From the 1950s through the 1970s, Sparling provided art for a variety of publishers, including Harvey Comics (the Pirana), Charlton Comics (adaptations of The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman), DC Comics (Challengers of the Unknown, Secret Six, Eclipso) and Marvel Comics (Captain America).
In an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man entitled "The Deadly Replay", the HL-10 is identified as the aircraft flown by Col. Steve Austin when he crashed, leading to his transformation into a bionic man, and the HL-10 is also featured in this episode.
The name and strip itself was a pun on The Six Million Dollar Man television series, whose main character was called Steve Austin, the "bionic man".
The title "The Day of the Robot" is most likely a reference to The Six Million Dollar Man episode of the same name, while "Flying Guillotine" refers to Guillotine from Johnny Sokko's Flying Robot.
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On television, Pintoff directed many episodes of popular television series, including Hawaii Five-O (1968), Kojak (1968), The Six Million Dollar Man (1974), The Dukes of Hazard (1979), Falcon Crest (1981) and Voyagers! (1982).
His film credits span 125 motion pictures including My Sweet Charlie, That Certain Summer, The Savage is Loose, The Andromeda Strain, Starship Invasions, The Judge and Jake Wyler, several Columbo TV movies, Frankenstein: The True Story, The Six Million Dollar Man, Night Gallery and Kolchak: The Night Stalker.
She has appeared in such television series as Daniel Boone, Burke's Law, The Name of the Game, The Six Million Dollar Man and the frontier gambler Poker Alice, the latter of which was her last screen role before a 17-year break.
Strangis is the niece of famous band leader and comedian, Spike Jones and the sister of notable producer and director Sam Strangis (Batman, The Brady Bunch, The Odd Couple, The Six Million Dollar Man).
Lee translated and introduced the popular US TV series, The Six Million Dollar Man and Columbo to the South Korean public.
She had recurring roles as Bob Newhart's mother on The Bob Newhart Show, the mother of Colonel Steve Austin (Lee Majors) on both The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman as well as Patricia Shepard, Sue Ellen and Kristin's mother on Dallas.
In 1973, he played Dr. Rudy Wells when the Martin Caidin novel Cyborg was adapted as the TV-movie, The Six Million Dollar Man, though he did not reprise the role for the subsequent weekly series.
His credits include appearances in Walker: Texas Ranger, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Custer, Police Woman, Land of the Lost, Kung Fu, The Six Million Dollar Man, Ironside, Death Valley Days, and Emergency!.
Pera's other acting roles include a disturbed pre-teen in an episode of Night Gallery, Silent Snow, Secret Snow narrated by Orson Welles, guest appearances on The Six Million Dollar Man, as Don Ameche's son in Gidget Gets Married.
Minor was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and made his first television appearance in 1973 on the television program, Search, then appeared in tons of shows such as: Barnaby Jones, McCloud, The Six Million Dollar Man, Eight is Enough, and Starsky and Hutch among other popular television programs.
Rippy subsequently had guest-roles in many popular television shows, including The Six Million Dollar Man, Marcus Welby, MD, Police Story, and The Odd Couple (where Rodney played the owner of the building where Oscar and Felix lived).
Along with the regular clientele, the Cherry Street Tavern has attracted some celebrity customers, including basketball Hall-of-Famer Larry Bird, former heavyweight champion boxer Joe Frazier, actor Lee Majors (The Six Million Dollar Man), Philadelphia Flyers hockey player Scott Hartnell, and former Philadelphia Phillies' center fielder Gary Maddox.
But, the son of the Six Million Dollar Man this does not tire after the first film, Evolusi KL Drift succeeded in Now, he is still actively directing several films and skip the box office success of his father carved by himself.