steve austin played the million dollar man on tv.
steve austin played the million dollar man on tv.
who played the million dollar man on tv?
steve austin
in march 2012, dynamite entertainment launched a new "the bionic woman" comic book title, based upon the revised continuity established in the kevin smith-written "the bionic man" comic (a reimagining of "the six million dollar man"), in which the character of jaime sommers was reintroduced. a crossover mini-series, "the bionic man vs. the bionic woman", was launched in january 2013. unlike the "bionic man" title, which (depending on the artist) occasionally renders steve austin in the likeness of actor lee majors, the dynamite version of jaime sommers generally is not rendered in the likeness of lindsay wagner. in late 2013, dynamite ended both series and in the spring of 2014 launched "the six million dollar man season 6", a more faithful adaptation of the original "six million dollar man" tv series. jaime sommers, based on the wagner interpretation, was reintroduced in issue 3 and in june 2014 dynamite announced it will publish "the bionic woman season 4", a continuation of the tv series, beginning in the fall of 2014.
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the first movie was a major ratings success and was followed by two more made-for-tv movies in october and november 1973 as part of abc's rotating "movie of the week" series. the first was titled "the six million dollar man: "wine, women and war"", and the second was titled "the six million dollar man: "the solid gold kidnapping"". the first of these two bore strong resemblances to caidin's second "cyborg" novel, "operation nuke"; the second, however, was an original story. this was followed in january 1974 by the debut of "the six million dollar man" as a weekly hour-long series. the last two movies, produced by glen a. larson, notably introduced a james bond flavor to the series and reinstated austin's status from the novels as an air force colonel; the hour-long series, produced by harve bennett, dispensed with the james bond-gloss of the movies, and portrayed a more down-to-earth austin. (majors said of austin, "[he] hates...the whole idea of spying. he finds it repugnant, degrading. if he's a james bond, he's the most reluctant one we've ever had.")
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