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The Six Million Dollar Man (1974): How the 70s Sci-Fi TV Smash Hit FELL APART

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At its peak, 30 million people watched this man (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125314/http://www.jumptheshark.com/s/sixmilliondollarman.htm) every single Friday night. Every week. For five years. And then no farewell. No explanation. He just never came back.

In this video we cover:

The dark novel nobody read that started it all
Why Lee Majors was almost rejected by the network
The real reason The Bionic Woman (https://web.archive.org/web/20140401041859/http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/topic/3159429-bionic-woman/?view=getnewpost) quietly killed the original
Andre the Giant's first acting role — inside a Bigfoot suit
How Star Wars made bionic slow-motion feel like ancient history
The inflation detail that turned the title into a quiet joke
Farrah Fawcett, 12 million posters, and a marriage under impossible pressure
The last episode that had no idea it was the last episode


No dramatic cancellation. No cast walkout. No farewell episode. After 110 episodes and 30 million weekly viewers, he just didn't come back one Friday night. Some of them if we're being honest never quite got over it.