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“MacGyver:
Season Two“
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Reviewed
by: |
Wayne A. Klein |
| Genre: |
Adventure
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| Video: |
1.33:1 Full
screen |
| Audio: |
Dolby Digital
1.0 (mono) |
| Languages |
English |
| Subtitles |
None |
| Length |
1047 minutes
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| Rating |
NR |
| Release Date |
6/7/05 |
| Studio |
Paramount
Home Entertainment |
| Commentary:
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None |
| Documentaries:
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None |
| Featurettes:
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None |
| Filmography/Biography:
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None |
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Interviews: |
None |
| Trailers/TV
Spots: |
Previews |
| Alternate/Deleted
Scenes: |
None |
| Music
Video: |
None |
| Other:
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None |
| Cast
and Crew: |
Richard
Dean Anderson, Dana Elcar, Teri Hatcher, Bruce McGill |
| Written
By: |
Robin Bernheim,
Stephen Kronish, , Bill Froehlich, Brian Lane |
| Produced
By: |
Lee David
Zlotoff, Henry Winkler |
| Directed
By: |
Charles Correll,
Paul Krasny, Alexander Singer |
| Music:
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Randy Edelman |
| The
Review: |
During the second season MacGyver
continued to get out of a difficult situation using his best
resource—his brain. During season two MacGyver and four street
youths get stranded when their plane crash and must fight
for survival: MacGyver encounters a friend who is passing
himself off as the reincarnation of a Chinese legend; MacGyver
hooks up with his former fiancée in Asia. Unfortunately both
are now on the run when they’re pursued by troops when they
try to rescue orphans. So, as usual MacGyver continues to
get into trouble but always figures out some way to get out
of it without killing everyone.
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| Image
and Sound: |
Picture
quality for a series from a decade ago looks pretty decent but
it could have been cleaned up a bit more. MacGyver definitely
could have used one of his famous paperclips or other misc.
materials to spruce this up. I’m a bit disappointed at how soft
the picture is occasionally. Clarity is decent and color good
but it could be a whole lot better. The mono sound hasn’t really
been enhanced all that much; it appears that it’s been compressed
a bit here and there so the dialog and sound effects are a trifle
louder than I expected. --- |
| The
Extras: |
We get
Universal’s usual previews but nothing in the way of extras
about the series. That’s too bad because if they offered Richard
Dean Anderson enough money he would probably do a featurette
on the series as well as commentary tracks (he does them for
“Stargate SG-1”). Although not an extra per se, we do get
the original broadcast versions of the series vs. the syndicated
versions (at least as far as I can tell). ---
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| Commentary:
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No commentary
track. |
| Final
Words: |
A solid
transfer that could aspire to be so much better, “MacGyver”
doesn’t look bad it could just look really, really exceptional
if the money was spent on it to spiff it up. Clearly Universal
doesn’t feel that the audience is there to warrant spending
a lot of money on it. They’d have to price it in the range of
“Battlestar:Galatica” or one of their other premium series.
It’s a pity that Universal doesn’t take a lesson from Warner
Brothers Home Video or even Fox. They could, for example include
vintage interviews or even appearances done for shows on NBC
(since they are owned by the same parent company now). Oh well,
perhaps we’ll see extras on the final season as Sony has done
with some of their vintage shows or Paramount has done with
“Frasier”. It’s not likely that Universal will be dong that
as demonstrated by some of their other TV on DVD releases but
if you are a fan and write them to let them know you’d like
to have the series with extras, they may comply. |
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