Actually, he was pretty "funny" in his episode, but that wasn't the fifth season, which was the "dry" season. At that point, the show was being run by Allan Balter & Fred Freiberger, an interesting mix of creatives. In some ways, I appreciated the seriousness, it helped make the far out aspects...
As far as The Six Million Dollar Man, I felt the first two seasons are still great stuff. Then, in the third season, the show began to feed on its own popularity. There were too many gimmicks, celebrity guests and Big Foot. The fifth year, which I enjoyed, was just odd. And the series lost its...
EDIT: I literally merely rewrote your above post and didn't realize it until like 12 hours later. So never mind. Reading is Fundamental... :mellow: Weird, for some reason your point about the reunions didn't register. Oy.
Pretty sure that was the norm: filmed and then edited on tape. There are a lot of great shows that need to be rescanned because of this. A host of shows look like ass. I hated that change and some shows, like Walker Texas Ranger are unwatchable as is.