MacGyver

MacGyver This article is about the 1985–1992 series

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This article is about the 1985–1992 series. For the 2016 reboot of the same series, see MacGyver (2016 TV series). For other uses, see MacGyver (disambiguation).

MacGyver

Genre	Action Adventure Spy fiction
Created by	Lee David Zlotoff
Starring	Richard Dean Anderson Dana Elcar
Narrated by	Richard Dean Anderson
Theme music composer	Randy Edelman
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	7
No. of episodes	139 + 2 TV films (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Henry Winkler John Rich
Production location(s)	California, United States Vancouver and Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Running time	46–48 minutes
Production company(s)	Henry Winkler-John Rich Productions Paramount Network Television^[1]
Distributor	Paramount Domestic Television (1990–1991) CBS Television Distribution^[2]
Release
Original network	ABC^[1]
Audio format	Mono (Seasons 1–3) (TV) Stereo (Season 3) (DVD) Stereo (Seasons 4–7) (TV) and (DVD)
Original release	September 29, 1985 – May 21, 1992
Chronology
Related shows	MacGyver (2016)
External links
Website

MacGyver is an American action-adventure television series created by Lee David Zlotoff and starring Richard Dean Anderson as the title character. Henry Winkler and John Rich were the executive producers. The series follows the adventures of Angus MacGyver, a secret agent armed with remarkable scientific resourcefulness to solve almost any problem out in the field using mundane materials at hand.

The show ran for seven seasons on ABC in the United States and various other networks abroad from 1985 to 1992. The series was filmed in Los Angeles during seasons one, two and seven, and in Vancouver during seasons three through six. The show's final episode aired on April 25, 1992 on ABC (the network aired a previously unseen episode for the first time on May 21, 1992, but it was originally intended to air before the series finale).

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How 'MacGyver' became a verb

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How 'MacGyver' became a verb

The word "MacGyver" is now within the Oxford Dictionaries. Why features a television series that began within the 1980s made such an impression on the lexicon, asks Jon Kelly.

Fixed a broken door handle employing a coathanger? You totally MacGyvered it. Did you see your dad's windscreen wipers have dropped off? He MacGyvered them using adhesive tape and a elastic band .

There aren't many action-adventure TV dramas that make it into the dictionary, but MacGyver wasn't like other shows. It starred Richard Dean Anderson because the eponymous hero (first name: Angus) who escaped life-threatening situations by eschewing firearms in favor of improvised engineering skills and cobbled-together ingenuity. For instance, he might use a pair of binoculars to deflect a beam or fashion a smokescreen from bicarbonate of soda and vinegar (the MacGyver Wiki lists all the issues he solved in exhaustive detail). The show ran from 1987 to 1992 before settling into an afterlife on repeats channels like Bravo, though there has been talk about rebooting it with a female lead. But its influence persisted within the popular imagination, with the hero as a kind of be-mulleted Heath Robinson. A robot capable of making tools was christened the "MacGyver Bot". a contest to celebrate the ingenuity of female engineers was called "The Next MacGyver." the highest definition for "MacGyver" on Urban Dictionary, originally posted in 2003, runs thus: "Someone who can jump-start a truck with a cactus." The Oxford Dictionaries state that to "MacGyver" is to form or repair something "in an improvised or inventive way, making use of whatever items are at hand", eg "he MacGyvered a makeshift jack with a log". Danielle George, professor of frequency engineering at the University of Manchester, who delivered a 2014 Royal Institution Christmas lecture urging people to form things with common household objects, thinks it's unnecessary - the verb "to tinker" already describes attempting to enhance something during a casual way, she says. But she believes the addition may be a sign that "the public are repairing or repurposing objects in an ingenious way, which may be a stounding and is a positive statement in an apparently disposable society". Perhaps those re-runs are due another viewing.

How 'MacGyver' became a verb

MacGyver

MacGyver This article is about the 1985–1992 series

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How 'MacGyver' became a verb

How 'MacGyver' became a verb

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