The Six Million Dollar Blog - The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman
| Starring: |
Lee Majors as Steve Austin |
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Richard Anderson as Oscar Goldman |
| Guest Starring: |
Henry Jones as Dr. Chester Dolenz |
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Noah Beery as Tom Molson |
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Melissa Greene as Suzie Lund |
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George Murdock as Rossi |
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Mike Henry as Cliff Platt |
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Victor Millan as Art Rameriz |
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Bill Conklin as Smitty |
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Fred Lerner as Bill Wooters |
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Tony Epper as Ranch Hand |
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| Written by: |
Lionel E. Siegel |
| Produced by: |
Sam Strangis & Donald Boyle |
| Directed by: |
Jerry Jameson |
Plot in a Nutshell: The Robot Maker returns without the robots.
Story Summary: Steve is being offered a job at a construction site. Unbeknownst to him, he is also being watched by our villain, Dr. Chester Dolenz, the Robot Maker from Day of the Robot. As Steve enters an elevator to leave, our villain grabs his trusty bomb detonator.
Clearly labeled for your convenience.
As the elevator descends, Dolenz activates his detonator and sets off a bomb.
Also clearly labeled for your convenience.
The elevator plummets to the ground, but Steve uses his bionic hand to slow the descent and save his own life.
Later, Steve trys to convince Oscar that someone is trying to kill him. Oscar is bored and pretty much tells him to shut up and go away.
Steve sits down and flashes back to his adventures in Population: Zero.
"Has it really only been 12 episodes since he tried to kill me?"
Steve reminds Oscar about Bacon and his desire to kill Steve. Oscar reminds Steve that he fried Bacon (pun intended) in a fiery explosion at the end of the episode.
Oscar tells Steve he's being a paranoid delusional and to take a vacation. Understandably, Steve gets angry and walks out.
He boards the same plane and takes the same flight he was on in Survival of the Fittest.
Seriously, he's wearing the same clothes and that's Nebbish behind him.
Then, in what may be the most surreal moment ever in a bionic tv show, Steve, while re-living the Survival of the Fittest flight, has a flashback to an adventure that happened AFTER that flight in Dr. Wells is Missing.
Anyway, Steve arrives at Salt Lake City Airport to see his old friend Tom Molson. He is picked up by Suzie Lund.
"Hopefully my absolute cuteness will distract people from my equally absolute lack of acting skills."
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After arriving at Tom's ranch, Steve is being watched by Dolenz and his crew.
This isn't creepy in the least.
While drinking coffee the next morning, Steve flashes back to his fight with Maskatron in Day of the Robot.
A flashback doesn't count as an offical appearance of Maskatron.
Steve and Suzie go out riding and while picking up some stray horses, Dolenz' (Dolenzes? Dolenz's? Dolenz'z?) men cause Suzie's horse to spook and run away. Steve gives chase on foot.
Oh, come on. Why do they use stuntmen for these running scenes?
Lee Majors had a distinctively awesome running style that none of these stuntmen can match.
Back at the ranch, Oscar calls Steve and they figure out that Dolenz must be the bad guy. Steve decides to leave the ranch to keep Suzie and Tom safe.
Dolenz and his men attack and Steve is shot with a tranquilizer dart during the melee.
Even pumped full of drugs, Steve is still a badass.
They chain him up in a barn somewhere and set his legs in cartoon-fast, quick-drying cement. They ask him some questions about his bionics, but are interrupted when Tom Molson and his ranch hands show up. Tom forces the bad guys to drive away in their pick-up as Steve escapes his concrete bonds.
Steve chases the baddies down and leaps on their truck.
They are captured. Except for Dolenz. What will happen to him?
The End.
How Did You Do That Quote:
Suzie: "I was gonna ask you a whole lotta questions about how you could run faster than my horse. But I don't think you better tell me."
Move your mouse over Steve to see his answer.
Overall Grade: 
Final Thoughts: And Season One comes to a close. Nice way to wrap up the events of Steve's first year of being bionic. However, in Season Two let's lose the stuntmen and the cute girls who can't act.
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Comments
Hmm?!@#$?
Thats the same bad guy in The Bionic Woman episode series. What is the point of all this story? Did Dolenz ever come back to capture Steve Austin?
Re: Hmm?!@#$?
Check "Return of the Robot Maker" for Dolenz final appearance.
I love when Steve takes a vacation from missions
I agree that they shouldn't use stuntmen to show when Steve is running. No one runs like him and you can always tell when it's a stuntman. Loved the relaxed feeling this episode has to it.
Re: I love when Steve takes a vacation from missions
A vacation with a large group of would-be assassins for company. The stuntman stuff does blow, no offense to the Stuntman (Vince Deadrick, I believe?), but the stuntman stuff is far worse in Dr. Wells is Missing
Bionic Eye Out of Focus
This episode had too many flashbacks and other plot lines to really be considered cohesive. Steve needs to focus on the girl, the robot maker, OR the horses. I'm sorry.
JayManiac