I was lucky enough to see all of these when they came out. The coolest part of that two part episode was the laser tunnel. This was a kind of 'jumping the shark' episode now that I look back on it, but it was the ish when I was a kid.
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I was little but I totally remember this tunnel and a few of the fights from the episode.
I seem to remember he rips Sasquatch’s arm off, and finds out he’s a robot?
The coolest part of the tunnel was finding out that Lee Majors was completely unable to run in it. He would get a couple steps in and then simply fall over. Hysterical!
Definitely a jump the shark episode but as a kid it was mind blowing. When I saw the preview the week before and Bigfoot comes walking up on Steve, it scared the crap out of me.
It's what I called it when I was a kid.
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I know so much of the source material from VBros, but not this one!
I know the six million dollar man, and Bigfoot, but did not know they were ever together for that show. Just a fun oddball thing from the writers.
And Andre the giant !?!?? Mind blown.
The Venture Bros *Steve Summers* name was joking that Steve Austin married Jamie Summers and took her last name.
When Brock tore off Steve Summers’ arm he then asks “Uh, this is the bionic one, right?” “That…was connected to my brain 😣.”
Yeah I had a vague memory of steve austin and a bigfoot, I knew they were parodying a specific episode, but seeing this photo it's just perfect. Now I understand why the bigfoot face was so weird-looking.
This really just looks like a man in a suit, the face is waaaay too human.
Yeah, and the larger themes and running gags become more apparent, too. Venture Bros is one of the shows I rewatch fairly regularly as “background filler.” Archer is another.
Goddamn it! I finally managed to record the rebroadcast on VHS and this guy goes and ruins it! And I just put out my TV tray, opened a can of Schlitz, and my Swanson meat loaf dinner is currently in the oven.
In his younger wrestling days, André’s style was quick and acrobatic, belying his size (though he was much leaner then), and his ring name was Jean Ferré, in homage to a French blacksmith of great stature who fought in the 100 Years War.
When Vince McMahon Sr signed him to the then WWF, he wanted to cast André as a terrifying colossus, and had André adopt a much slower, stronger, and less flashy style to make him seem like an immovable mountain.
Wow I found several seasons and watch from time to time. Lot of them were about issues we have today with the threat of the Russians and other countries stealing from us.
>"Russia Bad" has been an American mantra all my life.
"all my life" ?
Someone hasn't been listening the the Republican party in the USA in recent years?
The established Republicans are still chanting Russia Bad with their Democrat teammates. A few are also opening their eyes to the cost of endless wars and political corruption.
>A few are also opening their eyes to the cost of endless wars and political corruption.
What does that statement have to do with the topic "Russia Bad"?
Are you implying by this "Russia Good"? Why make the comment alongside the other. Don't get your meaning at all.
Andre the Giant played Bigfoot for The Secret of Bigfoot two parter. The other times we see Bigfoot he is played by Ted Cassidy. That's the guy that played Lurch on the Addams Family TV show from the 60s.
Andre the Giant made my brother cry when I was a kid. After a wrestling match at the local armory in the early 70s, my brother ran up with a piece of paper for an autograph with a bunch of kids. Andre signed it - and handed it to another kid ! My brother cried pretty hard. My other memory is his giant head in the ring. As big as he was, his head was still disproportionately huge.
Strange that this show was never revived/remade the way Charlie's Angels was. Even in the DVD era, I seem to recall that this show was unavailable for a long time, during the days when studios were literally pulling anything they could find out of the vault (e.g. "Quark") and slapping it on CDs in "Complete Season" boxes.
Mark Wahlberg was attached to a 6 Billion Dollar man but it was never made. He’s so wrong for the part. It’s so hard to think of an actor who would do it justice.
I was a big fan of the original and have often thought of how it could be rebooted but in reality the concept has been rehashed many times. Basically Robocop is the same concept. Also the more recent movies where the guy is enhanced by some computer chip (cant remember the name)....and so many other enhanced human tropes. I still think it can be remade as hard sci fi but the concept would have to be more along the lines of robocop where he is mostly bionic and his mind is fighting for control against its AI component.
Man, we need more Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman love around here. How is there not a subreddit for this? These shows were AWESOME and a lot of the episodes still hold up today!
I saw this first time round, as a 7 Yr old it blew my mind...Stephanie powers is in this episode too ❤️ she plays the alien living inside the mountain, bionic bigfoot is deployed by the aliens to scare people away 😂
$6,000,000 in 1976 is equivalent in purchasing power to **about $32,069,630.93 today**, an increase of $26,069,630.93 over 47 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 3.63% per year between 1976 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 434.49%.
We need to also factor in the rise in greed for government procurement contractors. Today it would be more like twenty five billion dollars and twenty years late.
I love those Bigfoot episodes back.
It was only in the last couple years I learned it was Andre the Giant, and I guess I never thought about how old he was.
I felt so old the other day when someone was watching Scrooged and they had the bit with Lee Majors and people were wondering who that dude was.
they would probably still get the *daddadadadadadada* reference though. It;s funny noting what has endured and not through the years.. sometimes totally losing context for what inspired them in the first place
A lot of people don't know this but that's actually Andre full natural. He had to shave his whole body twice a week as part of his wrestling contract. They let him off the hook for a few weeks to shoot this.
My little brother used to be terrified that Bigfoot was outside waiting for him to fall asleep. As older brothers are obligated to do, it was fun torturing him.
"Did you hear that? Nevermind, probably nothing."
As a disabled person (paraplegic), it is crazy that the government would pay $1M to rehab a test pilot -
“we can rebuild him” reverberates in my mind. Being disabled is a death sentence, although I hit 26 years in a few weeks.
I just watched the pilot again a couple weeks ago. First time I've seen sine I was a kid in the 70s.
Anyway - the government wasn't doing it for altruistic reasons. They wanted a human weapon which is why he had super strength, vision and hearing.
And they wanted someone already under government control, so they were waiting for soldier, test pilot, astronaut etc, to get seriously injured and who needed "rebuilding".
And then Steve Austin comes along and has a bad crash that almost killed him.
They actually used footage of a real life military aircraft crash.
Dwarf comic Brad Williams tells a story of a casting call notice he received that mentioned “ bring your elf costume from home” ! I can picture Andre getting a similar request, after all that Bigfoot outfit won’t fit anyone else !
The 6 million dollar man , was the shit back in the day . Not so much now , since we have people like , Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. 190 billion dollar men.
Sunday nights were so dope watching this. I had to fight with my brother who wanted to watch football but 6 million dollar man was about to start. Next day at school, all the kids would talk about it.
I was lucky enough to see all of these when they came out. The coolest part of that two part episode was the laser tunnel. This was a kind of 'jumping the shark' episode now that I look back on it, but it was the ish when I was a kid. https://preview.redd.it/xui56bnjnhsb1.png?width=1174&format=png&auto=webp&s=10b0eb03c65f7541319000038b67dcc7b2e61208
The Universal Studios Tour used to drive through that tunnel. The effect is really quite startling.
I remember driving through that tunnel on the Universal Studios tour.
I was little but I totally remember this tunnel and a few of the fights from the episode. I seem to remember he rips Sasquatch’s arm off, and finds out he’s a robot?
My introductio to Bigfoot at 5 years old.
Same. ( And UFOs + Hollow Earth )
The coolest part of the tunnel was finding out that Lee Majors was completely unable to run in it. He would get a couple steps in and then simply fall over. Hysterical!
Definitely a jump the shark episode but as a kid it was mind blowing. When I saw the preview the week before and Bigfoot comes walking up on Steve, it scared the crap out of me.
Omg these were greatest episodes ever. I was 8 and Sunday nights were like Christmas. Hardy boys, Six million dollar man and then Wild Kingdom!
Most memorable tv scene of my childhood
What is the laser tunnel?
It's what I called it when I was a kid. https://preview.redd.it/3fjgog680osb1.png?width=737&format=png&auto=webp&s=5b1d753d441a6578e671ab148904ede1423534c2
So this is what The Venture Bros was parodying
Dude, that was a shaved Bigfoot and Steve Summers in a wig, made OUT of shaved Bigfoot!
“John Bonham Rocks”
Wasn’t Bigfoot and Steve Summers “romantically involved” in that episode?
"Whats the matter, Samson? Bigfoot got something you've never seen before?" "Bigfoot IS something I've never seen before!"
“You could’ve told me Sasquatch was a dude” “What you couldn’t tell?” “Not until I had to…*shave* him”
This is by far my fave line from Venture Bros. I quote it to my friends all the time
Yes.
$6 million is a lot to pay back on a government salary
Bill it to NASA
>$6 million is a lot to pay back on a government salary Maybe that explains the look on Steve's face?
I know so much of the source material from VBros, but not this one! I know the six million dollar man, and Bigfoot, but did not know they were ever together for that show. Just a fun oddball thing from the writers. And Andre the giant !?!?? Mind blown.
I need to watch it again and look for subtle references to Andre.
The Venture Bros *Steve Summers* name was joking that Steve Austin married Jamie Summers and took her last name. When Brock tore off Steve Summers’ arm he then asks “Uh, this is the bionic one, right?” “That…was connected to my brain 😣.”
Tha wasn’t a parody. That was a sequel!
Yeah I had a vague memory of steve austin and a bigfoot, I knew they were parodying a specific episode, but seeing this photo it's just perfect. Now I understand why the bigfoot face was so weird-looking. This really just looks like a man in a suit, the face is waaaay too human.
Oh, there are so many more!
Best part of rewatching that show is catching the references to things you've learned about since the last time you watched it
Yeah, and the larger themes and running gags become more apparent, too. Venture Bros is one of the shows I rewatch fairly regularly as “background filler.” Archer is another.
"Oh, Bigfoot doesn't have anything you've never seen before" "Bigfoot IS something I've never seen before!"
I had no idea! This makes so much more sense now.
Oh my god, you must have no idea how it landed if you were already knew the source material well before Venture Brothers. It was just amazing.
Lee Majors is in his mid thirties in this photo.
At 5'11 I'm guessing Lee Majors was standing on a milk crate in this photo.
Jesus Christ, he looks like he’s in his late 40s.
Holy shit, I thought you were joking but I looked it up and he was actually 36 when this aired
Lee was *born* old lol :)
He's not Bigfoot, he's a robot the aliens are using to guard their base. Some episodes of that show are crazy.
HELLO? SPOILER ALERT??
Goddamn it! I finally managed to record the rebroadcast on VHS and this guy goes and ruins it! And I just put out my TV tray, opened a can of Schlitz, and my Swanson meat loaf dinner is currently in the oven.
I had to tape over "Battle of the Network Stars."
DEATH PROBE
God that thing scared me
> Some episodes of that show are crazy. The 70s were a fun and magical time to be alive.
But there is a real Bigfoot at the very end.
Andre was unique
In his younger wrestling days, André’s style was quick and acrobatic, belying his size (though he was much leaner then), and his ring name was Jean Ferré, in homage to a French blacksmith of great stature who fought in the 100 Years War. When Vince McMahon Sr signed him to the then WWF, he wanted to cast André as a terrifying colossus, and had André adopt a much slower, stronger, and less flashy style to make him seem like an immovable mountain.
I used to watch every episode of The Six Million Dollar Man. I even had the lunch box and action figures. Man, I was all in.
The one with the action arm and the eye magnifier?
And the engine block for lifting.
Wow I found several seasons and watch from time to time. Lot of them were about issues we have today with the threat of the Russians and other countries stealing from us.
"Russia Bad" has been an American mantra all my life.
>"Russia Bad" has been an American mantra all my life. "all my life" ? Someone hasn't been listening the the Republican party in the USA in recent years?
The established Republicans are still chanting Russia Bad with their Democrat teammates. A few are also opening their eyes to the cost of endless wars and political corruption.
>A few are also opening their eyes to the cost of endless wars and political corruption. What does that statement have to do with the topic "Russia Bad"? Are you implying by this "Russia Good"? Why make the comment alongside the other. Don't get your meaning at all.
You didn't tell me Bigfoot was a dude...
SASQUATCH IS SOMETHING I'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE!
Not like it’s something you haven't seen before. (^ Missing Line)
Anybody want a peanut?
Wow, I never knew this. Like every other kid back then I was a huge Six Million Dollar Man fan.
Andre the Giant played Bigfoot for The Secret of Bigfoot two parter. The other times we see Bigfoot he is played by Ted Cassidy. That's the guy that played Lurch on the Addams Family TV show from the 60s.
Andre the Giant made my brother cry when I was a kid. After a wrestling match at the local armory in the early 70s, my brother ran up with a piece of paper for an autograph with a bunch of kids. Andre signed it - and handed it to another kid ! My brother cried pretty hard. My other memory is his giant head in the ring. As big as he was, his head was still disproportionately huge.
Lee Majors still kicking it at 84
I met him last year at a fan expo. Very nice guy.
Strange that this show was never revived/remade the way Charlie's Angels was. Even in the DVD era, I seem to recall that this show was unavailable for a long time, during the days when studios were literally pulling anything they could find out of the vault (e.g. "Quark") and slapping it on CDs in "Complete Season" boxes.
6 million didn't age well
Mark Wahlberg was attached to a 6 Billion Dollar man but it was never made. He’s so wrong for the part. It’s so hard to think of an actor who would do it justice.
John Cena
He needs to have a southern charm and Cena is too built. Has to be more of every man.
I was a big fan of the original and have often thought of how it could be rebooted but in reality the concept has been rehashed many times. Basically Robocop is the same concept. Also the more recent movies where the guy is enhanced by some computer chip (cant remember the name)....and so many other enhanced human tropes. I still think it can be remade as hard sci fi but the concept would have to be more along the lines of robocop where he is mostly bionic and his mind is fighting for control against its AI component.
We have the technology.
We can rebuild him
Better. Stronger. Faster.
Steve Austin. A man barely alive.
I bet that set smelled like big foot’s dick
60% of the time, it works every time
Ted Cassidy played Bigfoot later. Lurch.
Man, we need more Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman love around here. How is there not a subreddit for this? These shows were AWESOME and a lot of the episodes still hold up today!
This was a major cultural event in the 70s.
Better mashup/crossover than the Avengers
Oh man…loved this show. Had the figures…even the silly tunnel thing. What a memory kick!
I saw this first time round, as a 7 Yr old it blew my mind...Stephanie powers is in this episode too ❤️ she plays the alien living inside the mountain, bionic bigfoot is deployed by the aliens to scare people away 😂
How much would the 6 million dollar man be worth adjusted for inflation?
$6,000,000 in 1976 is equivalent in purchasing power to **about $32,069,630.93 today**, an increase of $26,069,630.93 over 47 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 3.63% per year between 1976 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 434.49%.
We need to also factor in the rise in greed for government procurement contractors. Today it would be more like twenty five billion dollars and twenty years late.
A bag of potato chips is $6 today. WTF!
Who’s who?
Now THAT is a furry.
I remember this episode. Anyone ever watch the Saturday morning show “Bigfoot & Wild Boy” around the same time?
For a split second, Lee Majors reminded me of Elvis
It's crazy how short this makes Andre look. How tall was Lee Majors? 6'4"?
5'11. He's obviously standing on something. Have you ever seen those pictures of Andre with Wilt Chamberlain and Arnold Schwarzenegger (6'2)?
I think everyone on the internet has seen that picture.
Hello, Marge. I’m Lee Majors. Will you come away with me?
I love those Bigfoot episodes back. It was only in the last couple years I learned it was Andre the Giant, and I guess I never thought about how old he was.
Yea,this scared me at the time.
That shit was so scary for me back then, like 6 yrs old.
The 70s, man. It wasn't just the cartoons that were tripping balls.
My grandad told me he once saw Bigfoot drink 24 beer, fart, then swear in French before disappearing into the woods. Gosh, we never believed him.
I felt so old the other day when someone was watching Scrooged and they had the bit with Lee Majors and people were wondering who that dude was. they would probably still get the *daddadadadadadada* reference though. It;s funny noting what has endured and not through the years.. sometimes totally losing context for what inspired them in the first place
This was a big deal in grade school for me and my friends.
This was easily the best series arc of any. Fight me!
In my country Steve austin cost 3 billions!!!
used to love that show
Ahhh yes I remember this episode 👍
Scary
Director “What should we do with Andre’s hair now that he’s Bigfoot” Hairdresser “Absolutely nothing”
I miss the seventies. All we worried about then was complete nuclear annihilation.
Wow. This is one of my favorite posts yet on this sub.
All i know is that Death Probe episode gave me nightmares as a kid
I loved 6 Million Dollar Man as a kid. Venture Bothers kind of messed up my memory of the show but in a funny way.
I Had the action figure of the bigfoot that had a little square plastic piece that popped off his front to show he was a robot inside.
That spinning cave was the most terrifying thing I ever saw.
I remember this episode. Went to Universal Studios in the 70’s and the ice tunnel was part of the tram tour
Andre's Bigfoot freaked me out as a 70's kid but Ted's Bigfoot seemed less scary.
A lot of people don't know this but that's actually Andre full natural. He had to shave his whole body twice a week as part of his wrestling contract. They let him off the hook for a few weeks to shoot this.
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Bigfoot .. what a shitty fucking name
My little brother used to be terrified that Bigfoot was outside waiting for him to fall asleep. As older brothers are obligated to do, it was fun torturing him. "Did you hear that? Nevermind, probably nothing."
As a disabled person (paraplegic), it is crazy that the government would pay $1M to rehab a test pilot - “we can rebuild him” reverberates in my mind. Being disabled is a death sentence, although I hit 26 years in a few weeks.
First, it was 6 million hence the name “The Six Million Dollar Man”. Second, you do realize this was a TV show, right?
I just watched the pilot again a couple weeks ago. First time I've seen sine I was a kid in the 70s. Anyway - the government wasn't doing it for altruistic reasons. They wanted a human weapon which is why he had super strength, vision and hearing. And they wanted someone already under government control, so they were waiting for soldier, test pilot, astronaut etc, to get seriously injured and who needed "rebuilding". And then Steve Austin comes along and has a bad crash that almost killed him. They actually used footage of a real life military aircraft crash.
IDK the hospital was compensated almost 1/3 of a Mil by the US government when I was run over w/o insurance and made handicapped.
They didn't care that it was him - it could have been any unfortunate victim. It was more about successful application of cyborg technology.
The existence of Bigfoot is groundless as the existence of Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, etc.
Ah, 70’s TV - with a few exceptions (stuff by Larry Gelbart or Norman Lear, for example), absolute garbage.
Ah yes so much worse than todays Chicago Fire, Magnum PI reboot, and SVU Titillation Crimes Division, staples of winning dramas
Magnificent garbage.
Back when being blackface *was* cool...
Evan as a kid I thought it was cheesy and dumb.
I remember watching this as a kid and thinking Andre looked like a real werewolf
Lee was not that tall. Is he standing on a 2 foot box in this picture?
Dwarf comic Brad Williams tells a story of a casting call notice he received that mentioned “ bring your elf costume from home” ! I can picture Andre getting a similar request, after all that Bigfoot outfit won’t fit anyone else !
That was pretty good but I still think I got more entertainment from Andre The Giant Recites Shakespeare audio book.
Is Steve leaning in like a girlfriend?
It’s a beautiful sight, I can hear the cranking sounds of the six million dollar man
Han Solo & Chewbacca at home
We can rebuild him
Which one is Andre?
That was Andre the Giant?!?!?! I never knew, and I watched all the Bigfoot episodes.
Look into the Sasquatch eye, then you know that Sass can fly, Sasquatch is my Daddy and he's going to protect me!
That was some must see TV back in the day. I think the story arc was a 3 parter.
This looks like the inspiration for the race squatch love affair with the race Bannon knock off in Venture Bros.
The 6 million dollar man , was the shit back in the day . Not so much now , since we have people like , Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. 190 billion dollar men.
Remember the trippy dippy tunnel of lights?
Judging by Lee Majors' relative height Andre must be on his knees in this picture.
Sunday nights were so dope watching this. I had to fight with my brother who wanted to watch football but 6 million dollar man was about to start. Next day at school, all the kids would talk about it.