The 80s is when the drum machine and click tracks started to dominate the landscape.
Too many of those songs lack punch or "thwack".
Too many of those songs lack punch or "thwack".
That was me as well. On the playground all the kids were doing slow motion fighting as well.Not me. But I played a lot of bionic music in my head while walking or running. Steve and Jaime made way better role models than Travolta in that movie, even if I did jump off a roof once. Into a snowbank. I was fine.
Six Million Dollar Man was a little before my time in elementary and middle school, so, I don't know if any of us were doing bionic sound effects when we out on the playground.
The show, six million dollar man, had to find it's legs (no pun intended). has anyone seen the pilot (again no pun intended!!) movie ? It was much darker and somber, much of it focusing on Steve's emotions and feelings about his new situation....then the next few episodes had more of a James Bond / 007 feel (which really didn't work)...I think by the second season or late in the first season, they ditched all that for the standard 1970s action flair (and campiness?) that most series of the time had.
That was me as well. On the playground all the kids were doing slow motion fighting as well.
Yes we definitely did the slow-motion, "nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh" sound effect, bionic action fighting and running.
Good times.
I purchased the complete SIX MILLION series about 30 years after it was made. I wish it had aged well, but it bores me immensely now. Even when we were younger many of us craved for the slow-motion moments to speed up. Imagine the excitement if all the action was as fast as the opening promo.
For similar reasons I always shut off the original HAWAII FIVE-O the moment they took their first commercial break. All downhill from then regardless of who guest stars.*
(*Even if it's Captain Murray Big Chicken from THE SAND PEBBLES.)
For similar reasons I always shut off the original HAWAII FIVE-O the moment they took their first commercial break. All downhill from then regardless of who guest stars.*
(*Even if it's Captain Murray Big Chicken from THE SAND PEBBLES.)
I still get a little shudder when I remember the time they were remodeling the office I worked at in the late 70s, and the boss's wife/secretary said, with bright glee, "Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if we put in Muzak!?"
Yep. And turning at speed would be tricky. You’re going to have a wide turning radius, and if you put a foot wrong you’re going for a spill.
It helped that Lee Majors ran track in high school.
He was able to run convincingly in slow motion and didn't have his arms flailing about like some actors do when running.
He was able to run convincingly in slow motion and didn't have his arms flailing about like some actors do when running.
Also, while leaping up high to a ledge would work the 'leaping down from 30'-60' ' should still have caused great injury because Steven Austin's human skeleton wasn't replaced and at some point; the Bionic legs are still attached to Human bone; and gravity still works so he'd be fracturing some part when 'landing' from a high height.
Nah. Bend the knees. It’ll be fine!Also, while leaping up high to a ledge would work the 'leaping down from 30'-60' ' should still have caused great injury because Steven Austin's human skeleton wasn't replaced and at some point; the Bionic legs are still attached to Human bone; and gravity still works so he'd be fracturing some part when 'landing' from a high height.
Also, while leaping up high to a ledge would work the 'leaping down from 30'-60' ' should still have caused great injury because Steven Austin's human skeleton wasn't replaced and at some point; the Bionic legs are still attached to Human bone; and gravity still works so he'd be fracturing some part when 'landing' from a high height.
I can't remember if Martin Caidin, the original author of the book that was adapted, or the TV pilot, ever explained how this was to work. Kids used to Superman doing that in daily reruns after school didn't question, we assumed they fixed it during the $6,000,000.00 surgery. A gaping plot hole in a top rated TV show?
Also, while leaping up high to a ledge would work the 'leaping down from 30'-60' ' should still have caused great injury because Steven Austin's human skeleton wasn't replaced and at some point; the Bionic legs are still attached to Human bone; and gravity still works so he'd be fracturing some part when 'landing' from a high height.
So, you’re saying the Six Million Dollar Man wasn’t realistic?
No more so than Wolverine having functional bone marrow (who needs red blood cells anyway?) inside that adamantium.So, you’re saying the Six Million Dollar Man wasn’t realistic?
His cells are the best there is at what they do.
Some episodes are still great. Some are pretty bad. Things took a dive once the mustache showed up. And Lee was pretty bored in the last couple of seasons. But some of the latter episodes were imaginative and fun.
Pre-school me was pretty excited about The Six Million Dollar Man, but I guess I was too young. The thing I remember the most about the first run was the episode when Austin fights the android John Saxon. When the android’s face flew off I was so freaked out I had to get away from the TV and spent the rest of the evening hunkered down in my room.
Almost as memorable, and still good for a laugh:
Almost as memorable, and still good for a laugh:
If I’m working in an office, the Muzak could be my favorite music ever and I’d still hate it for distracting me from doing my frickin’ job.I still get a little shudder when I remember the time they were remodeling the office I worked at in the late 70s, and the boss's wife/secretary said, with bright glee, "Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if we put in Muzak!?"
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