MacGyver
Three for the Road
TV Flash files “Three for the Road” as hour 32 of 139 in the TV Flash guide — MacGyver (1985–1992) on ABC, season 2, episode 10, aired 1986-12-15, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E10: listed hour 32 of 139 in the MacGyver guide, hour 10 of 22 in season 2. It aired 1986-12-15 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Silent World” (S02E09). Next is “Phoenix Under Siege” (S02E11).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A retired actor and his wife stop at a motel on the way to Los Angeles. MacGyver rescues them from a drunkard who nearly makes a mark on their car. MacGyver is supposed to meet a mobster-turned-informant at the motel, but the meeting goes wrong. The mob shows up and kills MacGyver's friend before he can give MacGyver what he promised. Instead the bag lands in the old couple's car, where the old actor finds it and discovers it full of money.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Three for the Road sit in the MacGyver guide?
S02E10 is listed hour 32 of 139 — hour 10 of 22 in season 2, season 2 episode 10.
When did MacGyver S02E10 air?
Three for the Road aired 1986-12-15 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Why doesn't he use a gun?
That is the brand. MacGyver prefers inventiveness — paper clips, chocolate, duct tape — over firearms. The crises are puzzles; the explosions are chemistry class.
In the series
Why this series still plays
The anti-gun action hero done right — clever set pieces and Anderson's unflappable center. Paper clips, chocolate bars, a Swiss Army knife as sacrament: Phoenix Foundation missions as science-fair ingenuity. Still the patron saint of making do. MacGyvered entered the dictionary; mullet science stayed in the yearbook.
No gun required — just a paper clip, a chocolate bar, and Richard Dean Anderson's calm competence. ABC's MacGyver (1985–1992) made improvisational problem-solving a heroic superpower for the mullet age: Phoenix Foundation missions with Dana Elcar's Pete Thornton, Bruce McGill's Jack Dalton in the mix, a Swiss Army knife as sacrament. Lee David Zlotoff's hero taught a generation that duct tape is a lifestyle. **Seven seasons, 139 hours, and a surname that entered the dictionary.** Rex can toast the gunslinger.…
Filed against
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- Dana Elcar as Pete Thornton
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- Bruce McGill as Jack Dalton
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