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We liked the voice overs, but it also got to the point that the scheduling problem for Richard [Dean Anderson] became near impossible. He'd work twelve hours on the set and then have to come into the sound studio to record them to picture. It became both a scheduling nightmare and a major fatigue factor for our star. Unlike many shows on television, Mac was in most every scene we shot, and he never had a day off when the company was shooting.

Staying within budget on a big action show is always a major difficulty. It was squared rooted with MacGyver because we had the MacGyverisms to come up with for every show, the rigging and science to make them work and then the fact that the show had both Great Scope and Small Detail, which makes budgeting, 2nd unit photography and insert photographic a very expensive proposition to deal with.

I wrote on weekends. I would come home on Friday and write a full script over the weekend. My wife would deliver it (to the producers) Monday morning. My police department job, though, always came first and the producers always honored this.

Jack wrote the pilot for 'Adam-12,' and after he finished the episode I told him, 'I can do that.'