The really sad thing is, The Bionic Woman was such a better show. (at least I thought it was, hell maybe I'm biased)
Those femmbots gave me nightmares for months.

After all that bionic running in her stylish jogging outfit and tennis shoes, it's no wonder she'd need a bionic pedicure.

At least she had fully rooted hair. Steve's apparently wearing a rug (a bionic rug, no doubt).

Heh. Back while dinos roamed the earth, my parents bought me the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman stuff for my sister.

My sister prefered Jamie's house to the Barbie dream house and believed, to my dismay, Steve and Masktron made better tea party guests than that sissy Ken.

@ManchuCandidate: ...for your sister...

...riiiight....

@ManchuCandidate:
Well, yeah! They're so much cooler.
There's a reason good looking, vapid, metro-sexual men are referred to as "Ken dolls".

where's the Bionic Bar?

But where does Oscar Goldman hang out?

wait. didn't she live inna barn?

@Miranda Kali: Fembots rocked! They were better than Cylons!

@CMG: At the Bionic Pool Hall.

@Miranda Kali

The thing is that The 6 Million Dollar Man was a superb show until the network decided to bring Jamie Summers back from the dead by green lighting The Bionic Woman series.

What happened is they took all of the good writers for her show, gutting the writing staff for the Steve Austin series and it never recovered.

@ManchuCandidate:
Besides, sure both Ken and Steve were anatomically lacking, but at least Steve came with spare parts..

@dOk:
That must have been about when "The Bionic Man vs. Bigfoot" aired.
...more like the "Bionic Man vs. The Shark" (come to think of it, I think that's about the same time period the notorious Happy Days episode aired)

I want that dome house.

...seriously.

@dOk: Is that what's happening to Battlestar Galactica?

I had the Six Million Dollar Man Action Figure, his Bionic Mission Vehicle and the Critical Assignment Arms. The laser shooting arm was battery powered and would shoot a small red beam of light ala Buzz Lightyear. There were also Critical Assignment Legs which I totally wanted because one of the legs was an exploding leg. Good Times.

@Miranda Kali:

"The Bionic Man vs. Bigfoot" was sheer genuis and I'm going to tearfully stomp my feet until you take it back!

For true shark-jumping action, check out "The Return of Bionic Bigfoot" which is a crossover between the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman and also includes John Saxon, Stephanie Powers, Sandy Duncan and awesome stock footage of a volcano.

p.s. Graeme, I was fan before, but your re-discovery of the Bionic Beauty Salon makes me want to swear my undying love to you. This is the highlight of my week.

@GentlyClubBillPart2:
Sweet Jebus! It had a sequel?! Goddess, I though I'd seen everything.
Okay, I take it back only because there was something worse.
I'm curious though..How did they get John Saxon and Sandy Duncan on the same screen without ripping the fabric of reality asunder?
....Oh wait, that was about the same time...(calculate the vector of the moon and allow for volcanic activity..) So THAT'S how they got Silver Spoons to work.

@GentlyClubBillPart2: The Bionic Man vs. Bigfoot also helped to spawn the Sid & Marty Kroft 'Bigfoot and Wildboy'

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So many good memories...

I had Steve, Maskatron, Crystal Radio Communicator, Moon Rocket/OR and The Mission Vehicle.

I remember stealing Bionic Arm and Leg Modules out of the dolls at my local Zayre's...

I seem to remember having the GI Joe bionic-man knock-off. He only had ONE bionic leg (probably in an attempt to avoid litigation) So he couldn't run very fast, but he could hop on one foot at amazing speed.
Does anyone else remember this?, or am I having another "Mom had a few too many high-balls while she was carrying me" moments?

Found it:

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He didn't have to run, he has a hand-helocopter (handocopter?). Don't know how he overcame the Torque rotation problem, bionic farts maybe....

I remember being in first grade and getting all this loot for the holidays. I had all those add on arms and the big white backpack crystal radio thing too. I was always losing those transparent bionic chunks from his arms and legs (to show up years later). I had Oscar Goldman and his exploding briefcase (which was the best toy of the bunch). I also think I had his robotic enemy thing that shot its arms? legs? Head? off.
Long gone but good memories.

oh yeah, I think I had some sort of big white blue plastic rocket thing that they all played in.

@aixelsyd:
40 Year Old Virgin

Cal: Is that the Six Million Dollar Man's boss?
Andy Stitzer: That's Oscar Goldman.
Cal: Why do you have that?
Andy Stitzer: That's worth a lot of money. That's much more valuable than Steve Austin.