Release CalendarTop 250 MoviesMost Popular MoviesBrowse Movies by GenreTop Box OfficeShowtimes & TicketsMovie NewsIndia Movie Spotlight
    What's on TV & StreamingTop 250 TV ShowsMost Popular TV ShowsBrowse TV Shows by GenreTV News
    What to WatchLatest TrailersIMDb OriginalsIMDb PicksIMDb SpotlightIMDb Podcasts
    OscarsCannes Film FestivalStar WarsAsian Pacific American Heritage MonthSummer Watch GuideSTARmeter AwardsAwards CentralFestival CentralAll Events
    Born TodayMost Popular CelebsCelebrity News
    Help CenterContributor ZonePolls
For Industry Professionals
  • Language
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Watchlist
Sign In
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Use app
Back
  • Cast & crew
  • User reviews
  • Trivia
IMDbPro
Lee Majors in The Six Million Dollar Man (1974)

Goofs

Dark Side of the Moon: Part 2

The Six Million Dollar Man

Edit

Continuity

The metal "freezing rod" is shown with frost on it, yet in the shots of Steve being attached to it, the rod's surface is bare.
The cable that Steve uses as an Indy-Jones-style bull-whip is not long enough to reach the merc, especially if the cord has to also be long enough to wrap around the barrel of the villain's blaster a couple times to tether it and jerk it away.
The merc who is doing the pounding of the rod through the Moon's surface is hammering very slowly and making almost imperceptible progress, yet the end of the drill rod is shown breaking through and moving down into the room very rapidly.

Factual errors

Various light-angles of the Earth and Moon do not "match with each other"; in other words, there is sun-lighting from different angles at once in the same shot.
Pounding a simple bare hard steel rod through the moon's crusty rocky surface and down into the mining chamber would not create a sufficient seal in the rock around the rod to prevent the pressurized air in the chamber from escaping into the moon's airless atmosphere within a few seconds, instantly killing everyone in the chamber.
Shot of radio antenna silhouetted against the sky is obvious double-exposure with superimposed rain; the shot is of a clear calm sunset scene, not an overcast rainy afternoon.
Steve says the moon's orbit is circular when it actually is elliptical. As an astronaut he would definitely know this.
The mirrored light-beam would not melt ice, especially from such a great distance and through such cold airless (non-heat-conductive) atmosphere.

Revealing mistakes

Bright light comes from the side in some of the lunar surface shots, even though the scene represents the dark side of the moon.
The wires that the lead merc supposedly fuses together do not actually get melted or welded together; they are plainly unchanged after the impressive-looking blue flash and smoke subside.

Miscellaneous

The red digital readout that Bess is watching to monitor the supposed countdown to destruction is obviously not a numerical timer, since it does not count down by seconds; several seconds elapse between each change in number.

Audio/visual unsynchronised

When the mercs are trying to blast through the rock with their laser guns, the electronic blast sound is not heard after every visible laser bolt.

Character error

Steve does not use the radio's push-to-talk mike during part of the time that he is altering the bomb, and he is too far away from the mike to use voice-actuation while speaking in a normal voice, so there is no way that the people on Earth could hear what he is saying to them.

Contribute to this page

Suggest an edit or add missing content
  • IMDb Answers: Help fill gaps in our data
  • Learn more about contributing
Edit page

More from this title

More to explore

Recently viewed

Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more.
Get the IMDb app
Sign in for more accessSign in for more access
Follow IMDb on social
Get the IMDb app
For Android and iOS
Get the IMDb app
  • Help
  • Site Index
  • IMDbPro
  • Box Office Mojo
  • License IMDb Data
  • Press Room
  • Advertising
  • Jobs
  • Conditions of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Your Ads Privacy Choices
IMDb, an Amazon company

© 1990-2025 by IMDb.com, Inc.