Rudy Wells is kidnapped on a trip to his old study grounds. Luckily Steve Austin has some time off and follows Rudy unannounced to Innsbruck, Austria. The trail soon leads to the wealthy Tuc... Read allRudy Wells is kidnapped on a trip to his old study grounds. Luckily Steve Austin has some time off and follows Rudy unannounced to Innsbruck, Austria. The trail soon leads to the wealthy Tucelli family, who want to force Dr. Wells to give up the secret of constructing a bionic ma... Read allRudy Wells is kidnapped on a trip to his old study grounds. Luckily Steve Austin has some time off and follows Rudy unannounced to Innsbruck, Austria. The trail soon leads to the wealthy Tucelli family, who want to force Dr. Wells to give up the secret of constructing a bionic man.
- Alfredo Tucelli
- (as John Van Dreelen)
- Switchboard Operator
- (as Ynes van Holt)
- Kurt
- (as Dave Cass)
- Vincent
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaFirst time Steve is shown jumping high into the air.
- GoofsAfter Steve gets off the pay phone at around 16:25 minutes in, when he jumps down off the balcony, you can tell it is an obvious stuntman.
- Quotes
Col. Steve Austin: [answering a hotel phone in Austria] This is Dr. Wells.
Oscar Goldman: Rudy?
Dr. Rudy Wells: Yes.
Oscar Goldman: Oscar.
Dr. Rudy Wells: I just left you. Is there something wrong? Is Steve all right?
Oscar Goldman: No, Steve's fine. He's right here. Listen, I'm gonna put this call on the speaker.
Col. Steve Austin: Hey, Rudy, how's the Alps?
Dr. Rudy Wells: Beautiful. But you didn't call just to ask me how the Alps are. What's going on?
Col. Steve Austin: Well, Oscar's still a little uneasy about your trip.
Oscar Goldman: I've still got that feeling, Rudy. Gut instinct.
Dr. Rudy Wells: You're paranoid?
Oscar Goldman: Paranoid? If something should happen to Steve, what are we going to do without you?
Dr. Rudy Wells: After all these years, my alma mater decides to honor me with a doctorate and you try and turn it into a crisis.
Col. Steve Austin: He's jealous. All he ever gets from his alma mater is a bill for union dues.
Dr. Rudy Wells: Look, I'll be back in three days, so why don't you just relax, Oscar? Oh, and Steve?
Col. Steve Austin: Yeah?
Dr. Rudy Wells: A Dr. Lester's been briefed to replace the diode relay in the muscular flexors, unless you want to wait for me to get back.
Col. Steve Austin: No, it's working better today, Rudy. I'll wait.
Oscar Goldman: I'm still going to place a call to our office...
Dr. Rudy Wells: Why don't you stop worrying? You're worse than my mother.
Oscar Goldman: Okay. Okay!
Dr. Rudy Wells: I'll be back in the lab in three days. I'll talk to you then.
Oscar Goldman: Right.
[hangs up the phone]
- ConnectionsEdited into The Six Million Dollar Man: Run, Steve, Run (1974)
It's all pretty routine until Steve manages to find Dr. Wells and is himself captured by the kingpin, finding himself in a sort of Bionic Olympics as he is forced to fight single handed against a gang of NFL sized supporting actors to see how many men it will take to bring him down. The hi-light of the episode is a slipping, sliding free-for-all on the grounds of the head baddie's villa as Steve dutifully holds his own against seven huge lummoxes, sending them sliding across the wet snow with bionic judo flips until they finally bring him down en-masse, damaging his bionic arm in the process.
The climax of the episode is a doozy and one of the most brutally violent sequences from the whole series as Steve & Rudy escape, the goons pile into a car and take after them, obliging Steve to then have to fight for his & Rudy's lives against the bloodthirsty apes bent on outright killing them: I made the body count at about four dead, including the occupants of an exploding car flipped off a cliff by a good bionic shove. Steve of course wins, and in later syndication package form some of the violence was toned down a bit after the series became a family-oriented show rather than a somewhat gritty action fantasy for grown ups. I especially enjoy the scenes where Steve is shown seeming to run at 60mph in relation to the pursuing car, and the interrogation scene where Rudy and Steve come clean on his bionics and their capabilities is classic in every sense of the word.
Granted, the opening 30 minutes or so get a bit tedious as Lee Majors apes 007 with his sunglasses & expensive Euro cars, but once the big men start to fly this is a pretty decent example of what made the show popular. And, according to a trivia entry, the first time Steve is shown jumping high in the air via some trick reverse photography. Unpolished but interesting, and Yamo's demise is nothing but sheer brutality.
7/10
- Steve_Nyland
- Oct 30, 2006