While serving in the L.A.P.D., he began delivering scripts for series like “Dragnet” and “Adam-12.” After retiring, he was a ...

Stephen Downing, left, with his son Michael Downing, right, who had just been appointed interim chief of the Los Angeles Police Department in 2009. Courtesy photo. Stephen Downing, who redefined when ...

Angus MacGyver 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).

A close friend of MacGyver is murdered. In searching for a reason for this assassination MacGyver discovers a secret nuclear weapons plant right in the center of Britain.