Perhaps it started as outright reboot on the page and gradually morphed into this? After all, most of the 80s-series-to-big-screen reincarnations (Charlie’s Angels, A-Team, Starsky & Hutch) didn’t fare too well. Would just be natural to only take the bare minimum and run with a largely new story. I’m reminded more of that Belmondo comedy L‘ANIMAL
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Yes! Oh, those Belmondo movies in the 80‘s. As a teenager I enjoyed them but I sometimes also feared them („LE PROFESSIONAL“ with its downer ending, too much for my naive heart).
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Loved that one - although it plays like the second part of a larger tale. So much we don’t see or that’s only alluded: how Beaumont is hired; how powers-that-be first need the dictator removed, then trade with him and sell Beaumont down the river; why that Commissaire Rosen developed that deep enmity towards Beaumont (and how his female assistant is apparently only kept in the service of the secret police to sexually assault women - at least she doesn’t seem to have any other useful qualities) and so on.
Would like to read Death of a Thin-Skinned Animal one of these days. Originally it was a British operation and there ought to be some interesting echoes of Bond in that tale.
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To quote Billy Butcher: what a c…t! Thats so bad, I can´t think of any fan of the original series watching this…
So worth it
Think of me.
Was that the television show with Lee Majors a.k.a. “The Six Milion Dollar Man” (or in Dutch “De Man van 6 Miljoen”), I only know that TV show from German television, I don’t think it was ever shown in The Netherlands. I remember that there was also a James Bond episode, where ofcourse he had to do a lot of stunts as stuntdouble for Bond. In that episode there were also a couple of original Bond girls. I only remember Joanna Petttet, because I didn’t see CR’67 yet I didn’t know she played Bond’s daughter, I thought what does she do there with the other real Bondgirls, she isn’t a real one.
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„Ein Colt für alle Fälle“, Mondays on ZDF (17.50).
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Am afraid you’re mixing two shows up. The stuntman/bounty hunter-themed show was The Fall Guy (Ein Colt für alle Fälle in German/literally A Colt for Any Eventuality). That ran for five seasons in the early 80s; typical Glen A Larson fare with largely bloodless shootouts and casually toned down violence. Kids all over the US and Europe reenacted that stuff on schoolyards and playgrounds.
The Six Million Dollar Man came almost a decade earlier and was a sf/spy-themed show about a pilot having had multiple high tech prosthetics implanted after a near-fatal crash. It’s based on Martin Caidin‘s ‘Cyborg‘ that was much darker in tone. Themes of depression and suicide feature in the first half. Austin is an unwilling guinea pig for the operation that turns him from a crippled and disabled former astronaut/pilot into a reluctant spy and ultimately a weapons system. The six million dollars are the debt he owes the agency (OSO here). In further books (not picked up by the tv series) he’s acting in a superhuman Bond role, also more in line with sf themes of the time, like linking him up with a spacecraft.
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No, no, I know that is a completely different show, I just mentioned it because Majors is best known for that tv show, which ofcourse was aired in The Netherlands too, but than in the eighties I saw that other tv show on German tv, which also starring Majors, but now as a stuntman. And there was an episode which had a James Bond theme.
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Sorry, I mixed that up then. 
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In the first run, it was the good old 18:20 spot, and it was on Tuesdays. 
The 17:50 spot came after the introduction of commercial breaks. They had to officially cut them into part one and two (and also run a news short during that break), because the interruption of a running show for commercials wasn’t allowed in Germany back then (those were the days - until 1984, Germany had only three TV channels, and the third one was local derivates from the first one)
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Oh my, I’ve lived through all that - and completely forgot about it…
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I looked it up: the episode which the JB theme is called “Always say always” and with costars Lana Wood, Britt Ekland and Joanna Petttet. Also Soon-Tek Oh (from TMWTGG) is starring in it.
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So true. My memory…
But „Hart to Hart“ and „Simon & Simon“ and „Remington Steele“ were on ARD 19.00 - with commercial breaks, right?
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“And when they met; it was moyder” what an iconic introduction to a show… gotta love the 80s!
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Well, that’s unexpected.
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I’m more excited for this than I should be…
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Well, there’s something you don’t see every day.
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