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MacGyver (1985-1992)

MacGyver was an American action-adventure television series created by Lee David Zlotoff.  The show ran for seven seasons from 1985 to 1992. The show follows the exploits of secret agent Angus MacGyver, played by Richard Dean Anderson, who works as a troubleshooter for the fictional Phoenix Foundation in Los Angeles and as an agent for a fictional United States government agency, the Department of External Services. MacGyver solves complex problems by making things out of ordinary objects, along with his ever-present Swiss Army knife. He favors non-violent resolutions and prefers not to handle a gun. The clever solutions MacGyver implemented to seemingly unsolvable problems‍, often in life-or-death situations, requiring him to improvise complex devices in a matter of minutes‍.

 

Cast 

Richard Dean Anderson as Angus MacGyver, secret agent

Dana Elcar as Pete Thornton, MacGyver's boss and best friend

Bruce McGill as Jack Dalton, MacGyver's comical best friend

Michael Des Barres as Murdoc, MacGyver's most frequent opponent

Season 1: September 29, 1985 to May 7, 1986

Season 2: September 22, 1986 to May 4, 1987

Season 3: September 21, 1987 to May 9, 1988

Season 4: October 31, 1988 to May 15, 1989

Season 5: September 18, 1989 to April 30, 1990

Season 6: September 17, 1990 to May 6, 1991

Season 7: September 16, 1991 to May 21, 1992

Death Of A Citizen by Donald Hamilton

 My contribution for the month of December for the Crimes Of The Century over at Past Offences will the first Matt Helm adventure, Death Of A Citizen. Rich hosts this monthly event  that features a different year in which us bloggers contributes a post about crime fiction book, film, TV, comics, or a short story. This month we are in 1960.

Death Of A Citizen

by Donald Hamilton

When danger strikes, who is the man to take control? 

Matt Helm!

 

Name: Matthew Helm

Code Name: Eric

A citizen dies and a wartime special agent is reborn, as the girl with the code name of Tina walks into a cocktail party and 15 years of Matt Helm's complacent post-war life slips away. Suddenly the old automatics reactions take over and Matt is thrust back to the time when he had been a lethal young animal trained to kill. And she had been his partner.

After the war. After the carnage. After being labeled a lethal weapon. It was time for a little peace and quiet. Married life agrees with him.

Cover by John McDermott

  Printing History

written by Donald Hamilton (1916-2006)

Fawcett Gold Medal World Library

February 1960

Ballantine Books

November 1984

March 1988