MacGyver is an American actionadventure tv series created by Lee David Zlotoff. Henry Winkler and John Rich are the executive producers. The show ran from 1985 to 1992 in the USA along with also different networks abroad for seven seasons on ABC. The series has been filmed in Los Angeles throughout seasons 1, 2 and 7, and at Vancouver throughout seasons 3--6. The final episode of the show aired on April 25, 1992, on ABC. Episode List Covert agent Angus MacGyver is followed by the show, performed by Richard Dean Anderson, who works at Los Angeles as a troubleshooter for its fictional Phoenix Foundation and as an agent to get a fictional United States government agency. Educated like a scientist, MacGyer functioned through the Viet Nam War as A-bomb Team Technician/EOD. Resourceful and owned of an encyclopedic understanding of the physical sciences, difficulties are solved by him with regular materials he sees at hand, along side his duct-tape along with Swiss Army knife. He prefers settlements and prefers not to handle a weapon, but will if needed.