Plot; A politician with vague motives hires a hi-tech mercenary to use his super-mega-laser to kill world leaders at a summit with vague political implications. Only one man can infiltrate their island lair and stop them, and I'll give you six million guesses who.
Plays a bit like a community theater version of a 60s/70 James Bond flick, complete with island lair, a sinister, mass-destructo laser wielding villain who reveals his entire plan to our hero before he (fails) to kill him, a beautiful female double agent and a coda where our victorious hero ignores the details of his next mission and instead takes said beautiful double agent off for some wining and dining as the suits gape on.
As with most shows of the era, this one has a runtime of around 52 minutes, which is a long time to watch Lee Majors do things in slow motion. And that's about what makes up the bulk of this episode. Lee Majors runs in slow motion. Lee Majors climbs in slow motion. Lee Majors looks around in slow motion. I couldn't help but wonder if Majors, despite the money and fame it brought him, wasn't a tad resentful of being reduced to a special effect. But once Austin is captured, he gets some nice tete-a-tete scenes with his captures, and then gets to display some of that likable charm of his at the end.
If you subtract the nostalgia, there's not much to recommend here, but it's otherwise a reasonably diverting bit of retro refreshment.
Plays a bit like a community theater version of a 60s/70 James Bond flick, complete with island lair, a sinister, mass-destructo laser wielding villain who reveals his entire plan to our hero before he (fails) to kill him, a beautiful female double agent and a coda where our victorious hero ignores the details of his next mission and instead takes said beautiful double agent off for some wining and dining as the suits gape on.
As with most shows of the era, this one has a runtime of around 52 minutes, which is a long time to watch Lee Majors do things in slow motion. And that's about what makes up the bulk of this episode. Lee Majors runs in slow motion. Lee Majors climbs in slow motion. Lee Majors looks around in slow motion. I couldn't help but wonder if Majors, despite the money and fame it brought him, wasn't a tad resentful of being reduced to a special effect. But once Austin is captured, he gets some nice tete-a-tete scenes with his captures, and then gets to display some of that likable charm of his at the end.
If you subtract the nostalgia, there's not much to recommend here, but it's otherwise a reasonably diverting bit of retro refreshment.