Fred Sloan
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| Played by John Saxon | ||
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| Fred Sloan | ||
| Job/Title | Air Force Major | |
| Appearances | ||
| SMDM | Day of the Robot Run, Steve, Run (flashback) | |
| BW | none | |
| Reunion | none | |
Major Fred W. Sloan of the United States Air Force first met Steve Austin at Lackland Air Force Base, and knew that Steve would "end up being one of the moon-shot boys."
Sloan is the designer of an anti-missile component prototype. He first saw the need for an activator card when he was the Resource and Development (R and D) officer at Aberdeen Proving Grounds. He had been up to his ears in recovery vehicle guidance, but offered "to take a crack" at the missile guidance system when he found that they were having problems with it. The OSI assigns Steve to escort Sloan to the Red Canyon military test site for the final test of the anti-missile missile defense system. En route, Sloan is kidnapped by Dr. Dolenz and replace with a duplicate robot. Though he was thought to be dead, Steve finds Sloan sitting at a park bench. As a result of the kidnapping, Sloan exhibits symptoms of amnesia.
[edit] Action figure
The Maskatron action figure, released by Kenner Toys in the 1970s and based upon Dolenz' robots, includes several masks so that the toy can be "disguised". Two of the masks are of Steve Austin and Oscar Goldman, while the third, though unidentified, closely resembles actor John Saxon, who played Sloan.
