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[mab01uk]

MacGyver - The Italian Job chase
 

October 13, 1985
THIEF OF BUDAPEST
Episode 3

The first episodes of MacGyver had a tight budget to work with as they didn't want to risk too much on a new series. So Paramount used footage from some of their films in the series.
The "Thief of Budapest" was filmed in British Columbia, Canada. If you look closely, the MacGyver Minis are Mk3 and some have the "North American" export side marker lights. Fiat and Ladas instead of Alfa's had to do the job of police cars.

Edited by mab01uk, 12 December 2017 - 07:35 AM.

[Shifty]

Bizzare!!!!

[Ouster]

Haha...this is rather interesting!
Good find.

[biggav]

I remember watching that one!!!! they used loads of italian job bits in it.... Mac uses a sliced up credit card to throw the sequence of the traffic lights the A-team used to use purchased film footage too.. not from italian job though!!!!

I wouldn't be at all suprised if some (not all) americans watched the Italian job and said "hey.. they stole all that from MacGyver!"

[Ethel]

were they seriously not expecting anyone to notice the cars are different?

How on earth did they shoehorn 3 Minis in the plot anyway? Macgyver was summet else, apart from dodgy stuff like that, he used to show genuine 'special agent' stuff like how to make real bombs - I bet Bin Laden watched every episode.

[paulrockliffe]

Awesome!

[Juju]

Ooooooooooooooh!! I don't remember that episode...
I wanted to marry Angus Macguyver when I was a youngster. I thought he was the A Team, Robin Hood & Albert Einstein all rolled into one.