For Christmas, I got a blast from my past, MacGyver Season One on DVD! It didn't take long after getting re-aquainted with good ol' Mac to realize that he could relate VERY well to the subjects of survival and preparedness...

IMO, he could be seen as our 'ideal' that no real person could ever acheive - having the tools but more importantly the SKILLS and KNOW-HOW to get out of any situation.

I think they should do another MacGyver movie. I'm pretty sure that Murdoc was still alive when the show went off, maybe a REAL final fight between the two old enemies. I just wonder if it would be blasphemy to suggest that Mac put down his faithful SAK in favor of a 'hipper' Leatherman...! <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Heh, anyone else here a fan?

I was. Richard Dean Anderson came into a Hardware store I was working at PT . After he got LOST I helped him with an invitation to drop by our forum and say hello. He was nice enough to look over ETS. The next time we spoke he mumbled something about our promotion of firearms in survival and walked away, only to get lost in plumbing. <img src="/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

Another hero dashed against the rocky shore of reality <img src="/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

"...having the tools but more importantly the SKILLS and KNOW-HOW to get out of any situation."

He had something even more important--a script. That and 60 minutes will get you out of darn near anything. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Regards, Vince

I always find it amusing to find the people of Hollywood, who have made their livings from years of shoot-em-up movies and TV shows, so in favor of gun control. Do they really think that the REAL use & need for guns would disappear if all the taxpayers gave up their weapons? The silly fools can't even tell the difference between real life and a script!

Sue

Gah...I knew that Mac was anti-gun, didn't realize that RDA was in real life too... <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Too bad, considering all of the really cool firepower he got to use in Stargate. And I am not counting the alien weapons!

Jeez!

And I am SURPRISED when any discussion of any gun is found on this site. <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

This isnt exactly "American Survival Guide". He must REALLY be anti gun (except when it suits his bottom line).

My middle daughter gave the set to me for my last B-Day. We love to watch them together as a family and in fact watched two of the episodes New Year’s Day. While it would be great if RDA were true to his role parts, the fact that in real life he has little interest, in no way (at least for us) diminishes our enjoyment of watching these episodes. We realize that many of his “solutions’ are Hollywood effects and would not really work. However, it stimulates us to think outside the box and lets us play “what would we do” games.

Instead of dropping the SAK, just add a Leatherman (redundancy). I carry both and to date neither has let me down.

Pete

You mean Snickers bar, SAK and duct tape can't stop leak from the tanker carrying radioactive liquid? Damn. I'm screwed now. I based my entire Hazmat training on this guy.

Still it was one of the first shows I watched as a 12 yo who just came to the US.