Professor Willis, MacGyver's college professor, was shot and killed in a botched abduction attempt.RIP - MacGyver's Friends Who Have Been Killed: (1).Used the blade to make cuts in a cactus to access the liquid to power a radio.Īnd one for all! I can't believe you said that. Friendship is something I don't take lightly.Look, everybody makes mistakes once in a while.You just have to learn to feel good about it, that's all.

MacGyver is familiar with computers, but is not an expert, and relies more on psychology than technology to determine Kate's password.

MacGyver has run the South Bay Marathon twice.

MacGyver wears the brown leather jacket.

MacGyver drives a black jeep, but not the Wrangler model.

MacGyver's DXS identification number is X-C 4479.

In some scenes, Richard Dean Anderson's hair is still dark brown, and in others (and subsequent episodes) his hair has been given blond highlights.

This episode marks the beginning of MacGyver's blond hair.

As he dies, Professor Willis quotes Shakespeare, ''Tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but 'tis enough, t'will serve,' which are Mercutio's dying words from 'Romeo and Juliet,' Act 3, Scene 1.

Those coordinates actually pinpoint a location near the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, San Francisco, just southeast of the Golden Gate Bridge.

The selected target for the missile demonstration is the fictional Clinton Narrows Bridge in the South Bay, using the coordinates 37° 47' N and 122° 30' W.

Kate is young for a college student, and is listed in the TV Guide episode summary as 15 years old, but her exact age is not specified in the episode.

The buyer of the missile, played by John Milford, is never identified by name in the episode and is not listed in the credits.

Professor Willis was one of MacGyver's college professors for two years at a college in/near Los Angeles, but there is no specific indication of the name of the college, when he attended, or what he studied, although Professor Willis's field was likely related to mathematics.

The episode has no Opening Gambit or teaser and begins immediately with the theme music.Reconfigured the missile guidance system to target, intercept, and destroy the test weapon NOTES OF INTEREST

Anderson's ugly duckling