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Mac. Gyver - Wikipedia. Mac. Gyver is an American action- adventure television series created by Lee David Zlotoff. Henry Winkler and John Rich were the executive producers. The show ran for seven seasons on ABC in the United States and various other networks abroad from 1. The series was filmed in Los Angeles during seasons one, two, and seven, and in Vancouver during seasons three through six. The show's final episode aired on April 2.

MacGyver is tasked to go undercover as an inmate in a maximum security prison to break out El Noche, a notorious drug kingpin, using only batteries and salt, and. The “back nine” pickups mean. In a world that has seemingly run out of creative ideas, why not bring back MacGyver? The problem is that the original is so iconic, it would be like bringing back.

ABC (the network aired a previously unseen episode for the first time on May 2. The show follows secret agent. Angus Mac. Gyver, played by Richard Dean Anderson, who works as a troubleshooter for the fictional Phoenix Foundation in Los Angeles and as an agent for a fictional United States government agency, the Department of External Services (DXS). Educated as a scientist in Physics at Western Tech (. Army as a Bomb Team Technician/EOD during the Vietnam War (. Resourceful and possessing an encyclopedic knowledge of the physical sciences, he solves complex problems by making things out of ordinary objects, along with his ever- present Swiss Army knife. He favors non- violent resolutions and prefers not to handle a gun.

The series was a moderate ratings success and gained a loyal following. It was popular in the United States and around the world. Two television movies, Mac. Gyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis and Mac. Gyver: Trail to Doomsday, aired on ABC in 1. A spin- off series, Young Mac. Gyver, was planned in 2.

Merchandise for Mac. Gyver includes games, toys, print media and an original audio series.

A reboot series of the same name premiered on September 2. CBS. The clever solutions Mac. Gyver implemented to seemingly unsolvable problems. All of Mac. Gyver's exploits on the show were ostensibly vetted by consulting scientists for the show's writers to ensure a basis on scientific principles (even though, the creators acknowledged. In the few cases where Mac.

Gyver used household chemicals to mix up poisons, explosives or other items deemed too dangerous to be accurately described to the public, details were altered or left vague or an essential component or step was omitted. Mac. Gyver often narrates a story from his childhood relating to his current situation. He resolves this situation quickly, and the main story commences after the opening credits.

The credits refer to such an opening sequence as the . This segment is often written and directed by a different team than the main story of the episode. After the credits, the main story plays out in standard three- act structure.

In many episodes, the opening sequence occurs after the opening credits and often does not involve Mac. Gyver on a mission but rather in a situation used for character development. In the same manner as the . There are three exceptions when he uses a gun for its original intended purpose: in the pilot episode, Mac. Gyver is seen firing an AK- 4. He is often suspicious of militaristic attitudes within the government; he sees the Los Angeles- based Phoenix Foundation, his employer, as an alternative to more conventional (and violent) means of law enforcement. He was an operative at the Department of External Services (DXS), which is where he is impressed by Mac's ingenuity while tracking down Murdoc (Michael Des Barres), an international assassin and master of disguise.

When Thornton becomes director of operations at the Phoenix Foundation several years later, he brings Mac. Gyver into the program.

In addition to sending Mac out on various tasks for the foundation, Thornton is many times forced to bail Mac. Gyver out of the trouble he gets into. Thornton has a son named Michael.

Late in the show it is learned that Pete has glaucoma, an element written in because of Elcar developing glaucoma in real life. Dana Elcar is first cast in the pilot episode as Andy Colson, the Chief of Operations at the KIVA Laboratories.

He is a soldier of fortune/bush pilot who periodically gets everyone into a heap of trouble with various get rich quick schemes that only Mac. Gyver can get them out of.

His left eye twitches when he's lying. Dalton often attempts to romance the women he is introduced to.

Production. Sunshine for ABC, which was short- lived and cancelled quickly. Henry Winkler had just finished off his eleven- year run on Happy Days and was looking for another project.

Lee David Zlotoff was working as a producer for Remington Steele, which was airing on NBC. The three got together to form the basis for Mac.

Gyver and sold the idea to Paramount, and ABC became interested in the series. From seasons 3~6, it was filmed in various locations around Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada.

The move to Vancouver was due to the threat of the series being cancelled due to the high production cost. In seasons 1 and 2, Mac. Gyver was portrayed living in a waterfront apartment in Venice Beach.

In season 3, he moved onto a houseboat at an unspecified location, though implied still to be in Los Angeles (the actual shooting took place at Coal Harbor near downtown Vancouver). When Anderson eventually auditioned for the role, Winkler and Rich felt that he gave the character a human touch which the other actors could not. Both believed that Anderson would become one of the new . He injured his back and required foot surgery because of accidents working as a stuntman. Saying that the series is . After the twelfth episode of the season aired on December 3.

Mac. Gyver disappeared from the ABC schedule and did not return until April 2. The finale aired that night, with a previously unaired episode following on May 2. When asked why the series was cancelled, Anderson replied: . I was physically exhausted and had no life. Unlike Mac. Gyver, the Young Indiana Jones series failed to catch on and was cancelled after its only season. ABC and Paramount would attempt to find one more hit lead in for Monday Night Football with The Marshal in 1.

NFL season and Paramount and ABC's longstanding relationship withered away as any Paramount- produced series that aired on ABC thereafter were either cancelled after a season (Philly, Blind Justice) or moved to another network (Sister, Sister; Clueless). The first movie Mac. Gyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis premiered in the United States in May. The film was shot in England and Greece. The second movie was entitled Mac. Gyver: Trail to Doomsday. Anderson served as executive producer for both films.

Alongside local syndication, reruns aired on the USA Network from 1. WGN America from 1. Watch Wilful Peggy Online Free 2016 more. TV Land from January 2. Spike for a brief time in 2.

It is currently aired on Cloo (2. May 1. 3, 2. 01. 5, Esquire Network started airing reruns of the series.

Me. TV Network has acquired some rights to air the series as of December 2, 2. Paramount Home Entertainment has released all seven seasons of Mac. Gyver on DVD in Regions 1, 2 and 4. On October 1. 6, 2. CBS DVD released Mac.

Gyver: The Complete Series, a special collectors' edition box set that features all 1. TV movies that followed. On June 1. 5, 2. 01. Paramount released the two TV movies on DVD in Region 1 in a separate single- disc release entitled Mac. Gyver – The TV Movies.

There have been a few comedic spin- offs of the show, such as Saturday Night Live's . The sisters' regular viewing of the show is an unalterable element of their daily schedule to the point of death as demonstrated in the episode .

The episode featured a fictional scene of Mac. Gyver where he downplays his role in saving a village (.

Thank the moon's gravitational pull. Build a nuclear reactor, for cryin' out loud! You used to be Mac. Gyver, Mac. Gadget, Mac.

Gimmick.. Mac. Useless.. Dear God, I'm stuck on a glacier with Mac. Gyver! In it, he manages to cut the ropes binding him to a chair using a pine tree air freshener, uses an ordinary tube sock as the pulley for a zip- line, and somehow repairs and hot- wires a nonfunctional truck using a paper clip, ballpoint pen, rubber band, tweezers, nasal spray, and a turkey baster. In contrast to previous Master.

Club. In a world that has seemingly run out of creative ideas, why not bring back Mac. Gyver? The problem is that the original is so iconic, it would be like bringing back Columbo. Or, God forbid, Magnum. For several years, and seven seasons, Richard Dean Anderson ruled TV as the guy who could make a bomb out of chewing gum and found the paper clip to be the most important tool in his arsenal. Who could top that? Unfortunately, not Lucas Till, a.

He certainly tries hard, but he’s about a decade younger than Anderson was when his Mac. Gyver debuted, and the shift is jarring. Planet Earth Dvd Seasonal Forests. Anderson’s Mac. Gyver was certainly someone you would follow through an acid- drenched tunnel after a building exploded (the trek from the original pilot). Till looks like someone who might be able to hook you up with some out- of- state fake IDs. He gamely inherits all his predecessor’s mannerisms (hokey voice- over, fear of heights, unwillingness to use guns) as he disarms bombs with dental floss and manufactures makeshift parasails. But he lacks the gravity necessary to make this character more believable, that he would be someone who could conjure up a random historical name from 1.

Google search. That voice- over is also vital to the series, but it’s a bit problematic here. This Mac. Gyver can’t decide whether he’s light- hearted or dark- hearted, a James Bond wannabe or a rugged adventurer. In the pilot, Mac.

Gyver gets shot, and follows with, “I know what you’re thinking. If he flopped down from his parasail into a pig sty, maybe. His initial caper involves a lot of his impressive magical trickery (creating an electromagnet! Or a smoke bomb with aluminum foil!), alongside some classic Mac. Gyver hand- to- gun combat.

But then a foot chase ensues, and the perspective shifts to? Almost as shaky are the shifts in tones from the pilot, from jokey wisecracks between Mac. Gyver and his team to a tragic loss to the possible mass murder of millions to about the corniest ending imaginable (see below). The camera (steered in the pilot by The Conjuring director James Wan) is not the only thing making the viewer queasy. Sure, the stunts are impressive, showing how to stop a plane with your bare hands (helpful screen caps identify “hydraulics” versus “electronics”) or that frickin’ parasail. Mac. Gyver’s crew has expanded to include a lost love, a best friend/roommate who has no idea who he really is, a stern boss lady, and a requisite edgy hacker type.

Shaving a few decades off of Mac. Gyver’s backup is George Eads as Jack, in Dana Elcar’s old Pete Thornton role. Where Hill is a bit slight and unsubstantive, the show may have been better off putting Eads in the lead. At least he has a sense of humor about the whole thing; his delivery of “my man never jokes about tin foil” is exemplary. An early trailer shows that Eads and Till are the only holdovers from the original cast; Till had much longer hair, possibly in a nod to the original Mac. Gvyer mullet, and was a member of a strategic task force instead of the shadowy government agency where Mac.

Gyver now resides. Still, an almost complete pilot overhaul (even Eads’ character’s name used to be “Lincoln”) is not a great sign. The problem with a Mac. Gyver reboot is that, three decades after the show’s original premiere, CBS must have reasoned that the new version would have to be bigger and flashier. This reboot accomplishes that, but in doing so, loses the whole point of Mac. Gyver in the first place.

Mac. Gyver was always about making more out of less, picking up whatever he found in his knapsack or on the goddamn ground to make his latest adventure assignment work. In 2. 01. 6, it’s hard to make a paper clip flashy, even with CGI. Still, the show might have had a chance, but unlike Anderson, this lead just isn’t strong enough to carry us through. It’s like casting a new Columbo with a Jonas brother. There’s one horrible trope the new Mac.

Gyver keeps intact, however. At the end of the pilot, Mac. Gyver and his pals are sitting around a backyard fire and do that bit where they all just start laughing for no reason. Of all the things to drag back from the TV world of the ’8. Mac. Gyver picked one of the worst. Created by: Peter M. Lenkov, based on the original series by Lee David Zlotoff.

Starring: Lucas Till, George Eads, Justin Hires, Sandrine Holt, Tristin Mays. Debuts: Friday, September 2. Paint It Black Movie Watch Online. Eastern on CBSFormat: Hour- long action drama. Pilot episode watched for review.