The iconic opening credits have been parodied ever since the show originally aired – even AOL riffed on them. Virtually everyone remembers the voiceover from those credits: ‘Steve Austin. A man barely alive… We can rebuild him… make him better than he was…’ Now TimeLife has put together what has to be one of the most complete packages for a classic TV series – 40 DVDs containing the three TV Movies of the Week that served as pilots; the crossover episodes shared with spin-off series The Bionic Woman; the three reunion movies and over seventeen hours of other bonus material.
With all that care and attention comes one question – is The Six Million Dollar Man worth all that effort? The short answer is yes.
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When people ask me what my top 10 favorite films of all time are, I generally ignore the question because it only gives people a chance to try and come across as pretentious. Oh, they’ll say the usual, “The Godfather,” “Citizen Cane,” “Psycho,” “Gone With the Wind,” etc. Personally, I despise “Citizen Cane,” and think “The Godfather” is good, but overrated, “Wind” bores me to tears. My top 10 always changes but my favorite film has never changed – my answer has always been “V – The Original Mini-series.” Writer/Director Kenneth Johnson crafted a masterpiece with this movie. If it aired today, it probably wouldn’t have had the same impact on me as it did when I was a kid. I’m more jaded and the Internet would have ruined all of the surprises the movie had.
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