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 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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Episode 0 - Dan and Dave Have Six Million Memories of the Show

Every month or so Dan and I will talk about a couple of episodes. You know, like with Steve, except Dan isn't Steve as much as he's Dan Brodbeck, recordist.

We talked toys.

We talked bad effects.

We talked Farrah Fawcett.

We wondered who would want an Oscar Goldman doll.

Generally we just had fun.  

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