Who remembers *The Six Million Dollar Man*?

sorry being in the UK i didn't even think it was shown over here it's funny though for a while i thought that because he was called Steve Austin - it had something to do with the stone cold wrestler from WWE

Bigger, faster stronger! Words to live by!

I remember watching it as a kid in Australia, my parents loved it and never missed an episode. They also loved the Bionic Woman. All I remember from the intro is "we have the technology" and "we can rebuild him" and "better, stronger faster". I can barely remember much of the episodes though except the NANANANAA whenever they used the bionics hahaha Although I do remember her bionic ear where she always had to move her hair out of the way before using it. :p

I remember it but only saw maybe two or three episodes. If it had been my choice as a kid, I'd certainly have seen more. ;)

Without looking anything up. I can only remember one scene.

Steve is with a buddy and they go off the road. He tells his buddy not to tell anyone and then picks up one end of the car and moves it. His buddy then picks up the other end and moves it. The buddy was a robot spy and it was still in learning mode so it was copying stuff it saw humans do. I don't remember any of the context behind the scene.

Was it a buddy who was replaced by a robot? Did Steve know it was a robot? Was it some other situation? This part is hazy. I only remember them picking up a car end each and something about the bot being in learning mode.

I remember something else. I don't remember if it was Bionic man or Woman. They had something that looked like play doh in one ep. Eating it gave you super strength but it did not last long. I don't remember it being a thing so it was likely just the one ep.

Fun fact: DARPA funds projects aiming at bionic augmentation since the 1960's.
Z-man: The aim: to allow soldiers to scale vertical walls without ropes or ladders at a rate of 0.5 metres a second. The solution: mimic the microscopic hairs, or “setae”, that allow geckos to stroll up walls and across ceilings. Small robots that climb using synthetic setae have already been demonstrated, but DARPA hopes to extend this technology to humans.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13907-fifty-years-of-darpa-hits-misses-and-ones-to-watch/

We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better, stronger, faster.

I remember watching it with my grandfather. I so wanted to be part cyborg lol

Thanks, everyone. Mission accomplished.

I grew up on The Six Million Dollar Man, I used to watch it every time it was on, and The Bionic Woman.
How many times did you run in slow motion making those sounds as though you were running at 70 mph?? lol

I watched it as a kid when it was originally airing. Aside from him bending/breaking things that weren't really made of steel/concrete, the show made extensive use of slow motion and sound effects to make up for the missing/poor special effects. They also recycled footage a LOT.

The Bigfoot episodes were a big thing. The "action figure" was actually pretty awesome. I had one of those. I also had a figure they invented for the toys that wasn't based on anyone for the show, "Maskotron." He was a robot/android with three different switchable faces. One of them was Steve's OSI boss, Oscar Goldman. I think another was Steven, and a third random iguy face.

I think the femmebots were the Bionic Woman's arch-eneimes? They popped up every so often, I vaguely recall. I didn't watch her show as avidly because cooties.

I know that movie.
https://youtu.be/08ODCm1M9_U?t=910

Every time I see one of these I think of the show's opening. ...because he crashed one

And there was that weird tank thing.

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The show was popular before my time (I was born in 1990) but it still aired occasionally so I'm familiar with it, although I think they changed the name when dubbing it. I remember that my grandma really liked it.

It was bananas how often the Bionic Man &/or Bionic Woman seemed to be fighting Bigfoot. I think he got his own action figure.

Only tangentially related: when I was maybe 5 - 7 years old, they had a bionic-themed show at Universal Studios. I was picked as the kid to do a jump pose in front of a blue screen (yeah, they were blue before green) so the show could play back a kid doing a crazy high bionic jump. In my memory (grain of salt?) I was wearing a lot of long-sleeved denim & a pair of cowboy boots.

Wow, such old memories. Here in France, he was called "The 3 Billion Man". I guess 6 millions were not enough :-)
I remember a few flashes, introduction music, and a scene where he lifted a bad guy with his arms, leaving the guy's shoes on the floor (as a small kid, it was funny !).
Thanks for reminding me that I'm too old for my own good :-)