A Six Million Dollar Man Retrospective

I wasn’t going to do two of THESE in one week, either.

Time’s just a bit limited this week, and having talked about the intro to The Six Million Dollar Man earlier this week, YouTube recommended Stam Fine‘s look at the TV series.

In case you missed the other article, The Six Million Dollar Man is loosely based on the novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin. It follows the adventures of Steve Austin, an astronaut injured in a test flight, and having parts replaced by bionics, an advance form of robotic prosthetic we’re still not at the level of over 40 years later. Maybe if we used nuclear power? The show lasted for five seasons, with a spinoff featuring a bionic woman, which had a couple of re-imagines, and a weekday syndicated superhero show using an advanced form of bionics called Bionic Six. There’s also a set of reunion movies for the original Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman. We’d also get a bunch of one-shot bionic people through all that.

I didn’t get to see the original show when it aired, waiting until syndicated reruns for the original adventures of Steve Austin and Jamie Sommers. In the following video these are the focus of Stam Fine’s retrospective on the original parts of the franchise. Sadly, while he mentions the Bionic Woman reimagine, no love for the super featured family. I need to fix that Saturday Night Showcase posting. He also doesn’t mention the comic book reimaging The Bionic Man, but we’re better off. I do recommend the Six Million Dollar Man comic from Dynamite, though.

I’d like to see a follow-up that focuses on the original The Bionic Woman, since this video only brings it up when it crossed over with the original.