A Mob informant hides some microfilm on MacGyver, who is on a ski vacation. An avalanche that buries MacGyver prevents the Mob from getting to him, but not for long.A Mob informant hides some microfilm on MacGyver, who is on a ski vacation. An avalanche that buries MacGyver prevents the Mob from getting to him, but not for long.A Mob informant hides some microfilm on MacGyver, who is on a ski vacation. An avalanche that buries MacGyver prevents the Mob from getting to him, but not for long.
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- Trivia(at around 26:30) Pete Thornton asks Mac if he ever broke a bone. Mac replies, "Well, when I was a kid. Couple of arms, three fingers and a toe, I think." In real life, Richard Dean Anderson broke both his arms, when he was sixteen, in separate hockey accidents. The second break was so bad it took three months of hospitalization for him to recover. It's unverified if the other injuries mentioned by MacGyver actually happened to Anderson when he was a kid.
- GoofsSam Leland says he has "the sword of Socrates" hanging over his head, referring to his impending fate if he doesn't get the microfilm back. The phrase is incorrect and should be Damocles instead of Socrates.
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MacGyver: [voice-over narration] Steppin' into a pair of skis and pointing 'em straight downhill may be as close as you can get to flying... without completely leaving the ground. Every Winter, millions of people enjoy being out on the slopes. Ya might not think Pete Thornton would be one of them.
[watching Pete take a fall]
MacGyver: And you'd be right.
- ConnectionsFeatured in MacGyver: D. O. A.: MacGyver (1987)
- SoundtracksMacGyver Theme
Written by Randy Edelman
Has this ever happened to you: you stop for gas and your tire blows out and the moment you fix it a pregnant woman runs up crying out that some men are trying to kill her? Happens to me all the time. Not.
Then she starts to have the baby after he clobbers a couple of bad guys and neither of them knows what to do except MacGyver says "I've go to get you to a hospital!" Find a pay phone and call an ambulance, you idiot! They were quite prevalent, then. Pay phones, that is; but ambulances, too.
The ringleader bad guy has a phone in his car. That's to show how rich he is. Ordinary people did not have mobile phones then, so the phone company planted pay phones wherever they could to cash in on that need. Believe me, he'd have found one.
And the woman is a smart mouth. MacGyver's the star of the show. He should be the one to make the jokes in tense situations. But her character is nowhere so the writers had to do something, I suppose.
So if you want to see MacGyver in a totally contrived situation, stuck in an abandoned factory with a pregnant woman all the time, this is the show for you!
Frankly, I'd rather see him working for the Phoenix Foundation trying to rescue Soviet dissidents from Gulags. Or running from trouble after being tricked into something by his friend Jack. Or his pal, Penny.
This isn't the worst episode of the series. That's when he's off on one of his environmental tears (spiking trees, probably) and something breaks loose in the woods. Pitiful.
He works for a company that needs a worldwide troubleshooter. Plots should be ready-made. Junk like this is unnecessary.
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