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In a spring 1975 episode, Jaime Sommers (Lindsay Wagner), a tennis pro and Austin's love interest, was injured in a skydiving accident. Austin pleaded with Goldman to save her life, and she too was fitted with bionic parts (legs, one arm, and an ear). Eventually her body rejected her implants, and she died, at least as far as Austin was concerned. Fan outcry was so great, ABC demanded the series reorganize the start of the third season and run a two-parter bringing her back to life. So after Jaime was rescued by a radical medical procedure, she went to work for the OSI in her own spinoff series, ''[[The Bionic Woman]]'' (1976-1978), living undercover as a schoolteacher on an Air Force base when not on missions for the OSI. And Jaime herself became a recurring character on ''Six Mil'' during its third and fourth seasons, taking part in a number of crossover stories until ''Bionic Woman'' was cancelled by ABC in 1977 and moved to NBC, ending these crossovers for good.
'''''The Six Million Dollar Man''''' was based upon the science fiction novel ''Cyborg'' by Martin Caidin, and the original pilot TV movie, aired in 1973, was written by Henri Simoun and an uncredited Steven Bochco ([[NYPD Blue]]). It was followed by two more TV movies produced by Glen Larson (
The series was followed by made-for-TV movies in the late [[The Eighties|1980s]] and early [[The Nineties|1990s]]. In the last of these, Steve and Jaime finally got married. As for bionic kids -- Austin's estranged son by a pre-series marriage, Michael, appears in ''The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman'' (1987), where he is fitted with bionics far, far exceeding those possessed by his father. In the second film, ''Bionic Showdown'' (1989), a new bionic woman named Kate Mason is introduced, played by [[Sandra Bullock]] in one of her first roles.
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In the 1970s, the utterly exorbitant $6 million seemed about the right cost to create a bionic man<ref>You might say it [[Incredibly Lame Pun|cost an arm and a leg]]</ref>. Oddly enough, due to the rapidly-falling costs of technology, it still seems about right, despite inflation.
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* [[Non-Human Sidekick]]: Bigfoot, after Steve becomes the Sasquatch's BFF.
* [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup]]: Other than the failed experiment with Barney Hiller, and the fact Jaime was rebuilt only after Steve's urging, there is no indication of another bionic person being created until the reunion movies. In "The Secret of Bigfoot", Austin makes the false claim that there is an entire army of bionic men. Well, why wasn't there?
** Candidates for bionic implantation need to be missing limbs. There are plenty of amputees among the general population, but since the technology is top secret, you have to find an amputee ''with a security clearance'' who is willing to put himself into danger after he's been modified.
* [[Required Secondary Powers]]: As noted above, the non-bionic parts of his body would have trouble handling the forces created by his bionic limbs. He's also subject to the [[Super Strength]] issues of this trope.
** [[Retcon]]ned in one of the "reunion" TV movies with a throwaway line about reinforcing a new bionic man's skeleton against the stress "like we did for you".
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* [[Theme Tune]]: recognizable even today, as well as its SFX sounds.
* [[There Is Another]]: For the first season, Steve Austin thought he was the only Bionic man ever made. Then he came across OSI's little skeleton in the closet, Barney Miller/Hiller, whom it turned out had been given Bionic limbs before Steve.
▲* [[We Can Rebuild Him]]: The [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Wrote the Book]]: In "The Return of Bigfoot":
{{quote|'''Steve''': I don't know. It's... it's like there's something there. I can almost remember, but not quite... it's frustrating.
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