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The man seems to have had a plethora of ex-girlfriends and "old friends", who would turn up every so often, usually in need of help, though more often than not they would get killed in the first few minutes of the episode. As the show went on, an increasing percentage of episodes were devoted to Mac's attempts to help an old friend out of trouble.
Among the show's cast of recurring characters were Jack Dalton (played by veteran character actor Bruce McGill), airplane pilot, part time spy, and con artist, who was constantly embroiling Mac in backfiring get-rich-quick schemes, and Murdoc (played by British Rock Singer Michael Des Barres), an assassin for "[[Fun
It is however, probably true that later seasons had a few too many [[Very Special Episode|Very Special Episodes]], an indulgence that likely led to its declining popularity.
Still, the show remains hugely memorable in the US (it was heavily referenced in the ''[[The Simpsons (
[[The Film of the Series]] was set to be released in 2011, and then 2013, with Dino deLaurentiis as executive producer. Following the death of deLaurentiis in November 2010 it remains to be seen if the production will continue.
Not to be confused with ''[[
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* [[Accidental Kidnapping]]: In "Hearts of Steel", kidnappers accidentally kidnap the housekeeper's daughter rather than the daughter of a business magnate because the two girls have swapped jackets.
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* [[Bulletproof Vest]]: In "The Coltons" we learn that both Frank and Jesse wear these: a fact that saves their lives.
* [[Bulungi]]: ''MacGyver'' featured several of these over the course of the show's run; the episode featuring Kembezi was unusual in that the country was actually indicated on a map (specifically, as being in the vicinity of South Africa).
* [[But You Were There and You
* [[By Wall That Is Holey]]: Done on purpose when Mac and the old movie guy he was with use a prop wall to take out some armed assailants, in conjunction with a fake surrender.
* [[The Caper]]: "The Heist"
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* [[Cavalier Consumption]]: See [[Shout-Out]] below.
* [[Chained Heat]]
* [[Chained to
* [[Characterization Marches On]]: In the pilot episode, MacGuyver actually uses an assault rifle. Also, his first name was originally meant to be "Stace" according to the pilot's script.
* [[Chase Scene]]: too many to list
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* [[The Diaper Change]]: Happens when Mac and Jack Dalton have a baby dumped on them in "Rock the Cradle". Mac's solution involves uses duct tape to ensure the makeshift diaper stays on the baby.
* [[Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat]]: One episode involved a stock car race between the title character and an old rival. The rival had nitrous oxide installed in his car without his permission ("That's illegal"), but even though he was already ahead of MacGyver and would have won had he just kept the course, he decides to use the nitrous oxide he criticized anyway and ends up spinning out on the shoulder.
* [[Die Hard
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: Murdoc, repeatedly.
* [[Doesn't Like Guns]]: Due to a childhood friend being accidentally killed by one
* [[Doomed Appointment]]
* [[Dressing
* [[Duct Tape for Everything]]: C'mon, like this needs explanation?
* [[Easy Amnesia]]
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* [[Explosive Leash]]: "Lost Love" part 1
* [[Expospeak Gag]]: In "Last Stand", Mac is holding some piece of equipment that he's supposedly going to use to fix up a plane so the bad guys can escape. When asked by his guard what the item is, he replies "Lateral... cranial... impact... enhancer", and smacks the guard across the head with it.
* [[Fake in
* [[Fake-Out Make-Out]]: Mac and his female partner pull this trick when they are caught by a motorcycle cop while scoping out the hospital they are planning to break into in "For Love or Money".
* [[Falling Chandelier of Doom]]: In "The Coltons", Jesse Colton takes out a gunman who has taken cover behind a table by shooting out the chandelier above him so that it falls on him.
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* [[Flashed Badge Hijack]]: "The Prodigal"
* [[Flock of Wolves]]: In "Honest Abe", Mac gets shanghaied by his CIA agent friend Abe to take down a South American dictator and a corrupt Army Major supplying the former with weapons. Eventually, one of the Major's lackeys reveals to the other he's a Federal agent... and the other lackey reveals he's one as well. And via background checks they find the real identities of Mac and Abe. Naturally they are dumbfounded at the revelation that they are involved in an operation involving ''four'' secret agents of different agencies while they previously thought they were acting alone.
* [[Fun
* [[Fur and Loathing]]: When he helps a runaway turned hooker, she wears a [[Pretty in Mink|rabbit fur jacket]], until she's saved.
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]
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* [[Hidden in Plain Sight]]: One episode featured some criminals trying to get an East German expatriate to reveal where he had hidden some gold bullion they had him smuggle out when they got him through the Berlin Wall. The gold had been melted down and reshaped as figurines, which were then painted over and prominently displayed in the window of the man's toyshop. Everyone who looked at the painted toy soldiers made of a heavy metal assumed they were lead.
* [[High Heel Face Turn]]: Karen in "Deathlock"
* [[Hoist
* [[Hollywood Spelling]]: the password in "Ugly Duckling"
* [[Houseboat Hero]]
* [[Identical Grandson]]
* [[I Have Your Wife]]: "Hearts of Steel"
* [[I Just Shot Marvin in
* [[Improbable Antidote]]
* [[Incredibly Obvious Bomb]]
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* [[Leave Him to Me]]: "The Thief of Budapest"
* [[Lemming Cops]]: "The Thief of Budapest"
* [[Locked in
* [[Locking MacGyver in
* [[Luke, You Are My Father]]: MacGyver's illegitimate and previously unknown son Sam shows up in the last episode, and demonstrates that [[Lamarck Was Right]].
* [[Luxury Prison Suite]]: "The Escape"
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* [[Near Misses]]
* [[Never Found the Body]]: Murdoc
* [[Never Mess
* [[New Old Flame]]: "Flame's End", "The Endangered", "Jerico Games"
* [[Nitro Express]]: "Hellfire"
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* [[Prison Episode|Prison Episodes]]: "Jack in the Box" and "The Escape."
* [[The Professor]]
* [[Put
* [[Real Life Relative]]: Not quite: MacGyver's grandfather Harry Jackson was played by John Anderson. It's often assumed he was Richard Dean Anderson's real grandfather, due to their resemblance and same last name -- but the two were not actually related.
* [[Reality Subtext]]: see [[Written in Infirmity]]
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* [[Soft Glass]]
* [[Something They Would Never Say]]: In "Countdown", Mac cues Pete in on the fact that he needs to speak to him on a private channel by 'reminding' him that they are due to play golf when he gets back. Mac has never played a round of golf in his life.
* [[Spexico]]: Take a band of Zapatistas. The more indigenous the better. Then drop them in [[Television Geography|the Rockies]], dress them with the clothes left over by the Sicilian scenes of ''[[
* [[Spider Sense]]: Frank Colton's eye twitches when something isn't right about a situation.
* [[Stalker
* [[Standard Hollywood Strafing Procedure]]
* [[Stock Footage]]: many times in many episodes, but particularly noticeable in "The Thief of Budapest", in which violent [[Hand Wave|handwaving]] is applied to justify reusing the entire car chase from ''[[The Italian Job]]'', and "Trumbo's World", where maybe a third of the episode consists of footage from ''The Naked Jungle'', which the episode lifted its ''entire plot'' from.
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** Can also see it in the episode "Out in the Cold" with a painfully obvious stock-footage avalanche.
* [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]: early episodes would often kill off the newly introduced old friend to set up the rest of the episode, then never again mention the character in the series
** This very thing was lampshaded in the ''[[Kid Radd]]'' web comic. Bogie is watching what's probably ''[[
* [[Tap
* [[The Teaser]]: At least initially, each episode began with a mini-episode called the "Opening Gambit", which -- unlike the teasers in most series -- was unconnected to the rest of the episode, and often created by a different writer and director. Later episodes either had a standard teaser or went straight to the opening credits.
* [[Technical Pacifist]]
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