Finally, we get a season four episode with Pete Thornton and the Phoenix Foundation. In MacGyver: On a Wing and a Prayer, Pete and a nun have been kidnapped in Barraca from some rebels. With the government bogged down in politics, MacGyver does something he never thought …

Season four of MacGyver has turned out to be the season without the Phoenix Foundation, or so it seems. The first three thus far have had Mac on the road, but at least they aren’t do dead animal stories. Actually, this episode, which is called The Outsiders, …

In The Beast: Tilt, we finally get some answers about a piece of Charles Barker’s past, and it’s about time. I can take being teased only for so long. Before that happens, though, we’re treated to poker, Texas Hold ‘Em to be precise. It seems a …

MacGyver: Blood Brothers is the episode that explains why MacGyver doesn’t like and refuses to use guns. Recently, I read the impetus behind this story. Apparently, as a youngster, series star Richard Dean Anderson shot at a bird and killed it. He wasn’t intending for that …

Season four of MacGyver began with a new opening. It’s basically the same style and sound, just tweaked slightly and new clips interspersed in the old. There’s plenty more of the longer haired Mac in this show. While I prefer the original, I’ll take the revamped …

The final episode of season three of MacGyver centers around martial arts master Ernie Reyes Jr. He’d just finished a season of his own TV show called Sidekicks that unfortunately only lasted thirteen episodes. In Murderers’ Sky, the fourteen-year-old Luke Chen is out to avenge his grandfather’s …

It’s another animal story, and that means I’m closing my eyes. This was the year of the message show for MacGyver with numerous shows dealing with environmental and animal welfare issues. I wouldn’t mind them except that I can’t stand to see or hear even a hint …

American Idol began their 1 of 10 elimination with the usual recap, which was much funnier than usual because of the antics of Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell from the previous night’s competition. Abdul gave the Brit a pack of crayons while critiquing Scott MacIntyre and at the …

Bruce McGill might as well have been added to the opening credits of MacGyver in the third season. He was on the show all the time, including this entry called Rock the Cradle. This time, Jack has roped Mac into helping with Dalton Air. That doesn’t …

MacGyver: Mask of the Wolf gives us another Jack Dalton (Bruce McGill) indulgence which I continue to hate. This time, he talks MacGyver into going after a legendary Indian wolf mask after learning about it from his friend, Two Eagles (Floyd Westerman). Their stumbling block are a …

Season three was not the year for me to be watching MacGyver. Right now I’m not sure if I watched all of these or not because I’m just way too animal sensitive to watch shows where animals are killed. I cry and get too depressed. Kill …

MacGyver: The Negotiator has Mac doing a wildlife survey for a proposed marina. Believing MacGyver’s survey will stop the project, the villainous Mr. Knapp, played aptly by the always good David Ackroyd, hires a beautiful woman to convince MacGyver to give a positive report, or kill him to …

Oscar Mayer has again expanded its Deli-Creations line. What began with one sandwich line and then broadened to include flatbread sandwiches, now also includes Focaccia sandwiches. I’ve purchased a couple to try, beginning with Deli-Creations Focaccia Sandwich - Parmesan Basil Turkey.
As with the entire Deli-Creations line, the …

Jack Dalton strikes again in The Odd Triple episode of the third season of MacGyver. Bruce McGill has this part down cold and plays him well, but he still drives me nuts and I don’t enjoy these episodes as much as I do the others. Jack continues …

The Thin Ice episode of MacGyver was more fun for hockey-loving Richard Dean Anderson whose MacGyver character returns home to Minnesota to help his old coach. The coach has been laid up and needs Mac to coach the team through the playoffs. Mac doesn’t hesitate to go.
Now …

MacGyver: Early Retirement has more of MacGyver on the ice, playing hockey with Pete in a neat little segment, especially when Pete stops three of his shots from scoring. Can we say Mac is a pouter? It was funny. The reason for the excursion for the …

Quite honestly, I hate MacGyver: Kill Zone and I hate it for a simple reason. I’m an animal lover, and I do *not* like what happens here. I don’t like what I have to look at in the opening scene that is the set up for the …

MacGyver: Blow Out has some really nice segments and some which bore me, too. The opening is great. MacGyver is fighting a cold so he makes a run to the grocery store and promptly encounters a robbery. This segment is great with him, along with a …

MacGyver returns to his old college to help judge the barricade contest, which is a physics competition. It’s called the Fizzics Follies, and there are four finalists, including the son of the professor. Unfortunately, the father and son don’t see eye to eye, and the son is under …

MacGyver: The Widowmaker begins in a very dramatic and angst-ridden way. Mac has gone mountain climbing with his best friend, Mike, who is a female. Mike brings up their relationship. She wants more from their relationship, but he doesn’t return the romantic feelings. Upset, she …

There’s no Nikki, but Jack Dalton is back in this third season episode of MacGyver called Jack in the Box, and once again he lures Mac into helping him by making a phone call where he pretends to be beaten up. About the only joy I get from …

MacGyver: GX-1 once again brings back Elyssa Davalos as Nikki Carpenter. As I recall, there was some thought about making her a regular, both as a competent agent for the Phoenix Foundation and as a potential love interest for MacGyver. As I also recall, it just didn’t …

My biggest issue with the Fire and Ice episode of MacGyver is that it comes just three weeks after the two-part season three opener in which Elyssa Davalos starred as MacGyver’s once-dead and then-dead-again love. To have the same actress, with essentially the same look, return in such …

The elimination show for Dancing with the Stars began with a recap of the night before. All the expected highlights were there, leaving me equally frustrated with the judges’ votes as I had been on Monday.
The stun of the night came with less than ten minutes into the …

It was another entertaining Dancing with the Stars show as the celebrities danced for the judges and tried their best to avoid being eliminated. There were several highlights for me.
First, Ty Murray has really come a long way. This rodeo rider who began with two left feet …

From season three of MacGyver, we get an episode called Ghost Ship that is so fun to watch. The Phoenix Foundation is part of a project that will survey the environment in a wilderness area in Alaska. The survey will help them environmentally to save the land. …

MacGyver: Back from the Dead brings back a character from season two — Jimmy Kendall. At that point, Jimmy had turned on some mobsters and testified against them. For his protection, he was given a new identity and moved to Florida, where Mac got him a job …

MacGyver: Lost Love Part 2 continues where part 1 left off. MacGyver confides in Jack about what the Russians want him to do in order to save Lisa’s life. Lisa is the woman Mac was once going to marry, only she was shot and supposedly kill at …

The opener for season three of MacGyver is a romantic and tragic-based two-parter called Lost Love. In Part 1, MacGyver keeps thinking he’s seeing Lisa Kohler, his deceased love. The two were planning on getting married when she was killed at the end of a mission. …

The final season of MacGyver ends with an episode called For Love or Money, in which MacGyver is forced to team up with a woman he dislikes. Her name is Diana Rogers, and three years earlier, they’d worked together and things hadn’t been up to Mac’s liking. …

MacGyver: D.O.A.: MacGyver is a neat little episode where MacGyver gets a nasty case of amnesia and ends up believing that Pete is a terrorist he’s been hunting for years. The face off is really a great bit of angst at the end of the show. It …

This show seems a little early, in that it would feel more appropriate as a fourth or fifth season show, but that said, it’s still a good episode. MacGyver: Friends is actually a clips show. Producing an action series like MacGyver is costly. All those explosions …

I’ve asked it before and I’ll ask it again. What the heck is Dennis Rodman doing on Celebrity Apprentice? If I didn’t know before that the man is a self-absorbed idiot, I do now. His confrontation with Clint Black was childish; except it was also dangerous. …

The Amazing Race took the teams to India once again. Watching the reactions to this country is always emotional. In particular, it was Luke who had the most dramatic and emotional reaction. It’s hard seeing kids eating garbage and running around naked. His tears were …

In MacGyver: Bushmaster, MacGyver is sent to rescue a downed pilot named Joe Henderson. A complication ensues when Joe’s daughter, Kelly, shows up, wanting to rescue her father herself. Kelly’s on a mission to prove to her dad that she’s every bit the son he never had …

Now this season two episode of MacGyer, called Partners, is a good one and one worth watching repeatedly. It’s been seven years to the day that MacGyver and Pete Thornton met. Mac’s friend, Jack Dalton, is in the hospital, and Mac is helping him out by driving …

Oh how I wish MacGyver: Dalton, Jack of Spies had just never been done. When we last saw Jack Dalton, he was flying away to his heroic death. Mac had that warm look of friendship on his face as he watched. Now, though, Jack is back, …

I love this episode of MacGyver. From season two, Out in the Cold is just so much fun to watch. Not only do we get series star Richard Dean Anderson looking cute and sexy in his ski outfit, but we get lots of emotional angst and a …

MacGyver: Pirates has some fun stuff in it. Actually the best part for me was when MacGyver was trapped on a sinking boat and had to try and get out before drowning. It was quite a challenge and made for an exciting scene.
There’s a good cast providing …

In MacGyver: Birth Day, a pregnant woman discovers her ex-convict husband has been using her. She thought they were building a halfway house to help people, only to discover he was using the ex-cons for his own schemes and turning the halfway house into a crime syndicate. …

Teri Hatcher makes her second appearance on MacGyver in this episode called Soft Touch. While men may be beguiled by the smiling Penny Parker, she still just frustrates me. She’s a ditz, and I can’t stand how her ineptitude continues to get Mac into all kinds of …

I’m clearly from an older generation as I’d never even heard of the Made tv series until very early this morning when I watched an episode for the very first time. In reality, the show has been on for ten years according to the website. Of course, …

MacGyver: Family Matter introduces Pete’s ex-wife and college-age son. The two are kidnapped by a former agent who wants Pete. Right away, viewers learn that Pete has been an absentee father to his son, Michael. The conflict is rife with pain. Michael won’t even call …

The Phoenix Under Siege episode of MacGyver is another good episode. It’s the return of Harry Jackson, MacGyver’s grandfather, as played by the talented John Anderson. It’s a special anniversary for the two, though not a pleasant one. It seems the two are planning to attend …

MacGyver: Three for the Road is one of my all time favorite episodes of MacGyver and it comes as the tenth episode of the second season. Featured in this show is the wonderful Edward Mulhare whose past roles included starring parts in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and …

MacGyver: Silent World centers on a deaf woman named Carrie who is a friend of MacGyver’s and is having a lot of nasty nightmares that seem to end the way, in Mac being hit by a car and dying. The same footage is used repeatedly in the first …

Episodes like the Eagles episodes of MacGyver are very hard for me to watch. Like Michael Landon, Richard Dean Anderson believes in supporting animal life. He’s big into that. He works actively on various causes to help maintain nature. It’s one of the wonderful things …

I suppose season two just isn’t as fun for me as season one of MacGyver was. This is another show that just doesn’t quite tickle my fancy as some others do. It’s plenty watchable, with good moments, but it’s another old flame returning, and not just for …

I don’t like it, and I’ll say that up front. MacGyver: Jack of Lies is the first appearance of the Jack Dalton character. This guy is the same kind of character that Tom Selleck dealt with on Magnum P.I., the annoying chum that he can’t help but …

The fifth episode of MacGyver’s second season is much better than the fourth one was. MacGyver: Final Approach opens with a neat bit of Mac being killed in a plane crash. Of course, he’s in a simulator, and he’s not thrilled when Pete tells him that he …