I loved this as a kid. I used to play bionic so much that now, at 58, whenever I'm lifting something heavy, my mind still makes the bionic sound effect
😂I was pretending I was bionic when I was 10, and trying to open our large, brand new deep freezer. It was very stubborn all of a sudden and stuck. So I reefed on it, and I opened it with a heave (yes, and sound effects in my head), and discovered it had been locked and I’d ripped the lock off. 😂😂. We had to get a new freezer. My parents were confounded and so was the store. I am not a big person and even a jug of milk is heavy to me so I have no idea how it even happened.
@@jeandemoura1566 Allo Jean. Ils disent que c'était une règle en métal tenue en partie sur une table. L'extrémité libre a été tirée vers le bas et relâchée. Le son de la règle vibrante a été enregistré et ralenti pour produire l'effet sonore du bras bionique. Mais c'était peut-être un vrai bras bionique - bruyant mais efficace !
@@davy1972 After a few beers I came home late, switched my bionic eye to infra-red, tripped over the cat, fell asleep on the stairs and must have damaged the hydraulics on my bionic leg as I woke up in a puddle of watery hydraulic fluid! Steve Austin was such a formative influence but I must have missed that episode of the SMDM!
I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. While awaiting my turn to go into the operating room, one of the nurses and I were talking about this show because I was telling her that I was gonna be bionic with my new hip. We laughed and joked about me becoming the new bionic woman. After I got into the operating room, the nurse was getting ready to put the mask over my face to make me go to sleep. Just before she did that, she looked serious and solemn and announced, "We can rebuild"..... those were the last words I heard before it went dark.... ❤
I am guessing just the people who think like you ? I am not going back to 80s. That was shitty CGI. A pudgy grand dad masquerading as a super hero saving a woman way younger than him. Thank human progress, those days are long over.
The sound of the bionics acting is perfect! I've always loved this series. Today I am 52 years old and I always thought the bionic woman was fantastic. I didn't miss an episode.
As a kid I once missed most of an episode because we were late getting home from a 'stupid' family visit. Cried like a baby and iced my parent for days 🤣
I frickin worshipped her! I watched The Bionic Woman like a fiend and I actually met Lyndsay Wagner decades later when I worked at a restaurant/ market in Woodland Hills. She was absolutely gracious and just as beautiful as ever…what a classy lady! I’m usually not starstruck as my dad is in the industry and I met a lot of actors over the years through him and going with him to the studios and a couple movie premieres and also working in Beverly Hills for several years but she was an absolute joy to meet!
Lindsey Wagner was always awesome as "Jamie Sommers". 🙂 Better than Lynda Carter as "Wonder Woman" in many ways. TBH, she may have been the first female I ever "fell in love with", seeing as I must've been like... IDK... eight?! 😁 I was definitely attracted to women REALLY early.
@@Novastar.SaberCombat I agree totally! I am straight but I definitely had a girl crush on Lyndsay! Linda Carter was obviously pretty but I didn’t find her nearly as appealing. Lyndsay had such beautiful mannerisms and her voice was perfection. She’s the whole package.
@@amytrumbull156 Anyone (female, male or alien) who watched the series regularly fell in love with Lindsay, her sweetness and beauty were overwhelming.
Pinnacle of 80s villainy…threatening to shoot at blind children. Not just school children…blind school children. Cartoonishly over the top! Loved this TV movie back in the day. :)
Fantastic memories. Get a middle aged man to run in slow motion with THAT sound effect, and you will believe! Also, get a stunt man 50 lbs lighter and 30 years younger and you'll never notice the difference from the back!
What about the Sopranos, Breaking bad, Boardwalk empire, Mad men, The wire, The xfiles, Peaky blinders, Schitts creek? All shite too? Trailer park boys anyone? Shite also? I love the old 70's shows as much as anyone, but there is great shite out there today also.
i am from Saudi Arabia and i loved his movies a lot when i was a kid. i used to see his movies and imitate him a lot recognizing him as a hero. the innocence of this days are magical.
that one Christmas when mom surprised me with all the bionic man accessories and outfit, only problem is that she thought the package included the action figure. For the next 3 holidays, still never got my Steve Austin, just some orange jumpsuit.
How I loved these shows !.... It's a mixture of sadness and joy ... remembering those long gone always sunny days . I hope the kids feel the same about their shows in 40 years time !!.... Steve rocked and Jaimie was lovely !!... 70's I miss you
Nah they'll be muzzled like cattle in a dystopian authoritarian technocratic police state not knowing which gender code to choose while surfing some sort of inane "social" media platform.
@@tarikkhan2341 hahaha so very true .....they have attention spans of goldfish so nostalgia and remembering something from 10 minutes ago are non existent
The 80's were the best time, so much fun!!! I loved The Six Million Dollar Man , Fall Guy!!!! Lee Majors is a bad ass!!! Loved him in The Big Valley!!!! 💪💪💪👍👍....
The exec producers: Yes if it looks like he is going slow, they will know he must be moving so fast that.... Wait will the audience be as high on blow as us?
So cringy bad. Totally blows the “Things were SO much better when I was growing up” but, but then again… when I look at today’s TV offerings…. never mind. Nothing to see here.
His top speed was still just 60 mph so it would still be faster to drive however on foot there are more shortcuts. If you look at the specs during the intro, he only had about a single HP in his bionic nuclear power plants so running after a car would be more like chasing after one on horseback.
Loved this feat of strength showing his true power.. He doesn't just flip the car.. he literally launches and spins it.. Just think about the amount of force it would take to do that!
I love that scene, too! Though I have to keep in mind that if he started off rolling the car, it would not then flip through the air after that. But still very cool nonetheless. You can barely see the white rope attached to the right of the car.
He was my best movie actor in the 80s and today at the age of close to 70 I confirm that Steve was truly under biotic experimentational Six Million Dollar Man. He did things we could not understand than jumping over fences and building and running as faster than the vehicle with so much power breaking metals in the name of RESCUE is incredible. I wish we could have more biotic man like him today to save many lives. I wish I could be like him today. God bless.
This movie worked as a pilot for a new Six Million Dollar Man series starring Tom Schanley (Michael Austin). The ratings were high, but NBC did not pull the trigger on that.
The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man & The Bionic Woman. I loved this movie, it was great seeing Lee Majors and Lindsay Wagner reprising their roles that made them well known for.
@@andytay5507 the reunion movies just don't feel right, even if Lee and Lindsay play it straight. Or it's the music. Not really sure but the original shows have aged better than the reunion tv movies.
So lovely to see a station wagon being used as the getaway car! Can't imagine why that body style has gone out of fashion. We used to bring Christmas trees home, with the rear seat folded up . That was 50 years ago so i suppose my memories are irrelevant.
Exactly. A time when men were men and women were women, not one trying to be the other. A time when heroes actually made a sacrifice and/or saved someone, not labelled a "hero" just because they did something any normal person would do, or labelled a "hero" by surviving an incident (that's a victim), or called a "hero" for announcing to the world that they have a genetic or psychological defect (i.e. Bruce Jenner).
John Dahlman funny thing is he was the worlds greatest athlete circa 1976- Who could dunk a basketball from the free throw line( and was white!). Lol. My point is, at 6 foot plus and a legitimate, albeit gold medalist. Had the six million dollar man been produced a few years later, I could see old Brucie be casted as Steve Austin. Now that would be the height of existential irony, the zenith of the absurd, if he were to transform in to Caitlin after all that...just a funny ‘what if’ thought.
2:41 There's a lot of silly stuff in this scene, but the most striking is that it took his bionic eye to read an ordinary license plate at close range.
Exactly. The Bionic Woman as a show and as a character was pro female but not anti male. Look at the chemistry between Jaime Sommers and Steve Austin. Both characters represented the best traits of their own genders.
That was the best bionic action I have seen in years!! (I have to say he did jump a lot higher in this clip than he did in the 70's.) But still, it was great!!
Not to mention that his arm must have gotten a upgrade too. In the TV show, he had to use his legs to flip over a car, & that was just on it's side. Now here he uses his arm, & makes it flip 2 times over. Plus the car was able to stay on while flipped & landing hard.
They retconned it a bit later on and established they could top out at about a 120 mph, double his original speed. Probably explained how he could make the 4 story jump...
Man this was one of my childhood favorites.My cousins and I use to reenact out scenes from this and many other favorites like Wonder Woman and The Dukes of Hazzard.
And so it just goes To show... that one mans devotion, faith & love will protect the woman he truly loves and desires !! love is truly the most suttle force on earth.
The way they had him run in slow-motion is genius. I can imagine the producers saying something like, "How do we show Steve running super-fast?" and the Director replying, "I know! Let's show him running in slo-motion when he is actually running at super-speed!"
7 year old me watching The Bionic Woman. "So cool, she has bionics just like Steve.. They can be best friends and work together." 17 year old me watching The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman. "Steve got old.. Jaime.. wow... Jaime looks amazing.. so amazing... ~long elated sigh~
As a kid I was very impressed by this series. Looking at it now as a man I had to ask myself....why didn't Steve just follow the kidnappers in his own car?😅
I grew up in the 80s and I can confirm...wicked saxophone riffs would often occur out of nowhere! The saxophone god tragically disappeared around 1995-1996. I still have faith of her return!
The 80's are the most futuristic era ever. We were introduced to computers, electronic music, CD's, extravagant fashion... We had free speech, and old muscle cars were dirt cheap. In the 90's that utopian outlook made way for a slow and steady decline. The 70's felt like flower power mixed with the dark ages. Pretty messy in the end, and nowhere to go. Thus around 1980 everything went overboard, and we started with a clean slate. Indeed, day & night.
@@STARDRIVE Yeah the 80’s was really the start of high tech.........Most of the innovation now was around in the 80’s just not as refined and mass marketed.
😂😂😂 Thanks for ruining the magic. J/K, that was pretty bad. Special FX crew: Are you sure we shouldn't do more to cover up the cable? Director: Nah, the audience will be too focused on a guy flipping a car with his bare hands.
The car stops its roll at 2:31 and then they need to pull again to keep it rolling. It's also cool to see the added steel beams in place of bumpers that they attach the wires to. The chrome bumper is later tacked on before the drive away but appears to be the same car.
They were both supposedly school sweethearts from Ojai, CA where they grew up. Steve became an astronaut and later a test pilot (got seriously injured testing a lifting body, some of his parts replaced by bionic members and thats how he became the 'six million dollar man' the total cost of the surgical operation to save his life); Jaimie was a proffesional tennis player and when she too suffered a terrible accident some of her members were also replaced with bionic parts. Both became agents of OSI and their boss was a cool guy named Oscar Goldman, the person who facilitated the advanced bionic prosthetics technology that saved their lifes. Because now they were important and valuable assets, their lives changed and with their augmented powers they became useful agents for OSI.
Jaime's body started to reject the bionics, originally she died. (Fun Fact Lindsay Wagner wrote out "Jaime" on the set, mis-spelling Jamie, and they kept her spelling of the name. Cheaper than reshooting the scene :) ) Michael used an untested procedure to bring her back but it left her with no memory of Steve beyond him being her friend. She wouldn't get that memory back until this movie.
Those Ford Country Squire station wagons are one tough car. They can be flipped over and still run. I'm heading to my Ford dealer to get my hands on one.
The greatest secret and mystery of the original series was how they created the bionic sound. It's literally bugged me since I was a little kid. No one who was associated with the show has ever said on record how they achieved it. Rumor has it that, Charles King, the Sound Designer for the shows, is reported to have braced a metal ruler or yardstick on the edge of a table, pulling and releasing the extended end, then slowing the resultant sound to 25%.
Pure fun and excitement when you're 9 years old but when you're an adult you have to wonder how Steve Austin didn't pop all his spinal discs and his arm tear out of the shoulder. Lee Majors actually did suffer a lot of injuries during production.
I would have to reread Martin Caiden's novel, "Cyborg" , but probably the bionic surgerical team reinforced Austin's injured spine after his plane crash in the M3F5/HL-10 with ceramic or other advanced material which would support his spine to lift objects that too heavy for normal human beings to lift
I loved this as a kid. I used to play bionic so much that now, at 58, whenever I'm lifting something heavy, my mind still makes the bionic sound effect
😂I was pretending I was bionic when I was 10, and trying to open our large, brand new deep freezer. It was very stubborn all of a sudden and stuck. So I reefed on it, and I opened it with a heave (yes, and sound effects in my head), and discovered it had been locked and I’d ripped the lock off. 😂😂. We had to get a new freezer. My parents were confounded and so was the store. I am not a big person and even a jug of milk is heavy to me so I have no idea how it even happened.
Same here. My bionic eye still works well.
Je voudrais un jour qu'on m'explique comment l'effet sonore a été créé.
I wish someone explain me how the sound effect is making!
@@jeandemoura1566 Allo Jean. Ils disent que c'était une règle en métal tenue en partie sur une table. L'extrémité libre a été tirée vers le bas et relâchée. Le son de la règle vibrante a été enregistré et ralenti pour produire l'effet sonore du bras bionique. Mais c'était peut-être un vrai bras bionique - bruyant mais efficace !
@@davy1972 After a few beers I came home late, switched my bionic eye to infra-red, tripped over the cat, fell asleep on the stairs and must have damaged the hydraulics on my bionic leg as I woke up in a puddle of watery hydraulic fluid! Steve Austin was such a formative influence but I must have missed that episode of the SMDM!
What's bionic here is the strength of the hair spray holding those sweet 80s hairstyles in place. 😁
🤣👍
Or is it the lungs of that Sax player 🙂
LOL!!!
I was infatuated with Jamie, but who wasn't?
I noticed that. Over their budget for sure
I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. While awaiting my turn to go into the operating room, one of the nurses and I were talking about this show because I was telling her that I was gonna be bionic with my new hip. We laughed and joked about me becoming the new bionic woman.
After I got into the operating room, the nurse was getting ready to put the mask over my face to make me go to sleep. Just before she did that, she looked serious and solemn and announced, "We can rebuild"..... those were the last words I heard before it went dark.... ❤
Lol...what an AWESOME nurse!💗
Love it!
Bionic hips...ooh la la.
@@oneilclarke8494 🤣🤣
Dude I had to get my hip replaced at 14 due to a rapid growth spurt. That was 1980, about 2 years after this series ended. Lol.
1980: The future will be awesome!
2020: I want to go back to the 80's.,,,,,,
I'll take the 80s any day over this time we live in on so many levels.
100% my feelings as well.
Absolutely, 100%.
Loved Bionic Woman and Wonder Woman. The 70’s were awesome.
I am guessing just the people who think like you ? I am not going back to 80s. That was shitty CGI. A pudgy grand dad masquerading as a super hero saving a woman way younger than him. Thank human progress, those days are long over.
It’s amazing how Steve Austin can run so fast, that if you didn’t know any better, you’d think he was moving in slow motion.
It's those sound effects that make Steve run fast!
Who would have thought that after all these years we've misjudged David Hasselhoff in Baywatch! Turns out the Hoff was bionic!
Never again, should that silly slow motion special affect be used.
I used to fast forward the running scenes for effect!
@@pootthatbak2578 why?
Those Ford wagons of the 70's were tough as heck. Overturned twice and still drivable. 😂
😂😂
Full frame, don't need no stickin' body.
I want one!
That's the Family Truckster.
That's an 84, Quincy ME had a 70s wagon
"I won't need my car, just these acid washed jeans, all white Keds and a wicked sax solo."
Don't forget the extra poofy mullets.
LOL! Gotta love the 80s....
prefared the 70's bongos, you just new something was about to go down :)
...and the synthesizer.
@@GentleGiantFan As an 80's teen, it was the best ever; far better than any post-2000 kid could imagine. You literally got away with everything.
I like the way he said: "or my friend will start firing at those blind children" like it wouldn't be tragic if they weren't blind.
No witnesses
At least they wouldn't see it coming
@@AmericanThunder
😆🤣😂
@@ohyeahthatsright3155 🤣😂
Top bad there was no spin off with his son on the show being the new 25 million dollar man and Sandra Bullock being the woman d
The sound of the bionics acting is perfect! I've always loved this series. Today I am 52 years old and I always thought the bionic woman was fantastic. I didn't miss an episode.
Dude, they really had the best blend of music and bionic sound effects!
COMO TEM TANTO DEFEITOS ESPECIAIS ,ANTES EU OLHAVA COMO EFEITO REAL ,AH SAUDADES DESSES FILMES
I'm 50, I remember the six million dollar man intro, it fascinated me as a kid. They are all still great shows even today.
Pfft. Old people.
@@stevenbissett I was just mucking about. I'm much older than 50. ;)
No, they are not.
Just a kid, I'm 53!
Me too!
As a kid I once missed most of an episode because we were late getting home from a 'stupid' family visit. Cried like a baby and iced my parent for days 🤣
sounds familiar.
One of the time honoured rights of passage for children before TV on demand.
Back when, if you missed an episode, you had to scour the TV listings for a rerun or wait until summer hiatus when all there were was reruns.
Exactly, because VCRs, DVR‘s, and most of all, reruns never existed?
@@yell0wberry You do realize we're talking about when the show _first_ aired right?
I used to LOVE watching them, such Beautiful People, those were the good ole days!
2:00 in case you doubted how dangerous these bad guys are, being that they drive a wood-paneled family station wagon, they totally ran this stop sign.
You will pay for not following the most basic driving laws!!!
They were so dangerous they stole a station wagon from the Griswolds!
Bad fashion is never good
Those animals..
Nzinn73 It was mandatory for all Americans to own at least one station wagon in the 80s.
I frickin worshipped her! I watched The Bionic Woman like a fiend and I actually met Lyndsay Wagner decades later when I worked at a restaurant/ market in Woodland Hills. She was absolutely gracious and just as beautiful as ever…what a classy lady! I’m usually not starstruck as my dad is in the industry and I met a lot of actors over the years through him and going with him to the studios and a couple movie premieres and also working in Beverly Hills for several years but she was an absolute joy to meet!
Hello Amy, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the Virus??
You are so lucky to have met Lindsay, when I was 14 I wanted to marry her, 40 years later nothing changed lol, she still looks lovely. God bless
Lindsey Wagner was always awesome as "Jamie Sommers". 🙂 Better than Lynda Carter as "Wonder Woman" in many ways.
TBH, she may have been the first female I ever "fell in love with", seeing as I must've been like... IDK... eight?! 😁 I was definitely attracted to women REALLY early.
@@Novastar.SaberCombat I agree totally! I am straight but I definitely had a girl crush on Lyndsay! Linda Carter was obviously pretty but I didn’t find her nearly as appealing. Lyndsay had such beautiful mannerisms and her voice was perfection. She’s the whole package.
@@amytrumbull156 Anyone (female, male or alien) who watched the series regularly fell in love with Lindsay, her sweetness and beauty were overwhelming.
Pinnacle of 80s villainy…threatening to shoot at blind children. Not just school children…blind school children. Cartoonishly over the top!
Loved this TV movie back in the day. :)
Those blind kids continued on their field trip, oblivious to the treachery that lurked atop the stationwagon hood. If only that nun had a gone.
Fantastic memories. Get a middle aged man to run in slow motion with THAT sound effect, and you will believe! Also, get a stunt man 50 lbs lighter and 30 years younger and you'll never notice the difference from the back!
First time round you weren’t thinking about that
@@stuarto5162 No, I was fooled just like every other kid at the time
He put of 50lb after the first series and aged 10 years it seemed.
Never mind. It still had the best intro sever. :)
I grew up with stuff like this and it is still 100 times better than most shite on the tv today.
Really? You need to be more discriminating in your viewing, I'd suggest. 😉
Absolutely!
@@markfox1545 The stuff today is crap!
Totally agree
What about the Sopranos, Breaking bad, Boardwalk empire, Mad men, The wire, The xfiles, Peaky blinders, Schitts creek? All shite too? Trailer park boys anyone? Shite also? I love the old 70's shows as much as anyone, but there is great shite out there today also.
there is no atmosphere of the series without the brilliant soundtrack
i am from Saudi Arabia and i loved his movies a lot when i was a kid. i used to see his movies and imitate him a lot recognizing him as a hero. the innocence of this days are magical.
U musta been someone who was always late for school!
The chachacha (sfx) your way on bike to school
yeah, Colt Seavers was our first hero back in school, everyone wanted to be like him
Who would have ever thought to slow him down to show how fast he's going. Loved this show.
Miss my Steve Austin action figure lifting engines, removing bionics and looking thru the back of his head. 👍👍👍
Me to. That toy is worth big bucks now
I've still got mine!
Remeber the 7 million Dollar Man?
@@johnjeffreys6440 He was on DALLAS and Hogan's Hero's
that one Christmas when mom surprised me with all the bionic man accessories and outfit, only problem is that she thought the package included the action figure. For the next 3 holidays, still never got my Steve Austin, just some orange jumpsuit.
How I loved these shows !.... It's a mixture of sadness and joy ... remembering those long gone always sunny days . I hope the kids feel the same about their shows in 40 years time !!.... Steve rocked and Jaimie was lovely !!... 70's I miss you
soo very true
Yes
It wasn't the 1970s it was 1987.
Nah they'll be muzzled like cattle in a dystopian authoritarian technocratic police state not knowing which gender code to choose while surfing some sort of inane "social" media platform.
@@tarikkhan2341 hahaha so very true .....they have attention spans of goldfish so nostalgia and remembering something from 10 minutes ago are non existent
Four-story building, awesome.
But nothing compares To his fight with Bigfoot
Jaime’s too!
R.I.P. Andre The Giant!!!
Lol
A close second was the two part episode where he battled that robot car that kept doing donuts.
@@CarsandCats If they did a remake it would have to drift.
The 80's were the best time, so much fun!!! I loved The Six Million Dollar Man , Fall Guy!!!! Lee Majors is a bad ass!!! Loved him in The Big Valley!!!! 💪💪💪👍👍....
Lee Majors truly a superstar in tv history with those hits. And do not forget his last appearance on streaming Ash vs. Evil Dead.
Wow Big Valley, that was a good one
Still hilarious that they use slow-mo to indicate super-speed. This is The Matrix before The Matrix.
That was a genius idea! As it worked perfectly.
The exec producers: Yes if it looks like he is going slow, they will know he must be moving so fast that.... Wait will the audience be as high on blow as us?
You just mad because he's bigger stronger much faster!🤷🏿♂️😁
I was thinking the same 😀
lmao...facts
This is the most 80's thing I've ever seen. And I grew up in the 80's.
So cringy bad. Totally blows the “Things were SO much better when I was growing up” but, but then again… when I look at today’s TV offerings…. never mind. Nothing to see here.
My man rocking a top tier 80's mullet. Kudos.
Back then, Steve was the only guy, when he started a pursuit, who didn't even think to use his car : way faster to run after them
Before he got his cool truck!
His top speed was still just 60 mph so it would still be faster to drive however on foot there are more shortcuts. If you look at the specs during the intro, he only had about a single HP in his bionic nuclear power plants so running after a car would be more like chasing after one on horseback.
His car couldn't jump over roofs, avoid traffic, and bodyslam as efficient as himself.
@@peposo7 I guess you did not see the Fall Guy lol.
Or jog in slow motion lol
I always loved the sound effects especially his vision. Steve Austin, a man barely alive, we can rebuild him. Make him stronger, faster…
Loved this feat of strength showing his true power.. He doesn't just flip the car.. he literally launches and spins it.. Just think about the amount of force it would take to do that!
I love that scene, too! Though I have to keep in mind that if he started off rolling the car, it would not then flip through the air after that. But still very cool nonetheless. You can barely see the white rope attached to the right of the car.
Cause he bionic!
wouldn't his arm just rip off at the shoulder though?
no, he thrusted it at an angle, the car weight did the rest. Angular velocity
@@eltorpedo67
You can see the cables used to flip the car! Lol..... Oh the days of innocence..!
Steve never seems to look at upset ever. Never phased or bent. Laconic as ever
Steve clearly had some upgrades since the 70's.
He was my best movie actor in the 80s and today at the age of close to 70 I confirm that Steve was truly under biotic experimentational Six Million Dollar Man. He did things we could not understand than jumping over fences and building and running as faster than the vehicle with so much power breaking metals in the name of RESCUE is incredible. I wish we could have more biotic man like him today to save many lives. I wish I could be like him today. God bless.
I remember watching this episode. I was so excited to see them back in action after all this time. The rating were high as hell.
i thought this was a movie... they go all out with those building jumps just for a show
This movie worked as a pilot for a new Six Million Dollar Man series starring Tom Schanley (Michael Austin). The ratings were high, but NBC did not pull the trigger on that.
This was a good movie. The way Steve Austin flipped the car was awesome. True bionic power. 👍
Colonel Steve Austin 3:16 says he whupped their asses
Oh, man I LOVED this movie! I was ten when it came out! :)
and rope...lol!!
Maaaaan! This brought back SO many memories. I wish I never unwrapped my 6 Million Dollar man action figure.
I miss that good ole fashioned wholesome family cheesy Tv shows.
Just like your comment.
I love the classics!
I see a remake movie in my mind
Loved it then love it now
I don't.
Man, I used to love the Six Million Dollar Man when I was a kid. Good old 80s nostalgia.
YouKevo: when I was a kid I remembered when the six million dollar man and the bionic woman came out oh and Jamie's bionic dog Max
The 70's is when both series were originally on.
@@dan_hitchman007 Sorry, you're right. This was perhaps one of the best shows from the 70s. Great fun.
Steve Austin and Jamie Sommers, two of my favourite television heroes.
30 years and still rocks! Epic series!
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The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man & The Bionic Woman. I loved this movie, it was great seeing Lee Majors and Lindsay Wagner reprising their roles that made them well known for.
Good to see Lee Majors took time off of The Fall Guy to revisit his role as Stave Austin!
A 48 years old Lee Majors doing his bionic run! nice!
He was 48??
I MISS these shows!!!!😢😢😢
actually looked a little stiff.
@@raheemhamilton8624 a very mullety, meaty 58...
@@andytay5507 the reunion movies just don't feel right, even if Lee and Lindsay play it straight. Or it's the music. Not really sure but the original shows have aged better than the reunion tv movies.
"no bionic tricks or my friend will start firing at those blind children" - stay classy
I needed that laugh
There's nothing like early-evening light family entertainment !
Loved that line haa!!!
Haha Yeah, that's a new low for villainy!
Must have been a writer's strike.
😀
So lovely to see a station wagon being used as the getaway car!
Can't imagine why that body style has gone out of fashion. We used to bring Christmas trees home, with the rear seat folded up . That was 50 years ago so i suppose my memories are irrelevant.
come on you jokers here; just enjoy this for what is was then ! Love the good old days. Heroes were heroes back then bionic or not !
Exactly. A time when men were men and women were women, not one trying to be the other. A time when heroes actually made a sacrifice and/or saved someone, not labelled a "hero" just because they did something any normal person would do, or labelled a "hero" by surviving an incident (that's a victim), or called a "hero" for announcing to the world that they have a genetic or psychological defect (i.e. Bruce Jenner).
Irfan Iqbal So true! Including, myself!
Irfan Iqbal ... this was the shit...I have the first season on DVD...
John Dahlman funny thing is he was the worlds greatest athlete circa 1976- Who could dunk a basketball from the free throw line( and was white!). Lol. My point is, at 6 foot plus and a legitimate, albeit gold medalist. Had the six million dollar man been produced a few years later, I could see old Brucie be casted as Steve Austin. Now that would be the height of existential irony, the zenith of the absurd, if he were to transform in to Caitlin after all that...just a funny ‘what if’ thought.
Kids don't mind it and i'm one of those days kid
Still amazes me how slowing him down to make it seem he's running fast, actually works!
The 80's proved we need more Sax in our lives
Steve Austin must've felt like Colt Seavers the way he leaped off the roof like that!
i see what you did there
he is old for running lol
And it must be doing a number on his heart, too. As well as Jamie's,when she does that.
total Fall Guy coming off that roof..
...'cough'
Walter Schivo... Yep, Colt Severs doing stunts for Steve Austin
It's amazing what the bionic sound effects can do in a movie.
He runs like a dousch actually. I loved this guy. I can't unsee it.
2:41 There's a lot of silly stuff in this scene, but the most striking is that it took his bionic eye to read an ordinary license plate at close range.
he was old at this point. The bionic eye was needed.
Or that he can jump 100 feet in the air, but couldn’t beat my grandmother in a foot race.
Dinnae waste it🤣
This probably cool asf for the year this was on tv
@@cloudstorm1743 It was us 5th graders.
21st century remake: "Excuse me but I am a independent Bionic Wahman and I don't need any rescuing from you, Mr Six Million Dollar MAN!"
Exactly. The Bionic Woman as a show and as a character was pro female but not anti male. Look at the chemistry between Jaime Sommers and Steve Austin. Both characters represented the best traits of their own genders.
Lmao.. ..How time has change..
Maybe because she was made with 75% of $6mil, and she couldn't get OVER that roof!
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Was true then, too. Always been true.
I am 56 and I have fond memories of watching this series as a kid and still enjoy it
That was the best bionic action I have seen in years!! (I have to say he did jump a lot higher in this clip than he did in the 70's.) But still, it was great!!
I can't believe this has been over 30ty years time flies
ditto. i loved it
2:02 whoa!
Not to mention that his arm must have gotten a upgrade too. In the TV show, he had to use his legs to flip over a car, & that was just on it's side. Now here he uses his arm, & makes it flip 2 times over. Plus the car was able to stay on while flipped & landing hard.
They retconned it a bit later on and established they could top out at about a 120 mph, double his original speed. Probably explained how he could make the 4 story jump...
She was Gorgeous....
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Indeed...💟
@@mars188, still better looking than Lee Majors at this time.
I heard they hated each other.
She was average, at best.
Man this was one of my childhood favorites.My cousins and I use to reenact out scenes from this and many other favorites like Wonder Woman and The Dukes of Hazzard.
Jamie: :" what do you want
Bad guy: if I said I wanted you body that would be offensive.
Classic campy line.
It was awful - unwatchable.
And so it just goes To show... that one mans devotion, faith & love will protect the woman he truly loves and desires !! love is truly the most suttle force on earth.
Amazing how Steve managed to flip the car over without collapsing his very normal human spinal column and tearing all his back muscles.
Lindsay wagner truly was one of the most beautiful women in the 70s and 80s.
One of the most charming, too.
To meet her one time when she was in Cincinnati. She was very beautiful up close and she smelled like $1 million.
You jammy sod!!
@@Radionut lucky you!
Yes . Natural beauty
Brings back fond memories. My favorite TV couple. Lindsay Wagner is so beautiful.
I love the bionic eye on the license plate, when the car is close enough for Mr Magoo to see it
I like a tv series having an finale instead of stopping bluntly.
Love this scene, it's great. Lee Major's and Lindsay Wagner were brilliant. Absolutely love the music when Steve chases after the car
clearly you never watched the originals
Okkkkk
Yes, chase scenes in 70's and 80's always involved music with saxophone 🎷.
With '80s synth dance music added to the mix !
The way they had him run in slow-motion is genius. I can imagine the producers saying something like, "How do we show Steve running super-fast?" and the Director replying, "I know! Let's show him running in slo-motion when he is actually running at super-speed!"
And he had a perfectly good car.
haha...well they do that in the Olympics....that's where they get it from...
@@massivebeatzz good to know 👍🏼
Years before smallville fixed it
@@kalel8736 Just an FYI but the original Flash movie did it a decade before Smallville.
Steve would never let Jaime be harmed in any way .
It's a short step from the 6 million dollar man to Superman.....
Ah Jamie Summers, my first love back in the 70’s when I was 7 years old.
Members Only and ozone killing amounts of hairspray! I miss the 80's.
My back is now messed up thanks to this show 👍
Folks can mock the special effects, but for bionic fans, this reunion movie was a major event.
7 year old me watching The Bionic Woman. "So cool, she has bionics just like Steve.. They can be best friends and work together."
17 year old me watching The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman. "Steve got old.. Jaime.. wow... Jaime looks amazing.. so amazing... ~long elated sigh~
As a kid I was very impressed by this series. Looking at it now as a man I had to ask myself....why didn't Steve just follow the kidnappers in his own car?😅
Why didn’t she kick their butts when they drove off , back in the day our minds weren’t so jaded as they are now 🤣
@@stuarto5162 There were very strict rules on violence, back then
@@MERVILLE3 obviously , compared to today
@@MERVILLE3 True. Back then the shows weren't that dark. Steve and Jamie could easily snap necks and kill someone instantly.
Why did Arnold ride the Harley?
I'll have to say they upped the budget for this one, that's the best bionic car toss ever!
lol Fancy seeing you here! I enjoy your rpg content. I guess it makes sense that we like similar things.
I can't get over how different the 80s looked and felt compared to the 70s.
I grew up in the 80s and I can confirm...wicked saxophone riffs would often occur out of nowhere! The saxophone god tragically disappeared around 1995-1996. I still have faith of her return!
There was some overlap between 79-81 but yes very different.
The 80's are the most futuristic era ever. We were introduced to computers, electronic music, CD's, extravagant fashion... We had free speech, and old muscle cars were dirt cheap. In the 90's that utopian outlook made way for a slow and steady decline.
The 70's felt like flower power mixed with the dark ages. Pretty messy in the end, and nowhere to go.
Thus around 1980 everything went overboard, and we started with a clean slate.
Indeed, day & night.
@@STARDRIVE Yeah the 80’s was really the start of high tech.........Most of the innovation now was around in the 80’s just not as refined and mass marketed.
I lived through the 1870's...imagine that difference.
2:29 sweet you can see the cable on the back of the car.
screw the cable...you can see that there is no one inside the for a moment car
😂😂😂 Thanks for ruining the magic. J/K, that was pretty bad.
Special FX crew: Are you sure we shouldn't do more to cover up the cable?
Director: Nah, the audience will be too focused on a guy flipping a car with his bare hands.
It was well known in the 80’s bad guys used station wagons.
The car stops its roll at 2:31 and then they need to pull again to keep it rolling. It's also cool to see the added steel beams in place of bumpers that they attach the wires to. The chrome bumper is later tacked on before the drive away but appears to be the same car.
Every Friday night!, could hardly wait to watch this series! Best show for boys in the mid 1970,s
I’m still trying to figure out how a man running in slow motion can catch up to a fast moving car speeding away. 🤔
80’s GOLD!
They were both supposedly school sweethearts from Ojai, CA where they grew up. Steve became an astronaut and later a test pilot (got seriously injured testing a lifting body, some of his parts replaced by bionic members and thats how he became the 'six million dollar man' the total cost of the surgical operation to save his life); Jaimie was a proffesional tennis player and when she too suffered a terrible accident some of her members were also replaced with bionic parts. Both became agents of OSI and their boss was a cool guy named Oscar Goldman, the person who facilitated the advanced bionic prosthetics technology that saved their lifes. Because now they were important and valuable assets, their lives changed and with their augmented powers they became useful agents for OSI.
Jaime's body started to reject the bionics, originally she died. (Fun Fact Lindsay Wagner wrote out "Jaime" on the set, mis-spelling Jamie, and they kept her spelling of the name. Cheaper than reshooting the scene :) )
Michael used an untested procedure to bring her back but it left her with no memory of Steve beyond him being her friend. She wouldn't get that memory back until this movie.
Wonder if OSI would have set them on an assignment into mardelago.
Gee Thanks Captain Obvious. It's not like any of us knew the origins because we didn't watch it or anything smdh.
The world could have done without this series. But I'm still glad exists.
I think Jamie could help herself.
Exactly smh 🤣🤣 lol
She's not bulletproof. Once the thugs were distracted by Steve, she jumped out.
@@anthonyc411
She didn't need Steve's help lol.
Once she was in the station wagon she should have been able to deal with her capturers.
@@jonathandoelander6130 right but think abigt inecebt pepole
2:19 I love how the guy in the back seat just sits there and does nothing
Don't you know that action is performed in bionic way i.e. very quickly ! The slow motion mode is just there to express the power ...
lol
Absolutely. That scene happened in like 5 seconds.
Those Ford Country Squire station wagons are one tough car. They can be flipped over and still run. I'm heading to my Ford dealer to get my hands on one.
The way he rolled that nearly 5000 lb station wagon was a good reminder as to how powerful Steve was, even in his more aged form...
The editing really hurt that scene, he lifts it with such effort in slow mo then in the next shot the car is doing cartwheels like rims on a tire..
@@kreed82 And, a wire still showing coming from the back of the vehicle.
The force needed for that jump is anstronomic...
Austin and Jaimie were meant to be together as the amazing bionic super team
This is the most 80’s thing ever!😎🤙🏼
Steve's acid-washed jeans....yep it's 1987 alright :D
+Eddie Mullett -- You failed to mention his semi-mullet, his goofy windbreaker or his obsessively shiny white high-top sneakers. LOL.
he almost bionic breakdanced
Was snow-washed better?
Eddie Mullett He went from rescuing people in Bell bottoms in the 70's to rescuing people in acid washed jeans in the 80's
His car tipping stunt double has zero ass in comparison.
Happy Birthday Lee Majors, 78
Happy birthday Lee Major
Amazing POWER!!!!!!!
He can jump 5 stories!!!!
2:28 !
This is the video I used to watch when I was young in 1987. Today I am 60 years old.
Who would have thought slow-motion running would be a big hit!
The greatest secret and mystery of the original series was how they created the bionic sound.
It's literally bugged me since I was a little kid. No one who was associated with the show has ever said on record how they achieved it. Rumor has it that, Charles King, the Sound Designer for the shows, is reported to have braced a metal ruler or yardstick on the edge of a table, pulling and releasing the extended end, then slowing the resultant sound to 25%.
Gotta love the visible cables helping flip the car. 🤣🤣 . Loved these shows as a kid.
I noticed that too. Strange that it's going behind the car and not off to the side or vertical.
Pure fun and excitement when you're 9 years old but when you're an adult you have to wonder how Steve Austin didn't pop all his spinal discs and his arm tear out of the shoulder. Lee Majors actually did suffer a lot of injuries during production.
LMAO!!! Facts
I know Right?!
the one that always got me me was when Jamie started working as a teacher at the air force base and ripped a phone book in half using both her hands.
I would have to reread Martin Caiden's novel, "Cyborg" , but probably the bionic surgerical team reinforced Austin's injured spine after his plane crash in the M3F5/HL-10 with ceramic or other advanced material which would support his spine to lift objects that too heavy for normal human beings to lift
Lee Majors said they always had him do so much running while filming the series.
You know it's all over for the bad guys when you hear, nanananananana
I knew he could jump, but not that high. Lol. He must have had an upgrade.
É hoje eu percebo que eu era feliz e não sabia !!! Filme tão simples e tão bom de assistir naquela época, como eu era fã dessa série que saudades...
Bionic Mullet action...
ㅠNigel Sookram
He traded in his bionic mustache for a bionic mullet!
The best scene of all 3 movies right there! They always had great music!
Lol, Steve was having none of that, lmao!!