Debunking pop-cultural myths, 4

According to co-stars Richard Anderson and Lindsay Wagner, Lee Majors spent his first two seasons as “The Six Million Dollar Man” convinced the term bionic was the “Kraut word for man witch.” Consequently, the superstitious Kentuckian took to wearing a string of garlic under his jeans and flight suit in an effort to ward off what he insisted was a sound stage full of “angry Bavarian demons.”