1x06 Trumbo's World - MacGyver Episode Guide

MacGyver

- Episode 01x06

Episode: 01x06
Title: Trumbo's World
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 005
First Aired: Nov. 10, 1985

Season 1 » Episode #06 - Trumbo's World

Summary: Mac and his friend, ornithologist Dr. Charles Alden, travel to South America and discover that a horde of ants are ravaging the countryside. Mac is forced to take refuge at a plantation owned by misanthropic Trumbo, and rig an increasingly desperate series of defenses against the marauding ants.

Who appeared in this episode?

MacGyver

Guest Stars:

Lucien Trumbo	played by David Ackroyd
Dr. Charles Alden	played by Peter Jurasik
Luiz	played by Will Gotay
Governor Santos	played by Maurice Sherbanee
Dr. Andrea Gates	played by Melinda Peterson
The Cook	played by Vincenzo Gagliardi
The Guard	played by Branscombe Richmond
Yana	played by Simone Boisseree
The Old Man	played by Hal John Norman

Season 1 / Episode 6: - Trumbo's World

MacGyver: Ah what a life I lead, riding the rapids in the Pyrenees Mountains one day, and the next crossing half the world to help out a friend with a very weird problem, in a very strange part of the Amazon. I think I should get an unlisted phone number.

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TRIVIA

Episode 106 "Trumbo's World" uses footage from The Naked Jungle (1954). The footage of Christopher Leiningen (Charlton Heston) flooding the ants was used.