LEE: QUOTE-UNQUOTE
"I always felt I had to out-do my brother, as he was the real son. I had this pressure since I found out I was adopted that I had to prove myself worthy"
LEE ON HIS DETERMINATION TO SUCCEED, EVEN AT AN EARLY AGE.
news 2010
August 3rd 2010
Meet Lee in NY in October!
WizardWorld.com have confirmed Lee will attend the Wizard World Comic Con in october this year, making this Lee's first ever convention appearance. It looks pretty much a done deal with Lee saying
“I am looking forward to meeting fans at my first Wizard World Comic Con experience. It has been a while since I have had this opportunity, and I'm glad that 'Six Million Dollar Man' and some of the other programs I've been in have remained a part of pop culture for so long.” Lee joins other celebs at the October 1st, 2nd and 3rd event such as Adam West, Julia Jones, Mickey Rooney, the “Brady Bunch boys – Barry Williams, Christopher Knight and Mike Lookinland and Lee's good buddy Erik Estrada. Joe Madureira, Ethan van Sciver, Mark Millar and J.G. Jones are among the leading comic artists, writers and creators who are scheduled to attend. Could this be the start of a SMDM promo tour for Lee for the release of the DVDs???
July 28th 2010
Return to Barkely ranch delayed.
Faith informed is this week that filming on The Big Valley movie has been pushed back until
August 23rd. We'll keep you posted on any more changes.
Bionics go digital, more details revealed!
Confirmation and information has come thick and fast the last 4-6 weeks of the official Region 1 [USA] releases of both the 70's Bionic shows on DVD. First TimeLife will release The Six Million Dollar Man as a whopping 40-disc 5-season, 6 movie [originals TV movies and reunion movies], box set in fall/Winter this year. price is not yet determined, but TV Shows on DVD have a feature page here and you can check offoicial TimeLife promo site here. The Bionic Woman is being released through retail outlets, with just the first season announced at the moment. Artwork was confirmed, however after fan reaction to 3rd season photo's being used on the packaging this has now been withdrawn by Universal. Kenneth Johnson has confirmed he will record commentary tracks for numerous episodes including 'Doomsday Is Tomorrow' and at least one of the the Bigfoot episodes. For more info go here..
July 7th 2010
Bionic reunion? Well, on DVD at least...
UK fans will get the remaining 2 Bionic reunion movies - BIONIC SHOWDOWN and BIONIC EVER AFTER? on DVD shortly. Amazon UK are saying July, but it looks more likely to be September 13th, according to Play.com and HMV.com. There is also no finalised artwork posted, so a July release does look optimistic. This is great news for fans and means we will finally have a full set of reunion flicks on nice spanking new DVD, for our collections. We'll post artwork as soon as it becomes available!
July 6th 2010
Bail jumpers watch out, Colt Seavers rides again
The LA Times, amoungst others, have confirmed that THE FALL GUY is the latest 80's show to get a big screen re-boot. Hollywood uber-producer Walter Parkes and DreamWorks are working on a reboot of the 1980s show say sources. It's still in early development and no writer has been assigned to the project as yet. One wonders about the validity of throwing another TV show at the big screen, epsecially given the luke warm reception to THE A-TEAM movie this Summer - we liked it, but audiences, obviously didn't. In it's opening weekend, the $100million budgeted movie made just $36m, and came in at 2nd place behind THE KARATE KID, which took $77m against a budget of 40m! Even last weekend THE A-TEAM's domestic gross total was only up to $76m. Given THE FALL GUY's action-themed antics, a $100m-plus plus budget is a given.
June 28th 2010
The voice of authority
Lee recent completed his narration on the 2nd Heading Back Home trailer. Faith tells us the final product won't be ready until around August or so, but we'll keep you informed as we get updates. Meanwhile view the trailer here.
'The Bionic Vet' will see you now...
BBC 1 will broadcast The Bionic Vet starting this Wednesday the 30th of June, in the UK [see below story about Oscar the Bionic cat]. The six part series follows work of 'Bionic Vet' Noel Fitzpatrick, At his multi-million pound state of the art centre in Surrey, Noel is pioneering revolutionary new surgical techniques to save and improve the lives of thousands of pets from all over the country. He is a medical engineer, rebuilding animals using a whole range of metal structures, nuts, bolts, implants and groundbreaking procedures. For many of the animals referred to him, he's their last hope. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00syxlx
June 25th 2010
Meet Oscar, the latest member of the Bionic family.
After a close encounter with a combine harvester, Oscar the moggie lost his 2 back feet, but is now better, stronger, and at least as fast thanx to a pioneering operation which has seen him been given 2 Bionic feet following a 4-month recovery period, by a UK vet. The new feet are custom-made implants that "peg" the ankle to the foot. They are bioengineered to mimic the way deer antler bone grows through the skin. The operation - a world first - was carried out by Noel Fitzpatrick, a veterinary surgeon based in Surrey. His work is explored in a BBC documentary called The Bionic Vet. The cat, named Oscar, was referred to Mr Fitzpatrick by his local vet in Jersey, following the accident last October. Oscar was struck by the combine harvester whilst dozing in the sun.
Watch the incredible footage on the BBC news site of Oscar being fitted with his legs and walking on them for the very first time here. Go Oscar!
Oscar, with his new Bionic legs.
June 14th 2010
Lee meets Buzz and friends
Lee was at the LA premier of Toy Story 3 this last weekend, and we've got the pics to prove it!
June 10th 2010
Final call for The 'Valley
Variety confirmed the latest casting and details of The Big Valley movie yesterday:
Lorraine Nicholson, Lee Majors and Bruce Dern are rounding out the cast of indie drama "The Big Valley," set for shooting in Baton Rouge, La., on July 26.
Jessica Lange has been announced previously as the lead, portraying Victoria Barkley in the role originated by Barbara Stanwyck in the 1960s TV series about the widowed matriarch of a wealthy ranching family.
Nicholson will play the role of daughter Audra while Dern portrays Judge Adams and Majors -- who portrayed the Heath Barkley character on the TV series -- will play the Tom Barkley role in the film.
Stephen Moyer ("True Blood") has been announced as the role of the eldest son Jarrod. Jason Alan Smith and Travis Fimmel have also been cast.
"The Big Valley" is written and directed by Daniel Adams with the screenplay inspired by the original pilot from the TV series. The film is exec produced by Kate Edelman Johnson, whose late father Louis F. Edelman created the series, and produced by Straw Weisman and Steven Brandman.
May 29th 2010
Johnny has a mission on DVD
Faith has just let us know about a 'fell good' movie Lee has recently completed: Johnny. Synopsis: When Dr. Drew Carter (Mel Fair) tragically lost his ten-year old son in a car accident while his wife was driving, he didn't expect to lose his whole family as well. Since the accident, his wife, Julia (Musetta Vander), has become emotionally absent from Drew and their daughter, Kayla (Aubyn Cole). When Dr. Miller (Lee Majors)refers Johnny (Jerry Phillips), a foster child with leukemia, to Drew, the wheels start to turn and Drew sees a chance to heal his family.
The movie is due on DVD later this year, check the official site out here.
May 12th 2010
Return' on DVD
The first Bionic reunion TV movie Return of the SMDM & BW recently came out on DVD and our copy arrived this week. We've re-done a new image gallery for it and we hope you like it as much as we do. It's our biggest yet, with 140 images, and we've tried to include alongside Lee, Lindsay and Lee Jnr. plenty of great Bionic action shots for you. Check out the '80's hair and fashions, people [*groan!*]. We forgot just HOW 80's the movie is, with jumping car stunts, big hair, bad stunt doubles, pop-tune-montage scenes and cheesy guest actors.... but it's still great, Lee and Lindsay look spiffing, if alittle dodgy in some of the wardrobe choices, and the old magic is still there, no matter what some of the reviews say. Check out the gallery here.
Region 2 DVD title menu.
May 8th 2010
Fox Pilot gets booted, eh, re-booted over at SyFy
Lee's 2007 un-aired Pilot for the buddy-comedy, Lee & Me, about an unemployed loser living with his parents, who is bIoniclly re-built by Lee Majors, the Six Million Dollar Man, in a top seret laboratory and can then hear Lee in his head has been resureected by the SyFy cable channel. The original Pilot, still avaialble to watch here on Jaime kennedy's MySpace page, had Kennedy as Salsberg, the loser hero, and Lee as himself. No news on if these 2 will return to the new show, although it would be silly to do it without Lee, as that was the whole point. We'll let you know more as we hear it,
Images from the original Lee & Me Pilot.
April 23rd 2010
April 23rd? ...must be someone's birthday!
Happy birthday to Lee for today, we hope he has a fantastic day and here's passing on all the best wishes and regards we've received from fans over the last week. Happy Birthday big fella!
Lee goes to war... but only for a documentary
Lee is to narrate a new documentary on the American Civil war and the battle of Franklin: "Hollywood icon Lee Majors narrates Heading Back Home: The Story of Franklin's Unknown Soldier and the Five Bloodiest Hours of the Civil War. This amazing and profound documentary, produced by the husband-wife team of Brian Speciale and Jodi Jones-Speciale, chronicles the 2009 discovery of a Civil War soldier's remains in Franklin, Tenn., and the historically overlooked Battle of Franklin, considered the bloodiest and most brutal five hours of the entire war." The documentary should be out this Summer, and there is a trailer for it on YouTube here.
April 16th 2010
Human Target takes a Chance and succeeds
Well, The Human Target finale aired Wednesday night and reviews so far are favourable with MTV saying it was the best episode of the season! No word yet if the show will return next year for a second season so we need to keep our fingers crossed. Lee's character could potentially return next year, likely in another flashback story. Anyway, get yourself over to gallery for a bunch of screengrabs from the episode, plus some behind the scenes photo's or go here. Note images do contain spoilers if you haven't seen the episode yet! You can also watch Lee's TV Guide interview on YouTube.
Lee as Christopher Chance in Human Target finale
April 10th 2010
TV Guide targeted for promotion
Faith has kindly sent us a scan of an article in this week's TV Guide on the Human Target finale [see below]. She also says Lee will do an interview on Tuesday April 13th for the TV Guide Channel, which should air the same night, so keep an eye out for it. Some fans at WonderCon this week got an early sneak preview of the finale at the Human Target panel... lucky things! The rest of will have to wait until next week. Be sure to check back for TV grabs after it airs :+}
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Aril 6th 2010
Human Target closes in
With just a week to go before the airing of the Human Target season finale, some promo pics have finally been released, one of them featuring a certain bodyguard...
Image from the Human Target season finale
Bionic shows being rebuilt to DVD?
Keneth Johnson has announced on his official site that it appears to be all systems go for finally seeing the Bionic shows on DVD in their native country - USA. He says he is hoping to contribute commentaries to several episodes and that other extra's may be forthcoming. The news is also supported via the Yaho Bionicfans Groups as well as TV Shows on DVD. It may have something to do with the news back in March that the Bionic shows are returning to TV this Summer. The re-air may be tied to the DVD release in part due to the expense of possibly cleaning up the episodes for airing in the current Hi-Def environment. We'll let you know more as we hear it!
March 20th 2010
Captain Slaughter will see you now...
Yes, as promised a whole host of images of Lee in this week's episode of The Community have now been added here.
It's a harsh life at sea... or even in the parking lot!
March 19th 2010
Captain Lee plays with his seamen
Yes, we hope you saw The Community last nite and are in on the joke! Screengrabs coming this weekend.
Get back to the 80's... Bionic style!
It's been availble to pre-order for a while and we thank everyone who has reminded us we need to add it to the site. The Return of The Six Million Dollar Man & Bionic Woman is coming to DVD R2 on the 26th of April. It's already out in Australia and we've seen some reviews/screengrabs of the conversion and whilst it's not been cleaned up much from the original airing, or re-mastered, it is still nice to have it out to own officially. No extras, just a bare-bones release, but what the heck! You can pre-order it from Play or Amazon UK.
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March 18th 2010
Get ready for a Bionic Summer
The Bionic shows are coming back to TV this Summer! Richard Anderson recent told some fans from The Home Theatre Forum that Bionic series would be returning to U.S. cable channels on June 1st, 2010. He also added that all seasons from both series would be broadcast in their entirety. No news on exactley which channel will carry th shows, but this great news for fans. And so also..
Big screen Bionics anyone?
Richard Anderson also said things may be "looking up" for a big screen/tv remake of the shows now that with Miramax is in financial trouble and Disney looking to possibly dump the studio. Apparently, Miramax may be willing to sell or trade the bionic rights back to Universal, since they have no plans for the franchise. Anderson remains a positive force in the franchise moving forward either on the small, or the large, screen. “Universal Studios tells me spending one million dollars bringing films up to today’s standards … together with a huge promotional campaign.” Anderson told the forum. “There is talk that it’ll show on NBC Syfy channel.”
Mark Valley swoons over meeting idol
In a new interview Human Target star Mark Valley tells Zap2It about the day Lee was on-set for the filming of the finale episode of the season:
"I feel like the audience is rooting for Chance to kick his a-- next time," Valley continues. "But then he comes back and, I don't know, I think it's kind of a draw. I don't know if I kick his a--... oh, no, I do get sort of helped out with that by Lee Majors."
"It was [surreal to work with him]," he gushes. "It felt like I was inside the TV... The little boy in me was tearing around the house, screaming at the top of his lungs. And I had to keep it kind of quiet to do a pretty serious scene. Inside I was like [mouth opened wide], Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! Santa Claus! I just met Santa Claus!"
Don't worry, Valley got to tell Majors what a huge admirer he is after they worked together.
"He was like, Yeah, I could see it," Valley says.
Watch a great clip to see Mark talk about working with Lee, on YouTube
March 11th 2010
Lee is 'Target-ed for action
Lee has officially been announced as a guest star for the season finale of the new Fox TV series Human Target. It's early days to say what part Lee will play, but series star Mark Valley is "thrilled" to have Lee coming onboard. The first season is 13 episodes so judging by the current air dates Lee's episode will be sometime in April/May. We'll post more as we get the info!
March 10th 2010
Charles B Pierce dies @ 71
The director of Lee's cult movie The Norseman, passed away on Friday at a ursing home. His death was confirmed by Wayne Anglin of Anglin Funeral Home. No cause was specified. The director was perhaps best know for the low-budget cult classic The Legend of Boggy Creek, that inspired The Blair Witch Project many years later. A brief biography is here.
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Lee and Charles B Pierce, in white t-shirt on set in 1978. © AIP.
February 26th 2010
3rd time lucky?
Lee's episode of The Community appears to be wandering around like a band of gypsies. We now hear it will air on March 18th: likely relocated due to Olympics events scheduling. Fingers crossed!
February 20th 2010
The Community gets hiccups
Lee's episode of The Community didn't air earlier this month, as p;ormised - sorry about that! Scheduling gremlins got into the works and the episode will now air on Thursday, March the 11th. Check local guides for final listing/times.
February 4th 2010
Join The Community tonight
Lee's episode of The Community is airing on NBC tonight [Feb.4th]. Check local listings for details, sorry for the late update but we only just found out. Screen grabs soon :+}
Bionics get real
National Geographic magazine had a great article on real-world Bionics last month, and how they are helping 'real' people. It's now online at their site, here.
January 28th 2010
Haiti charity event
Faith has just let us know that she and Lee will be attending a Red Cross Haiti event tonight in Santa Monica,California. Don't forget to donate to this worthy cause, and we'll hopefully bring you some pics of the event as soon as we can!
January 25th 2010
Dressed for success
We've got a couple of pics of Lee and Faith at the SAG Awards at the weekend, click to view the images full size.
January 19th 2010
New Year, new news!
We kick off 2010 with an update that Lee & Faith were at the Julep Derby Prelude Party in West Hollywood, on Thursday last week [see photo] and then at the Golden Globes on Saturday the 16th. They round off a trio of social events this coming Saturday when they will attend the SAG Awards. Busy people!
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Lee joins the 'Community
We also know from Faith that Lee just filmed a guest spot on the new NBC show The Community where he plays Professor Slaughter. The comedy is on Thursday nights, but as yet we aren't sure when Lee's episode is slated to air. Check out The Community fansite or the official NBC site for more info on the show.