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September 23, 2016
- MacGyver is an American action-adventure television series developed by Peter M. Lenkov that ran on CBS from September 23, 2016 to April 30, 2021, comprising five seasons and 94 episodes.
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The series follows the adventures of Angus MacGyver, a secret agent armed with remarkable scientific resourcefulness to solve any problem out in the field using any materials at hand. The show ran for seven seasons on ABC in the United States and various other networks abroad from 1985 to 1992.
MacGyver: Created by Lee David Zlotoff. With Richard Dean Anderson, Dana Elcar, Bruce McGill, Robin Mossley. The adventures of a secret Agent armed with almost infinite scientific resourcefulness.
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The series was created by Lee David Zlotoff and executive produced by Henry Winkler and John Rich. It ran for seven seasons from September 29, 1985 to May 21, 1992 on the ABC network and filmed primarily in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Of the 139 one-hour episodes, three had two parts.
MacGyver's birthdate is first seen as January 23, 1951 [18] but was then revised in season 2 as March 23, 1952 [19] [20] (the date which continued to be used for the rest of the series). (However, in Series 6 Ep 12 Jerico Games, he looks at a high school yearbook, 1968, when he was supposedly 18.)
- THERE'S A "REAL" MACGYVER. (KIND OF.) After Lee David Zlotoff decided his protagonist would be armed with little more than a Swiss Army knife and a formidable intellect, he stumbled upon a gemologist at Caltech named John Koivula, who seemed to have experience in everything from physics to chemistry.
- HIS FIRST NAME WAS ORIGINALLY STACEY. The seventh (and final) season of MacGyver satisfied fan curiosity by revealing the character’s first name: Angus.
- HIS LAST NAME WAS INSPIRED BY MCDONALD'S. Zlotoff wanted a masculine-sounding name for the character and had intended to simply call him “Guy,” but friends convinced him that it didn’t sound too compelling.
- THE PILOT WAS SO BAD THE DIRECTOR HAD HIS NAME REMOVED. YouTube. Executive producer John Rich told the Archive of American Television that the pilot for MacGyver came in at a running time of 90 minutes—and it was awful.
Jan 5, 2019 · See how all the major events in MacGyver’s life fit together. 1952. March 23. Angus MacGyver is born to parents Ellen & James MacGyver. 1962. Dec 14. 10-year-old MacGyver’s grandmother (Celia Jackson) and father are killed in a car crash. 1963. MacGyver had his first drink at age 11, with his friend Freddie Maples.
MacGyver, starring Richard Dean Anderson, ran from 29th September 1985 to 21st May 1992 on ABC. There were 139 episodes over seven seasons and two TV movies. The series was rebooted in 2016, with Lucas Till in the title role. It lasted until 2021.
