• What Did You Watch? 2026-06-15 (Monday)

    From Ubiquitous@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, June 16, 2026 04:30:41
    After an arduous workout, I watched:

    Nothing.

    What did you watch?

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  • From The True Melissa@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, June 16, 2026 08:05:10
    Verily, in article <UBI20260615@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net
    deliver unto us this message:

    After an arduous workout, I watched:

    Nothing.

    What did you watch?

    After anim8r mentioned it, I watched Bionic Ever After? The question
    mark is part of the title, and the cheesiness of that gives you a good
    idea of the whole movie.

    Boy, Lee Majors really lucked out with The Six Million Dollar Man. The
    man's not a good actor. Lindsey Wagner may not be Meryl Streep, but
    she's convincing when the script lets her be. Lee Majors is often
    obviously acting, and now that I've seen him again, I recall that I kind
    of noticed it even as a kid.

    Oscar looked like he wanted to be somewhere else. Rudy seemed to be
    trying, which I guess makes sense since he's the third or fourth Rudy.

    The pacing, staging, and other direction was all kind of choppy and
    strange. After the first batch of bad guys turned up, I kept forgetting
    they'd appeared. The characters didn't seem that interested in the gun-
    toting bad guys, so why should I care?

    I read the original book, Cyborg, on which The Six Million Dollar Man
    was based. The book wasn't for kids. Steve Austin has a girlfriend at
    the beginning, and after he's crippled, Oscar Gold (I think it was
    Oscar) told her that the best thing she could do for Steve was to break
    up with him immediately. It was better to dump him at once than to stay
    a while and leave him later. Even if she stayed forever, he'd always
    know she pitied him, and he deserved someone who truly loved him as his post-accident self.

    In this movie, Jamie gets bionic disease, and the team does not advise
    Steve to bail. Instead, Jamie is fed cliches that Steve loves her true
    inner self and won't mind a bit if she's crippled. I guess it was just a
    happy coicidence that Steve fell in love with the only bionic woman on
    Earth. What are the odds?

    In the end, Jamie's bionics are repaired, and the bad guys are defeated.
    I don't remember what they wanted. I'm not sure it was ever made clear.

    What a terrible movie.

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  • From anim8rfsk@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, June 16, 2026 08:12:38
    The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:
    Verily, in article <UBI20260615@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net deliver unto us this message:

    After an arduous workout, I watched:

    Nothing.

    What did you watch?

    After anim8r mentioned it, I watched Bionic Ever After? The question
    mark is part of the title, and the cheesiness of that gives you a good
    idea of the whole movie.

    Boy, Lee Majors really lucked out with The Six Million Dollar Man. The
    man's not a good actor. Lindsey Wagner may not be Meryl Streep, but
    she's convincing when the script lets her be. Lee Majors is often
    obviously acting, and now that I've seen him again, I recall that I kind
    of noticed it even as a kid.

    Oscar looked like he wanted to be somewhere else. Rudy seemed to be
    trying, which I guess makes sense since he's the third or fourth Rudy.

    The pacing, staging, and other direction was all kind of choppy and
    strange. After the first batch of bad guys turned up, I kept forgetting they'd appeared. The characters didn't seem that interested in the gun- toting bad guys, so why should I care?

    I read the original book, Cyborg, on which The Six Million Dollar Man
    was based. The book wasn't for kids.

    Neither is the first movie where he attempts suicide.

    Steve Austin has a girlfriend at
    the beginning, and after he's crippled, Oscar Gold (I think it was
    Oscar)

    He?s Oscar Goldman in the original book, but they changed him to Oliver
    Spencer (played by Darren McGavin) for the first movie and then back to
    Oscar Goldman (played by Richard Anderson) from then on

    told her that the best thing she could do for Steve was to break
    up with him immediately. It was better to dump him at once than to stay
    a while and leave him later. Even if she stayed forever, he'd always
    know she pitied him, and he deserved someone who truly loved him as his post-accident self.

    In this movie, Jamie gets bionic disease,

    And they said that somebody actually cut her open and got access to her
    innerds to plant the virus which implies the mystery villain also got to
    Steve since he comes down with the bionic illness at the end and yet
    there?s no indication that the mystery villain even met either of them
    before they came down sick.

    and the team does not advise
    Steve to bail. Instead, Jamie is fed cliches that Steve loves her true
    inner self and won't mind a bit if she's crippled. I guess it was just a happy coicidence that Steve fell in love with the only bionic woman on Earth. What are the odds?

    In fairness, he loved her before she was bionic.

    And what of the continuity of the previous movies and shows? Steve
    apparently no longer has a bionic son and there aren?t any bionic agents on
    our side or their side, there?s nothing left but the two of them and Oscar doesn?t even know where Rudy Wells is so obviously there?s not a bionic department to support them. I miss Monty Markham and Sandra Bullock. I?ll grant them that the bionic dog wouldn?t have lived that long.

    Come to think of it. The mystery villain in the first reunion movie was
    also played by Dracula. Or maybe that was the second movie. The Dracula,
    who looks just like me.



    In the end, Jamie's bionics are repaired, and the bad guys are defeated.
    I don't remember what they wanted. I'm not sure it was ever made clear.


    Somehow, I think they were getting ransom from that dark haired guy that
    was at the party and hiding in the water tower who may have stolen the
    money from them in the first place in which case I?m not sure they?re even
    the bad guy. But yeah, their motives weren?t really clear and they probably went to greater expense than they could ever hoped to recoup.

    What a terrible movie.


    You liked it a lot better than I did.

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  • From anim8rfsk@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, June 16, 2026 08:12:39
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    After an arduous workout, I watched:

    Nothing.

    What did you watch?


    Hey, thanks for asking!

    I fell down a rabbit hole. Somehow I watched a YouTube video about the
    history of the Knight Rider franchise. And I tracked down and watched a lot
    of of the material. I ended up completely confused, but it?s because the
    video was completely wrong. It mostly featured the history of knight rider 2008, which was about the son of David Hasselhoff but they referred to it
    as team Knight writer, which is an entirely different unconnected show. I
    was almost gonna tell Ian that IMDb needed correcting but I finally figured
    out they were right and YouTube was wrong.

    There?s apparently the original four season Knight Rider series (1982)

    Code of Vengeance (1985) which Wikipedia claims is a spinoff, but I haven?t found yet (but a friend of mine?s mom is in it!)

    Knight Rider 2000 advertised as the first movie to take place in the 21st century (it didn?t and it wasn?t)

    Knight Rider 2010, which was completely disconnected from everything else
    and starred Hudson Leick as the beautiful ghost inhabiting the car

    Knight Rider 2008 would serve as the pilot for the sequel series about his
    son and actually had a guest shot by David Hasselhoff himself

    Knight Rider 2008 the series with a couple really cute women that got a
    serious reboot and recast in the middle

    Team Knight Rider (1987)

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  • From BTR1701@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, June 16, 2026 18:16:02
    On Jun 16, 2026 at 5:05:10 AM PDT, "The True Melissa" <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

    Verily, in article <UBI20260615@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net deliver unto us this message:

    After an arduous workout, I watched:

    Nothing.

    What did you watch?

    After anim8r mentioned it, I watched Bionic Ever After? The question
    mark is part of the title, and the cheesiness of that gives you a good
    idea of the whole movie.

    Boy, Lee Majors really lucked out with The Six Million Dollar Man. The
    man's not a good actor.

    He wasn't a good actor *on* $6 MILLION. Nor was he all that great on THE FALL GUY. When Heather Thomas is out-acting you, you might want to ask why you
    don't have a huge case of imposter syndrome.

    In this movie, Jamie gets bionic disease

    I remember when they tried to make that a thing. I wonder if I'm going to get bionic disease now that I'm a cyborg with a half-metal arm?



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  • From anim8rfsk@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, June 16, 2026 12:16:55
    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    On Jun 16, 2026 at 5:05:10 AM PDT, "The True Melissa" <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

    Verily, in article <UBI20260615@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net
    deliver unto us this message:

    After an arduous workout, I watched:

    Nothing.

    What did you watch?

    After anim8r mentioned it, I watched Bionic Ever After? The question
    mark is part of the title, and the cheesiness of that gives you a good
    idea of the whole movie.

    Boy, Lee Majors really lucked out with The Six Million Dollar Man. The
    man's not a good actor.

    He wasn't a good actor *on* $6 MILLION. Nor was he all that great on THE FALL GUY. When Heather Thomas is out-acting you, you might want to ask why you don't have a huge case of imposter syndrome.

    In this movie, Jamie gets bionic disease

    I remember when they tried to make that a thing. I wonder if I'm going to get bionic disease now that I'm a cyborg with a half-metal arm?


    It needs a chip in it, and somebody has to secretly cut the arm open and
    infect the chip. Although now they could probably do it wirelessly. Farrah Forkle was the bad girl and she could cut me open anytime.



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  • From The True Melissa@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, June 16, 2026 15:28:03
    Verily, in article <110s3t1$1aacq$3@dont-email.me>, did atropos@mac.com deliver unto us this message:
    He wasn't a good actor *on* $6 MILLION. Nor was he all that great on THE FALL GUY. When Heather Thomas is out-acting you, you might want to ask why you don't have a huge case of imposter syndrome.


    Is it still Impostor Syndrom if the person is genuinely no good at it?

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  • From Arthur Lipscomb@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, June 16, 2026 23:48:04
    On 6/16/2026 5:05 AM, The True Melissa wrote:
    Verily, in article <UBI20260615@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net deliver unto us this message:

    After an arduous workout, I watched:

    Nothing.

    What did you watch?

    After anim8r mentioned it, I watched Bionic Ever After? The question
    mark is part of the title, and the cheesiness of that gives you a good
    idea of the whole movie.

    Boy, Lee Majors really lucked out with The Six Million Dollar Man. The
    man's not a good actor. Lindsey Wagner may not be Meryl Streep, but
    she's convincing when the script lets her be. Lee Majors is often
    obviously acting, and now that I've seen him again, I recall that I kind
    of noticed it even as a kid.

    Oscar looked like he wanted to be somewhere else. Rudy seemed to be
    trying, which I guess makes sense since he's the third or fourth Rudy.

    The pacing, staging, and other direction was all kind of choppy and
    strange. After the first batch of bad guys turned up, I kept forgetting they'd appeared. The characters didn't seem that interested in the gun- toting bad guys, so why should I care?

    I read the original book, Cyborg, on which The Six Million Dollar Man
    was based. snip

    It was based on a book? When I was a kid both The Six Million Dollar
    Man and Bionic Woman were already cancelled and in reruns. But of the
    two, The Bionic Woman is the one they reran all the time, so that became
    my show. I never really got into The Six Million Dollar Man. Even when
    he appeared on crossover episodes I didn't really care.

    What a terrible movie.


    I know I watched it when it originally aired, but I have no memory of
    it. I remember the Sandra Bullock movie more or less. Well mostly
    less, but still more than this one. I'm surprised this one was made
    after the Bullock movie. I would have thought it was the other way around.


    This is a multiday catchup. I think I'm about a week behind. Over the
    last week I watched:


    The Legend of Billie Jean (blu-ray) 1985 movie starring Helen Slater and Christian Slater as two siblings (no relation in real life) who go on
    the run from the law after attempting some vigilante justice to recover
    money owed to them by a sleezy businessman. Fair is fair, it's been a
    while since I last watched this and figured I should give it another
    watch. I had a commentary track on with Helen Slater and her costar
    Yeardley Smith. But Smith spent most of the commentary just asking
    Slater if she remembered whatever was on screen.


    Supergirl (blu-ray) 1984 movie (International Cut) starring Helen Slater
    as the Girl of Steel. The movie holds up great, but I'm still holding
    out hope for a 4K upgrade one day.


    Superman (streaming) The new 2025 Superman movie starring David
    Corenswet as the Man of Steel and introducing Milly Alcock as the latest
    Girl of Steel. I watched with a director's commentary track, which
    thanks to studio stupidity is not on the disc, but only available on the digital copy. And thanks to further studio stupidity, the commentary on
    the digital version doesn't have closed captions, so I can't read the
    dialogue when the director is talking. :-/


    American Ninja (blu-ray) 1985 movie starring Michael Dudikoff as an
    American Ninja. Dudikoff plays a loner stationed on a military base in
    the Philippines that is being overrun by evil ninjas. In the
    coincidence to end all coincidences, Dudikoff just happens to be a
    trained ninja too. With help from an American soldier played by Steve
    James they battle the evil ninjas. This was mostly background noise
    with a director commentary.


    American Ninja 2: The Confrontation (blu-ray) So I went into this one
    having no idea what the plot was. I know I've seen it before, probably
    2 or 3 times, but not since the original release in 1987. At first I
    was going to background noise it with the director's commentary, but I
    decided to read the plot description on the back of the blu-ray cover.
    I read, "Michael Dudicoff and Steve James are back in action and up
    against an awesome, genetically re-engineered army of Ninja clones."
    The description continued, but at that point I stopped reading and went
    back. Did that say, "Ninja Clones?" Yes, it did say, "Ninja clones."
    No further plot description necessary, let's dive into this right now,
    and let's skip the commentary track. I need to give this my full
    attention! Turns out, this was better than the first one! Now what was
    this movie actually about? I don't know. Who cares? The flick had
    ninjas, and the ninjas were clones. What more do you need to know about
    the plot? And what more of a plot does a movie need anyway? And I'm
    not kidding when I say this was definitely better than the first one.
    Steve James in particular got to steel every scene he was in.

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kL884WQiLG8

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg7sLtGf9II



    Disclosure Day (theatrical) New sci-fi movie directed by Steven
    Spielberg. The premise of the movie is there have been decades of Close Encounters by Extra-Terrestrials on Earth. But the U.S. government has
    been trying to keep secret the Arrival of these aliens and there is a
    shady Men in Black style agency tasked with keeping those secrets.
    However, a group of humans have stolen evidence of the of the Extra-Terrestrials existence and try to Disclose the information to the public. Colin Firth stars as the head of the secret agency that will
    stop at nothing to prevent the world from learning humanity has made
    Contact with aliens. I know it's getting mixed reviews, but overall, I
    liked this movie. Off the top of my head, of all the "alien" movies
    directed by Spielberg, this is probably his best one.


    The Furious (theatrical) New action movie that starts off in an
    undisclosed Asian country where a female reporter has been investigating
    a child trafficking organization and tracked down where they are keeping little girls. But she's captured by the gang. Soon thereafter a father
    (Xie Miao) is out with his young daughter and after a minor fight she
    walks off and is kidnapped by the child traffickers. But what the gang
    of kidnappers don't know is that little girl's father has a very
    particular set of skills, skills he acquired over a very long career.
    Skills that make him a nightmare for a child trafficking ring. He sets
    out to rescue his daughter, beating to a pulp anyone who gets in his
    way. And he's soon joined by the husband (Joe Taslim) of the journalist
    who was kidnapped, and the two of them beat even more people to a pulp
    who get in the way of them rescuing their loved ones. This movie is
    basically "Taken," "The Raid," and "The Protector" all thrown into one,
    with a healthy dose of the hallway fight from "Old Boy" thrown in for
    good measure. Not that that's a bad thing! I should also mention "Mad
    Dog" from the "Raid" movies is in this flick doing what "Mad Dog" from
    the "Raid" movies does best.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avky8dVaqAI

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  • From BTR1701@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, June 17, 2026 17:47:31
    On Jun 16, 2026 at 11:48:04 PM PDT, "Arthur Lipscomb" <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
    Superman (streaming) The new 2025 Superman movie starring David
    Corenswet as the Man of Steel and introducing Milly Alcock as the latest Girl of Steel.

    What an unfortunate name for a girl to have to go through childhood with.

    Disclosure Day (theatrical) New sci-fi movie directed by Steven
    Spielberg. The premise of the movie is there have been decades of Close Encounters by Extra-Terrestrials on Earth. But the U.S. government has
    been trying to keep secret the Arrival of these aliens and there is a
    shady Men in Black style agency tasked with keeping those secrets.
    However, a group of humans have stolen evidence of the of the Extra-Terrestrials existence and try to Disclose the information to the public. Colin Firth stars as the head of the secret agency that will
    stop at nothing to prevent the world from learning humanity has made
    Contact with aliens. I know it's getting mixed reviews, but overall, I liked this movie. Off the top of my head, of all the "alien" movies directed by Spielberg, this is probably his best one.

    Better than CE3K? I'm dubious.

    I'm waiting for a week or so, then will go on a Tuesday morning to minimize
    the presence of rowdy teens and their cellphones in the theater.



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  • From Ian J. Ball@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, June 17, 2026 12:40:34
    On 6/16/26 8:12 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

    What did you watch?

    Hey, thanks for asking!

    I fell down a rabbit hole. Somehow I watched a YouTube video about the history of the Knight Rider franchise. And I tracked down and watched a lot of of the material. I ended up completely confused, but it?s because the video was completely wrong. It mostly featured the history of knight rider 2008, which was about the son of David Hasselhoff but they referred to it
    as team Knight writer, which is an entirely different unconnected show. I
    was almost gonna tell Ian that IMDb needed correcting but I finally figured out they were right and YouTube was wrong.

    There?s apparently the original four season Knight Rider series (1982)

    Code of Vengeance (1985) which Wikipedia claims is a spinoff, but I haven?t found yet (but a friend of mine?s mom is in it!)

    Knight Rider 2000 advertised as the first movie to take place in the 21st century (it didn?t and it wasn?t)

    Knight Rider 2010, which was completely disconnected from everything else
    and starred Hudson Leick as the beautiful ghost inhabiting the car

    Knight Rider 2008 would serve as the pilot for the sequel series about his son and actually had a guest shot by David Hasselhoff himself

    Knight Rider 2008 the series with a couple really cute women that got a serious reboot and recast in the middle

    Team Knight Rider (1987)

    Of these, I only know the original and the syndicated "Team Knight
    Rider" (which is from 1997, not 1987).

    Oh, wait, I do remember the 2008 reboot with Justin Bruening and Deanna
    Russo and Smith Cho.



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  • From Ian J. Ball@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, June 17, 2026 12:48:23
    On 6/16/26 11:48 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

    On 6/16/2026 5:05 AM, The True Melissa wrote:

    What did you watch?

    The Furious (theatrical) New action movie that starts off in an
    undisclosed Asian country where a female reporter has been investigating
    a child trafficking organization and tracked down where they are keeping little girls.ÿ But she's captured by the gang.ÿ Soon thereafter a father (Xie Miao) is out with his young daughter and after a minor fight she
    walks off and is kidnapped by the child traffickers.ÿ But what the gang
    of kidnappers don't know is that little girl's father has a very
    particular set of skills, skills he acquired over a very long career.
    Skills that make him a nightmare for a child trafficking ring.ÿ He sets
    out to rescue his daughter, beating to a pulp anyone who gets in his
    way.ÿ And he's soon joined by the husband (Joe Taslim) of the journalist
    who was kidnapped, and the two of them beat even more people to a pulp
    who get in the way of them rescuing their loved ones.ÿ This movie is basically "Taken," "The Raid," and "The Protector" all thrown into one,
    with a healthy dose of the hallway fight from "Old Boy" thrown in for
    good measure.

    Not the "hallway" scene from "John Wick 3"?! ;)

    Not that that's a bad thing!ÿ I should also mention "Mad
    Dog" from the "Raid" movies is in this flick doing what "Mad Dog" from
    the "Raid" movies does best.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avky8dVaqAI

    Yeah, I've seen ads for this flick, and I am very interested in it.
    Hopefully it goes to a real streamer, and not Starz.



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  • From anim8rfsk@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, June 17, 2026 14:33:39
    Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
    On 6/16/26 8:12 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

    What did you watch?

    Hey, thanks for asking!

    I fell down a rabbit hole. Somehow I watched a YouTube video about the
    history of the Knight Rider franchise. And I tracked down and watched a lot >> of of the material. I ended up completely confused, but it?s because the
    video was completely wrong. It mostly featured the history of knight rider >> 2008, which was about the son of David Hasselhoff but they referred to it
    as team Knight writer, which is an entirely different unconnected show. I
    was almost gonna tell Ian that IMDb needed correcting but I finally figured >> out they were right and YouTube was wrong.

    There?s apparently the original four season Knight Rider series (1982)

    Code of Vengeance (1985) which Wikipedia claims is a spinoff, but I haven?t >> found yet (but a friend of mine?s mom is in it!)

    Knight Rider 2000 advertised as the first movie to take place in the 21st
    century (it didn?t and it wasn?t)

    Knight Rider 2010, which was completely disconnected from everything else
    and starred Hudson Leick as the beautiful ghost inhabiting the car

    Knight Rider 2008 would serve as the pilot for the sequel series about his >> son and actually had a guest shot by David Hasselhoff himself

    Knight Rider 2008 the series with a couple really cute women that got a
    serious reboot and recast in the middle

    Team Knight Rider (1987)

    Of these, I only know the original and the syndicated "Team Knight
    Rider" (which is from 1997, not 1987).

    Oh, wait, I do remember the 2008 reboot with Justin Bruening and Deanna Russo and Smith Cho.

    Smith Cho. ROWR!



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  • From anim8rfsk@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, June 17, 2026 14:33:40
    Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
    On 6/16/2026 5:05 AM, The True Melissa wrote:
    Verily, in article <UBI20260615@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net
    deliver unto us this message:

    After an arduous workout, I watched:

    Nothing.

    What did you watch?

    After anim8r mentioned it, I watched Bionic Ever After? The question
    mark is part of the title, and the cheesiness of that gives you a good
    idea of the whole movie.

    Boy, Lee Majors really lucked out with The Six Million Dollar Man. The
    man's not a good actor. Lindsey Wagner may not be Meryl Streep, but
    she's convincing when the script lets her be. Lee Majors is often
    obviously acting, and now that I've seen him again, I recall that I kind
    of noticed it even as a kid.

    Oscar looked like he wanted to be somewhere else. Rudy seemed to be
    trying, which I guess makes sense since he's the third or fourth Rudy.

    The pacing, staging, and other direction was all kind of choppy and
    strange. After the first batch of bad guys turned up, I kept forgetting
    they'd appeared. The characters didn't seem that interested in the gun-
    toting bad guys, so why should I care?

    I read the original book, Cyborg, on which The Six Million Dollar Man
    was based. snip

    It was based on a book?

    The franchise begins with the 1972 novel CYBORG by Martin Caidin. This was turned into the first pilot movie The Six Million Dollar Man, followed by
    two more pilot movies with the wonderful Dusty Springfield theme song,

    https://youtu.be/03V1qxAjIlA?si=-AGG4zYw55Qp8Jns

    https://youtu.be/HLZpebCmplQ?si=fkD_5kyWLd4akdgm

    followed by the series, and the Bionic Woman Spinoff, and the three reunion movies.

    Caidin wrote three sequels to CYBORG
    Operation Nuke
    High Crystal
    Cyborg IV
    that weren?t in the TV continuity

    Then there were novels written by other people that were in the TV
    continuity:

    Wine, Women and War ? Mike Jahn
    Solid Gold Kidnapping ? Evan Richards
    Pilot Error ? Jay Barbree
    The Rescue of Athena One ? Jahn (two similarly themed episodes combined
    into one storyline)
    The Secret of Bigfoot Pass (UK title, The Secret of Bigfoot) ? Jahn International Incidents ? Jahn (this volume adapted several episodes into
    one interconnected storyline) source Wikipedia

    Then there are various comic books based alternately on the TV show or the books.

    When I was a kid both The Six Million Dollar
    Man and Bionic Woman were already cancelled and in reruns. But of the
    two, The Bionic Woman is the one they reran all the time, so that became
    my show. I never really got into The Six Million Dollar Man. Even when
    he appeared on crossover episodes I didn't really care.

    What a terrible movie.


    I know I watched it when it originally aired, but I have no memory of
    it. I remember the Sandra Bullock movie more or less. Well mostly
    less, but still more than this one. I'm surprised this one was made
    after the Bullock movie. I would have thought it was the other way around.


    This is a multiday catchup. I think I'm about a week behind. Over the
    last week I watched:


    The Legend of Billie Jean (blu-ray) 1985 movie starring Helen Slater and Christian Slater as two siblings (no relation in real life)

    Rumor has it that he would have liked to change that

    who go on
    the run from the law after attempting some vigilante justice to recover money owed to them by a sleezy businessman. Fair is fair, it's been a
    while since I last watched this and figured I should give it another
    watch. I had a commentary track on with Helen Slater and her costar Yeardley Smith. But Smith spent most of the commentary just asking
    Slater if she remembered whatever was on screen.


    I like this movie a lot. The first time I ever saw Helen Slater she was on
    the tonight show with Johnny Carson, looking like Billie Jean, but pushing
    the upcoming Supergirl release. It got me into Pat Benatar music.

    See Betrayal of the Dove for naked nudity



    Supergirl (blu-ray) 1984 movie (International Cut) starring Helen Slater
    as the Girl of Steel. The movie holds up great, but I'm still holding
    out hope for a 4K upgrade one day.

    The movie that is inexplicably better the longer version you hold out for. There are all sorts of weird stories about the production.

    Cartoonist Graham Wilson wrote a review of it where he said that if there
    was a sequel, Helen Slater should have it put in her contract that they
    can?t let the wires show.




    --
    The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.

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  • From shawn@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, June 17, 2026 18:13:23
    On Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:33:39 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
    wrote:

    Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
    On 6/16/26 8:12 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

    What did you watch?

    Hey, thanks for asking!


    snipped

    Of these, I only know the original and the syndicated "Team Knight
    Rider" (which is from 1997, not 1987).

    Oh, wait, I do remember the 2008 reboot with Justin Bruening and Deanna
    Russo and Smith Cho.

    Smith Cho. ROWR!


    Guess she's retired from acting as the last project listed is in 2017.
    Now she listed as being a real estate agent and has a wine company.

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  • From Ian J. Ball@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, June 17, 2026 16:53:52
    On 6/17/26 2:33 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

    Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

    [snip]
    This is a multiday catchup. I think I'm about a week behind. Over the
    last week I watched:


    The Legend of Billie Jean (blu-ray) 1985 movie starring Helen Slater and
    Christian Slater as two siblings (no relation in real life)

    Rumor has it that he would have liked to change that

    who go on
    the run from the law after attempting some vigilante justice to recover
    money owed to them by a sleezy businessman. Fair is fair, it's been a
    while since I last watched this and figured I should give it another
    watch. I had a commentary track on with Helen Slater and her costar
    Yeardley Smith. But Smith spent most of the commentary just asking
    Slater if she remembered whatever was on screen.

    I like this movie a lot. The first time I ever saw Helen Slater she was on the tonight show with Johnny Carson, looking like Billie Jean, but pushing the upcoming Supergirl release. It got me into Pat Benatar music.

    See Betrayal of the Dove for naked nudity

    With Billy D. Zane!! :)

    Supergirl (blu-ray) 1984 movie (International Cut) starring Helen Slater
    as the Girl of Steel. The movie holds up great, but I'm still holding
    out hope for a 4K upgrade one day.

    The movie that is inexplicably better the longer version you hold out for. There are all sorts of weird stories about the production.

    Cartoonist Graham Wilson wrote a review of it where he said that if there
    was a sequel, Helen Slater should have it put in her contract that they
    can?t let the wires show.

    That's brutal, but funny!!

    (FTR, I still have never seen "Supergirl" (1984). It shows up on the
    HBOs quite often, so it's probably just a matter of time before I watch
    it...)



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  • From Ian J. Ball@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, June 17, 2026 16:55:29
    On 6/17/26 3:13 PM, shawn wrote:

    On Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:33:39 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
    wrote:
    Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
    On 6/16/26 8:12 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

    What did you watch?

    Hey, thanks for asking!

    snipped

    Of these, I only know the original and the syndicated "Team Knight
    Rider" (which is from 1997, not 1987).

    Oh, wait, I do remember the 2008 reboot with Justin Bruening and Deanna
    Russo and Smith Cho.

    Smith Cho. ROWR!

    Guess she's retired from acting as the last project listed is in 2017.
    Now she listed as being a real estate agent and has a wine company.

    It's a bummer to me how many actresses have retired in the last 10
    years, and especially since about COVID... :(



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  • From Ian J. Ball@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, June 17, 2026 16:56:45
    On 6/16/26 12:16 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    On Jun 16, 2026 at 5:05:10 AM PDT, "The True Melissa"
    <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

    Verily, in article <UBI20260615@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net
    deliver unto us this message:

    After an arduous workout, I watched:

    Nothing.

    What did you watch?

    After anim8r mentioned it, I watched Bionic Ever After? The question
    mark is part of the title, and the cheesiness of that gives you a good
    idea of the whole movie.

    Boy, Lee Majors really lucked out with The Six Million Dollar Man. The
    man's not a good actor.

    He wasn't a good actor *on* $6 MILLION. Nor was he all that great on THE FALL
    GUY. When Heather Thomas is out-acting you, you might want to ask why you
    don't have a huge case of imposter syndrome.

    In this movie, Jamie gets bionic disease

    I remember when they tried to make that a thing. I wonder if I'm going to get
    bionic disease now that I'm a cyborg with a half-metal arm?

    It needs a chip in it, and somebody has to secretly cut the arm open and infect the chip. Although now they could probably do it wirelessly. Farrah Forkle was the bad girl and she could cut me open anytime.

    Another hottie taken from us way too soon... :(



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