Ah yes, John Saxon, also known as the first bad Dylan Hunt!
AG, fan of the Alex Cord version of Dylan Hunt.
AG, fan of the Alex Cord version of Dylan Hunt.
Six Million Dollar man??
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Other way around. Ted Cassidy died after the first Sasquatch episode and was replaced by Andre the Giant.
I think they were both initially on ABC, but NBC may have picked up a "return" movie that had a young Sandra Bulloch in it.
Cyborg was indeed a bit different. Caidin didn't have a working eye installed in Austin, instead a prostetic that had a camera for spy stuff. I don't recall a laser eye, but that would be cool.
It was still two legs and one arm though.
Other things that were less fantastic to save Austins life during the crash; artificial heart valve, "borrowing" a chimp liver to supplant his own temporarily, some other things I've forgotten. It's been years since I read it.
Other differences included fold out swim fins in the feet, and a small SCUBA tank in one (or both) thighs for an espionage mission.
Both shows started on ABC which allowed for crossovers initially. When ABC cancelled "Bionic Woman", NBC picked it up for a year or two and the crossovers stopped. They even made Dr. Rudy Wells a bigger part of BW and less in "Six" and Oscar Goldman's BW appearances lessened. The later TV movies played on both networks as interest in the characters ebbed and flowed.
In the Caiden novel, the bionics legs, arm and unseeing eye (it was a camera) were also complemented by some skeletal restructuring and other augmentations which helped explain things like leaping from great heights with little damage to the non-bionics parts of the body. I recommend it as well as Caiden's revisit in the novel "Manfac".
No, you are wrong, Andre was the first Sasquatch, and Cassidy was the replacement following:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0702122/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0702119/
Yes they were both on ABC, but Bionic Woman changed to NBC halfway through it's run as stated below:
I think they were both initially on ABC, but NBC may have picked up a "return" movie that had a young Sandra Bulloch in it.
Cyborg was indeed a bit different. Caidin didn't have a working eye installed in Austin, instead a prostetic that had a camera for spy stuff. I don't recall a laser eye, but that would be cool.
It was still two legs and one arm though.
Other things that were less fantastic to save Austins life during the crash; artificial heart valve, "borrowing" a chimp liver to supplant his own temporarily, some other things I've forgotten. It's been years since I read it.
Other differences included fold out swim fins in the feet, and a small SCUBA tank in one (or both) thighs for an espionage mission.
Both shows started on ABC which allowed for crossovers initially. When ABC cancelled "Bionic Woman", NBC picked it up for a year or two and the crossovers stopped. They even made Dr. Rudy Wells a bigger part of BW and less in "Six" and Oscar Goldman's BW appearances lessened. The later TV movies played on both networks as interest in the characters ebbed and flowed.
In the Caiden novel, the bionics legs, arm and unseeing eye (it was a camera) were also complemented by some skeletal restructuring and other augmentations which helped explain things like leaping from great heights with little damage to the non-bionics parts of the body. I recommend it as well as Caiden's revisit in the novel "Manfac".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0702119/
I had heard (YMMV) that Martin Caidan was the one holding up the release of the 6MDM DVD's because he never really liked the series and still owned the rights to the names of the characters (Steve Austin, Oscar Goldman, etc.) Jamie Somers was a creation of Ken Johnson's, so that's why they could that cruddy remake a couple of years back.
Fave episodes:
Fave episodes:
- Any with Bigfoot. Love that hairy geek
- Any of the killer robot episodes: the first one with John Saxon as a friend of Steve's who replaced with a robot duplicate created by Henry Jones, and then Jones comes back with a duplicate of Oscar! After that, we get the Fembots, which was a big 6MDM/BW cross-over. The sequel to the Fembots on BW was after they jumped to NBC, so they had to remove all references to Steve Austin for that one!
- The one where he goes to Indochina or some Far East local to find out what happened to his father during WWII. For some reason this one stuck with me.
- Finding John Fujioka on a deserted jungle island; he's a Japanese kamikaze pilot who doesn't know the war's over, and he feels he can't go home because the shame of his surviving.
- The Seven Million Dollar Man. Monte Markham. Nuff said.
- Sonny Bono as his old college buddy who is now a rock star. It's cheezy. It's dumb. I still love it.
It's been a really long time so I don't remember the entire plot of this episode but it stuck with me: there's a guy in a truck beaming some kind of sound waves at Steve, trying to disable him. Steve picks up a chain-link fencepost with a big chunk of cement on the end of it and hurls it at the truck like a missle. I'd like to see the whole episode again someday.
IIRC, that was "Population Zero," the first regular run episode. It started off like a takeoff of The Andromeda Strain, where everybody in a small town was apparently killed (they were actually all knocked unconscious using ultrasonic waves). The truck that Steve hurled the cement post through was the bad guys' mobile HQ.
That's it! Thanks.
After he was stuck in a freezer that negated his bionics (I even renacted those scenes..
).. Before the network and Lee Majors even thought Steve wasn't a cold blooded killer..One of the more better episodes..
I have read it. It is interesting, but very dated.
Dusty Ayres
Commodore
Don't waste your time-the executives at NBC Universal would just delete your e-mail letter and they will most likely ignore your-snail mail letter as well, to say nothing of any petitions. To further understand what I'm saying, read this article on what not to do:
Clueless Morons
What Mr. Goldberg says here applies to most of these campaigns/petitions that are mounted to get shows on DVD; read it and take heed of what to really do.
Dusty Ayres
Commodore
ABC only aired the program, they don't own it, nor did they make it; that responsibility belongs to NBC Universal.
Awhile back I got the urge to see the Death Probe episodes. I found them on You Tube. Don't know if they are still there, but take a look.
Based on the comments posted here, I went ahead and order "El Hombre Nuclear" from Amazon.com.
This set is FANTASTIC! Never have the colour and picture been sharper and clearer. Nothing like the washed out versions that have been airing on the Sci-Fi channel and in syndication for years. As stated before, these episodes all appear to be the original uncut versions.
So until all the legal issues over ownership regarding the SMDM are settled, this may be the best and only option for viewing a Region One dvd of this classic series.
Sadly, it appears they have only released season one so far.
This set is FANTASTIC! Never have the colour and picture been sharper and clearer. Nothing like the washed out versions that have been airing on the Sci-Fi channel and in syndication for years. As stated before, these episodes all appear to be the original uncut versions.
So until all the legal issues over ownership regarding the SMDM are settled, this may be the best and only option for viewing a Region One dvd of this classic series.
Sadly, it appears they have only released season one so far.
That's great. I wish that I could afford it.
I hadn't heard this. Do the rights problems include the music too?
I think they were both initially on ABC, but NBC may have picked up a "return" movie that had a young Sandra Bulloch in it.
Cyborg was indeed a bit different. Caidin didn't have a working eye installed in Austin, instead a prostetic that had a camera for spy stuff. I don't recall a laser eye, but that would be cool.
It was still two legs and one arm though.
Other things that were less fantastic to save Austins life during the crash; artificial heart valve, "borrowing" a chimp liver to supplant his own temporarily, some other things I've forgotten. It's been years since I read it.
Other differences included fold out swim fins in the feet, and a small SCUBA tank in one (or both) thighs for an espionage mission.
Both shows started on ABC which allowed for crossovers initially. When ABC cancelled "Bionic Woman", NBC picked it up for a year or two and the crossovers stopped. They even made Dr. Rudy Wells a bigger part of BW and less in "Six" and Oscar Goldman's BW appearances lessened. The later TV movies played on both networks as interest in the characters ebbed and flowed.
In the Caiden novel, the bionics legs, arm and unseeing eye (it was a camera) were also complemented by some skeletal restructuring and other augmentations which helped explain things like leaping from great heights with little damage to the non-bionics parts of the body. I recommend it as well as Caiden's revisit in the novel "Manfac".
Actually in the reunion movie The Return Of The Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman that aired on NBC in 1987 made Steve a bit more in-line with Caiden's version. They showed Wells discussing the differences between Steve's bionics and his son's (who became bionic in that movie), and it was shown that Steve had titanium reinforcement work done to his spine and shoulders when he had the initial bionic replacement work done. Also, the titanium was the unspoken reason why his bionics could bend regular steel.
I also seem to recall in one of the later season's episodes where Steve was doing some deep sea work and they had his air line attached to one of his legs. So he did have the SCUBA option built in.
FYI, I still have the VHS tape recording of the Return movie from it's original airing. I had it sealed up in a box for many years and only came across it a couple of months ago and it held up pretty well. As I rewatched it I also used my DV bridge to transfer it (minus commercials) to my computer and to DVD. It now resides as a 1.08GB .m4v file on my hard drive and ready to play on iPods.
Ok, I still don't understand. How do a reinforced shoulder and spine help one arm bend steel. I can see him crushing steel in one hand, but bending would require both arms working together. If one arm is bionic and the other muscle and bone, the bionic arm should have pulled his non-bionic arms apart at the elbow; or ripped the hand off. I just dont see how a non-bionic arm can provide the resistence or force needed to bend steel.
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