The six million dollar Man

The six million dollar Man is an American television series from the 1970s. The series ran on from 1974 until 1983. The main role of Steve Austin was played by Lee Majors that an Idol was in the 1970s.

The series tells the story of astronaut Steve Austin who is near death after a terrible accident. He is rebuilt with modern technology that ' bionics ' (Cybernetics) is called. The whole ' rebuilding ' including ' components ' costs six million dollars together with which the title of the series is explained.

The series was based on the novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin. The background of the novel is based on the crash of former astronaut Steve Austin in a M2-F2. In the opening sequence of the series used original footage of the crash by Bruce Peterson from 1967. Austin discovered and gets an operation that cost $ 6 million. His right arm, both legs and left eye are replaced with bionic implants that are strength, vision and superhuman speed and the American public to make medical bionic implants.

Because of the success was a similar television series the six million dollar Woman made. With the actress Lindsay Wagner in the role of Jaime Sommers, the first female cyborg in the world. A remake from 2007 of this spin-off series with Michelle Ryan Bionic Woman in the lead role was less successful and was already after 8 episodes stopped. ==Trivia[ Edit] == Although bionic implants were then still science fiction that they are not anymore. On 3 april 2006 a symposium went off, as part of Experimental Biology 2006, titled "the six million dollar Man". Scientists explained how one can make now partly in the 1970s science fiction where what was, as electronic arms, legs and eyes as one who gave to the six million dollar man. The symposium was part of the scientific program of the American Association of Anatomists.