Here's the list put together by MacDriver.

I've highlighted the episodes which he hasn't been able to see, due to them not being available on the CBS site. So if anyone else is able to identify the SAKs used in those episode let me know and I'll update the list.

Nice work MacDriver.

Pilot	9/29/1985 Tinker
The Golden Triangle	10/6/1985 Gambit- Main ep- Tinker Small
Thief of Budapest	10/13/1985 Gambit- main- Tinker Small
The Gauntlet	10/21/1985 Opener- Wenger handyman show-Tinker
The Heist	11/3/1985 Executive
Trumbo's World	11/10/1985 Golfer Original/Wenger Pocketmate
Last Stand	11/17/1985 Executive
Hellfire	11/27/1985 Executive/Tinker
The Prodigal	12/8/1985 Tinker Small
Target MacGyver	12/22/1985 Tinker
Nightmares	1/15/1986 Tinker
Deathlock	1/22/1986 Tinker Small
Flame's End	1/29/1986 Tinker Small?
Countdown	2/5/1986 Executive
The Enemy Within	2/12/1986 Tinker
Every Time She Smiles	2/19/1986 Executive
To Be a Man	3/5/1986 Climber
Ugly Duckling	3/12/1986 Executive
Slow Death	4/2/1986 Executive/Huntsman
The Escape	4/16/1986 None
A Prisoner of Conscience	4/30/1986 3 layer
The Assassin	5/7/1986 None Used
The Human Factor	9/22/1986 3 layer w/corkscrew (Camper/Climber)
The Eraser	9/29/1986 Tinker Small and spartan/sportsman/tourist
Twice Stung	10/6/1986 alox farmer?/Tinker Small
The Wish Child	10/20/1986 3 layer
Final Approach	10/27/1986 camper
Jack of Lies	11/3/1986 Fieldmaster
The Road Not Taken	11/10/1986 Climber?
Eagles	11/17/1986 Alox Farmer
Silent World	11/24/1986 Spartan
Three For the Road	12/15/1986 Climber
Phoenix Under Siege	1/5/1987 Spartan
Family Matter	1/12/1987 None used
Soft Touch	1/19/1987
Birth Day	2/2/1987 none used
Pirates	2/9/1987 Climber
Out in the Cold	2/16/1987 blade?
Dalton, Jack of Spies	2/23/1987 none
Partners	3/02/1987
Bushmaster	3/23/1987 blade?
Friends	4/6/1987 Non Used
D.O.A.: MacGyver	4/27/1987 Huntsman
For Love or Money	5/4/1987 huntsman
Lost Love (1)	9/21/1987 Sportsman
Lost Love (2)	9/28/1987 Sportsman
Back From the Dead	10/5/1987 blade?
Ghost Ship	10/19/1987 None used
Fire and Ice	10/26/1987 Recruit
GX-1	11/2/1987 Recruit
Jack in the Box	11/9/1987 Recruit
The Widowmaker	11/16/1987 Recruit
Hell Week	11/23/1987 Climber
Blow Out	12/21/1987 standard
Kill Zone	1/4/1988 Super Tinker
Early Retirement	1/18/1988 Super Tinker
Thin Ice	2/1/1988 none used
The Odd Triple	2/29/1988 none used
The Negotiator	3/7/1988 none used
The Spoilers	3/14/1988 none used
Mask of the Wolf	3/28/1988 2 layer?
Rock the Cradle	4/18/1988 none used
The Endangered	5/2/1988 recruit
Murderer's Sky	5/9/1988 recruit
The Secret of Parker House	10/31/1988 blade? (standard)
Blood Brothers	11/21/1988 none used
The Outsiders	11/28/1988 none used
On a Wing and a Prayer	12/5/1988 Tinker
Collision Course	12/12/1988 Tinker?
The Survivors	1/9/1989 Tinker/Super Tinker?
Deadly Dreams	1/16/1989 Spartan/Tinker?
Ma Dalton	1/23/1989 Spartan
Cleo Rocks	2/6/1989 Standard
Fraternity of Thieves	2/13/1989 None Used
The Battle of Tommy Giordano	2/20/1989 Spartan/Standard
The Challenge	2/27/1989 None Used
Runners	3/13/1989 111mm
Gold Rush	3/27/1989 111mm
The Invisible Killer	4/10/1989 none used
Brainwashed	4/24/1989 none used
Easy Target	5/1/1989 111mm cs
Renegade	5/8/1989 recruit/small tinker
Unfinished Business	5/15/1989 none used
The Legend of the Holy Rose (1)	9/18/1989 none used
The Legend of the Holy Rose (2)	9/25/1989 none used
The Black Corsage	10/2/1989 Spartan
Cease Fire	10/9/1989 Tinker
Second Chance	10/16/1989 none used
Halloween Knights	10/30/1989 knife blade?
Children of Light	11/6/1989 111mm
Black Rhino	11/13/1989
The Ten Percent Solution	11/20/1989 111mm MODEL
Two Times Trouble	12/11/1989 None Used
The Madonna	12/18/1989
Serenity	1/8/1990 Spartan
Live and Learn	1/15/1990 none
Log Jam	2/05/1990
The Treasure of Manco	2/12/1990 phillips 2 or 3 layer?
Jenny's Chance	2/19/1990 none used
Deep Cover	2/26/1990
The Lost Amadeus	3/19/1990
Hearts of Steel	4/09/1990
Rush to Judgement	4/16/1990
Passages	4/30/1990 None used
Tough Boys	9/17/1990 Tinker
Humanity	9/24/1990 Tinker/Spartan
The Gun	10/1/1990 Standard
Twenty Questions	10/8/1990 none used
The Wall	10/22/1990 none used
Lesson in Evil	10/29/1990 knife blade (2 layer?)
Harry's Will	11/5/1990 Spartan/Tourist
MacGyver's Women	11/12/1990 None
Bitter Harvest	11/19/1990
The Visitor	12/3/1990 None
Squeeze Play	12/17/1990 none used
Jerico Games	1/07/1991
The Wasteland	1/21/1991 knife blade
Eye of Osiris	2/04/1991
High Control	2/11/1991
There But For the Grace	2/18/1991 knife blade (2 layers)
Blind Faith	3/4/1991 none used
Faith, Hope & Charity	3/18/1991 none used
Strictly Business	4/8/1991 Climber with reverse shield
Trail of Tears	4/26/1991 none used
Hind-Sight	5/6/1991 none used
Honest Abe	9/16/1991  none used
The 'Hood	9/23/1991 none
Obsessed	9/30/1991 Spartan/Tourist
The Prometheus Syndrome	10/7/1991  2 Layer
The Coltons	10/14/1991 none
The Walking Dead	10/21/1991Spartan/Tourist
Good Knight MacGyver (1)	11/4/1991 Compact
Good Knight MacGyver (2)	11/11/1991 Compact
Deadly Silents	11/18/1991 Spartan
Split Decision	12/2/1991 none used
Gunz 'N Boyz	12/16/1991 Spartan
Off the Wall	12/30/1991 Spartan
The Stringer	4/25/1992 Barlow brand Swiss Army styled knife
The Mountain of Youth	None Used

This post has been edited by Rockatteer on 26 May 2009 - 08:49 PM

Whoa!

To me a SAK is a SAK. That I mean, red with mostly a Swiss cross on it. Colors can differ from the knives. Really looking at the brand of the knife? It could be possible that the knives he uses differ from the number of functions. The one he used in Serenity seemed only to have 4 or 5 of them, while others could've had more. And of course that little chain in The Gauntlet.

Rock, you're awesome! That looks great! Thanks for getting that posted.

From My list:
Last Stand / Executive
A Prisoner of Conscience / Climber
The Eraser / Standard
Three For the Road / Camper and Climber
Soft Touch / no knife
Partners / not clear
Black Rhino / no knife
The Madonna / no knife
Log Jam / no knife
Deep Cover / not clear
The Lost Amadeus / no knife
Hearts of Steel / no knife
Rush to Judgement / 2 layer
Bitter Harvest / 2 layer
Jerico Games / no knife
Eye of Osiris / 2 layer
High Control / Spartan
The 'Hood / not clear
The Stringer / Swiss Style Army knife ?
LOST TREASURE OF ATLANTIS / Super Tinker
TRAIL TO DOOMSDAY / no knife

And several years ago, I saw a list in lost MacGyver homepage (perhaps in 2001 ?).

Especially, I want to know the knife used in "The Stringer"!!!

Thanks for sharing that! That sounds like insider info, I'd be interested in knowing where that list came from. Where did Mac use a knife in Last Stand? I seem to remember watching that episode and not seeing one in it.

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nice! And that's definitely an executive.

MacDriver, what happened to your avatar icon? It's missing.

Yeah, every time I fix it it's fine for a while and then back to the question mark. Whatever.
Another episode not online is the Rush to Judgment episode, and I've only seen it once like 8 years ago. I remember he picks the lock on the coke machine with his SAK, but can anyone make out features of the knife? Bleh, I just need to wait until I have the money to buy the complete series and finish the list, too bad you can't purchase individual episodes online or anything.

download and watch individual episodes




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this model is like the standart?? (spartan model without tweezers & toothpick), ??
What do you think?

could it be a 111mm model?

It is very interesting to discuss about MacGyver knife in each episode.

First, I think that the knife used in the Rush to Judgment is 2 layer knife.
But, I agree with krist about it.
It seems no key ring, so it may be Standard model.

That would be my consensus. You're right about the keyring thing. It's definitely a 2 layer and bigger than the Executive. We'll go with Standard for that one.

In "THREE FOR THE ROAD" MacGyver first used Camper model.

When MacGyver removed a screw of a (convertible) top, a "CAMPING" mark can be seen.

Then MacGyver used scissors, this model is Climber.

So, MacGyver carries Camper and Climber in "THREE FOR THE ROAD".

I've just updated the SAKs page with that information.

I thank Rockatteer and MacDriver for making the list.
So, someday I want to complete the list.

rofl . Seriously, I think it is painfully obvious that they just tossed him a random knife at the beginning of any said scene. I'm sure it was "supposed" to be the same knife throughout, but was really happened Im sure is they filmed on two separate days or took a break or something, and picked another knife at random when filming resumed. So, do we conclude MacGyver carries 2 full size SAKs on him some days, or that he pulled one out of his luggage?

EDIT: As often as something happened to his SAK, he could've justified carrying a backup

True, but you missed out the point that there where times when they would have given him a specific knife because of the tool he needed to use in the scene they where filming.

I actually used that idea in "Phoenix Rising" -- and had Mac grumbling because his backup knife was missing one of his preferred blades, and hadn't been sharpened recently. I figured he'd keep a backup in his Jeep.

That's terrific work on the list!

Yeah, they definitely did that a lot. In Three for the Road though, it was kinda unnecessary, he never needed the Camper for the saw, so he could've just used a climber for the whole episode and been fine. Sometimes I think I need psychological help for the way I obsess over the SAK phenomenon in MacGyver

MacGyver often takes 3 or 4 layer knife, but he doesn't use all functions.
I wonder why MacGyver takes a Huntsman, Fieldmaster, Deluxe Tinker model.

In "Young MacGyver Pilot", Clay MacGyver takes a Swiss Champ or Champion Plus model, these are 7 or 8 layer knives!!! Is it necessary for him to take a many layer knife? (He used a Magnifying glass, so it is enough to use a Explorer model.)

And does anyone know a knife called "Hunter Knife By Buffaloe" seen in "The Stringer"?
I have studied about it, but I can not find it.
Please tell me.

when is the Hunter Knife By Buffalo seen in The Stringer?

Well, I am not going to discount that it is somewhat accurate, but that list seems a little shady- I never saw a deluxe Tinker, and some of the other knives on that list. Granted, there are two or three episodes that I managed to miss during syndication, but for the most part, I think that list has a couple of errors.
As for that Buffalo knife, that I do actually believe. I took a stillshot of the knife in the stringer, and it looks like a Ranger, BUT, after showing it to my SAK collector forum, everyone agreed that the backsprings do not lay the way Wenger or Victorinox springs do, and also that the position of the metal saw blade was off in terms of what layer it should have been folded out of. Finally, the shape of the blade itself is a dead giveaway that it was not Vic or Wenger. I suspected it was a different brand, so if anyone could find out about that it would be fantastic. I just called it a Ranger to save confusion on the list, I figured no one would ever notice

As Deluxe Tinker, it may be used in "Jack of Lies". In this episode, MacGyver used a 4 layer knife with Phillips screwdriver and no fish (Fisherman model) or classic car (Grand Prix model) mark. So I think that MacGyver may use a Deluxe Tinker or Fieldmaster model.
And in "For Love or Money" MacGyver used a 4 layer knife with corkscrew, it may be an Angler, Explorer, Huntsman, or Mountaineer model.

In "The Stringer" MacGyver and SAM used a knife, it is 5 layer with large blade, tweezers, and saw to cut a flare gun shell. I doubt it is a Hunter Knife by Buffaloe. I have never heard such a brand in Japan.

Yes, so I think the knife may be such a Swiss Style Army Knife as this ebay auction item.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Multi-Purpose-...1QQcmdZViewItem

It is hard to think MacGyver uses such a non-brand knife.
But several years ago, I bought a MacGyver 100th Episode knife, like this Vintage-Multi-Purpose-Knife (without toothpick, tweezers) in ebay auction.

what part of the episode do we see this knife?

When SAM cut through a flare gun shell with a metal saw (- Sent a smoke shell down a funnel for a distraction), you can see the knife. It is neither Victorinox nor Wenger.

anyone else notice that MacGyver throws the knife to SAM while they're making their water jets, but then we see him cutting something with a knife... then when they up on deck SAM pulls the knife out of his pocket to cut the shell open.

It looked like they both had a knife



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I thought MacGyver gave a knife to SAM.