MacGyver / Season 7
Season 7 of MacGyver | |||
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Episodes | 14th | ||
Country of production | United States | ||
First broadcast | 16 Sep 1991 - May 21, 1992 on ABC | ||
German-language first broadcast |
Nov. 19, 1992 - Dec. 17, 1992 on Sat.1 | ||
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The seventh season of the American action television series MacGyver comprises 14 episodes and was first broadcast in the United States in 1991/92 and in Germany in 1992.
action
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German title | Original title | First broadcast in the USA | German language first broadcast (D) | Director | script |
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126 | 1 | Agents in the Caribbean | Honest Abe | 16 Sep 1991 | Nov 26, 1992 | Michael Caffey | Lincoln Kibbee |
MacGyver's friend Abe Sherman works for the CIA and wants to arrest the dictatorial president of the Caribbean island state of San Rochelle. To get there, he steals a helicopter with secret military technology on US soil. MacGyver involuntarily accompanies him there. US agents are pursuing him in order to liquidate him. After Abe and MacGyver arrive, the President learns, contrary to Abe's intention, that Abe works for the CIA. That's why the president wants to execute the two and the other agents on the gallows. MacGyver thwarts this by using the helicopter's technology and uses it to help Abe and himself escape. | |||||||
127 | 2 | Murderous intentions | The 'Hood | 23 Sep 1991 | Nov 25, 1992 | Mike Vejar | Rick Mittleman |
MacGyver's new neighbor Kelly happened to overhear a murder date with her employer, a businessman, and was therefore hunted by killers and soon captured. With the help of his landlord and the voodoo priestess, MacGyver finds Mama Lorraine Kelly and frees her. With their help, MacGyver prevents the killer from carrying out the murder. | |||||||
128 | 3 | But the body was missing! | Obsessed | Sep 30 1991 | Nov 24, 1992 | William Gereghty | John Sheppard |
The Central American dictator Pablo Delasora will be tried in the USA. The Phoenix Foundation ensures security as part of the process. However, the believed dead killer Murdoc causes severe security breaches to publicly discredit the Phoenix Foundation as a security officer. As a result, Police Chief Bob Stryke arranges for Delarosa to be guarded by another company on the outskirts. However, the corrupt Stryke secretly helps Delarosa to freedom and that Delarosa's political opponent, Prime Minister Marietta Robles, is captured by Delarosa. Murdoc works for Delarosa as a general and is sentenced to death by Delarosa due to the unsuccessful execution of MacGyver, who has been added. MacGyver is able to destroy a missile intended to hit the country to overthrow Robles' government. Eventually MacGyver is able to thwart his murder by Murdoc, who falls down a slope in an exploding car, but survives anyway. | |||||||
129 | 4th | The fire devil | The Prometheus Syndrome | Oct 7, 1991 | Dec 1, 1992 | William Gereghty | Robert Sherman |
An arsonist by the name of Prometheus causes large fires, which he sets off with timed bombs. MacGyver assists the fire department's fire department in their search for Prometheus. Earl Stringer, chief of fire investigation, dies in the latter's latest arson attack, so that his deputy Rachel Bradley takes his place. MacGyver determines that the arsonist is seeking personal revenge against the members of this fire department or fire department because they allegedly failed to save his wife, who died in an earlier fire. Finally, MacGyver is able to prevent he and Bradley from dying by another incendiary bomb, and with her convict Prometheus. | |||||||
130 | 5 | The Coltons | The Coltons | Oct 14, 1991 | Nov 19, 1992 | William Gereghty | Stephen Downing Idea: Michael Greenburg & Stephen Downing |
Bounty hunters and Colton brothers Jesse and Frank accept the Danish District Attorney's assignment to find Loretta Fielding, the eyewitness to the triple murder by Chinese drug syndicate chief Chi. They investigate in Chinatown and get help from their brother Billy, who also wants to be a bounty hunter, and the family dog Frog. When Jesse and Frank have found the witness and delivered the address given by Denmark, they are captured by the drug syndicate because Denmark is corrupt and works for Chi. The brothers eventually overpower Denmark, Zhi and the other criminals and free Fielding. | |||||||
131 | 6th | The Death Baron's Gardens | Walking dead | Oct 21, 1991 | Nov 30, 1992 | Michael Preece | Mark Rodgers |
In his neighborhood, MacGyver happened to witness the kidnapping of Ms. Cherine by members of the Tonton Macoute militia , a former Haitian voodoo cult who believed in Baron Samedi . Cherine, an opponent of the cult, is imprisoned inside a disused dam and so poisoned that she becomes an undead and soon threatens to die. MacGyver and Mama Lorraine go there to rescue them. Mama Lorraine allegedly works there as an indoctrinated priestess and finally manages to get Cherine back to life. MacGyver, Lorraine and Cherine eventually flee. | |||||||
132 | 7th | Knight MacGyver, part 1 | Good Knight MacGyver, Part 1 | Nov 4, 1991 | Dec 2, 1992 | Mike Vejar | John Considine |
MacGyver learns from a genealogist that his family tree can be traced back to the 17th century, when he has an ancestor named Ian MacGyver. In the 7th century there is a clan with the surname M'Yver, including Ian M'Yver. Both Ian MacGyver and Ian M'Yver have a son with the same first name as MacGyver's first name. On the street, while trying to save people from a falling object, MacGyver himself is badly hit in the head and passed out. He dreams of himself as MacGyver in the 7th century in Camelot , where King Arthur, who is very similar to Pete, rules as Lord of the Round Table . MacGyver uses an antidote to prevent Artur from dying from poisoning. Then he proves, among other things by carrying out electrophoresis , that the assassin is not the alchemist and magician Merlin , but the knight Duncan. This acted on behalf of Arthur's malicious stepsister Queen Morgana , who holds the woman Cecilia prisoner. Because Cecilia's husband, Sir Galahad , is injured and unable to take part in the rescue operation, MacGyver is knighted by Artur and chosen to free Cecilia with Merlin and destroy Morgana's new, overpowering weapon. In addition, MacGyver hopes to find his ancestor Ian M'Yver there to find out the first name of his son and thus of himself. Together they set off for Scotland . On the way they fall into a trap of Duncan, who is killed by Morgana. | |||||||
133 | 8th | Knight MacGyver, part 2 | Good Knight MacGyver, Part 2 | Nov 11, 1991 | December 3, 1992 | Mike Vejar | John Considine |
After overcoming a number of obstacles, MacGyver and Merlin arrive at Morgana's Castle and discover that Morgana's overpowering weapon is gunpowder . In the cell next to Cecilia's cell, they find the dying Ian M'Yver and, with his reference, a coded message stating that his son has the first name Angus. MacGyver can free himself and Cecilia and Merlin from Morgana's violence by blowing up both the lock of their prison cell and the gunpowder supplies with an improvised lightning rod . After MacGyver sank to the ground after Morgana was shot in the head, he awakes from his dream. | |||||||
134 | 9 | Deadly hatred | Deadly Silents | Nov 18, 1991 | Dec 7, 1992 | William Gereghty | Brad Radnitz |
The former silent film actor Pinky Burnette has found lost film roles with performances by him. When he tries to give them to the Phoenix Foundation via MacGyver for safekeeping, they are stolen from him by two men. The theft serves to lure Pinky to the premises of Pinky's film studio and to murder there because Pinky once cheated on the father of one of the two men and so that the studio would be bequeathed to this father. The men set several traps for him and MacGyver to make Pinky's death look like an accident. MacGyver can free himself and Pinky from the traps through his ideas and finally arrest the criminals. | |||||||
135 | 10 | The last boxing match | Split decision | Dec 2, 1991 | Dec 10, 1992 | Michael Caffey | David Rich |
MacGyver helps former inmate Earl Dent with rehabilitation by providing shelter for him and his teenage daughter Ronnie, who previously lived in a foster family. MacGyver can also be hired through him as a boxing trainer. Dent wants to return to his previous job as a professional boxer in order to earn money. MacGyver mediates in disputes between father and daughter. Earl is forced to be purposely knocked out in the eighth round for financial reasons by his former manager. To this end, the manager kidnaps Ronnie. MacGyver manages to free Ronnie in time, so that Earl does not get knocked out. Earl decides to become a catcher. | |||||||
136 | 11 | The gang war | Gunz 'n Boyz | Dec 16, 1991 | Dec 14, 1992 | William Gereghty | Art Washington |
In the city there is a war between armed, dealing youth gangs. The arms supplier, whose nickname is cannon man, of one of the two gangs murders a gang member and accuses the teenager Brian of the murder. MacGyver tracks down the gunman who, as a frustrated ex-police officer, has grown tired of crime and therefore lures both gangs into an ambush, where he wants to kill them and MacGyver with a car full of dynamite. MacGyver prevents the car from exploding and overpowers the gunman. The parents of the young people prevent them from attacking each other with weapons. | |||||||
137 | 12 | Fight the speculators | Off the wall | Dec 30, 1991 | Dec 15, 1992 | Michael Preece | Rick Mittleman |
Apartment tenant Gloria Diaz witnessed the eviction of her apartment, which the house owner Kasanti arranged. The law firm that Diaz represents and has the evidence against the resignation or against Kasanti, the evidence is stolen on Kasanti's behalf. MacGyver and Gloria's grandson Lobo go on a search for the evidence. They also fend off some of Kasanti's thugs and initially suspect the investor Lawton. After Kasanti is found dead and MacGyver investigates the building inspector, he realizes that the building inspector is corrupt, did the dirty work for Kasanti, and made the evidence disappear. Finally, MacGyver can convict the building supervisor. | |||||||
138 | 13 | Death in china | The Stringer | Apr 25, 1992 | Dec 17, 1992 | William Gereghty | Brad Radnitz |
MacGyver receives a videotape smuggled out of China from the Chinese underground fighter Tan Yee shortly before he was murdered as evidence that Chinese students arrested in the Tienanmen massacre are being held and ill-treated in a Chinese labor camp. During MacGyver's escape from the Chinese loyal to China, he receives unexpected help from the journalist Sean A. Malloy, or Sam for short, who turns out to be MacGyver's son and is now at the end of his search for his father. Sam emerged from MacGyver's relationship with a woman who was executed in front of Sam ten years ago by the Chinese Chung. Chung is now the Chinese man who ships metal products produced in the labor camp for the US market and sees these businesses at risk because of the video. Chung has Yee's confidante Mei Jan kidnapped on his freighter. MacGyver and Sam follow there and free her. MacGyver finally gives up his work for the Phoenix Foundation and travels with Sam. | |||||||
139 | 14th | Heavy water | The Mountain of Youth | May 21, 1992 | Dec 16, 1992 | Mike Vejar | John Sheppard |
Jack Dalton is in the third world country Kabulstan to take water samples from the so-called Eternal Spring, the water of which extends life. MacGyver follows him and discovers with him and a local that Kabulstan soldiers divert the water against the will of the local population. The three discover that the Kabulstanis produce heavy water in a secret facility , which is useful for atomic bombs. After a short imprisonment, they escape with video evidence that they want to bring them to the UN. |
Web links
- Season 7 in the Internet Movie Database
- Season 7 at fernsehserien.de