This just came to me. Steve Austin* had only one bionic leg. So how could his normal leg keep up when he ran? Wouldn’t he actually be more like hopping or something to that effect?
*Yeah yeah, you know which one I’m talking about 
As kids, we used always to wonder the same thing. Whenever he had to swim, we wondered why he didn’t go around in circles if only half of his limbs were bionic.
Actually Both of Steve Austins legs were bionic. His bionic parts were both legs, his right arm and one eye. Jaime Summers had both legs, one arm and one ear.
audit1 is right, both legs were bionic.
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I always thought he got faulty legs which forced him to run in slow motion. The bad guys were able to move at normal speed while Steve Austin took about fifteen seconds just to take that first step. It was apparently not a problem with bionics in general, as the bionic bigfoot never had to do anything in slo-mo.
Oops, so he had both legs bionic. Cunctator’s question is still a good one though
He’s Steve Austin - he doesn’t have to obey the laws of physics. Laws of physics are for suckers. 
You’re thinking of the GI Joe ripoff version–Mike Power, The Atomic Man.
You know, transparent limbs?
LINK HERE to a classic ad for the toy.
I had a Mike Power! I enjoyed playing with it, but I did always wonder how he could have a bionic arm but, apparently, a flesh-and-blood hand at the end of it.
The OP has been answered, but just as good a question is, how could Steve Austin, for example, lift cars with his bionic arm, when it was attached to a non-bionic shoulder and spine?
Some years later, the Bionic Kid came along. He ran fast (i.e. not slo-mo). Best moment of that bad reunion TV movie was Steve Austin saying to Jamie Summers, “How come I can’t do that?”
Any relation to Max Power, the man whose name you love to touch?
Yeah, the real question about Steve is how come he wasn’t constantly on workman’s comp for back injuries? :dubious:
Man, I loved that show. First show I was allowed to stay up past 8 pm to watch. And the big foot/alien arc rocked…
In the admittedly non-canon novelisation of the Bigfoot eps (which I owned and wish I still had) it was explained that his entire body was reinforced. The limbs didn’t attach directly to flesh. I think the novel also noted that he had computer chips implanted in his brain to help control the gross and fine movements of his limbs, and also asserted that his bionic eye took photographs and that the film holder was implanted in his body! Worst job at the OSI: changing Steve Austin’s film cans.
IIRC, the comment was in response to The Bionic Kid (Steve Austin’s adult son) shooting a laser beam out of his bionic eye.
Another TV movie featured a new bionic woman, played by a young and unknown Sandra Bullock.
Actually, the novel the show was based on, Cyborg by Martin Caidin, was and is a quite well-written piece of science fiction, even decades later. Go read it. 
Even back in the 1970’s, they should have called it The Six Billion Dollar Man to accurately reflect the cost of defense department projects.
It’s been a long time. It could have been, or it could have been a running joke. It’s not a TV movie I would go out of my way to watch a second time. Once is novelty, twice is self-torture.