MacGyver | Discontinued with Bruce Campbell 

I bet MacGyver is responsible for the sale of millions of Swiss Army knifes back in the 80’s-90’s. I definitely got one because of the show.

The best references to MacGyver were in Stargate SG-1. The look on O'Neil's face every time it was mentioned... priceless.

I'm here for Bruce Campbell.

MacGyver became a verb, a concept to describe the act of getting stuff done with what you have around. Can't get greater than this.

I'm 22 years old and a MacGyver fanboy. About a decade ago, I was recommended the show by someone who thought it would be up my alley. I guess they were right because I watched the whole series when it was on Netflix. Back then, I thought MacGyver was the type of protagonist someone my age should look up to. He had a good heart and moral compass, was intelligent and educated, and he always tried to avoid violence, even when people were trying to kill him or his friends. Richard Dean Anderson was always a delightful screen presence and the show had a good cast of recurring characters, from loyal friend and boss Pete Thornton, the comedic and conning Jack Dalton, the lovable Penny Parker, and the villainous Murdoc. I watched the MacGyver reboot as well and while I liked it, it just didn't have the same magic. This is just a reminder: As long as we remember, some shows will never truly die.

MacGyver was a one man A-Team!

When I was a kid in the early 90's, I had an old TV with bunny ears antenna. When the antenna broke and could no longer pick up a signal, I "MacGyvered" my own antenna by linking together paper clips into a chain, stuck one end into the coaxial cable port and linked a wire clothes hanger to the other end, which I hung from the wall. Not only did it work, but it picked up a better signal than the bunny ears.

I watched McGyver as a child and Stargate SG1 in college. I always wanted to meet Richard Dean Anderson. I finally got the chance to meet him at Rhode Island Comic Con years ago. Funko Pop released his Mcgyver pop vinyl coincidently few months before. I got him to sign it and i paid to pose with him for a picture. He was super sweet person and i took a pic with him. We both hugged each other and took a pic together. I will always remember meeting him and talking to him about how McGyver got me interested in Science as a child. He was very sweet and listening to everyone that spoke to him. He did refuse to sign swiss army knifes as there was a sign that said he wont sign knifes. I am sure he gets asked that alot but doesnt do it for his safety. I am glad i took the bus to Rhode Island just to see him. This was before the pandemic so i am happy i didnt wait. I dont think he does Comic Cons anymore so im glad i didnt make any excuses and say to myself ill go next time. One of the best memories of my life.

I loved watching MacGyver as a kid, that, Airwolf and Knight Rider

You forgot to mention the action hero Bruce Campbell.

MacGyver reboot died with the “Ode to Fauci” ballad in 2020. A whole episode with toilet paper shortages and leaving a grocery order to wait for 3 days to disinfect. And I knew it was a series I couldn’t enjoy anymore.

this show taught me to think outside the box. When I would get in trouble for modifying one of my toys she would tell my dad I pulled a MacGyver LOL!

Richard Dean.. and you Bruce Much love😊 U both rock. Legend status!

I think the thing that I enjoy most about MacGyver in retrospect, is his non-lethal approach to his conflicts. Back in the 80s, heroes killing badguys was kind of standard operating procedures. Sure TV prohibited actually killing people, so shows like the A-Team would hit everwhere BUT the badguys, but we all know it was meant to be them killing the enemy combatants. They certainly weren't afraid of firing at other living people. But MacGyver had a very strict, no guns policy. And the fact that he found ways to use his brain, and be an INTELLIGENT hero, instead of just a gun toting hero, made for a much better rolemodel than most give him credit for.

And the show had a great theme as well. The one thing I still love out of MacGyver is he used science that was mostly accurate to get out of tight situations. Fascinating to this day.

Then he became Jack O'Neill in one of the greatest Sci-Fi series of all time.

Bruce looks great.

There was a joke back in my country (PH) wherein we asked people McGyver’s first name, and the answer was Menemis. The rationale behind it was every time McGyver introduces himself, he would say “My name is McGvyer”. So, we just connected “My name is” & made it sound like a one word name. 😅😅😅

The show came out in the best time, because I was in high school, and everything they taught came into practical use in the show!

The reboot was a fun show, but it forgot one of the key elements of MacGyver. The original MacGyver was well researched and occasionally had to dial it back because their DIY stuff really worked. The reboot was just another fluff piece that spewed stuff that really wasn't valid in order to make a presentation like every other show these days. Combine that with the shortened show-time in an hour these days and it really is just another cliff-note dime-a-dozen show using the name "Macgyver". The TV breaks between the add-space these days makes all these shows fluffed half hour 'Suggestions' of stories.

I miss Bruce on Zena. He was great. I miss Gabby too😢 😍

Victorinox Swiss Army knives were the biggest thing that stood the test of time out of that show. They were around for many decades prior. However, unless you served in the Military, or were a Scout, you would have not seen or known about them until MacGyver came out. They are still just as popular today and are probably the #1 most carried pocketknives in the World.

I miss episodic shows. Now everything has a long story arc and you have to watch 22 episodes to get through it.

You’ve entered the zeitgeist when your character name becomes a verb.

Never watched McGyver; but you show me Colonel O'Neil in the tumbnail and Ill click your video.

bruce campbell was reading a teleprompter and didn't mention how much of macgyver was also in burn notice, including the duct tape.

I loved Macgyver, specially when he beat up those Zoanoids, and defeated the Cronos corperation! But seriously, i loved Mac growing up, the episodes with Murdock were awesome, so cool that Fonz had a hand in creating another great role model. Never watched the remake, because: A) It's a remake, B) RDA is Mac, can't handle that role beeing played by some one else.. it also felt weird seeing Liam Neeson play Hannibal, it's not done.

Best line in a movie that has nothing to do with MacGyver is from 6 days 7 nights she Anne’s character asks “aren’t you one of those guys?” What guys?” “You know those guys that you can send into the forest with a paper clip and some bubblegum and they’ll build a shopping mall?” “No, I can’t do that.”

Because of MacGyver I never pay anybody to do work around my house.

I never missed an episode the best thank you Richard 👍

they must have had really good writers. favorite show from the 80's. absolutely legend.

Something not everyone knows about MacGyver is the fact that the very first episode was directed by the infamous "Alan Smithee". For those who do not know. Alan Smithee was the name a director could use whenever he/she was dissatisfied with the film or in this case TV series episode and did not want to be associated with it.

Loved watching MacGyver when I was a kid

hell yeah! always good to see Bruce doing his thing.

Cute video, but there are two things I wish had been included: 1) The fact that MacGyver's jury-rigged creations and solutions were all researched and verified (in other words, more scientifically accurate than not), and 2) The FLASH GORDON actor who portrayed the titular character is Sam J. Jones. What may have sounded like a cute "ha-ha" moment in the script was ultimately disrespectful. A LOT of fans watched and loved that movie, and Jones accomplished more with that role than most actors do with a lifetime of work behind them. He deserves to be more than a snarky back-handed punchline. Next time, give credit where it's due (or at least edit THIS video to put Jones' name onscreen).

That show was the reason I wore cargo pants through High School so I could always have a crushed roll of duckt tape on hand. My favorite memory was the episode when he asked for an uzi and his companion asked if he finally found a use for a gun. He goes, Yeah, and jams the receiver down on a fire hydrant to use as a wrench, also rendering it useless as a gun.

Richard Dean Anderson MacGyver never carried a gun, that's why he had to solve every dilemma with chewing gum and toothpicks. The "Young MacGyver" casually murdered a boat full of henchmen in the pilot episode. CBS didn't even know what they had before they blew it.

MacGyver trully the best , action / spy with morale.

I was 10 and I was obsessed. Inspired by this show, we made somewhat lame "stink bombs" with play-doh and mollasses in a cylindrical film case with a few batteries to provide the heat through it via a copper wire. Thanks Macgyver!!!!

MacGyver was the grand-father of the DIY Hero, but i'd argue Michael Westen perfected the craft. Burn Notice is the reigning king of "solve the problem right here, right now"

One of my fav tv series of all time, along with the A -Team. & don't forget his arch nemesis: Murdoc. Those were the times.

My favorite show when I was growing up and born in the 80s

The real Macgyver reboot was Burn Notice, I'm surprised they didn't mention it since Bruce is there

Famous phrase in that time my dad used to say MacGyver the hell out of it 😅

As a kid I was so obsessed with MacGyver that I even learned to do the clay over skull that he does on one episode to reconstruct an old skeleton on a house, with Teri Hatcher IIRC.

He was practically my afternoon "babysitter", it'd be on all the time. I've seen all the episodes so many repeats that I can practically walk through what he's about to do on a lot of the gadgets. Great show, was like Mr Wizard became an action series

I don't think there is a show which had influenced my daily life more than mcgyver: it and its signature character told us how with wit and knowledge anything can at least at your reach. Great lesson

Having Sam Axe talk about McGyver is a nice touch. Burn Notice was definitely the most worthy successor.

The original MacGyver was AWESOME and to this very day I reference him thanks to Richard. The new mcgyver was horrible and the worst remake.

2:06 I thought Henry Winkler only did thumbs up?! 😂🤣

I'll get you for this MacGyver!!!

I wish reboot would have had some non-agent episodes. With new MacGyver show every episode was spy stuff. Original MacGyver most of the episodes were more regular stuff like helping local folk against local criminals.

That “airplane out of bamboo” was really an ultralight aircraft, the Quicksilver MX, which came in a kit you put together. The company that made the kits had a cool name, EipperFormance. I made one back in 1981 and flew it around Phoenix. Really nice, stable airplane.

Soon as you pulled Bruce off screen I checked out

In West Point Cemetary there is buried a soldier who was a courageous, brilliant and wonderful young man. On his headstone is his nickname: Macgyver. Gone too soon.

That character is responsible for more STEM kids than Sagan and Hawking combined in the US. That may make the rest of the world shudder, but at the end of the day, does it matter your motivation so long as it's given? We don't balk at Superman when he's a Boy Scout. They teach us how to see the world in a better way. MacGyver was most certainly one of those characters.

"Macgyver: now that's a man!" Patty and Selma Bouvier

Don't know if it's nostalgia talking but the 80s had some cool AF shows! I loved MacGyver! And the A team! And knight Rider and so on :)

And movies after the show were fun too. Love it all. Best tv show ever-love even reboot show with Lucas. But Anderson was something really special

I was such a MacGyver fan as a kid in the 80s.

Love macguyver... Even more so since I found out we had the same first name!

I wish they would bring MacGyver back.

Lucas's MacGyver is one of the best 80s reboots, they got it ver close to how the original felt.

What I was really hoping for was old and new MacGyver to meet in the new show...

I like the hero that was a cowboy lawman who had a weird connection with a weird space orb. His two buddy are a bounty hunter and lawyer. 😂

When MacGyver was in the television people would close their stores to go and watch the show.

It does matter who played mac

Mcgyver single handedly created massive sales for the Swiss Army knives.

In Johannesburg in South Africa, back in the mid-80’s when MacGyver was at its height, young white girls (that was why it was reported) started disappearing. Then the sixth abducted girl turned up. She escaped because she watched MacGyver. According to her she thought ‘What would MacGyver do?” and she kept calm and used stuff she found where she was kept to escape. The abductors committed suicide before their arrest so nothing is known of their motives or what happened to the girls. But basically MacGyver saved this girl’s life and stopped more abductions.

The A Team started with the create something out of random spare parts. MacGuyver dropped the guns (that never killed anyone) & expanded on it to explain what he was doing.

"There is a time to be Daniel Boon and a time to be a plumber." - Macgyver

In the facility I worked, i had seen the episode about the chocolste bare seal an acid leak. Sure enough we had an acid leak in our facility and a chocolate bar! It worked! My forman was intrigued how I came up with this and I mentioned this TV show. Many of these experiments actually work! And since then created some of my own ideas off the cuff. People began nik naming me MacGyver.

SO you mean to say, he accepted reality and worked from there to solve stuff with materials at hand and real science (not those based on models), what a novelty.

"It's either deep-fried Thornton, or PANCAKE MACGYVER! Either way.....ONE of you gets to watch the other DIE!!" - MURDOC

Needed more Bruce....

Exactly what if meant to be awesome and inspiring to others. He made something out of nothing and it worked,

"MacGyver was just a paycheck." -Richard Dean Anderson

Theres a gag real for Stargate SG WHERE Carter and O'Niell were stuck with a stsr gate found under Antarctica. After awhile Carter was like YOU MEAN TOO TELL ME AFTER 30 YEARS ON MCGYVOR YOU CANT PUT DUCT TAPE AND WIRES TOGETHER AND JUST GET US OUT OF HERE?! 😂😂😂 It was funny as hell.

These „experts“ talking about the show🤷🏻‍♂️… who are they, what are they? Cut have been cut out 😅

Sorry, but I was hoping they can get more in the subject matter and actually tell us something interesting. This feels like someone skimmed wikipedia and gave us the briefest summary ever.

One of the most successful actors of all time. Not many people were the leads of two successful, cult classic, long-running television shows.

Between MacGyver and Stargate he an impression on lots of us. Its like the movies from back there is a spark that has been lost on modern day things with all the CGI

MacGyver was the real deal. He's the Batman who didn't have or need all those money and gadgets. He didn't even need martial arts. He put most super heroes to shame. But, why the hell you have to go and mention that "reboot". OMG!! Oh and FYI, MacGyver the original TV show had ZERO woke.

Charles Finley presents MacGyver 😁😂

Not to mention that you can use "MacGyver" as a verb, as in "to MacGyver something".

MacGyver, the anti gun nut everyone could love. He had no problem blowing stuff up.

“No… That’s breaking and entering”

Burn Notice was kinda like MacGyver but as a spy. maybe thats why i liked it?

the dude saved Merlin and himself from a lava pit/ trap door in England with a swiss army knife. I believe the wine cork to grip the trap door that held the weight of two grown adults. that show was just crazy enough to buy into. lol

This is giving me "I Love the 80's" vibes.

Never saw MacGuyver, I grew up on The A-Team.

I always got a. Big. Laugh out of when people would refer to some of my ways of doing things . As a MacGyver move ….

RDA hated the reboot of MacGyver, young McGyver wasnt a hit, it failed. RDA though, he became even bigger star with Stargate Sg-1 and the Stargate franchise. just few years after MacGyver ended.

had totally forgotten about that guy in Flash Gordon...

They forgot to mention the couple of episodes of Mythbusters that they dedicated to MacGyver.

God i loved that show. It was Doctor Who for semi-realists, in a way. I loved the Macguyver/Murdock dynamic too, very Sherlock/Moriarty or Doctor/Master.

Bruce himself needs to do another season of Evil Dead

Chuck Finley was a great character too

As a gun nut I always found it ironic that he didn't like guns but would happily make bombs that kill rather indiscriminately. When shooting a gun you can pick who gets shot most of the time, but with a bomb everyone is in danger of injury. The concussive effects of bombs are not well understood and the danger of internal injuries from shockwaves or brain trauma are not things that can be ignored either.

I so miss Macgyver