Cast and Crew

Creator：  Martin Caidin

Leading Role：  Lee Majors,Richard Anderson,Martin E. Brooks

Summary of The Six Million Dollar Man Seasons 1-6 DVD Box Set

The Six Million Dollar Man is an American television series about a former astronaut with bionic implants working for a fictional government office known as OSI. The series is based on the novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin, and during pre-production, that was its proposed title.Following three television movies aired in 1973, The Six Million Dollar Man aired on the ABC network as a regular series for five seasons from 1974 to 1978. The title role of Steve Austin was played by Lee Majors, who subsequently became a pop culture icon of the 1970s. A spin-off of the show was produced, The Bionic Woman, as well as several television movies featuring both eponymous characters.

The background story of the original novel and the later series is the crash of former astronaut Steve Austin in a “lifting body” craft, shown in the opening credits of the show. (The lifting body craft mostly shown was a Northrop M2-F2; however, in the episode "The Deadly Replay", a Northrop HL-10, identified as such in dialog, was used.) Austin is severely injured in the crash and is rebuilt in a title-giving operation that costs at least six million dollars ($6 million in 1973 adjusted for inflation in 2012 using Bureau of Labor Statistics would be $31 million).[3] His right arm, both legs and the left eye are replaced by "bionic" implants that enhance his strength, speed and vision far above human norms: he can run at speeds of 60 mph (97 km/h), and his eye has a 20:1 zoom lens (In the novel it is a camera) and infrared capabilities while his limbs all have the equivalent power of a bulldOZer. He uses his enhanced abilities to work for the OSI (Office of Scientific Intelligence) as a secret agent.