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**Megotastrophe** · May 14, '22, 7:31 AM

I always forget it's Darren McGavin as Oliver Spencer in the first movie overseeing the project.

**Megotastrophe** · May 14, '22, 9:29 AM

2nd episode is 2nd half of the pilot. As Steve is getting a briefing on his assignment his jacket switches back and forth from khaki to plaid. Am I supposed to pretend that doesn't happen?

**Nostalgiabuff** · May 15, '22, 5:41 AM

that's part of the cheesy charm.

i have the whole series on disc

**Megotastrophe** · May 18, '22, 5:11 AM

Had to come in and say Steve is wearing the ugliest Herb Tarlek jacket and enormous bow tie to do his James Bond at the casino thing.

**Megotastrophe** · May 18, '22, 8:38 AM

So I'm three movies in now and about to start the actual series. It's been less sci fi action that I remember and more low rent James Bond with bad fashion. The second movie had several references to a horrible sounding cocktail he called a moonshot. Was that supposed to be a call out to Bond's vodka martini? Looking forward to Farrah and her appearance on the Athena 1 episode coming up.

**Sideshow Spock** · May 18, '22, 9:08 AM

Sometimes I'll catch an episode on Cozi or one of those other sub-channels, and I've noticed that sometimes there are no bionic sound effects when he's in action. Is that something they didn't originally start with, but added along the way?

Tried to google it and didn't see much, but I did spot this 2010 interview with Majors:

Bionic Man Lee Majors Does Not Like Bionic Sound Effects

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2010/11/bionic-man-lee-majors-does-not-like-bionic-sound-effects

Photo courtesy Time-Life.If the DVD release of the Six Million Dollar Man TV series—which, after a long and excruciating wait, is finally happening on November 23, exclusively at 6MDM.com—proves nothing else, it’s that George Lucas had it wrong. Our childhood memories do not need improvement. They don’t need extra scenes or better special effects or 3-D conversion. If the creators want to digitally remaster the original tapes, fine, follow your bliss. But don’t fix what’s not broken. Most popular entertainment during the 70s was stupid—the fashion, the music, and especially the science fiction. Star Warswas ridiculous. And so was The Six Million Dollar Man. When you watch the DVD today, it’s amazing to remember that we once considered it all so cool. Even in its better moments, the show is campy and melodramatic. But if you grew up watching and loving the series, it hurts so good; the slow-motion running, the dun-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh bionic sound effects, the not-so-menacing villains like Maskatron, with his sinister ability to take off his face, and Death Probe, which lumbers at a harrowing pace of several feet every few minutes. There’s so much on this DVD that could’ve been altered or erased from history. Lee Major’s unfortunate pencil-thin mustache from Season Four, for instance. Or that ill-advised Sonny Bono episode. But it’s all here, every staggeringly awesome and wincingly awful moment. Yes, the 40-disc, 100-hour DVD costs a steep $239.95. But it includes the classic “Secret of Bigfoot” episodes, and Andre the Giant hasn’t been replaced with a digitized monstrosity from Industrial Light & Magic. It’s still just a wrestler in a monkey suit doing slow-motion choreography with a man showing maybe a little more chest hair than was necessary. And if that’s not worth your recession dollars, either you weren’t alive in the 1970s or you hate America. Majors called me earlier than expected for our interview. When I picked up the phone and heard that familiar voice say, “Hello, Eric, it’s Lee Majors,” literally the first words out of my mouth were “Holy crap!” I probably would’ve had the same reaction if he’d called on time. Talking to Lee Majors makes about as much sense as talking to Boba Fett. There was a part of me that wanted to remind him, “You know you don’t exist in the real world, right?” But for a guy this iconic, whom many of us remember best as a 13-inch-long action figure with a bionic grip, the now 71-year-old Majors was disarmingly sweet and unpretentious and all too human.

**Megotastrophe** · May 18, '22, 4:34 PM

Yea my cable co dropped Cozi a couple years ago. And I am mostly watching the streaming at work where I have to keep it silent on CC. No answer on the sound effects.

**Liu Bei** · May 19, '22, 6:55 AM

Originally posted by Sideshow Spock

Sometimes I'll catch an episode on Cozi or one of those other sub-channels, and I've noticed that sometimes there are no bionic sound effects when he's in action. Is that something they didn't originally start with, but added along the way?

Tried to google it and didn't see much, but I did spot this 2010 interview with Majors:

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood...-sound-effects

Yes. The sound effects were something that developed along the way. It�s a bit jarring to go back and watch the movies or early episodes and not hear those iconic bionic sounds.

**shaunaconda** · May 19, '22, 12:06 PM

That metallic sound effect is first used in the episode “Day of the Robot”. And it was used for the Robot!
I think it was season two when they really started using it all the time when he did something “Bionic”. In the early episodes they used a heart beat sound effect when he ran.

**Nostalgiabuff** · May 21, '22, 7:49 AM

yeah, sound effect started in S2. the early movies were more of a spy thing, aka Bond. no Oscar Goldman then either.

**Megotastrophe** · May 21, '22, 4:55 PM

Oscar is there for the 2nd and 3rd movies. Just finished the episode with Joanne Worley. Why was she ever in anything? Even as a kid, her involvement in a show was a negative to me.

**Megotastrophe** · Jun 7, '22, 4:51 AM

Watching Athena 1 now. The walking in the wind mime walk while they are on Skylab is more than a little hokey. But seeing the mockup of Skylab really makes me wish we had gotten a Skylab playset for action figures. Nothing super fancy. I figure a vinyl and cardboard playset very similar to the Big Jim Jet. Opens up to make one half of the interior. Printed background and a couple of chairs. The solar panels on the outside open up.

**Megotastrophe** · Jun 7, '22, 5:59 AM

And written by DC Fontana.

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