Before the "Six Million Dollar Man" TV series, ABC showed three pilot movies. The first one is very different from the rest--with a different boss and a different Dr. Wells. The next two were much more similar to the series--complete with pretty much everything but the slow-motion bionic effects and the normal introduction. The second two films, while good, had a hellishly bad intro song you just have to hear to believe!!
When this show begins, a policeman arrives in a tiny town to find everyone dead*! You then see Dr. Bacon (Don Porter) in a nearby lab--overseeing this as well as the officer's death! Obviously Bacon is a bad man and his plan is anything but kosher! So, it's up to our hero, Steve Austin, to arrive and investigate...and kick butt (naturally)...as baddies seem to forget they have guns and magically don't shoot Colonel Austin!
This is a decent episode--typical of those from the show...and also managing to be kid-friendly in so many ways. There's no serious gun-play, the dead folks (it turns out) aren't really dead and the show is worth seeing.
*The scenes of the dead town were lifted from the movie "The Andromeda Strain". This footage was used seamlessly and well.
When this show begins, a policeman arrives in a tiny town to find everyone dead*! You then see Dr. Bacon (Don Porter) in a nearby lab--overseeing this as well as the officer's death! Obviously Bacon is a bad man and his plan is anything but kosher! So, it's up to our hero, Steve Austin, to arrive and investigate...and kick butt (naturally)...as baddies seem to forget they have guns and magically don't shoot Colonel Austin!
This is a decent episode--typical of those from the show...and also managing to be kid-friendly in so many ways. There's no serious gun-play, the dead folks (it turns out) aren't really dead and the show is worth seeing.
*The scenes of the dead town were lifted from the movie "The Andromeda Strain". This footage was used seamlessly and well.