ORBzine - 2004 UK Television Review: "Six Million Dollar Man"

ORBzine - Six Million Dollar Man TV Review

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Six Million Dollar Man
  • Lee Majors as Col. Steve Austin
  • Richard Anderson as Oscar Goldman
    Recurring Characters:
  • Alan Oppenheimer as Dr. Rudy Wells [ 2nd Pilot -2 ]
  • Martin E. Brooks as Dr. Rudy Wells [ 3-5 ]
  • Lindsay Wagner as Jaime Sommers
  • Jennifer Darling as Peggy Callahan
    Also starring:
  • Martin Balsam as Dr. Rudy Wells [ 1st Pilot ]
  • Darren McGavin as Oliver Spencer [ 1st Pilot ]

    Pilot Movies 1973 (ABC's Suspense Theater)

            0- 1    -----     7 Mar 1973  The Six Million Dollar Man (90 min) (AKA Cyborg)
            0- 2    -----    20 Oct 1973  Wine, Women and War (90 min)
            0- 3    -----    17 Nov 1973  The Solid Gold Kidnapping (90 min)
    

    1st Season Winter 1974

            (rpt)   45184       -----     The Moon and the Desert (2 hr) *
            (rpt)   45186       -----     Wine, Women and War (2 hr) *
            (rpt)   45188       -----     The Solid Gold Kidnapping (2 hr) *
       1.   1- 1    40013    18 Jan 1974  Population: Zero
       2.   1- 2    40007    25 Jan 1974  Survival of the Fittest
       3.   1- 3    40016     1 Feb 1974  Operation Firefly
       4.   1- 4    40012     8 Feb 1974  Day of the Robot
       5.   1- 5    40014    22 Feb 1974  Little Orphan Airplane
       6.   1- 6    40005     1 Mar 1974  Doomsday, and Counting
       7.   1- 7    40023     8 Mar 1974  Eyewitness to Murder
       8.   1- 8    40024    15 Mar 1974  The Rescue of Athena One
       9.   1- 9    40021    29 Mar 1974  Dr. Wells is Missing
      10.   1-10    40022     5 Apr 1974  The Last of the Fourth of Julys
      11.   1-11    40020    12 Apr 1974  Burning Bright
      12.   1-12    40015    19 Apr 1974  The Coward
      13.   1-13    40025    26 Apr 1974  Run, Steve, Run
    

    2nd Season Fall 1974

      14.   2- 1    41201    13 Sep 1974  Nuclear Alert
      15.   2- 2    41204    20 Sep 1974  The Pioneers
      16.   2- 3    41206    27 Sep 1974  Pilot Error
      17.   2- 4    41208     4 Oct 1974  The Pal-Mir Escort
      18.   2- 5    41224     1 Nov 1974  The Seven Million Dollar Man
      19.   2- 6    41214     8 Nov 1974  Straight on 'til Morning
      20.   2- 7    41220    15 Nov 1974  The Midas Touch
      21.   2- 8    41223    22 Nov 1974  The Deadly Replay
      22.   2- 9    41213    29 Nov 1974  Act of Piracy
      23.   2-10    41227    13 Dec 1974  Stranger in Broken Fork
      24.   2-11    41228    20 Dec 1974  The Peeping Blonde
      25.   2-12    41210    10 Jan 1975  The Cross-Country Kidnap
      26.   2-13    41233    17 Jan 1975  Lost Love
      27.   2-14    41216    19 Jan 1975  The Last Kamikaze
      28.   2-15    41207    26 Jan 1975  Return of the Robot Maker
      29.   2-16    41212     2 Feb 1975  Taneha
      30.   2-17    41230    23 Feb 1975  Look Alike
      31.   2-18    41226     2 Mar 1975  The E.S.P. Spy
      32.   2-19    41244    16 Mar 1975  The Bionic Woman (1) @
      33.   2-20    41245    23 Mar 1975  The Bionic Woman (2) @
      34.   2-21    41231    20 Apr 1975  Outrage in Balinderry
      35.   2-22    41229    27 Apr 1975  Steve Austin, Fugitive
    

    3rd Season 1975

      36.   3- 1    43020    14 Sep 1975  The Return of the Bionic Woman (1) @
      37.   3- 2    43029    21 Sep 1975  The Return of the Bionic Woman (2) @
      38.   3- 3    43018    28 Sep 1975  The Price of Liberty
      39.   3- 4    43024     5 Oct 1975  The Song and Dance Spy
      40.   3- 5    43010    12 Oct 1975  The Wolf Boy
      41.   3- 6    43017    19 Oct 1975  The Deadly Test
      42.   3- 7    43003    26 Oct 1975  Target in the Sky
      43.   3- 8    43001     2 Nov 1975  One of Our Running Backs is Missing
      44.   3- 9    43012     9 Nov 1975  The Bionic Criminal
      45.   3-10    43006    16 Nov 1975  The Blue Flash
      46.   3-11    43021    23 Nov 1975  The White Lightning War
      47.   3-12    43019    30 Nov 1975  Divided Loyalty
      48.   3-13    43026    14 Dec 1975  Clark Templeton O'Flaherty
      49.   3-14    43022    21 Dec 1975  The Winning Smile
      50.   3-15    -----    11 Jan 1976  Welcome Home, Jaime (1) X @
      51.   3-16    43033    18 Jan 1976  Hocus-Pocus
      52.   3-17    43027     1 Feb 1976  The Secret of Bigfoot (1) @
      53.   3-18    43028     4 Feb 1976  The Secret of Bigfoot (2)
      54.   3-19    43007     8 Feb 1976  The Golden Pharaoh
      55.   3-20    43008    15 Feb 1976  Love Song for Tanya @
      56.   3-21    43032    22 Feb 1976  The Bionic Badge
      57.   3-22    43031     7 Mar 1976  Big Brother @
    

    4th Season 1976

      58.   4- 1    45124    19 Sep 1976  The Return of Bigfoot (1) X @
      59.   4- 2    45108    26 Sep 1976  Nightmare in the Sky
      60.   4- 3    45121     3 Oct 1976  Double Trouble
      61.   4- 4    45105    17 Oct 1976  The Most Dangerous Enemy
      62.   4- 5    45102    24 Oct 1976  H+2+O = Death
      63.   4- 6    45120    31 Oct 1976  Kill Oscar (2) X @
      64.   4- 7    45196     7 Nov 1976  The Bionic Boy +
      65.   4- 8    45114    21 Nov 1976  Vulture of the Andes
      66.   4- 9    45194    28 Nov 1976  The Thunderbird Conection +
      67.   4-10    45126    12 Dec 1976  A Bionic Christmas Carol
      68.   4-11    45115    19 Dec 1976  Task Force
      69.   4-12    45125     2 Jan 1977  The Ultimate Imposter
      70.   4-13    45122     9 Jan 1977  Death Probe (1)
      71.   4-14    45123    16 Jan 1977  Death Probe (2)
      72.   4-15    45106    23 Jan 1977  Danny's Inferno
      73.   4-16    45107    30 Jan 1977  Fires of Hell
      74.   4-17    45113     6 Feb 1977  The Infiltrators
      75.   4-18    45101    13 Feb 1977  Carnival of Spies
      76.   4-19    45109    20 Feb 1977  U-509
      77.   4-20    45110    27 Feb 1977  The Privacy of the Mind
      78.   4-21    45116     6 Mar 1977  To Catch the Eagle
      79.   4-22    45128    15 May 1977  The Ghostly Teletype
    

    5th Season 1977

      80.   5- 1    47306    11 Sep 1977  Sharks (1)
      81.   5- 2    47307    18 Sep 1977  Sharks (2)
      82.   5- 3    47322    25 Sep 1977  Deadly Countdown (1)
      83.   5- 4    47323     2 Oct 1977  Deadly Countdown (2)
      84.   5- 5    47311     9 Oct 1977  Bigfoot V
      85.   5- 6    47326    16 Oct 1977  Killer Wind
      86.   5- 7    47315    30 Oct 1977  Rollback
      87.   5- 8    47303     6 Nov 1977  Dark Side of the Moon (1)
      88.   5- 9    47304    13 Nov 1977  Dark Side of the Moon (2)
      89.   5-10    47309    27 Nov 1977  Target: Steve Austin
      90.   5-11    47313    18 Dec 1977  The Cheshire Project
      91.   5-12    47319     1 Jan 1978  Walk a Deadly Wing
      92.   5-13    47314     8 Jan 1978  Just a Matter of Time
      93.   5-14    47301    22 Jan 1978  Return of the Deathprobe (1)
      94.   5-15    47302    29 Jan 1978  Return of the Deathprobe (2)
      95.   5-16    47397    30 Jan 1978  The Lost Island +
      96.   5-17    47328     6 Feb 1978  The Madonna Caper
      97.   5-18    47334    13 Feb 1978  Dead Ringer
      98.   5-19    47317    20 Feb 1978  Date With Danger (1)
      99.   5-20    47320    27 Feb 1978  Date With Danger (2)
     100.   5-21    47332     6 Mar 1978  The Moving Mountain
    

    Reunion Movies 1987-1994

     NBC    RE-1    -----    17 May 1987  
    The Return of The Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman
     NBC    RE-2    -----    30 Apr 1989  Bionic Showdown
     CBS    RE-3    -----    29 Nov 1994  Bionic Ever After?
    
    

    6 Million Dollar man Six Million Dollar Man, The [Season 3, Episode 4] Song & Dance Spy
    Shown 10th November 2000

    The guest-star is Sonny Bono. This must have seemed a lot more impressive when the show was originally made.

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    6 Million Dollar man Six Million Dollar Man, The [Season 3, Episode 5] Wolf Boy
    Shown 12th November 2000

    This is the sequel to a previous episode where Steve Austin [Lee Majors] encounters a Japanese soldier who did not know that WW2 had ended.

    A caucasian boy has been seen running wild in the Asian jungles. Majors and the Jap head into the jungle to find the boy and bring him back to civilisation. The boy has shoulder-length hair and wears a loin cloth, but apart from that there's no phyiscal sign that he was raised by wolves!

    6 Million Dollar man Six Million Dollar Man [Season 1, Episode 2 ]
    Shown th June 2006 [Wednesday]

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