*****BIONIC SPOILERS!***** During the heyday of ABC-TV’s cyborg-action series “The Six Million Dollar Man” (1973-1978), a spinoff was created in 1976 centered around bionic astronaut Steve Austin’s childhood sweetheart, Jaime Sommers; a tennis pro who is badly injured in a skydiving accident (both legs, right arm and right ear critically damaged) with Steve during their…
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Retro-Musings: “The Six Million Dollar Man” (1973-1978)…
*****BIONIC SPOILERS!!***** Back when I was a kid in the Stone Age, we had three TV networks, a few UHF stations, and pretty much nothing else. VCRs were not yet commonplace (they existed, but were super-expensive), and there weren’t yet DVRs or DVDs, let alone streaming. For video gaming, you had Pong and Atari. That…