The Six Million Dollar Man
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The Six Million Dollar Man is an American television series about a cyborg working for the OSI starring Lee Majors as Steve Austin. The show was based on the novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin. It was initially aired on the ABC network for five seasons between 1974 to 1978, following three television pilot movies in 1973. The series spawned a spinoff, The Bionic Woman, in 1976 and was also the subject of three made-for-television reunion films in the 1980s and 90s.
The syndicated version of the series offers an altered selection of episodes than original broadcast. The episodes "Welcome Home, Jaime" and "Kill Oscar (Part II)" were rebranded as episodes of The Bionic Woman for the syndicated version of the spinoff in order to preserve the story arcs for that series, whereas the Bionic Woman episode, "The Return of Bigfoot (Part II)", became a Six Million Dollar Man episode. In addition, the three 1973 telemovies that launched the series were each re-edited into two-part episodes (utilizing extensive addition of stock footage and footage from later episodes) which increased the syndicated episode count.
[edit] Home video release
Although full seasons of the series have been released to Home Video in Europe, in North America complicated licensing issues continue to prevent this series from being released to Home Vdeo, in either VHS or DVD formats. A few exceptions occurred in the late 1970s, when several episodes were released in the experimental DiscoVision format (an early-generation laser disc/DVD forerunner), and in the mid 1980s Bionic Woman two-parter was released to VHS. Similarly, no US Home Video release has yet occurred for any of the reunion telefilms.
[edit] See also
- The Six Million Dollar Man episodes
- The Six Million Dollar Man seasons
- The Six Million Dollar Man movies
- The Six Million Dollar Man characters
- The Six Million Dollar Man actors
- The Six Million Dollar Man production crew
- The Six Million Dollar Man music
- The Six Million Dollar Man merchandise
- The Six Million Dollar Man outside the United States
