Talking to Lee Majors makes about as much sense as talking to Boba Fett. When I picked up the phone and heard that familiar voice say, “Hello, Eric, it’s Lee Majors,” literally the first words out of my mouth were “Holy crap!” I probably would’ve had the same reaction if he’d called on time. Majors called me earlier than expected for our interview. And if that’s not worth your recession dollars, either you weren’t alive in the 1970s or you hate America. It’s still just a wrestler in a monkey suit doing slow-motion choreography with a man showing maybe a little more chest hair than was necessary. But it includes the classic “Secret of Bigfoot” episodes, and Andre the Giant hasn’t been replaced with a digitized monstrosity from Industrial Light & Magic. But it’s all here, every staggeringly awesome and wincingly awful moment. Lee Major’s unfortunate pencil-thin mustache from Season Four, for instance. There’s so much on this DVD that could’ve been altered or erased from history. But if you grew up watching and loving the series, it hurts so good the slow-motion running, the dun-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh bionic sound effects, the not-so-menacing villains like Maskatron, with his sinister ability to take off his face, and Death Probe, which lumbers at a harrowing pace of several feet every few minutes. Even in its better moments, the show is campy and melodramatic. When you watch the DVD today, it’s amazing to remember that we once considered it all so cool. Most popular entertainment during the 70s was stupid-the fashion, the music, and especially the science fiction. If the creators want to digitally remaster the original tapes, fine, follow your bliss. They don’t need extra scenes or better special effects or 3-D conversion. Our childhood memories do not need improvement. If the DVD release of the Six Million Dollar Man TV series-which, after a long and excruciating wait, is finally happening on November 23, exclusively at -proves nothing else, it’s that George Lucas had it wrong. Bionic Man Lee Majors Does Not Like Bionic Sound Effects
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