MacGyver (1985)

The two major questions basically every episode of this action-adventure series consistently raised were a) "which little gimmick is he gonna use to get out of this situation?” and b) “what’s his first name?.” For 139 episodes, seven seasons, and almost seven years, we were allowed to wonder about the answers to those questions before MacGyver was finally cancelled in May 1992. In case there’s actually someone on this planet who’s never heard of it before here’s the basic outline: MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) is a very special secret agent who works for the “Phoenix Foundation.” What differentiates him from other people with the same profession is that he is a mild-mannered person who objects to the use of weapons whenever possible (and you’ll be surprised to see how many conflicts can be solved this way!). Instead he uses his immense knowledge of physics and chemistry to make valuable use of all kinds of materials no matter how useless they may seem. Among MacGyver’s occasional female sidekicks was the then very young Teri Hatcher, who appeared in six episodes as the chatty artist “Penny Parker.” Nowadays Teri is of course best known for showing a little bit of marginally trimmed beaver as well as an über-sexy pair of slightly saggy breasts in 1996’s Heaven’s Prisoners.