| rdfs:comment | - The show first premiered on March 7, 1973 and was based on the Martin Caidin novel "Cyborg" (which was the working title of the series during pre-production). Following three television pilot movies (which all aired in 1973), "The Six Million Dollar Man" began airing as a regular TV series on January 18, 1974. The show also produced a spin-off series, The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner. On March 6, 1978, the show ended after 5 seasons and 101 episodes.
- The Six Million Dollar Man var en populär tv-serie på 1970s på Jorden. Under 2001, en av Doktor Peter Tanners män använde aliaset "Steve Austin," som var namnet på huvudpersonen som spelas av Lee Majors. (SG1: "Wormhole X-Treme!") Under 2008, Doktor Meredith Rodney McKay använt raden "Vi har teknologin" vid införandet av nanite skapande maskin. Denna linje är en referens till öppningsinformationen på The Six Million Dollar Man. (ATL: "Be All My Sins Remember'd")
- The Six Million Dollar Man was among the 20th century Earth television shows broadcast by Reef Station One in the New Earth Republic during the 101st century. (PROSE: Synthespians™)
- The Six Million Dollar Man is a Sci-Fi movie.
- The Six Million Dollar Man is published by Dynamite Entertainment. Price per issue is $3.99.
- The Six Million Dollar Man was a television series that ran from 1973 to 1978, chronicling the adventures of Steve Austin, American astronaut turned bionic superhero.
- One of the longest running strips in the comics history, The Six Million Dollar Man was also based on one of the most popular programmes in the seventies. Centred around the exploits of Steve Austin, an astronaut who, whilst on re-entry from a space shot, crashes and barely survives. He is taken to a government facility, and his shattered body is given a host of replacement 'Bionic' parts, (Two legs, an arm and an eye) enabling him to to have speed, super strength and super vision. He becomes government property and is sent on a host of missions for the OSI (Office of Strategic Investigations), but strangely in Look-in it was always the OSO (Office of Strategic Operations), headed by Oscar Goldman. The strips in comparison to the series were very different. A lot of them were quite unbelie
- The Six Million Dollar Man was a popular television series in the 1970s on Earth. When android O'Neill and Colonel Jack O'Neill meet up on P3X-729, and the original O'Neill asks, "What's that mean?" in response to android O'Neill's claim that he does the job better, android O'Neill says, "Better? It means BET-TER, stronger, faster. (SG1: "Double Jeopardy") In 2001, one of Dr. Peter Tanner's men used the alias "Steve Austin," which was the name of the main character played by Lee Majors. (SG1: "Wormhole X-Treme!")
- The Six Million Dollar Man is an American television series about a cyborg working for the OSI starring Lee Majors as Steve Austin. The show was based on the novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin. It was initially aired on the ABC network for five seasons between 1974 to 1978, following three television pilot movies in 1973. The series spawned a spinoff, The Bionic Woman, in 1976 and was also the subject of three made-for-television reunion films in the 1980s and 90s.
- When astronaut Steve Austin is severely injured in the crash of an experimental lifting body aircraft, he is "rebuilt" in an operation that costs six million dollars. His right arm, both legs and the left eye are replaced with "bionic" implants that enhance his strength, speed and vision far above human norms: he can run at speeds of mph (), and his eye has a 20:1 zoom lens and infrared capabilities, while his bionic limbs all have the equivalent power of a bulldozer. He uses his enhanced abilities to work for the OSI (Office of Scientific Intelligence) as a secret agent.
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| abstract | - The show first premiered on March 7, 1973 and was based on the Martin Caidin novel "Cyborg" (which was the working title of the series during pre-production). Following three television pilot movies (which all aired in 1973), "The Six Million Dollar Man" began airing as a regular TV series on January 18, 1974. The show also produced a spin-off series, The Bionic Woman, starring Lindsay Wagner. On March 6, 1978, the show ended after 5 seasons and 101 episodes.
- The Six Million Dollar Man var en populär tv-serie på 1970s på Jorden. Under 2001, en av Doktor Peter Tanners män använde aliaset "Steve Austin," som var namnet på huvudpersonen som spelas av Lee Majors. (SG1: "Wormhole X-Treme!") Under 2008, Doktor Meredith Rodney McKay använt raden "Vi har teknologin" vid införandet av nanite skapande maskin. Denna linje är en referens till öppningsinformationen på The Six Million Dollar Man. (ATL: "Be All My Sins Remember'd")
- The Six Million Dollar Man was among the 20th century Earth television shows broadcast by Reef Station One in the New Earth Republic during the 101st century. (PROSE: Synthespians™)
- The Six Million Dollar Man is a Sci-Fi movie.
- The Six Million Dollar Man was a popular television series in the 1970s on Earth. When android O'Neill and Colonel Jack O'Neill meet up on P3X-729, and the original O'Neill asks, "What's that mean?" in response to android O'Neill's claim that he does the job better, android O'Neill says, "Better? It means BET-TER, stronger, faster. (SG1: "Double Jeopardy") In 2001, one of Dr. Peter Tanner's men used the alias "Steve Austin," which was the name of the main character played by Lee Majors. (SG1: "Wormhole X-Treme!") In 2008, Dr. Rodney McKay used the line "We have the technology" when introducing the Nanite creation machine. This line is a reference to the opening credits of The Six Million Dollar Man. (SGA: "Be All My Sins Remember'd")
- The Six Million Dollar Man is published by Dynamite Entertainment. Price per issue is $3.99.
- The Six Million Dollar Man was a television series that ran from 1973 to 1978, chronicling the adventures of Steve Austin, American astronaut turned bionic superhero.
- The Six Million Dollar Man is an American television series about a cyborg working for the OSI starring Lee Majors as Steve Austin. The show was based on the novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin. It was initially aired on the ABC network for five seasons between 1974 to 1978, following three television pilot movies in 1973. The series spawned a spinoff, The Bionic Woman, in 1976 and was also the subject of three made-for-television reunion films in the 1980s and 90s. The syndicated version of the series offers an altered selection of episodes than original broadcast. The episode "Kill Oscar (Part II)" was rebranded as an episode of The Bionic Woman for the syndicated version of the spinoff in order to preserve the story arcs for that series, whereas the Bionic Woman episode, "The Return of Bigfoot (Part II)", became a Six Million Dollar Man episode. In addition, the three 1973 telemovies that launched the series were each re-edited into two-part episodes (utilizing extensive addition of stock footage and footage from later episodes) which increased the syndicated episode count.
- One of the longest running strips in the comics history, The Six Million Dollar Man was also based on one of the most popular programmes in the seventies. Centred around the exploits of Steve Austin, an astronaut who, whilst on re-entry from a space shot, crashes and barely survives. He is taken to a government facility, and his shattered body is given a host of replacement 'Bionic' parts, (Two legs, an arm and an eye) enabling him to to have speed, super strength and super vision. He becomes government property and is sent on a host of missions for the OSI (Office of Strategic Investigations), but strangely in Look-in it was always the OSO (Office of Strategic Operations), headed by Oscar Goldman. The strips in comparison to the series were very different. A lot of them were quite unbelievable plotlines, with characters that were so off the planet it was quite funny sometimes. The most memorable character has to be Laszlo Cernatz, 'The Toymaker', who with his host of deadly toys set out to take over the children of the world to do his bidding. So popular was the character he made a second appearance a while later. The Bionic theme was a popular one in Look-in during the 70's, The Six Million Dollar Man was later joined by The Bionic Woman, and who can forget the free Bionic Eye, and of course the exclusive The Six Million Dollar Man T-shirt, which you could buy for the princely sum of 99p! The strip was written by Angus P. Allan and Drawn by Martin Asbury for the whole run. Martin's most famous pre-Look-in work was probably Garth which ran for many years in the Daily Mirror newspaper. Steve appeared later on in the strip Bionic Action, where Steve was teamed up with Jaime Sommers.
- When astronaut Steve Austin is severely injured in the crash of an experimental lifting body aircraft, he is "rebuilt" in an operation that costs six million dollars. His right arm, both legs and the left eye are replaced with "bionic" implants that enhance his strength, speed and vision far above human norms: he can run at speeds of mph (), and his eye has a 20:1 zoom lens and infrared capabilities, while his bionic limbs all have the equivalent power of a bulldozer. He uses his enhanced abilities to work for the OSI (Office of Scientific Intelligence) as a secret agent. Caidin's novel Cyborg was a best-seller when it was published in 1972. He followed it up with three sequels, Operation Nuke, High Crystal, and Cyborg IV, respectively about a black market in nuclear weapons, a Chariots of the Gods? scenario, and fusing Austin's bionic hardware to a spaceplane. None of these plot lines were used in the TV series. In March 1973, Cyborg was loosely adapted as a made-for-TV movie titled The Six Million Dollar Man starring Majors as Austin. (When re-edited for the later series, it was re-titled "The Moon and the Desert, Parts I and II".) The adaptation was done by writer Howard Rodman, working under the pseudonym of Henri Simoun. The film, which was nominated for a Hugo Award, modified Caidin's plot, and notably made Austin a civilian astronaut rather than a colonel in the United States Air Force. Absent were some of the standard features of the later series: the electronic sound effects, the slow-motion running, and the character of Oscar Goldman. Instead, another character named Oliver Spencer, played by Darren McGavin, was Austin's supervisor, of an organization here called the OSO. (In the novels, "OSO" stood for Office of Special Operations. The CIA did have an Office of Scientific Intelligence in the 1970s.) The lead scientist involved in implanting Austin's bionic hardware, Dr. Rudy Wells, was played in the pilot by Martin Balsam, then on an occasional basis in the series by Alan Oppenheimer, and, finally, as a series regular, by Martin E. Brooks. Austin did not use the enhanced capabilities of his bionic eye during the first TV movie. The first movie was a major ratings success and was followed by two more made-for-TV movies in October and November 1973. The first was titled The Six Million Dollar Man: "Wine, Women and War", and the second was titled The Six Million Dollar Man: "The Solid Gold Kidnapping". The first of these two bore strong resemblances to Caidin's second Cyborg novel, Operation Nuke; the second, however, was an original story. This was followed in January 1974 by the debut of The Six Million Dollar Man as a weekly hour-long series. The last two movies, produced by Glen A. Larson, notably introduced a James Bond flavor to the series and reinstated Austin's status from the novels as an Air Force colonel; the hour-long series, produced by Harve Bennett, dispensed with the James Bond-gloss of the movies, and portrayed a more down-to-earth Austin. (Majors said of Austin, "[He] hates...the whole idea of spying. He finds it repugnant, degrading. If he's a James Bond, he's the most reluctant one we've ever had.") The show was very popular during its run and introduced several pop culture elements of the 1970s, such as the show's opening catch-phrase ("We can rebuild him...we have the technology," provided by Richard Anderson in his Oscar Goldman character), the slow-motion action sequences, and the accompanying "electronic" sound effects. The slow-motion action sequences were originally referred to as "Kung Fu slow motion" in popular culture (due to its usage in the 1970s martial arts television series). In 1975, a two-part episode entitled "The Bionic Woman", written for television by Kenneth Johnson, introduced the character of Jaime Sommers (played by Lindsay Wagner), a professional tennis player who rekindled an old romance with Austin, only to experience a parachuting accident that resulted in her being given bionic parts similar to Austin. Ultimately, her body "rejected" her bionic hardware and she died. The character was very popular, however, and the following season it was revealed that she had actually survived, having been saved by an experimental cryogenic procedure, and she was given her own spin-off series, The Bionic Woman, which lasted until 1978 when both it and The Six Million Dollar Man were simultaneously cancelled, even though by the time their final seasons aired, the series were on different networks.
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