Every week I will be posting a new topic titled "Episode Discussion". In this we will discuss an episode, what we liked about it, what we didn't like, etc.


Episode 33 - Three for the Road

A stranded MacGyver may regret hitching a ride with a retired movie actor and his wife. They are unknowingly in possession of stolen counterfeit money, with the mob close behind.

Episode 32 – Three for the road
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great episode. i might be wrong but i think the actor who played Guy Roberts was also in Knight Rider as Devon Miles. am i right or wrong?

You are right.

Yeah this episode was COOL. I loved the music from the chase scene

This is really a quite charming episode! I just love the British accent, and Loth is right, the couple is very cute and it is also believable that they have a long marriage with ups and downs and are still attracted to each other.

It was also a sweet little scene when Mac got that autograph, and June thanked him for playing along.

Somehow Guy and his wife and car look like from last century, but I always had a soft spot for elderly gentlemen with manners.

Today when I watched this episode and the name Tony Sullivan popped up I thought: "Didn't I once read a story written by Lothithil about him?" I'm somehow terrible of remembering names when they are only told on TV once or twice, but I do remember names that I have read in a story!

There were also a few times where he just ripped something off, as he usually does, already thinking what he would do with it, and only after Guy gave him a look he would apologize. Loved the scene where June said Guy should look onto the road, so that he would not see Mac cutting his seats Poor car really looked battled in the end.

See, that's something that just can't be translated in German. In the dubbed version it's just an ordinary thread, and you wonder why they all are laughing in the end.

I just heard this pronunciation for the first time!

One of my favorites, great actors, great car, great plot.

Not my favorite, mostly because the old guy got annoying after awhile. Plot was a little farfetched, too.

However, I do love the old car. I'm such a sucker for classic cars.

*G* This seems to be my day for touting Lothi's work! If you're having any difficulty in locating the story, it's here: "Unbreakable Camels".

Yes, Lothi, I promise I'll make you a camel icon! First, we gotta find a camel.

As for the episode: I really like it. I mentally think of it as "1001 Uses for an Increasingly Dead Convertible". It's reminiscent of the opening gambit "The Map", but they pushed the idea out farther.

And I did like the theatre couple; I especially liked the scene in which Guy Roberts, who had been regretting MacGyver's decimation of his lovely car, ended up wreaking the final bit of havok himself -- snapping off the antenna and using it as an épée.

I thought this episode was pretty good.
I think it's cute how Mac is constantly trying to patch things up between husband and wife. I haven't watched it in awhile, so I will have to revisit it to make more comments, but I do seem to remember it being quite funny as Mac is forced to basically destroy that car in order to escape with their lives.

I like the fact that Mac and Pete had the car restored, which says a great deal about Mac's character.

I really enjoyed this episode. Lots of Macgyverim with the Cadillac. Hehe. Poor car.

I thought the old couple was sweet, especially the lady.

I liked this episode it was fun and enjoyble on some levels and some it just became boreing.

This episode was just plain honest to goodness cute I thought it was very very fun yet still exciting with some action. I loved the end where the old guy used the antenna as a sword. Also liked when Mac threw the garbage can lid like a frisbee and creamed the bad guy and was like "wow, it worked". That was a great moment

There was good chemistry between the couple, and it was nice to see Edward Mulhare, I remembered him from Knight Rider when I was a kid.

Not flashy, but still an excellent ep.

Many neat elements combined in this episode. Some of you have already mentioned the "don't hit me!" scene... I really liked it too! Once again, it shows what a human hero MacGyver actually is.

The old couple is very sweet, and you'd definitely think they've been married for a long time, well aware of each others strengths and weaknesses.

I must admit I found it very amusing (and believable) to see Mac actually give up on fixing the rental car--this time the paper clip trick didn't work. Adds a little realism too--you can't succeed all the time, *even* if you are MacGyver.
I found it a little odd though that he just deserted the car with the doors and the hood wide open. Oh, well, he'd probably just say "Oh, by thy way, Pete, that rental car broke and I told them you're paying for it..."

I had a bit of a hard time watching what he did to that old car--though I know it was necessary to escape the bad guys, it still hurt. I own a veteran car myself--(of the same color but a less fancy brand), and I know how devastated I'd be, had anyone been messing with it. I openly admit that even though the situation would require such actions, part of me would have screamed, or at least cringed, if I had to watch it being torn apart...

Like Astra, (among others) I loved that Mac actually accepted Guy Robert's autograph before he used the ballpoint pen to fix the fuel line.

I also really liked the MacGyverism with the car horn. Definitely doable.

A "Good" vote from me.

Mac gets into trouble after hitching a ride. The Macgyverism of converting a car's muffler into a cannon was pretty cool.

This is the episode RDA sliced the side of his little finger open while playing with his SAK between takes.

The story as told by RDA was that they were filming the scene where MacGyver cuts open the back seat and between takes RDA was stabbing the knife into the seat when the blade folded over and cut his little finger.

You can see the dressing on his his finger in subsequent scenes.

Ouch! I did not know that! And I just thought of a question one could ask him if he ever hurt himself on Mac while using the SAK's.

Guess that answers that!

Funny Denizen ,I read your question about asking how many times he cut his hand while using a SAK in the New Zealand Con topic and now I know why it came to your mind
He had so many injuries while shooting MacGyver I don't blame him he wants to forget.I would.

Exactly. In a convention he even said that by the 7th season sometimes they used his brother's hands for close ups. So you can imagine.

I didn't know that .Thanks for telling us cmbj67.

But I prefer the originals even if they are in a sorry state

They started using hand doubles back in season 2.

You can notice it in the episode "Out in the cold" when MacGyver is trapped in the snow and we see close ups of his hands.

And here's the discussion about his hand doubles

Thanks Kiwi, I didn't remember exactly which convention it was.

Next time I see Richard Hatch (Apollo from the original Battlestar Galactica) who played Michael Talbot, I'll be sure to ask him about his experience on "MacGyver".

Next time you see Richard Hatch? He your neighbour or something?

I wish. He makes quite a few appearances at sci-fi conventions throughout the year, so I figure it's just a matter of time before I attend one that he's at.

It was funny to watch Devon Miles outside of the Knight Rider universe, but the episode is not really one of the most interesting.

good macgyverisms though, and the restored car by the end is a nice touch.

It showed Mac at his best though. Under pressure, next to nothing to work with, and absolutely polite no matter what. The pen scene really made me smile!

This is funny because I was just thinking how nice his hands always look...soft, well-manicured, and thought that was the one place production slipped up because if Mac was "real" his hands would look the worse for wear given what he puts them through!! Then again, perhaps they shouldn't have let him play with his SAK when he wasn't actually using it!