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"MacGyver" Ghost Ship (1987)


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"MacGyver" (1985): Season 3: Episode 4 -- While out mapping the Alaskan wilderness, MacGyver finds a ship with its crew missing

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User Rating:
8.7/10   35 votes
Director:
Michael Vejar
Writers:
Lee David Zlotoff (creator)
Stephen Kandel (writer)
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TV Series:
"MacGyver" (1985)
Original Air Date:
19 October 1987 (Season 3, Episode 4)
Genre:
Action | Adventure | Crime more
Plot:
While mapping some wilderness in Alaska, MacGyver discovers an abandoned ship. On it, a Russian stowaway tells him that the crew were all scared off, by Bigfoot! | add synopsis
User Comments:
A pretty cool episode with a sort of appearance by the legendary Bigfoot more

Cast

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Richard Dean Anderson ... MacGyver
Dana Elcar ... Pete Thornton

Katey Wright ... Karin Graff
Michele Goodger ... Joanna (as Michéle Goodger)
Nicholas Rice ... Bench
Byron Chief-Moon ... Joe Whales
Len George ... Dave Whales
Chief Khotlacha ... Len

Ken Kirzinger ... Creature
Blaine Lamoureux ... Tenon (as Blain Lamoureaux)
Lon Katzman ... Peel
Bill Stewart ... Murphy
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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
A pretty cool episode with a sort of appearance by the legendary Bigfoot, 11 January 2007
7/10
Author: Woodyanders (Woodyanders@aol.com) from The Last New Jersey Drive-In on the Left

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

Sasquatch makes a sort of appearance in this pretty cool and enjoyable episode of the popular long-running action adventure TV series. Shrewd and resourceful government special agent MacGyver (excellently played by the likable and charismatic Richard Dean Anderson) goes into the Alaskan wilderness for a basic maneuvers exercise. MacGyver stumbles across a rusty abandoned ship nestled on a remote woodland lake. Curiosity gets the best of MacGyver and he boards the boat. He immediately runs into a bestial, aggressive and inhospitable Bigfoot. He also finds and rescues a fair damsel in distress. The show starts off well enough, with a careful, involving build-up, an eerie aura of mystery, a bunch of Native Americans popping up to explain the legend of Bigfoot, and an imposingly monstrous Sasquatch all lending this episode a satisfying sense of genuine creepiness and uncertainty. WARNING: Possible *SPOILERS* ahead. Too bad the second half degenerates into formula action banality, with the Bigfoot alas ultimately revealed as an artful ruse devised to cover up a band of dastardly oil thieves. However, things nonetheless conclude on a pleasingly ambiguous note with the suggestion of a bonafide Bigfoot roaming around somewhere out there in the vast expansive forest.

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