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I grew up with MacGyver, watching him in two different households on two continents (one with subtitles!) as I was growing up. For about three years, after having watched shows like 24, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel on DVD, I wondered when they would release MacGyver on DVD. I raced out in my car this past week when this DVD spot was released and prepared myself for a MacGyver marathon.
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As I plowed through the first two discs, however, my enthusiasm began to wane a itsy-bitsy. The first thing that made me wary was the DVD menu. This is without a doubt the single laziest DVD release I’ve ever seen — no chapter selection menu, no commentary tracks, no appreciations, no cast/crew comments (even in written effect), no interviews, not even episode histories or a booklet. Study, MacGyver had existed for so long in my world that I had wanted to know exactly how the point to began, when, and in what context. You will gather *nothing* of the sort on this DVD. This DVD state redefines “no frills” — each episode is divided into six chapters that aren’t accessible by chapter menus, only by pressing track forward and serve keys. Six chapters per one-hour episode! Do the math — each episode is 46 to 48 minutes long, so each chapter is eight minutes. In TV terms, enough for four to six scenes.
The narrate and sound quality are blooming poor as well. On some episodes this is not noticeable, but on others, I examine degraded sound quality, film scratches, and worse detached, shots that stare like compressed Avid outputs, where even colour correction appeared to have been skipped. Definite, it’s an musty demonstrate and some degradation may have happened to the recent film and tapes, but geez, the Rhino releases of The Transformers, Celestial Pictures’ release of even older Shaw Brothers films, and the Criterion Collection’s restoration of Fritz Lang’s M (a film over 70 years dilapidated) all had far more impressive restoration jobs. This MacGyver DVD area didn’t seem to have any restoration at all. For a expose like MacGyver, as discontinuance to my heart as a grade-school trophy, this was disheartening to peek. Paramount Home Video seems to have taken the garage-sale advance to this release — sell it like it is, warts and all, and with the show’s real fan disagreeable, it’ll probably catch bought no matter what. I certainly bought it without batting an perceive, but I’m not entirely delighted with the product.
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The tell is fairly erratic. The pilot was exactly the MacGyver I’d remembered and loved — fast-paced, appetizing, with a lead character who’s become a towering pop-culture icon, the ultimate boyscout, the most wholesome of action heroes, who despises guns, is not that big at melee fighting (sore fists after punching — a MacGyver trademark), and relies on wits rather than brawn. Richard Dean Anderson is the lovable, boyishly blooming hero we remember, and his work holds up well; not too hammy, charming, quite subtle with both his comedic and dramatic work. I was also contented to peruse ubiquitous ’80s actress Darlanne Fluegel in the episode, playing a sidekick who isn’t unprejudiced a wallflower, and the credits held two major shocks — I had never known that it was Randy Edelman who had written the opening theme (one of my favourite TV themes), and the fabled Tak Fujimoto (The Silence of the Lambs) was the cinematographer on this episode!
A couple of things in this station of episodes, however, don’t believe up well. One is the general acting. Especially in the first 10 episodes or so, I was stunned to explore some of the worst acting I’d ever seen on TV, especially on the allotment of many of the villains and a few of the like interests. Most glaring are Peter Jurasik as Dr. Charles Alden in the episode “Trumbo’s World” and Christopher Neame as maniac Quayle in “Deathlock”. The directing, writing and editing varied wildly as well — “The Heist” was often positively amateurish in execution. It’s no wonder on this episode we procure the DGA’s long-standing pseudonym “Alan Smithee” in the director’s credit, a rarity in television which happens when a director refuses credit on a film or demonstrate. Sometimes the acting and dialogue are almost cartoonish. These elements in combination suggested to me that maybe this point to was better for younger audiences than myself, which may legend for why it’s held the imagination of so many of us years ago.
But a tall fraction of the pickle was because the first chunk of this first season was an anomaly among TV creations. For reasons unknown (this is where I wish they’d included some bonus materials to story for this), the pilot aside, the first shows unbiased don’t resemble the MacGyver I’ve known and loved. The MacGyver I loved has Dana Elcar as the valuable Pete Thornton, the terrific villain Murdoc (Michael des Barres), and a sure kind of character dynamic that helped ground the central conceit of MacGyver as super-boyscout hero. Somehow, the first episodes of this season dispensed with what most TV shows call their “franchise”, which is a core group of developing characters, familiar settings, and throughlines which extend beyond each episode to arc the entire season. Maybe the creators of the expose were going for something different, but on the first third of the season captured on this DVD station, the only constant character is MacGyver. And I cherish the guy, but I couldn’t peek unbiased him, and having no other recurring character meant that there was dinky room for MacGyver himself to obtain emotional relationships either. Gradually, however, the show’s producers seemed to peep this predicament and Pete Thornton is introduced — Murdoc wouldn’t appear until Season 2, if my research proves suitable. Dana Elcar is a very favorable actor and his perfect straight-man turn helped Richard Dean Anderson and the display immensely, and the explain began to grow wings.
I feel poor giving this DVD space this low-ish rating, because MacGyver is one of the holy grails in my TV experience. There was no expose I’d watched for longer, reruns and all, and rewatching something I’d first seen nearly 20 years ago is impartial mind-blowing. However, given the abominable restoration job, the inactive packaging, the lack of bonus materials, and the sage problems outlined above, I unprejudiced didn’t score rewatching these DVDs to be as remarkable of a kick as I’d imagined it would be. However, there are level-headed gems I remember from my MacGyver lope (Murdoc please! And who remembers a young Jason Priestley, playing as a youngster who tries to come by a gun as protection? ) that have yet to appear, so I’m hoping Paramount will quiet continue releasing MacGyver episodes from the vault. Even more so, I hope they will do a more comprehensive, in-depth job on the next batch of DVDs. This is a seminal expose, a personal favourite of mine, and it deserves a royal DVD treatment, which it isn’t getting correct now.
MacGyver is the fresh DIY: do-it-yourselfer. You never gape him shoot a gun, he’s unnerved of heights, and he can work wonders with a rubber band and a paper clip. His esoteric scientific knowledge and ability to cobble together commonly available items for current jam solving is one reason this present is so common. Murdoc is his arch enemy who can’t be killed. Jack Dalton is his self-centered pilot friend. MacGyver works for the Phoenix Foundation, a deem tank headed up by his friend Pete Thornton. The Phoenix Foundation routinely gets called in to solve impossible situations around the world.
There are 21 episodes plus the pilot episode. I have read that all 22 episodes will be on the DVD but that the extras have not yet been announced.
1. Pilot: The renowned episode in which MacGyver uses chocolate to conclude an acid leak after a lab explosion.
2. The Golden Triangle: MacGvyer becomes keen with enslaved farmers in opium fields.
3. Thief of Budapest: A gypsy girl steals a gawk containing microfilm.
4. The Gauntlet: MacGvyer tries to rescue a reporter trapped in central America.
5. The Heist: A casino owner steals diamonds belonging to a charity.
6. Trumbo’s World: A mile-wide column of ants is inspiring through the jungle.
7. Last Stand: Mac and a group of people are kidnapped by thieves at a limited airport.
8. Hellfire: Mac tries to build out an oil-well fire.
9. The Prodigal: A federal contemplate wants to visit his dying mother.
10. Target MacGyver: Mac visits his grandfather to veil out from an assassin.
11. Nightmares: McGyver is drugged, kidnapped and escapes. Without the drug antidote, he will die.
12. Deathlock: Pete and Mac are trapped in a booby-trapped mansion.
13. Flame’s End: Uranium is stolen from a nuclear plant.
14. Countdown: An ocean liner is rigged with a series of bombs.
15. The Enemy Within: Mac is tricked into taking care of a Russian defector.
16. Every Time She Smiles: Penny Parker plants some jewels on MacGyver while he is on a mission.
17. To Be a Man: When wounded in Afghanistan, Mac is hidden by an Afghan woman and her son.
18. Monstrous Duckling: A 15 year veteran genius hacks into a missile guidance system.
19. Humdrum Death: MacGyver tries to attend a group of vigilantes procure out how sold poison as medicine to their village.
20. The Escape: A woman asks Mac to fracture her missionary brother out of an African jail.
21. A Prisoner of Conscience: Mac goes into a mental institution as a patient to benefit a Russian dissident hurry.
22. The Assassin: MacGyver poses as a known assassin purchasing a bomb.
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