Me. Totally. My older sister would give me crap for doing it. I had the doll, the rocket/operating table thing, maskatron. I still have the lunchbox. When I was a kid I covered it with Star Wars stickers because Star Wars instantaneously supplanted the 6 mil man as the coolest thing in the world the day I saw it. The lunchbox cleaned up real nice though and now it looks great.
I must have been about 7 years old and one School break time we were playing "Bionic Man" ...my friend found the flat head of a drawing pin on the playground floor and put it in his ear , instant bionic ear ! 20 minutes later ,a teacher has to take him ,crying his eyes out to the hospital to get it removed from his ear 😂
That statement is so true and probably a big reason I love video games still at 54. This series and The Bionic woman were my iconic TV shows as a kid :)
No, Jonathan, you are not trapped in the past. Rather you are an adult who’s a kid at heart sharing a past childhood with other adults who remember and are also kids at heart. We thank you!
Boys don't play with dolls exccept for the Ken doll and GI Joe doll, who mysteriously got a pass. Barbie and GI Jane were lesbians who bearded for Ken and GI Joe. they all used to smoke weed and drop acid in the Magic Garden while hanging out with the Do Bee on a Romper Room field trip.
Richard Anderson (Oscar Goldman) and Martin Brooks (Dr. Rudy Wells) stand as probably the only actors to portray the same characters on two different shows on two different networks at the same time--"Six Million Dollar Man" on ABC and "The Bionic Woman" on NBC, in the final 1977-78 season of both series.
Richard wondered if the show would do well till his kids came home from school & told him "We had a great day dad , everyone ran round the playground in slow motion"!
This was a very good show back in the 1970s. My sister wouldn't watch it until the Bionic Woman came out and that was her show. I remember joining the 6 million dollar fan club and getting the book and sticker in the mail. When I lived in Los Angeles years ago, I went to the Bionic Con that was held over by the hotel next to the Burbank Airport. It was really cool to meet the stars from the show there. Lee Majors never showed up and everyone there was ticked at him for that. But it was great to see them and also the actors from Buck Rogers.
I can attest to Andre the Giant's gentleness. I had the pleasure of meeting him at the Albuquerque airport with my dad back in the mid 70's when I was about 7 years old. Him and my dad talked for several minutes, but then he bent down and shook my hand. It was an absolutely great moment and I was his biggest fan after that.
Dude, you ain't kidding about how popular this was! Thank you for the well done look back at the show, and though I was aware of the novel, I had no idea there were sequels. Good to know!
I often wonder what sort of a guy Lee Majors was. On one hand I've heard stories that he was something of a diva/jerk during Six Million's run. That he blew a gasket when he heard how much Lindsay Wagner made, that he kind of killed the show in its last season when he refused to return without a huge raise, and that in general he became arrogant and aloof to the crew after the show became a hit. On the other hand he seems like one of the most gracious, humble, down-to-earth men ever in interviews. And sure he may just be playing the part of a humble gracious man for the interviews - but if that's the case he sure does a great job of it. William Shatner does his best to sell the pretense he's a cool, down-to-earth guy in interviews - but it's obvious he's extremely self-oriented and superficial, and hard to notice he never, ever talks about anything but himself. Every single interview I've ever seen with Majors he has more praise for the people he's worked with than himself - and he always comes across as genuinely supportive and decent. I've heard him say that although Six Million was his most popular show - it was also his least favorite and very long and boring work for him. Maybe he just didn't like working on the show?
It’s funny how as a kid, I never really thought about the fact that if Steve was really running 60 mph, his clothes would have been pinned back against his body and rippling and his hair would have been pinned back. Even the skin on his face would be rippling. All this would be very noticeable in slow motion. I can’t imagine why it never registered, since I would commonly stick my arm out of the window of the car when we would take long drives in the country. Anytime we hung our head our of the windows, our hair would be whipping back, yet Steve would never have a hair blow out of place. It wasn’t until I was a bit older that I also realized that running at 60 mph wouldn’t be that great since any trip or even a slip on a banana peel would break every bone in your body that wasn’t bionic. Then my love of bionics was further dashed when I realized that much of the heavy lifting Steve did is actually done with our back and the heavy stress would be on the point the bionic limb was attached to his flesh and bone. That would be the weak spot. I think it was when I was watching reruns several years later that I saw Steve stop a huge I-beam from crushing some potential victim by standing directly under the falling beam and raising that awesome bionic arm, blocking it with his forearm and the beam easily bent, like a pretzel, around that powerful bionic limb. Then I thought, hmmm.., it seems that would have compressed his flesh and bone from Steve’s arm right into his legs. Steve would just be an arm sticking up out of the two legs and his body just squashed in between. I did really enjoy this show as a kid. Just that one arm and two legs seem to make him invincible. Thankfully, Steve never wiped out while running through the forest at 60+ mph, nor caught a low limb, because at that speed, he’d have been just a spray of red paint on a tree. It’s a lot easier to enjoy stuff as a kid because we are not too analytical yet. Too bad we have to grow up and accept reality.
I don’t know what you’re talking about? I see no problem with an obese senior citizen using flying reindeer to deliver toys and packages to every house in the world within 24 hours. Don’t you try to tell me Santa can’t be true…
I ask that same question to a kid in school in 74 I was 9 , and he totally explained that his body could not keep up with the bionics , I'm sure that kid went on to do great things ! Nevertheless that show will always be my best childhood memory.......
David Frederick FrontRow ABSOLUTELY A FACTUAL STATEMENT RIGHT THERE! I remember it very well. All of a sudden Bigfoot was everywhere. Movies, books, IN Search of television show. You name it.
I was 6 yrs old when The Six Million Dollar Man started the series in 1974. Absolutely loved this show. Had the action figure as well. There were some great TV shows back in the 70's. Dukes of Hazzard, Bionic Woman, The Hulk, Welcome Back Carter, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, MASH, Carol Burnett Show, Sonny & Cher Show, Donny & Marrie Ozmund Show, Three's Company, The Barney Miller Show, FISH, Bob Newhart, All In The Family, What's Happenin, Sanford & Son, The Jeffersons, The Partridge Family, The Brady Bunch, Hee Haw, Love American Style, American Band Stand, The Soul Train, etc....etc....and you cant forget the Classics of Saturday Night live in the 70's and all those cool ass game show's from the 70's..... Awe Nostalgia! Thanks for the reminder of just how freaking awesome the 70's were! Respect from Florida... 😎 🇺🇸
I still have the action figure somewhere and the engine. I had the rocket ship that turned into a lab but I don't know what happened to that. This tv show easily had the best intro of any in history.
I haven't watched all of your videos but this is the most passionate you've been for the subject matter so far. Also bonus points for the picture with your lovely massive cat! 0:32
They should have done more with Steve and the $7 million Man. The two fought only twice, and we never got to see them work together during a secret mission. Would have loved that.
we all are big kids trapped in the past...when we were kids, we were dreaming about the future and now we are living in that future, we only dream about going back to this nostalgic past.
I was just too young to catch 'The Six Million Dollar Man' originally - I wasn't born until '78. I did catch odd dregs of repeat episodes on BBC One here in the UK and naturally I loved it, but unlike other classic shows of the era, it never seemed to receive much of a full repeat run back then; and as such "doing" the whole series boxset has been on my 'to do' list for a couple of years now. There's been multiple rumours of a movie update 'The Six Billion Dollar Man', to allow for inflation, but although it would be very interesting to see what a modern take on the material in today's computer-driven world would be like, I have a feeling, with the huge technological advances since the days the TV show was made, as well as the natural usually poor TV-series-to-film success rate, it would come out as something totally different; another case maybe of "just leave well alone and let us remember the classic".
That's interesting, I didn't know they repeated it on BBC . I watched it first time around , always thought it was on ITV because of the comic strip in "Look In" . However believe it or not ,I used to watch repeats on S4C early 80:s ; I discovered my Mum's little b&w TV in her bedroom could be tuned to the Welsh channel 4 , and there it was !
@@shaunw9270 Yes believe it or not odds and ends of episodes were shown on BBC One in a weekday afternoon slot in 1990 ('Starsky & Hutch' received similar treatment, similarly jumping across seasons and often edited.) Those portable b&w TVs - in the days long before TVs were so common place or could even watch it live on phones - were a luxury, I was lucky enough to have an old hand-me-down one in my bedroom and on it would often be able to see series I loved ('The A-Team', 'Knight Rider', etc.) on adjoining regions where they were shown in different timeslots or had a later repeat showing. Although in one sense it was frustrating as I couldn't see it "properly" in my region, on hindsight there was also something magic about it, these programmes coming over the distance all fuzzy. ...I'm sounding old now!
Still my all-time favorite show. The series aired the day after my tenth birthday. I was a proud member of the Six Million Dollar Man Bionic Action Club, which included, of course, having the action figure. I still hum the theme quite often, and do my imitations of the various sound effects. My favorite episode was where he had to fight the robot played by John Saxon.
It is a fact that he was not getting paid some merchandising and particularly the doll that bared his likeness so he figured he just grow the mustache that he doesn't look like the doll it was basically the same thing Leonard Nimoy from Star Trek was going through it was also one of the sticking points that had to be resolved before he would even look at the script for this first Star Trek movie
I was completely enveloped by this show as a young boy. I was 4 when this came out. One memory sticks with me to this day. My father had just installed a brand new screen door on our sliding living room door. He had just finished installing it and was cleaning up his tools on the patio. All he hear is a young 6yr old. Nah, Nah, Nah, as he jump through and ruins the brand new screen door he had just installed. It was so clean I couldn't see it was closed. I looked back to see this torn ragged hole the size of myself and quivered at the thought of the beating I was about to receive. My dad just looked at me disgustingly and said some really naughty words and walked straight to our shop on the farm. We laugh about it to this day.
Loved The Six Million Dollar Man. Had a big impact on me as a kid in the 70s Had the doll wish I had kept him. Recently bought season 1 on DVD and still enjoy it. American action shows of the 70s were simply unbeatable and leave a permanent nostalgic influence on all us 70s kids. Great Vid thank you.🙂
To say I loved this show is a major understatement. I had the action figure, the rocket which flipped into an operating table and maskatron with 3 different faces! As a kid, I ran everywhere in slow motion. Nowadays, I still run in slow motion though for slightly different reasons!
Jonathan, this was a delight to watch. We are watching both series now with my 13-year old son and daughter and they love it. We actually got to meet Lee and Lindsay last weekend and my kids were over the moon. So was my inner 12 year old.
I recently found my Steve Austin doll in my parent 's house, I gave the dolls to my daughters, they don't really care as they don't even know the show. I really enjoyed this show. I 've got my Oscar doll, and Maskatron, the rocket was really great and I guess that all boys borned between 1966 - 67 and 1978 really do remember the Six Million dollar Man.
thanks for the video. takes me back to my childhood when the 6MDM and Bionic Woman were my favorite tv shows, along with Wonder Woman. didn't really fancy the Hulk because he was nothing compared the comic book Hulk. wish i still had my Steve Austin action figure.
Opening dialog: it looks good at Nasa One roger BCS arm switch is on ok Victor landing rocket arm switch is on, here comes the throttle, circuit breaker's in we have separation - Steve Austin roger inboard and outboards are on we're coming forward with the side stick all looks good aah roger i've got a blowout, damper (number) three - Steve Austin get your pitch to zero pitch is out! I can't hold altitude! - Steve Austin correction, alpha hold is off, trim selector is emergency flight comm I can't hold it! she's breakin' up! she's break - Steve Austin Steve Austin, astronaut, a man barely alive - Harve Bennett Season 1 - Oscar Goldman: We can rebuild him We have the technology We can make him better than he was better, stronger, faster Season 2,3,4,5 - Oscar Goldman: Gentlmen, we can rebuild him We have the technology We have the capability to make the worlds first bionic man Steve Austin, will be that man better than he was before better, stronger, faster
I remember my "giant" 6 Million Dollar Man doll with the bionic arm and peephole "bionic" eye. They turned me on to the whole cyberpunk "enhanced" idea. The Mars Rover episodes are still crystal clear to me, including the sound it made. :)
GREAT series! Absolutely loved it as a kid. In the 90s, there was a collectible card game called _Shadowfist._ One of the cards in the game is the "$10,000 Dollar Man". The flavour text on the card is as follows: "We don't have the technology, but what the heck, let's try and rebuild him anyway." XD
Lee Majors became a household name in France because of the series. The show was translated in French as "The Man who was worth 3 Billion". Somewhat inflationary! "The Bionic Woman" also did well. I remember watching both as a kid in the late 70s.
Growing up our house was in a spot where we couldn't pick up the local ABC channel. I could only listen to the other kids talk about this show in school. I did finally get to see a few episodes when spending the night at friends' houses.
I remember the show. I was in middle and high school during the time. The show was entertaining and fun ! :-) [ at the time .. ya gotta remember the context ].
Wow, memories! I loved the bionic duo in the 70s, and yes, I had the six million dollar man lunch pail, and the doll with the laboratory/rocket. I even asked my parents for a red track suit and red Addidas.
The "real life" Steve Austin was really test pilot Bruce Peterson & the lifting body that crashed during the opening credits to The Six Million Man was a Northrop M2-F2, not an HL-10.
Loved that tv show. I had the toy, did slow motion action fights with my brother, even did a stop motion animation with a 8mm camera using the toy(wish I still had that).
I have recently gotten into the bionic man and woman and love it as much now as I did when it first came out. Lee Majors and Lindsay Wagner were simply the best. I could never want anyone else to play those parts they were great! Thanks for putting this up.... check out the Internet Archive for the Six Million Dollar Man almost the whole series is available for streaming.....Barbara Lang
I used to run around the backyard making those bionic sound effects. My favourite toy was the crystal radio doll but I never got it for my birthday. Instead my parents got me an orange Adidas track suit with black stripes which was like getting a Steve Austin suit. I wore it everywhere
I loved this show as a kid. I had the figure too, and like you, I also bought a replacement off eBay. I'm currently rewatching both it and The Bionic Woman. I didn't realize seeing it as a kid, but as a cost cutting/time saving measure, season one of The Bionic Woman actually reused a season one script from The Six Million Dollar Man. The episodes are virtually identical down to the story beats, but with minor character changes. It's actually kind of hilarious seeing them as an adult. 😀
This was my Favourite show, I came in for a drink of water and the pilot episode was in full swing as soon as I saw him break out of his chains , that was it I didn’t go back out ! I spent my whole childhood running in slow mo and pretending to jump my stair case in a single bound !
Superb. Did anyone else have the record (vinyl) that told the story of Bionic Man at an Army facility? I probably listened to this from 1978 to 1982 ( I was born in 74).
In the novel, Steve never had a bionic eye implanted. The author, Martin Caidin, wrote that we didn't know exactly how the human eye works, so Steve couldn't get his sight back in that eye. Instead, they replaced his eye with a miniature still camera, with the shutter release in his temple. Also in the book, Steve had a small compressed air tank in his leg, that enabled him to breathe underwater for extended periods, through a tube that he was able to pull from his leg. A few interesting differences between the novel and the pilot movie and series. 😊
Awesome series loved it back in the day. If it was made nowadays it would be called the six million dollar person, or the six million dollar non binary it.
And his bionic arm is damaged by the Venus probe. Dr Rudy Wells does a temporary fix on it, and it fails again when he tries to lift the Venus probe with a helicopter. BEST EPISODE of the SMDM.
Awesome....i loved the Six Million Dollar Man & the Bionic Woman series....they were some of my favorite series to watch....wish i had some of the toys back then, but I wasn't able to get them, didn't have much to spend on them, my family was struggling just to keep food on the table.. .Never cared for the Soap Operas.....LOL....I'm a Science Gal instead & this helped me choose a different career in life than the norm of my time era......Thanks for sharing....HIGH 5 to all who made this a must see TV show & my one thing to watch.....I will never out grow it....thank you
I was a huge fan when it first aired, looking back that 6 million dollar price tag was an unimaginable amount in 1974, today the lobbyists pitching the program to congress would make more than 6 million
When we were little we moved to a place where you had to have cable to see TV and we couldn't afford that so no kidding, zero tv for three years (BOY have I made up for it since then LOL), and when we got tv back in early 79 all the great shows three years earlier were either now off the air or soon were. The 60s did the same thing, HUGE shows like Batman, The Addams Family, The Munsters, and Star Trek all burned out in less than three years. Rocket to the top and rocket to the ground in those 2 decades. The 80s slowed it all way down to let shows go on past their prime or were shoved off the schedule prematurely. That 80s legacy remains with shows going on too long (Arrow Universe) and others being whisked away too soon (Timeless, Firefly).
What a great retrospective on easily my favorite childhood series. I had both action figures even Jamie Sommers and the robot villian and recently bought both series collection on DVD :)
Coming up on 50, and I still make the bloody sounds! I do hope they make a newer film, but keep the authenticity of the original. The movie industry has some many new effects and such they could use :)
I grew up in the 80's and this show was before my time but this is one of my all time favorite shows. I grew up watching the reruns and loved them, I still watch it on the weekends on cozi tv. This show in my personal opinion was ahead of its time and inspired a lot of ideas for other storylines and movies. I had heard about the six million dollar man movie starring Mark Wahlberg as well and was pretty excited about it. I'm not sure why they are having production delays or why it is on hold. I also watched Lee Majors in the fall guy and that was pretty cool but no where near as cool as the six million dollar man. The seven million dollar man was one of my favorite episodes. It's fun to look back and see all these unknown celebrities that starred in the show before they became famous. Carl Weather's, John Delancy, ( "Q" in star trek the next generation) and I'm pretty sure Dennis Quaid played a stockboy/cashier in an episode, just to name a few. George Takei and William Shatner were each in an episode. Some Star trek fans like myself will enjoy that. Lol
Thank you. It was my favorite show forever and I also had an action figure (Lord only knows what happened to it). I didn't realize that Andre the Giant played Bigfoot (in two episodes, according to IMDb); I remembered Ted Cassidy.
Who as a kid during the 70s didn't pretend to fight in slow motion while trying to emulate those sound effects?
Me. I had the action figure and the lunch box.
Me. Totally. My older sister would give me crap for doing it. I had the doll, the rocket/operating table thing, maskatron. I still have the lunchbox. When I was a kid I covered it with Star Wars stickers because Star Wars instantaneously supplanted the 6 mil man as the coolest thing in the world the day I saw it. The lunchbox cleaned up real nice though and now it looks great.
I Damn sure did! The running in slow motion, making the "dotototo, dotototo" sound when pretending to use see with the bionic eye. Great show!!
@@denniscampbell7501 Man, so many "dotototo, dotototo" memories.
I must have been about 7 years old and one School break time we were playing "Bionic Man" ...my friend found the flat head of a drawing pin on the playground floor and put it in his ear , instant bionic ear ! 20 minutes later ,a teacher has to take him ,crying his eyes out to the hospital to get it removed from his ear 😂
This show still has one of the coolest opening credits. The voice over, the music, the cool graphics for the time.
Yes, and also the beeping synthesizer sounds, the tight editing of the jet crash and how the music builds as he runs super fast
THEE singular greatest opening sequence of all time.
I actually run in slow motion ,now im 51
Is it the Bionic knee slowing you down? :D
@Mr Zeus I'm actually an avid parkrunner! I just wish I could run 60 mph.
@@pjgathergood6987 yeah it was made in China I believe.
@@pjgathergood6987 Is it the mailman messing around?
My kids think I’m corny for making the bionic sound when we wrestle. Then when I showed them TSMDM online they get it😊
I’m 52 years old and I still enjoy running in slow motion in my own backyard!
"I'm just a big kid who's trapped in the past." Preach, brother! :-)
Came to say the same thing.
That statement is so true and probably a big reason I love video games still at 54. This series and The Bionic woman were my iconic TV shows as a kid :)
No, Jonathan, you are not trapped in the past. Rather you are an adult who’s a kid at heart sharing a past childhood with other adults who remember and are also kids at heart. We thank you!
"Steve Austin doll"? You mean ACTION FIGURE! ;)
I had the Steve Austin action figure , which my Dad called a doll . He didn't like boys playing with dolls ; he worried it would "turn" boys lol 🤭
RIGHT!!!
Boys don't play with dolls exccept for the Ken doll and GI Joe doll, who mysteriously got a pass. Barbie and GI Jane were lesbians who bearded for Ken and GI Joe. they all used to smoke weed and drop acid in the Magic Garden while hanging out with the Do Bee on a Romper Room field trip.
Dolls for boys is a thing ! Lol
That's RIGHT!
This makes me happy.
Now 51, this brings back many fun memories. Had the action figure. Good times.
Richard Anderson (Oscar Goldman) and Martin Brooks (Dr. Rudy Wells) stand as probably the only actors to portray the same characters on two different shows on two different networks at the same time--"Six Million Dollar Man" on ABC and "The Bionic Woman" on NBC, in the final 1977-78 season of both series.
Richard wondered if the show would do well till his kids came home from school & told him "We had a great day dad , everyone ran round the playground in slow motion"!
As a kid I loved this show “Hollywood please leave this classic alone it need no additional shows or movies “ 👍🏾
This was a very good show back in the 1970s. My sister wouldn't watch it until the Bionic Woman came out and that was her show. I remember joining the 6 million dollar fan club and getting the book and sticker in the mail. When I lived in Los Angeles years ago, I went to the Bionic Con that was held over by the hotel next to the Burbank Airport. It was really cool to meet the stars from the show there. Lee Majors never showed up and everyone there was ticked at him for that. But it was great to see them and also the actors from Buck Rogers.
When was there a Bionic Con???
Back before you had cable. You had 3 channels.
4, if you count PBS, which was mostly junk
Eight, in NYC, if you counted 13 and 21, and Uncle Floyd on Channel 68. We had cable in 1975.
I loved this show! I have had the chance to meet Lee Majors and he autographed my DVD set of the show!
The background music for Bigfoot gave me chills at 9yrs old. Who else??
I loved this show as a kid!
I can attest to Andre the Giant's gentleness. I had the pleasure of meeting him at the Albuquerque airport with my dad back in the mid 70's when I was about 7 years old. Him and my dad talked for several minutes, but then he bent down and shook my hand. It was an absolutely great moment and I was his biggest fan after that.
Death Probe and Bigfoot used to scare the crap out of me. I loved the fact that Steve and my Dad were born in the same year. Both heroes to me.
They scared me too. They recently showed both The Six Million Dollar Man and The Fall Guy on weekend series on the Decades Network.
Bigfoot was scary but I remember being so happy when he and Steve became friends.
Dude, you ain't kidding about how popular this was! Thank you for the well done look back at the show, and though I was aware of the novel, I had no idea there were sequels. Good to know!
I often wonder what sort of a guy Lee Majors was. On one hand I've heard stories that he was something of a diva/jerk during Six Million's run. That he blew a gasket when he heard how much Lindsay Wagner made, that he kind of killed the show in its last season when he refused to return without a huge raise, and that in general he became arrogant and aloof to the crew after the show became a hit. On the other hand he seems like one of the most gracious, humble, down-to-earth men ever in interviews. And sure he may just be playing the part of a humble gracious man for the interviews - but if that's the case he sure does a great job of it. William Shatner does his best to sell the pretense he's a cool, down-to-earth guy in interviews - but it's obvious he's extremely self-oriented and superficial, and hard to notice he never, ever talks about anything but himself. Every single interview I've ever seen with Majors he has more praise for the people he's worked with than himself - and he always comes across as genuinely supportive and decent.
I've heard him say that although Six Million was his most popular show - it was also his least favorite and very long and boring work for him. Maybe he just didn't like working on the show?
This show is still cool.
Beats so much of the present stuff.
It’s funny how as a kid, I never really thought about the fact that if Steve was really running 60 mph, his clothes would have been pinned back against his body and rippling and his hair would have been pinned back. Even the skin on his face would be rippling. All this would be very noticeable in slow motion.
I can’t imagine why it never registered, since I would commonly stick my arm out of the window of the car when we would take long drives in the country. Anytime we hung our head our of the windows, our hair would be whipping back, yet Steve would never have a hair blow out of place.
It wasn’t until I was a bit older that I also realized that running at 60 mph wouldn’t be that great since any trip or even a slip on a banana peel would break every bone in your body that wasn’t bionic. Then my love of bionics was further dashed when I realized that much of the heavy lifting Steve did is actually done with our back and the heavy stress would be on the point the bionic limb was attached to his flesh and bone. That would be the weak spot.
I think it was when I was watching reruns several years later that I saw Steve stop a huge I-beam from crushing some potential victim by standing directly under the falling beam and raising that awesome bionic arm, blocking it with his forearm and the beam easily bent, like a pretzel, around that powerful bionic limb.
Then I thought, hmmm.., it seems that would have compressed his flesh and bone from Steve’s arm right into his legs. Steve would just be an arm sticking up out of the two legs and his body just squashed in between.
I did really enjoy this show as a kid. Just that one arm and two legs seem to make him invincible. Thankfully, Steve never wiped out while running through the forest at 60+ mph, nor caught a low limb, because at that speed, he’d have been just a spray of red paint on a tree.
It’s a lot easier to enjoy stuff as a kid because we are not too analytical yet. Too bad we have to grow up and accept reality.
I don’t know what you’re talking about? I see no problem with an obese senior citizen using flying reindeer to deliver toys and packages to every house in the world within 24 hours. Don’t you try to tell me Santa can’t be true…
I ask that same question to a kid in school in 74 I was 9 , and he totally explained that his body could not keep up with the bionics , I'm sure that kid went on to do great things ! Nevertheless that show will always be my best childhood memory.......
That was an awesome show. You and me both being a big kid trapped in the past.
Big John , Little John ?! 😁
It was probably the episode The Secret of Bigfoot that brought the term BIGFOOT to U.S. culture mainstream/households.
David Frederick FrontRow ABSOLUTELY A FACTUAL STATEMENT RIGHT THERE! I remember it very well. All of a sudden Bigfoot was everywhere. Movies, books, IN Search of television show. You name it.
I was 6 yrs old when The Six Million Dollar Man started the series in 1974. Absolutely loved this show. Had the action figure as well. There were some great TV shows back in the 70's. Dukes of Hazzard, Bionic Woman, The Hulk, Welcome Back Carter, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, MASH, Carol Burnett Show, Sonny & Cher Show, Donny & Marrie Ozmund Show, Three's Company, The Barney Miller Show, FISH, Bob Newhart, All In The Family, What's Happenin, Sanford & Son, The Jeffersons, The Partridge Family, The Brady Bunch, Hee Haw, Love American Style, American Band Stand, The Soul Train, etc....etc....and you cant forget the Classics of Saturday Night live in the 70's and all those cool ass game show's from the 70's..... Awe Nostalgia! Thanks for the reminder of just how freaking awesome the 70's were! Respect from Florida... 😎 🇺🇸
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I still have the action figure somewhere and the engine. I had the rocket ship that turned into a lab but I don't know what happened to that. This tv show easily had the best intro of any in history.
Do you want to sell it ?
I haven't watched all of your videos but this is the most passionate you've been for the subject matter so far. Also bonus points for the picture with your lovely massive cat! 0:32
Good review! The classic 70s action and cop shows just really take me back to my childhood and great memories.
They should have done more with Steve and the $7 million Man. The two fought only twice, and we never got to see them work together during a secret mission. Would have loved that.
I loved this show as a kid, I even had the toys. They play the episodes on Cozi TV on Saturdays and Sundays.
we all are big kids trapped in the past...when we were kids, we were dreaming about the future and now we are living in that future, we only dream about going back to this nostalgic past.
I was just too young to catch 'The Six Million Dollar Man' originally - I wasn't born until '78. I did catch odd dregs of repeat episodes on BBC One here in the UK and naturally I loved it, but unlike other classic shows of the era, it never seemed to receive much of a full repeat run back then; and as such "doing" the whole series boxset has been on my 'to do' list for a couple of years now.
There's been multiple rumours of a movie update 'The Six Billion Dollar Man', to allow for inflation, but although it would be very interesting to see what a modern take on the material in today's computer-driven world would be like, I have a feeling, with the huge technological advances since the days the TV show was made, as well as the natural usually poor TV-series-to-film success rate, it would come out as something totally different; another case maybe of "just leave well alone and let us remember the classic".
That's interesting, I didn't know they repeated it on BBC . I watched it first time around , always thought it was on ITV because of the comic strip in "Look In" . However believe it or not ,I used to watch repeats on S4C early 80:s ; I discovered my Mum's little b&w TV in her bedroom could be tuned to the Welsh channel 4 , and there it was !
@@shaunw9270 Yes believe it or not odds and ends of episodes were shown on BBC One in a weekday afternoon slot in 1990 ('Starsky & Hutch' received similar treatment, similarly jumping across seasons and often edited.)
Those portable b&w TVs - in the days long before TVs were so common place or could even watch it live on phones - were a luxury, I was lucky enough to have an old hand-me-down one in my bedroom and on it would often be able to see series I loved ('The A-Team', 'Knight Rider', etc.) on adjoining regions where they were shown in different timeslots or had a later repeat showing. Although in one sense it was frustrating as I couldn't see it "properly" in my region, on hindsight there was also something magic about it, these programmes coming over the distance all fuzzy. ...I'm sounding old now!
Still my all-time favorite show. The series aired the day after my tenth birthday. I was a proud member of the Six Million Dollar Man Bionic Action Club, which included, of course, having the action figure. I still hum the theme quite often, and do my imitations of the various sound effects. My favorite episode was where he had to fight the robot played by John Saxon.
RIGHT !!! ☺☺
I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THE EPISODE WHERE STEVE FOUGHT JOHN SAXON TOO. AWESOME !!! 👍👍👍
I wish I kept my Steve Austin and maskatron dolls. Very cool. Great vid
He grew the mustache out of protest because he wasn't getting paid for the merchandising
Now that you mention it, I think I remember reading about that back then!
It is a fact that he was not getting paid some merchandising and particularly the doll that bared his likeness so he figured he just grow the mustache that he doesn't look like the doll it was basically the same thing Leonard Nimoy from Star Trek was going through it was also one of the sticking points that had to be resolved before he would even look at the script for this first Star Trek movie
$50,000 per episode though!
The fabulous theme music was by Oliver Nelson.
I wonder who was the artists who made the cool sound effects though...
Brings back wonderful memories of a wonderfully simply happy time
I was completely enveloped by this show as a young boy. I was 4 when this came out. One memory sticks with me to this day. My father had just installed a brand new screen door on our sliding living room door. He had just finished installing it and was cleaning up his tools on the patio. All he hear is a young 6yr old. Nah, Nah, Nah, as he jump through and ruins the brand new screen door he had just installed. It was so clean I couldn't see it was closed. I looked back to see this torn ragged hole the size of myself and quivered at the thought of the beating I was about to receive. My dad just looked at me disgustingly and said some really naughty words and walked straight to our shop on the farm. We laugh about it to this day.
bionic arm, singular...
C’mon guys, it’s not a doll, it’s an action figure. At least that’s what I tell myself.
No, its a doll. What I got to play with were action figures. Star Wars, Masters of the Universe, Transformers, and GI JOE. You had dress up dolls. 😝
Loved The Six Million Dollar Man. Had a big impact on me as a kid in the 70s Had the doll wish I had kept him. Recently bought season 1 on DVD and still enjoy it. American action shows of the 70s were simply unbeatable and leave a permanent nostalgic influence on all us 70s kids. Great Vid thank you.🙂
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The Six Million Dollar Man was hot. My ultimate was when Steve Austen fought against Sasquatch.
Played by Andre the giant.
I like those episodes and when he went up against the space probe.
I enjoyed your show. It brought back some memories.
To say I loved this show is a major understatement. I had the action figure, the rocket which flipped into an operating table and maskatron with 3 different faces! As a kid, I ran everywhere in slow motion. Nowadays, I still run in slow motion though for slightly different reasons!
What about MAX THE BIONIC DOG??? ;^)
Jonathan, this was a delight to watch. We are watching both series now with my 13-year old son and daughter and they love it. We actually got to meet Lee and Lindsay last weekend and my kids were over the moon. So was my inner 12 year old.
Loved this show as a kid had the toy, god 70s shows were so great
Oliver Spenser was a first rate SOB.
Matthew LeBlanc He sure didn’t care if Steve shot his bionic eye out- as long as he completed a successful mission !😂
Oliver hasn’t been called that since grammar school 😂
I recently found my Steve Austin doll in my parent 's house, I gave the dolls to my daughters, they don't really care as they don't even know the show. I really enjoyed this show. I 've got my Oscar doll, and Maskatron, the rocket was really great and I guess that all boys borned between 1966 - 67 and 1978 really do remember the Six Million dollar Man.
thanks for the video. takes me back to my childhood when the 6MDM and Bionic Woman were my favorite tv shows, along with Wonder Woman. didn't really fancy the Hulk because he was nothing compared the comic book Hulk. wish i still had my Steve Austin action figure.
The six million Dollar Man and the bionic woman was my favorite show
Opening dialog:
it looks good at Nasa One
roger
BCS arm switch is on
ok Victor
landing rocket arm switch is on, here comes the throttle, circuit breaker's in
we have separation - Steve Austin
roger
inboard and outboards are on
we're coming forward with the side stick
all looks good
aah roger
i've got a blowout, damper (number) three - Steve Austin
get your pitch to zero
pitch is out! I can't hold altitude! - Steve Austin
correction, alpha hold is off, trim selector is emergency
flight comm I can't hold it! she's breakin' up! she's break - Steve Austin
Steve Austin, astronaut, a man barely alive - Harve Bennett
Season 1 - Oscar Goldman:
We can rebuild him
We have the technology
We can make him better than he was
better, stronger, faster
Season 2,3,4,5 - Oscar Goldman:
Gentlmen, we can rebuild him
We have the technology
We have the capability to make the worlds first bionic man
Steve Austin, will be that man
better than he was before
better, stronger, faster
I remember my "giant" 6 Million Dollar Man doll with the bionic arm and peephole "bionic" eye.
They turned me on to the whole cyberpunk "enhanced" idea. The Mars Rover episodes are still crystal clear to me, including the sound it made. :)
I loved that show as a kid, but I don't think I can sit through the drawn out slow-mo scenes nowadays. Thanks for the the video!
Good job mate!👍 😯 🍻 💥
Thanks :-)
GREAT series! Absolutely loved it as a kid.
In the 90s, there was a collectible card game called _Shadowfist._ One of the cards in the game is the "$10,000 Dollar Man". The flavour text on the card is as follows: "We don't have the technology, but what the heck, let's try and rebuild him anyway." XD
Lee Majors became a household name in France because of the series. The show was translated in French as "The Man who was worth 3 Billion". Somewhat inflationary! "The Bionic Woman" also did well. I remember watching both as a kid in the late 70s.
Havent thought about that doll in years. Had the 6 the Austin doll and would make him fight my KISS dolls.
Growing up our house was in a spot where we couldn't pick up the local ABC channel. I could only listen to the other kids talk about this show in school. I did finally get to see a few episodes when spending the night at friends' houses.
as a kid... i tried to watch every episode i could. i had the action figures of steve and bigfoot... oooh what fantastic memories.
Great video! I was 8 when the series started, and yeah all the kids watched the 6 Million Dollar Man!
I remember the show. I was in middle and high school during the time. The show was entertaining and fun ! :-) [ at the time .. ya gotta remember the context ].
this was great tv
The Terminator is not a cyborg. It is a robot covered in lab-grown flesh.
Thank you! Great walk down memory lane.
Wow, memories!
I loved the bionic duo in the 70s, and yes, I had the six million dollar man lunch pail, and the doll with the laboratory/rocket. I even asked my parents for a red track suit and red Addidas.
The "real life" Steve Austin was really test pilot Bruce Peterson & the lifting body that crashed during the opening credits to The Six Million Man was a Northrop M2-F2, not an HL-10.
I had that damn action figure. I just turned forty-nine. This is one of the first shows I remember that I would watch on purpose.
i had a steve austin doll, and that rocketship....loved that toy
Really the best in my childhood..running in slowmo..
Loved that tv show. I had the toy, did slow motion action fights with my brother, even did a stop motion animation with a 8mm camera using the toy(wish I still had that).
He only had ONE bionic arm
Great job, Mr Baak!! Very good release video!! 😍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I have recently gotten into the bionic man and woman and love it as much now as I did when it first came out. Lee Majors and Lindsay Wagner were simply the best. I could never want anyone else to play those parts they were great! Thanks for putting this up.... check out the Internet Archive for the Six Million Dollar Man almost the whole series is available for streaming.....Barbara Lang
I remember Steve Austin fighting a machine called the Death Probe (?) in one or more episodes.
I used to run around the backyard making those bionic sound effects. My favourite toy was the crystal radio doll but I never got it for my birthday. Instead my parents got me an orange Adidas track suit with black stripes which was like getting a Steve Austin suit. I wore it everywhere
Absolutely loved this show as a kid of course I had the toy's it had everything i liked robots space action fantastic
I loved this show as a kid. I had the figure too, and like you, I also bought a replacement off eBay. I'm currently rewatching both it and The Bionic Woman. I didn't realize seeing it as a kid, but as a cost cutting/time saving measure, season one of The Bionic Woman actually reused a season one script from The Six Million Dollar Man. The episodes are virtually identical down to the story beats, but with minor character changes. It's actually kind of hilarious seeing them as an adult. 😀
One of my favorite toys as a kid. Thanks for the great research!
I also gave my Bionic man action figure away to a younger boy as I became older, funny that!
Maybe it was you that gave the doll to johnnybaaack 😁
This was a truly awesome property back in the days
This was my Favourite show, I came in for a drink of water and the pilot episode was in full swing as soon as I saw him break out of his chains , that was it I didn’t go back out ! I spent my whole childhood running in slow mo and pretending to jump my stair case in a single bound !
who knew Andre the giant & S Bullock were in here along w/other major names. Yes, the series was sensational I think I had the lunch box.lol
I have a memory of someone I know owning one of those Steve Austin dolls when I was a kid
Superb. Did anyone else have the record (vinyl) that told the story of Bionic Man at an Army facility? I probably listened to this from 1978 to 1982 ( I was born in 74).
My wife uses the theme song for her husband;s cell number... It's turned more than a few of her customer's heads when I call her - "Was that?"
I had the Steve Austin figure along with the Big Foot and Goldman ones. These + the original GI Joe's were my favorite.
Bionic legs and an arm. Lifting very heavy object without breaking his non bionic back. Amazing.
In the novel, Steve never had a bionic eye implanted. The author, Martin Caidin, wrote that we didn't know exactly how the human eye works, so Steve couldn't get his sight back in that eye. Instead, they replaced his eye with a miniature still camera, with the shutter release in his temple. Also in the book, Steve had a small compressed air tank in his leg, that enabled him to breathe underwater for extended periods, through a tube that he was able to pull from his leg.
A few interesting differences between the novel and the pilot movie and series. 😊
Awesome series loved it back in the day. If it was made nowadays it would be called the six million dollar person, or the six million dollar non binary it.
That was hilarious!!!
i remember majors in the big vally owen marshall counserlor at law the fall guy six million dollar man was his best !
Yhe episode where Steve fights the Russian Venus crawlers are epic.
And his bionic arm is damaged by the Venus probe. Dr Rudy Wells does a temporary fix on it, and it fails again when he tries to lift the Venus probe with a helicopter. BEST EPISODE of the SMDM.
Awesome....i loved the Six Million Dollar Man & the Bionic Woman series....they were some of my favorite series to watch....wish i had some of the toys back then, but I wasn't able to get them, didn't have much to spend on them, my family was struggling just to keep food on the table.. .Never cared for the Soap Operas.....LOL....I'm a Science Gal instead & this helped me choose a different career in life than the norm of my time era......Thanks for sharing....HIGH 5 to all who made this a must see TV show & my one thing to watch.....I will never out grow it....thank you
I was a huge fan when it first aired, looking back that 6 million dollar price tag was an unimaginable amount in 1974, today the lobbyists pitching the program to congress would make more than 6 million
When we were little we moved to a place where you had to have cable to see TV and we couldn't afford that so no kidding, zero tv for three years (BOY have I made up for it since then LOL), and when we got tv back in early 79 all the great shows three years earlier were either now off the air or soon were. The 60s did the same thing, HUGE shows like Batman, The Addams Family, The Munsters, and Star Trek all burned out in less than three years. Rocket to the top and rocket to the ground in those 2 decades. The 80s slowed it all way down to let shows go on past their prime or were shoved off the schedule prematurely. That 80s legacy remains with shows going on too long (Arrow Universe) and others being whisked away too soon (Timeless, Firefly).
What a great retrospective on easily my favorite childhood series. I had both action figures even Jamie Sommers and the robot villian and recently bought both series collection on DVD :)
I think Andre the giant played sasquatch.
Coming up on 50, and I still make the bloody sounds! I do hope they make a newer film, but keep the authenticity of the original. The movie industry has some many new effects and such they could use :)
Thanks for this posting, Absolutely loved the shows.
I grew up in the 80's and this show was before my time but this is one of my all time favorite shows. I grew up watching the reruns and loved them, I still watch it on the weekends on cozi tv. This show in my personal opinion was ahead of its time and inspired a lot of ideas for other storylines and movies. I had heard about the six million dollar man movie starring Mark Wahlberg as well and was pretty excited about it. I'm not sure why they are having production delays or why it is on hold. I also watched Lee Majors in the fall guy and that was pretty cool but no where near as cool as the six million dollar man. The seven million dollar man was one of my favorite episodes. It's fun to look back and see all these unknown celebrities that starred in the show before they became famous. Carl Weather's, John Delancy, ( "Q" in star trek the next generation) and I'm pretty sure Dennis Quaid played a stockboy/cashier in an episode, just to name a few. George Takei and William Shatner were each in an episode. Some Star trek fans like myself will enjoy that. Lol
Thank you. It was my favorite show forever and I also had an action figure (Lord only knows what happened to it). I didn't realize that Andre the Giant played Bigfoot (in two episodes, according to IMDb); I remembered Ted Cassidy.
I grew up with this show and would love to watch it again, great video.