The Six Million Dollar Man & The Bionic Woman

[JabarR]

http://chronicrift.com/node/1696

 

[marcy17]

Its a great post. I really enjoyed reading it..

 

[JabarR]

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

 

[Dark Raven]

Was it a post or a podcast?

 

[JabarR]

Was it a post or a podcast?

It's gonna be a bi-weekly podcast, so they say.

 

[Dark Raven]

I didn't listen to all of it, but it sounded more like some spoofish Steve Austin sketch than any kind of discussion.

I preferred this one they produced before, which was informative and quite detailed:

http://chronicrift.com/node/1149

 

[JabarR]

Yeah, but I they said, they're talk about the history of the 6MDM and the BW. Speaking of 6MDM, the Season 1 DVD set is out right now!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[JabarR]

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[JabarR]

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[JabarR]

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[JabarR]

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[JabarR]

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the 6MDM!!!!!!

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the 6MDM!!!!!!

What a huge part of my childhood. I was born in '76 and caught it in syndication. I even inherited my brother's Bionic Man action figure, the one with the red button on the back and the strange blowup clear plastic "lab".

I did not care in the least for the most recent Bionic Woman remake, but I still think there is potential in this franchise.

 

[JabarR]

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[Thundarr]

It's too bad Jake 2.0 got cancelled after only one season. It was pretty damn good (certainly better than the Bionic Woman remake) and was essentially a new take on the basic concept of The Six Million Dollar Man. I for one was certainly looking forward to seeing more.

 

[JabarR]

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Lindsay singing "Feelings"

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[Obsidian Idea]

The Bionic Woman and Man comics look really interesting and seem to do pretty well. I like the modern take on the characters and still think there is room for them to come back to television.

I'd do a reboot starring Jamie and Steve under the title, "Bionic." Season one would have Steve become bionic with Jamie getting bionics in season two. I'd really play on how Jamie and Steve deal with and approach being bionic in different ways.

Steve being the well-known figure would adopt and take to the super-spy status as opposed to Jamie who's just a school teacher who happens to be the strongest woman in the world and fears losing her humanity.

 

[Thundarr]

The Bionic Woman and Man comics look really interesting and seem to do pretty well. I like the modern take on the characters and still think there is room for them to come back to television.

I'd do a reboot starring Jamie and Steve under the title, "Bionic." Season one would have Steve become bionic with Jamie getting bionics in season two. I'd really play on how Jamie and Steve deal with and approach being bionic in different ways.

Steve being the well-known figure would adopt and take to the super-spy status as opposed to Jamie who's just a school teacher who happens to be the strongest woman in the world and fears losing her humanity.

I haven't read the comics yet, but I totally agree that the show is prime for a reboot. Or perhaps a spinoff about Steve's son from the made for TV movie I had mentioned a few pages back.

 

[Dark Raven]

The Bionic Woman and Man comics look really interesting and seem to do pretty well. I like the modern take on the characters and still think there is room for them to come back to television.

I'd do a reboot starring Jamie and Steve under the title, "Bionic." Season one would have Steve become bionic with Jamie getting bionics in season two. I'd really play on how Jamie and Steve deal with and approach being bionic in different ways.

Steve being the well-known figure would adopt and take to the super-spy status as opposed to Jamie who's just a school teacher who happens to be the strongest woman in the world and fears losing her humanity.

Except that Jaime (that's the spelling) was also a well-known figure. She was a professional tennis player in the original (think Chris Evert back in the 70s, or if you can't think of that, then Maria Sharapova today). So she was already a superstar. She only became a school teacher after she got her bionics because she felt she couldn't compete anymore as she would have an unfair advantage.

What was weird however, was how she was later able to go on all these missions undercover without anyone recognising her from her former career. She even went undercover to win a beauty contest, so was on national TV. That means people would've seen her and ought to have recognised her immediately. Of course, sports stars didn't have as much publicity then as now as there was no internet etc, but it's not like the top tennis players weren't considerably known.

I think they need to drop that aspect of Jaime as it would hinder stories, especially today when it goes for more realism. People would see it just couldn't work for the reasons stated.

 

[JabarR]

This year marks the 40th Anniversary of the Six Million Dollar Man!!!!

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[Dark Raven]

Apparently Mark Wahlberg is Steve Austin in The Six Billion Dollar Man:

http://deadline.com/2014/11/mark-wahlberg-six-billion-dollar-man-movie-peter-berg-1201274727/

I think he's an alright choice. I didn't know if this project was even still on the cards. I'm glad it is. Production apparently starts next year for a 2016 release.

I hope it's a straight action adventure thriller and not a spoof comedy as proposed a few years ago.

 

[JabarR]

For those that don't know, you can catch SMDM and BW every Wed. on COZI TV
and also SMDM is on every Thurs. on Esquire Network

 

[JabarR]

Martin E. Brooks, Actor on 'The Six Million Dollar Man,' Dies at 90

by Mike Barnes 12/7/2015 4:20pm PST
He played Dr. Rudy Wells on the 1970s ABC series and its spinoff, 'The Bionic Woman,' and another of his characters was a murder suspect on 'Dallas.'

Martin E. Brooks, best known for his portrayal of the scientist Dr. Rudy Wells on the 1970s ABC series The Six Million Dollar Man and its spinoff, The Bionic Woman, has died. He was 90.

Brooks died Monday in Studio City of natural causes, Avatar and Titanic producer Jon Landau told The Hollywood Reporter. Brooks was the “soul mate” of Landau’s mother, Edie (also a producer), for the past 20 years, he said. The two grew up in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where they had been friends as children, and reconnected in 1993 after her husband died.

Brooks was the third actor to play Wells, who oversees the bionic implants of Steve Austin (Lee Majors) and Jaime Sommers (Lindsay Wagner) on the two action shows. He then reprised the role of Wells on three telefilms.

A familiar face on television, Brooks also appeared on such series as Knots Landing, Hunter, McMillan & Wife and Cagney & Lacey, and he played Edgar Randolph, a suspect in the shooting of Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy), at the climax of the 1983-84 season of Dallas.

On Broadway, Brooks had roles starting in the 1950s in John Steinbeck’s Burning Bright, for which he received a Theatre World Award and a Donaldson Award; Arthur Miller’s adaptation of Ibsen’s Enemy of the People; Arch Oboler’s Night of the Auk; and John Van Druten’s I Am a Camera.

Brooks also worked alongside such great actresses as Katharine Cornell, Helen Hayes, Julie Harris, Ruth Gordon, Geraldine Page, Marian Seldes and Uta Hagen on the Great White Way and co-starred with Brian Donlevy in a national tour of Saul Levitt’s hit play The Andersonville Trial.


Martin Baum was born in the Bronx, and when he was 10, his family moved to Wilkes-Barre, where his father opened and operated the Blue Bell Dress Factory. After high school, he volunteered to serve in the U.S. Army, became a paratrooper with the 11th Airborne Division and was awarded a Purple Heart for injuries received in battle.

After the war, Baum attended Penn State University and enrolled at Erwin Piscator’s Dramatic Workshop of the New School for Social Research in New York City. While there, he won the off-Broadway best actor award for his performance in Wolfgang Borchert’s Outside the Door and changed his name to Martin Brooks after a suggestion from one of his producers, Richard Rodgers.

At the same time, Brooks also was invited by Lee Strasberg to join The Actors Studio.

Brooks also played Dr. Arthur Bradshaw on ABC soap General Hospital and appeared in such films as Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) and The Man (1972).

He taught at the Tracy Roberts Acting School, which he co-owned with his late friend Tracy Roberts, and became an active member of Theatre West. In 2014, Brooks released his first CD, A Life Filled With Love, featuring songs he wrote and recorded in the 1960s and ’70s.

Brooks also wrote two novels, and his play Flo and Joe was optioned for a Broadway production.

In addition to Edie Landau, survivors include his nephews Charles and Danny and his grandnephews Ted, Mike, Mark, Jay and Aaron.

There will be no memorial service.

 

[JabarR]

RIP Martin


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[Obsidian Idea]

Aww...RIP Rudy.

I say give the Bionic series another crack on primetime television.

The tv show would be entitled "Bionic" featuring Steve and Jamie. The first season would feature Steve in the action seat with Jamie along for some of the adventures. Her accident would happen at the end of Season 1 leading her to get bionics in Season 2.

I think a tv show featuring them would really work because you could really play off how they both process being bionic: Steve is already a "hero" type being a famous astronaut and all so he falls into the agent persona easily. Jamie on the other hand is an everyday-ordinary girl and has a hard time adjusting to being bionic. She also struggles with the idea of being a cyborg but what levels her out is that she is able to help people in a way she never could before.

Has anyone heard about the Wahlberg film? I still think tv is a better medium for the Bionic folks...