The six million dollar man extra movies movie#
(To his credit, he slimmed down considerably for the later comments.) The second team-up movie also features a then-unknown actress named Sandra Bullock… who I’m guessing no longer uses it to top her resume.Įxtra features are scattered throughout the set, though most of them appear in the sixth and final DVD case. The latter provide some of the set’s greatest camp treasures, with Wagner aging like fine wine and Majors’ girdle straining mightily to disguise his growing gut. The 99 episodes of the show itself follow-including several crossovers with The Bionic Woman-capped by another three made-for-TV “team-up” movies made after the show ended. It starts with the three original made-for-TV movies, which did so well that they prompted the creation of the series. Time Life, which released the set, leaves absolutely nothing out. When you open the box, it plays back the famous spiel from the opening credits (“gentlemen, we can rebuild him…”), which starts out cute, but gets really irritating as time goes on. Indeed, it may be too much for all but the most devoted Austin-ites to handle: 40 discs collected in six cases and held by a box the size of a car battery. Most prominent among their ranks, of course, was Lindsay Wagner, playing Austin’s girlfriend and eventual recipient of her own spin-off show.įor all the flaws, however, the boxed set makes a truly impressive collection. Carl Weathers popped in, as did Cathy Rigby, Suzanne Sommers, and Majors’ then-wife Farrah Fawcett in a number of episodes. Sci-fi fans should keep an eye out for George Takei and a very young John de Lancie as well as Yvonne Craig from the old Batman show. You can also have fun playing "Spot the Guest Star," since the show featured a who’s who of disco-era celebrities. (The show clearly had kids on its mind more than adults.) Its comparatively slow pace leaves plenty of room for affectionate snarking, and a certain child-like sensibility elevates the enjoyment factor tremendously. For 70s kitsch, it ranks second to none, and while we can no longer take it as seriously as it clearly takes itself, that doesn’t mean it lacks in entertainment value. Most of the plots display overt comic-book sensibilities, featuring lost islands, stranded aliens and a few throwdowns with Bigfoot, as well as more “realistic” espionage stories. He then becomes an indispensable operative for said agency, facing off against various swarthy foreigners and domestic criminals straight out of central casting. Saved by a shadowy government agency, he gains replacement parts for his legs, arm and eye, granting him superhuman strength and the ability to run really fast in slow motion.
Each episode begins with a summation of the origins story: an accident turns Austin (Lee Majors) from he-man astronaut into human roadkill.
The show itself retains a certain clunky charm, though it definitely hails from another era.