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109: Roundtable - The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman, Part One
What memories do you have of either or both series? Are you planning on getting the complete Six Million Dollar Man DVD series? Have you already picked it up? If so, what do you think of it? Leave your thoughts on this episode and your answers to any of these questions here. Plus, don't forget to rate the episode here.
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Kevin Smith's SMDM
Kevin Smith wrote a script for the Six Million Dollar Man back in the late 90s, I think. It wasn't picked up, but many fans have said it was quite good. (I can't comment on it as I've never seen it.) But now, Smith is tweeting that the script is going to be adapted into a comic. I'm doing a happy dance.
John
Creator, Producer, All Around God-Like Being
"What? Too much?"
Script to comics
I would be dancing the happy dance if I had liked the comic book adaptation of Smith's THE GREEN HORNET. I love Smith's stuff, but I found the comic book (and by extension, the movie had it been made) a little dull. I can only hope that the SMDM is better. I'll wait until you review it, John before I buy.
Great episode
There are few things I enjoy more than listening to people talk about something they are really passionate about. Great episode. I think a topic like this certainly deserves two parts.
I have three younger brothers, and I clearly remember the Christmas that three of us asked for (and received) the Steve Austin action figure, with the removable bionic implants and rubbery "skin" that covered them.
I remember the Halloween that my brother wanted to go as the Six Million Dollar Man. My mom put him in a long sleeve orange shirt, khaki pants, hiking boots, and a name tag that said "Steve Austin, Astronaut", and he was the happiest kid on the planet.
The Geppi Entertainment Museum here in Baltimore has several SMDM items on display, including two Oscar Goldman action figures (one still mint-in-box...over on ebay those are going for upwards of $100).
That was good stuff
As someone who grew up watching those shows, that was an excellent analysis and appreciation of both of them. And, wow! Quite the outpouring of affection for "Doomsday is Tomorrow." Sure, *I* thought that was best of either of the series, but who knew everyone else did as well. Guess quality will tell.
"Bionic Junkies"
Thanks, John, for the entertaining shout-outs at the beginning of this episode. I started laughing when you mentioned how you knew that I would be critical of this topic, which was rather embarassing because I happened to be listening to this podcast while surrounded by strangers on the subway. So ... yeah, THAT was awkward!
Well, coming from the perspective of someone who was not allowed to watch a lot of TV when I was growing up, whose only toys based on popular culture were a Cookie Monster and a Paddington Bear, and who never saw ANY episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man or The Bionic Woman until John showed them to me, I still found the conversation entertaining. You guys had lots of high energy, lots of laughter, and a lot of love for these shows.
So John, your favorite episode of TBW was the one that you showed us for your 40th birthday? (You should share the how and the where of that viewing for the audience's entertainment, BTW) So I'm wondering how long it took until you learned that the episode was at least partially inspired by HAL in 2001?
Oh, and one additional note to the audience: In case you needed more evidence for how much John loves this subject, make sure you notice how many sound clips John used in this episode, as opposed to how many he used in every other episode we've done so far. CLEARLY, this was a labor of love!!!
Labor of Love
Yeah, this definitely was a labor of love. In some respects, I think putting this Roundtable together now rather than a year ago or back in the day of the public access show was as fortuitous as the release of the SMDM DVD set. The episode would not have been as good.
BTW, I'm seriously thinking that for my next birthday viewing, I'm going to do the Fembot trilogy that crossed over to SMDM as I now have the episodes with the correct opening sequences.
My 40th birthday - Well, Andrea, Orenthal, Judy, and I as well as various others throughout the years, have gathered to watch various genre related programs and movies. It's slacked off in recent years, but we still manage to get in our birthday viewings in which we program the night's programs. I've done various bionic themed nights in the past. For my 40th, I decided to go big and I rented out a theater at the Paley Center in New York, invited my friends and family, and we all watched the original broadcast of "Doomsday is Tomorrow." It was a lot of fun. (Andrea, if you still have the pictures, you should post some of them here on the site.)
I honestly didn't make the connection between Alex and Hal until I was in high school. A little slow on the uptake there.
I have to give credit here when it comes to the sound clips. Paul K. Bisson ripped and prepared all those sound for me, taking careful notes as we recorded the episode. It only sounds as good as it does because of him.
John
Creator, Producer, All Around God-Like Being
"What? Too much?"
Re: Bionic Birthday Celebration
Actually, I found the TV show entertaining, but the commercials (from the KABC Los Angeles station) were FANTASTIC. If you want to see pictures of us that day, then go look in the "staff" image gallery to see us enjoying (?) the singing waitstaff at Ellen's Stardust Diner (which was the second half of John's birthday celebration). But I can put some pictures from the TV show in the "artwork" image gallery.
ETA: Okay, I put them up in the artwork image gallery. (BTW, John, the image gallery seems to be sorting by the chaos system, rather than what was most recently added. What's up with that???)
ETA Again: Ah, I wasn't paying attention. They're not organized by the chaos system, but by alphabetical order. Which makes sense if you know the name of the picture's caption, but not otherwise.
Updates
This might have been one of Dave's recent updates. We were having some problems with some of the people posting on the forum and Dave did an update to the whole website.
John
Creator, Producer, All Around God-Like Being
"What? Too much?"
Bionic Commercials
OMG, the commercials were the best thing ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!
new two-part episode format
Hey, John. Just a thought on the two-part episode experiment you mentioned you are going to be trying with this Six Million Dollar Man roundtable. I listened to it and had a good time considering I have almost no memory of the Bionic Woman and Six Million Dollar Man since I saw only a couple episodes of each show when I was a kid. That said, the two-part episode concept may detract from something I see as an advantage of the current structure of The Rift podcast, which is that if a listener isn't into the subject of a particular episode, they can look forward to a new topic being discussed the following week. Not trying to criticize, just offering a thought on this new experiment. It's actually quite a luxury that we listeners can reliably expect a new episode of your podcast every week in the first place, so not a big deal waiting for the next subject...
Yes
That is one thing I am concerned about. It's the one flaw I have with the podcast British Invaders as they not only spread their discussion into two parts, but they recap so much. (Out part two will simply pick up where we left off.)
My other way of handling this is to simply release the two parts in the space of the week the episode is intended, like I did with the fall movie review episode I did with Dan Persons.
Thank you for your thoughts and I will definitely keep them in mind.
John
Creator, Producer, All Around God-Like Being
"What? Too much?"