The Six Million Dollar Man

"Steve Austin, astronaut.  A man barely alive.  Gentlemen, we can rebuild him.  We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first bionic man.  Steve Austin will be that man.  Better than he was before.  Better... stronger... faster."

The opening credits on The Six Million Dollar Man shook my world every Sunday night in the mid 1970s.  My eyes gaped as Steve bent steel or jumped tall hedges. It made sense that he was launched from a torpedo hole into the Pacific to prevent a planet-destroying weapon being built on a deserted island. The "nyosynthetic" (advanced bionic) sasquatch - created by an alien colony hiding on Earth in the Pacific Northwest - required a double Bigfoot episode and a "to be continued" still-frame - Game on !!

Us boys debated the whole Jaime Sommers bionic woman love affair and thrilled to Max, the German Shepherd with bionic legs and jaw giving him super strength and speed. There was good and bad in the 70s but, as a kid, it did not get better than the bionic man.