Angus MacGyver, known as just MacGyver or Mac until the final season of the American spy television series MacGyver, is the highly intelligent, optimistic action hero played by Richard Dean Anderson. He prefers non-violent conflict resolution wherever possible and refuses to carry or use a gun. MacGyver works as a problem solver for the fictional Phoenix Foundation in Los Angeles. Educated as a scientist and with a background from a fictional United States government agency, the Department of External Services (DXS), he is used as a resourceful secret agent able to solve a range of problems. In addition to his scientific knowledge and inventive use of common items, he always carries a Swiss Army knife and duct tape.
This is pretty amazing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MacGyver_episodes Here is the plotline from the pilot episode, which set the stage for our favorite American hero to do a lot of good with few precious resources. Opening gambit: On top of a vertical rock face encampment, MacGyver rescues a downed Air Force pilot in Central Asia from his Soviet captors. Contrary to his beliefs against using … more