MacGyver Pilot (1985–1992) watch online HD
- Original title:Pilot
- Category:TV Episode / Action / Adventure / Crime / Drama
- Released:1985–1992
- Director:Jerrold Freedman
- Actors:Richard Dean Anderson,Michael Lerner,Dana Elcar
- Writer:Thackary Pallor
- Duration:49min
- Video type:TV Episode
- Rating 7.9
- Votes 144
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This episode features the only time MacGyver is seen using a gun.
The cave entrance to the underground lab seen in the beginning is the same entrance seen years later in Richard Dean Anderson's next big series Tähevärav SG-1 (1997).
Dana Elcar, who plays Pete Thornton throughout the series, guest stars here as Andy Colson.
The reason these laboratory sets in this Paramount pilot episode look familiar is because they are redresses from Paramount's "Star Trek Wrath of Khan" from 1982. The most intact set shows the Enterprise's photon torpedo room with launch tube door.
The helicopter that brings Mac to the remote lab site is the same helicopter (N51BT) that was used in the Blue Thunder movie and TV Series.
The on-screen director credit is Alan Smithee, a pseudonym used by the Directors Guild of America when directors disown a project. The real director was Jerrold Freedman, who would later on take another Smithee credit for a subsequent MacGyver episode.
Myth Busters proved that it is possible to stop an sulfuric acid leak using chocolate just like in this episode.
This episode was Paul Stewart's final acting role.
The radio station that serves as cover for the New Mexico science facility is KBEX, a then fictional identifier that was used in a number of TV shows of the time. It has since been given to a real station in Texas.
The beginning of the pilot is reminiscent of the movie The Andromeda Strain.
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| Episode cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Richard Dean Anderson | - | MacGyver | |
| Michael Lerner | - | Gantner | |
| Dana Elcar | - | Andy Colson | |
| Paul Stewart | - | Dr. Carl Steubens | |
| Michael C. Gwynne | - | Dr. Burke | |
| Michael Fairman | - | Gen. Relkwin | |
| Shavar Ross | - | Reggie | |
| Darlanne Fluegel | - | Barbara Spencer | |
| Olaf Pooley | - | Dr. Sidney Marlowe | |
| Charles Lanyer | - | Major Dennis | |
| Lawrence P. Casey | - | Colonel Keel (as Lawrence Casey) | |
| Al White | - | Sergeant | |
| Charles Bouvier | - | Technician #1 | |
| Michael Johnson | - | Captain Taylor | |
| Jerry DeWilde | - | Jerry (as Jerry de Wilde) |
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