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MacGyver: Trumbo's World (1985)
fun episode and should give credit to the original story
There are spoilers in this review. I love MacGyver episodes! This one is no exception. I have watched it many times and I will watch it many more. MacGyver is the brains and Trumbo is the passion, and combined they make "Leiningen". I just wish they would have mentioned that the screenplay was based on the story, "Leiningen vs. the Ants" by Carl Stephenson. Yes they made some changes, but even my students, when comparing the story to the episode, agreed that there were more major similarities than differences. It seems that they even used footage from the movie of the story, The Naked Jungle", that I still wish to see. The size of the ant column, how the ants use the leaves as rafts, petrol tanks, coco plantation in Brazil, the commissioner, flooding the plantation, are all pieces of both, to name a few. But you still have to love how they brought in MacGyver into the story to be the other half of Trumbo, and how MacGyver figures out how to solve many of the problems.