The Six Million Dollar Man

The Six Million Dollar Man (1974)

113 mistakes in season 1 - chronological order

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Burning Bright - S1-E11

Continuity mistake: While Oscar and Ted watch Steve run, Ted suddenly appears wearing a jacket that wasn't there before, and Oscar's dark grey jacket changes to a brown plaid one between shots.

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Burning Bright - S1-E11

Continuity mistake: When Steve pole-vaults, Oscar is shown watching from a distance, but as Steve jumps, Oscar is suddenly right beside the landing mat. The discrepancy occurs because the shot was reused from S01E10.

Sacha

Burning Bright - S1-E11

Continuity mistake: On the scaffolding, Josh keeps staring straight at Steve the whole time, but when Steve kneels down, the shot cuts back to Josh, and he's still looking straight ahead instead of down.

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The Coward - S1-E12

Continuity mistake: Steve and the instructor jump out of the plane and toss a third parachute attached to a duffel bag. However, in the wide shot, a third man (legs are visible so it's not the duffel bag) suddenly appears out of nowhere.

Sacha

Trivia: Longtime TV actor Lee Majors was extremely influential in the overall development of the "Six Million Dollar Man" series. Although he had already appeared in the 3 successful made-for-TV pilot movies in 1973, Majors was very skeptical of entering into a weekly series, and he wanted a guarantee that the show would not devolve into a campy superhero series (like "Batman"). Majors further stipulated that there should be no blood and no violent death on the show. Executive producer Harve Bennett, producer Kenneth Johnson, and ABC Television immediately agreed. Majors also thought the original "Six Million Dollar Man" theme song (sung by Dusty Springfield) was embarrassingly bad, so composer Oliver Nelson wrote the iconic instrumental theme for the series. Two years into the hit show, Majors then became concerned that his character, Steve Austin, would be perceived as gay because he never had an onscreen love interest; so Majors essentially demanded that a female character be added to fill that role. The producers complied without question. According to Lee Majors: "People were really getting to the point where it was like, 'When's this guy [Steve Austin] going to come out of the closet here?' That's when we brought in Lindsay Wagner to be the first love interest."

Charles Austin Miller

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