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Six Million Dollar Man ♥ Bionic Woman @bionicfans.bsky.social · 2h

#50YearsAgoToday This #SixMillionDollarMan #actionfigure was "only 7.99" at the Bay department store in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Published in the Calgary Herald on this date Tuesday, October 28, 1975.

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Six Million Dollar Man ♥ Bionic Woman @bionicfans.bsky.social · 14h

#50YearsAgoToday Low prices on #Halloween candy and costumes helped make the #SixMillionDollarMan costume a best-seller as reported in the Syracuse Herald-Journal (Syracuse, New York) on this date Monday, October 27, 1975.

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Six Million Dollar Man ♥ Bionic Woman @bionicfans.bsky.social · 1d

#50YearsAgoToday some newspapers ran TV listings for the #SixMillionDollarMan episode "Target in the Sky" which referenced the episode's plot. But other newspapers revealed a different episode title: "Steve Austin, Lumberjack." Which do YOU prefer? Published on this date Saturday, October 25, 1975.

Six Million Dollar Man ♥ Bionic Woman @bionicfans.bsky.social · 2d

#50YearsAgoToday The Town Talk (Alexandria, LA) ran this letter from John Lindsey who stopped watching #SixMillionDollarMan because #SteveAustin let #JaimeSommers go at the end of "The Return of the #BionicWoman Part II." Published on this date Saturday, October 25, 1975.

Six Million Dollar Man ♥ Bionic Woman @bionicfans.bsky.social · 2d

#50YearsAgoToday the Courier-Post (Camden, New Jersey) ran this profile on #RichardAnderson who is surprised and overjoyed at the sudden success of #SixMillionDollarMan "...we're all standing around staring at one another and wondering, "What did we do right?" On this date Saturday, October 25, 1975

Six Million Dollar Man ♥ Bionic Woman @bionicfans.bsky.social · 8d

#50YearsAgoToday the Daily News (New York, New York) ran this image of Leigh Christian from the #SixMillionDollarMan episode "The Deadly Test" on this date Sunday, October 19, 1975. It's a poor scan but it does reveal an alternate episode title, "An Eye for an Eye."

Six Million Dollar Man ♥ Bionic Woman @bionicfans.bsky.social · 8d

#50YearsAgoToday The Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana) ran this promo for the #SixMillionDollarMan episode "The Deadly Test" on this date Sunday, October 19, 1975.

Black and white newspaper image showing Lee Majors as Steve Austin crouched in hiding as he looks onward.

Six Million Dollar Man ♥ Bionic Woman @bionicfans.bsky.social · 9d

#50YearsAgoToday The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California) Bettelon Peterson's TV Questions letter column featured another #BionicWoman fan wondering if #LindsayWagner was coming back to #SixMillionDollarMan (also, if she was married to #LeeMajors in real life!).

Six Million Dollar Man ♥ Bionic Woman @bionicfans.bsky.social · 10d

#50YearsAgoToday the Irving Daily News (Irving, Texas) ran Mary O'Neill's opinion piece praising the guest stars of recent #Columbo and #SixMillionDollarMan episodes, including John Fujioka returning as Kuroda in "The Wolf Boy." Published Friday, October 17, 1975.

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Six Million Dollar Man ♥ Bionic Woman @bionicfans.bsky.social · 10d

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Robert J. Sawyer @robertjsawyer.com · 12d

Registration is now open for my free public talk on "Why Everyone Should Read Science Fiction" at the Burlington (Ontario) Public Library as part of BurlLITFest 2025. The talk is on Monday, November 10, at 7:00 p.m.

attend.bpl.on.ca/event/14568708

Robert J. Sawyer on Science Fiction

Why Everyone Should Read Science Fiction

attend.bpl.on.ca

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Six Million Dollar Man ♥ Bionic Woman @bionicfans.bsky.social · 11d

From The Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California) on this date Thursday, October 16, 1975. The once "middling" #SixMillionDollarMan had been in the top 10 since the season began. Season 3 was definitely a turning point for the series.

Six Million Dollar Man ♥ Bionic Woman @bionicfans.bsky.social · 11d

#50YearsAgoToday "The Wolf Boy" ranked 5th in the #Nielsen ratings. #SixMillionDollarMan

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Six Million Dollar Man ♥ Bionic Woman @bionicfans.bsky.social · 12d

#50YearsAgoToday #SixMillionDollarMan #doll #ActionFigure The Franklin Sun (Winnsboro, Louisiana) on this date Wednesday, October 15, 1975

Six Million Dollar Man ♥ Bionic Woman @bionicfans.bsky.social · 14d

#50YearsAgoToday Was #JaimeSommers comig back to #SixMillionDollarMan? A #bionic official said, "If we don't have #BionicWoman, we'll have a #bionicbaby or a #bionicdog or something. Muncie Evening Press (Muncie, Indiana) on this date Monday, October 13, 1975.

Six Million Dollar Man ♥ Bionic Woman @bionicfans.bsky.social · 14d

#50YearsAgoToday this ad ran in the Lexington Herald (Lexington, Kentucky) on this date Monday, October 13, 1975. #LeeMajors was scheduled to appear at the Maple Lawn Farm Celebrity Tennis Tournament. Other participants included #ErnestBornine and #VincentVanPatten.

Six Million Dollar Man ♥ Bionic Woman @bionicfans.bsky.social · 15d

#50YearsAgoToday little Betsy Dodd, a #BionicWoman fan (obviously!), pretended to be 4 different people and wrote strongly-worded letters to the Philadelphia Inquirer, printed on this date Oct. 12, 1975.

JUST KIDDING! But visit her wonderful tribute to #TheBionicWoman at bionicblonde.com #Not!Steve

Six Million Dollar Man ♥ Bionic Woman @bionicfans.bsky.social · 15d

#50YearsAgoToday "The Wolf Boy" was the 5th episode of the #SixMillionDollarMan 3rd season, airing on this date Sunday, October 12, 1975. This image highlight is from the Sun Herald (Biloxi, Mississippi).

Six Million Dollar Man ♥ Bionic Woman @bionicfans.bsky.social · 16d

#50YearsAgoToday this reader wanted to know if the guy playing #SteveAustin on the #SixMillionDollarMan was also the guy who played Jess Brandon on Owen Marshall as well as the guy who played Heath Barkley on Big Valley. The Burlington Free Press (Burlington, Vermont), Saturday, October 11, 1975.

Six Million Dollar Man ♥ Bionic Woman @bionicfans.bsky.social · 16d

#50YearsAgoToday this article ran in the San Francisco Chronicle on this date Friday, Oct. 10, 1975. "Mechanical Man Makes Good" reveals that for years CBS + NBC would call every week to report their ratings to the press. ABC never called until this week: #SixMillionDollarMan is their top new show.

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Six Million Dollar Man ♥ Bionic Woman @bionicfans.bsky.social · 17d

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Six Million Dollar Man ♥ Bionic Woman @bionicfans.bsky.social · 18d

#50YearsAgoToday this fan wanted another bionic guy on #SixMillionDollarMan On this date October 9, 1975 from the Herald-News, Passaic, New Jersey. Maybe he missed the #SevenMillionDollarMan

Six Million Dollar Man ♥ Bionic Woman @bionicfans.bsky.social · 19d

#50YearsAgoToday The best #SixMillionDollarMan #actionfigure #doll KNOCKOFF was Mike Power the Atomic Man from the #GIJoe line. Rumor is that when #Hasbro failed to secure the #toy license from Universal, #Kenner swooped in. So Hasbro made Mike. This ad ran in The Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA).

Six Million Dollar Man ♥ Bionic Woman @bionicfans.bsky.social · 20d

#50YearsAgoToday This blurb ran in The Record (Hackensack, NJ) on this date October 7, 1975 reporting the casting of then-7-year-old Rodney Allan Rippey on #SixMillionDollarMan ("The Blue Flash"). It then continues to speculate on more #bionic kids.

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Six Million Dollar Man ♥ Bionic Woman @bionicfans.bsky.social · 21d

#50YearsAgoToday Sonny Bono's appearance on #SixMillionDollarMan was a big deal back in 1975. Ex-wife #Cher had her own show on CBS and it was scheduled opposite his guest-star episode, "The Song and Dance Spy." The media was playing it up as a "bout." Final nielsen score: SIX MILL-5th, CHER-39th.