6 Million Dollar Man Does Andy Get Surgery to Make Him Walk Again

"The Bionic Boy" S4 E7
Production 45196 Original Airdate: November 7, 1976
Steve tests Andy's legs.
Produced by Lionel E. Siegel
Teleplay by Tom Greene
Directed by Phil Bondelli
Guest Cast
Guest Star(due south) Vincent Van Patten as Andy Sheffield Richard Erdman equally Vernon Joan Van Ark every bit Valerie Sheffield Greg Evigan as Joe Hamilton Carol Jones as Judy Graham Kerry Sherman every bit Colleen Lightfoot Dick Van Patten every bit Palmer
Special Guest Star(s) Frank Gifford as Himself
Broadcast Order
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Contents

• one Summary
• 2 Deconstructed
  • ii.ane Quotes
• 3 Trivia
  • 3.i Cast
  • 3.two Continuity
  • 3.3 Syndication
• 4 Gaffes
  • 4.ane Characters
  • iv.2 Continuity
  • 4.3 Chronology
• 5 Nitpicks
• 6 Video Links
• seven Gallery

Summary

Andy Sheffield, a once-athletic youngster living in a small-scale Utah boondocks, has been selected by an OSI computer to receive an implant to restore his paralyzed legs, which were injured in a landslide that killed his father - a controversial effigy. The implant gives Andy great physical ability equally he sets out on a dangerous mission to clear his father'due south name.

Deconstructed

Quotes

Andy: Steve Austin, I've heard of that name. Hey ... yous were an All-American quarterback. Right, yeah ... yeah in i game I remember against Tennessee, you recovered five fumbles and went for touchdowns iv of the v, correct?
Steve: Its prissy of you to leave out the fact that 3 of the fumbles were my own.
Andy: What's happening with you lot now? I haven't seen your proper name with the pros.
Steve: I approximate that'due south my problem, Andy. I but couldn't hang onto the football.
Andy: Come on, you would have made it big. You were i heck of a runner. I call back in one game against Georgia Tech and you carried the brawl for 250 yards in one game, a record for that year.
Steve: What are you some kind of human being sports encyclopedia?

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Andy: You but ran over a hundred yards in about 4 seconds.
Steve: Ah, it simply seemed like 4 seconds.

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Frank: There you are Andy. (autographs football game) Would you like a couple more?
Andy: A couple more?
Frank: I figure 3 Giffords would be worth 1 O.J. Simpson.

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Frank: Hey Steve, uh, you still have those super powers you were telling me about?
Steve: At present expect a minute, Frank. That'southward supposed to be between you lot and I.
Frank: I gotta tell you, Howard was putting me on nigh a week ago, bragging near he knew everything about everything and I nigh told him.
Steve: That'due south what I need for Cosell to know about information technology.

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Vernon: Look Andy, its got zip to exercise with you personally.
Andy: Are yous crazy or something? Practise yous know how long information technology took for Dr. Wells, Steve and hundreds of other people to piece of work to the point where I could walk again?
Vernon: Yep, well that's fine just they're making yous into a robot.
Andy: Y'all don't know what yous're talking about. These are my legs.
Vernon: Information technology'due south news, Andy.

Trivia

Cast

• Guest star, Greg Evigan makes his acting debut on this episode. He has gone on to star in his ain hit Television set series including "BJ & The Acquit" (which was created by onetime Six One thousand thousand Dollar Human being author/producer, Glen A. Larson) and William Shatner'southward "Tek War."
• Invitee star, Joan Van Ark plays Andy's sister, "Val," a name she'll go on to utilize in 14 seasons of "Knots Landing" as Val Ewing.

Continuity

• In the pilot movie flashback scenes of the Steve struggling with his bionics, Martin Balsam's dialogue is replaced with new dialogue past Martin E. Brooks.

Syndication

• This two-hr episode was broken into two parts for syndication, but the "second role" was not labeled Part II, creating some ambivalence as to which version was beingness aired.

Gaffes

Characters

• Andy moves his legs equally he hides the school yearbook nether them.

Continuity

• In the dancing scene, how is Andy dancing with the girl when she too behind Steve and Val at the aforementioned fourth dimension??

Chronology

• Steve claims to have played confronting Frank Gifford while playing college football game. In social club for this argument to be true, Steve would take to exist about ten years older than is by and large accepted for the graphic symbol.

Nitpicks

• Rudy brings all of his top secret equipment to Kanab instead of bringing Andy to his lab for surgery and rehabilitation.

Video Links

• Steve puts a bull in its identify.

Gallery

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