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MacGyver: Season 1, Episode 6Trumbo's World (10 Nov. 1985)Deep in the Amazon jungle, a horde of killer ants is destroying everything in its path. MacGyver helps his entomologist friend and the plantation owner to battle the ants before the plantation is destroyed. Director:Donald Petrie |
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In the opening gambit, Mac dresses down to a bath-towel to blend in with a Basque extremist group which holds captive a female scientist in the Pyrenees, then makes blow up their open air-shower as a diversion before they flee over a wild mountain stream. In the main story, Mac visits a biologist in Brazilian Amazonia, where an unknown phenomenon causes all kinds of animals to flee massively. Joining the head-strong plantation founder Lucien Trumbo, who employs whole villages of native Indians and created his own self-sufficient little world carved out of the huge forest, they soon find the natural force at work is the unexplained rare awakening of the marabunta, massed colonies of billions of soldier ants who form armies miles wide and long, unstoppable and capable of devouring anything, devastating the whole landscape from grass and grasshoppers to cattle and towering trees. Trumbo, his loyal local lieutenant Luis and Mac try every defense he can think up, from flooding irrigation ... Written by KGF Vissers
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Episode 106 "Trumbo's World" uses footage from The Naked Jungle. The footage of Christopher Leiningen (Charlton Heston) flooding the ants was used. See more »Goofs
When MacGyver puts on his "suit of armor" the legs are pulled tight in back and wrapped to the inside of his leg. In the next scene as he heads out the gate, they are pulled tight in back and wrapped to the outside of his legs. See more »Quotes
MacGyver: Ah what a life I lead, riding the rapids in the Pyrenees Mountains one day, and the next crossing half the world to help out a friend with a very weird problem, in a very strange part of the Amazon. I think I should get an unlisted phone number.See more »
Here we have a truly frightening idea: humans being swarmed over by gigantic army of ants. Sadly the execution does not work. But before that threat is even introduced, the viewers are subjected to some stock footage and definitely-not-on-location footage edited together in an embarrassing way. Then there is the horrible blue-screen work of MacGyver and Dr. Alden (pre-B5 Peter Jurasik) on the river. After the poor start, it just gets worse after cliché after cliché is piled on top of each other. The workers have historical knowledge of the ants which makes them all, except - of course - one loyal one, flee before the swarm. Then the over-excited Doctor gets a little too close to the ants and does not realize he's going to die before it's too late because he's pretty conveniently chosen a place atop a downward slope and - of course - looses his foothold. Then the first plan does - of course - not work because the loyal one gets swarmed by the ants. In the end, MacGyver and Trumbo have to resort to the last straw that's been discussed over and over. The main problem in all of this is the complete lack of menace. The ants just aren't portrayed in a scary way. Mostly this is because of the dreadful music that sucks all tension away from the proceedings. And we never see an uninterrupted shot of the ants killing someone. Now that would have been terrifying! Yes, it may have been impossible to show that kind of death on TV, but then why make the damn episode in the first place? Oh, and a special mention of stupid piece of dialogue: we see a woman trapped under a canoe - an Trumbo actually says: "There's a woman trapped under that canoe!" No s**t, Sherlock!