:MacGyver (1985 TV series)

The show follows secret agent Angus MacGyver, played by Richard Dean Anderson, who works as a troubleshooter for the fictional Phoenix Foundation in Los Angeles and as an agent for a fictional United States government agency, the Department of External Services (DXS). Educated as a scientist in Physics at Western Tech ("Hell Week"), MacGyver served in the U.S. Army Special Forces as a Bomb Team Technician/EOD during the Vietnam War ("Countdown"). Resourceful and possessing an encyclopedic knowledge of the physical sciences, he solves complex problems by making things out of ordinary objects, along with his ever-present Swiss Army knife, duct tape, and occasionally matches. He favors non-violent resolutions and prefers not to handle firearms due to the accidental shooting death of one of his friends when he was 12.

His main asset is his practical application of scientific knowledge and inventive use of common items. The clever solutions MacGyver implemented to seemingly unsolvable problems{{nsmdns}}often in life-or-death situations requiring him to improvise complex devices in a matter of minutes{{nsmdns}}were a major attraction of the show, which helped generate interest in the applied sciences, including engineering,{{cite journal|journal= Design News|page= 50|author= Design News Staff|date =December 18, 2001|title= Engineers making a difference; Five engineers find the time to teach kids that engineering is cool}}{{Cite news |last=Curtis |first=Tim |date=2015-02-26 |title='Next MacGyver' aims to attract female engineers |pages=5 |work=The Star-Democrat |agency=Capital News Service |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123353103/next-macgyver-aims-to-attract-female/ |access-date=2023-04-22 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=April 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230422232350/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123353103/next-macgyver-aims-to-attract-female/ |url-status=live }} and for providing entertaining storylines. All of MacGyver's exploits on the show were ostensibly vetted by consulting scientists for the show's writers to ensure a basis on scientific principles.{{Cite news |last=Michals |first=Bob |date=1985-12-15 |title=MacGyver: TV's Unsung Hero |pages=221 |work=The Palm Beach Post |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123354140/macgyver-tvs-unsung-hero-pg1/ |access-date=2023-04-22 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=April 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230422235327/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123354140/macgyver-tvs-unsung-hero-pg1/ |url-status=live }} In the few cases where MacGyver used household chemicals to mix poisons, explosives or other items deemed too dangerous to be accurately described to the public, details were altered or left vague or an essential component or step was omitted.

The show often dealt with social issues,{{Cite news |last=Hughes |first=Mike |date=1990-11-12 |title=MacGyver explores new territory |pages=18 |work=Press and Sun-Bulletin |agency=Gannett News Service |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123354696/macgyver-explores-new-territory/ |access-date=2023-04-22 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=April 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230423001725/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123354696/macgyver-explores-new-territory/ |url-status=live }} though more so in seasons 4–7 than 1–3, which were mostly about MacGyver's adventures working for the United States government and later for the Phoenix Foundation.

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Several episodes, including the pilot, begin with a cold open, finding MacGyver already on a mission. MacGyver often narrates a story from his childhood relating to his current situation. He resolves this situation quickly, and the main story commences after the opening credits. The credits refer to such an opening sequence as the "Opening Gambit"{{nsmdns}}it occurs far more commonly in earlier episodes than in later ones. This segment is often written and directed by a different team than the main story of the episode. After the credits, the main story plays out in standard three-act structure. In many episodes, the opening sequence occurs after the opening credits and often does not involve MacGyver on a mission but rather in a situation used for character development. In the same manner as the "Opening Gambit" sequences, these opening segments often do not directly relate to the main story.

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{{see also|Organizations in MacGyver{{!}}Organizations in MacGyver}}

• Richard Dean Anderson as Angus MacGyver, a secret agent who prefers not to carry or use a firearm, due to a childhood accident with a revolver that resulted in the death of a friend.{{cite episode| title=Brothers | series=MacGyver | network = American Broadcasting Company | season = 4 | number = 2}} However, MacGyver is willing to use an acquired gun, its parts, or its bullets in non-standard ways, such as a substitute for a wrench. There are three exceptions when he uses a gun for its original intended purpose: in the pilot episode, MacGyver is seen firing an AK-47 on a mission in the opening gambit (7:51 into the episode); he holds two kidnappers at gunpoint in the opening scene of episode 10, season one;{{cite episode| title=Target MacGyver | series= MacGyver | network = American Broadcasting Company | season = 1 | number = 10}} and, is seen using a gun in the TV movie Trail to Doomsday. He is often suspicious of militaristic attitudes within the government; he sees the Los Angeles-based Phoenix Foundation, his employer, as an alternative to more conventional (and violent) means of law enforcement.{{cite book |author=Pieter Jacobus Fourie |title=Media Studies: Content, audiences, and production |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OLiS7_vqB2EC&q=macGyver+production&pg=PA173 |isbn=978-0-7021-5656-4 |date=April 28, 2004 |publisher=Juta and Company |access-date=November 16, 2020 |archive-date=April 26, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230426180837/https://books.google.com/books?id=OLiS7_vqB2EC&q=macGyver+production&pg=PA173 |url-status=live }}
• Dana Elcar as Pete Thornton, MacGyver's boss and best friend. He was an operative at the Department of External Services (DXS), which is where he is impressed by Mac's ingenuity while tracking down Murdoc (Michael Des Barres), an international assassin and master of disguise. When Thornton becomes director of operations at the Phoenix Foundation several years later, he brings MacGyver into the program. In addition to sending Mac out on various tasks for the foundation, Thornton is many times forced to bail MacGyver out of the trouble he gets into, while at the same time being clueless and lacking street-smarts while In the field. Thornton has a son named Michael. Late in the show, it is learned that Pete has glaucoma, an element written in because of Elcar developing glaucoma in real life. Dana Elcar is first cast in the pilot episode as Andy Colson, the Chief of Operations at the KIVA Laboratories.{{cite web|url=http://www.macgyveronline.com/pages/andy_colson.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140919122954/http://www.macgyveronline.com/pages/andy_colson.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 19, 2014 |title=MacGyver Online: Andy Colson |access-date=May 18, 2016 }}
• Bruce McGill as Jack Dalton, MacGyver's comical best friend. He is a soldier of fortune/bush pilot who periodically gets everyone into a heap of trouble with various get rich quick schemes out of which only MacGyver can rescue them. His left eye twitches when he is lying. Dalton often attempts to romance the women he is introduced to.

While creating the series MacGyver, John Rich was working on the sitcom Mr. Sunshine for ABC, which was short-lived and cancelled quickly. Henry Winkler had just finished off his eleven-year run on Happy Days and was looking for another project. Lee David Zlotoff was working as a producer for Remington Steele, which was airing on NBC. The three got together to form the basis for MacGyver and sold the idea to Paramount, and ABC became interested in the series. Vin DiBona, the producer of America's Funniest Videos, was also in the mix during early production of the show.

{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYWxEvwwkno|title=Vin Di Bona discusses working with Henry Winkler on MacGyver - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG|via=www.youtube.com|access-date=November 23, 2022|archive-date=November 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221123203403/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYWxEvwwkno|url-status=live}}

The series was filmed in Southern California for its first two seasons and again in its final season. From seasons 3 to 6, it was filmed in various locations around Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada.{{cite web |author=Canadaka |title=TV Series Filmed in Canada |url=http://www.canadaka.net/content/page/127-tv-series-filmed-in-canada |work=Canadaka.net |access-date=April 25, 2009 |archive-date=August 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805073515/http://www.canadaka.net/content/page/127-tv-series-filmed-in-canada |url-status=live }} Los Angeles remained as the setting of the show for the entire duration. The move to Vancouver was due to the threat of the series being cancelled due to the high production cost. In seasons 1 and 2, MacGyver was portrayed living in a waterfront apartment in Venice Beach. In season 3, he moved onto a houseboat at an unspecified location, though implied still to be in Los Angeles (the actual shooting took place at Coal Harbour, near downtown Vancouver). Filming returned to Los Angeles for the final season.{{cite web|url=http://www.macgyveronline.com/pages/locations.html|title=MacGyver Online: Filming Locations|access-date=December 2, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018141428/http://www.macgyveronline.com/pages/locations.html|archive-date=October 18, 2017|url-status=dead}}{{unreliable source?|date=January 2022}}

When the series was in pre-production, Winkler and Rich were looking for a suitable actor for the lead. After Richard Dean Anderson's appearance in the American television series The Love Boat, Winkler got Anderson to audition for the part.{{cite web |last=Brady |first=James |title=In Step With Richard Dean Anderson |url=http://www.rdanderson.com/archives/98-12-27.htm |date=December 27, 1998 |publisher=Parade Magazine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927080959/http://www.rdanderson.com/archives/98-12-27.htm |archive-date=September 27, 2011 |access-date=May 18, 2016}} According to Rich, every auditioning actor "hulked" his way through his audition. When Anderson eventually auditioned for the role, Winkler and Rich felt that he gave the character a human touch which the other actors could not.{{Cite news |last=Michals |first=Bob |date=1985-12-15 |title=MacGyver: TV's Unsung Hero |pages=222 |work=The Palm Beach Post |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123354039/macgyver-tvs-unsung-hero/ |access-date=2023-04-22 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=April 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230422235322/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/123354039/macgyver-tvs-unsung-hero/ |url-status=live }} Both believed that Anderson would become one of the new "breakout" stars on American television.{{cite book|author=John Rich|title=Warm Up the Snake|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CIW4EVwj1egC&q=macGyver+richard%20dean%20anderson&pg=PA157|access-date=May 14, 2009|publisher=University of Michigan Press|isbn=978-0-472-11578-5|date=October 2006|archive-date=April 26, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230426180858/https://books.google.com/books?id=CIW4EVwj1egC&q=macGyver+richard%20dean%20anderson&pg=PA157|url-status=live}}

Anderson is known for having done many of the stunts in the series, though in later seasons he reduced his participation because of accumulating injuries. He injured his back and required foot surgery because of accidents working as a stuntman.{{cite web|last1=Greenstein |first1=Lindsay |last2=Giles |first2=Laura |last3=Bogdan |first3=Alex |title=Kidsday: Talking with Richard Dean Anderson |url=http://www.rdanderson.com/archives/90-02-04.htm |date=February 4, 1990 |publisher=Newsday |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927081005/http://www.rdanderson.com/archives/90-02-04.htm |archive-date=September 27, 2011 |access-date=May 18, 2016}}

After a slow start in its first season, MacGyver became a sleeper hit for ABC in its second season, during which it began a six-year run as the lead-in to ABC's Monday Night Football (the longest such run in history).{{cite web |author=Suzanne Stevens |title=In a fix? Call MacGyver, not the average Joe who plays him |url=https://www.macgyveronline.com/articles/in-a-fix-call-macgyver-not-the-average-joe-who-plays-him/ |date=January 19, 1987 |publisher=People Weekly |access-date=May 14, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203185156/https://www.macgyveronline.com/articles/in-a-fix-call-macgyver-not-the-average-joe-who-plays-him/ |archive-date=December 3, 2019 |url-status=dead }} During the show's fourth season, Richard Dean Anderson complained that ABC was not marketing the series enough. Saying that the series is "just another action show" for ABC, he further stated that ABC didn't give the series enough promotion.{{cite web |author=David Walstad |title=Series gets no respect, star says; Richard Dean Anderson faces his fourth season as MacGyver |url=https://www.macgyveronline.com/articles/richard-dean-anderson-faces-his-fourth-season-as-macgyver/ |date=July 24, 1988 |publisher=The Philadelphia Inquirer |access-date=May 14, 2009 |archive-date=May 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200513193346/https://www.macgyveronline.com/articles/richard-dean-anderson-faces-his-fourth-season-as-macgyver/ |url-status=live }}

MacGyver's seventh season was abbreviated. After the twelfth episode of the season aired on December 30, 1991, MacGyver disappeared from the ABC schedule and did not return until April 25, 1992, by which point the series had been canceled. The finale aired that night, with a previously unaired episode following on May 21, 1992. When asked why the series was canceled, Anderson replied: "The only reason it went off the air was that everybody was ready to move on. I was physically exhausted and had no life."{{cite web |author=Mark Nollinger |title=Ice Man |url=http://rdanderson.com/archives/1997-07-05.htm |work=TV Guide |date=July 15, 1997 |access-date=May 14, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180907162250/http://rdanderson.com/archives/1997-07-05.htm |archive-date=September 7, 2018 |url-status=dead }}

In 1994, the series was released in over 70 different worldwide markets. Because of popular demand, two TV-movies were created, both released in 1994. The first movie MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis premiered in the United States in May. The film was shot in England and Greece. The second movie was entitled MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday, and shot in England. Anderson served as executive producer for both films,{{cite web |first=Susan |last=King |title=Richard Dean Anderson producing Macsequels |url=http://www.rdanderson.com/archives/94-05-08.htm |date=May 8, 1994 |work=The Los Angeles Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927081143/http://www.rdanderson.com/archives/94-05-08.htm |archive-date=September 27, 2011 |access-date=May 18, 2016}} which were filmed in Europe.{{cite news|first=Jerry |last=Buck |title=A New Image for MacGyver |url=http://www.rdanderson.com/archives/92-12-14.htm |date=December 14, 1992 |publisher=The Wichita Eagle |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927081155/http://www.rdanderson.com/archives/92-12-14.htm |archive-date=September 27, 2011 |access-date=May 18, 2011}}

Reruns of the series still air in North America, Europe, Australia, Asia, Costa Rica and Ethiopia. Alongside local syndication, reruns aired on the USA Network from 1990 to 1997, on WGN America from 1998 to 2002, on TV Land from January 2003 to 2006, on Spike for a brief time in 2005. It is formerly aired on Cloo (2011–2017) with marathon blocks shown on the weekends and on May 13, 2015, Esquire Network started airing reruns of the series. MeTV Network had acquired the rights to air the series as of December 2, 2015. It aired weekday afternoons & weeknights on MeTV from 12/19/16-5/26/17.{{cite web|url=http://woio.titantv.com|title=TitanTV Programming Guide|website=woio.titantv.com|access-date=June 1, 2022|archive-date=August 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810090111/http://woio.titantv.com/|url-status=dead}}

On June 15, 2010, Paramount released the two TV movies on DVD in Region{{nbsp}}1 in a separate single-disc release entitled MacGyver – The TV Movies.{{cite web |url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/MacGyver-The-TV-Movies/13505 |title=MacGyver DVD news: Date Change for MacGyver – The TV Movies |publisher=TVShowsOnDVD.com |access-date=February 25, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110916024956/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/MacGyver-The-TV-Movies/13505 |archive-date=September 16, 2011 |df=mdy-all}}

On January 13, 2015, CBS Home Entertainment announced they would release a repackaged version of the complete series set on DVD in Region{{nbsp}}1, at a lower price, on April 7.{{cite web|url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/MacGyver-The-Complete-Series/20648|title=Paramount to Re-Release 'The Complete Collection' on DVD|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170418144029/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/MacGyver-The-Complete-Series/20648|archive-date=April 18, 2017|df=mdy-all}}

In June 2018, CBS announced that the original camera negatives, thought to be lost, had been located and a high definition remaster of the series was underway. The June 21 press release confirmed that the first three seasons had been completed, with the remaining four to be remastered before the end of 2018. The press release also included a teaser showcasing the notable improvement in quality.{{Cite web|url=https://www.home.viacbscontent.com/news-press-details/the-original-macgyver-hd-remastered/|title=The Original MACGYVER - HD Remastered!|website=www.home.viacbscontent.com|access-date=June 4, 2020|archive-date=June 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604084031/https://www.home.viacbscontent.com/news-press-details/the-original-macgyver-hd-remastered/|url-status=live}}

{{See also|List of awards and nominations received by MacGyver{{!}}List of awards and nominations received by MacGyver|MacGyver in popular culture{{!}}MacGyver in popular culture}}

The series is referenced in episodes of The Simpsons, primarily detailing the obsession Marge Simpson's sisters (Patty and Selma) have with the show and their crush on the MacGyver character. The sisters' regular viewing of the show is an unalterable element of their daily schedule to the point of death as demonstrated in the episode "Black Widower". The episode featured a fictional scene of MacGyver where he downplays his role in saving a village. ("Don't thank me. Thank the moon's gravitational pull."){{cite episode |title=A Star Is Burns |episode-link=A Star Is Burns |series=The Simpsons |series-link=The Simpsons |airdate=1995-03-05 |season=6 |number=18}}

In the first episode of Anderson's later show, Stargate SG-1, Amanda Tapping ad-libbed that the Air Force had to "MacGyver" a Dial Home Device for the Stargate,{{Cite web |last=Johnson |first=Allan |date=July 26, 1997 |title='Stargate': New Challenge for 'MacGyver' Star |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-07-27-9707270340-story.html |access-date=2023-03-28 |website=Chicago Tribune |archive-date=March 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328010042/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-07-27-9707270340-story.html |url-status=live }} and a split-second shot following this shows Anderson "flashing an understated wry smile" in response;{{Cite news |last=Bianculli |first=David |date=1997-07-24 |title=Stargate SG1 is less than stellar |pages=118 |work=Daily News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/121813910/stargate-sg1-is-less-than-stellar/ |access-date=2023-03-28 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=March 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328163104/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/121813910/stargate-sg1-is-less-than-stellar/ |url-status=live }} the producers, including Anderson, "loved it" and Anderson later stated "I thought it was brilliant". (However, this line was removed when this episode was re-released in 2009.){{cite web|title=Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods – Final Cut review|url=http://www.reviewstream.com/reviews/?p=99007|publisher=ReviewStream.com|access-date=April 12, 2012|archive-date=February 9, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140209123007/http://www.reviewstream.com/reviews/?p=99007|url-status=live}}

In 2006, Anderson appeared in a MasterCard television commercial for Super Bowl XL. In it, he manages to cut the ropes binding him to a chair using a pine tree air freshener, uses an ordinary tube sock as the pulley for a zip-line, and somehow repairs and hot-wires a nonfunctional truck using a paper clip, ballpoint pen, rubber band, tweezers, nasal spray, and a turkey baster. In contrast to previous MasterCard commercials showing people making extravagant purchases to accomplish some mundane task, MacGyver is portrayed as escaping from some sort of deathtrap using less than $20 worth of common household items. The commercial ends by showing him purposefully buying an assortment of such things at a department store with his credit card (as a tongue-in-cheek explanation for how he seems to always have items he needs on hand no matter where he goes). Although the commercial implies that Anderson is portraying MacGyver, he is not identified.{{cite web|url=http://www.tow.com/2006/02/05/macgyver-mastercard-commercial/|title=MacGyver MasterCard Commercial|publisher=Tow.com|date=December 20, 2010|access-date=December 20, 2010|archive-date=April 30, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430115746/http://www.tow.com/2006/02/05/macgyver-mastercard-commercial/|url-status=live}}

In an August 2007 survey commissioned by the McCormick Tribune Foundation, Americans polled voted MacGyver as the favorite fictional hero they would want to have if they were ever caught in an emergency.{{cite web | title= MacGyver is favorite disaster hero | url= https://www.smh.com.au/news/tv--radio/macgyver-trumps-jack-bauer/2007/09/13/1189276851582.html | work= The Sydney Morning Herald | date= September 13, 2007 | access-date= September 13, 2007 | archive-date= September 19, 2007 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070919213843/http://www.smh.com.au/news/tv--radio/macgyver-trumps-jack-bauer/2007/09/13/1189276851582.html | url-status= live }}

In 2008, the phrase "What would MacGyver do?" was used in a New Zealand television commercial for Gregg's "freestyle cooking" range of herbs and spices. The commercial featured the word MacGyver unfolding like a puzzle with a potato peeler and chopping knife opening out like the blades of a Swiss Army knife.[http://www.macgyveronline.com/pages/wwmd.html MacGyver Online web site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018140743/http://www.macgyveronline.com/pages/wwmd.html |date=October 18, 2017}} has this commercial to watch online

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MacGyver employs his resourcefulness and his science, technology, and outdoorsmanship technology, and sportsmanship to resolve what are often life-or-death crises. He creates inventions from simple items to solve these problems, relying on only a Swiss Army knife and duct tape, instead of high-tech weapons and equipment like typical secret-agent show characters. These inventions became synonymous with the character and were called MacGyverisms by fans.Britton, Wesley, Spy Television, Praeger/Greenwood, {{ISBN|0-275-98163-0}}, p. 212.Rich, John, 2006, Warm Up the Snake: A Hollywood Memoir, {{ISBN|0-472-11578-2}}, p. 167. The writers of the show based the inventions on ideas from scientific advisers, real events, items found on-location, and ideas submitted by fans in a contest with prize money. MacGyverism was first said on the show by the character Joanne Remmings in "Twice Stung" (season 2, episode 3).

MacGyverism led to the verb to MacGyver. In 1989, Richard Dean Anderson discussed this term on The Arsenio Hall Show; Hall had heard it used to mean 'to do the impossible', and suggested it belonged in a dictionary.[http://www.macgyveronline.com/pages/video11.html Arsenio Hall interview of Richard Dean Anderson] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100817091700/http://www.macgyveronline.com/pages/video11.html |date=August 17, 2010 }}. The Arsenio Hall Show. 1989. MacGyver Online. accessed July 30, 2011. MacGyver entered the Oxford Dictionaries website in 2015 as a verb meaning "make or repair (an object) in an improvised or inventive way, making use of whatever items are at hand".{{cite web |url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/macgyver |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822220510/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/macgyver |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 22, 2017 |title=MacGyver |work=Oxford Dictionaries }}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34075407|title=How 'MacGyver' became a verb|date=August 27, 2015|work=BBC|access-date=July 20, 2018|archive-date=November 29, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171129041330/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34075407|url-status=live}}

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Jared Padalecki was part of a failed pilot for a MacGyver show.{{cite web | url=https://screenrant.com/young-macgyver-supernatural-jared-padelecki-failed-show/ | title=Supernatural Star Jared Padalecki's Failed Young MacGyver Spinoff Explained | website=Screen Rant | date=May 2, 2021 }}

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In October 2015, the original series' executive producer, Henry Winkler, signed on to produce a reboot series with James Wan and R. Scott Gemmill for CBS.{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2015/10/macgyver-series-remake-cbs-james-wan-henry-winkler-1201566340/|title='MacGyver' Series Remake Set At CBS, James Wan & Henry Winkler Producing|first1=Nellie|last1=Andreeva|date=October 2, 2015|access-date=June 4, 2020|archive-date=June 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604084030/https://deadline.com/2015/10/macgyver-series-remake-cbs-james-wan-henry-winkler-1201566340/|url-status=live}} The following May, the network picked up the series, with co-creator/exec producer Peter Lenkov to serve as showrunner,{{cite web |last=Andreeva |first=Nellie |date=May 13, 2016 |title='Training Day', 'Bull', 'MacGyver', 'The Great Indoors', Matt LeBlanc Comedy & Jason Katims Drama Picked Up By CBS |url=https://deadline.com/2016/05/training-day-bull-macgyver-the-great-indoors-matt-leblanc-jason-katims-cbs-series-1201755376/ |publisher=Deadline |access-date=May 13, 2016 |archive-date=March 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327123108/https://deadline.com/2016/05/training-day-bull-macgyver-the-great-indoors-matt-leblanc-jason-katims-cbs-series-1201755376/ |url-status=live }} and indicated that the new series would air later that year.{{cite web|url=https://tvline.com/2016/05/18/macgyver-trailer-cbs-fall-video/|title=MacGyver: CBS Unveils Trailer for Upcoming Reboot of '80s Series|publisher=TV Line|last=Iannucci|first=Rebecca|date=May 18, 2016|access-date=May 20, 2016|archive-date=May 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160520164415/http://tvline.com/2016/05/18/macgyver-trailer-cbs-fall-video/|url-status=live}} That June, however, the network scrapped the pilot episode and ordered a new pilot be directed by Wan with Till and Eads remaining in the cast. Justin Hires was cast as Wilt Bozer, MacGyver's roommate.{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/james-wan-direct-cbs-rebooted-903740|title=James Wan to Direct CBS' Rebooted 'MacGyver' Pilot|publisher=The Hollywood Reporter|last=Goldberg|first=Lesley|date=June 16, 2016|access-date=February 18, 2020|archive-date=November 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116035745/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/james-wan-direct-cbs-rebooted-903740|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2016/06/macgyver-rush-hour-justin-hires-cast-cbs-series-reboot-1201771878/|title='MacGyver': 'Rush Hour's Justin Hires Cast In CBS Series Reboot|publisher=Deadline|last=Andreeva|first=Nellie|date=June 13, 2016|access-date=February 18, 2020|archive-date=June 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612163311/https://deadline.com/2016/06/macgyver-rush-hour-justin-hires-cast-cbs-series-reboot-1201771878/|url-status=live}} In June, Variety reported that Sandrine Holt was cast as Patricia Thornton, an ex-field agent who is now director of operations for the Department of External Services,{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2016/tv/news/macgyver-casts-sandrine-holt-as-series-regular-1201815294/|title='MacGyver' Casts Sandrine Holt as Series Regular|publisher=Variety|last=Prudom|first=Laura|date=July 15, 2016|access-date=December 11, 2017|archive-date=June 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612143421/https://variety.com/2016/tv/news/macgyver-casts-sandrine-holt-as-series-regular-1201815294/|url-status=live}} and that Tristin Mays was cast as Riley Davis, a highly unpredictable computer hacker with a chip on her shoulder.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2016/tv/news/macgyver-tristan-mays-cast-cbs-1201824668/|title=Tristin Mays Joins 'MacGyver' Completing Cast of CBS Reboot|work=Variety|last=Wagmeister|first=Elizabeth|date=July 27, 2016|access-date=December 11, 2017|archive-date=August 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180828034645/https://variety.com/2016/tv/news/macgyver-tristan-mays-cast-cbs-1201824668/|url-status=live}}

The rebooted show ran until 2021, when it was cancelled.

A 3D puzzle game based on the TV series titled MacGyver: Deadly Descent was released on iOS and Android.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pocketgamer.com/articles/059629/macgyver-deadly-descent-walkthrough-for-ios-and-android-laser-quest-puzzles/|title=MacGyver: Deadly Descent walkthrough for iOS and Android - Laser Quest puzzles|first=Mark|last=Brown|website=www.pocketgamer.com|date=May 22, 2014 |access-date=May 2, 2020|archive-date=October 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191006215916/https://www.pocketgamer.com/articles/059629/macgyver-deadly-descent-walkthrough-for-ios-and-android-laser-quest-puzzles/|url-status=live}}

Anderson reprised his role as MacGyver in September 2012 in a new series of short films, created by Mercedes-Benz for the launch of their new MPV Citan in Europe.{{cite web |url=https://www.cinemablend.com/television/MacGyver-Gets-Comeback-Mercedes-Benz-Web-Episodes-45879.html |title=MacGyver Gets A Comeback In Mercedes-Benz Web Episodes |last=Kasperowicz |first=Leslie |work=Cinema Blend |date=August 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160518190114/http://www.cinemablend.com/television/MacGyver-Gets-Comeback-Mercedes-Benz-Web-Episodes-45879.html |archive-date=May 18, 2016 |url-status=live |access-date=May 18, 2016}}{{cite web |url=http://media.daimler.com/dcmedia/0-921-656174-1-1521664-1-0-1-0-0-1-13457-656174-0-1-0-0-0-0-0.html |title=MacGyver and the new Citan: every hero needs a strong partner |publisher=Daimler AG |location=Stuttgart |date=August 14, 2012 |access-date=May 18, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019170310/http://media.daimler.com/dcmedia/0-921-656174-1-1521664-1-0-1-0-0-1-13457-656174-0-1-0-0-0-0-0.html |archive-date=October 19, 2013 |url-status=dead }}

The comic book was very well received around the world with the first issue selling out within the first two weeks{{cite web |url=http://macgyveronline.com/news/macgyver-comic-sells-out-in-less-than-2-weeks |title=MacGyver comic sells out in less than 2 weeks |work=MacGyver Online |date=October 31, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130801045300/http://macgyveronline.com/news/macgyver-comic-sells-out-in-less-than-2-weeks |archive-date=August 1, 2013 |access-date=May 18, 2016}} and received mostly favorable reviews through major comic book sites. However, the series' lead author, Tony Lee, confirmed in September 2014 that the series in total did not sell well enough to warrant a second series.{{cite web|title=No more comics planned|url=http://www.macgyveronline.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=7955|publisher=MacGyver Online Forums|access-date=April 1, 2015|archive-date=May 25, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150525023357/http://www.macgyveronline.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=7955|url-status=live}}

Macgyver: Meltdown is an audiobook on Audible. Published 8-8-2022 the audio is 12 hours and 36 minutes, and involves Macgyver trying to find a billionaire thief who has skills similar to Macgyver's own.

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