I keep hearing rumors of a "6 Billion Dollar Man" movie and I am intrigued by how they might do callbacks to the original. Surely they won't lean into slow motion, but they gotta do something as a shoutout to the fans.

The opening credits fascinated me as a child. One of the better shows of the 70s.

this was my favorite show when i was a kid, 8 years old or so.

i havent watched the show in 50 years, but a couple of scenes stand out. one time they had steve locked in a tool shed (i think he was posing as a LUMBERJACK for some reason) and there was a guy with a rifle guarding the shed, like 200 yards away. so steve found some bailing wire and using his bionic arm, he wound it into a ball, then using his eye, he zeroed in on the guy and whipped the wire ball at him and it made a whistling sound until it hit him then it mand that "thump-thump-thump" sound. another one was when a rich criminal hired 6 karate guys (all from different styles) to attack steve and he filmed it so as to prove steve was bionic so he could blackmail him. also, the japanese soldier who thought ww2 was still going on and the wolf boy.

you didn't finish the Venis probe story. steve made a hook and screwed it into the hole on top, then a helicopter with a cable came and hooked it and flew it up in the sky and the atmospheric pressure made it explode because it was pressurized for venis's atmosphere

the way i remember the jamie sommers story line is she's steve's girlfriend, and they go skydiving and her chute doesn't open and she's ALMOST killed, and steve goes begging to oscar goldman to save her by making her bionic too. then she got her own show right after that.

I had the biggest crush on Lee Majors when I was about 10 years old 😂 I loved watching the show. I wish my memory of specifics was better!

I spoke to a guy that worked in the studio transportation department and he said the Venus Space Probe was based on a military vehicle called a Ferret.

that space probe that was chasing him around looks like the tesla truck.

What I remember most is Dad made me go to bed at 9 O'clock before the 1st movie. And he apparently hated the show. It was all my school friends talked about and I never got to watch it. Until now.

I thought "Population Zero," I believe it was the second episode(?), was really cool. The bad guy tries to freeze Austin in a warehouse and Steve breaks out, hardly able to move until he warms up, running to stop the bad guy. He eventually picks up a chain-link fence post and throws it into the bad guy's van, and it explodes spectacularly.

Cyborg is a must read. I bought a used copy from ebay for 35 bucks. Over priced, but as a Steve Austin fanatic, I coughed it up. The ending was intense.

The reactors were well insulated! LOL!

Great show's I watched as a kid now were moving into making this into a reality for those with amputated and missing limbs without the six million dollar price tag

ive been waiting for the 6 million dollar man & the bionic woman to have a child

I liked the British show "The Champions" better. It came on a few years before the 6 Million Dollar Man. It's was about three undercover agents who's jet crashes in the Himalayan mountains. They're found by a hidden advanced civilization, their bodies are rebuilt to be strong, faster, and more agile. All their senses were also enhanced and they were endowed with some psychic powers.

I was also interested in reading Cyborg, but didn't think the cost was worth it either. I believe I looked for it about 5 years ago.

I didn’t know the show was based on a book. That’s really cool!

when i was 15 or so, we went to universal studios and the tram car drove through that tunnel. it was disorienting.

You mentioned my favorite one w/ the destruction of the Venus space probe. I dont remember that Steve having his arm replaced but I will have to rewatch that one. Other than the Bionic woman crossover episodes and bigfoot episodes I would say that my favorite episodes were the ones with the actors that got there start on the show like Eric Estrada.

to think i got the book at a flea market back in 77 for 50 cents.

My favorite is “Day of the Robot” with John Saxon and the best bionic fight.

I never understand how a cyborg can make children

The Bigfoot looks so cheesy now 😅

thanks for sharing

I was 8 years old and the faceless robots & fembots scared the crap outta me !!! Probably still would! 😂 I can’t believe they didn’t discuss those ?

13:45 When I was 12, I figured it was impossible for a human back to do that kind of stuff. I thought I knew everything back then.

It isn't fifty years OF the Six Million Dollar Man though, is it? I might be fifty years since the show was first broadcast but production ceased in March 1978.

Liked and subbed. Glad you said "One of the best sci-fi" - best was "Invaders" ;)

$55 bucks for a copy of Cyborg? Let me see if I can find my copy.

The slow pacing of when Steve had to use his bionic parts was a turn off for me. It just looked cheap. An the silly electric sounds. Ouch!

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Nonsense, this series was a technological joke. Two series held the position in those days, Superman (American) and Doctor Who (British). Both had imaginative scripts, a capitated audience, and plenty of drama.

Although the Six Million Dollar Man ,was a very good sci fi show ,I think that the Outer Limits was better, because instead of one type of future science ,like cybernetic body parts ,The Outer Limits covered all types of scientific phenomenon, good and bad ,it reached farther into the scientific imagination, to show what did, could and would happen in the scientific world. Just my opinion, I'm not criticizing your choice.