Like James Bond--but without the high-tech gadgets--Angus MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) is one of those rare beings who can avert any crisis without mussing a hair. (The rest of us should be so lucky.) In the pilot alone, the secret agent dismantles a missile using a paper clip and fashions a rocket thruster out of a pistol. Is there anything MacGyver can't do? As the first season of ABC's long-running adventure series proves, the answer is a resounding no. MacGyver's secret: the everyday items he "finds along the way," like matches or gum wrappers, and the ingenuity... to put them to a myriad of uses (a background in physics and chemistry doesn't hurt). Unlike Alias' Sidney Bristow, he isn't a multi-linguist, a martial artist, or a master of disguises. Wits are MacGyver's weapon of choice. Produced by Henry Winkler (Arrested Development), The Complete First Season includes all 22 episodes from 1985-1986 (alas, there are no extras). MacGyver is joined by Phoenix Foundation director of operations Pete Thornton (Dana Elcar), who is introduced in "Nightmares." Also, his grandfather, Harry Jackson (John Anderson), makes his first appearance in "Target MacGyver," while friend Penny Parker (Teri Hatcher of Desperate Housewives) makes hers in "Every Time She Smiles" (they will appear more frequently in future seasons). Other notable guest stars include Joan Chen (The Last Emperor) in "The Golden Triangle," Nana Visitor (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) in "Hellfire," and John De Lancie (Star Trek: The Next Generation) in "The Escape." MacGyver ran for seven seasons and was followed by two made-for-TV movies in 1994, Lost Treasure of Atlantis and Trail to Doomsday. In 1997, after a short-lived series for UPN (1995's Legend), Anderson landed the lead in an even longer-running series, Stargate SG-1, based on the sci-fi extravaganza with Kurt Russell. --Kathleen C. Fennessy [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play. MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) is a modern-day "knight-errant", a person people turn to in a crisis. He has a penchant for arriving on the scene in the eleventh hour, when the clock is ticking ominously and innocent lives often are at stake. MacGyver is a packrat, collecting ordinary items of seemingly little value and stashing them in his knapsack "for a rainy day". And it is these same items that he uses to improvise his way out of trouble. MacGyver's ingenious solutions to seemingly insurmountable problems may seem like science fiction but they are all based on scientific fact. Episodes comprise: 1. Pilot 2. The Golden Triangle 3. Thief of Budapest 4. The Gauntlet 5. The Heist 6. Trumbo's World 7. Last Stand 8. Hellfire 9. The Prodigal 10. Target MacGyver 11. Nightmares 12. Deathlock 13. Flame's End 14. Countdown 15. The Enemy Within 16. Every Time She Smiles 17. To Be a Man 18. Ugly Duckling 19. Slow Death 20. The Escape 21. A Prisoner of Conscience 22. The Assassin Actors Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Lerner, Joan Chen, James Saito, George Cheung, Bruce Abbott, John Vernon, Vernon Wells, David Ackroyd, Harry Caesar, Carl Franklin, Christopher Neame, Robert Englund, Beau Starr, Teri Hatcher & Sid Haig Director Lee H. Katzin, Donald Petrie, Alexander Singer, Ernest Pintoff & Cliff Bole Certificate 12 years and over Year 1985-1986 Screen Fullscreen 4:3 Languages English - Dolby Digital (1.0) Mono Additional Languages French ; Italian ; Spanish Subtitles Danish ; Dutch ; English ; English for the hearing impaired ; Finnish ; French ; Greek ; Italian ; Norwegian ; Portuguese ; Spanish ; Swedish
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