MacGyver: The Complete Collection

Genius !

Great product

Plays well.

Nicely packaged: 1 large box, two albums/cases in the box, each with many discs in individual disc holders, flip style, inside. No paperwork, no sleeves, no artwork if that matters to you. Just grey discs, each printed with the Season & disc # and the episodes on that disc (usually 4 episodes per disc).The downside, to me, is that that there's no "Play All" menu selection. Each episode plays individually and it takes you back to the menu when each is finished, but at least the cursor is on the next episode. A "Play All" option should be the law on all collections!I noticed the same thing as Lauren from his/her review in Apr 2015, my Season 1, Disc #1 is misprinted as well. Oh well, I know the pilot and other first 3 episodes are on it, doesn't matter much to me if it's misprinted. All others seem proper. VERY happy to have the collection of memories from my youth, and ~$50 is VERY reasonable for that! This seller should be very happy that Netflix removed MacGyver from it's lineup, which it had been there for many years. When Netflix dropped it in July 2016, I came searching, and now I own them. [tongue out at Netflix].The episodes are not formatted for widescreen, they are in 4:3 square, so unless you have an older TV set, you'll have the side black bars. (Or unless you zoom in on your DVD player settings).Playback is great, as good as Netflix was, as good as the technology from the 80s was capable of. Although many times the music and sound effects seem way louder than the voices. A minor annoyance not always present...might be my TV audio settings too, who knows.Another annoyance is Season 1, Disc 1 plays 3 loud advertisements for Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, and Mork & Mindy at the very startup, and you aren't allowed to skip to the menu. You can FFWD/Skip, but I still find it obnoxious that they included that on the first disc and can't shortcut through it.

I always loved this show when I was younger and it still is great today. Nice set. The discs are divided well and labeled. They are only 'engraved' though so a little difficult to read unless in the right light.

For those of you who don’t want to take the time to read my whole review, here is a synopsis:-The box itself is very flimsy and not well made, but it will do the job if you’re careful.-Season 1-4 are in one plastic dvd case and Season 5-7 + the TV movies are in the other.-Total of 39 dvds housed in plastic, removable flip holders. Exercise caution, may break.-TV movie is on one disc that is simply affixed to the back of the Season 5-7 case with a sticky piece of mounting tape. It will probably come off and rattle around, so go get it a separate case for it and it house it separately.-All episodes are present and play, including episodes that some other people said they were missing or that would not play.-Quality is what you SHOULD except out of an old tv show. It is not HD. If you love Mac, then you will not care.Packaging:The box itself is not good quality. It is a very flimsy, foldable pop-up box (you could unfold it yourself). It is unlike my other boxed sets, one of which is just a plastic case and the others are thicker, actual cardboard boxes. This “box” could be ripped by hand. The corners of mine were already worn when it arrived from shipping, so be cautious. If you are careful with it, it should be fine. The designs on the outside are not good. It is a combination of episode screenshots, badly photoshopped pictures and explosions all on a background of a grid pattern and cityscape. The designs don’t really matter; what matters is the episodes themselves, but it would have been nice if CBS DVD could have come up with a better design featuring original images instead of bad photoshop jobs. The box measures about 4.1 inches (10.5 cm) across the spine, and about 5.5 inches (14 cm) across the front. It stands about 7 ¾ inches (19.5 cm) tall.The box contains two plastic dvd cases. The first one contains Season 1-4 and the second one contains Season 5-7 + the two TV movies. The case for Season 1-4 is still photoshopped promotional pictures on the front, and original promotional pictures and episode screenshots on the back. The use of random images of people hanging from planes, riding dirtbikes, swinging from vines, climbing mountains, etc., is odd. The case for Season 5-7 + the TV movies is more of the same: bad photoshop jobs, silhouettes of people performing “MacGyver-like” stunts, and original, unphotoshopped promotional pictures and episode screenshots on the back.Once opened, the cases contain plastic, removable flip holders. They are not attached to the spine of the cases. I would recommend caution when flipping through them as they seem like they could break relatively easily and I know some people have already said that theirs broke. Season 1-4 has six “wings” to the dvd holder, and Season 5-7 + TV movies has four. The dvds can be a little hard to get out, which is good in the way that hopefully they won’t just fall out, but it is bad in that you could risk damaging them while trying to get out one to watch. Just exercise caution.The inside of the slip cover has the season number followed by the names of the episodes, but there is no episode description or original airdate. There is no artwork on the inside of the slip cover minus a stock image of a cityscape running along the bottom. Season 1-4 contains 6 discs for Season 1 and 2, and 5 discs for Season 3 and 4; a total of 22 discs. Season 5-7 contains 6 discs for Season 5 and 6 and 4 discs for Season 7, and 1 disc for the TV movies; a total of 17 discs. All together that equals the correct number of 39 discs in total. The discs are simply grey with shiny letters for the titles.My main issue with the set came in the packaging of Season 5-7 + the TV Movies. The TV movies are on a separate disc by themselves in the Season 5-7 plastic case. A small dvd holder was stuck on the back by a small, round, sticky pad, similar to foam mounting tape. When my set arrived, the dvd holder had unattached itself and the disc was rattling around inside the packaging. I removed it as soon as I saw the issue, however the disc was already sticky from where it had bumped the sticky pad that it had been supposed to be attached to. It took me several hours to get the disc cleaned of all the sticky residue, but when I finally got it clean the disc did play fine. I put the TV movie disc into a cd holder, but I plan on buying a dvd case and housing it separately from the rest of the boxed set. I would highly recommend other buyers to do the same as the tape that is supposed to hold it will probably not do the job, and you would not want to risk the dvd getting scratched or damaged from rattling around in the case. If you don’t want to buy a separate dvd case, then I suggest you MacGyver something to protect that disc.DVDs:In Season 1, the first disc (Season 1 Disc1) originally had a misprint. It was labeled as the episodes from Season 5 Disc 1, but this misprint has been corrected. It now correctly displays “The Pilot, The Golden Triangle, Thief of Budapest, and The Gauntlet”, which are what is actually on the dvd. Some people said that their copies of this set did not contain the episodes “Harry’s Will” or “The Coltons”, or some people said that their set would not play the episodes on Season 6 Disc 2 (“Twenty Questions”, “The Wall”, “Lesson in Evil”, and “Harry’s Will”). This set DOES CONTAIN the episodes that some people said were missing or would not play. I have checked the dvds to make sure that the audio is in sync with the video (which it appears to be), and I can tell you that all the episodes are present and do play. They are all in the original aired order, except for Season 7 Disc 4, as The Stringer is listed as being the last aired episode, when The Mountain of Youth was actually the last aired episode. It aired on May 21, 1992 and The Stringer aired on April 25, 1992. There are no digital copies with this set, and there is no “Play All” button on the menu. The promotional ads on the front for Happy Days, Lavern and Shirley, etc., are skippable, but you cannot “jump” to the menu. You will have to use the skip button. The episodes are in 4:3 ratio. The menus are mostly made of digital graphics with promotional pictures for Season 1-4, then digital graphics with mostly episode screenshots and a few promotional pictures for Season 5-7. Nothing fancy. There is no bonus content, just closed captioning and the previews for other old tv show collections.DON’T EXPECT HD QUALITY. This is an 80’s show, so it is not going to be in “eye-popping” high definition that everyone thinks they must have nowadays. If you really love MacGyver, you won’t care. I will note, though, that they are a bit better quality than the reruns of MacGyver that are playing right now on my TV.Overall, this is a good set, minus flimsy packaging, terrible artistic designs, and bad housing for the TV movies disc. Hopefully this set should last me a good long while so that I can continue to watch MacGyver outthink the bad guys by coming up with ingenious ideas.

I AM A FAN OF BATMAN AN JUST AS BATMAN MACGYVER HAS NOT LET ME DOWN. I BELIEVE THAT IF U USE UR HEAD U CAN FIND A SOLUTION.

DVD'sThe DVD's are good (so far). There are some labeling issues that I uncovered, but I generally go by the Season/Disc number and not the titles on the individual disk. The series was very good, but also cut short. Still enjoyable to watch after all these years. Back when it was on, I only had 1 VCR and tapes were expensive so one had to be careful about what was recorded and what was skipped.Packaging: Not very good at allThere are 2 cases for the 7 seasons with the first case holding 4 seasons worth and the second case holding 3 seasons worth. The problem is that the plastic that holds each pair of disks is easy to break away just from flipping through the disks a few times. Over time this will only get worse. I am watching Season 3 now and two of the many tabs have broken loose.My fix for this was to order a 25 pack of 14mm clear plastic cases that hold 6 DVD's (see: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009XHO7LE?redirect=true&ref_=cm_cr_ryp_prd_ttl_sol_7) I plan on copying the cover art and making 4 sleeves (covers) for the first season with the seasons on the spine (being the only addition), and the same for the 2nd set. I'll keep the original ones around in case I sell the set down the road.I have enough extra boxes to fix a Matlock box set and a Renegade box set. I can also fix some other cases that have a broken disk tab but no places to put the DVD's in the sides of the case (Rockford Files Movies, 2nd Volume)