MacGyver
MacGyver is an American action-adventure television series developed by Peter M. Lenkov that ran on CBS from September 23, 2016 to April 30, 2021. Starring Lucas Till as Angus "Mac" MacGyver, an undercover government agent who prefers to fight crime with ingenious feats of engineering rather than lethal force. It is a reboot of the ABC series of the same name created by Lee David Zlotoff, which aired from 1985 to 1992. The series In May 2020, CBS renewed the series for a fifth season which premiered on December 4, 2020.
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| Composer | Keith Power
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| Country of origin | United States
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| No. of seasons | 5
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| No. of episodes | 94 (list of episodes)
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| Original release | September 23, 2016 –
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- In March 2016, Lucas Till and George Eads were cast as MacGyver and Lincoln, Eads' character is a man who could easily be written off as an eccentric conspiracy theorist but is a legitimate government employee with great capability for compassion. In the original pilot, Joshua Boone, Addison Timlin and Michelle Krusiec were cast as Gunner, MacGyver's best friend from high school, Mickey, an app developer who is aggressively progressive in her political views, with a soft spot for MacGyver and Agent Croix, Lincoln's sister who works for the Department of Homeland Security. In June 2016, Till and Eads remain in the cast as MacGyver and Eads's character renamed to Jack Dalton.
- Justin Hires was cast after Rush Hour (2016) was canceled by CBS.
- At the beginning of every episode Mac makes a symbol out of a paper clip to represent the storyline of the episode.
- In February 2016, James Wan was originally hired to direct the pilot, but pulled out due of scheduling conflicts with The Conjuring 2 (2016) on it's post production at the time and was replaced by David Von Ancken. After the series got picked by by CBS in June 2016, the network scrapped the original pilot, with Wan to direct a new pilot episode.
- In Episode 7, "Can Opener", MacGyver goes to prison under the alias Frank Morris. In 1962 Frank Morris along with Clarence and John Anglin escaped from Alcatraz in quite possibly the only successful prison break ever recorded.
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