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ORIGINAL AIRDATE: November 24th, 1986 —
MacGyver prevents the theft of military equipment that benefits a school for the deaf
MISSION: MacGyver helps perfect a voice-activated tracking system, which quickly becomes the prize of a team of terrorists. A teacher at a school for the deaf describes her surprisingly psychic dreams to help Mac track down the culprits.
This week’s highlights include:
Here’s that trailer we mentioned for Evald Johnson’s High and Outside…
And I was wrong about those submarine ashtrays. They cost $400.
2GAT123 (Automotive)
2GAT123 is a fictional license plate number that has appeared in a number of television shows and movies. It is used to prevent difficulties for a real person who might coincidentally have the same license plate number as one appearing in a movie.
Check out the article on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2GAT123
Watch S2E9: “Silent World” on CBS’s website or check the alternative streamability of this episode here.
Regarding Carrie/Mary Beth, you’re right that she is deaf in real life. I got in touch with her for my Silent World post and she also noted that the actors playing the children were either deaf or hard of hearing.
Richards dream about Marlee Matlin is kinda meta-funny. If I remember correctly, Richard Dean Anderson and Marlee Matlin were dating around 1988 and Marlee is good friends with Henry Winkler…
A memorable episode, the one that grown on me perhaps the most. I didn’t used to like it because of what I thought were supernatural predictions not fitting the show’s genre and MacGyver’s views. I’m not sure why as now after the rewatch some of the most memorable quotes (besides “never laugh at what you don’t know”) are when both the doctor and MacGyver give perfect down-to-earth explanations (“Dreams come from what we’ve seen and what we’ve done”, “residue of the days events”, “the problem is retrieval”), and the one detail which didn’t come from her memories can be put down to coincidence.