How MacGyver Defeated a Killer A.I. . . . in 1986!

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[tayzonday]

I was born in 1982 and forbidden to watch MacGyver. It was too violent. I actually remember my mom spelling out “V-I-O-L-E-N-T” when I was six and my older brother laughed “you know he can read now!” 😀

[kennedytaylor]

"She didn't even have chance to sing 'Daisy'." Almost choked from laughing at that one. Well done, sir.

[sunyavadin]

Ah, Richard Dean Anderson's first visit to Cheyenne Mountain.

[droppingplates]

I feel like it personally makes logical sense for the AI to lock him in because if someone stole something it will stop them from leaving with said valuable item until reinforcements show up.

[HebaruSan]

5:38 - A passcode keypad with light-up keys may be the worst idea ever in terms of security, but also the best for making a TV show

[OpinionsNoOneCaresAbout]

The hell? What are they gonna say to other people who break in? "Sorry, didn't count, you hid under the van!"

[joed]

Loved your decision to super over explain your Terok Nor joke. Well done, sir. :)

[TheYoungDoctor]

In this there is a killer AI and a character called Steven and the 1973 Doctor Who story there is a killer AI called BOSS and a character called Stevens.

[castironchaos]

This may be before your time, but back in the late 1970s I was blown away by an episode of "The Bionic Woman" entitled "Doomsday Is Tomorrow." This one had a really freaky story that combined the nuclear doomsday of "Dr. Strangelove" with HAL-9000 from "2001: A Space Odyssey", as Jamie Somers (the Bionic Woman herself) made her way through a high-tech computer complex to stop a rogue artificial intelligence from starting World War III.

[IllIlIlllIllIlIl]

I always called the Dollys, the galactic trashcans, one of my favorite episodes, made my mind open up to physics at such a young age, thank you dad for introducing me to this show.

[JerseyDevilBM]

Thank you for this entertaining take on that popular show and the conundrum of humans vs. AIs. I never watched "Macgyver" (though I was a huge fan of Richard Dean Anderson during his "Stargate: SG-1" tenure), but while watching this I realized that the beautiful scientist is June Chadwick, familiar to me as Lydia in the "V" mini-series.

[chrisblake]

To my mind, 95% of the 'threat' Sandy imposed was some idiot attached lasers to everything. Skip that step and really she's mostly got Air conditioning and door locks.

[AnotherZenThought]

Fun fact he would go on to join a team that would routinely defeat killer AI called the Replicators in the 2000s.

[Bastian]

This AI-gone-wrong plot reminds me of a short-lived series in the late eighties: Probe. The series was co-created by Isaac Asimov, but it only lasted 7 episodes. The first episode was about an AI controlling a town, and it decides to kill people because it heard a religious broadcast about heaven and wanted to send people there.

[patrickdodds]

Take THAT, Kyle Reese, Sarah Conner and James T. Kirk!

[MV-dqpe]

These MacGyver videos are some of my favorites. Very happy to have a new one to watch when I woke up this morning. :)

[renatocorvaro]

I was born in 1987, and I can confirm that every security camera I have encountered in my entire life has had a laser.

[cartoonkelly]

I love that episode of MacGyver. The best part is the AI’s little evil R2D2 avatars.

[keiththorpe]

We know the blond, beautimous Dr. Ludlum is a doctor/scientist/all around smarty-pants because the show signifies it in the most 1980s-action-series way possible...She's wearing a white lab coat when she's introduced to the audience.

[Tim.]

At least we no longer have to worry about angering the robots by beating them in chess.