The infamous Dr. Zito escapes from court during his insanity hearing. MacGyver and the police, including the same officer responsible for Zito's incarceration, are now the victims of Zito's ... Read allThe infamous Dr. Zito escapes from court during his insanity hearing. MacGyver and the police, including the same officer responsible for Zito's incarceration, are now the victims of Zito's sadistic games.The infamous Dr. Zito escapes from court during his insanity hearing. MacGyver and the police, including the same officer responsible for Zito's incarceration, are now the victims of Zito's sadistic games.
William Morgan Sheppard
- Dr. Zito
- (as W. Morgan Sheppard)
Michael J Rogers
- D.A. Howard
- (as Michael Rogers)
J. Douglas Stewart
- Orderly
- (as Douglas Stewart)
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- TriviaThis story seems to anticipate several elements of The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Dr. Zito's escape resembles Dr. Lector's escape, and the restraint Dr. Zito keeps Thorton in looks a lot like what Lector was kept in at one point of the movie. The interesting thing is that movie wouldn't be released for another three months.
- GoofsWhen Mac climbs up to the window of the abandoned asylum, the windows are small-paned two-row window sashes, but when he pushes open a window, it is a tall-paned single-row sash.
- ConnectionsFeatures MacGyver: Deadly Dreams (1989)
- SoundtracksMacGyver Theme
Written by Randy Edelman
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Season 6 strikes again!
Re-watching MacGyver to enjoy the series again, there starts to appear a rather obvious shift in the quality of the show at around the start of season 6. Earlier seasons have their own faults, but the show manages respectable consistency despite the relative duds here and there. Season 6 unfortunately fails in that rather lofty goal extremely early on, with the most obvious early example being this episode right here.
Here are some common trends of season 6 MacGyver:
1. Extremely convenient, contrived plot points.
2. Sometimes Mac is inexplicably an idiot, doesn't know obvious things, or can't read obvious clues right in front of his face.
3. Characters acting out of character or in some kind of way contradictory to the prior years of established character development.
4. MacGyvered objects materialize out of practically nothing, rather than Mac building something and explaining it as he does it.
5. When faced with a situation that has multiple obvious opportunities for escape, Mac chooses the most illogical, dangerous one with the least likelihood of success. Often Mac's subsequent escape has more to due with sheer luck than having an ingenious plan that actually works.
6. Likewise, the villains are also afflicted with this need to over-complicate everything, which leads to some incredibly unbelievable and stupidly twisting plot lines that delve into nonsense, more so than what is typical for earlier seasons.
This episode makes no sense. Zito has a supposed number code, but all he does is give them simple math. There's nothing here a first grader couldn't do in their head immediately. Zito might as well have just given the answers themselves instead as solving the math is no challenge whatsoever. Instead, the challenge is figuring out what the numbers mean... but that's impossible, because they're just random, individual numbers with no context given whatsoever. If the numbers were included as part of a riddle, it might make some sense but as the episode was written, it's just pure guesswork and blind luck that they manage to figure out where the next clue is.
Zito's breakout and subsequent "plan" is stupid and illogical. The show tries to pretend that he planned the whole thing, but it makes no sense as to how he could or why he would. Zito's entire motivation boils down to him "wanting a rematch" with MacGyver, but if that were his goal a prison escape wouldn't have been necessary, and the doctor's involvement doesn't make any sense regardless.
It's weird how quickly the quality drops off with season 6. Credit goes to William Morgan Sheppard as I think he did a great job with his roles on this show, and he really carries this episode. At least it's tolerable, which is more than I can say about "Harry's Will."
Here are some common trends of season 6 MacGyver:
1. Extremely convenient, contrived plot points.
2. Sometimes Mac is inexplicably an idiot, doesn't know obvious things, or can't read obvious clues right in front of his face.
3. Characters acting out of character or in some kind of way contradictory to the prior years of established character development.
4. MacGyvered objects materialize out of practically nothing, rather than Mac building something and explaining it as he does it.
5. When faced with a situation that has multiple obvious opportunities for escape, Mac chooses the most illogical, dangerous one with the least likelihood of success. Often Mac's subsequent escape has more to due with sheer luck than having an ingenious plan that actually works.
6. Likewise, the villains are also afflicted with this need to over-complicate everything, which leads to some incredibly unbelievable and stupidly twisting plot lines that delve into nonsense, more so than what is typical for earlier seasons.
This episode makes no sense. Zito has a supposed number code, but all he does is give them simple math. There's nothing here a first grader couldn't do in their head immediately. Zito might as well have just given the answers themselves instead as solving the math is no challenge whatsoever. Instead, the challenge is figuring out what the numbers mean... but that's impossible, because they're just random, individual numbers with no context given whatsoever. If the numbers were included as part of a riddle, it might make some sense but as the episode was written, it's just pure guesswork and blind luck that they manage to figure out where the next clue is.
Zito's breakout and subsequent "plan" is stupid and illogical. The show tries to pretend that he planned the whole thing, but it makes no sense as to how he could or why he would. Zito's entire motivation boils down to him "wanting a rematch" with MacGyver, but if that were his goal a prison escape wouldn't have been necessary, and the doctor's involvement doesn't make any sense regardless.
It's weird how quickly the quality drops off with season 6. Credit goes to William Morgan Sheppard as I think he did a great job with his roles on this show, and he really carries this episode. At least it's tolerable, which is more than I can say about "Harry's Will."
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