MacGyver

MacGyver was an American adventure television series about a laid-back, extremely resourceful ex-special forces secret agent named Angus "Mac" MacGyver, played by Richard Dean Anderson. The series was created by Lee David Zlotoff and executive produced by Henry Winkler. It ran from 29 September 1985 to May 1992 on the ABC network. It was filmed primarily in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Two made-for-TV movies were produced in 1994.

MacGyver's influence on culture

MacGyverisms

The spontaneous inventions have come to be nicknamed MacGyverisms and even led to the verb, 'to MacGyver' or 'to MacGyver-ize'. This word was used in Richard Dean Anderson's project, Stargate SG-1, in a postmodern moment in the first episode, when a character (then-Captain Samantha Carter) comments on the time and effort that had been required "to MacGyver" a replacement for the Stargate's long-lost control system. However, "MacGyverism" was used long before that, in, appropriately enough, a MacGyver episode. It was used by Joanne Remmings (played by Pamela Bowen) in the second-season episode #3 "Twice Stung", in which MacGyver must con a con man. (The episode title is a reference to The Sting, with Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and, strangely enough, Dana Elcar.)

Related Topics:
Stargate SG-1 - Stargate - Control system - Pamela Bowen - The Sting - Paul Newman - Robert Redford

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In the media

As of 2005, he is the subject of a hoax Presidential campaign, as a spin-off of a similar and popular hoax concerning actor Christopher Walken. The campaign started at the website MacGyver 2008.

Related Topics:
2005 - Hoax - Presidential - Campaign - Spin-off - Christopher Walken

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