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The Six Million Dollar Man
Original Run	January 18, 1974 – March 6 1978]
No. of Episodes	24
Genre(s)	Scifi Comedy
Creator(s)	Richard Irving
Exec. Producer(s)	Richard Irving
Starring	Lee Majors Richard Anderson Martin E. Brooks
Country of Origin	United States
Original Channel	ABC

The opening credits of The Six Million Dollar Man show the main character, astronaut Steve Austin, being severely injured in a crash. One of television's most well-known introductory narrative voiceovers says, "Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better . . . stronger . . . faster."

The series aired from 1974 through 1978. Lee Majors starred as Colonel Steve Austin. Other important characters were Oscar Goldman, head of O.S.I., played by Richard Anderson; Dr. Rudy Wells, Austin's physician, played for a season by Alan Oppenheimer, then by Martin E. Brooks in the following seasons; and occasional love interest Jaime Sommers. Lindsay Wagner's warm-hearted portrayal of Jaime endeared her to audiences so much that she received her own spinoff series, The Bionic Woman.

Austin's bionic enhancements enabled him to tear doors off cars, run at least 60 m.p.h., zoom in for close-up views with his bionic eyeball, and generally make fricassee out of the bad guys du jour. Martin Caidin's novel Cyborg, a bestseller in 1972, was the inspiration for a telefilm starring Lee Majors as Austin, which led in turn to the weekly, hour-long series.

Several follow-up telefilms were made, with the same cast members returning to their roles. The most recent, and perhaps final, entry is 1994's Bionic Ever After?, in which the Bionic Man and the Bionic Woman finally decide to tie the knot.