The show follows 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 (DXS).
The show follows secret agent Angus MacGyver, played by Richard Dean Anderson, who works as a troubleshooter for the fictional Phoenix Foundation in Los Angeles. MacGyver was educated as a scientist, served as a Bomb Team Technician/EOD in Vietnam ("Countdown"), and worked for a fictional United States government agency, the Department of External Services (DXS).