"MacGyver" Ghost Ship (TV Episode 1987) Poster

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7/10
A pretty cool episode with a sort of appearance by the legendary Bigfoot
Woodyanders11 January 2007
Warning: 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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6/10
MacGyver meets the Bigfoot in the Alaska landscape!!
elo-equipamentos18 April 2023
Believe or not MacGyver is invited by his Boss Pete Thornton to aid Joanna's team mapping the Alaska reserve spot where a oil pipeline runs through until the sea nearest of the forest, meanwhile MacGyver will stalking out those electronics devices on the ground that'll sending signs to central that receive those countless devices that already have been spreading by others helpers that cover another closest territory aiming for map out the whole Alaska reservation.

However our hero faces with a Ghost Ship apparently forsaken in the bay, MacGyver will see what it happened and find out a really empty vessel, no so fast has one girl hidden in cargo hold as stowaway, when he tries withdraw the teenager girl Karin Graff there at his shock MacGyver faces a sort of strong and hairy creature, they escape swimming despairingly into to shore, the night comes and the skilled guy improvised a campfire and dinner in sort to rest and sleeping through the night, when arrives a native Indians hunters to get a shelter also overnight there, in early morning all them disappears, the mute girl actually is a Russian girl looking for her father in the north to back home.

MacGyver suspicious that such vessel isn't there so empty as he believes before, he figures out that the whole crew are there for just one specific reason, stolen oil of the pipeline on surface of the ground, bombing the oil toward by flexible ducts toward to the vessel, however the Bigfoot is near on the prowl to attack with his resounding howling!!

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First watch: 2023 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 6.5.
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1/10
Silliest MacGyver ever.
aramis-112-80488014 October 2022
Doing some sort of survey work in the north woods of Alaska MacGyver runs into more people than Grand Central station: including a band of Indian hunters, some men siphoning oil off a pipeline, a stowaway from a Russian trawler . . . And can that be Bigfoot himself?

I'm no environmentalist. I grew up in the woods so I knew every tree and i' sorry I ever left. I love nature too much to want to make an ist of it. But, but golly, if a creature like that attacked me (whatever it was) I'd attack the woods with my little hatchet and send every sprig of it to the sawmill.

Things to watch for: Bigfoot has apparently swum from ship to shore, but the Bigfoot suit is only wet from the calves down. And if Bigfeet could swim, why not chase MacGyver immediately? And, though it's explained: do Bigfeet glow in the dark?

This episode is a waste of time. Try finding something with Penny Parker in it. Or where MacGyver slowly destroys a vintage car driven by Edward Mulhare.
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