If you were choosen out of thousands of candidates to play a recurring character in the show, which character would that be and in which episodes would you have starred in? You may even star as yourself. Which adventures would you have shared with MacGyver?

If I were going to be playing an actual established character on the show, I'd probably want to be cast as Penny Parker. Because I'm a lot like her in real life (too much like her, actually) and I wouldn't mind being in a musical with Murdoc. I would never want to break poor Murdoc's heart, though. .......and also, now that I think about it, kissing MacGyver would probably be a no-go for me, so...maybe putting myself into the role of Penny wouldn't be such a great idea.

If I were going to be a completely different, brand-new character, though, then I think it'd be cool to play the part of somebody behind the scenes who had secretly been keeping Murdoc alive for all that time. Maybe somebody had been helping to engineer and orchestrate some of Murdoc's miraculous escapes/resurrections, like a support staff...either with or without Murdoc's knowledge. But then again, Murdoc is too much of a lone wolf for that to ever happen, and it's much more fun to believe in him and think that he did all of it all by himself. *shrugs*

I don't even know if anything that I said makes sense... I need coffee. Ignore me.

Ooh, that's a real interesting thought. Someone HAD to be helping him...like a really good plastic surgeon! I, however, would play ANYONE who gets to kiss MacGyver...a lot!

Despite she brings it out in him, I'm sure even Murdoc might get fed up with her and kills her to do himself, Mac and a whole lot of other people a favour.

But just do be clear, with "your character" I do mean a complete new character. Murdoc's doctor is indeed a good one. After all he did have a great skin transplant and his leg seemed fully healed after he fell from the Widowmaker.

If Penny and I were in the same room, MacGyver wouldn't get a word in edgewise. XD

Penny is okay in my book. If I were a regular character, I'd probably let her stay with me in Soft Touch, and get her out of Mac's hair. Though, it's kinda funny how a single person's actions would actually change the course of an episode, eh? For instance, if that were to happen, how much different would things play out?

Of course, as with all my fandoms, I do sometimes play out an episode in my head as if I were there. I would certainly be my own character.

I once even had a timeline, but lost it due to a damaged flash drive.

I think I'll be a Phoenix employee and will be mostly in Phoenix-oriented episodes.

It would be really cool if we could all somehow be in the same episode together. A talkative Jedi, one of MacGyver's girlfriends, a Phoenix employee, and Murdoc's secret minion all walk into a bar...

Somehow it sounds like I'd be vastly outnumbered.

Sorry I cut that out of a much bigger post...
Anyway, I sometimes do that too!

I'd love to have played Murdoc's role, but I really can't see me topping Michael in that. I think Pete would have been a ton of fun, especially being able to hang out with Mac. I know.....I want to play Axminster, but in more than one episode!!

Now that I've had time to think about this, I would start out as a volunteer at Challengers. I've kinda done that type of work in the past in real life and would like to get back to it. That's how I would meet Mac. I'd appear periodically and we'd become more than friends but nothing to intimate...Mac needs to be free to be Mac! I might help him on a couple of assignments...Maybe get captured by Murdoc.

I would go way back with him, pretty much as a neighborhood kid in Minnesota and work for Phoenix but not be on every same assignment along with him.

These are currently the episodes I would star in and why.

Pilot. (Introduction episode, reunite with Mac in New Mexico, together we wander through the underground lab.)
The Golden Triangle. (Jungle, isolation, far way from the civilised world, always wanted to do that.)
The Heist. (Stealing back 60 million dollars worth of bling-bling, I'm in.)
Trumbo's World. (If I can survive the Burmese jungle, I got be able to survive the Amazon jungle. I'm just not taking pictures of ants on my own.)
Nightmares. (MacGyver's captured and I'm going to find him back, even if it's at the end of the episode.)
Deathlock. (Locked up with Mac in a house full of traps. I'll probably end up down and out.)
Countdown. (With Mac and Robinson disarming bombs on a cruise, after Charlie dies, Mac, Carol and I disarm ours.)
Slow Death. (I reunite with Mac on a train. He was late, I wasn't.)
The Assassin. (Together we chase Piedra, but I'm more on the background with Pete.)

The Human Factor. (MacGyver is trapped inside the mountain, I stay with Pete, only I find a way in and end up trapped along with them.)
The Wish Child. (I meet Mac in Chinatown and help him out.)
The Road Not Taken. (Together in Southeast Asia, we either lose each other in the jungle or I make it back to camp with Pete.)
Phoenix Under Siege. (I was still at the Phoenix Foundation, not knowing it was being taken over when I meet Mac and Harry.)
Out In The Cold. (We're skiing together, or maybe I'll snowboard and help Mac out of the avalanche.)
Partners. (Celebrating our friendship.)
Friends. (How could I not be at Mac's birthday party?)
D.O.A. MacGyver. (MacGyver is hurt and I got to find him.)
For Love Or Money. (Helping Anton to escape to America.)

Lost Love. (I'm working at the exposition and help Mac stealing the Ming Dragon.)
Ghost Ship. (Alaska seems fun and the mood around the Ghost Ship mostly fits mine.)
GX-1. (I'm helping Mac to find the plane, we meet back at the crash site to escape.)
Blow Out. (Heavy Phoenix-episode.)
Kill Zone. (Heavy Phoenix-episode.)
Early Retirement. (Heavy Phoenix-episode.)
The Negotiator. (Heavy Phoenix-episode.)
Mask of the Wolf. (Mood of the episode mostly fits mine.)

Blood Brothers. (Like I said, we grew up in the same neighborhood.)
On A Wing and a Prayer. (With all my jungle experience, I don't want to miss this adventure. Pete's my friend too.)
Collision Course. (I like racing and don't mind to learn about it.)
The Survivors. (I'm a Phoenix field agent, I've got to test my skills too. Bribing didn't work.)
Deadly Dreams. (Doing a drug bust looks cool and trying to get catch a killer looking like a real cop too.)
The Challenge. (I'd see myself working around The Challenger's Club.)
Gold Rush. (Alaska was fun last year, so I wouldn't mind going back, besides this is World War II stuff, I'm in.)
The Invisible Killer. (I kinda like that program except I would only be part of the team, if I'm in Mac's group.)
Brainwashed. (I'm one of the ceremony organizers but I might be brainwashed too.)
Easy Target. (Mood of the episode fits mine. I end up tied up with Pete.)

Cease Fire. (Helping out with the peace negotiations looks like fun. Than I'm also in the gondola that has the bomb underneath.)
Second Chance. (Helping out at the Phoenix clinic in Bangkok and also finding the stolen goods back.)
Black Rhino. (Going to Africa with Mac, that'll be one hell of an adventure, I'm in.)
The Ten Percent Solution. (World War II stuff, I'm in.)
The Madonna. (I'm not a holidays fan but I'll probably don't have elsewhere to go and Mac's mood fits mine, might as well go to Challenger's Club then.)
Serenity. (I'm in Mac's dream. He's dreaming about me?)
Live and Learn. (I was never in favor of teen-episodes but this one is kinda my favorite and I like the mentor program.)
The Treasure of Manco. (I wasn't in Legend of the Holy Rose so I'll be glad to go along to Peru instead.)
Hearts of Steel. (I always wanted to be part of a kidnapping case.)
Passages. (MacGyver is fighting for his life, how can I not be there?)

Humanity. (I'm always interested in the files of a dead dictator and also I get shot this time.)
The Wall. (Last chance to be in what's called East-Berlin.)
Lesson In Evil. (I also have testify about what happened in Deadly Dreams.)
The Visitor. (Working with Mac at the hot water springs, I also want to find out what the lights were all about.)
Jerico Games. (Supporting Mac after he finds out Ellen lied to him.)
Eye Of Osiris. (Another treasure hunt far away, cool.)
High Control. (Joining a bikergang, how cool is that?)
There But For The Grace. (I like what MacGyver is trying to do here, he can count on me.)
Blind Faith. (Heavy Phoenix-episode, everything is kind of sensitive.)
Trail of Tears. (Something I would get into as well, besides, I like Indian culture more than I think.)

Obsessed. (Heavy Phoenix-episode, everything is kind of sensitive and I know Mac is right.)
The Prometheus Syndrome. (Always wanted to catch a bomber too.)
The Walking Dead. (Voodoo, zombies and again a whole different culture that is worth looking into.)
Good Knight MacGyver. (I'm having the same dream or I'm just in his dream again.)
The Stringer. (I find out MacGyver has a son.)
Mountain of Youth. (Our final far away assignment.)

MacGyver - Lost Treasure of Atlantis. (I finished an assignment in London and we go look for the Treasure of Atlantis.)
MacGyver - Trail To Doomsday. (Mood of the movie fits mine.)

Looks like I'll be in 64 episodes and both movies
Never thought a Phoenix Field Agent job would be this much fun.

Awesome responses everyone!!

MacGyverGod, you are a brave, brave man to be willing to have a role in Trumbo's World. You couldn't pay me enough to be in an episode with killer ants. Just...nope! Not to mention all the other stuff lurking around in the Amazon... Like spiders the size of puppies. I don't think so! I'll leave that stuff up to you and Mac.

I think I'd probably first show up in The Widowmaker, finding Murdoc at the bottom of a mountain somewhere. Given that he's a pretty good actor and I'm fairly easy to manipulate, it'd be all too easy for him to convince me that he's a good guy while I'm getting him some medical help.

In Cleo Rocks, I'm a stage manager, helping Murdoc rig up his elaborate sets and hiding in the wings. I have no idea that he's using the play to try to kill someone, but I do get to befriend Penny Parker, which is fun. I'm the reason that they can't find Murdoc's body in the water, and I'm also the reason that he has such good plastic surgery for Halloween Knights.

And then I guess I'd show up again at the end of Strictly Business, helping Murdoc recover from a broken leg or whatever other injuries one might sustain through falling down a mineshaft. And even though he's totally manipulating me, I'm still kind of his friend by that point, so I'd probably end up lending some emotional support when he's tore up about his sister's death. <shrugs>

Thanks. Maybe I just want to go into the jungle. However one jungle is probably the same as the next: trees, heat, creepy crawlies and other animals...

You seem to be staying behind the scenes with Murdoc. Are you a nurse or a doctor of some kind?

Yes, I'm leaning towards a doctor for this character. That would make the most sense because having a doctor at his disposal 24/7 would give Murdoc an incentive to keep her around instead of killing her off to get rid of a witness/liability. I was even thinking of partially ripping off The Joker and Harley Quinn dynamic: it starts off with him manipulating her to take advantage of her skillset, but she sticks around in the end because she likes being on the villain's side. I think it'd be neat to have the character meet Mac at some point, but I don't know how or when that would work out. In real life, I'm definitely more of a behind-the-scenes kind of person anyway.

For me that would kinda depend. MacGyver and Trumbo spent most of the episode away from the ants, preparing for them if I remember right. Being with them then wouldn't be any trouble for me. But when Mac went out into those ant swarms, protective gear or not, I'm sorry, but he's on his own. As for giant spiders... I think I'll stay in the U.S., thank you very much.

Ooh, that's a real interesting thought. Someone HAD to be helping him...like a really good plastic surgeon! I, however, would play ANYONE who gets to kiss MacGyver...a lot!

I'm with you! Any girl who gets to be close to Mac would be fine. (the closer the better)😊