How do you think we spent our weekend mornings, when our parents where still asleep and A-Team just finished?

I'm actually older than 30, but we didn't have a TV in the house when MacGyver aired, I've never seen an actual episode of the show

MacGyver is referenced all the time, to the point where I imagine most people pick it up from context clues, even if they've never seen the original show

He's the one that travels through space (and sometimes time) through superconducting rings, right?

As a 23 year old: of course! As a kid I used to put seasons of MacGyver on my christmas list. Though to be honest I think I saw Richard Dean Anderson as Colonel O'Neill long before I saw him as MacGyver!

To this day my favorite MacGyverism is bypassing a fuse by wrapping it with tinfoil.

I used that trick once to see if a vintage Pioneer AV receiver with a spent fusible link was worth keeping. I wrapped the link in a gum wrapper and it worked perfectly.

The birth of that show was surprising : http://macgyverglobal.com/2012/11/05/macgyver-the-real-origi...

part 2: http://macgyverglobal.com/2012/12/11/macgyver-the-real-origi... (3 and 4: just click "next" after 2 and 3)

part 5: http://macgyverglobal.com/2013/03/20/macgyver-the-real-origi...

I know who he is, but only because Richard Dean Anderson played in SG1.