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"MacGyver" (1985)Original Air Date:
5 February 1986 (Season 1, Episode 14)Plot:
A cruise ship is the target of a terrorist attack and has three bombs hidden aboard. MacGyver and a friend from the agency are asked to dismantle the bombs before it's too late for the crew and passengers. | add synopsisUser Comments:
MacGyver Countdown is the same plot as "Speed" 8 years earlier moreCast
(Episode Credited cast)| Richard Dean Anderson | ... | MacGyver | |
| Ellen Bry | ... | Carole Tanner | |
| Steven Williams | ... | Charlie Robinson | |
| Dana Elcar | ... | Pete Thornton | |
| Michael Cavanaugh | ... | Michael Donahue | |
| Robin Pearson Rose | ... | Suzanne | |
| Burke Byrnes | ... | Captain Howard | |
| J. Michael Flynn | ... | Carlysle | |
| Jeff Abbott | ... | Officer Atkins | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Tom Everett | |||
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I happen to be watching MacGyver 1st season and Countdown is so similar to speed I just had to check to see which came first. Surprise, MacGyver did!
Let see, ex-bomb squad guy gone psycho, check large group of people at risk on moving vehicle, check partner get's blown away, check ransom money disappears through false back, check
Of course here, since this is MacGyver, instead of fooling the mad bomber with fake video and letting it blow, he psyches the bomber out and defuses the bomb.
of course that's not really an option with a cruise ship, the mad bomber was just SO lucky that they were heading into a typhoon named Henry so they could not clear the ship.
I do think that having the mad bomber right there, working the investigation was far better then speed.
Apparently we should be mining MacGyver episodes for plot lines... your next action movie, the hero will not use guns, just a swiss army knife
;-)