Bionic Ever After: The Six Million Dollar Duo's Timeless Impact

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6 ай бұрын

We can rebuild him. We have the technology. Those words launched one of the biggest TV shows of the 1970s, The Six Million Dollar Man, starring Lee Majors as Steve Austin, an astronaut who was badly injured but rebuilt into a superhero using Bionic technology. It ran for five highly rated seasons but also spawned a spin-off that was just as influential, The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner. Both characters would go on to have a lasting place in pop culture and would be reunited in a series of TV movies that brought their on-screen romance to a fitting end, allowing them to live “Bionic Ever After.”
In this supersized episode of Gone But Not Forgotten, we dig into the lasting legacies of both shows and how they came to be in the first place.
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@dqreps 6 ай бұрын

Man I miss these old shows. The nostalgia.

@jamieking8011 6 ай бұрын

Woo! More Steve and Jaime! A wonderful show with great secondary characters. I loved Steve's parents, Oscar Goldman, Dr Rudy Wells, Peggy Callahan not to mention Max the bionic dog and later in a tv movie a bionic Sandra Bullock.

@raaawkstaaar Ай бұрын

I don't remember any of those tv movies AFTER the series ended? Def had no idea Sandra Bullock had starred and also never heard her name pronounced "SHON-DRAH" either! lol

@lloydonlead 6 ай бұрын

I watched Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic woman as a kid. I had a big crush on Lindsey Wagner. They were fun shows back in the day.

@georgeharris6851 6 ай бұрын

I saw him at DragonCon this year, along with Lindsay. He still looks like Steve Austin, only 50 years older.

@ThisOldGuy3 6 ай бұрын

I have the privilege of being old enough to have seen both these series when they originally aired along with all the other great series of the 70/80's. They just can't do great television like they use to. 🤘😎🎸🏍

@raaawkstaaar Ай бұрын

same but I don't remember/recall any of the later '80s and '90s tv movies?!?!?!

@bigneiltoo 6 ай бұрын

Have you seen the cost of Bionic men these days? Scaled to inflation from 1973, the Six Million Dollar man would today be The Forty Six Million Dollar Man.

@raaawkstaaar Ай бұрын

according to Hollywood it would be 6 Billion, i.e "The Six Billion Dollar Man" LOL (working title for the new one that's yet to be)

@f1jones544 6 ай бұрын

Steve Austin was my biggest hero when i was about 7-10. I still have the action figure somewhere. I had Maskstron too. I didn't think Andre the Giant as bigfoot was scary, just awesome.

@bigneiltoo 6 ай бұрын

I still remember "Gentlemen, we can rebuild him" but unfortunately that was the exact moment when my dad would say "BED TIME!"

@f1jones544 6 ай бұрын

@@bigneiltoo lol, that sucks, I understand your pain. I successfully negotiated to stay up an hour later the nights it aired.

@raaawkstaaar Ай бұрын

@@bigneiltoo that sucks, I was born in 1972 so I know I didn't get to see the early seasons until syndication but I watched with my dad I assume the final 2 seasons as they aired? My grandmother ordered the figure for me via catalog and I got it for my 4th Birthday for it was my favorite show. I liked The Bionic Woman as well but not as much! Wonder Woman was up there with SMDM! Back then it was KISS, The SMDM, Charlie's Angels and Wonder Woman! In the '80s it was The Incredible Hulk and The Dukes of Hazzard and of course The Fall Guy!!! Heather Thomas HUBBA HUBBA!!!

@bigneiltoo Ай бұрын

@@raaawkstaaar Bionic Man was one of the coolest toys when I was in first grade. I remember when my friend let me hold one. I got to look through the Bionic eye. I got to peel up the rubber on the Bionic Arm and Leg. I loved Wonder Woman also. And Three's Company. Search on "The Not So Great Imposter".

@njjen3953 6 ай бұрын

My favorite 2 series'.. I have both on DVD.

@MrWorf35 6 ай бұрын

Great video. I had Steve, Oscar and Maskatron action figures as a kid. Actually Oscar's suitcase contains a double bottom, one neat with cardboard files and a radar button, the other wrecked if you open the suitcase the wrong way. Brilliant toy!

@raaawkstaaar Ай бұрын

I had Steve 2nd version w/ the orange steel beam vs. the OG one with the roll down rubber arm and engine block. I was always sorta bummed I didn't get that one. I did have the critical assignment legs. I also had Maskatron.

@MrWorf35 Ай бұрын

@@raaawkstaaar I also had Steve with his orange steel beam and his chaotic rubber arm!

@keith5220 5 ай бұрын

Well done video, paying reverence and respect to these classic tv series as it should be.

@njjen3953 6 ай бұрын

This was awesome. Thank you.

@marpsr 6 ай бұрын

I was so wound up during the Bigfoot episode my mom threatened to turn off the TV. 🤩

@carastone3473 6 ай бұрын

Loved both shows as a kid

@nathanielbacon2661 6 ай бұрын

I loved these shows, especially The Bionic Woman!

@johnpresnell 6 ай бұрын

Uh, that’s Peter Gabriel, not Martin Frost! 😆

@marpsr 6 ай бұрын

My reaction too!

@johnpresnell 6 ай бұрын

I wonder how that happened!

@briandain8432 6 ай бұрын

This show is proof the Golden Age of TV was definitely the 80s...

@johnswift376 6 ай бұрын

You know that photo of "Mark Frost" was actually Peter Gabriel? Right?

@davethetaswegian 6 ай бұрын

I was a young teen when this came out and should have been in the target audience, but every time he performed some amazing feat of strength I couldn't help but think about what would happen to all the squishy non bionic bits in between the bionic legs and arm.

@keith5220 5 ай бұрын

Killjoy

@bigneiltoo 6 ай бұрын

First we had the Six Million Dollar Man. He married the Bionic Woman. She later became the Three Million Dollar Woman after the divorce.

@AndieZ4U2 6 ай бұрын

Oh man. I loved Lindsey Wagner. Pretended I was Bionic Woman as a youngin.

@caseymacmacl7463 6 ай бұрын

That's bizarre! Not even a week ago I made a reference to the 6 Million Dollar Man in a video I made of my cat's kittens!! Heck. they wouldn't even be able to afford the land to build the lab on these days!!

@DWNicolo 6 ай бұрын

Are you ever going to do an episode on Jake 2.0? Lee Majors guest starred on that series as well.

@chrisbellon3739 6 ай бұрын

Funny thing, the The Bionic Woman was remade but not the Six Million Dollar Man

@raaawkstaaar Ай бұрын

the rights were probably A LOT cheaper

@MBDB666 6 ай бұрын

Why am I watching this episode again? 🤔

@cadillacdeville5828 6 ай бұрын

Robot 🤖 Chicken 🐔 had a skit on this, that was pretty funny.

@songsan807 6 ай бұрын

Used to watch both series. I remembered watching the ones with the fembots and that gave me nightmares for life and never was able to get them out of my head.

@templeofleila 6 ай бұрын

13:05 no mention of Bryan Cranston?

@johnpresnell 6 ай бұрын

He puts eyeballs at the bottom of the screen to indicate “hey, look at this!”

@templeofleila 6 ай бұрын

oh yeah, i see now.. @@johnpresnell

@Dr_1212 6 ай бұрын

💪

@carbine090909 6 ай бұрын

jeepers, how tall are Lindsay Wagner and Lynda Carter?

@cadillacdeville5828 6 ай бұрын

My ex-boyfriend used to watch this. 😢

@bigneiltoo 6 ай бұрын

If we remade it, Feminists would say Bionic powers for men are Toxic.

@PhatGirlLuvr68Comix 6 ай бұрын

Deja Vu?

@leonardchilcoat3266 6 ай бұрын

Is this a re-upload? I swear I’ve seen this. 🧐

@PhatGirlLuvr68Comix 6 ай бұрын

@@leonardchilcoat3266 It has to be. I left a comment on the last one because their bionic son was not mentioned.

@Spoohkybooh666 4 ай бұрын

those fembots faces was first my hairs stood on end creep me out for such a sci-fi kinda series ,

@alba4203 6 ай бұрын

Hai tempi belli ora no sense

@jamesbearden3013 6 ай бұрын

I thought Star Wars, the Holiday special was bad, but this was the worst

@raaawkstaaar Ай бұрын

that was Xmas Special was akin to a fever dream but these 2 series were GOLD! '70s PERFECTION! You're in the minority for sure!

@Derpy1969 6 ай бұрын

Too bad Lee Majors had so much plastic surgery he doesn’t look like Steve Austin anymore.

@raaawkstaaar Ай бұрын

he's also 50 years older so there's that