Getting a TV/Macguyver

Over the weekend we picked up a TV and DVD player from a teacher who never uses them. I had been against buying a TV here because they are super expensive (new ones anyways) compared to the US, we aren't going to get great cable here (we get the feed from India) with shows I want to watch and we can watch DVDs on our laptops. Jimmy, on the other hand, was pushing for a TV so he can watch the trashy Bangla and Indian soap operas and movies. I am not real in to these, and I had heard NFL games, the real reason I would want cable, are unavailable. Cricket on TV doesnt do it for me.
Well, the price was right for this TV so we swung by and picked it up, along with the DVD player and about 25 DVDs.... including Macguyver the Complete Season 1. As we do not have cable hooked up yet, we have been watching TV shows on DVD (Arrested Development, Entourage on computer) and so turned to Macguyver. Previously I had only known of Richard Dean Anderson through the show's pervasive pop-culture references. On urbandictionary.com, Macguyver is listed as a verb: to use the limited resources at hand to improvise a solution to a seemingly impossible problem. It is largely in this vernacular capacity that I had known of the show.
After four gripping episodes, I have to say, this show is fantastic. Every show is a new problem, new uses for paper clips to stop cars, chocolate bars that stop the flow of acid, concentrated electronic pulses that cause airlock timers to count down extra fast allowing an escape from nuclear waste... just another day in the life.
I can't imagine liking this show when it first came out, but now it is so campy and over the top, and I am so intrigued by not knowing his first name! We got a brief flashback to Macguyver in a black turtle neck and black leather jacket riding a motorcycle to meet his girl, who drove at 1950s style black chevy truck, on "their" beach. The two break up because he is abandoning the small town and no longer finishing his degrees in physics and chemistry, "Crocodile Rock" floats in the background. I have no idea what time period they were trying to hit with that, a strange mix of the 50s, 60s, 70s.
Anyways, I am kind of dreading getting cable, I don't want to spend time in front of the TV here! However, it is super cheap and will be showing NFL playoff games (at 4am).