MacGyver

MacGyver (1985)

1 corrected entry in Pilot

(5 votes)

Pilot - S1-E1

Corrected entry: During the opening scene, right before Mac and the guy he rescued are going to jump off the cliff, Mac shoots The Gun. As most fans will know, Mac doesn't shoot guns, and hasn't since the "childhood tragedy".

Correction: So, what's the mistake here? No mistake in this episode, certainly - if subsequent episodes say that he's not fired a gun in that time, then there's an argument that there's an error in those episodes, but him firing off a gun in this episode cannot be considered a mistake.

Tailkinker

Pirates - S2-E15

Factual error: A 250-year-old sea chest recovered from the ocean floor is opened, and all its paper items are perfectly dry: the log book can be opened and read, and the letters can easily be unrolled. Highly unlikely. The chest's wood and pitch would deteriorate (salt water is extremely corrosive), and the paper should be damp and crumbly, at the very least. Even more likely, it would have become a lump of unreadable sludge.

Jean G

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Friends - S2-E20

MacGyver: For the past seven years I have done nothing but travel around the world getting shot up, locked up, blown up...and all I have to show for it are a couple of empty rolls of duct tape.

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Trivia: As the series wore on, Dana Elcar began going blind as a result of glaucoma. This condition was eventually written into his character, as well.

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Question: I never saw the whole episode but a young girl tells MacGyver that she walked into a garage and witnessed two men torturing another man strapped in a chair by making him listen to a high pitched sound that ended up killing him. Later, when she goes back to the house, the garage is empty and two old people living there say that they were the only ones there and that the girl must be mistaken and in the wrong house. What is the name of this episode and what really happened?

Answer: Perhaps s02e13, "Soft Touch." Penny Parker (player by Teri Hatcher, who would have been 22 at the time) crashes at Mac's place. She performs singing telegrams and takes Mac's Jeep to her next job, but goes to the wrong house and sees 3 men torturing someone. She drives away and the men chase her, noting the license plate of the Jeep. Penny convinces Mac to help, but she's unable to remember which house it is. Later, the men find out where Mac lives and kidnap Penny and a Serbian (a guy from the beginning of the episode), Mac follows and he reveals the bad guys' plot to kill someone at city hall involved in a drug case. The three rush over to city hall and prevent a bomb from going off and the bad guys are captured.

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