My 70's Memories - 6 Million Dollar Man

Colonel Steve Austin, a NASA test pilot barely survived a near fatal crash.

Narrator: "Steve Austin, astronaut. A man barely alive." Oscar Goldman: "Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world's first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster."

Austin is "rebuilt" in an operation that costs six million dollars. His right arm, both legs and the left eye are replaced by bionic (cybernetic) implants that enhance his strength, speed and vision far above human norm. He uses his enhanced abilities to work for the OSI as a secret agent.

This show was on from 1974 to 1978 and I loved it and had the action figures (you could look through the bionic eye).

In the second season, Austin defeated the out-of-control seven million dollar man despite only costing 6/7ths as much. We also met ex-tennis pro Jamie Sommers who became the bionic woman, and love interest of Steve Austin. (She would later get her own show and there would be a bionic boy and bionic dog, Max.)

In the third season of The Six Million Dollar Man, it all came together for me, a zen-like convergence of three of the coolest things imagineable.

TV Nirvana.

Thats right: the Six Million Dollar Man fought Bigfoot who came to earth in a UFO. The only way it could have been better is if a Loch Ness Monster made out of Legos appeared, but that would have been far fetched and not believable.

The fourth season brought more Bigfoot and the first Venus Death Probe, while the fifth season brought yet more Bigfoot and a second Venus Death Probe.

SMDM trivia - Can anyone tell me:
1. How Jamie Sommers was injured?
2. How the two Venus Probes were destroyed?

The Cantonese-dubbed version of the show had the following opening narration: (English translation)

"Astronaut - Steve Austin, critically injured after the accident. After doctors' diagnoses, in their opinion that they can modify him... into a man whose left eye, right hand, both legs that are unlike anyone else's. This modification finally succeeded. Steve Austin is now strong, agile, wise and brave combined."