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The Six Million Dollar Man (1974)

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Population: Zero

The Six Million Dollar Man

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Continuity

The doctor's name is Chris Forbes, yet the name tag on her military shirt clearly reads "PLEINIES".
The teletype machine whirs for a good while and visibly prints at least three substantial lines, but when Steve tears off the message and shows it, there is just a single short line of text and the sender's name under it.
When Steve pulls the metal fencepost out of the ground, the anchoring concrete is almost perfectly cylindrical. In subsequent shots, the concrete has radically altered its shape and is much narrower at the tip.
When at the buggy shop, Oscar tells Steve the problem is in a small town upstate called Norris. The only Norris in California is Norris Canyon Estates near the San Francisco Bay area. Steve says he went to high school 20 miles from there. However, Steve grew up in Ojai which is near Los Angeles.

Factual errors

Steve is instructed to drive to a remote location far from anyone else, yet the blip on the radarscope shows him driving by right close to the monitoring vehicle, and then stopping just a mile or two from it.
According to Doctor Bacon's Geiger check, all of Austin's bionics emit some level of radiation. This would make Austin a walking radiological hazard not just to himself, but anyone he encountered over time.
Spacesuits don't have shoelaces.

Revealing mistakes

Its cold enough in the freezer to make frost form on Steve, but you can't see his breath.
Steve Austin is locked inside a sub freezing refrigerator warehouse. As time proceeds, frost develops on his face, clothes and even his chest hairs. Yet Steve never buttons the top button on his shirt to stay warm.
Doctor Bacon's weapon makes no use of radioactive elements, but he just happens to have a Geiger counter in his lab to examine Austin with.

Miscellaneous

When doctor Bacon checks Austin with a Geiger counter, all of Austin's bionic parts register as radioactive. According to canon, Austin's bionic components are powered by a shielded atomic power source contained in his abdomen. Therefore, either the counter should have only registered over his abdomen, or (because of the shielding) should have registered nothing.

Audio/visual unsynchronised

Steve reads aloud the complete message from Oscar, yet the teletype machine keeps chattering for a few seconds afterwards.
When Steve is bending the pipe to make a roll-bar for the dune buggy, no bionic sound effect is heard.

Character error

When introducing his co-worker to Steve, Hodges says, "This is Bob." Being a staffperson on a military base, he would have introduced his mate by his last name.
Steve Austin's right arm is bionic, but he uses his left arm to pull the steel fence post out of the ground.

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