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Cyborg vs. Maskatron - A Six Million Dollar Man Movie
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Faneditor Name:
Original Movie/Show Title:
Fanedit Type:
Original Release Date:
1974
Original Running Time:
101 minutes
Fanedit Release Date:
Fanedit Running Time:
72 minutes
Time Cut:
29 minutes
Time Added:
1 minutes
Subtitles Available:
Available in HD:
Available In:
HD
Additional Links:
Contact:
Synopsis:
Steve Austin aka The Six Million Dollar Man encounters an enemy unlike any other! During a mission, Steve notices that his friend Fred isn't acting normal. In fact, he's acting a little robotic! Just when Steve thinks he can spot a robot, one may have been hiding in plain sight all along! How can you spot the difference between a robot and a person? Well, that is the six million dollar question!
Intention:
As a new viewer of the series, I fell absolutely in love with the Day of the Robot episode. The two follow up episodes weren't as good as the original, but they still made for a good time and nothing beats watching Steve Austin fight an enemy that isn't human. I wanted to meld the two big robot episodes, Day of the Robot and Return of the Robot Maker, into a movie length story in a way that doesn't feel like two episodes glued together, but a cinematic adventure for everyone's favorite bionic man.
Other Sources:
The Andromeda Strain score
Special Thanks:
BionicBob as always!
Release Information:
Digital
Cuts and Additions:
-The episode begins with Day of the Robot
-Remove scene of different people trying to deadlift a set of weights which shows the robot. This is to preserve the mystery of what is going on. We learn with Steve what's happened to his friend, Fred Sloan
-Added Cyborg vs. Maskatron episode title
-Remove all scenes that show who is controlling the Robot
-Tighten up RoboFred looking around at the gas station
***The audio during the car ride right after Fred is switched with the robot was a bit murky due to the mastering of the footage, so I tried my best to balance it better and bring the dialogue to the forefront. It is a noticeable difference despite how much I tried to just tweak it.
-Limit the amount of mistakes the robot makes while driving the car
-Moved footage of the car driving around to help transition from the scene where RoboFred moves the car after Steve does
-To keep the mystery, I added a closeup of a CB radio when the bad guys are radioing to ask what to do about Steve after he calls Oscar. Since this show uses a lot of frozen pictures, I felt that it worked well enough with some added grain.
-Most of the cuts were to keep from showing who is controlling RoboFred.
-After Steve is knocked out and they take the keycard from him, instead of moving into what was originally the third act of the episode where RoboFred is taken to a facility to launch some weapon, instead he partially knocks out Steve and then is now seen headed to a helicopter to be taken away, but Steve catches up to him and they have their classic climactic battle.
***There is a missing frame while Steve is using his legs to push a car at a bad guy. This was from the footage, not a mistake by me!
-Steve vs. RoboFred in all of its glory, minus the bionic sounds from RoboFred and added the bionic sounds to Steve. The famous sound effects were not fully in place yet and the first time they are actually heard from from RoboFred when this aired. Unfortunately, I couldn't mask them later on with the fight with the OscarBot, but we can assume it was a better and stronger robot (pun intended).
-Back at Oscar's office, they talk about the real Fred and after Oscar says he's presumed dead, I cut where Steve listens to an audio recording of Fred which was used for programming the robot. We don't see any of what makes the robot work, so it seemed pointless to leave that. Instead there is a sad moment of silence and Steve says he needs to take a walk. We now cut into the Return of the Robot episode with Steve working out. This fits because he clearly had hurt his bionic arm during the fight with RoboFred. This leads to a conversation with the agent named Barney who talks to him about some gadgets.
-We cut immediately to a double date dinner scene with Steve and Oscar. Oscar receives a phone call and now we have our twist.....this is where we learn that Oscar is in fact a robot!
-The next 6 minutes is a flashback of when Oscar was taken, how he was taken and introduces us to our villain, Dr. Chester Dolenz. This flashback will lead us up to his phone call to the OscarBot in the restaurant. To help with the uneasy tension of this flashback, music from the film The Andromeda Strain was used throughout and including when he talks to Steve about his mission of breaking into a guarded facility.
-I cut the remaining Barney scenes to keep things moving.
-As the OscarBot says to Steve he never let him down in the past, I created a shot that shows Steve's response to that but from the robot's POV that we see on a TV screen as Oscar watches with Dolenz.
-Steve maneuvering around the mines and turrets now features a needle drop song! AC/DC's T.N.T. has now be added and the scene is timed to flow with the song. New sound effects have been incorporated.
-The rest of the edit plays out like normal except for the very last few shots. It isn't 100% great, but instead of the pretty bad shot of the OscarBot's severed head being looked at by Oscar, I put a Maskatron-esque face on the head. It's a still image until the ending music swells and then we zoom in on the face as we fade out for the end.
-Remove scene of different people trying to deadlift a set of weights which shows the robot. This is to preserve the mystery of what is going on. We learn with Steve what's happened to his friend, Fred Sloan
-Added Cyborg vs. Maskatron episode title
-Remove all scenes that show who is controlling the Robot
-Tighten up RoboFred looking around at the gas station
***The audio during the car ride right after Fred is switched with the robot was a bit murky due to the mastering of the footage, so I tried my best to balance it better and bring the dialogue to the forefront. It is a noticeable difference despite how much I tried to just tweak it.
-Limit the amount of mistakes the robot makes while driving the car
-Moved footage of the car driving around to help transition from the scene where RoboFred moves the car after Steve does
-To keep the mystery, I added a closeup of a CB radio when the bad guys are radioing to ask what to do about Steve after he calls Oscar. Since this show uses a lot of frozen pictures, I felt that it worked well enough with some added grain.
-Most of the cuts were to keep from showing who is controlling RoboFred.
-After Steve is knocked out and they take the keycard from him, instead of moving into what was originally the third act of the episode where RoboFred is taken to a facility to launch some weapon, instead he partially knocks out Steve and then is now seen headed to a helicopter to be taken away, but Steve catches up to him and they have their classic climactic battle.
***There is a missing frame while Steve is using his legs to push a car at a bad guy. This was from the footage, not a mistake by me!
-Steve vs. RoboFred in all of its glory, minus the bionic sounds from RoboFred and added the bionic sounds to Steve. The famous sound effects were not fully in place yet and the first time they are actually heard from from RoboFred when this aired. Unfortunately, I couldn't mask them later on with the fight with the OscarBot, but we can assume it was a better and stronger robot (pun intended).
-Back at Oscar's office, they talk about the real Fred and after Oscar says he's presumed dead, I cut where Steve listens to an audio recording of Fred which was used for programming the robot. We don't see any of what makes the robot work, so it seemed pointless to leave that. Instead there is a sad moment of silence and Steve says he needs to take a walk. We now cut into the Return of the Robot episode with Steve working out. This fits because he clearly had hurt his bionic arm during the fight with RoboFred. This leads to a conversation with the agent named Barney who talks to him about some gadgets.
-We cut immediately to a double date dinner scene with Steve and Oscar. Oscar receives a phone call and now we have our twist.....this is where we learn that Oscar is in fact a robot!
-The next 6 minutes is a flashback of when Oscar was taken, how he was taken and introduces us to our villain, Dr. Chester Dolenz. This flashback will lead us up to his phone call to the OscarBot in the restaurant. To help with the uneasy tension of this flashback, music from the film The Andromeda Strain was used throughout and including when he talks to Steve about his mission of breaking into a guarded facility.
-I cut the remaining Barney scenes to keep things moving.
-As the OscarBot says to Steve he never let him down in the past, I created a shot that shows Steve's response to that but from the robot's POV that we see on a TV screen as Oscar watches with Dolenz.
-Steve maneuvering around the mines and turrets now features a needle drop song! AC/DC's T.N.T. has now be added and the scene is timed to flow with the song. New sound effects have been incorporated.
-The rest of the edit plays out like normal except for the very last few shots. It isn't 100% great, but instead of the pretty bad shot of the OscarBot's severed head being looked at by Oscar, I put a Maskatron-esque face on the head. It's a still image until the ending music swells and then we zoom in on the face as we fade out for the end.
Faneditor Name:
Original Movie/Show Title:
Fanedit Type:
Original Release Date:
1974
Original Running Time:
101 minutes
Fanedit Release Date:
Fanedit Running Time:
72 minutes
Time Cut:
29 minutes
Time Added:
1 minutes
Subtitles Available:
Available in HD:
Available In:
HD
Additional Links:
Contact:
Synopsis:
Steve Austin aka The Six Million Dollar Man encounters an enemy unlike any other! During a mission, Steve notices that his friend Fred isn't acting normal. In fact, he's acting a little robotic! Just when Steve thinks he can spot a robot, one may have been hiding in plain sight all along! How can you spot the difference between a robot and a person? Well, that is the six million dollar question!
Intention:
As a new viewer of the series, I fell absolutely in love with the Day of the Robot episode. The two follow up episodes weren't as good as the original, but they still made for a good time and nothing beats watching Steve Austin fight an enemy that isn't human. I wanted to meld the two big robot episodes, Day of the Robot and Return of the Robot Maker, into a movie length story in a way that doesn't feel like two episodes glued together, but a cinematic adventure for everyone's favorite bionic man.
Other Sources:
The Andromeda Strain score
Special Thanks:
BionicBob as always!
Release Information:
Digital
Cuts and Additions:
-The episode begins with Day of the Robot
-Remove scene of different people trying to deadlift a set of weights which shows the robot. This is to preserve the mystery of what is going on. We learn with Steve what's happened to his friend, Fred Sloan
-Added Cyborg vs. Maskatron episode title
-Remove all scenes that show who is controlling the Robot
-Tighten up RoboFred looking around at the gas station
***The audio during the car ride right after Fred is switched with the robot was a bit murky due to the mastering of the footage, so I tried my best to balance it better and bring the dialogue to the forefront. It is a noticeable difference despite how much I tried to just tweak it.
-Limit the amount of mistakes the robot makes while driving the car
-Moved footage of the car driving around to help transition from the scene where RoboFred moves the car after Steve does
-To keep the mystery, I added a closeup of a CB radio when the bad guys are radioing to ask what to do about Steve after he calls Oscar. Since this show uses a lot of frozen pictures, I felt that it worked well enough with some added grain.
-Most of the cuts were to keep from showing who is controlling RoboFred.
-After Steve is knocked out and they take the keycard from him, instead of moving into what was originally the third act of the episode where RoboFred is taken to a facility to launch some weapon, instead he partially knocks out Steve and then is now seen headed to a helicopter to be taken away, but Steve catches up to him and they have their classic climactic battle.
***There is a missing frame while Steve is using his legs to push a car at a bad guy. This was from the footage, not a mistake by me!
-Steve vs. RoboFred in all of its glory, minus the bionic sounds from RoboFred and added the bionic sounds to Steve. The famous sound effects were not fully in place yet and the first time they are actually heard from from RoboFred when this aired. Unfortunately, I couldn't mask them later on with the fight with the OscarBot, but we can assume it was a better and stronger robot (pun intended).
-Back at Oscar's office, they talk about the real Fred and after Oscar says he's presumed dead, I cut where Steve listens to an audio recording of Fred which was used for programming the robot. We don't see any of what makes the robot work, so it seemed pointless to leave that. Instead there is a sad moment of silence and Steve says he needs to take a walk. We now cut into the Return of the Robot episode with Steve working out. This fits because he clearly had hurt his bionic arm during the fight with RoboFred. This leads to a conversation with the agent named Barney who talks to him about some gadgets.
-We cut immediately to a double date dinner scene with Steve and Oscar. Oscar receives a phone call and now we have our twist.....this is where we learn that Oscar is in fact a robot!
-The next 6 minutes is a flashback of when Oscar was taken, how he was taken and introduces us to our villain, Dr. Chester Dolenz. This flashback will lead us up to his phone call to the OscarBot in the restaurant. To help with the uneasy tension of this flashback, music from the film The Andromeda Strain was used throughout and including when he talks to Steve about his mission of breaking into a guarded facility.
-I cut the remaining Barney scenes to keep things moving.
-As the OscarBot says to Steve he never let him down in the past, I created a shot that shows Steve's response to that but from the robot's POV that we see on a TV screen as Oscar watches with Dolenz.
-Steve maneuvering around the mines and turrets now features a needle drop song! AC/DC's T.N.T. has now be added and the scene is timed to flow with the song. New sound effects have been incorporated.
-The rest of the edit plays out like normal except for the very last few shots. It isn't 100% great, but instead of the pretty bad shot of the OscarBot's severed head being looked at by Oscar, I put a Maskatron-esque face on the head. It's a still image until the ending music swells and then we zoom in on the face as we fade out for the end.
-Remove scene of different people trying to deadlift a set of weights which shows the robot. This is to preserve the mystery of what is going on. We learn with Steve what's happened to his friend, Fred Sloan
-Added Cyborg vs. Maskatron episode title
-Remove all scenes that show who is controlling the Robot
-Tighten up RoboFred looking around at the gas station
***The audio during the car ride right after Fred is switched with the robot was a bit murky due to the mastering of the footage, so I tried my best to balance it better and bring the dialogue to the forefront. It is a noticeable difference despite how much I tried to just tweak it.
-Limit the amount of mistakes the robot makes while driving the car
-Moved footage of the car driving around to help transition from the scene where RoboFred moves the car after Steve does
-To keep the mystery, I added a closeup of a CB radio when the bad guys are radioing to ask what to do about Steve after he calls Oscar. Since this show uses a lot of frozen pictures, I felt that it worked well enough with some added grain.
-Most of the cuts were to keep from showing who is controlling RoboFred.
-After Steve is knocked out and they take the keycard from him, instead of moving into what was originally the third act of the episode where RoboFred is taken to a facility to launch some weapon, instead he partially knocks out Steve and then is now seen headed to a helicopter to be taken away, but Steve catches up to him and they have their classic climactic battle.
***There is a missing frame while Steve is using his legs to push a car at a bad guy. This was from the footage, not a mistake by me!
-Steve vs. RoboFred in all of its glory, minus the bionic sounds from RoboFred and added the bionic sounds to Steve. The famous sound effects were not fully in place yet and the first time they are actually heard from from RoboFred when this aired. Unfortunately, I couldn't mask them later on with the fight with the OscarBot, but we can assume it was a better and stronger robot (pun intended).
-Back at Oscar's office, they talk about the real Fred and after Oscar says he's presumed dead, I cut where Steve listens to an audio recording of Fred which was used for programming the robot. We don't see any of what makes the robot work, so it seemed pointless to leave that. Instead there is a sad moment of silence and Steve says he needs to take a walk. We now cut into the Return of the Robot episode with Steve working out. This fits because he clearly had hurt his bionic arm during the fight with RoboFred. This leads to a conversation with the agent named Barney who talks to him about some gadgets.
-We cut immediately to a double date dinner scene with Steve and Oscar. Oscar receives a phone call and now we have our twist.....this is where we learn that Oscar is in fact a robot!
-The next 6 minutes is a flashback of when Oscar was taken, how he was taken and introduces us to our villain, Dr. Chester Dolenz. This flashback will lead us up to his phone call to the OscarBot in the restaurant. To help with the uneasy tension of this flashback, music from the film The Andromeda Strain was used throughout and including when he talks to Steve about his mission of breaking into a guarded facility.
-I cut the remaining Barney scenes to keep things moving.
-As the OscarBot says to Steve he never let him down in the past, I created a shot that shows Steve's response to that but from the robot's POV that we see on a TV screen as Oscar watches with Dolenz.
-Steve maneuvering around the mines and turrets now features a needle drop song! AC/DC's T.N.T. has now be added and the scene is timed to flow with the song. New sound effects have been incorporated.
-The rest of the edit plays out like normal except for the very last few shots. It isn't 100% great, but instead of the pretty bad shot of the OscarBot's severed head being looked at by Oscar, I put a Maskatron-esque face on the head. It's a still image until the ending music swells and then we zoom in on the face as we fade out for the end.
Trusted Reviewer review
1 review
Overall rating
9.8
Audio/Video Quality
10.0
Audio Editing
9.0
Visual Editing
10.0
Narrative
10.0
Enjoyment
10.0
For me, The Six Million Dollar Man is the greatest adventure tv series of its era. 50 years on, and my love and admiration for the this series has not diminished a single iota. And now, seeing another Fan Editor bring some creative editing passion to the Bionic World of Colonel Steve Austin fills me indescribable joy.
MusicEd has cleverly combined two separate Robot Maker episodes from different seasons into a cohesive and entertaining single narrative. His solutions of how to how mix the episodes together is very imaginative and original. I really appreciated how the editor removed all foreshadowing elements from the original versions, thus increasing the element of surprise when the Robot reveals occur.
Technically, as expected, this a solid production. Unfortunately, the blu ray source material does have some minor audio and video hiccups. There is a drop frame, which is beyond the control of MusicEd, and there is a two minute sequence where the dialogue audio drops noticeably and significantly. MusicEd has done his best to dial up the dialogue but the trade off is the background foley is also slightly louder.
On the audio flipside, as one can expect from a fan editor with a name like MUSIC-Ed, there are two wonderful music moments in this project. First, there is a great surprise scene that I will not spoil that used music from the Andromeda Strain. It is tonally pitch perfect. And there is a fantastic action Needle Drop scene that had me smiling. Plus, the song has remained stuck in my head for days now! Great work Ed!!!!
There is also a nice little piece of FX artwork that closes out the episode that is a great nod to the Maskatron toy. It was like delicious smooth creamy icing on an already mouthwatering cake.
Needless to say, I loved this fan edit and I hope MusicEd does more of them!
Six Million Thumbs UP! :)
MusicEd has cleverly combined two separate Robot Maker episodes from different seasons into a cohesive and entertaining single narrative. His solutions of how to how mix the episodes together is very imaginative and original. I really appreciated how the editor removed all foreshadowing elements from the original versions, thus increasing the element of surprise when the Robot reveals occur.
Technically, as expected, this a solid production. Unfortunately, the blu ray source material does have some minor audio and video hiccups. There is a drop frame, which is beyond the control of MusicEd, and there is a two minute sequence where the dialogue audio drops noticeably and significantly. MusicEd has done his best to dial up the dialogue but the trade off is the background foley is also slightly louder.
On the audio flipside, as one can expect from a fan editor with a name like MUSIC-Ed, there are two wonderful music moments in this project. First, there is a great surprise scene that I will not spoil that used music from the Andromeda Strain. It is tonally pitch perfect. And there is a fantastic action Needle Drop scene that had me smiling. Plus, the song has remained stuck in my head for days now! Great work Ed!!!!
There is also a nice little piece of FX artwork that closes out the episode that is a great nod to the Maskatron toy. It was like delicious smooth creamy icing on an already mouthwatering cake.
Needless to say, I loved this fan edit and I hope MusicEd does more of them!
Six Million Thumbs UP! :)
User Review
Do you recommend this edit?
Yes
Format Watched
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User reviews
3 reviews
Overall rating
10.0
Audio/Video Quality
10.0(3)
Audio Editing
10.0(3)
Visual Editing
10.0(3)
Narrative
10.0(3)
Enjoyment
10.0(3)
Overall rating
10.0
Audio/Video Quality
10.0
Audio Editing
10.0
Visual Editing
10.0
Narrative
10.0
Enjoyment
10.0
I'm genuinely surprised by how often I've revisited an episode or two of the Six Million Dollar Man. With so much quality options out there, why do I keep choosing to spend my time on this deeply, deeply silly show? The answer is, of course, 100% nostalgia, but that doesn't make the utter goofiness of this show just so damn fun at times. I would not recommend this to anyone under the age of 45, but, if you have a fondness for some the craziest 70s TV shlock out there, this fan edit is worth spending a few afternoons on.
User Review
Do you recommend this edit?
Yes
Format Watched
Digital
Overall rating
10.0
Audio/Video Quality
10.0
Audio Editing
10.0
Visual Editing
10.0
Narrative
10.0
Enjoyment
10.0
The 6 Million Dollar Man was probably the first tv show I got into, followed by The Incredibles Hulk. This really brought up memories as I remember being so scared of John Saxton's cyborg. Great time! Really enjoyed revisiting it in the special edit as the whole thing just moved. Great job! Highly recommend!
User Review
Do you recommend this edit?
Yes
Format Watched
Digital
Overall rating
10.0
Audio/Video Quality
10.0
Audio Editing
10.0
Visual Editing
10.0
Narrative
10.0
Enjoyment
10.0
Well take me back to the cheese and bad stunt camera angels of early 1970s tv shows. I watched this edit and wondered why I liked this show so much as a kid. IT"S BECAUSE I WAS A KID !!! This brought back such great fun and memories of this era of television. And just had bad it was. Obvious stunt doubles, lame fight scenes etc. All the stuff we lived for as kids watching this stuff. I tried to think of some of the roads they were driving on and I think I have an idea of where they are. When the robots lost their faces I just thought of Westworld and KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park. Same look. (Where's Anthony Zerbe when you need him?) When Steve is given the bullet proof glove to protect his bionic hand if needed. I thought of Michael Jackson (he ripped that off). But the fun of obvious bad props and cheap sets. The robot sounds , sounded like a bad AOL connection. I got a good laugh with the AC/DC track. Using a Bon Scott track very era appropriate. The stock character actor villains. Oh such fun. I was a giggling fool as I watched this. And as for the source material whatever was used it looks great. I was thinking, he could of stretched this to 6 x 9. But that would of ruined the entire experience, best left at 4 x 3 . Well that's about as techie as I get. So between this and Bionic Bobs edits I see a binge days in my future. As "you" know I am in this more for the sheer enjoyment. And man did I enjoy this. Maybe I am gushing too much but hey I had fun watching this. So on my popcorn scale I will double this one up and give it a 10 out of 5.
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