| Black Rhino | |
| Season 5, Episode 091 | |
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| Airdate | 13th November 1989 |
| Written by | Paul B. Margolis |
| Guest Stars | Cecilia Hart as Kate Hubley Cuba Gooding, Jr. as Billy Colton Roger Aaron Brown as Mabuto Kai Wulff as Ladysmith |
| Directed by | Michael Caffey |
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| Previous Episode Children of Light |
Next Episode The Ten Percent Solution |
Black Rhino is the 8th episode of Season 5 in the original version of MacGyver.
Summery[]
MacGyver trails a friend to Africa where he witnesses the cruel slaughter of the endangered Black Rhino. When he joins the activists hoping the prevent the poaching, Mac meets up with the man behind the scheme - Ladysmith.
Trivia[]
- At the end of the episode, aired in 1989, Richard Dean Anderson does a public service announcement saying that if the poaching isn't stopped, the black rhinos will be extinct by the year 2000. While the population numbers did indeed go down significantly in the following years, they started going back up before 2000 and by the year 2000 there were an estimated number between 1,000 and 1,300. The numbers have steadily gone up since then, though poaching has not stopped.
- A $40,000 mechanical rhino was used in this episode to simulate the injury to the rhino.
Cast[]
Richard Dean Anderson MacGyver
Dana Elcar Pete Thornton
Cecilia Hart Kate Hubley
Cuba Gooding Jr. Billy Colton
Roger Aaron Brown General Mabuto
Kai Wulff Ladysmith
Tony Todd Zimba
Alvin Sanders Diano
Tong Lung Chan