Other mistake: Spencer somehow manages to get shot even though the bad guy never points his gun at her.
Continuity mistake: When MacGyver drives the forklift into the car one of the forks goes through the windshield. When the shot changes it is now out of the window. You can see the broken windshield where it had gone through.
Visible crew/equipment: When the pursuing police car exits the sewer, two mannequins can be seen in the driver and passenger seats. (00:42:35)
The Gauntlet - S1-E4
Visible crew/equipment: While Macgyver is running into the desert, a camera is visible in the far right of the screen. (00:05:07)
Visible crew/equipment: As they drive the car out of the plane with a parachute you can also see someone else (another camera man probably) jump out right behind the car in the same shot. (00:45:30 - 00:46:05)
Factual error: Some factual errors regarding Basques: 1) Basques have not been fighting for ages against France and Spain, and they do not kidnap US citizens. 2) Basques do not look, in any way, like South Americans. 3) Violent Basques are not guys "up on a mountain" with old rifles, but terrorists with modern weapons.
The Prodigal - S1-E9
Continuity mistake: When the car breaks down and MacGyver backs up the tow truck he hits the Fed's car, but in the next scene after he gets out of the truck it is feet away, he never moved the truck.
Flame's End - S1-E13
Visible crew/equipment: As Amy and MacGyver are chased around a nuclear reactor just before the bad guy gets nuclear steam on him, you can see a pair of legs in a top row window around where they are walking. Remember the nuclear reactor was hot with radiation so no-one would be wandering around.
Flame's End - S1-E13
Other mistake: MacGyver and Amy get locked up in the nuclear disposal chamber with the sludge coming for them. Amy says "before it reaches this room it will get too hot for us to breathe", but just as MacGyver closes the door after managing to get it open, the sludge pours in. At this point they're breathing just fine and not sweating at all.
Character mistake: At the border crossing during the car chase there is a mistyped sign below the window reading "Bunesrepublik Deutschland". it should be "Bundesrepublik Deutschland" (00:07:45)
Factual error: MacGyver and Victoria go back to the location of the science event to think about the incident. MacGyver's friend, Bannister, suffers from a heart attack. MacGyver cuts a microphone cable and binds the cords to a metallic candlestick. MacGyver uses his creation as a some sort of defibrillator. Of course it works and MacGyver saves his friend. The maximum power in the wire is 11-48v DC with the maximum current of 10MA - not enough for giving huge electric shocks.
A Prisoner of Conscience - S1-E21
Continuity mistake: When Pete steals the drugs, he puts them in his pocket and drops a bag right near the door, but when the doctor comes in and finds it it's much farther away from the door than where he dropped it.
Answer: Perhaps s02e13, "Soft Touch." Penny Parker (player by Teri Hatcher, who would have been 22 at the time) crashes at Mac's place. She performs singing telegrams and takes Mac's Jeep to her next job, but goes to the wrong house and sees 3 men torturing someone. She drives away and the men chase her, noting the license plate of the Jeep. Penny convinces Mac to help, but she's unable to remember which house it is. Later, the men find out where Mac lives and kidnap Penny and a Serbian (a guy from the beginning of the episode), Mac follows and he reveals the bad guys' plot to kill someone at city hall involved in a drug case. The three rush over to city hall and prevent a bomb from going off and the bad guys are captured.
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