The 29 Million Dollar Man

at least that's what Steve Austin would have cost had be been built in 2005 in Australia (I used http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/etc/USDpages.pdf to get the currency rate in 1973, the year 6 Million Dollar Man premiered and then http://www.rba.gov.au/calculator/calc.go to do the Aussie inflation calculation).

And by that, I'm saying they should remake this, as it's a great idea, and has a lot of potential for the character. I'm surprise how far they went with it in the mid-seventies and also relieved that the show has held up so well when so many others from this same period come across as corny, hammy and just plain bad. This show has its moments, sure, but it's always entertaining, Lee Majors always had a twinkle in his eye, Richard Anderson was always a great foil as Oscar, and they just great guest stars (Laurette Spang, Cassiopeia from Battlestar Galactica, the great John Saxon as a robot no less, Joe Dante favorite William Schallert, Mission Impossible's Greg Morris, Farrah Fawcett no longer Majors, Kevin Tighe (still-going and recently in Lost as Locke's father) and episodes 11 and 12 had the Star Trek one-two punch of Shatner and Takei. Shatner, in particular, is just plain hysterical as the loopy astronaut, taking his Cap'n Kirk stilted acting to a whole new plateau AS HE COMMUNICATES WITH DOLPHINS. BRILLIANT!