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First episode of the TV series is a good one. The small desert town of Norris has been mysteriously incapacitated, and Steve Austin(Lee Majors) is sent in to investigate, since he spent his high school years near there, and knows the inhabitants. It turns out that they are unknowing test subjects of ruthless former government scientist Dr. Bacon(played by Don Porter) who plots to use his ultra sonic wave weapon to blackmail the government, including former colleague Oscar Goldman(Richard Anderson). Interesting and well directed episode has Steve dealing with ruthless villains with equal ruthless aplomb, making for a satisfying ending.

I recently watched the entire TV series of this show and it rated out as follows: Season One: 7.1 Season Two: 7.7 Season Three: 7.7 Season Four: 7.8 Season Five: 6.9

Overall: 7.4

Very good show. I watched a lot of episodes as a young teenager and I still enjoyed it this year when I watched all episodes over a month period. If nothing else, its cool to just look at all the 1970s stuff.

When Steve and Oscar investigate the knocking out of the entire population of a small town, they are contacted by a scientist, once employed by the government, who is set on revenge for past grievances. Demanding $10 million or he will strike again, Steve must find and stop him.

In this episode, Steve's vulnerability of his bionic powers to sub-zero temperatures is revealed when the villain - an embittered scientist whose project of using sonic power as a weapon was shelved - locks him in a freezer. It's a good move as it shows Steve is resourceful and doesn't rely only on his bionic powers - it's a well-made debut episode, has great desert landscapes, good suspense and a great climax where Steve shows off his javelin throwing skills.

After seen the first 3 flicks about the SMDM this was the first entry into the series which ran for 5 years. And it still fits perfectly after seen the flicks.

Steve Austin (Lee Majors) is still some kind of macho who picks up easily girls in a way James Bond did and uses funny one-liners. His bionic powers are used throughout this episode but still no use of the slow motion when he's using his powers or even the use of his bionic eye. There's one helicopter scene were they want to know the number of the heli but Steve didn't use his powers. Still, it's worth watching and it moves slowly but without boring parts. Maybe sometimes it is a bit cheesy but overall it still works. i was surprised by the fact that the bionic score wasn't used and one scene could have used that when Steve is throwing some kind of stake towards shuttles.

SMDM survived the time, it's out there and easy to find which I recommend.

Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 1/5

The first episode of the television series is slightly different from the later seasons. Given the three earlier television movies, it was still a work in progress.

After the inhabitants of a small town are found to be comatose. The police think they are dead until they suddenly come back to life.

Oscar Goldman sends Steve Austin to investigate. He is keen on this, he grew up nearby and knows some of the people.

Oscar himself knows the villain of the piece. A sinister former government scientist called Dr Bacon. He has created a sonic device that is making people comatose and plans to extort money from the government.

The Six Million Dollar Man was a fun show, although a bit cheesy to modern eyes. Some of the familiar elements are still missing. The baddies plan is a little on the dumb side but Steve Austin is the man.

So I caught this almost 30 min in and it says here it's the pilot...?? IDK, some guy says "real" like that, what is there a fake pilot? Anyway, the first scene, they have a close up on Steve Austin and all I can see is his "Tin Man" nose tip and I'm wondering if when he woke up and they removed the bandages, he wanted to do what I want to do to him: grab the metal tip (or is did they insert silicone back when? Look closely: Gene Kelly has the exact same one!) and move it up and down. Not that he needs his face rearranged, the guy wasn't exactly bad looking, but just because.

Well, what do you know?! Some guy just bit--slapped him and now his nose looks all weird! He kept his face down so I can't see if the actor messed up and made contact and some guy (looking like Rudy) had to go in and move it down & back into place.

Truth be told, I have no idea how good this is. There he is with another camera frame, his nose looks normal now. I guess it was the down-up shot that made his tip look so prominent and out of place. He had a good haircut. Later he will have a mustache and a bad perm and weird look. (He will go through at least 2 more nose changes...) But this hair his his best look. People were attached to him being with Farrah back then. Truth be told, when she took off with that other creep, her life went downhill fast, didn't it!?

Have I mentioned crown V-jab yet? Why do you think everyone is dead? That's because time-travelers from 2021 got them all jabbed and they keeled over and croaked faster than you can say "ribbit!" Wasn't there another show like that? Village of the Damned! Those are vegans. They look at you with those eyes when you eat meat. Well, I hope you enjoyed this episode. I'm gonna bump the 4/10 to an even 5/10 because four would be odd, even though that's an even number, it doesn't look so even when you have 10 stars and you need to center that up. 5/10 it is. The end.

The Six Million Dollar man was born in South Carolina and lived his early years in Six Mile, South Carolina. Beyond that we know almost nothing else about him other than little tidbits mentioned far and wide between various programs. Which is an actual geographic place in South Carolina that was once listed on Maps near Hollywood, South Carolina some 30 miles by road (16 by air) South of Charleston. There is not much there other than some homes and remains of Plantations, swamps that General David Hunter and General Sherman burnt to the ground during the War of Aggression.

After the series was taken off the air; this community was also taken off the state maps (although it still exists as do many such places as Bentleyville that were on the maps in 1950 but no longer there) clearing up some confusion among fans: the Town of Six Mile in Western South Carolina was left on thus reducing the confusion of where Six Mile was located by those who did not know the State of South Carolina. South Carolina has a number of Ghost Towns resulting from catastrophic events, lost of connecting transportation and lost of employment of residents.

Back then this program was taken mostly as rather far fetched science fiction but many of the things that the writers wrote about then are fact today. For instance: Paraplegics are able to walk with some of the newer electrical bionic stimulation devices and people who have lost limbs in Iraq are basically living about as normal lives as those who never lost any limbs.

Now it may seem a bit hokey that the Six Million Dollar Man seems to be stalked by the number 6 (Can't you just hear the superstitious fundamental Christian religionists now saying that the Six Million Dollar man was the sign of the beast:666??) but I assure you that this was all contrived by the writers after getting to know my friend and High School classmate Actor Wallace Merck; who was getting his breaks about this time appearing on television and in movies. Wallace is by the way from Six Mile, South Carolina a small rural town that is dominated by a monodock (Six Mile Mountain) located between Clemson, South Carolina (Clemson University) and Pickens, South Carolina the County Seat. Also note that movies are shot in Hollywood, California but the writers chose a place close to Hollywood for the main character to live near and that word Hollywood contains 9 letters which when 9 is inverted becomes 6.

In the end; we may say that several undercurrents run through the program ---those who are haunted by certain numbers ---for instance J.S. Bach was haunted by the number 7 and the possible meaning thereof.