MacGyver: What You Didn’t Know About The Classic Show

The MacGyver Bomb

In the late 1980s, two teenage boys made a bomb in their garage. The bomb went off and killed one of them. When the surviving boy was questioned about how and why he made the bomb, he said he learned from an episode of MacGyver. Since producers were smart enough not to give actual bomb-making instructions on the show, his story didn’t add up.

MacGyver was exonerated after the court looked into the teenage boy’s statement and discovered the episode he was claiming inspired him didn’t actually exist. It’s a good thing MacGyver didn’t go into more detail because it could’ve ruined the show.

The End of the Show

After seven seasons, MacGyver finally went off the air. ABC wasn’t marketing the series a lot, and saw it as “just another action show.” However, it seems like everyone may have been ready to move on by the time the show ended anyway.

“The only reason it went off the air was that everybody was ready to move on,” said Richard Dean Anderson after the cancellation.

“I was physically exhausted and had no life.” The show went on to be syndicated internationally, and it was released in over 70 worldwide markets. They also wrapped up a few plotlines with two TV movies, released in 1994. Both movies were filmed in Europe.