“The big hits at the time were, like, Batman, you know how campy that was...I said, ‘If you’re thinking about making this a camp character, I don’t want to do it.’”
- Lee Majors discusses the Six Million Dollar Man at the L.A. Times in 2010.
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Monday, April 15, 2013
Television and Cinema Verities #66
“The big hits at the time were, like, Batman, you know how campy that was...I said, ‘If you’re thinking about making this a camp character, I don’t want to do it.’”
- Lee Majors discusses the Six Million Dollar Man at the L.A. Times in 2010.
award-winning creator of the web series Abnormal Fixation (2024), the audio drama Enter the House Between (2023) and author of 35 books including Horror Films FAQ (2013), Horror Films of the 1990s (2011), Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), TV Year (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007), Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair (2006),, Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (2004), The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (2004), An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (2002), The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film & Television (2004), Exploring Space:1999 (1997), An Analytical Guide to TV's Battlestar Galactica (1998), Terror Television (2001), Space:1999 - The Forsaken (2003) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002).
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