Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

From my favorite movies..

Better Late Then Never

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

No doubt this is one of my favorite shows of all time. Now my 6 and 9 year old have seen some of them, as well as several of the neighborhood boys, and they cannot get enough either. Now they play around with the "na na na na" bionic sounds and pretend like they are running fast or knocking each other down, in slow motion of course, all to save the government from some terrible demise. My kids were rooting for Jamie and Steve to get married, so I had to show them the "old Steve and Jamie" 1994 movie, which they really had a laugh about. That one is only for die-hards; you know how the reunion shows go.... The old shows are clean, solid drama with decent plots and enough humor to captivate any normal human being for an hour at a time. Steve is a real hero and the show really pulls you in....I wanted to be bionic, now my kids want to be bionic. They just don't make them like this anymore!

This pretty much was the highlight of my Sundays as I was growing up. The character of Steve Austin was one of the few superheroes that made it on television during the 1970's and within a couple of years of its debut similar shows were also premiering all over television. However, Steve Austin will always be the prototype for all television super-heroes.

This is a personal recollection.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).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.Such is my only vivid memory of what is considered one of the best, most innovative sci-fi shows of the '70s.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.

Well, it holds up to the test of time in SOME ways. This show was one of my favorites as a child and if re-made today with state of the art special effects could still be a top rrated TV show or blockbuster film. It wasn't camp, but it didn't take itself too seriously either. It had action and adventure, romance and espionage intrigue. This is the role Lee Majors was born to play, and he plays it to perfection. To most of us, he will always be the hero called Steve Austin. Other than the sometime wince-inducing special effects, this show is just as enjoyable if you catch it in re-runs today as it was during its original airing.