Lee Major's Six Million Dollar Man Cache

A cache dedicated to my first super hero, Steve Austin, also known as the Bionic Man, 1973-78.

You've never heard of The Six Million Dollar Man? Read the breakdown after the cache info.

Cache Info - Please Do Not Take the Show Memoribilia in the Cache

This container is about the size of a paperback novel and is covered in camo tape. It is tucked in a spot very much out of sight (to avoid muggle activity nearby) so please put it back exactly as you find it with native camo from the area placed over it.

Part of the Sci Fi Theme Series Along Coal Creek Trail

This cache is one of many along the Coal Creek Trail that celebrate aspects of great films/shows in Science Fiction with caches that feature unique decorations or memoribila from the media they celebrate. The series starts in Erie and ends in/near Louisville.

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GC92KYH | HAL's 2001: A Space Odyssey Cache
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GC93JY9 | Sid & Marty Krofft's 70's Saturday Morning Cache
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GC8YG88 | Edison Carter's Max Headroom Cache
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GC8R87A | TARDIS (Re)Generational Doctor Who Cache
GC8A8ZW | Serenity's Shiny Firefly Cache
>>>> GC98DR6 | Lee Major's Six Million Dollar Man Cache
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GC98E0V | Lindsay Wagner's Bionic Woman Cache
GC98CG3 | Lynda Carter's Wonder Woman Cache
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The Six Million Dollar Man

Like most shows from 60s and 70s, the intro of the show explained the premise pretty succently so you had some idea of the context in which the story was happening.

Steve Austin, Astronaut.
****[See a crashing spaceship flown by Austin.]
A man barely alive.
****[See life support/heart monitor.]
Gentlemen, we can rebuild him.
****[See X-ray showing missing Legs, Arm, and side of Skull ... sorta like Anakin Skywalker]
We have the technology.
****[See internal robotic parts underneath human skin.]
We have the capability to make the world's first bionic man. Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before. Better... stronger... faster.
****[See Austin running like 60 miles an hour on bionic legs. See Austin lifting giant objects with bionic arm. See Austin seeing things far away with his bionic eye.]

Who needs more than that to get the show started, right? Every week Austin, now working for the Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI), would go up against spies, crime bosses, robots, and unspecified villians (or entities mistaken for villians ... in one instance a bionic Sasquatch from an alien world along with his humaniod crew) using his various augmented appendages, pretty descent intelligence (he was in the OSI, after all), and backup from his 'handler' Rudy Goldman. If you were a young kid in the 70s, it was a guarantee that one of the stock characters you would pretend to be was the bionic man, and the words nanananananan, nanananana would come out of your mouth whenever you peformed a feet of strength ... or an arm of strength. ;-)

Two things worth of note: 1) In Caddy Shack when Chevy Chase is making several near impossible golf shots, he makes the nanananan sound from this show. 2) If you were to purchase yourself a 1974 Six Million Dollar Man today, you would have to pay about 5 Billion Dollars in 2021.Inflation, am I right?!?!?.

Lee Major's Six Million Dollar Man Cache

A cache dedicated to my first super hero, Steve Austin, also known as the Bionic Man, 1973-78.

Cache Info - Please Do Not Take the Show Memoribilia in the Cache

Part of the Sci Fi Theme Series Along Coal Creek Trail

The Six Million Dollar Man

See also, my Bionic Woman cache along this trail.