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The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1987)

The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman poster
Directed by
Ray Austin
Genre
superhero film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 38m
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 64 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A retired cyborg agent and his bionic ex-girlfriend come back to fight a criminal group. They also deal with a grown son he never knew and their old feelings for each other.

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What happens

The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman is a made-for-television science fiction action film which originally aired on May 17, 1987, on NBC. The movie reunited the main casts of the television series The Six Million Dollar Man and its spin-off The Bionic Woman. Set 10 years after the events of those series, Steve Austin (Lee Majors) and Jaime Sommers (Lindsay Wagner) are asked to come out of retirement and confront a paramilitary criminal organization called Fortress, Steve's estranged son Michael Austin (Tom Schanley), and their own past relationship. Series regular characters Oscar Goldman (Richard Anderson), head of the OSI, and Dr. Rudy Wells (Martin E. Brooks) also star, along with new characters OSI agent Jim Castillian (Lee Majors II, the real-life son of Lee Majors) and Lyle Stenning (Martin Landau), leader of Fortress. The movie was a "backdoor pilot" for a potential series based on the character of Michael Austin, but the series never materialized. Two more television movies followed, Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1989) and Bionic Ever After? (1994). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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