I would not watch that.
Because that sound effect. Like putting stickers on your computer to make it more powerful.
Question: was the term “Cyborg” ever spoken on the show? Was it in common use back them?
The Six Hundred Billion Dollar Man.
Of course not. Cyborgs are evil. Bionic men (and women) are good. Everybody knows that 
I think you’re right.
I don’t recall if the word was spoken on the show, but people talking about the show used it. According to Wiki, the word was coined in 1960, and first used in a science fiction story in 1962, so sci-fi fans were certainly familiar with it.
Wasn’t the novel that series was based on titled “Cyborg”?
Cyborg is super dehumanizing. I think the preferred term is “people with cybernetic enhancements”.
[I should probably clarify that I am kidding]
The Cybernetic-American community will send strongly-worded letters.
(with an animated attachment for the “dit-dit-dit-dit” sound effect)
Yeah. The first TV movie even begins with a definition of the word “cyborg”.
I’m too young to know much about this six million dollar man. But as far as I can tell, he was the product of an expensive and wasteful government project.
Meanwhile, Inspector Gadget’s dad saved his son from horrific injuries in his own garage. And while Inspector Gadget may not be as strong as this SMDM, I think he more than makes up for it with the numerous gizmos and… well, gadgets… they were able to fit in.
My point is, I am not sure how much it would cost the army to build a cybernetic astronaut today; but I do know we could do it better and cheaper at home.
Theres a show I want to see -
The six dollar man - we can build him cheaper with spare parts from the garage !
Kid: Mom, can we stop and get a Six Million Dollar Man cyborg?
Mom: We have a Six Million Dollar Man cyborg at home
Six Million Dollar Man cyborg at home:
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And think about all of those comic books kids used to read. What ridiculous powers. No one would ever base a movie or TV show on such characters today. /s
I imagine it would end up a lot like this show.
Beat me to it! I was thinking exactly the same thing.
Star Trek was all over this.
“You are not Borg. You are not Cyborg!”
In 1979 Frank Zappa had a song character Sy Borg, son of Mrs Borg who lived next door and complained about the loud music. Turns out Sy was really a robot, and Mrs Borg never noticed. (Zappa was one weird dude)
And in what the real world application of 6MDM tech could be, see Fred Pohl’s 1976 novel Man Plus, where a cyborg becomes the first “man” on Mars.
Don’t even get me started on superhero movies…
Sure, Iron Man’s armor might prevent his bones from breaking when he’s thrown against a building or whatever. But it doesn’t prevent his brains from sloshing against the inside of his skull and liquifying, like jello in a tupperware container thrown against the wall 
At a certain point you just have to go with the MST3K mantra. After his first bionic jump, Austin’s spine would probably be compressed like a Slinky and all of the bio matter on his legs would be slush, but that’s not as fun as seeing him race to the bomb and throw it into the ocean in the nick of time.