Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE MacGyver was conceived as a nonviolent action-adventure hero. Faced with danger, his first reaction was always to stop for a moment and think. With a little imagination and whatever materials happened to be lying around, he applied common sense and/or basic principles of science to outwit his adversaries and keep his fans entertained for seven seasons.

This list of MacGyverisms has been compiled as a testament to the inventiveness of the program-makers in their commitment to showing the potential of the mind to triumph over brute force.