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• The Six Million Dollar...
Stam Fine revisits The Six Million Dollar Man, the defining 1970's action series with a Sci-Fi Twist. Colonel Steve Austin is horrifically injured in a plane crash and rebuilt using bionic parts, making him better, stronger and faster. Starring Lee Majors, Richard Anderson as Oscar Goldman, Alan Oppenheimer and Martin E Brooks as Rudy Wells, with appearances by Lindsay Wagner as Jaime Sommers, the Bionic Woman. Also, make the sound. You know the one I mean.
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0:00 Introduction
0:55 Cyborg/ The Six Million Dollar Man TV movies
06:39 The Weekly Series
07:57 Story Types and Slow Motion Action
11:01 Ladies Man
11:58 Jaime Sommers
13:59 The Bionic Woman and Spin-offs
16:06 The Sound Effect
17:04 Better, Stronger, Faster
18:23 Bigfoot, Fembots, Death Probe
20:32 The Final Season
21:38 Continuity/ Peggy
22:20 Fun Absurdities
23:03 After the series
24:12 Guest Stars
25:25 Summary
Note: a slip of the tongue in the narration mentions a 'fatal' crash. It should be 'fateful' crash. - Zábava
Lee Majors was the right person for The Six Million Dollar Man I grew up watching this show and I love it a classic .
If you think about Lee Major must be the luckiest man when comes to tv séries , he made that country western one in the 60’s then the 6 million dollars man in the 70’s then in the 80’s he does Fall Guy what was to me one of my all time greatest tv show ! He’s legendary for sure and omg he’s cool the stuff he made back then set the bar for cool !
@@chocodiledundee1 Yes he did I hope they would play the old classic on DirecTV
They considered Burt Reynolds. Burt without his mustache and goofy laugh might have worked...but I'm glad they went with Lee Majors. He was perfect.
@@JohnDoe-yi4xd No Lee Major fits right in he was just made for that part.
We need a remake with Queen Latifah as Steve Austin.
I grew up watching the 6 Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Women. A few year later when I was running Cross Country in HS, during the steep hills when your speed slowed down, I would play the BIONIC SOUND in my head, tricking myself to think I was actually running at super human speed. It got me to push through the toughest part of the course.
Steve and Jamie were both my heroes when I was young. They still are in a way.
Yep I did that too. I loved this show, I even bought a Datsun 260Z when I grew up just because he looked so cool driving it.
Best comment on this video.
Mind over matter, and little inspiration from your favorite superhero. I love it!
hahahahahahahahahahahaha, that's so cool!!!
I was born in 1967, so I was the perfect age for this show. It was a lot of fun.
I was born in 1968,so i was the perfect age for this show too, Lee Majors was my "idol", ha, ha
I was in love with him I was about 10 and 9 and 75 and I loved this man
I'm still Watch it on the NBC app from Time to time specially on Weekends
75 here. This show, came on at 2 pm on Saturdays followed by The Incredible Hulk at 3. Visually gobbled them both up every weekend.
I was born in 1966. I currently own the Time-Life complete series DVD set. I heard the series is getting a North America blu-ray release, but it's a little out of my budget right now, dammit.
Jamie Sommers was a dream. Absolutely badass, yet always classy. Fearless and kind. And she was so poised, even in the middle of action scenes. My 6 years old self was completely in love with her.
I stopped liking her when she cheated on Steve. He did everything for her and she dumped him. For some guy who couldn't even lift a car.
@@trhansen3244 she lost her memory. And Steve was constantly hooking up with other girls in his show. Besides, I was going to marry her when I grew up, so it didn't disturb me anyway. Lol
@@zanizone3617 She was getting high a lot. She tried to get high with bigfoot.
I agree. Strong women characters have been around for decades, look at Ellen Ripley. These days a "strong" woman character has to be hacking off a man's genitals while calling him racist. I just don't get it.
Lindsay Wagner as Jamie won an Emmy award for best actress in 1977 for Bionic Woman which was a first for sci fi show. I always thought she was a great actress and so did others!!
Loved this show!! If you grew up in the 70’s I think you’d say this show is ICONIC.
I had the “action figures”, other associated toys. “Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology”.😆😁👍🏽
Classic
I currently own a few of the toys, including the Kenner Turbo Tower of Power sets. The TTP line is one of my favorites from the 1970's next to Star Wars, The Micronauts, and Ideal's Evel Knievel.
I remember those! It had that plastic sleeve you could peel back to reveal the bionic components.
It is more than iconic. It's BIONIC !
@@StamFine por tugues
The Six Million Dollar Man ran from the time I was 9 until I was 13 and I absolutely loved it. I even got the Steve Austin action figure for Christmas.
Somewhat ironically, the action figure had more acting ability and charisma than Majors himself.....
I can still smell the plastic of the Steve Austin doll as I would press my face to the back of its head to look through the bionic eye. I had his spaceship and multiple Metal 6 Million Dollar Man lunchboxes with a thermos!
@@daveroche6522 DAMN!🤣🤣🤣
@@originalkingalpha5116 IT'S TRUE! IT'S TRUE! IT'S em, COMPLETELY SUBJECTIVE....
@@daveroche6522 🍻😂
One of the best TV shows of all time. As a grown adult now, I still sometimes run in slow motion 😅
I grew up watching this too and yeah, whenever I run nowadays it's definitely in slow motion!
exactly .. this is happened with me too hahahah
@@DaveJOHAZ I don't always run. But when I do, it's in slow motion.
I absolutely loved this show when I was a kid! Actually, I still love this and The Bionic Woman today. I remember imitating the Six Million Dollar Man after each episode. I would run and jump in "slow motion" around the neighborhood. I would also do the same thing on the schoolyard. My best friend, at the time, Khali, had the Kenner SMD toys and we loved playing with those! One of my biggest regrets, was seeing Mr. Lee Majors at a Walker Stalker Con a few years ago and not telling him how much he meant to me as a kid and as an adult. There was nobody at his booth, at the time, but, for some strange reason, I passed up this rare opportunity. I honestly don't understand why I didn't say anything to him.
I loved the Six Million Dollar Man as a kid and later the Bionic Woman. They were great role models. Too bad we don't have anything like that today.
The crossovers would give me goosebumps.
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It was really great to have a female hero of a show. Very ahead of its time. Watching as an adult, I do sort of cringe at the sexist dialogue in some episodes. But, Jaime brilliantly silenced those men with her strength.
There will never be shows as cool as these two.
@@tod1way No need to "cringe" if they're supposed to be jerks.
@@mikehunt4986 ooh wow! I never thought of it like that. Excellent! 🙂
I always have teary eyes when I watch the credit sequence. Just feeling of the good memories and happiness of watching the series at the time. Yes, iconic.
It's in my top 5, with Space 1999 and The Persuaders.
Space 1999 and The Persuaders! we’re great. What are your other two?
And later the fall guy then street hawk,knight rider then the A-team
Agreed!! The Avengers, The Incredible Hulk, The Bionic Woman, The Prisoner, Mission Impossible , The Man from Atlantis, all the great Shows when I was a Kid!!
My favorite show of entire childhood. Just plain fun.
I was 12 years old when The Six Million Dollar Man first aired. I remember thinking that this was the most amazing and futuristic show around (I discovered Star Trek TOS on it's first re-run). I couldn't wait for it to air every week.
Lee Majors was perfect in the role. You always had total confidence in Steve Austin to complete the task at hand because of what Lee brought to the role. Would have loved to see him go into A class movies. But of course he was so good in The Fall Guy.
Thanks for the awesome review.
Glad you enjoyed!
@Bad Ape I could not have said it better myself.
This really was one of the best TV memories of my childhood. Thanks for this. 👍
Mine too!
Same. Crazily I wrote a remake script like 15 years ago because I loved it so much.
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Me too
Yes! Sunday nights at 8pm on ABC, lol, we used to run in slow motion pushing our jacket tails up in the air at recess! Lol , good times!
The Six Million Dollar Man is one of the best TV shows that came out in the 70's.
yup!
LP
Also, with its spin-off the Bionic Women. She proved you could be female, kick butt, and still be 100% a lady. Nowadays, all the females roles cuss like sailors and chew tobacco.
i would go a say as was the incredible hulk as a kid back then when the six million dollar man ended i remembered how sad i was they didn't do any more but that stopped when the hulk tv show came on.
@@krane15 Or if they were a man for 33 years and transform to a woman for the past 2 years. We must allow them to compete in women's weigh lifting sports etc. with biological females without being skeptical about what hormones a "former" man was exposed to and can easily out perform all the biologically born females. Due to 33 years of testosterone and not getting into bone density and structural difference. This is where the ridiculous people say to ignore science or be accused of being a bigot.
Steve Austin was perhaps the very first well written TV action superhero before the rest that came later (that was not campy like early Batman or Superman) and played with more of a serious drama (mixed in with occasional humor) and was somewhat believable with scientific explanations. Great review!
Even Terminator movie star Arnold S. said he watched the Bionic series and Lee Major as a youth, which might have inspired his own movies later. Arnold called Lee the very first cyborg action star before Terminator.
The Six Million Dollar Man was Superman meets The Man From UNCLE and it ws a ten year cycle Six Million Dollar Man 1974,The Terminator 1984.
Fun fact: Back in the day, I tested all new pairs of knock-off trainers from the indoor market by making THAT noise
and running in slow-motion whilst watching my reflection in the patio window!
The REALLY sad thing was... I was 28 years of age! 😉💪🇬🇧
It had THE BEST INTRO to any show...
Still looks cool today 😎
You see something like SMDM and ask yourself why other shows don't have intros this cool. I think here it all just came together really well.
The intro was brilliant.
Yeah it was definitely cutting-edge even by 2day's standards...
What makes it even more impressive is that the graphics were before CGI. But it was also an ingenious way to encapsulate his origin in a bit over a minute. It sucked you into the entire concept if you were a first time viewer . But mainly, yeah.. coolest intro ever.
@@teddibearsworld Good point
Even today, that intro still raises the hairs on the back of my neck! I loved this show!
So good!
Me too. So damn dramatic.
Love this great memories of wonderful times...The Death Probe really had me going as a kid as I thought Steve was finished! God, I was so into the Six Million Dollar Man...
Nice!
Six Million Dollar Man was one of the best tv shows from my childhood. Sunday nights watching this show was the best.
Im 54 and Richard Anderson and Lee Majors were an acting match made in Heaven. Looking back a lot of this might be dated but they were absolutely excellent.
One of the first TV shows I remember as a child...Good times. Thanks for the memories.
Two of my favorite shows during the 70's. I was a young boy when the 6 million dollar man came out, and I had one of the toys, I don't remember if I had the Steve Austin toy or the Bigfoot toy, but me and my friend who lived next door, would spend hours playing with them.
I always used to think hang on he's only got one bionic arm how is he equalizing the force when he bends an iron bar. 😂😂😂loved this show though. And Night Rider, Dukes of Hazard, Starsky and Hutch, some fucking great shows from that era, Kojak, Columbo. A golden age if ever there was one. Now what do we get, Love Island. Cheap disposable TV.
I'm 56 and was addicted to this show as a kid. I recently came across the series on a streaming site and couldn't even get through one episode 😛
Four years old in 1976 and this made being born worthwhile!
Good to see so many people connected with this show.
I was 13. I had the action figure, my favorite show growing up. I can still see Steve Austin vs Bigfoot. A great time to be a kid.
Yes... Remember it well... Gonna watch it asap
I had a 'Six Million Dollar Man' watch!
I had Steve Austin, Sasquatch, and the android with the different faces and "exploding briefcase".
I love it, I remember when I was young, I'm always watching the Six Million Dollas Man.
The best episode is the one in which Steve is sent to a deserted south pacific island to retrieve a nuclear device, only to be captured by a Japanese soldier who was still fighting WWII. It was a quiet and touching story, with emphasis on the relationship that develops between the two very different men. (The Japanese character would return in a later episode).
That's the sort of episode that showed the range of the series. It wasn't all slo-mo bust ups.
For me it was all the bigfoot episodes
Did you detect any homosexual undertones in that episode? Today, they had a gay kiss in Star Trek. Was Hollywood beginning the gay acceptance trend in the 1970s?
@@brianvector I think it was just bromance. In the 70's any hint of homosexuality would have had parents the world over turning off the tv when SMDM aired, and harmed Majors' image and career. Networks outside the US might not have even aired the show.
The first Big Foot episode was the best.
As a kid in the 70s I loved this show and still do, One of my first vivid memories was watching the episode when Steve was fighting the big foot played by the late Andre the Giant which then sparked a life long interest in Sasquatch, was the first time I had ever heard of such a thing and remember asking my father what that big hairy guy was. Good memories of a better simpler time
For many years in the 1990s, Lindsay Wagner did tv commercials for the Ford dealers in British Columbia. They were very well received, and people complained when they stopped.
I see that Wagaer and Majors maintains a friendship and have appeared together as recently as 2017 in a Halmark movie.
Happy 83rd Birthday to the Awesome Lee Majors. I love having you as a birthday buddy. Hope you had a wonderful, peaceful, beautiful day today. You are definitely one of the Best! Take Care, Stay Well, Stay Safe, and Love You Always! God Bless You Lee.
One of the defining characters of my youth - Steve Austin was a modern day Captain America to me. Unlike most comic book super heroes at the time Austin always seemed to have empathy for his rivals.
Austin does not treat his antagonists as mere “monsters”, existing only to be beaten into oblivion for a neat episode action scene. In my favorite episode, The Pioneers, an astronaut wrapped up in an experiment gone wrong, not unlike Austin himself is driven to bouts of super-human strength and uncontrollable rage. At one point armed local authorities start taking shots at this tortured man and Austin, fresh off a battle with this astronaut launches himself at the attackers and sends a rifle sailing into the distance, yelling, “No! He’s a man!”
Despite his opponent’s threat Austin empathizes with the man, even tries to protect him.
Classic stuff in an era where the easiest way into any story was the classic “us vs them”, demonizing someone or something as an excuse to kill or pummel them.
And nobody can run like Lee Majors. He really sold those slow motion running shots.
$6 million man is simply the best the best years of my life is the 70s
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As I remember reading, the Six Million Dollar Man was on over 60 percent of American TVs at its height when it aired originally. In watching it now, the story writing and character acting still make it interesting to watch and the nostalgia of reliving life from the 70s and watching TV as it was then with a lot of recognizable guest stars. I was in my early teens when it aired! Most popular show on TV at the time.
It was a popular show, and our review is by far one of our most watched vids, so that makes sense.
It was huge overseas as well in Brazil where I grown up it was massive success!
Ahh such Nostalgia! I remember first watching it as a 6 yr old in the UK then moving abroad. There I would demonstrate the slow motion move & no one got me. But then the series arrived and it exploded on TV! What a series
Nothing else on TV in the 70's got me as excited as this show. i was only 8 when it finished so there wasn't much on TV I was allowed to see and it was like mental sugar to me. After every episode I would have to run around the garden at slow speed, pretending I was running at super high speed (du-nu-nu-nu-nu-nu-nu-nu-nu), or find small sticks to break or throw. It's really difficult to jump off the roof of a garden shed in slow motion, but if you roll and tumble just right you can break into a slow motion sprint and totally sell the effect.
The lack of slow motion in real life was a bummer. A kid's imagination makes up for it somewhat.
The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, UFO, Space 1999, Man From Atlantis, Battlestar Galactica, and Buck Rogers In the 25th Century were my go to shows during the 1970’s.
Bro I was born in the 70’s I totally get you 110%, your words touched my soul , it’s the cliche “ if you explain to anyone outside our generation they wouldn’t understand “ this show was something else indeed so was the Incredible Hulk ! All the best from south Australia 🇦🇺
@@kevinnelson66 oh man you and I would’ve got along famously. you listed every TV show that sparked my imagination and made my childhood so special. Colonel Steve Austin was my hero. I think I’m going to run upstairs in slow motion as a sentimental tribute. Of course, at 53, that’s about the only speed I can muster.
@@chocodiledundee1 very special show. I reminisce constantly about how much fun it was.
The bionic eye sound effect is pretty iconic too. The title sequence is also particularly good, especially compared to other mainstream shows of the time.
yes, everything came together on this series.
Let's not forget Jamie Sommers' bionic ear sound effect as well.
I loved The 6 million dollar man as a kid, it was my favourite programme, Saturday night on ITV. We used to renenact it in the playground.
As a kid back in the 70s he was my hero, i had the action figure with a plastic car engine it gripped.
It made the iconic bionic sound when a key was turned on its back the arm lifted the engine, kids were easily satisfied with less back then lol
This was an excellent retrospective of a time in TV that's long gone. I grew up and lived for these shows. I had the Six Million Dollar. man action figure too. Great stuff!
I’m from England and when British TV aired it I never missed an episode
This takes me back to my early teenage years which where for me happy
It was an ICONIC series because you were given the notion of a bionic man
40 plus years hence medical science has almost come full circle
I remember when my family came over from England during Christmas I could tell the show was popular in the UK by my cousin's 'Gift Wish List' which he would gleefully recite, over and over and over again. 😂 "I want the bionic man rocket, bionic man with exploding legs, bionic man with changeable faces, Oscar Goldman..."
@@Stevenisbelieven I always say to myself I was born in the best decade which was the 60’s
I was then old enough to watch from the early 70’s great British TV series like the hard hitting The Sweeney and the Professionals also American series like Kojak and Starsky and Hutch
I know that life moves on and we grow up to be responsible adults🤨🤨🤨🥂🥂and the entertainment world like TV and films change supposedly for the better but for me I have become less interested in MAINSTREAM TV
and Films in Britain over a long period of time
I have been watching lots of old British films and TV from the 60’s,70’s and some 80’s and no way in the WOKE world today could they be shown
I was watching last week the Oscars channel and all the wonderful, glamorous TRUE STARS like Sophia Loren, Angie Dickinson and John Wayne, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, Peter Sellers, Sean Connery
They were all such naturally beautiful people❤️❤️👌🏻👌🏻
I was 9 when this was first shown on British tv , I came in whilst playing football outside for a drink of water , my Dad was watching the pilot episode and I watched this guy chained to a wall suddenly rip the chain from the it and smash the door down ! I didn’t go back out and was hooked on this show from that moment 🤗. Great memories!
Darn, I loved that part of the yellow pages being torn in half while she talk to her class.
I was born in 73 so i loved the show had the toys and have great memories from those amazing days ❤️
Nice!
I hatched in 73 and watched it too
okay dude…you are officially funny as HELL!
Dry, smart & historical humor is the BEST type of humor!!!
Born in the 80s but I remember watching reruns on other stations during the summer visiting family in Florida. Loved the opening music for some reason. 😁
Loved this show! Had the doll and I even was picked as a kid at Universal Studios to play the Bionic man on the tram ride in the 70's! I had to lift a car and kick the tire which would explode! All my friends at school loved me for weeks after our field trip!
I grew up in the 70s and yep I loved watching 6 million dollar man. I also watched bionic woman too. Lol😉
Two very good shows worth watching.
Loved the bionic man as a kid. Lee Majors is a hometown hero
Yeah, it was a great show.
My Dad new him in his high school days. His real name was Harvey Yeary
@Gerry S.S middlesboro kentucky. his mother lived there until she died.
That was GREAT ! It was the first thing that came on when my Dad bought our first colour TV. All us kids loved it. Great editting and witty commentary here.
You live in Ojai? 😆
Its the best . TV show of my youth. the 70s. IV got all of the six million doller man on dvd . Love it
Definitely loved watching it in the 70s and 80s. Bionic Woman as well. Great childhood memories. I wanna go back soooo bad!
To this day I fondly remember the joy I got when I opened my presents that Christmas and found out I had the 6 MDM doll, with bionic eye and grip. Crazy how popular this show was! My next favorite toy from that era was the Evil Knievel doll with motorcycle!
Sweet!
The bionic characters and Evel Knievel were the best toys of the time.
Definitely my hero growing up in the 70's. I even received a postcard from Lee Majors when I was six years old, I took it to school to show my teacher and friends. I loved my Six Million Dollar man doll - awesome when you're a little kid. Does anyone remember the Six Million Dollar Man digital watch?
A watch? that would have very cool.
I think my brother made me eat the "computer chip" from our figurine's forearm.
He said it was a magic chip. I was a kid. I ate it.
It didn't make me Bionic.
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Or did it?
Yes... Got one Christmas 1978
Don't remember the watch but had a snap together model of him wrestling bigfoot(you had to pain it yourself. ..aaahh nostalgia
I had a conventional Bionic man watch. It had a blue leather band. I didn't know they had a digital. That's really cool!
Awesome many thanks Lee majors and Lindsay Wagner six million Dollar Man Bionic woman greatest compliment you and Lee majors from William wade 💝😁👍❣️ o🎥🎥🎥🎥
My Childhood Hero! Steve Austin/Lee Majors, The Six Million Dollar Man!💖✨
he was definitely a hero to many.
Another great classic 70s series recap! I loved both shows as a kid. About 10 years ago I bought the DVDs and saw all 3 pilots for the first time, and my fam all binged Bionic Woman on Netflix which has held up pretty well.
The golden age of TV, better days & better times, 😎👍👍
In 1976 I walked into a barber shop with my dad, showed my Steve Austin action figure, and carefully instructed the barber to give me the figure's exact haircut -- replete with forehead cowlick/roll. The barber obliged as well as he could with my wavy curls, and I continued making "ch-ch-ch-ch" noises on the playground in slo mo for the next two years.
amazing. He had probably the most unfashionable haircut for the mid 70's (i.e short hair) but was really a style icon.
Just sensational. I was 5 years old when the series got into its stride and he and Tom Baker were my first heroes. Have the doll and the spaceship, still, and decades later my sons all loved playing with it as they were growing up. And like you said, a genuine cultural impact - everyone used 'bionic' to describe superstrength and you were right, we all made the sound and had slow motion fights in the playground! Thanks for capturing such happy memories.
I used to write stories in school about The Six Million Dollar Man and Tom Baker Doctor Who around 1975 - they'd kind of get merged together. I wish I still had them!
Loved this show as a kid. And the death probe (while it may seem silly today) scared me as a child. In my reasoning if the bionic man had trouble with it what chance did I have! 😬
Death Probe. The name is so melodramatic. Yet, Steve Austin had to use science to defeat it rather than just breaking it with his trick arm.
The sound the Venus Probe made is still horrifying today.
That probe scared me too. I showed that episode to my son and he laughed. Ah well!
When I was a small child that death probe machine thing scared the crap out of me. I remember watching it with my dad and he had to finally turn the channel because I was hysterically scared. Lol. Even now, it still creeps me out.
Those probe episodes were my favorite but, yeah, they scared me also when I was a kid in the 70's. Those things were so unbeatable! And the SOUND that they made as they approached was scary just by itself.
Yeah there was something extra scary about the death probes. Not sure why.
"Turn the channel" better explain that to the young ones.
I remember well the Six Million Dollar Man AND The Bionic Woman . I was just a teenager when they came out and watched them both and enjoyed them both . I also remember when Maximillian was on the Bionic Woman he was a German Shepard and also bionic .
One of my most favorite shows of all time
It was great watching it in the 70s for the first time.
I can still watch all the great episodes that were memorable
Big Foot, Bionic Woman, Cyborgs....etc
it sure was a great show.
My favorite show when I was growing up in the 70s. It was so high tech in its day.
Six million dollar man...what a TV show ...Lee Majors
I had two action figures. One of Steve Austin and a robot. I loved that show so much. I can remember being ABSOLUTELY CONSUMED with the Death Probe episode and all of the Bigfoot/robot/aliens shows.
I actually wanted to change my name to Steve when I was about 8.
I thought he was the coolest thing ever!.
Thanks mate!.
Z.
There's even a doco about the power of that name "The Tao of Steve."
That's so funny. I thought I was so cool cuz my name was Steve... I could do the single eyebrow raise thing, of course I had to do the sound effect with it -DT DT DT DTtt... 😆 hahaha so stupid.
What a great retrospective. And the intro still holds up. No remake could ever, ever match this intro. If I was to direct a remake, the intro would be shot-for-shot the same. Same music too.
It was a good idea, well executed.
I met Lee when I was a little kid. Long before the Six Million Dollar Man. Back when he played role of Heath Barclay on western show called Big Valley. His cousin/friend was married to our baby sitter...and he was at their home once when my brothers and I were being watched while Mom was at work.
I was all of 22 when this show aired. I use to stay home just to catch an episode. Your commentary literally restored memories of this show. Now I want to watch it again, especially the episodes where he goes into space. Thanks for the renewed memories. I added a thumbs up. Fantastic all around. For those of us that watched and loved this show, I would like to point out, the tech they showed weekly was actually, for that time period, state of the art. So again, thanks for the post, that you appeared to have worked so hard on.
That gmc camper at 8:16 was the best in design and is still innovative to this day
It goes with the general 'outdoors' feel of the show.
@@StamFine lol. You should look up a video on that gmc motor home tho. It was bionic
Wasn’t that the same one used in the 1981 movie Stripes? Supposedly has front wheel drive of all things, and no rear axles, wheels are connected to the frame...
Maybe the most memorable show I ever saw. I was 4 years old when it debuted in Zambia so imagine how much it moulded my view of the time I was living in, of the space age, science and SciFi. And Steve was a great character to hero worship.
I read somebody's memoirs of how kids imitating Austin were safe from accidents as they ran and did everything in slow motion!
The only thing I would improve was his choice of car, that staid looking Mercedes convertible. He should have driven a muscle car.
He did drive a Datsun 280z one week. Which The Bionic Woman also had the next week. Not really a muscle car either.
Yes the car always bothered me too, the Mercedes or datsun just didn't fit. Should have been a badass mustang, jeep or even something custom
Excellent homage, Stam. You're a true fan . It was a time, not to be forgotten.
Thanks
Loved the six million dollar man. All the stunts bionic sound effects! The romance between Steve and Jamie. Its a shame they both didn't have longer runs. I guess all the really interesting fun thought provoking shows are that way. They don't linger till they become irrelevant boring or a self parody. Existing for a short while very period specific, like a rare and precious flower that blooms infrequently and only lasts a few days then disappears. It just leave a satisfying treasured memory and a touchstone for the mind to return to beloved memories of childhood.
I loved this series, right from the edge-of-my-seat pilot.
Yes, I had the action figure.
Yes, we all did slow-motion fights in the primary school playground (which the teachers no doubt found hilarious).
Yes, we all made the sound as we messed around.
Good times.
Absolutely first-rate review. 👍
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I was in my early teens when this show aired. I so enjoyed your analysis of the show and busted in laughter at several places. Thanks for the amusing and witty walk down memory lane.
Andre as Bigfoot.
Stephanie Powers as the alien lady.
Best episode, ever.
Very well done. The Six Million Dollar Man was everything in the 70s. Here on a nostalgia ride after the camera spotting Lee Majors at the UFC match this past Saturday.
I grew up watching this TV show. Good times, good memories
It was a very good show.
This was my favourite TV series when I was a kid!
Very enjoyable video mate - brought back so many fond memories
Glad you enjoyed it. It was fun to make.
Loved The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman!
This was a complete blast to watch! Bravo!👍
I loved this show as a kid, it was like a live action Saturday morning cartoon show. The Fall Guy was also fun, thanks for mentioning it as It had all but fallen out of my head.
My mom could get me to do just about anything when I was a kid by telling me “the bionic man does it!”
The Six Million Dollar Man could do anything...except land an airplane. 😛
In France we were overcharged for the tech upgrades, and the show was called "The 3 billions dollars man".
"We can rebuild him". I still remember that line. I was in my teens when this was on TV. Six million used to be a lot of money.
The parts where you had Jaime & Bigfoot reacting to Majors' singing is comedy gold
Yes, he did 'sell the shit out of it'!
Nobody can run so smoothly as our Steve.
Even though it was filmed in slow motion, Majors had to run his guts out.
Lee Majors had great form in his running scenes, especially important because of the slow motion film effect. I've never seen better form. He made the bionic power look real.
@@halwright8081 One thing I would have done different is have other people and cars walk and drive very slow so that Steve appeared to be going faster than them.
Backyard and school playground slow motion king fu and bionic man fighting, that brings me back!
Lee Majors was ultimate cool as The Six Million Dollar Man and his banter with Richard Anderson and romantic liaisons with the array of beautiful women in the show is what made the series a fan favorite. The introduction of Lindsay Wagner and later Martin E. Brooks as Jaime Sommers and Dr. Rudy Wells was essential for the success of the series and the spinoff, The Bionic Woman. Great childhood memories that I’ll always treasure.
Those robots without faces still freak me out.
I LOVED this video..... I laughed so hard with Jamie, Bigfoot and everyone covering their ears and clearly in pain as Steve Austin was singing.
This show was still something I feel like was important on impressing in me, as a child, the idea of being brave, and noble and humble as virtues.
I think the character Steve Austin has a LOT in common with Steve Rogers/Capt America.
Why?
Because the quality that allows them both to be heroes is actually the qualities of the characters before they gained their super powers.
If Steve Austin was not a very good man, then he might have turned out like the 7 million dollar man character. If Steve Rogers had not already been "worthy", then he would have turned out like the Red Skull. In both cases.... the "hero" is the man, not the powers.
At 60 I still get chills watching the opening credits.
A role-model and a hero to me. Loved the show.
me and my mate used to run about in slow motion making bionic noises and then slow mo fighting, must have looked hilarious but it was great fun at the time
Classic
Lee Majors was the coolest guy on television in the 1970's. He had this show and was married to Farrah Fawcett.
This was one of my Most FAVORITE SHOWS I could not miss an episode, Along with the Bionic Woman, The Incredible Hulk, Wonder Woman, FBI, The Man from Atlantis, Space 1999, Mission Impossible, The Prisoner , The Avengers, and The Saint.
Loved this show back then. And, when it was released, I purchased the DVD collection. Dated, of course, but still fun to watch.
Just dated enough, but not too dated.
This show, The Bionic Woman, and Fall Guy were epic. As was Lee Majors and Urkel in Big Fat Liar in 2002