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(1987)

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Clip Show
Eightiesseeker17 September 2015
Macguyver was on an assignment to "steal" back an item, but that is not shown in this episode. Arriving at his apartment he mentions he was almost killed three time, and it was just sheer luck he is still alive.

Suddenly a person enters his apartment and says he wants the item back. Macgyver says it would be located at the Phoenix Foundation and thus they drive there.

When he enters a dark room suddenly the light go on and he sees all his friends, throwing a surprise birthday party for him.

He uses this opportunity to reflect on his past assignments and because of his close death in the past assignment ponders to resign.

Well this is a clip show. The frame events is the birthday party, but apart from this clips of previous shows are shown.

Usually a clip show is made when the production company tries to save money by re-using material from previous episodes. But in this episode about all actors are there whom he had to deal with before.

Well I don't like clip shows. But because it was well made and show Mac thinking about the dangers he is always involved I give it more than the usual 1/10.
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1/10
An 80's lazy episode, one of a few in this style
scotttshea13 August 2022
Warning: Spoilers
MacGyver was a great tv show for its time, but they still had some clunker episodes. One of the things that makes this episode stink it they recycled memories (episodes from the past) and replay them in the episode. This episode started off well, but the constant throwbacks were a bit much and annoying.

I used to think Jack Dalton was amusing when the shows originally aired, but watching the reruns, but Bruce3 McGill plays Bruce McGill in anything he is in. Pete Thorton is a terrible actor as well (Dana Elcar's pretty much has one character too, and it almost always has him saying some form of excited "But MacGyver's in there!!!! Rhetoric).

In fairness, there is a subplot, but they never revealed exactly what he was supported to retrieve. MacGyver tries to quit The Pheonix Foundation a few times in this episode, making you with that Pete would just can him instead.
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