Listener Favorites: Lee Zlotoff: The Making of MacGyver
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the podcast we speak with MacGyver creator Lee Zlotoff about the making of his hit TV show which has remained on the air across the world for 30 years, and using what he calls the MacGyver method to engage the enormous capabilities of your subconscious mind to bear on effective problem solving.
Lee David Zlotoff is an award-winning writer, producer and director of film and television. Among his more than one hundred hours of film and television credits, he was the creator/writer of the hit series “MacGyver” as well as the writer/director of the indie hit film “Spitfire Grill” which won the coveted Audience Award at the Sundance film festival, and which has also gone on to become a successful musical.
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