The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman | |
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Genre | Action Science Fiction |
Based on | Cyborg by Martin Caidin The Bionic Woman by Kenneth Johnson |
Screenplay by | Michael Sloan |
Story by | |
Directed by | Ray Austin[1] |
Starring | |
Music by | Marvin Hamlisch |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producer | Michael Sloan |
Producer | Bernadette Joyce |
Cinematography | William K. Jurgensen |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
Production company | Universal |
Budget | $4.8 million[2] |
Original release | |
Network | NBC |
Release | May 17, 1987 |
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The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman is a made-for-television science fiction action film which originally aired on May 17, 1987 on NBC. The movie reunited the main casts of the television series The Six Million Dollar Man and its spin-off The Bionic Woman. Set 10 years after the events of those series, Steve Austin (Lee Majors) and Jaime Sommers (Lindsay Wagner) are asked to come out of retirement and confront a paramilitary criminal organization called Fortress, Steve's estranged son Michael Austin (Tom Schanley), and their own past relationship. Series regular characters Oscar Goldman (Richard Anderson), head of the OSI, and Dr. Rudy Wells (Martin E. Brooks) also star, along with new characters OSI agent Jim Castillian (Lee Majors II, the real-life son of Lee Majors) and Lyle Stenning (Martin Landau), leader of Fortress.[1][2]
The movie was a "backdoor pilot" for a potential series based on the character of Michael Austin, but the series never materialized. Two more television movies followed, Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1989) and Bionic Ever After? (1994).[1][2]