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"The Six Million Dollar Man" Burning Bright (1974)

initiated by Raju on September 06, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0702040/)

Special guest star William Shatner as Josh Long pops up in this episode as an eccentric astronaut friend of Steve's from years back. Exposed to some gamma rays in space Josh goes a little too erratic for the suits in NASA and they want him grounded. Steve though, tries to figure out if they should do so or not by palling around with Josh and examining him with a friend's eye.Shatner - being Shatne more

Special guest star William Shatner as Josh Long pops up in this episode as an eccentric astronaut friend of Steve's from years back. Exposed to some gamma rays in space Josh goes a little too erratic for the suits in NASA and they want him grounded. Steve though, tries to figure out if they should do so or not by palling around with Josh and examining him with a friend's eye.Shatner - being Shatner - is brilliant in this episode, hamming it up to the extreme. I almost expected Mr. Spock to appear from behind a cardboard rock halfway through the episode. Nobody can deliver a line like Shatner and especially if the line has to do with communicating with Dolphins !!! In the end - inner turmoil about a childhood act combined with the strange electrical impulse inflicted upon him in space - causes Josh to go one step beyond what he or anybody else wants.Another episode where the old phenomenon of Steve's old friends ending up dead, raises its ugly head again. If I was an old friend of Austin's I'd keep my head down. But Shatnet for me was brilliant - his final scene spitting out a wave of mathematical equations is pure 100% Shatner. The only bad thing about him was his dreadful wig.

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