Richard Dean Anderson
Richard Dean Anderson says events like Oz Comic Con in Brisbane help fund his passion for conservation, including via Sea Shepherd.
May 022016
Jan 172016
Richard Dean Anderson at Ottawa Comic-Con 2015
Sep 212015
Richard Dean Anderson of MacGyver and Stargate SG1 joins Clare Blake in the studio ahead of Oz Comic Con
Sep 202015
Richard Dean Anderson says events like Oz Comic Con in Brisbane help fund his passion for conservation, including via Sea Shepherd.
Sep 192015
He can build an aeroplane from duct tape and defuse a bomb with a paperclip, but when it comes to defusing female fans, that’s a whole different challenge.
Source: MacGyver heart-throb Richard Dean Anderson says his female fans are still explosive | HeraldSun
Nov 022014
Here are three recent interviews with Richard Dean Anderson recorded when he attended the recent conventions in Australia and New Zealand, judging from our twitter feeds the conventions were a major success especially for the Stargate fan. Many thanks to MacGyver Online, 0800 Tardis and David Farrier for sharing these videos, check out more of their work.
Mar 102013
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An interview with Richard Dean Anderson while he is down under, thanks to RDA’s own website and The Big Couch via MIX94.5 for the initial posting. We’ve been told Richard will also appear on Sunrise 7 the early morning Australian breakfast show around 8.20am on Monday 11th.
Dec 292012
Richard Dean Anderson guest stars in Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore a season seventeen episode of the animated comedy The Simpsons. He plays himself in a story which involves a Stargate SG1 convention in Springfield and the over enthusiastic attentions of two devoted MacGyver fans with the aid of some rope and a hammer. During the fun and games Mr Burns has outsourced the nuclear power plant to India and Homer as the sole union member who gets to retain his job is sent overseas to run the facility with some unexpected consequences.
The Simpsons is well known for making full use of it’s famous guest stars playing themselves and in this case spinning a Stargate and MacGyver tale around Richard Dean Anderson is inspired as it also pokes fun at the culture of fandom a few years before it really became well I guess mainstream and accepted in mass media. RDA has serious fun sending up his MacGyver persona the role which made him a global celebrity in the hit series. The second story in the episode follows Homer as he moves to India to run the outsourced nuclear power plant, a healthy dose of satire aimed squarely at the US and a few other societies that are pricing themselves out of manufacturing and maybe even seeing it as beneath them.
Next week should be the final bonus episode of this mini-break from dedicated Stargate episodes with a Burn Notice episode “Lesser Evil” featuring Michael Shanks as a guest star. We hope you’ve had a good christmas and we wish everyone a happy new year with special mention to those who celebrate other seasonal events, through the gate we are all one family.
Links…
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore IMDB
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore Wiki
- Richard Dean Anderson
- Harry Shearer
- Hank Azaria
- Yeardley Smith
- Nancy Cartwright
- Julie Kavner
- Dan Castellaneta
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Dec 222012
Welcome to the fifth bonus episode from Gatecast in which we are going to cover the Richard Dean Anderson series MacGyver. The format is pretty much the same as what we do for a standard episode of the show so it includes a commentary on the fifth season episode Live and Learn which has a familiar guest star in the shape of Christopher Judge. We’ve also included a little background information on both RDA and MacGyver but by no means are we experts and there is conflicting information on the web.
MacGyver premiered in the US in October 1985 on the ABC network and ran for 7 seasons with an additional 2 TV movies and became a world wide hit making RDA a global celebrity. Christopher Judge only made this one appearance on the show but if you go through the series credits you’ll see plenty of actors and crew that appear in this and the later Stargate shows.
Worship the Hair
This and maybe 2 more bonus episodes are going to be released over the holiday period in the hopes of first making sure for those that are interested in a little audio entertainment they have something from us but also to address the expected drop off in downloads of this holidays, it happens every year and we want to save the Stargate episodes for when everyone is back into the swing of things. Next week we’ll be doing a Simpsons episode which also features a guest appearance by RDA in and out of his MacGyver persona, join us and let us know what you think:)
Seasons Greetings, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Links…
- MacGyver IMDB
- MacGyver Wiki
- Richard Dean Anderson IMDB
- Richard Dean Anderson Wiki
- Richard Dean Anderson Website
- Live And Learn IMDB
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