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I later read the novel Cyborg. Austin ends up in the desert with a female Israeli agent. She teaches him survival techniques. She tells him to pee into a canteen, and then drink it. "We cant' afford to waste any liquids," she says.

I thought that was disgusting, and never forgot it. I also thought, I'd rather die of thirst than drink pee.

I watched the show while in high school. I thought it and The Bionic Woman were good spy thrillers.

I bought The Bionic Woman DVDs some 10 years ago. I was astonished at what a cheesy, stupid, low-grade show it was.

A helicopter was chasing Jamie in East Germany. But the East German forest roads looked like Los Angeles's San Fernanado Valley desert terrain.

We'd cut to interior shots of helicopter shooting a machine gun at Jamie, and you could see Vietnamese rice paddies below. Then when we'd cut to the helicopter's exterior, it looked like a small two seater with no machine gun in sight.

And whenever there was a bust to be made, OSI Director Oscar Goldman himself would do it. He once flew in from D.C. to help Jamie bust a smuggling ring at a California Air Force Base. Like a CIA Director would fly 3,000 miles to personally arrest a few chips smugglers, rather than just phone the local police?

A helicopter was chasing Jamie in East Germany. But the East German forest roads looked like Los Angeles's San Fernanado Valley desert terrain.

The old "Mission: Impossible" series was unashamedly guilty of this, too. But I did find the rampant "Gellerese" amusing!

The "Central European People's Republic" frequently featured in the show had plenty of signage like "Gaz Valven Shut-offski," etc.

It was a hoot!

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I later read the novel Cyborg. Austin ends up in the desert with a female Israeli agent. She teaches him survival techniques. She tells him to pee into a canteen, and then drink it. "We cant' afford to waste any liquids," she says.

1. Didn't the implanted eye of the Austin of "Cyborg" also feature a "Death Ray" as well as photographic camera?

2. With three robotic rather than natural limbs, Austin's dehydration in the desert due to sweating would have been considerably reduced. Further, walking - even vigorously - shouldn't have been a problem in the desert, as far as heat prostration or dehydration were concerned. For him, it would have been like riding a motorcycle in the desert.

3. If he was nuclear powered, does that meant that, when he "went to the bathroom," he excreted spent fuel elements?

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