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Long before Marvel Studios started struggling with its Marvel Cinematic Universe (which might be better left to die at this point) there were some historic superhero movie missteps. The first real superhero blockbuster, 1978's "Superman" remains one of the greatest comic book movies of all time, but even that birthed some seriously questionable sequels, thereby setting a precedent for the best and worst superhero films to come.

In the years since Christopher Reeve's Supes convinced audiences of the late-70s that a man could fly, we have had some downright abject superhero outings. When done right, these films can offer the ultimate escapist fantasy, tapping into our collective inner child and taking us on rapturous thrill-rides through our own imaginations. Or, they can be "Black Adam." I kid ... sort of. The problem exemplified by that notoriously underwhelming DC effort is that these films can often just be lazy, formulaic,...

Michael Preece, the script supervisor turned director who called the shots on multiple episodes of series including Hunter, Dallas and Walker, Texas Ranger, died Thursday. He was 88.

Preece died of heart failure at his Brentwood home in Los Angeles, his daughter, Gretchen Preece-Newman — wife of two-time Oscar-winning singer-songwriter Randy Newman — told The Hollywood Reporter.

Preece directed 19 episodes of NBC’s Hunter from 1984-90 during the show’s first six seasons; 62 installments of CBS’ Dallas from 1981-91 (seasons four through 14), plus the 1997 reunion telefilm War of the Ewings; and 70 episodes of CBS’ Walker, Texas Ranger during its nine-season, 1993-2001 run.

Preece also worked on The Bionic Woman, Barnaby Jones, Fantasy Island, Flamingo Road, T.J. Hooker, The New Mike Hammer, Riptide, Knots Landing, Falcon Crest, MacGyver, 7th Heaven and many other series before calling it a career in 2007.

Michael Conway Preece was born in Los Angeles on Sept. 15, 1936. His mother, Thelma, founded...

Christian Juttner, a child actor in the 1970s who appeared in the films Return From Witch Mountain, I Wanna Hold Your Hand and The Swarm and on several TV shows, has died. He was 60.

Juttner died Nov. 29 of natural causes at his home in Yucca Valley, California, his daughter Aidan Juttner told The Hollywood Reporter.

Return From Witch Mountain, I Wanna Hold Your Hand and The Swarm appeared in theaters within five months of one another in 1978.

He portrayed Dazzler, one of the truants known as the Earthquake Gang, in the sequel Return From Witch Mountain, and in I Wanna Hold Your Hand, the feature directorial debut of Robert Zemeckis, he was the boy with a Beatles-style haircut who is determined to see the Fab Four perform on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964.

And in the Irwin Allen-directed disaster film The Swarm, Juttner portrayed a kid who suffers...

Image Source: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Back in the 1970s, when TV brought magic into living rooms across the country, a show like The Bionic Woman wasn’t just entertainment—it was an event. Spun off from the immensely popular The Six Million Dollar Man, the series introduced us to Jaime Sommers, a professional tennis player whose life took a dramatic turn after a devastating skydiving accident. With advanced bionic technology, she became something greater—a symbol of strength, resilience, and hope. From the moment it premiered, The Bionic Woman captured hearts and found its own soaring success, even outshining its predecessor to become one of the most-watched shows on television. For three thrilling seasons, Lindsay Wagner poured life into Jaime Sommers, navigating heart-pounding action and impossible feats with a charm that made her instantly iconic. While Jaime could leap over walls and outrun danger, it was her innate warmth...

In the 1970s, The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman captivated audiences with their thrilling stories of technological transformation.

Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers weren’t just crimefighters — they were icons of a sci-fi revolution.

The shows imagined a world where technology could augment human capabilities, turning ordinary individuals into extraordinary heroes.

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But beneath the action and gadgets, they explored something deeper: the emotional toll of being superhuman.

Now, decades later, we’re living in a world that feels closer to their fiction than ever before. Advances in AI, robotics, and bionics are bringing the “bionic dream” to life.

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From Elon Musk’s neural...

Sandra Bullock is one of the most recognized actresses in the world. The Miss Congeniality star is known for her balance of intense and feel-good roles as well as her relatable off-screen persona. She has won the Academy Award once for The Blind Side and was also nominated for Gravity. She was also one of the highest-paid actresses.

Bullock has achieved a lot in her over thirty-year career and continues to play intense and noteworthy roles. However, like any other actor, she struggled to get a break before she made a name for herself with Speed. While the film launched her into the stratosphere, she came from an incredibly talented family.

Sandra Bullock Spent Her Childhood In Germany A still from The Proposal | Credits: Walt Disney Studio Motion Pictures

While Sandra Bullock may be America’s Sweetheart, the actress has German roots. Though born in Virginia, the actress’ mother was...

Peacock has plenty of classic and Christmas films arriving in December 2024, from its extension with Hallmark+ for extended cuts of Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story and Three Wise Men and a Boy to the arrival of Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch Stole Christmas and two versions of Miracle on 34th Street.

New animated adventures also await the whole family with films like Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken and Sing 2 when they arrive for streaming later on in the month.

Find the full list of what’s new on Peacock in December 2024 below:

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American Hangman Another Kind of Wedding Beethoven (‘92) Believe in Christmas+ Beverly Hills Wedding The Big Lebowski The Blessing Bracelet Bridal Wave Brown Sugar Catch Me If You Can The Change-Up Country At Heart Cut, Color, Murder Deep Impact Donkey’s Caroling Christmas-Tacular Dr. Seuss’ The Cat In The Hat Dream Moms Drumline East Side Sushi...

Warning! This post contains spoilers for Woman of the Hour.

Woman of the Hour reveals that Sally Field was once a contestant on The Dating Game, making it hard not to wonder who else participated in the TV game show before making it big in Hollywood. In its one-and-a-half-hour runtime, Anna Kendrick's true-story thriller, Woman of the Hour, walks through several murders committed by Rodney Alcala. However, even though it unfolds in several different timelines, its primary focus remains on the serial killer's appearance in The Dating Game and his encounter with Sheryl Bradshaw.

Before Woman of the Hour's Dating Game arc ensues, Sheryl is portrayed as a struggling actress who finds it hard to land auditions and secure her place in Hollywood's competitive world. Her agent eventually tells her about The Dating Game and promises her that her appearance on the game show will pave the way...

To understand "The Bionic Woman" heroine Jaime Sommers, you first have to get on board with "The Six Million Dollar Man." The young tennis star turned partially cyborg superhero was first introduced on "The Six Million Dollar Man" in the show's second season as a female counterpart to the series' male bionic hero. Jaime, the show told viewers, was severely injured in a skydiving accident, but cutting-edge technology allowed her to not only live through it, but also gain new skills. She had extra-strength hearing, superstrength, and the ability to run at top speeds, all of which came in handy for her new life as a schoolteacher-slash-spy.

A high-concept storyline like this one may not thrive on TV today (unless it was made by DC or Marvel), but in the '70s, audiences ate it up. Jaime's eventual death in "The Six Million Dollar Man" was so poorly received that...

Development continues on director Travis Knight's action feature "The Six Billion Dollar Man", starring Mark Wahlberg, updating the TV series "The Six Million Dollar Man" (1973), based on author Martin Caidin's novel "Cyborg" (1972):

"...when 'NASA 'astronaut 'Colonel Steve Austin' is severely injured in the crash of an experimental aircraft, he is 'rebuilt' in an operation that costs $6 million , with his right arm, both legs and left eye replaced with 'bionic' implants that enhance his strength, speed and vision far above human norms.

"He can run at speeds of over 60 mph (97 km/h), and his eye has a 20:1 zoom lens and infrared capabilities, while his bionic limbs all have the equivalent power of a bulldozer. He uses his enhanced abilities to work for the 'Osi' ('Office of Scientific Intelligence') as a secret agent.."

"The Six Million Dollar Man" aired 100 episodes, spawning spinoff, "The Bionic Woman".

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Mark Wahlberg has been attached to a remake of The Six Million Dollar Man since 2014, with Peter Berg, Damian Szifron, and Travis Knight among the filmmakers to have taken a crack at the project before it got caught up in rights issues at Skydance.

All we really know is that the movie has been retitled The Six Billion Dollar Man and that Wahlberg still hopes to play the title character.

ComicBook.com spoke to the actor at the premiere of his and Halle Berry's new Netflix movie, The Union, and asked where things stand with the project. "You know, I have one superhero movie in mind, and it's The Six Billion Dollar Man, formally known as The Six Million Dollar Man, gone up due to inflation," he joked.

"It's grounded, and it's plausible, real. You know, there is lots of bionics technology and science happening right now. So this is...

The 1970s superhero The Six Million Dollar Man is being revived for a new movie titled The Six Billion Dollar Man. Mark Wahlberg, who will star as the title character, recently opened up about why playing The Six Billion Dollar Man is more appealing to him than portraying a DC or Marvel superhero.

"You know, I have one superhero movie in mind, and it's The Six Billion Dollar Man, formally known as The Six Million Dollar Man, gone up due to inflation," Wahlberg joked while speaking with ComicBook.com to promote his new Netflix movie, The Union. "It's grounded, and it's plausible, real. You know, there is lots of bionics technology and science happening right now. So this is something that has all the wish fulfillment of a superhero, incredible things."

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It may not be easy to stream these days, but whether you've seen it or not, "Maude" remains an important cornerstone of the sitcom house Norman Lear built. Premiering in 1972, "Maude" was originally conceived as a spinoff to the ever-in-the-zeitgeist sitcom "All in the Family," but it soon took on a life of its own. The show starred a pre-"Golden Girls" Bea Arthur as Maude Findlay, an outspoken, well-to-do liberal feminist with a knack for telling everyone around her what's what.

Maude was also a middle-aged woman, a reality that was never more apparent than in the show's most famous, controversial episode. The 1972 two-parter "Maude's Dilemma" saw Maude contemplate –- and ultimately choose –- abortion after finding herself pregnant in her late '40s. Released before the establishment of Roe vs. Wade, "Maude's Dilemma" was a lightning rod for heated conversations about reproductive rights, and remains an enduring part of the show's legacy today.

Charles Cyphers dies at the age of 85. The actor is undoubtedly best-known by fans of John Carpenters classic slasher flick, Halloween (1978), as the venerable Sheriff Leigh Bracket, starring along with Scream Queen Jamie Lee Curtis. Brackett helps Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence) hunt for the Shape, aka Michael Myers (Nick Castle), the night the serial killer came home over 45 years ago. Cyphers manager, Chris Roe, revealed that the Halloween actor and Hollywood stalwart passed away after battling a brief illness (per Variety). Roe said:

Charles was a lovable and sensitive man. He always had the best stories, and you got a full performance while he told you. He was a close friend and client of many years who will be dearly missed.

Halloween (1978) R HorrorThriller Release Date October 27, 1978Director John CarpenterCast Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Moran, Nancy Kyes, P.J. Soles, Kyle Richards, Charles CyphersRuntime 1hr 31minWriters John Carpenter,...

Over the course of a screen acting career that stretched across fifty years, Charles Cyphers racked up 100 credits, but he’s best known for his collaborations with John Carpenter, having appeared in the director’s Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween, Someone’s Watching Me!, Elvis, The Fog, and Escape from New York. His most popular character was Sheriff Leigh Brackett from the 1978 Halloween, a role he reprised in 1981’s Halloween II and, after a forty year absence from the Halloween franchise, 2021’s Halloween Kills. Sadly, we’ve lost this great character actor, as Variety reports that Cyphers has passed away “from a brief illness” at the age of 85.

Cyphers’ manager Chris Roe confirmed his passing to Variety and provided the following statement: “Charles was a lovable and sensitive man. He always had the best stories, and you got a full performance while he told you. He was a close friend and...

Charles Cyphers, known for his role as Sheriff Leigh Brackett in the “Halloween” franchise, died from a brief illness in Tucson, Ariz., on Sunday, his manager Chris Roe announced. He was 85.

“Charles was a lovable and sensitive man,” Roe said in a statement shared with Variety. “He always had the best stories, and you got a full performance while he told you. He was a close friend and client on many years who will be dearly missed.”

Cyphers first played Sheriff Brackett in John Carpenter’s 1978 horror film “Halloween,” starring Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie in her film debut. He reprised his role in the 1981 sequel “Halloween II” and 2021’s “Halloween Kills.”

Cyphers initially worked with Carpenter on the 1976 action film “Assault on Precinct 13,” in which he played Starker, a police officer. After the original “Halloween,” he appeared in the filmmaker’s 1980 horror pic “The Fog” and 1981 film “Escape From New York.

Actor Spencer Milligan, who portrayed Ranger Rick Marshall on Land of the Lost, has passed away at 86. Milligan left the show due to a pay dispute and continued acting in various TV roles. Milligan's co-stars Wesley Eure and Kathy Coleman paid tribute to him, remembering him as a "true father to us all."

Actor Spencer Milligan, best known for playing Ranger Rick Marshall on the classic NBC series Land of the Lost, has died at the age of 86. His passing was announced by his family and by the co-stars who played his children, who called him a "true father to us all."

Milligan died at his home in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin on April 18, but his death was not announced until now. A cause of death of not announced. Land of the Lost stars Wesley Eure, who played Will Marshall, and Kathy Coleman, who played Holly Marshall, appeared together in a...

Spencer Milligan, who starred for Sid and Marty Krofft as the park ranger and widowed father Rick Marshall on the iconic Saturday morning kids show Land of the Lost, has died. He was 86.

Milligan died April 18 at his home in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, his family announced.

Milligan played the heroic father of youngsters Will Marshall (Wesley Eure) and Holly Marshall (Kathy Coleman) on the first two seasons of NBC’s Land of the Lost, which featured a mix of live-action and stop-motion animated dinosaurs. On the sci-fi show, the family is caught in an earthquake while on a rafting trip and propelled into an alternative universe.

“Sid and Marty Krofft didn’t just cast our TV family, they created, for the cast, a lifelong loving family in real life,” Eure said Wednesday in a statement. “Today I have been overwhelmed by thousands of fans, reaching out to tell me how...

Spencer Milligan, who starred in the 1970s Saturday morning series Land of the Lost from Sid & Marty Krofft and was a regular guest star on TV into the late 1980s, has died. He was 86.

An obituary on the Huehns Funeral Home website said he died April 18 but did not provide details.

Born on September 10, 1937, in Oak Park, Il, Milligan was active in local theater during the 1960s before serving a tour in the Army. His screen career began with a small role as a head-change specialist in Woody Allen’s futuristic 1973 comedy, in which the filmmaker starred with Diane Keaton. He also appeared in the 1974 features The Man from Clover Grove and The Photographer, serving as an associate producer on the latter.

The following year, Milligan was cast as Rick Marshall in the Krofft brothers’ hybrid live-action/stop-motion sci-fi/adventure series Land of the Lost. It focused on Rick and...

Spencer Milligan, who starred in the first two seasons of the 1970s kids show Land of the Lost, has died at the age of 86, TVLine has confirmed.

Milligan died on April 18, according to an obituary published by Huehns Funeral Home in his adopted hometown of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Wesley Eure, who played his son Will on Land of the Lost, paid tribute to Milligan in a Facebook post: “For many of us, and Spencer’s many fans, he was the perfect dad. We loved his kindness, talent and huge sense of humor… Our hearts go out to his lovely wife...

As we reflect on the Star Trek franchise’s impressive run of nearly six decades, can we truly pinpoint the unsung heroes who have propelled us at warp speed from one generation to the next? Absolutely! The Star Trek canon has expanded to include a number of new TV series, a movie franchise, and other media since Gene Roddenberry created the universe in 1966.

While we are eternally grateful to prolific visionaries like Roddenberry, as well as second-wave pioneers like Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor, and Brannon Braga, it was the quiet lifeline tossed by one man, Harve Bennett. Having said that, the late producer actually reignited the flame of the Star Trek franchise when it was about to flicker out.

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Bennett’s pivotal role in producing four of the first six Star Trek films in the 1980s can’t be overstated.

Veteran character actor Tom Bower, best known for his roles in The Waltons and Die Hard 2, has died. He was 86. His passing was confirmed by his sister-in-law, Mary Miller, who told The Hollywood Reporter he died on Sunday, May 30, in his sleep at his home in Los Angeles, California. Born on January 3, 1938, in Denver, Colorado, Bower’s on-screen career began in the 1970s when he appeared in several classic television series. His early credits included The Rockford Files, The Bionic Woman, Lou Grant, Barnaby Jones, and, most notably, The Waltons, where he first played stunt pilot Rex Barker and then, more prominently, Dr. Curtis Willard, who married Mary Ellen (Judy Norton). Bower was later written out of The Waltons when it was revealed his character was killed off-screen during World War II. However, the character returned in an 1981 episode, only he was played by a different actor, Scott Hylands.

Jeannie Epper, the peerless, fearless stunt performer who doubled for Lynda Carter on Wonder Woman and swung on a vine across a 350-foot gorge and propelled down an epic mudslide as Kathleen Turner in Romancing the Stone, has died. She was 83.

Epper died Sunday night of natural causes at her home in Simi Valley, her family told The Hollywood Reporter.

Just one member of a dynasty of stunt performers that Steven Spielberg dubbed the “Flying Wallendas of Film” — starting with her father, John Epper, there have been four generations of Eppers in show business since the 1930s — she worked on 150-plus films and TV shows during an astounding 70-year career.

In 2007, Epper received the first lifetime achievement honor given to a woman at the World Taurus Awards and ranks among the greatest stuntwomen of all time.

Known for her agility, horse-riding skills and competitiveness, the 5-foot-9 Epper also stepped in...

Prolific performer and Golden Globe Award winner Barbara Rush has passed away.

Per Fox News, Rush's death was announced by her daughter, Fox News Channel senior correspondent Claudia Cowan. The passing of the legendary performer follows a career that spanned seven decades in show business, with many memorable roles on the big and small screens. Rush was 97 years old.

"My wonderful mother passed away peacefully at 5:28 this evening. I was with her this morning and know she was waiting for me to return home safely to transition," Cowan said of her mother's death. "It’s fitting she chose to leave on Easter as it was one of her favorite holidays and now, of course, Easter will have a deeper significance for me and my family."

Barbara Rush was born on Jan. 4, 1927. After studying theatre at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Rush would make her movie debut in 1950 with a role in The Goldbergs.

Barbara Rush, who won a Golden Globe for most promising newcomer in “It Came From Outer Space” and went on to appear in “Peyton Place” and many other movies and TV shows, died Sunday. Her daughter, Fox News Channel correspondent Claudia Cowan, confirmed her death to Fox News Digital.

“My wonderful mother passed away peacefully at 5:28 this evening. I was with her this morning and know she was waiting for me to return home safely to transition,” Cowan told Fox. “It’s fitting she chose to leave on Easter as it was one of her favorite holidays and now, of course, Easter will have a deeper significance for me and my family.”

Rush appeared in soap operas including “All My Children” and on “7th Heaven,” and appeared in films such as “The Young Philadelphians,” “Robin and the 7 Hoods,” “Hombre” and “The Young Lions.” Her co-stars included Rock Hudson,...

Mark Wahlberg's planned remake of The Six Million Dollar Man is struggling due to a lack of modern appeal. The original show was so successful because it was a prototype superhero series, but it faces challenges in today's oversaturated market. The project has encountered difficulties over the years, cycling through actors like Jim Carrey and Chris Rock amidst complex rights issues.

Mark Wahlberg has spent a decade developing his passion project remake of classic '70s series The Six Million Dollar Man, but at this stage, he's better off letting it go. For children growing up during the 1970s, the original show was appointment television. The Six Million Dollar Man cast Lee Majors as astronaut Steve Austin, who is rebuilt with bionic limbs and a bionic eye following a terrible crash. As the series' now iconic intro narration reveals, the government remade him "Better... stronger... faster."

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Mark Wahlberg recently shared an exciting update on his long-gestating theatrical remake of the beloved 1970s series The Six Million Dollar Man.

Speaking with Screen Rant on the red carpet for his latest adventure movie, Arthur the King, the actor revealed that his team has just reacquired the rights to the project. "We've got the rights again, we're looking at making that movie - hopefully soon!" he shared. "Again, ticking clock. Thank God, it's an older guy who they feel like has some real-life experience that makes it worth it for him to be the subject of this experiment."

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The Six Million Dollar Man originally ran on ABC from 1973 to 1978. The classic series starred Lee Majors as Steve Austin,...

Mark Wahlberg shares an update on his plan to remake The Six Million Dollar Man as a movie, revealing he and his producing partners just regained the rights. The project has shifted through multiple hands since the '90s, with Wahlberg having been attached since 2014. While thankful the story allows him to still be right for the part, Wahlberg notes that time to make the movie is running out.

Mark Wahlberg has given a fresh update on his plans for The Six Billion Dollar Man, a remake of the classic '70s television show The Six Million Dollar Man. Following the story of a test pilot turned into a cybernetically enhanced secret agent, plans to reboot the property as a movie had been in motion as far back as the 1990s. Since then, the project shifted through multiple hands, with Wahlberg originally coming on board back in 2014. Most recently, a...

When we talk about classic TV shows from the '70s, it's hard not to mention "The Six Million Dollar Man." Airing for five seasons on ABC, the show focuses on astronaut Steve Austin who is gravely injured in a spaceship crash. He then undergoes a government surgery that replaces his body parts with machine parts, making him part man, part cyborg. With the new powers afforded him by these upgrades, Steve goes to work for the Office of Scientific Information, battling evil forces.

The show ran for 99 episodes and inspired six TV movies. Mark Wahlberg has even been attached to star in a big-screen adaptation of the show for years now, with the project stalling out at various points. But Lee Majors was the man responsible for originally bringing the character to life. 50 years removed from the show's premiere on network television, Majors and several other of the show's...

Previously we’ve covered the iconic Six Million Dollar Man on Gone But Not Forgotten. It’s only right that we also showcase Steve Austin’s equally amazing bionic co-hart. The Bionic Woman, who was as popular as The Six Million Dollar Man and was an important piece of TV history for a number of reasons. It would give women, girls, and guys a new perspective on just how powerful a woman could be, not only in a robotically enhanced strength but also in their character. Jamie Sommers was something special, and not even a TV death could keep her down. On this episode of Gone But Not Forgotten, listen close as we tell the story of The Bionic Woman.

The Bionic Woman herself was introduced in Season 2 of The Six Million Dollar Man already an important part of Steve Austin’s life. Jaime Sommers and Steve had a relationship...

At the time, it seemed like a bit of a stretch. These days, audiences might have laughed at the audacity of the premise. But in 1976, when ABC wanted to capitalize on the amazing success of The Six Million Dollar Man by introducing The Bionic Woman, the show was an instant hit. Lindsay Wagner, who originated the role on an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man as a back-door pilot, could hardly believe it when The Bionic Woman rocketed into the Top 5 of the Nielsen ratings during its very first season. Over time, though, she’s come to understand and accept that overnight success; speaking at a fan event a few years back, she talked about why she believes the show became so iconic. (Click on the media bar below to hear Lindsay Wagner) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Lindsay_-Wagner_Bionic_woman_iconic_.mp3

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Charlie’s Angels has always been a somewhat fickle franchise. It started as a groundbreaking television series in the 70s that became a cultural phenomenon, celebrated for decades after the series ended its original run. It joined the ranks of Lynda Carter’s Wonder Woman and Lindsay Wagner’s The Bionic Woman as a television series that didn’t portray women as damsels in distress but rather as their own heroes. What's more, Charlie’s Angels was the first primetime series that consistently featured three women as the show’s lead characters.

The show would remain a cult classic until the year 2000 when Drew Barrymore created her own production company and bought the rights to the series. Along with Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu, Barrymore translated the notoriety of a 70s television series into huge box office numbers with a Charlie’s Angels film, and it's subsequent sequel in 2004, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle.

Back in the 1970s, The Six Million Dollar Man was truly a phenomenon, scoring huge ratings, a spinoff in The Bionic Woman, comic books, and a generation of young boys who wouldn’t move without making the show’s signature sound effect. At the time, though, star Lee Majors had no idea how big the show had become. At a fan event a few years ago, Majors admitted he didn’t know the true reach of the show until after he’d finished working on it. (Click on the media bar below to hear Lee Majors) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Lee_Majors_Sx_Million_Dollar_Man_Success_.mp3

The Six Million Dollar Man is currently streaming on Peacock.

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Science fiction on film has been around almost as long as cinema itself. Starting in 1895 when the first public showings of motion pictures commenced in France and the United States, and as filmmakers began to realize that they could string scenes together to tell a complete, coherent story, the genres of sci-fi, horror, and fantasy were part of the equation.

Celluloid offered ambitious storytellers the chance to put images on the screen—crude at the time, but still groundbreaking—that had only been glimpsed in the pages of novels, short stories, and later, comic books and pulp magazines. And as filmmaking techniques themselves progressed, and the motion picture industry began to take shape in the early 20th century, visionaries came along with audacious ideas that moved the art form, the technology, and the genres forward well into the new millennium.

Below are 16 such visionaries; men and women who either grew...

In the 1970s, robotics was all the rage for a while on primetime TV, as The Six Million Dollar Man and its spin-off, The Bionic Woman, were both hit shows. Lee Majors and Lindsay Wagner starred in the two series, and they often worked together on crossover episodes. However, even though they were America’s bionic darlings, they didn’t become all that friendly while shooting their series. Speaking at a fan event a few years ago, Wagner recalled that she and Majors really didn’t start bonding until their series were finished and they made a few TV movies together. (Click on the media bar below to hear Lindsay Wagner) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Lindsay_Wagner_Lee_Majors_bionic_.mp3

The Bionic Woman is available on DVD, and The Six Million Dollar Man is currently streaming on Peacock and available on DVD.

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The original Star Trek was one of the most innovative and groundbreaking series on television: spawning a colossally successful global entertainment franchise and still going strong as it moves toward its 60th year. But it was also a product of its time, and not every aspect --or individual episode -- has held up in the ensuing decades. A number of Star Trek episodes are just straight-up silly, though they're often embraced precisely because of their ridiculous qualities. More problematic qualities crop up, too, particularly in the show's depiction of women, and while it's properly credited with its pro-feminist efforts, it was fighting headwinds in that department that it just couldn't overcome.

That leads to an interesting observation of one of its more delightfully goofy episodes. Season 2, Episode 16, "The Gamesters of Triskelion," is Trek at its absolute campiest. It's also sadly typical of the way the show often treated women, complete...

Niecy Nash-Betts has addressed the up-in-the-air renewal status of The Rookie: Feds and its Season 2 assignment.

"I don't know the fate of that show," Nash-Betts told TVLine, "but I do know that in the same article I read that said that it was on the bubble, it also said that I was one of the most sought-after actresses at this time. So we'll see. But I love my job at Rookie: Feds. I love the people that I work with, so being able to do another season of it would be like heaven to me."

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The Emmy-nominated actor also discussed the potential of learning more about her lead character, Simone Clark, in the second season of Feds. "I would really like to dive into her relationship with her children. Her love life is always interesting," she said.

George Maharis, a big TV star in the sixties but probably best known to JoBlo readers from his role in Albert Pyun’s The Sword and the Sorcerer, is dead at 94. According to social media posts via the actor’s caretaker, he actually passed away on Wednesday, with the cause of death not revealed. Maharis was a pretty trendy leading man in his day, with him having starred in the hip TV series Route 66, in which he co-starred with Martin Milner as two young men driving across the United States, getting involved in adventures. Taking a page from Jack Kerouac, the show made Maharis a star, but he left it prematurely due to being diagnosed with hepatitis. In 1965 he starred in a pretty good spy thriller called The Satan Bug, which came from the director of The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape, John Sturges, in which he played...

Actor George Maharis has passed away. THR reports that the Route 66 star died at his Beverly Hills home on Wednesday, according to his friend and caregiver Marc Bahan. Additional details about Maharis' passing were not revealed. The television star was 94 years old.

Maharis was best known for his role in the classic television show Route 66, which aired on CBS from 1960 to 1964. The series starred Martin Milner alongside Maharis as a pair of pals traveling through the United States in a convertible. Partway through the series, Maharis contracted hepatitis, and because of this diagnosis, he wound up leaving the show during its third season. His final episode appearing in the show was in 1963, and Glenn Corbett came in as his successor to portray a new companion to Milner. The show was canceled the following year.

In 2007, Maharis revisited Route 66 when the show was re-released on DVD. At the time,...

Route 66 actor George Maharis has died. He was 94 years old.

The news of his passing was confirmed in a Facebook post by his friend, Marc Bahan. “My dear friend, you’ll be terribly missed,” he wrote. Bahan called Maharis a “great guy” who would “do anything for anyone.”

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A cause of death was not disclosed.

Maharis is best known for playing Buz Murdock...

George Maharis, the star of “Route 66” who went on to appear on “Fantasy Island” and other shows, died Wednesday in Beverly Hills.

His friend and caretaker Marc Bahan announced his death on Facebook, writing that he was “above all a great guy who would do anything for anyone. My dear friend, you will be terribly missed.”

Maharis co-starred with Martin Milner in the early 1960s series “Route 66,” and received an Emmy nomination for his role as Buz, a handsome beatnik-adjacent working class man. Shot on location across the U.S., the adventure series portrayed two young men who travel around in a Corvette, looking for work and adventure as they struggle to find themselves. Part way through the third season, Maharis left the show after being hospitalized for hepatitis. He asserted later in an interview that his departure wasn’t because he wanted a higher salary or wanted to get into movies,...

George Maharis, the Route 66 actor that left the series during the height of its popularity, died on Wednesday, May 24. He was 94.

“George is well known for his stardom in Route 66, stage productions, singing, artist, and above all a great guy would do anything for anyone. My dear friend, you’ll be terribly missed,” Maharis’ friend Marc Bahan shared in a Facebook post.

Maharis was born on September 1, 1928, in Astoria, New York. He studied at the Actors Studio and got his start working in off-Broadway productions.

His first television role came in 1958 with The Mugger. Maharis would go on to land other TV credits in shows like Naked City, Exodus and Search for Tomorrow. It would be until 1960 that he would land the role of Buz Murdock on Route 66, an indirect spinoff of Naked City that shared its same creator Stirling Silliphant. Maharis would be forced to leave the...

George Maharis, who starred as the brooding Buz Murdock on Route 66 before he quit the acclaimed 1960s CBS drama after contracting hepatitis, has died. He was 94.

Maharis died Wednesday at his home in Beverly Hills, his longtime friend and caregiver Marc Bahan told The Hollywood Reporter.

Route 66, created by Stirling Silliphant and Herbert B. Leonard, featured the Hell’s Kitchen native Murdock and Martin Milner‘s Yale dropout Tod Stiles touring the highways of America in Tod’s Chevrolet Corvette, encountering adventure along the way.

The show “was really kind of a searching or what you may have seen hundreds of years ago where the people came over the mountains to go from one place to the other to find a better life, a place where they belonged, and they didn’t rely on anybody else to do it for them,” Maharis told The Seattle Times in 2008.

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