I like the story about the cochlear implant. I always thought if I had to get cancer treatment, and lost my hair, I wouldn’t wear a wig but used those paste on temporary tatoos to decorate my scalp.
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I never thought of that, but I like it!
Oh, that was always obvious, even on the little black-and-white TV in your parents’ bedroom where you watched while your parents were hosting the bridge club out in the main part of the house.
that they even needed stunt doubles for most of those ‘action’ sequences still boggles the mind…
One reason I watch old 70’s shows is for stunt stuff…how the most innocuous stunt is made dangerous. Or how the simplest is done by a stuntman, while more strenuous ones done by the actor.
There are several Trek TOS stunts that make you go “Why do you need a stuntman?”…but then Shatner will turn around and do a drop kick off a wall.
In SMDM, there’s a neat stunt Monte Markham does as the Seven Million Dollar Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbsIhM5EVXU
at about :35
Ask the producers of Wild Wild West (contemporary to ST). Robert Conrad liked to do his own stunts. he messed up on a simple one and landed on his head.
Or ask the producers of Mission impossible, right next door at Desilu. A rope rigging broke and dropped Peter Lupus and Lee Meriweather down a shaft. He thinks if he wasn’t in as good shape like he was, he could have broke his neck.
We could have lost three actors in simple stunts.
Stunt men: saving actors since Hollywood began.
“What? Carrying his load? Yeah, that’s about right.” - Cliff Booth
Oh…and that stunt in the frigging Starsky and Hutch pilot? In the opening where Hutch just jumps on to a car hood on his ass?? Pretty sure David Soul carried that injury with him for the rest of his life.
That was shown at the start of every episode, wasn’t it? Makes me wonder if the guy on the opening of Wide World of Sports did his own stunts.
The guy in the credits of 6MDM did his own stunt. 
End credits too :>
It was why you should have a stunt coordinator on set for even the easiest of stunts. Ask, “Why are doing this, and what could go wrong.”
“Because i need to cross a gap and if I hop, my shoes could slide on the car roof.”…ok, then hop on your ass and slide off*…but don’t let your adrenaline carry you away and slam on hood with all your weight cause you might hurt your back.
- Or he could have gingerly stepped across the gap and played it for comedy. There were some goofy 70’s comedy bits in Starsky and Hutch.
Majors had a stunt double and I remember seeing one sequence where Steve Austin jumps over a fence and it was fairly obvious that it was a double. I can’t find the clip right now, unfortunately. Doubles didn’t do all the stunts though - in the ep Killer Wind, Majors did his own stunt walking on the cables going to a cable car, which seems nuts to me. Evidently the stuntman was injured. You can see part of the stunt below (sorry it’s on Facebook)
Yeah, is he at least wearing a wire? Kinda crazy but I’d do it at 59 if paid enough. I’m wondering if thats a stunt man earlier when he leaps over the goons. THAT I could not do unless they dove at my ankles.
There was obviously a trampoline involved but he (or his stuntman) stuck that landing like Mary Lou Retton.
in 1999 they had Now and Again where they rescue John Goodman’s brain and put it into a genetically engineered body that cost billions. I thought it was excellent. For reasons that were never revealed as it was cancelled after one series John Goodman was an insurance salesman who woke up in a military grade supersoldier body.
Have you ever met an insurance salesman? They’re unstoppable.
If you like the plot idea, the Bobiverse series by Dennis E Taylor is excellent. Our hero dies and gets unwittingly turned into the template for an AI, with many copies. Earth gets destroyed somewhere along the way.
That sounds good