written, the plot lines so thin and riddled with logical errors that they are the very height of entertainment. There is also the joy of looking back on fashions that have dated badly (big hair and shoulder pads anyone?) and high-tech gizmos that look clunky today.
For a show that just can't be taken seriously there are hours of hilarity to be had here. It's my favourite show all over again!
From a DVD production perspective, however, there is nothing here to note. There are no special features whatsoever which is a shame. So much value could have been added with just a couple of commentaries or interviews reminiscing.
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If there was a series i was dying to come out on dvd. this was it.
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Richard Dean Anderson plays secret agent Angus MacGyver, a man so brilliant he can make land mines out of pine cones, he can fix the brakes of a car while it's moving, and he can single-handedly defeat the armed forces of the Soviet Union multiple times, once even in Afghanistan. This is the first season of the series on DVD, and it is impossible not to be entertained and amused by the cheesy irrepressibility of this show.
Every week MacGyver gets himself into some kind of impossible jam, but due to his knowledge of, well, pretty much everything, he always manages to escape. I love the episodes with "opening gambits", pieces of plot unconnected to the main story that run before the credits to get the episodes up to the proper length for airing on network television. My favorite example of the opening gambit in this set is in "Deathlock" in which MacGyver's coffin (which he is cleverly using to escape East Berlin) transforms into a jet ski. It's a sequence that is so ridiculous that I never tire of it.
These episodes are all outlandish, fun, and enjoyable. In addition to "Deathlock" my other favorite of the set is "Target MacGyver", in which MacGyver and his grandfather are targeted by a professional assassin, "Axminister", a bad guy who might be more fearsome except he looks for all the world like Al Roker wearing the sunglasses elderly patients wear home after cataract surgery. The only episode I didn't really care for in this set was "Every Time She Smiles" which features an actress playing imbecilic actress "Penny Parker" in a fracas with the Bulgarian Secret Police. I could almost not make it through this episode due to the extreme grating nature of Penny Parker: obviously MacGyver is truly a man of steel to be able to endure her.
This show is off the charts for ridiculous plotlines, but it is fun, entertaining, lightweight entertainment that plays well even today. My only critique of the DVD set is the complete absence of extras, and in the extreme Spartan nature of the menus. Other than wishing from some commentary by Richard Dean Anderson and Henry Winkler, though, this is a great set, and I recommend it for a nostalgic bit of amusing and entertaining television.
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