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Universal needs to send some Fembots over to Dimension Films to get the rights back.
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Actually, Oscar didn't cost me all that much. I think I paid no more than $60.00 for him and he was still in the box. Granted the box was totally trashed (really ripped up) and I threw it out, but he was 100% complete. I'd love to have all of the other dolls that go with the collection (Maskatron, Bigfoot, Fembot) but those are WAY too expensive. Bigfoot is very hard to find still in the box or even complete. He tends to run into the $100 to $300 range. Too pricey for me. I'm happy just to have Steve, Oscar and Jamie.
I think you got a good deal on that. IN fact, if they ever release a DVD set you'd be in the money if you wanted to sell. I don't think I'd ever sell mine.

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or SALVAGE I (which is a CPT/Sony show like "Fantastic Journey" and "Quark")
Seems like if The Voyagers comes out they can give us Salvage I too. I used to love that old show.
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I can guarantee you beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the hold-up for Six Million Dollar Man has nothing whatsoever to do with DVD vs. Blu-ray format.

If the rights became available to do so tomorrow, or next month, or next year, the release would cheerfully happen on DVD.
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Seems like if The Voyagers comes out they can give us Salvage I too. I used to love that old show.

Me, too.

I posted a rumor earlier this year that it was in the works. The same day I posted a similar rumor about Tales of the Gold Monkey. We've since found out that Monkey was tabled due to high costs. I wonder if Salvage was also judged the same. I don't know, though.
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MattHR: I knew it! I was looking at the covers, and looking over at my copy of The Bionic Book and going waaait a second... Great stuff on all fronts.
Thanks for the font tip, some work I've been doing was held up on that.
Bring on the back covers! here's the other forum thread:
http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htf/...9-26-05-a.html
My post is on page 9, post 248. Mostly, just being clear about reversing the 1978 changes for syndication, although I have a few more ideas about Oscar Goldman's Bionic File than I've let on in terms of packaging.

For those who are unaware, some of Joe Harnell's work for The Bionic Woman has recently been released (go to http://joeharnell.com). This minds me that iso music tracks are in order, certainly for key Nelson or Harnell work, like The Seven Million Dollar Man or Kill Oscar, respectively. Wouldn't that be sweet?

DeWilson: can you point to an online vendor for the Mexican release?

Radioman: really lucky about the briefcase: those tended to "blow out" permanently.

On the whole Blu-Ray - DVD - digital downloads thing: true about the industry's desire to lock down their content more. Microsoft has always been a proponent of the approach as well (which they'd naturally like to become the dominant provider of), which caused many to distrust the motives of their support for HD-DVD. Quite a few online pundits are pumping this "Blu-Ray is DOA" line, but notice that few seem to be speaking from grassroots outlets.
We consumers don't want to be that locked down. Wal-Mart is closing down their DRM servers, making who knows how many files unplayable. Want that to happen to your movie collection someday? Me neither. I'd like to have less intimate relations with my content providers, truth be told, and I'd like to be able to play my disks the day after World War III, even if I have to find a generator. < /rant >
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Joseph: I misunderstood when you said you had posted your own "scheme" regarding the releases, thinking you had posted your own cover art ideas, which is why I couldn't find such a post. Yes, I did read your idea about the releases, and it's just about exactly the way I'd like to see it done.
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Radioman: really lucky about the briefcase: those tended to "blow out" permanently.

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It does seem flimsy. But mine always works. I just remembered about the file folder on the inside the case. I believe I still have that too.
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RadioMan: Would it be possible for you to snap a pic or two? Particularly the file folder. There are pictures online, of course - they seldom are "clean" images, though.

MattHR: Yes, aside from working on the Bionic File concept, I spent a lot of time on the content, particularly over at The Bionic Wiki, which has a long way to go before it's a Wikipedia-level resource, but it'll get there. It's only been around since Jan '07.

I did develop menus for the original cut of The Six Million Dollar Man (1973), perhaps I'll Youtube that.

Silence is deafening on the Mexican DVD release. Bueller?
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Joseph: A good friend of mine started the Bionic Wiki. I was heavily involved in the beginning, but had to shift my time to work on The Bionic Book.

I still have my Oscar Goldman and his briefcase. I always thought it was more of a suitcase, since it was so large. I remember, as a kid, thinking poor Oscar had to lug that heavy suitcase around everywhere. So I gave him a "bionic" arm from the SMDM Critical Assignment Arms accessory kit.
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Joseph: A good friend of mine started the Bionic Wiki. I was heavily involved in the beginning, but had to shift my time to work on The Bionic Book.
They are very different resources. It's great to have both. The Bionic shows had a huge role in 70s pop culture, and yet the second generation of Home Video is passing them by. At least Europe is promising.

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I still have my Oscar Goldman and his briefcase. I always thought it was more of a suitcase, since it was so large. I remember, as a kid, thinking poor Oscar had to lug that heavy suitcase around everywhere. So I gave him a "bionic" arm from the SMDM Critical Assignment Arms accessory kit.
LOL, that thing was big. Part of the reason why I thought it could contain all the "Bionic Materials." I guess doubling as an exploder pushed the limit of 70s miniaturization. I assume the toy was riffing the exploding suitcase in "Return of the Robot Maker", even though Oscar never had it.

I goofed on the Mexico thing, that was the other SMDM thread - but since I brought it up: anybody looked at the Mexican "El Hombre Nuclear" DVD's? It seems from the running times that they have the original pilot films.
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They are very different resources. It's great to have both. The Bionic shows had a huge role in 70s pop culture, and yet the second generation of Home Video is passing them by. At least Europe is promising.
I goofed on the Mexico thing, that was the other SMDM thread - but since I brought it up: anybody looked at the Mexican "El Hombre Nuclear" DVD's? It seems from the running times that they have the original pilot films.

Yeah, it's too bad about the Universal/Dimension mess. It's the same reason the shows haven't been shown on cable for years. We're already into a new generation of consumers who haven't been exposed to the shows on cable or dvd. What a shame.

I've confirmed through a few sources that the Mexican DVDs of SMDM do, in fact, contain the three pilots in their proper 75-minute versions, rather than the two-part syndicated ones. Also, the episodes are all in proper NTSC, rather than converted from the PAL masters, so there is no time-compression issues.
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Anyone know of a place in mexico where one can legally by via mail order the DVDs?
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I've confirmed through a few sources that the Mexican DVDs of SMDM do, in fact, contain the three pilots in their proper 75-minute versions, rather than the two-part syndicated ones. Also, the episodes are all in proper NTSC, rather than converted from the PAL masters, so there is no time-compression issues.

Can you confirm something else?

1. Are the Spanish subtitles "forced", or can they be removed, so that, hopefully, one can watch the show in its original English without any pesky foreign subtitles?

2. Have any of the title cards, on-screen credits, etc. been changed, or are they all still in their original English-language versions as originally shown?

I noticed on Amazon Marketplace a couple of "enterprising" sellers are flogging these at about $100 each. Wonder how much they really sell for?
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El Hombre Nuclear

The subtitles on El Hombre Nuclear are optional, so viewing in english is simple. Menus are en espanol, of course.

I'm in the process of writing a review, but in short, it is NTSC 29.97 interlaced (takes a quality hit on the "C" frames in compression and some players may deinterlace or scale poorly). Not being a TV on DVD expert, I'm unaware if TV releases (for shows shot on film) have followed the move to 24p encoding that is standard for feature films on DVD, after some early contention at format launch. On the upside, the set is color corrected from a good transfer, unlike the region 2 set, so if you love the color casts and mismatched blacks of the original, this isn't for you . I saw a couple "data hits", that were not disk damage but seemingly authoring problems, very brief, and one tiny audio gap (about a quarter second) in the english track for The Solid Gold Kidnapping (the spanish track is unaffected).

Telefilms are indeed the original edits (a couple minor changes to the original telefilm, if you aren't a total Six geek you'll miss them).

I had completely forgotten Gil Mellé's replaced score for The Solid Gold Kidnapping, not having seen it in over 30 years- yet the memories slowly came back. The fact that they have good transfers of these heartens me greatly. Hopefully these minor glitches can be ironed out for the Region 1 release…

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Region 1 guys ... we're tlaking about Region 1 releases.
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Region 1 guys ... we're talking about Region 1 releases.
Region 1 is my preference as well. We're chasing our tails on that for now.

The Mexican info I mentioned did relate insofar as my preference for the original pilot telefilm edits (a common fan view) is concerned, as that release confirmed that the studio still possesses good elements and has color corrected them.

This means that getting the originals released in R1 is possible, as the elements are not lost. There may be other holdups, the different music may have licensing issues. The re-edits seem to have a few content changes that may have "reasons," particularly Wine, Women and War. The UK release contained those later edits, so what may happen in a US release is up in the air IMHO.

In short, the other releases are tea leaves we can use to determine some things. Or not.
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RadioMan: Would it be possible for you to snap a pic or two? Particularly the file folder. There are pictures online, of course - they seldom are "clean" images, though.
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Sorry I missed this post. I was about to start my movie horrorthon back in Oct.

Those are in boxes right where I can get at them. I"ll take a look. Hopefully it's still in there. If I don't post here within a week or so give me a bump reminder (lots going on right now).
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I pulled out my Six Million dollar man stuff. Oscar is in great shape! He looks brand new. Unfortunately the briefcase wasn't in there. I know it's in the house somewhere. I have several boxes of old childhood toys and it somehow got put in one of those. Once I find it I'll post some pictures.
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This is one TV show I'd buy on DVD...loved it as a kid. Had my mom make me that red jumpsuit he wears in the opening for Halloween one year, and I had the action figure with the fibre-optic thingie that ran from the top of his head to his eye. Probably some other stuff, too, like an HL-10. Even dragged my parents to Toys R' Us once to meet him at an appearance.
I still have this I found in a box of junk.

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^^^
Awesome!


I have Oscar, Steve Austin, this robot thing that had various face plates so he could disguise himself, a rocket playset and an inflatable lab set. Most of that I should still have somewhere. The lab looked to be in amazingly good shape.
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^^^
Awesome!


I have Oscar, Steve Austin, this robot thing that had various face plates so he could disguise himself, a rocket playset and an inflatable lab set. Most of that I should still have somewhere. The lab looked to be in amazingly good shape.


The robot guy is Maskatron, a character created specifically for the toy line (but partially-based on the robot guy from the first season Day of the Robot episode).

The inflatable lab: I had that one as a kid, too, and was amazed when I was at University finding 3-4 of them still in their original packaging (at their original 1970s price) for sale in the "toy basement" of a Western Auto store, along with other older toys. Needless to say, I snapped them up! Even took one out of the box to display with my loose $6m Man collection.
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The robot guy is Maskatron, a character created specifically for the toy line (but partially-based on the robot guy from the first season Day of the Robot episode).

The inflatable lab: I had that one as a kid, too, and was amazed when I was at University finding 3-4 of them still in their original packaging (at their original 1970s price) for sale in the "toy basement" of a Western Auto store, along with other older toys. Needless to say, I snapped them up! Even took one out of the box to display with my loose $6m Man collection.
Now that was a find! I just remember that I saw the motor prop for the Steve doll in the box with the lab.

Maskatron! I think I played with that one the most. Its piece are scattered everywhere. I know I have Steve Austin somewhere but I can't find him.

It will be a happy day when they finally make this show available to buy. My dollars are sitting in a bank somewhere waiting to buy the whole damn thing! I remember very little from the show except the awesome opening titles.
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I remember very little from the show except the awesome opening titles.

And this, of course!

http://popculturewilleatitself.s3.am...Bionic_Man.mp3
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Giving this a bump since the Region 2 thread is getting hijacked with Region 1 support. This is the Region 1 thread. Support US releases here! Read upthread to learn about the licensing impasse.

On a related note, is anyone aware of any damage to The Six Million Dollar Man or The Bionic Woman during the Universal fire last year?

I'm given to understand there's a claim that everything lost was redundant, with safety copies kept offsite, yet these shows have alternate versions that may not be considered "official."

I also worry about music tapes from Oliver Nelson's fantastic scores for the show. There has never been a release of those either (Universal apparently has a reputation of not putting out TV scores). 

Hope all the Bionic stuff is safe during the long delay.
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Studios have been very good with storing and recovering their files. I believe they may have multiple sites for storage and i would not be surprise some of the info has been burn to servers and is back up.
I am not sure what the reasons are for this show not being released in Region 1. My suspicions are that they were looking at how poorly the new bionic women series went and maybe hesitant to release the old series.

If it comes out,then that is fine with me, if it does not then i have many other series that i am collecting that will fill my void. I only watch about 2-3 hrs of tv a night and it is all my dvds. I can not remember the last time i turn on the tv to watch a show.
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The reason why we don't have Region 1 DVDs on SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN and THE BIONIC WOMAN is due to the rights issues with regards to the original book CYBORG, as well as the related movie rights.

In other words, Universal screwed up back in the 1970's and it's now bitting them in the domestic-arse :) 
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Unbelievably, Bionic Woman "Classic" season 1 has turned up on NBC.com and Hulu.com!  Progress???

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 It's a little more recent of a problem than that. Uni failed to renew the license sometime around the NBC merger, or so rumor has it. Dave Lambert did a great rundown at TV Guide's website, a while back, but they took it down the vandals! 

IIRC, Dimension has the rights now, and when last I heard they still had a Cyborg adaptation on the project list. There is a movie on IMDb in development for 2012 release, don't know if this is theirs.

Really starting to regret that anti-Jim Carrey satire petition I signed years back. We'd have the DVDs now if they had gone and made the stupid comedy.
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I think the fact that not only is THE BIONIC WOMAN showing on Hulu a sign that perhaps Universal has settled their Region 1 legal dilemma, but perhaps they've worked things out with THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN too, since there are season 1 episodes of BW on Hulu that feature Steve Austin/Lee Majors (the footage has not been cut out or anything).  If they didn't have the rights to this character any more, then there is no way they could legally be displaying these episodes unless they found a loophole perhaps. 
I'm wondering if this is a sign that R1 DVDs of both shows are coming soon?  (Fingers crossed).
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i guess the proof will be in the pudding. I like to see this show released. I always like Lee Majors in this role along with Richard Anderson as Oscar. This show was very good especially the bigfoot episodes. My dvd collection would not be complete unless i had 6 Million dollar man.

I do hope for the fans sake this show is going to come out. I believe it is up there with Batman 1966 series as one that fans would like see released. So, i just hope the studios figure how to make this happen.
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