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My favorite Six Million Dollar Man episode is where Steve Austin had to fight a Soviet Venus rover that accidently landed on Earth. It was autonomous, obviously

My favorite Six Million Dollar Man episode is where Steve Austin had to fight a Soviet Venus rover that accidently landed on Earth. It was autonomous, obviously, and because it was designed to survive on Venus, it was nearly indestructible. No one comes up with plots like that anymore!

ggm 1y ago
Its a dalek: Just climb stairs.
oxryly1 1y ago
Ah I've been trying to dig up that episode from my faulty memory for years! I was convinced it was an episode of the A-Team fighting a killer tank instead.
- GMoromisato 1y ago
  Glad to help! I was 12 at the time, proving the adage about the "Golden Age of science fiction."
oxryly1 1y ago
Also similar to the strange subplot in "Until the End of the World" [1] where a damaged Indian nuclear satellite threatens to fall to earth destroying civilization. [1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101458/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101458/
- sweetbacon 1y ago
  wow that's an old movie call back I hadn't thought about in years. I loved the whole sub-plot of the repercussions of being able to record and replay ones dreams.
- bigyabai 1y ago
  > Wim Wenders' original rough cut for this film was twenty hours long. Holy hell
  - deleted 1y ago
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  - Tempest1981 1y ago
    I'm still working on all 83 hours of Suits
- grujicd 1y ago
  That movie has one of the best soundtracks ever. Highly recommended - it was released as an album and you can find it on Spotify and similar services.
brk 1y ago
Was that the episode where it was defeated by screwing an eye hook into the top of it and lifting it to immobilize?
pgreenwood 1y ago
Kenner also released a surprisingly large toy version of that probe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTWJc72p2pE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTWJc72p2pE
- stronglikedan 1y ago
  Considering the GI Joes I had, that was average size for toys like that.
dghughes 1y ago
Did Steve have a mustache? Those are the epic seasons. Imagine fighting a CCCP Venus rover with a glorious 'stache!
kstrauser 1y ago
That scared the snot out of me as a little kid. I half want to see it again, and half know it’d be so cheesy that it’d ruin the memory of watching from the safety of underneath the coffee table.
mrguyorama 1y ago
America doesn't have a clear "Antagonist" anymore to unify media, news, and discussion in an "us vs them" way. Instead lots of groups have found and formed their own bad guys and media is largely fractured on that parameter. This is why lots of boomers think the news is "biased" now too, because they grew up with all of society unified against a common EXTERNAL foe, for better or worse. There was nobody saying "actually the USSR shouldn't be the enemy", mostly because socialist everything was snuffed out by WW2.

ggm 1y ago

Its a dalek: Just climb stairs.

oxryly1 1y ago

Ah I've been trying to dig up that episode from my faulty memory for years! I was convinced it was an episode of the A-Team fighting a killer tank instead.

GMoromisato 1y ago
Glad to help! I was 12 at the time, proving the adage about the "Golden Age of science fiction."

oxryly1 1y ago

Also similar to the strange subplot in "Until the End of the World" [1] where a damaged Indian nuclear satellite threatens to fall to earth destroying civilization. [1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101458/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101458/

sweetbacon 1y ago
wow that's an old movie call back I hadn't thought about in years. I loved the whole sub-plot of the repercussions of being able to record and replay ones dreams.
bigyabai 1y ago
> Wim Wenders' original rough cut for this film was twenty hours long. Holy hell
- deleted 1y ago
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- Tempest1981 1y ago
  I'm still working on all 83 hours of Suits
grujicd 1y ago
That movie has one of the best soundtracks ever. Highly recommended - it was released as an album and you can find it on Spotify and similar services.

brk 1y ago

Was that the episode where it was defeated by screwing an eye hook into the top of it and lifting it to immobilize?

pgreenwood 1y ago

Kenner also released a surprisingly large toy version of that probe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTWJc72p2pE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTWJc72p2pE

stronglikedan 1y ago
Considering the GI Joes I had, that was average size for toys like that.

dghughes 1y ago

Did Steve have a mustache? Those are the epic seasons. Imagine fighting a CCCP Venus rover with a glorious 'stache!

kstrauser 1y ago

That scared the snot out of me as a little kid. I half want to see it again, and half know it’d be so cheesy that it’d ruin the memory of watching from the safety of underneath the coffee table.

mrguyorama 1y ago

America doesn't have a clear "Antagonist" anymore to unify media, news, and discussion in an "us vs them" way. Instead lots of groups have found and formed their own bad guys and media is largely fractured on that parameter. This is why lots of boomers think the news is "biased" now too, because they grew up with all of society unified against a common EXTERNAL foe, for better or worse. There was nobody saying "actually the USSR shouldn't be the enemy", mostly because socialist everything was snuffed out by WW2.