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"The Six Million Dollar Man" Day of the Robot (1974)

initiated by rajni on September 06, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0702046/)

An old friend of Steve's is replaced by an identical robot (John Saxon), while the robot maker Dr (Henry Jones) looks on at the events with a TV screen. Steve soon suspects that all is not right.It would seem the makers of this now dated series were fans of the now semi-timeless Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964-68). Day Of The Robot is the shining light in a revolting first season of The Six more

An old friend of Steve's is replaced by an identical robot (John Saxon), while the robot maker Dr (Henry Jones) looks on at the events with a TV screen. Steve soon suspects that all is not right.It would seem the makers of this now dated series were fans of the now semi-timeless Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964-68). Day Of The Robot is the shining light in a revolting first season of The Six Million Dollar Man (the 2nd season is better).Firstly the story, it is taken from a 1965 Voyage/Sea episode called The Cyborg. The bit where the robot starts talking non-sense to Steve for a second was very like the bit in Voyage/Sea where the identical robot (of Nelson) can't remember a minor detail.In Voyage/Sea, it is Victor Buono who is looking on via a TV screen.Henry Jones? He never appeared in The Cyborg but did appear in three episodes of Voyage/Sea, twice as time traveller Mr Pem, and once as a Dr stuck in a "night of terror" on an island of giant monsters.But this $6 Man episode is really rather good, and once we get past the Voyage/Sea rip offs, well, we really take in a rather clever and solid hour of comic strip adventure.Loaded with bionic action, outstanding location filming in a field of grass, and the final frames probably rank as the best moments of the entire series (but I think the totally under-rated Shazam 1974-76 series leaves the bionic shows for dead!)John Saxon is a standout and had been in Time Tunnel's Attack Of The Barbarians (1967).

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