a5c7b9f00b After a crippled test pilot is rebuilt with nuclear powered limbs and implants, he serves as a unique intelligence agent. Air Force Colonel Steve Austin, an astronaut who had walked on the moon, is almost killed in a plane crash. Many of his damaged parts are replaced by experimental bionic limbs, including his right arm, his left eye, and both legs. These bionics give him superpowers such as increased speed and strength and the ability to see long distances. To pay the U.S. Government back the six million dollars it cost to rebuild him, Austin goes to work for the Office of Scientific Investigation as an Agent, investigating foreign spies, mad scientists, bombers, space aliens, and Bigfoot. This is a personal recollection.<br/><br/>I only have vague memories of watching reruns of the $6M Man as a teeny tiny tot, but the overall impression I have is of being seriously creeped out (something that also happened with another '70s Universal sci-fi/action/adventure show, The Incredible Hulk).<br/><br/>However, I remember with relative crystal clarity, filtered through the prismatic eyes of an overimaginative five-year-old and the ensuing twenty-five years of psychological fermentation, the episiode "Day of the Robot," an early first season episode guest starring John Saxon as a "bad" android with a removable face and that infamous "Fembot" makeup appliance underneath…I dunno, that was pretty intense IMO. The cheapness of the special effects somehow made it even scarier. Add to those a good unhealthy dose of endless slow-motion photography and weird electroni sound effects, and you have an episode with a climax literally just like a bad nightmare.<br/><br/>Such is my only vivid memory of what is considered one of the best, most innovative sci-fi shows of the '70s.<br/><br/>I'll leave it for others to provide detailed and expert comments about The $6M Man. I'm *still* hesitant to watch the show after all these years, based solely on infantile bad memories of one episode that would probably make me bust my gut laughing nowadays.. Even though I dig sci-fi I must not have been the kind of kid the folks at Universal TV had in mind. The Six Million Dollar man was originally a few different made for TV movies. It seemed to do well in the ratings so it was decided to try it as a TV series. The very first of the "tv" episodes was called "Population Zero"…this one episode is by far the best of the entire series, he actually had a bionic eye that zoomed without the stupid sound or superimposed view finder and additionally there were NO stupid bionic sounds used in this episode, he also showed he was a sort of a Mcgyver character but unlike Mcgyver, Steve Austin not only got away from a very near death situation (in a very clever way) but also tracked his foes down and saw to it that they died horribly- one was crushed to death by a 500 pound door while the others burned alive as punishment for their attempts at trying to kill him earlier. Overall this particular episode is a very good well written story with an excellent climax, its too bad the episodes that followed became very lame and geared towards 6 year olds.
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