The Six Million Dollar Man

The Six Million Dollar Man (1974)

11 mistakes in season 1 - chronological order

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Population: Zero - S1-E1

Continuity mistake: Steve props himself against the back of the armored car with his arms folded and legs together stretched outwards to wait for the bad guys to drive up. When they do, Steve is now sitting on the rear bumper of the armored car with his legs spread and his hands on his knees.

Scott215

Population: Zero - S1-E1

Visible crew/equipment: When one of the townspeople recovers from unconsciousness and starts to get up, a small truck with a double-door canopy is reflected in a window driving by. In this episode, everyone in town was knocked out, so no vehicles would be driven by them just yet.

Scott215

Operation Firefly - S1-E3

Factual error: When Steve plays the guitar, his bionic right hand is strumming very fast, and the sound of the guitar goes from a low-pitch sound to a higher-pitch sound. Going up in pitch relies on the chording hand (Steve's left) and can only happen when the guitarist moves his chording hand up the guitar neck to the guitar's body.

Scott215

Trivia: Longtime TV actor Lee Majors was extremely influential in the overall development of the "Six Million Dollar Man" series. Although he had already appeared in the 3 successful made-for-TV pilot movies in 1973, Majors was very skeptical of entering into a weekly series, and he wanted a guarantee that the show would not devolve into a campy superhero series (like "Batman"). Majors further stipulated that there should be no blood and no violent death on the show. Executive producer Harve Bennett, producer Kenneth Johnson, and ABC Television immediately agreed. Majors also thought the original "Six Million Dollar Man" theme song (sung by Dusty Springfield) was embarrassingly bad, so composer Oliver Nelson wrote the iconic instrumental theme for the series. Two years into the hit show, Majors then became concerned that his character, Steve Austin, would be perceived as gay because he never had an onscreen love interest; so Majors essentially demanded that a female character be added to fill that role. The producers complied without question. According to Lee Majors: "People were really getting to the point where it was like, 'When's this guy [Steve Austin] going to come out of the closet here?' That's when we brought in Lindsay Wagner to be the first love interest."

Charles Austin Miller

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