Episode 7 - Dan and Dave Run Run From a Clip Show

It's easier to come up with a title when it's only one episode.

It's an odd number (13) and we didn't want to bridge the two seasons, so a single episode about season 1 episode 13 and then a season wrap up seemed in order.

Oh this is officially our CNDOP episode, I don't care if it's late, what did you pay for it?

Mickey Dolenz?

An army of robutts to rob Fort Knox?  SIGN ME UP!

Oh it's a clip show.

ROCKY!

I don't think Lee Majors is what I'd call 'comfortable' as an actor, but boy is he comfortable on a horse.

There was a lot more acceptance of men in their 40s creeping on teenaged girls back then it seems.

On to a season 1 wrap-up.

Season 1 was fun, if uneven.

The show is WAY more violent than I remember, I think Steve has personally killed like 6 guys this season.

I think the show was trying to be more 'serious' in season 1.  It isn't yet a cultural phenomenon.  (Where the hell is Cloutier when you need him?  No not Buddy Cloutier, I mean the Dr one).

Is Steve famous?

Is OSI his full time job?

In this timeline, are astronauts just going to the moon all of the time?  It seems as if the show is almost postulating a 'For All Mankind' type of thing where we keep investing in space.  I was really hopeful for stuff like that as a kid.

What are your thoughts?

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Episode 6 - Dave and Dan Wonder If They Are Watching Star Trek

Is it because of my weirdness?

Hey we're back!

Went a different way with the title this time because we got a couple of great guest stars.

SHANTER AND TAKEI! 

(Oh and France Nyuen, who guest starred on a Star Trek is also in the second episode)(.

Shanter is his Shatnerist.

'Is it about my weirdness Steve?'

Just jump out here Steve

Getting zapped by an electric field and becoming super smart, wait, this sounds like a Star Trek episode actually.  I think there are more than one of them like that!

There's a sadness is Shanter's performance that is overshadowed by the fact that it is Shanter being Shatner.  Still, Canadian content a day after Canada Day, we'll take it.

In 'The Coward' we get a bit of Steve's back story.

It's the first appearance of Martha Scott as Steve's Mom.  We will see her throughout the series and in the Bionic Woman.

George Takei is a parachuting and climbing expert.

Majors does a bit of actual acting in this one too. He's becoming comfortable with the character I think.

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Episode 5 - Dan and Dave Miss the Last Fourth of July

Steve drives a vintage sports car

I've committed to this whole naming convention for the episodes, but man, it's hard...

I like the Rudy kidnapping idea.

That said, it's clear that the world knows he's working on bionics, or had been I guess.

We're still dealing with the thing where people don't recognize a guy who WALKED ON THE MOON.

Season 1 is kind of oh, darker than I remember.  I'll have to see what Dan thinks (I write these things before we record).

Indeed, they're more, oh I dunno, 'Bond-like' I suppose.  Even down to driving cool vintage Euro sports cars.

I guess it took place in Innsbruck as it was in the news as the upcoming Olympic site.

Thanks to today's sponsor, Evel Knievel. 

Steve pole vaults an electric fence

On to the last of the fourth of Julys.

OK, this one is VERY Bond.  Hell, it's almost Dr. Evil.  

Steve pole vaults an electric fence, which is pretty great.

What the hell was Tom Hayden doing there doing the SONAR?

Also, why the active SONAR pings?

Anyway, enjoy!

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Episode 4 - Dave and Dan Are Eyewitnesses to the Rescue of Athena

Like I said last time, coming up with clever titles for two episodes is not easy...

Eyewitness to Murder is a fun one.  It's got a clever twist that, while a trope I suppose, I did not see coming.  I'll ask Dan when we record.

Steve dines alone.

Hair to face ratio.

Again, he's been on the moon, you ought to know who he is!

'Tell him Oscar Goldman sent you.

Did they intercept a Shriner's parade?  Because boy

did a lot of people get into that limo.

The Tailor knows who he is, so there's that.

In the Rescue of Athena One we get FARRAH!!!

Majors and Fawcett actually play really well off of each other.  Neither would be classified as oh, say great actors, but together they were good.  Makes sense as they were married at the time.

The casual sexism is gross.

Jules Bergman playing himself was a nice addition.

As you can see in the picture, they operated, IN SPACE!

I loved the space race, so I ate this one up.  It was, I think, maybe the best one we've seen yet.

Oh hey, Skylab!

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Episode 3 - Dan and Dave Take an Orphaned Airplane to Doomsday

Gee, these title are a lot harder to come up with when you talk about two episodes at once.

That said, we have a couple of fun ones.

Little Orphan Airplane has Greg Morris, Mission Impossible's Barney Collier, as a guest star, hard to say anything bad about that!  Frankly, I'd love a Mission Impossible podcast.  Hmmmmmm.

Those nuns were fun.

The nuns recognized Steve, which is nice, as he, you know, WALKED ON THE EFFING MOON.

I enjoyed Steve pantomiming a plane.

Hey, Steve, those, improvements, do they come in Black?

Doomsday and Counting is a classic sort of detente era show about the Russian, or, as Oscar would say, 'the sawvyets'.

Well known Russian Gary Collins.  Wearing Bieber's hair.

Nice Star Trek connection in this one, we have William Smithers as a Russian General (oddly enough standing by an East German symbol, but whatever) and he played Merik in Bread and Circuses, and the guy who calls for Steve and Vasili was in thee TOS episodes.  Wait, William Smithers was in two episodes of Mission Impossible.   You know, if I believed in a higher power, or any other, umm, magic, I might see this as a sign of some sort.  That the universe wants me to do a Mission Impossible watch through podcast.  

'Well Mr. Gold Mahn'. Maybe that's why Oscar mispronounces 'Soviets'.

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Episode 2 - Dan and Dave and Robotic Fireflies

BIONIC GUITAR

We are now fully into season 1.

They still aren't doing much of the bionic sounds.

These two episodes were aired in early February, 1974.

Joke Kapp?

We got a little Dan Brodbeck guitar in this but I'm afraid it didn't record well, my fault.  I mean it's obviously my fault, Dan does this for like a job and such.  Oh also, Dan wins awards for things like this.  I don't...

Hey there's also a parapsychologist in this one, so there's something dumb for both of us.

It's ChatGPT with a wire face

John Saxon!

Steve's clothes continue to impress.

Wait, again, Joe Kapp?

BIONIC GUITAR!

That robot is pretty freaking impressive.

Robot alligators + Monkey sounds = Florida.

So is that Mickey Dolenz?

It's also our Dad's birthday, so happy birthday Dad.

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Episode 1 - Dave and Dan's Fit Population

This title is disappointing, even for me.

As we are doing two episodes per podcast this will present a challenge...

NO BIONIC SOUNDS.

The lack of bionic sounds really takes me out of the show oddly, we'll see how Dan reacts later (in case you haven't figured this out, I write theses 'show notes' in advance).

Population Zero is like half the Andromeda Strain.  (BTW, that's a decent movie).

Oscar Goldman calls Steve 'pal' a lot.  I dig that when done unironically.

I am going to harp on this throughout the whole series, WHY DON'T PEOPLE RECOGNIZE A GUY THAT WAS ON THE FREAKING MOON?

'Adjusting some tiny trim pots.'

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