D.O.A. MacGyver

Episode:  043 (S2.E21)

Production  No.: 40192-043

Airdate: 27 April 1987

Writer: Jaison Starkes

Director: Cliff Bole

Nielsen Ratings:   12.6 rating / 21 share / 2nd (40th for the week)

PLOT

An amnesiac MacGyver is hunted by terrorists who believe he knows of their plan to assassinate U.S. military figures with a bomb planted at a funeral.

CAST

MACGYVERISMS

• Used Muriatic acid & ammonia to make smoke screen.
• Used license plate to make chain guide for bicycle.
• Put bomb jacket into flower pot to help contain the explosion.
• Throw bomb in pot under bad guys RV to both further contain the explosion and stop the RV

TRIVIA

• The RV is a 1985 Chevy Elite 33’.
• Clips seen in this episode are from:
  • Last stand
  • Target MacGyver
  • A Prisoner of Conscience
  • Pirates
  • Family Matter
• Carol Varnay’s house is also seen in the funeral scene of season one’s Flames End episode.

QUOTES

• MacGyver: Most people come to southern California for the sunshine. But there are others who burn easily, so they stay in the shadows.
• Carol: I’m not in the habit of picking up hitchhikers. If we hadn’t been in the middle of the ocean, I would’ve tossed you overboard.
  MacGyver: I’m glad you didn’t. I don’t think I can swim that far.
• Helen to Pete: I left another message five minutes ago; his machine is running out of tape.
• Carol: How’s your head?
  MacGyver: Well . . . the outside’s sore; the inside’s a little empty.
• Pete: His name is MacGyver; he can fix anything. He can fix a computer with a hairpin and a piece of duct tape, just like he fixed your bike.
• Pete: Right now, I know you better than you know yourself. You don’t use guns.
  Pete: That gun doesn’t feel right in your hand. It can’t. You don’t use guns, MacGyver. You hate them.

NIT-PICKS

• When lancer is faking using the radio, he plugs the mic back into the phones jack instead of the microphone jack when he’s finished.
• When MacGyver enters the cabin of Carol’s boat she has the inside lights on. This means she can’t see outside the boat because it’s dark outside which makes the windows act like mirrors.
• When MacGyver made the smoke in the warehouse he wore his jacket over his mouth to stop breathing it in. But later on, when he fell through the window, he had his jacket in his hand.
• When MacGyver fixed the kids bike, he uses a screw from another part of the bike which seems to have no purpose.

FILMING LOCATIONS

Dock Ways Street Dock End of Ways Street San Pedro, CA	Lunch Under the Tree Ways Street Wharf End of Ways Street San Pedro, CA
Phone Booth Ways Street Wharf End of Ways Street San Pedro, CA	Parking Area Veluzat Motion Picture Ranch Forest Rte 5N28, Santa Clarita, CA
Carol Varnay’s House Point Fermin Lighthouse 807 Paseo Del Mar, San Pedro, CA	Cemetery Angelus Rosedale Cemetery 1831 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Road to Warehouse Cabrillo Way Marina San Pedro CA