The Six Million Dollar Man - DVD

The Six Million Dollar Man: The Complete Season One [Region 2 Import - Non USA Format]

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The Mexican Dollar Man? 1 out of 5 stars.
19 of 31 people found this review helpful.

Ah...been waiting for this for years to hit DVD. And it's finally HERE!! No wait, it's in MEXICO.

Yes, brilliant! Lets release it overseas, and in Mexico first, before we do for america. I mean, all us filthy unwashed american heathens couldn't possibly oh, I don't know....want to buy it? The other guy is spot on, wait for the Stateside release.

Then again, since the official language of America is becoming Spanish, maybe this makes more sense than I thought...

Editorial Review:

When astronaut and Air Force Colonel Steve Austin is almost killed in a horrific plane crash, the US Government decides to rebuild him with experimental cybernetic parts which give him superhuman strength, speed, agility and the ability to see considerable distances. To pay the Government back the $6,000,000 it cost to rebuild him, Austin becomes a secret operative for the Office of Scientific Investigation (OSI), using his superpowers to investigate crime, espionage, space aliens and fight injustice wherever it is found.

The Six Million Dollar Man (El Hombre Nuclear) First Season 5 DVD Collectors Series [NTSC/REGION 1 & 4 DVD. Import-Latin America]

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The Six Million Dollar Man, Season Two [REGION 2 IMPORT-NON USA FORMAT}

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Contains all 21 episodes from season 2. Starring Lee Majors, Richard Anderson, Lindsay Wagner, Farrah Fawcett.

The Six Million Dollar Man: Series 2 [Region 2 Import- Non USA Format]

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WE LOVE THE SHOW 5 out of 5 stars.
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WE ARE BIG FANS OF THIS SHOW AND WE LOVE IT VERRY MUCH WE THANK YOU....

Editorial Review:

Having been brought back from the dead by long-time friend Dr Rudy Wells, Colonel Steve Austin could face anything anyone could throw at him. With his left eye, right arm and both legs replaced with bionic parts, he can run faster, jump higher and lift more than anyone else alive. Which is just as well, considering the constant danger he faces in the fight for freedom and justice. In this exhilarating second season, the Six Million Dollar Man is pushed to the brink time and time again. But can he survive to keep up the fight, or will the many dangers put in his way finally thwart his bionic powers? That is the six million dollar question, and there is only one way to find out the answer.

The Six Million Dollar Man Volume 2 [Region 2]

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six million dollar man dvd 5 out of 5 stars.
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unbelievable!! A super rare find. Excellent quality, super friendly seller.

6 Million Dollar Majors! 3 out of 5 stars.
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This show was really good at first. The early episodes including the pilot were top notch. Then it kind of got off into the goofy 70's Bigfoot genre and came off the rails. But its got a great cast and Lee Majors was the man!

The Six Million Dollar Man: Complete Season One [Region 4 Import]

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An Iconic American Series -- only available outside of the USA? 5 out of 5 stars.
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There are many things American companies do that puzzle me, but this has to be one of the top 5: Why would you (as a company) have a show that is so iconic that people who have never SEEN it would still recognize references to it, and NEVER release it to DVD -- even in the year when you attempt to revive the concept franchise by re-making the spinoff "Bionic Woman"? (I won't even discuss the incomprehensible decisionmaking process that decides to utterly change the entire basis of THAT show...).

When I purchased the first season of The Six Million Dollar Man, I expected it to be a purchase purely for nostalgia. In fact, I was braced to end up being UNABLE to watch the show (I've found it hard, for example, to watch MacGyver or Kung Fu, two other nostalgia favorites of mine).

To my utter surprise, in some ways this is a BETTER show than I remembered. The writing is tight, often clever, and LESS stereotyped than I was prepared for. (For example, the first major appearance by the Soviet Union's forces is not as adversaries!) Oh, there's stereotyping and events-of-convenience galore, but they're worked into the plots which are less simplistic than many of the follow-on TV action-adventure shows, and overall better acted. (The early movies are not entirely consistent with the series -- besides a change in some actors, the nature of Steve's relationship with Goldman and the OSI undergoes a fairly radical shift; for that reason I am focusing here on the actual TV first season rather than the movies)

It's clear that the producers, actors, and writers were still trying to "work into" the overall concept and try to figure out a way of keeping the action and the characters balanced. The actors -- specifically Lee Majors and Richard Anderson -- make it work. Steve is a man who has, with great difficulty, overcome the shock of becoming part man, part machine, something he had not asked for and not been prepared for, and has come to accept that he's been given a gift that carries terrible responsibility with it as well. Oscar Goldman is a quintessential spymaster who has, through his interaction with Steve, found himself forced to become more human than is, perhaps, encouraged in his field, in order to keep the friendship and loyalty Steve offers.

One very nice touch is that Steve Austin's background as an astronaut is, surprisingly, at least as important as his bionic secret for many of his missions. The "superstar" nature of astronauts, especially in the era of this show, is recognized and used appropriately. Being one of the astronauts who actually walked on the moon makes Steve special in a number of ways, including the ability (in what was a more relaxed era, surprisingly) to sometimes just gain access to locations and the confidence of people who would otherwise be terribly suspicious.

The adversarial relationship of the United States and the Soviet Union, as I mentioned, is present, yet is not overblown. Given the era and the setting, it would have been trivially easy and even understandable to demonize them, make the Soviet Union behind almost every plot, providing Steve with ready-made villains to trash. Instead, the worst enemies are invariably rogue organizations -- terrorists, obsessive scientists, conscienceless weapons dealers, spies with their own agendas -- and, often, simple nature and human error.

This is a world in which it's assumed that people are, at heart, not only mostly alike, but mostly preferring to get along. It's the exceptions, the men and women who don't CARE about other people at all, who cause most of the trouble in the world, and one man with dedication, a clear vision ...and perhaps some nuclear-powered additions... can often triumph and make the world a better place.

The bionics themselves are more carefully worked out than I had expected. While certain limitations are clearly originally intended purely for story-opportunity purposes, they're generally used consistently. Moreover, the classic opening animation can now be stop-framed and examined carefull, as we could never have done in the old broadcast days, revealing that the producers/designers had put a great deal of thought into the bionic capabilities. The numbers don't *quite* add up accurately, but they're not all that far off compared to what a slapdash and handwavy approach to the technology would have produced.

In the first season, many of the iconic features are still being "worked out". Occasionally we see Steve running, not in the classic slow-motion bionic run, but at the actual speed his running would require. These scenes merely reinforce the CORRECTNESS of the decision to make the 60mph running sequences slow-mo; in slow motion, Steve running looks dramatic. At what would be actual 60mph speed, he looks SILLY.

Similarly, the classic "bionic sound" is missing in most of the first season episodes, and in fact is first heard as a sound accompanying a humanoid robot, rather than one from Steve's bionics. It isn't until the second season that the standard sound effects (bionic strength use, "bionic jump" sound, and bionic eye) came to be regularly used.

Overall, this is a surprisingly good series even today. I really wish that we'd get a USA release of this -- especially for the WHOLE SERIES, as apparently even overseas only seasons 1 and 2 have been released. This means that many of the classic later episodes are STILL unavailable on DVD no matter where you order from.

Editorial Review:

When astronaut and Air Force Colonel Steve Austin is almost killed in a horrific plane crash, the US Government decides to rebuild him with experimental cybernetic parts which give him superhuman strength, speed, agility and the ability to see considerable distances. To pay the Government back the $6,000,000 it cost to rebuild him, Austin becomes a secret operative for the Office of Scientific Investigation (OSI), using his superpowers to investigate crime, espionage, space aliens and fight injustice wherever it is found.

The Six Million Dollar Man -Season 1 [Region 2 Import- Non USA Format] [Region 2]

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I WILL GIVE IT 5 STARS WHEN IT'S FINALLY RELEASED!! 4 out of 5 stars.
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Obviously, I cannot review Season One yet, so I will reminice about a few of my favorite episodes throughout the series run:

1) remember when Rudy was bitten/attacked by a chimpanzee giving Rudy superhuman strength, leading to a fight between he and Steve Austin? Great episode.

2) when Steve had to battle a robot likeness of Oscar Goldman. Another great one. I like when Steve first notices something strange about Oscar. Oscar is walking on the plush carpet in his office and Steve finds it odd that Oscar's footprints leave such deep carpet impressions. So, Steve drops a pencil on the floor and Oscar unknowingly walks on it, crushing the pencil into pieces.

3) the first meeting and fight between Steve and Bigfoot.

4) my favorite - Steve has to battle that Venus space probe machine. I believe it looks like a small silver tank. It had a grappling hook at the end of that long mechanical arm. I remember it grabbing Steve by that mechanical arm and throwing him.

The Six Million Dollar Man: Volume 1 [Region 2 Import]

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Features:

• 1: The Secret of Bigfoot parts 1 & 2
• 2: The Seven Million Dollar Man

Editorial Review:

We can rebuild him. We have the capability. We have the technology to make the world'ds first bionic man. We can make him better than he was before. Better...Stronger...Faster.