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MacGyver Season 6 Episode 11

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AIRED: 12/17/90

A former baseball star with mounting gambling losses is blackmailed into stealing memorabilia to pay off his debt.

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Della Reese's amusing portrayal of Mama Colton breathed a little bit of life into this otherwise routine outing.

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By mark_28, Nov 13, 2010

Just when I thought MacGyver had moved past its "bimbo of the week" female guest stars, in comes Wendy, daughter of baseball great Novus Riley and a certifiably annoying headcase. Her juvenile antics were a needless distraction in this episode, but were nicely counterbalanced by Della Reese's entertaining performance as Mama Colton, who helped to answer alot of questions about her eccentric bounty hunter sons featured in earlier MacGyver episodes. It was also nice to see Mac's nerdy alter ego Dexter return, and the phone stunt he pulled on the slacker dude from the card shop was quite clever. The story was a mixed bag. There were some clever bits such as the aforementioned dial tone copying, but by and large the characters were goofy and had the darndest time figuring out the obvious (how do you handle Novus Riley? you don't suppose we could kidnap the daughter who hassles us daily, do you?). The closing scene, partially ripping off the film "The Natural", was equal parts cheesy and entertaining. No major beefs with this episode, but it was the first of a string of episodes in which MacGyver first started feeling like the aging series that it was. In a way, the transition was fitting as the episode ended 1990, a good year for the series, and helped usher in 1991, the year the series jumped the shark.moreless
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Richard Dean Anderson

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Della Reese	Mama Colton	Guest Star
Kent McCord	Novus Reilly	Guest Star
Tim Rossovich	Willard	Guest Star

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- At the 44:25 mark as MacGyver jumps onto Marsh's car, his hair becomes a dark-brown/black as the stunt double takes over.
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- MacGyver uses a tape recorder to capture phone dialing, and he speaks loudly towards the end. When the tape is played, his voice is not heard.
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QUOTES (5)
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- MacGyver: Where're the boys?
  Mama Colton: Well, Frank and Jesse got called on a big-job bail case. Right in the middle of the family reunion. And my mother won't let Billy come just now. Do you know, he had nerve enough to tell her he liked her cooking better than mine?
  MacGyver: Ouch.
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- MacGyver: So you're a baseball fan.
  Wendy: I'm not a fan, I'm a product.
  MacGyver: Product?
  Wendy: I love baseball and hate anything that ruins it.
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- Novus: She's brought some real bozos around here.
  Wendy: Sorry, MacGyver, subtlety's not a Reilly family trait.
  Novus: I guess my daughter's definitely proof of that.
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- Mama Colton: MacGyver, you're just like my boys. Get Mama to do the networking.
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- Wendy: Hey, big guy, I have a feeling you and I could wreck some havoc together. I'm Wendy.
  MacGyver: MacGyver, and I don't have time to wreck havoc right now.
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NOTES (6)
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- This is the second of Brock Johnson's two, unrelated appearances on MacGyver. He can also be seen in season five's "The Madonna".
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- This is the second of William Samples' two, unrelated appearances on MacGyver. He can also be seen in season five's "Cease Fire".
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- This is the second of Malcolm Stewart's two, unrelated appearances on MacGyver. He can also be seen in season five's "Second Chance".
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- This is the third of Tim Rossovich's three, unrelated appearances on MacGyver. He can also be seen in season one's "A Prisoner of Conscience" and season two's "Friends".
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- Though credited, Dana Elcar does not appear in this episode.
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- The German episode title is "Ein schöner Treffer", meaning "A Nice Hit". The Finnish episode title is "Näpäyspeli", meaning "Flip Game". The French episode title is "Va y avoir du sport!", meaning "There Will Be Sport!" The Italian episode title is "Gioco stretto", meaning "Close Game".
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- Novus Riley batting a ball to explode an electronic sign borrows imagery from Barry Levinson's 1984 film version of Bernard Malamud's book, The Natural.
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