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Seen on the Small Screen Podcast
Seen on the Small Screen Podcast
Ep53—Wine, Women, and a Six Million Dollar Man
He's the man. Catch him if you can. Beat him if you can. Love him if you can. So goes the overlooked ballad of Steve Austin, the Six Million Dollar man in the second of the TV show's pilot movies called Wine, Women, and War. This installment finds Steve Austin knee-deep in his position as an agent for OSI, albeit a little closer to James Bond territory. After an tough though successful mission in Alexandria, Oscar Goldman, Steve's new boss, wants to send him out into the field for some follow-up action. Acting a little perturbed, Steve tells Oscar to get bent, bionics his way out of the hospital, and heads to the tropics for a self-appointed vacation and a little mental healing. What he finds there though leads him into a plot involving an arms dealer who's planning the downfall of the Free World. And when Steve's captured while trying to infiltrate the enemy basement that's really a Bond Villain lair, it's up to bionics and 007 puns to save the day and answer the story's big question: is the bionic man on a job or a vacation? And only Steve knows the answer to this, because as we mentioned above, he's the man. Six Million Dollar Man.