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Lee Majors' then better half Farrah Fawcett headlines this enjoyable non-campy "Six Million Dollar Man" episode as a headstrong local news reporter who just happens to get film footage of Col. Steve Austin performing bionic feats to save a low-budget stock footage rocket launch. What works best about this episode is that it doesn't pander to its audience. The story is actually rather grim with some grown-up violence towards the end, complex character motivations and even a nicely subtle scene where Farrah shrugs off a sexist advance by her boss. Of unintentional comic relief is Oscar Goldman's insistence on pursuing archeology as a hobby on a vacation he obsesses over, which consists of actor Richard Anderson digging a hole in the Mojave sand.

Majors and Fawcett have better screen chemistry here than in the unconvincing "Rescue of Athena One" and the episode is played straight unlike the smarmy "The Golden Pharoah". Character actor Roger Perry returns as one of the heavies, his 2nd of three SMDM appearances ("Population: Zero" and "Privacy of the Mind") and they manage to work an extensive dune buggy scene into the action -- Steve's hobby, as he is seen working on his dune buggy previously in "The Midas Touch", and one of the series' early pop culture fad tie- ins. Solid episode through & through as are all of the 2nd season, maybe not as flashy as "Nuclear Alert" or "The Seven Million Dollar Man" but still great television after forty years.

Farrah Fawcett-Majors makes a return guest appearance(though playing a different character!) starring as ambitious television news reporter Victoria Webster, who accidentally gets film footage of Steve Austin(Lee Majors) in full bionic action trying to save a rocket launch. She tries to blackmail both Steve and Oscar(Richard Anderson) to get her story by withholding broadcasting the film, but her station boss has other ideas, selling the information to foreign agents who want to kidnap Steve to use him for their own evil ends as the three of them are on vacation in Baja... Mundane episode with Farrah playing an unsympathetic character, and viewer pondering the "uncanny" resemblance between her and previous character of lady astronaut Major Kelly Wood! (odd that Steve and Oscar don't notice either...)Hmmm.

Oh boy, doesn't nepotism really work in the film and TV industry.

Farah Fawsetts career benefitted from the obvious connections.

Here previous appearance in this show was dreadful. This episode is no different.

It's best avoided and saying less is more on this occasion.

Farah Fawsett only had one Major asset . But one was more than enough for her career.