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Had to come back to finish this post. When I first saw it I was laughing so hard I couldn't type.

OMG! That was funny!

I dunno! Lemme go look....

Found it! See I had an issue posting this one. I think the board hiccuped or something when I hit the post button because it was there twice. Apparently it also cut off half the post. I deleted the double...but that one probably had everything! My sincerest apologies, MG!

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OK...last post was onSeptember 27, 2006. All better?

Thank you so much...very thoughtful of you!

Okay, that doesn't really fit into this topic since it is actually the other way 'round, but did anyone else think also that when they fixed the spaceship in "Apollo 13" that it looked very macgyvered?

It was the first I thought.

It's the duct tape!

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There's a 1950's movie called D.O.A. (dead on arrival) which might have inspired the plot to 'Nighmares'.

I must have seen it when I was a wee little shaver, cause I only dimly remember it. I had to pump my movie buddies for information to find the right title!

What about Home Alone?
Almost every trick Kevin pulls could easily have been inspired by Mac...

It's been awhile since I've seen HA, but I can see the connection.

Oh my God, I thought I was alone in thinking of a Home Alone connection to MacGyver! Very good! Everytime I watch that movie, I see a young MacGyver in the works with Kevin. Well, I was eight or nine years old when that movie came out, just like the kid in the movie, and MacGyver was still on TV then, so it just goes to show you what a young generation raised on MacGyver can learn!

You could link Home Alone to The Golden Triangle and the Faith Hope and Charity episode. Several traps and the bad guys are stupid enough to fall for it.

Yesterday I saw a little part of `A knight in Camelot` with Whoopi Goldberg.
She ends up being locked up in chains and she picks them with a .

Might not be a complete rip off, but it surely reminded me of a certain person...

I know we had this discussion previously. Has anyone listed the episode Hellfire = The Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la peur) ?

I think the Lost Treasure of Atlantis movie drew a fair amount of inspiration from the 1959 version of Journey to the Center of the Earth. (I haven't read Jules Verne's book, so I can't comment on it, other than to say that most of the movies called Journey to the Center of the Earth are fairly different from each other, so I think at least some of them departed from the original story.)

Here's a few similarities between LTOA and 1959's Journey...

-Both movies feature scientific expeditions that find remnants of the lost city of Atlantis at the bottom of a volcanic crater, those same expeditions get out of the crater using a part of an ancient Greek temple.

-In both movies, the explorers find the dead body of a scholar (on whose work they're building) in the ruins of Atlantis and he's doing something instructive with his hands. In LTOA it's Solon and he has the platinum book, in Journey..., it's an explorer named Saknussemm and he's showing them how to get out of the crater.

-In each, the professor's colleagues think he's a nut for pursuing his line of scholarship.

-Both professors rely heavily on a student to make the expedition work. In LTOA, it's MacGyver ('nuff said ), in Journey... it's Pat Boone's Alec and he starts the whole thing off by giving James Mason's Prof. Oliver Lindenbrook a rock that has a captivating artifact inside.

-Both movies have a scene where characters have to escape from a chamber that gets "flooded" with something. In LTOA, it's the chamber with the medallion filling with rocks after Atticus sets off the booby trap. In Journey..., James Mason collects a crystal from a rock face that starts a massive water leak from which his team has to escape....quickly.

-Both groups have foppish, wealthy villians (and a henchman who dies) stalking them and trying to take the treasure on their expeditions.

I mention so much because A: I think both movies are fun and B:I have this mental image of the writers and maybe even RDA and/or the producers sitting around saying, " You know what was cool when we were kids..."

Production-designwise, I think the doors with the suns on the Hades passageway might be similar to ones from a '50s or '60s Greek epic (maybe Jason and the Argonauts (?)).

In addition, I think that there may have been inside references to the actors' personal lives. For instance, Sophie Ward's (who played Kelly Carson) father was the actor Simon Ward. In the late 1980s he suffered an attack (a crime that remained unsolved) similar to the beating Kelly's grandfather Simon receives.

The reboot's "CO2 Sensor + Tree Branch" episode made me go back and watch "The Human Factor". The little LASER-wielding robots do resemble Daleks, but something else caught my eye this time around....

A couple of years ago, I bought my dad a copy of a 1950s MGM sci-fi movie called Gog. The title (based on a Biblical reference) refers to one of two robots that goes haywire in a state-of-the-art underground lab. While the story of man vs. machine is an old one, I think it's possible that the production team for MacGyver (and maybe even Dr. Who (?!?)), may have taken inspiration from the little menacing robots in this largely-forgotten film.