# The Six Million dollar Man **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 9, 2000, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-million-dollar-man/13729 "2000-02-09T21:33:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2000, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-million-dollar-man/13729/21 "2000-02-11T19:25:00Z")
> [@](#): > > IIRC (which I usually don’t), Bigfoot wasn’t bionic- he was just Bigfoot. Sasquatch was, AIR (as I recall), a robot created by a race of outer space colonists living in the woods of (I believe) Washington state. Right around where “Twin Peaks” took place, now that I think of it. Hmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2000, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-million-dollar-man/13729/22 "2000-02-11T19:37:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Steve Austin: 2 legs, one arm, and one eye are bionic. > Jaime Sommers: 2 legs, one arm, and one ear are bionic. In one of the TV movies, Jaime was also fitted with a bionic eye. It wasn’t really explained why, other than she had earlier in the show been the victim of a bionic computer virus and had been in a coma. > [@](#): > > Wasn’t there also a bionic dog and a bionic big foot in there somewhere, as well? See above for Sasquatch. The bionic dog was Max. There was also in the original series a “seven million dollar man” (both arms bionic) who was named, improbably, “Barney Miller.” In the various TV movies, I recall a new bionic man (Steve Austin’s son), a bionic spy and a bionic Sandra Bullock. FYI, the Sci Fi channel released the theme songs for SMDM and BW on “Sci Fi’s Greatest Hits Vol 4: Defenders of Justice.” ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Gretchen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Miss\_Gretchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Gretchen)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2000, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-million-dollar-man/13729/23 "2000-02-11T20:38:00Z")
Wow, thanks for all the info, but sadly, we don’t get the Sci-Fi channel in Canada, we have the Space Channel. Maybe I can pester them into airing some episodes. C’mon, fellow Canucks, let’s harass them into submission! ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2000, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-million-dollar-man/13729/24 "2000-02-12T03:09:00Z")
Johnny L.A. wrote: > [@](#): > > The lifting body seen in the titles for _The Six Million Dollar Man_ was flown by a pilot named Peterson (or Petersen). He survived, but lost an eye. Well? Did they give him a Bionic eye or not? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2000, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-million-dollar-man/13729/25 "2000-02-12T03:34:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Miss Gretchen: > \*\*Wow, thanks for all the info, but sadly, we don’t get the Sci-Fi channel in Canada, we have the Space Channel. > \*\* ## That’s ironic…here in America we get the Waste of Space Channel. Better known as the “Dubba, dubba, dubba-yu - BEE!” (WB Network.) Sorry! Couldn’t resist! 😃 _One week only! Special Valentine’s Candy Heart Sig Line!_ **"OU KID"** ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2000, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-million-dollar-man/13729/26 "2000-02-12T06:16:00Z")
Hey, how did those 3 posts from me get there? Each time I tried to post that, I got an error, then checked the thread and the post wasn’t there. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2000, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-million-dollar-man/13729/27 "2000-02-12T07:15:00Z")
Ever the fan of puns, I would point out that the dog, Max, was so named because of his cost… a bionic dog didn’t cost but a sixth of Steve’s construction, so the dog’s full name was Max-a-million. The fembots had several appearances… I recall John Houseman’s role, and a later appearance by his character’s son. Although I was as credulous as the next kid, I do remember one scene that really bothered me… a helicopter was lifting off from a field, and Steve (after running out at bionic speed to catch it) grabbed a landing strut and pulled the copter back down. But what _should_ have happened is the copter should have simply taken off, with Col. Austin up in the air doing pull-ups on the landing strut. - Rick ---
**Author:** ![Ursa\_Major](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@Ursa\_Major](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ursa_Major)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2000, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-million-dollar-man/13729/28 "2000-02-12T15:23:00Z")
Didn’t Steve Austin’s bionics make him weigh a lot more than an average man? I seem to remember an episode where someone was tracking him and noted how much deeper his foot prints were. Or maybe I’m just imagining that part. I keep finding that my memory mixes up episodes of the Six Million Dollar Man with the following episodes of Night Stalker. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2000, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-million-dollar-man/13729/29 "2000-02-13T12:32:00Z")
That was a fembot episode Bricker mentioned. It was Oscar Goldman who Steve suspected as being a Bot when in his office he left impressions in the carpet. Steve notices this then drops a pencil on the floor, BotOscar steps on the pencil and crushes it to pulp. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2000, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-million-dollar-man/13729/30 "2000-02-13T14:47:00Z")
Exactly. Oscar (the erstaz Oscar) was walking back and forth in his office distating something, and Steve noticed the floor was creaking as he walked. So he tossed a pencil into Oscar’s path, and it was splintered into pulp. That’s when Steve knew for sure that he had a robot on his hands. Ah, my misspent youth. - Rick ---
**Author:** ![ConMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@ConMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ConMan)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-million-dollar-man/13729/31 "2000-02-14T01:52:00Z")
I don’t doubt the episodes of Steve’s heaviness though I don’t actually remembe them but I do recall an episode where he ran, caught up to and broke into the trailer part of an tractor-trailer as it was rolling down the highway. The truck then went through a weigh station and the driver made the comment to his shotgun rider that they had picked up ~220-240 lbs. Did he weigh more or not? Go figure. * * * “Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore.’” E A Poe [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-six-million-dollar-man/13729.md?page=1)