The Six Million Dollar Man (TV Series) The Bionic Boy (1976) User Reviews

Decent 2 Hour Bionic Episode, But Lacking in Action

[voicemaster71 · 7/10 · 31 July 2007]

I don't know why the IMDb listed this episode separate from the Six Million Dollar Man series, but I will say that the Bionic Boy is a good story. It has Steve Austin going to a small town and helping a teenage boy named Andy played by Vincent Van Patten learn how to adjust to his new Bionic Implants in his legs. It's a good story in that we see a boy's dream come true in meeting his football hero, Frank Gifford and getting to play football again. It's also a delight to see Knots Landing's Joan Van Ark as Andy's older sister. The only gripe I have about this episode is that this is a story with no real villains or attempted kidnappings. But I guess it's okay to get away from that once in a while. We also see Greg Evigan, future star of BJ and the Bear as a high school football jock and Andy's rival.

On the plus side, the Bionic Boy is a special 2 hour episode along with the Thunderbird Connection in season four of the Six Million Dollar Man series. And a good recommended episode.

Should have been a spin-off series

[safenoe · 8/10 · 22 December 2016]

When The Bionic Boy screened, I really thought it would be a spin-off series, like the Bionic Woman which starred the beautiful Lindsay Wagner. But not to be, but maybe with the Bionic Woman reboot being shortlived, maybe the producers can reboot the Bionic Boy back on the air.

Here Vincent Van Patten (son of Dick, and nephew of Timothy) stars as Andy Sheffield, the Bionic Boy, and he fulfills every boy's fantasy by being the bionic boy and able to fight for justice and impress the girls with 1000 pound bench presses. But it's shortlived in a way, when the media (again!) exposes his bionic prowess.

The bionic boy

[coltras35 · 6/10 · 4 December 2023]

Andy Sheffield, a once-athletic youngster living in a small Utah town, has been selected by an OSI computer to receive an implant to restore his paralyzed legs, which were injured in a landslide that killed his father - a controversial figure. The implant gives Andy great physical power as he sets out on a dangerous mission to clear his father's name.

This episode lacks action but makes it up with some good narrative, some good action from Patten as the boy who is given a chance to walk again and climb that mountain - the mountain scene in part two was the best part with the boy trying to clear his father's name - needlessly to say, Steve comes to the rescue.