First hitting the airwaves as a made-for-TV movie in 1973, The Six Million Dollar Man became a weekly hour-long series that aired from 1974 to 1978 on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) network. The show starred Lee Majors as Colonel Steve Austin, an astronaut who suffered serious injuries from the crash of an experimental craft and was rebuilt into a bionic man by the government. Austin was given bionic legs, a bionic arm, and bionic eye. His new parts gave him super strength, super speed, and super vision. He worked for the OSI, the Office of Strategic Investigation. His superior was Oscar Goldman, played by Richard Anderson, and his doctor/scientist was Rudy Wells, played by Allan Oppenheimer and later by Martin E. Brooks.

During the regular series, Austin faced a variety of foes, including spies, a rogue bionic man, Bigfoot (a robot...