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List Price: $119.99 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 119182
Released: September 6, 2005 |
| Our Price: $94.65 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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 ingenius solutions to seemingly insurmountable problems may seem like "gee-whiz" science fiction but they are not - it's all based on scientific fact.
Description of MacGyver - Three Season Pack:
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
MacGyver - Three Season Pack Reviews:
Just like the old days 
2009-12-10 - I purchased this for my 17 year old nephew who had seen a few of the episodes on one of the classic tv stations. He is a little bit of a geek, and finding gifts for him is very difficult. He LOVES it! If you were to purchase this for a "collectors" item, or to watch it for the fine details, you may be dissapointed. But to purchase it for the great old memories of when you watched the MacGyver series the first time around, it will make you smile. Yeah, it's corny compared to the tv technology of today, but so what.
Nostalgia!!!!
2009-11-18 - After all these years we decided to build up a collection of shows we had watched before, a long time ago. So this is pure nostalgia!! The whole season comes in a great package, yours to keep and watch whenever you like.
great series
2009-08-29 - The product was exactly as described. I am very pleased with purchase. Will purchase again.
MacGyver First Complete Season
2009-08-11 - Came very quickly was surprised it was still around Richard Dean Anderson really made the show especially with the things he could make with the things that were lying around were ever he was.Thanks
actiony 
2009-07-03 - mac is a great show even for younger ones becasue he saves the day without to much violence like guns
