MacGyver - Angus "Mac" MacGyver is a survival expert and scientific prodigy seen on the adventure MACGYVER/ABC/1985-92.

MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) is single, 6' 2", 180 lbs. with medium brown hair. He graduated from Western Tech in Minnesota and then worked for the Department of External Services (ID: xc4479), and finally for the Phoenix Foundation.

"Mac" favors non-violent solutions to get himself and others out of deadly situations. Give him an everyday objects like a paperclip, rubber band, or a tube of toothpaste and he'll easily devise an escape plan.

MacGyver's principal employer is the Phoenix Foundation, a privately funded research institute which sends him on assignments around the globe. MacGyver reports to a bald, sometimes sour supervisor named Peter Thornton (Dana Elcar), the Director of Field Operations.