![]() ![]() ![]() How’d the bad guys arrange this, and that? It’s all very straightforward until we get to the doctor’s apartment and she becomes possessed by the spirit and tries to kill Steve. So while our favorite six year-old critic was taking this creepy-to-the-young story at face value and worrying about spirits and psychic phenomena, the grownups were questioning each new addition to the story. This isn’t merely telegraphed in the first scene after the opening credits, it’s skywritten in neon pink. This spirit is, of course, a Scooby Doo hoax by enemy agents. Linda Dano, who would later star in more than 1000 episodes of the soap opera Another World, plays a parapsychologist who helps Steve investigate the possibility of his spirit finally coming to kill him after those 52 seconds that he spent clinically dead in the accident that launched the series. 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.For our final episode of The Six Million Dollar Man, I’m afraid that I picked another turkey. ![]() The episode " Kill Oscar (Part II)" was rebranded as an episode 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. The syndicated version of the series offers an altered selection of episodes than original broadcast. 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. It was initially aired on the ABC network for five seasons between 1974 to 1978, following three television pilot movies in 1973. The show was based on the novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin. The Six Million Dollar Man is an American television series about a cyborg working for the OSI starring Lee Majors as Steve Austin. ![]()
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