Oliver Nelson - Population: Zero (1974)

Music clip culled from the premiere episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man" entitled "Population: Zero" (1974) in which bionic man Steve Austin (actor Lee Majors) runs to save a military base and his pal OSI head Oscar Goldman (actor Richard Anderson) by destroying a microwave cannon-equipped van. After a brief melancolic cue, composer Oliver Nelson injects some electronic music at 00:05 to simulate the psychic effects of the microwaves on people and, at 00:17, switches to heroic music based on a rich and elegant melody which contains a dominant of violins and various pianos combined with a wide array of sustained percussions and brass.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Oliver Nelson
• Lee Majors
• Steve Austin
• The Six Million Dollar Man
• Population Zero
• 1974
• Seventies
• Espionage
• Science Fiction
• Television
• Soundtrack

[crazeeborg]

Great combo of music and action. This has to be one of the best episodes of SMDM (not to mention the first real episode after a string of movies).The music really captures Steve's bionically enhanced speed/ strength. It's just as good to watch/listen today.

[MightySaturn5]

this episode was not only the 'best' of the entire series but had the most intense version of the main theme.

[MrPeterbare]

I like steve 's belt

[teddibearsworld]

Oh, yeah! The first and ONLY time Steve Austin's theme was played as charted in FULL in an episode! Although most of it was heard again in "Big Brother", I'm pretty sure that was after Nelson's death. This would be a great lead off the wished for soundtrack album!

[signmanj]

Oliver Nelson's running music made the show and NO one will ever replace the great Lee Majors.

[765jmadera]

This show was my favorite to watch, I use to get mad when my dad would change the channel to watch Monday Night Football. I loved watching The six million dollar man and the bionic woman.

[basimpsn]

Love this running scene 1:22 I wonder what life was like for (Oliver Nelson The soundtrack composer) back then.

[blackonics]

@shatnershairpiece Put a piece of steel in the freezer and when it thaws out, it will have water on it. The bionic limbs were not prothetics but limbs that were mereged with his own flesh (which is why Doctors say it is impossible=SCAR TISSUE). The limbs had blood and other fluids pumping through them (see Stranger in Broken Fork= " Machines don't bleed.") It was silly to start off with the he doesn't sweat because he has artificial limbs. That was not smart...that was stupid. His pits were real

[hypershox]

Oliver Nelson was a master of creating music that totally enhanced an action sequence and I wished they kept the sound effects simple as you see and hear in this clip just how much more powerful and dramatic it is without the effects of the latter seasons

[AranaMarkII]

I hope everybody here got the complete SMDM remastered collection from Time-Life

[videozfann]

@RYELLOWFAST2010 LOL! Who wouldn't be?

[micpar2]

Damn the $6 Million Dollarman was cool back then!