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In reply to the discussion: What's the most flawed science SciFi TV show or movie? [View all]Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)35. The Six Million Dollar Man started off okay.
The producers made some attempt not to get too cartoony with the bionics. There were no slow motion scenes or elaborate sound effects. In the pilot episode, there's a scene where Steve Austin is running in the desert, and his shirt shows no perspiration under his right arm (the bionic one).
Then it quickly became a kid's show, and the producers began to care less.
(BTW, in the best-selling book that the show was based on, Steve Austin was much more rooted in reality. His spine and pelvis were reinforced to handle the extra strain of his limbs, and his bionic eye was sightless and only worked as a high-tech miniature camera.)
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