MacGyver is an
American adventure television series, produced in the
United States and
Canada, about the
laid-back, extremely resourceful
secret agent MacGyver, played by
Richard Dean Anderson.
The series revolved around MacGyver (known to his friends as MacGyver or "Mac") who favors brain over brawn in order to solve desperate problems. MacGyver's main asset is his practical application of scientific knowledge and inventive use of common itemsalong with his ever-present
Swiss Army knife. The clever solutions MacGyver implemented to seemingly intractable problemsoften in life-or-death situations requiring him to improvise complex devices in a matter of minuteswere a major attraction of the show, which was praised for generating interest in the applied sciences, and particularly engineering,
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