There was not much merchandise made for MacGyver in the U.S. Most of the MacGyver items that were created were made overseas, in England, Brazil, Japan, and Germany. All of the items on this page are officially licensed items (to the best of my knowledge). I have seen other items that seem to be made unofficially and are unlicensed. I will list them on the Fanwork page.
Toys Books Magazines Song Book Soundtrack Calendars Slides Transparencies Display Signs Trading Cards Stickers Postcards Posters Videos Science Kits Cast and Crew Items Party Invitation Props Director's Chair Food Products Background Guide ScriptsBernabeu Gisbert toy(s)
Toy Machine Guns
- (Amazingly enough, these toys were made and licensed for MacGyver, even though we all know MacGyver hates guns. They are 17.5 inches long and are made by a Spanish company called Bernabeu Gisbert. It is actually billed on the package as "metralleta con sonido", which in English translates to "submachine gun with sound." They were probably made early on to promote the show before they knew what kind of hero MacGyver was going to be.)
Argentina toy(s)
Motorcycle
A company called Josca (presumably based in Argentina or at least that's where the toy was circulated) released this MacGyver motorcycle. It is unknown to me if there were any accompanying action figures or toys to go with it.
MacGyver
on Ice by Mark Daniel (The book is copyrighted 1986, but it was published on July 30, 1987 by Armada in the United Kingdom) (Check out Amazon.co.uk's page for it here. It's 128 pages long according to their site (that listing probably includes the title page though- the actual text is only 126 pages long) and the ISBN number for it is 0006927335)
(Published in hardback on July 30, 1987 and in paperback on September 1, 1987 in Canada. Apparently there was both a hardcover and paperback copy available, and they were published by HarperCollins Publishers in Canada, at least according to the listing on Amazon's Canada site. I would assume there would have been a UK hardcover edition as well. Go to the book's page on Canada's Amazon.ca or search Abebooks.com for a used copy.)
Click on pictures below to see a bigger version.
List of "MacGyverisms" from book
Both these next books are in French and contain pictures and biographies of MacGyver and its stars. The "Stars A La Une" book is 155 pages long and was published on April 21, 1991. The ISBN number is 2907763288. Both books were published by Editions Sévigny. Check for used copies at Canada's Amazon.ca or France's Amazon.fr.
MacGyver-Richard Dean Anderson: "Stars A La Une"
by Graham J. Walker L'Integrale MacGyver
by Graham J. Walker While there weren't any official MacGyver magazines (at least not to my knowledge:-),MacGyver was
featured in magazines like Epi-Log, a magazine that reports on various television shows, usually older, cult classics, along with new ones. It also usually includes an episode guide for the series it covers.
MacGyver was featured on the cover of issues 15 and 19. Here's the cover of a French magazine that did a cover story on MacGyver for its February/March issue in 1991. There's also some more pictures from it below. Click here to see the cover of another French magazine that had a big cover story on MacGyver. Click here to see the cover of a French MacGyver poster magazine. The Hollywood Reporter put out a special 24 page salute to MacGyver in celebration of its 100th. episode in its May 5, 1990 issue.
Check out pictures from it below. Also, to see an online version of it, check out this link to Kate's RDA page. The MacGyver theme song is featured in this television theme songs book.
This was released in Germany, probably in around 1985 or so, when the show first came out. On the first picture below, Galaxis seems to be the company that released it. ZYX has also been another company I've found listed as the record label. From what I can tell, it looks like Fox Records rereleased it in 1997. It's also been released again on April 5, 2004 by the Sis/Silver star label. Look at the pictures below to see the differences in the covers. As far as the music goes, only the first track is the actual MacGyver theme song. There are two other tracks that seem to be remixes of the theme song: "MacGyver's War" and the last track, which is a reprise of the first one. The rest have nothing to do with the show, as far as I can tell. Perhaps you can call them tracks "inspired" by the show. For a complete track listing, go to Mika's MacGyver page. To find out more about the composers and to talk with other soundtrack collectors, check out SoundtrackCollector.com's page on the MacGyver soundtrack album. Interesting to note, the web site also lists MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis and MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday on the site, but categorizes the TV-Movies as being unknown as to whether or not any soundtracks were made for them. The MacGyver soundtrack has been available in both CD (compact disc) format and LP (long playing) record format. (The last picture is the LP cover.) It's unknown if it was available on 8 track or cassette tape, though I suppose it is possible.
The MacGyver theme song is also available on these albums.
I've also found a listing on Amazon.co.uk for a MacGyver original TV soundtrack audio CD which was released on March 15, 2004 by the Sis/silver Star label and the ASIN is B0001P4VMW and the catalogue number is SIS10672. "(Artist)" is listed at the artist performing the music. This is most likely a rerelease of the German MacGyver soundtrack CD and not an actual new recording, but either way there are apparently some new and used copies available through the Web site for purchase.
It looks like there was a 45 RPM record single released in France of the MacGyver theme song! I don't know if any other tracks are on this or it may just be the theme song. Check out the picture below. Also, here's the site I found this on. If you can read Italian, maybe you can find out some more about this album.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo (an African music group that does a lot of cool chants) has a best of album that features a song that was used on the "Black Rhino" episode of MacGyver! The song "Izithembiso Zenkosi" was featured in the episode when MacGyver arrives in Africa and is driving through the land and checking out all the wonderfully beautiful creatures God created! Ladysmith Black Mambazo (whose members by the way, are Christian) also made some cool appearances on Sesame Street, once during the "Put Down the Duckie" song with Ernie and Hoots the Owl, and with Kermit the Frog singing the "African Alphabet"! Here's a picture of the album. Go to Amazon.com to buy a copy of the album!
Though it does not seem to contain the "Tough Boys" rap on the album (unfortunately), if you enjoyed G. Love E's performance on the "Tough Boys" episode of MacGyver, you may like checking out their album, "Chillin' on the G Spot". This seems to be the only album the band released, back on August 21, 1990 from Capitol Records. You can get a copy of the album through Amazon.com or check on Ebay. Here's a track listing.
1. Give It To Me
2. Do You Like It Like That
3. Dance Baby
4. Snakes
5. Fly
6. Step To It
7. Don't Talk About It
8. Smooth
9. Real Thang, The
10. Give The People
11. Dance Baby Remix
12. Next
1993 MacGyver calendar
You can see some more pictures of some different months from the calendar through the links below.
These particular slides were created at a German television broadcasting station. Slides like these are sent to television guide magazines to promote shows.
Here's a back lit display sign featuring MacGyver that could be used in a store or a restaurant like Ruby Tuesday's that displays memorabilia from various eras.
These MacGyver trading cards all came with calendars on the back. There were sets made for 1991, 1992, and 1993.
These seem to be from the same set above, except I don't see the Murdoc card in those sets. That one may be from another year. Note that Murdoc is spelt wrong on one card, so these may be fanmade, but they look like they might be from a European or South American set.
These stickers were available in 1996 in France. You may still be able to get them from the Panini Web site. You can click on the links below to see some of the stickers from the different sets. It seems at least two different volumes of MacGyver sticker albums were sold, and the packets of stickers themselves were sold separately for one to fill up their album with, in the same manner as stamp collecting. There were 6 stickers to a packet.
Stickers 1
Stickers 2
Stickers 3
Stickers 4
Stickers 5
Stickers 6
Stickers 7
Stickers 8
Stickers 9
Stickers 10
Go to Kate's RDA site to see more.
These next few come from different French magazines. Here's a German MacGyver poster. And here's another. DVD Mac is back! The MacGyver Season 2 DVD set was released on June 7th.!!! Yea!!! It has 22 episodes on 6 discs, like the 1st. Season, coming in at a running time of about 1,200 minutes! Again, there's no extras. You can currently get it from DVDEmpire.com for $27.19 and DVDPlanet.com for $27.97. Check out TVShowsonDVD.com's report for more information. Also, check out this thumbnail view of the Second Season Take a look at the MacGyver Season 2 DVD packaging at the MacGyver Online site. It looks like Paramount is going for the 2 disc to a case approach, making the whole package a little more compact. It looks pretty cool! Take a look at DVD Talk's review of the MacGyver Season 2 DVD set here and take a look at the menu and episode screenshots below. And here's a look at the MacGyver Season 3 DVD cover art work, courtesy of TVShowsonDVD.com Amazon.com is also offering the first three seasons of MacGyver in a combo DVD set, also available on September 6th. Check out the link here. MacGyver Season 4 released on DVD on December 6, 2005. Order it for $27.29 atAmazon.com. Check out the cover art below.
MacGyver Season 5 released on DVD on March 14th, 2006! It's a 6 DVD set. Check out the original cover art, courtesy of TVshowsonDVD.com! And here's the final cover art for Season 5. MacGyver Season 6 released on DVD on June 13, 2006! It's a 6 DVD set. Check out the cover art- and order it at Amazon.com
Check it out at TVshowsonDVD.com, MacGyver Season 7 (the final season) was released on October 24, 2006! Unfortunately, it doesn't include the two TV-movies. Check out the cover art below.
You can order Season 7 on DVD for $27.99 at Amazon.com
Season 1 - 21st March 2005
Season 2 - 23rd May 2005
Season 3 - 1st August 2005
Season 4 - 3rd October 2005
Season 5 - 7th November 2005
And now it looks like Norway got Season 1 on June 8th, which included many audio tracks and subtitles in various European languages.
Check out the beautiful cover art for the Season 1 DVD box set of MacGyver below! Also, take a look below at some of the discs themselves and screen captures from the discs, including a menu screen! Click here to see an early review of the 1st. Season set from DVDTalk.com! Here's another review (this one a bit more positive) for the MacGyver Season 1 DVD set from TVshowsonDVD.com!
Oh yeah, I also have a cool link that I forgot to put up until now, but go check out MacGyver Online's official release pack photos, sent to them by Paramount's media company, as part of the online promotion
of the MacGyver Season 1 DVD set. Both MacGyver Online and RDAnderson.com were part of the official promotion of the DVD set, a fact that I find totally cool!
The release date was September 6th. 2005 and it has 5 discs. You can order it at Amazon.com.
Amazon.com also has a listing up for the complete series, Seasons 1-7, in one DVD package! Their price is $172.99
Paramount was planning to release MacGyver: The Complete Series in one DVD set, most likely including the two TV-movies, "MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis" and "MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday" and hopefully some other extras on May 22nd of 2007. Check out the cover art here, thanks to TVShowsonDVD.com
Unfortunately, Paramount took this item off the schedule, but on June 28, 2007 it was announced that the set release date was back on for October 16, 2007!!! This set contains 39 discs, one more than the previously released sets, so hopefully the TV-movies and maybe some other extra stuff should be contained on that extra disc. Also, there's a slightly different version of the cover art available too.
Amazon.com has this item up for sale for the price of $160.19 right here.
VHS
All the MacGyver videos previously released were released to VHS format, as far as I know. That's not to say that there couldn't be any Beta video releases or maybe even Laser Discs. But all the videos below are VHS format and most are in PAL format, not NTSC, because as I've found out, MacGyver was released on video in most every other continent except North America.
Japanese Videos
Interestingly, these videos are in NTSC format. Apparently, only the European countries use the PAL format. The first two videos are copyrighted 1985 and in mono format. The first MacGyver video contains the Pilot episode and "The Gauntlet".
The second MacGyver video contains the episodes "The Golden Triangle" and "Last Stand".
And the MacGyver
video that says "Legend of the Holy Rose" on it in English, is both parts of "Legend of the Holy Rose". This video obviously wasn't released until late 1990, probably around the same time the British and Spanish versions were released.
If you go to Japan's Amazon.co.jp site, you can find listings for what appears to be the "MacGyver" and "MacGyver 2" videos. It looks like the "MacGyver" video was released on March 21, 1987 and the "MacGyver 2" video was released on March 25, 1988. Incidentally, the MacGyver soundtrack, imported from Europe, is also listed on Japan's Amazon.co.jp site. I doubt there was a special Japanese language version though, because I'm pretty sure the whole album is instrumental.
British Videos
I know that both parts of "Legend of the Holy Rose" were released on one video in England. The "Legend of the Holy Rose" video was released in England in PAL format with a running time of 95 minutes on October 19, 1990. You can try to find it through Blackstar by doing a video hunt, as the title is out of print.
The two TV-movies might have also been released on video in England, but I'm not sure. I have what looks like video covers for the movies pictured below. However, both "Lost Treasure of Atlantis" and "Trail to Doomsday" have been rerun alot in England, so they might just be advertisements for the movies. Anyway, they still make great video covers. If you look at Movie Gallery's Web site, you will notice that a search for MacGyver will bring up the two TV-movies. I don't know if that means they were released in the US, or maybe the stores had an official British version (assuming an official British version did exist), or they were taped off of TV copies. I'm not totally sure what the deal is, but both TV-movies are listed on the site.
Spanish Videos
This is both parts of "Legend of the Holy Rose" released on video in Spanish.
German Videos
All four of these videos were released in 1987. The first "MacGyver" video has an approximate running time of 84 minutes, while the rest are 90 minutes. The German title for the first MacGyver video is
"Er kämpft mit allen Tricks". That translates in English as "He fights with all tricks." The German title for "MacGyver 2" is "Der Abenteurer". That translates in English as "The Adventurer". The German title for "MacGyver 3" is "Killer-Ameisen". That's rendered in English as "Killer Ants". The German title for "MacGyver 4" is "Unternehmen 'Schwarzes Gold'". That translates in English as "Operation: 'Black Gold'". And here's the cover art!
French Videos This video has the
Pilot episode and "The Gauntlet" on it. (Click on the picture below for a better view.) I also found five other MacGyver videos that were released in French. Check out pictures of the covers at this French MacGyver web site. I'm not sure which episodes are on each video, but more than likely the episodes were picked from the first twelve episodes or so of Season One. I also know of at least one other French MacGyver video with the description of "le celebre bricoleur dans
deux episodes detonnants: le casse du casino et le voleur de missiles". (As near as I can tell, that's the French titles for "The Heist" and "The Ugly Duckling" episodes.) And check out the cover art for the French release of the "Legend of the Holy Rose" (Parts 1 and 2) episode on video. (Click on the picture below for a better view.) Here's a link to the 2002 PROMAX&BDA Europe Winners DVD available from Customflix.com. It seems to be a DVD of promotional spots, including one for MacGyver! This is a science
kit designed for use in schools, grades 7-12. Students would watch clips from MacGyver and
then attempt to try out the same experiments MacGyver performed. They all worked. I'm pretty positive most all of these items were only made for the cast and crew of MacGyver. However, I believe some of these may have been sold to the public through souvenir stores at Paramount Studios. Jackets Here's some pictures of the jacket Richard Dean Anderson wore in the "Jerico Games" episode. Sweatshirts T-Shirts This shirt would probably had to have been released after the series had ended because it lists all 139 episodes from all 7 seasons on the back of the shirt. It looks like a very cool shirt and as far as I can tell, it's an official T-shirt, probably given to the cast and crew.
"MacGyver" has the Pilot episode and "The Gauntlet" on it. "MacGyver 2" has "The Golden Triangle" and "Last Stand" on it.
"MacGyver 3" has "Thief of Budapest" and "Trumbo's World" on it. "MacGyver 4"
has "Hellfire" and "Nightmares" on it.
It looks like "Legend of the Holy Rose" (Parts 1 and 2) was also released on video in Germany, as I've seen it for sale at the zshops section of Germany's Amazon.de.
Jacket picture 1 Jacket picture 2 Jacket picture 3 Jacket picture 4Jacket picture 5Jacket picture 6Jacket picture 7Jacket picture 8
Promotional T-Shirt
Shirts
Hats and Caps
There was also apparently a cap made for the crew to celebrate MacGyver's 100th. episode.
Boots
Visor
Fanny Pack
Backpack
I believe the last bag pictured was given out to the cast and crew in the celebration of the 100th. episode.
These were sent to television critics to help promote the show.
Duffle Bag
Key Chains
The next key chain has "1988-1989 season" printed on it and the one below that has "1989-1990 season" printed on it.
Mug
Pencils
I'm not sure if this is an official product or fanmade, but I'm guessing these are red pencils with the MacGyver logo on them made for the cast and crew's use.
Tie Clasps
Pins
Swiss Army Knives
Autographed Swiss Army Knife
Placards These were given out to cast and crew to put on the dashboard of their vehicles when out on location. Car pass given out to cast and crew for 1987-1988(3rd.) season. MacGyver 100th. episode party invitation This is an invitation to a celebration party for MacGyver's 100th. episode (which was "Deep Cover", by the way). These banners were
given out to extras to wave in the audience at the
ice hockey game in the episode "Thin Ice". This is a hammer used in various episodes of MacGyver. This is a dunlap hand plane prop used in various episodes of MacGyver. This is a frying pan used in various episodes of MacGyver. These signs below were hung in the bar in the "Serenity" episode. Here's some pictures of a Hank Aaron autographed baseball from the "Squeeze Play" episode (in which Hank Aaron guest-starred!) These are pictures of the original architectural rendering of the "Eye of Osiris" medallion prop, dated and signed by MacGyver's production designer, and used, of course, in the episode, "Eye of Osiris". This is the heavy gold resin death mask of Alexander the Great used in the tomb set of the 6th. season episode, "Eye of Osiris". Here is the heavy gold resin shield of Alexander the Great used in the tomb set of the 6th. season episode, "Eye of Osiris". It is about 3.5 feet in diameter. Here are some pictures of the Ark of Solon prop used in the 1994 TV-Movie "MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis". Here are props bearing the Phoenix Foundation logo, including a telephone book listing, letterhead and stationery. These were given to the cast and crew in the late 1980s as Christmas gifts. There was apparently a MacGyver bubble gum, which came with stickers. This was marketed somewhere in Europe, and I believe it's France.
This may have just been a special promotion for a certain brand, or it may have been a special individual MacGyver bubble gum brand. Check out pictures of it here.
This is a swiss army knife with Richard Dean Anderson's autograph.
Danone, a European company (I believe it's another French company), had a MacGyver promotion with their fruit snacks and puddings. Check out the pictures here.
There have been a number of these floating around on Ebay for a while now. It is a 45 page booklet of stapled computer printouts, detailing MacGyver's background, Pete's background, and how they met. There is also a rundown of six MacGyver episodes, with notes on MacGyverisms for the episode. This may be unproduced episodes, though some sound like precursors to episodes that did air. As the seller notes, this is an unofficial production, so I am not sure exactly where this comes from. Perhaps this is from a MacGyver writer, who's selling the background notes they received when working on the show, as well as some notes on episodes they were working on. I really can't say for sure.
This is the cover of the script for the episode titled "Burning Fuse". (This was the working title for the episode "Blow Out")
And here's the cover of the actual "Blow Out" script, autographed to boot!
Here is the original script for "A Prisoner of Conscience"- first titled "Madman". The gold pages are script changes and the document on the left is the shooting schedule for the episode.
Go to Mika's MacGyver page to see transcribed scripts online. And go to MacGyver Online's forum to see a scan of the script for "The Stringer" in pdf format. And here's a transcript of the "Pilot" episode!
