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#50yearsagotoday, "Good Morning America" aired on ABC for the first time. Actors David Hartman and Nancy Dussault were the telecast's first anchors. The show currently airs from 7 am-9 am live on the East Coast, Monday through Saturday.
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November 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM Everybody can reply
#50YearsAgoToday #LeeMajors made his directorial debut calling the plays for this season three #SixMillionDollarMan episode "One of Our Running Backs Is Missing." His team of guest players included #LarryCsonka, #DickButkus, and #CarlWeathers. Broadcast on this date Sunday, November 2, 1975.
November 3, 2025 at 2:20 AM Everybody can reply
#50YearsAgoToday The Des Moines Register (Des Moines, Iowa) put @lyndacarter.bsky.social as #WonderWoman on the cover of their TV section along with vintage 1940s artwork by original Wonder Woman illustrator Harry G. Peter (Mar 8, 1880 – Jan 2, 1958). Published on this date Sunday, November 2, 1975.
November 3, 2025 at 1:13 AM Everybody can reply
#50YearsAgoToday the Merced Sun-Star (Merced, CA) ran this highlight image of @lyndacarter.bsky.social in her #Amazon contest garb with #Feminum bracelets at the ready. In six days she would make her television debut as #WonderWoman Published on this date Saturday, November 1, 1975. #LyndaCater
November 2, 2025 at 12:33 AM Everybody can reply
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#50YearsAgoToday The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri) reported the tragic death of #SixMillionDollarMan composer #OliverNelson who died on Tuesday, October 28, 1975 of a heart attack at the age of 43. Published Wednesday, October 29, 1975.
October 30, 2025 at 5:01 AM Everybody can reply
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#50YearsAgoToday This #SixMillionDollarMan #actionfigure was "only 7.99" at the Bay department store in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Published in the Calgary Herald on this date Tuesday, October 28, 1975.
October 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM Everybody can reply
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#50YearsAgoToday Low prices on #Halloween candy and costumes helped make the #SixMillionDollarMan costume a best-seller as reported in the Syracuse Herald-Journal (Syracuse, New York) on this date Monday, October 27, 1975.
October 28, 2025 at 3:59 AM Everybody can reply
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#50YearsAgoToday some newspapers ran TV listings for the #SixMillionDollarMan episode "Target in the Sky" which referenced the episode's plot. But other newspapers revealed a different episode title: "Steve Austin, Lumberjack." Which do YOU prefer? Published on this date Saturday, October 25, 1975.
October 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM Everybody can reply
#50YearsAgoToday The Town Talk (Alexandria, LA) ran this letter from John Lindsey who stopped watching #SixMillionDollarMan because #SteveAustin let #JaimeSommers go at the end of "The Return of the #BionicWoman Part II." Published on this date Saturday, October 25, 1975.
October 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM Everybody can reply
#50YearsAgoToday the Courier-Post (Camden, New Jersey) ran this profile on #RichardAnderson who is surprised and overjoyed at the sudden success of #SixMillionDollarMan "...we're all standing around staring at one another and wondering, "What did we do right?" On this date Saturday, October 25, 1975
October 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM Everybody can reply
#50YearsAgoToday the Daily News (New York, New York) ran this image of Leigh Christian from the #SixMillionDollarMan episode "The Deadly Test" on this date Sunday, October 19, 1975. It's a poor scan but it does reveal an alternate episode title, "An Eye for an Eye."
October 20, 2025 at 3:59 AM Everybody can reply
#50YearsAgoToday The Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana) ran this promo for the #SixMillionDollarMan episode "The Deadly Test" on this date Sunday, October 19, 1975.
October 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM Everybody can reply
#50YearsAgoToday The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California) Bettelon Peterson's TV Questions letter column featured another #BionicWoman fan wondering if #LindsayWagner was coming back to #SixMillionDollarMan (also, if she was married to #LeeMajors in real life!).
October 19, 2025 at 3:59 AM Everybody can reply
#50YearsAgoToday the Irving Daily News (Irving, Texas) ran Mary O'Neill's opinion piece praising the guest stars of recent #Columbo and #SixMillionDollarMan episodes, including John Fujioka returning as Kuroda in "The Wolf Boy." Published Friday, October 17, 1975.
October 18, 2025 at 4:11 AM Everybody can reply
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#50YearsAgoToday "The Wolf Boy" ranked 5th in the #Nielsen ratings. #SixMillionDollarMan
October 17, 2025 at 3:59 AM Everybody can reply
#50YearsAgoToday #SixMillionDollarMan #doll #ActionFigure The Franklin Sun (Winnsboro, Louisiana) on this date Wednesday, October 15, 1975
October 16, 2025 at 3:57 AM Everybody can reply
#50YearsAgoToday Was #JaimeSommers comig back to #SixMillionDollarMan? A #bionic official said, "If we don't have #BionicWoman, we'll have a #bionicbaby or a #bionicdog or something. Muncie Evening Press (Muncie, Indiana) on this date Monday, October 13, 1975.
October 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM Everybody can reply
#50YearsAgoToday this ad ran in the Lexington Herald (Lexington, Kentucky) on this date Monday, October 13, 1975. #LeeMajors was scheduled to appear at the Maple Lawn Farm Celebrity Tennis Tournament. Other participants included #ErnestBornine and #VincentVanPatten.
October 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM Everybody can reply
#50YearsAgoToday little Betsy Dodd, a #BionicWoman fan (obviously!), pretended to be 4 different people and wrote strongly-worded letters to the Philadelphia Inquirer, printed on this date Oct. 12, 1975.

JUST KIDDING! But visit her wonderful tribute to #TheBionicWoman at bionicblonde.com #Not!Steve
October 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM Everybody can reply
#50YearsAgoToday "The Wolf Boy" was the 5th episode of the #SixMillionDollarMan 3rd season, airing on this date Sunday, October 12, 1975. This image highlight is from the Sun Herald (Biloxi, Mississippi).
October 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM Everybody can reply
#50YearsAgoToday this reader wanted to know if the guy playing #SteveAustin on the #SixMillionDollarMan was also the guy who played Jess Brandon on Owen Marshall as well as the guy who played Heath Barkley on Big Valley. The Burlington Free Press (Burlington, Vermont), Saturday, October 11, 1975.
October 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM Everybody can reply
#50YearsAgoToday this article ran in the San Francisco Chronicle on this date Friday, Oct. 10, 1975. "Mechanical Man Makes Good" reveals that for years CBS + NBC would call every week to report their ratings to the press. ABC never called until this week: #SixMillionDollarMan is their top new show.
October 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM Everybody can reply
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"Saturday Night Live" premiered on NBC #50yearsagotoday. Originally titled, "NBC's Saturday Night," the live sketch comedy program was created by Lorne Michaels, who has served as Executive Producer for most of the show's run. Nearly 1000 episodes have been produced.
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October 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM Everybody can reply
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