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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 situation 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 dinky. 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 beget), no interviews, not even episode histories or a booklet. Search For, MacGyver had existed for so long in my world that I had wanted to know exactly how the indicate began, when, and in what context. You will win *nothing* of the sort on this DVD. This DVD space 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 represent and sound quality are dazzling terrible as well. On some episodes this is not noticeable, but on others, I behold degraded sound quality, film scratches, and worse peaceful, shots that gaze like compressed Avid outputs, where even colour correction appeared to have been skipped. Distinct, it’s an dilapidated indicate and some degradation may have happened to the unique 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 worn) all had far more impressive restoration jobs. This MacGyver DVD space didn’t seem to have any restoration at all. For a expose like MacGyver, as finish to my heart as a grade-school trophy, this was disheartening to glance. 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 dependable fan unsuitable, it’ll probably bag bought no matter what. I certainly bought it without batting an gaze, but I’m not entirely gratified with the product.
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The express 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 ample at melee fighting (sore fists after punching — a MacGyver trademark), and relies on wits rather than brawn. Richard Dean Anderson is the lovable, boyishly comely 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 jubilant to examine ubiquitous ’80s actress Darlanne Fluegel in the episode, playing a sidekick who isn’t fair 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 situation of episodes, however, don’t bear up well. One is the general acting. Especially in the first 10 episodes or so, I was skittish to witness some of the worst acting I’d ever seen on TV, especially on the piece of many of the villains and a few of the admire 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 obtain 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 prove. Sometimes the acting and dialogue are almost cartoonish. These elements in combination suggested to me that maybe this reveal was better for younger audiences than myself, which may fable for why it’s held the imagination of so many of us years ago.
But a astronomical allotment of the quandary 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 yarn for this), the pilot aside, the first shows impartial don’t resemble the MacGyver I’ve known and loved. The MacGyver I loved has Dana Elcar as the distinguished Pete Thornton, the terrific villain Murdoc (Michael des Barres), and a clear 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 prove were going for something different, but on the first third of the season captured on this DVD position, the only constant character is MacGyver. And I appreciate the guy, but I couldn’t inspect fair him, and having no other recurring character meant that there was itsy-bitsy room for MacGyver himself to form emotional relationships either. Gradually, however, the show’s producers seemed to examine this jam and Pete Thornton is introduced — Murdoc wouldn’t appear until Season 2, if my research proves honest. Dana Elcar is a very helpful actor and his perfect straight-man turn helped Richard Dean Anderson and the expose immensely, and the present began to grow wings.
I feel unpleasant giving this DVD dwelling this low-ish rating, because MacGyver is one of the holy grails in my TV experience. There was no reveal I’d watched for longer, reruns and all, and rewatching something I’d first seen nearly 20 years ago is honest mind-blowing. However, given the dreadful restoration job, the sluggish packaging, the lack of bonus materials, and the account problems outlined above, I objective didn’t glean rewatching these DVDs to be as grand of a kick as I’d imagined it would be. However, there are mild gems I remember from my MacGyver chase (Murdoc please! And who remembers a young Jason Priestley, playing as a youngster who tries to pick up 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 note, a personal favourite of mine, and it deserves a royal DVD treatment, which it isn’t getting just now.
MacGyver is the unique DIY: do-it-yourselfer. You never witness him shoot a gun, he’s tremulous 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 fresh scrape solving is one reason this expose 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 consider 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 illustrious episode in which MacGyver uses chocolate to halt an acid leak after a lab explosion.
2. The Golden Triangle: MacGvyer becomes enthusiastic with enslaved farmers in opium fields.
3. Thief of Budapest: A gypsy girl steals a contemplate 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 exciting through the jungle.
7. Last Stand: Mac and a group of people are kidnapped by thieves at a miniature airport.
8. Hellfire: Mac tries to establish out an oil-well fire.
9. The Prodigal: A federal gaze wants to visit his dying mother.
10. Target MacGyver: Mac visits his grandfather to cover 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 dilapidated genius hacks into a missile guidance system.
19. Tedious Death: MacGyver tries to abet a group of vigilantes collect out how sold poison as medicine to their village.
20. The Escape: A woman asks Mac to shatter her missionary brother out of an African jail.
21. A Prisoner of Conscience: Mac goes into a mental institution as a patient to relieve a Russian dissident run.
22. The Assassin: MacGyver poses as a known assassin purchasing a bomb.