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Meet Lindsay Wagner at Retro Con 2024!

May 10, 2024 Leave a comment

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It’s a bionic reunion! Please welcome the always lovely LINDSAY WAGNER to Retro Con 2024, September 7th & 8th in Oaks, Pennsylvania!

Lindsay Wagner first rose to prominence with her iconic Emmy award-winning role of Jaime Sommers on both The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman! A professional tennis player critically injured in a skydiving accident, Jaime was rebuilt with cybernetics to give her bionic legs, bionic right arm, and amplified hearing. And much like Colonel Steve Austin, was utilized for secret high-risk government missions using her special abilities.

The character was only intended to have a brief run on the Six Million Dollar Man, but proved so popular that she was immediately brought back to the show and greenlit for her own spin-off series! With famous tv producer/writer Kenneth Johnson at the helm, The Bionic Woman show had a slightly different flavor to it’s Six Million Dollar Man counterpart. While dozens of episodes had a serious tone and emotional punch, the show also frequently embraced sci-fi fantasy elements and campiness at times. Mad scientists, aliens, ghosts, supercomputers, doppelgangers, and of course multiple run-ins with Fembots… this show was a lot of fun!

Lindsay has also starred and guest starred in numerous feature films, TV movies, mini-series, and tv shows over the years, such as The Paper Chase, Nighthawks, The Fall Guy, Ricochet, Warehouse 13, NCIS, and Grey’s Anatomy. And she even reunited with Lee Majors to film a trio of “Bionic Reunion” tv movies in the late 80’s and early 90’s!

Lindsay is also a published author, and is heavily involved in causes that are close to her heart, including animal welfare, domestic violence, the environment, and the advancement of human potential. More recently Lindsay has combined her personal experience and many years of study to develop ‘Quiet the Mind & Open the Heart’ workshops and retreats. She also enjoys mentoring younger actors through her classes, which cover acting and camera techniques.

LINDSAY WAGNER reunites with her bionic co-star LEE MAJORS at Retro Con 2024, September 7th & 8th in Oaks, PA! She’ll be at the show both days for autographs and photo ops (both at-table and pro photo options), and she’ll be part of a Q&A at the show. Prices will be posted up on the website soon!

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Meet Lee Majors at Retro Con 2024!

April 19, 2024 Leave a comment

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Retro Con is going bionic this year!! Please welcome the legendary LEE MAJORS to Retro Con 2024, September 7th & 8th in Oaks, Pennsylvania!

Lee Majors’ career has spanned an amazing 60 years, quickly becoming a household name when he was cast as the rugged Heath Barkley on the hit wild west series ‘The Big Valley’ in 1965. The show ran for 4 seasons and 112 episodes and is one of the best remembered westerns of the era.

“We can rebuild him… We have the technology…”

Majors shot to even bigger star status in 1973 when was cast in the lead role of Colonel Steve Austin on ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’! Critically wounded during a NASA test flight, Steve Austin was rebuilt with bionic implants to give him superhuman strength, speed, and vision. *cue theme song with slow motion shots and bionic sound effects* The series was a massive sci-fi hit of the era, and forever remembered for such awesome episodes as Steve going up against doppelganger robots, the menacing Death Probe tank, and of course his epic showdowns with the goliath Bigfoot! And we would be remiss to not mention its popular spin-off show ‘The Bionic Woman’ starring Lindsay Wagner!

The show also inspired The Six Million Dollar Man action figure by Kenner, one of the most iconic toys of all time! With signature red tracksuit, roll-back “skin” on his right arm, bionic lifting action, and of course his wide-angle bionic eye you could look through, this was THE toy to have in the mid-1970s!! Lee even got to voice his own figure for a nostalgia-fueled ‘Happy Honda Days’ campaign in 2018!

Lee headlined another huge hit in the 80’s on the popular action series ‘The Fall Guy’! Lee played Colt Seavers, a Hollywood stuntman that moonlighted as a bounty hunter with the help of a few friends, and of course his souped-up GMC pickup truck! The show’s opening theme, the “Unknown Stuntman”, was even sung by Majors himself! The series is about to get a big budget movie adaptation releasing in May starring Ryan Gosling. Rumor has it Lee may even be making an appearance in it…

And in an inspired piece of casting, Lee was brought on to play Brock Williams, father of Ash Williams, on the cable series ‘Ash vs. Evil Dead’! An immediate hit with Evil Dead fans, Majors played a character extremely different to any he played before. The show ended too soon after only three seasons, and is sorely missed, though rumors persist of an animated revival.

“At 7 o’clock! Psychos seize Santa’s workshop, and only Lee Majors can stop them!” And who could forget Lee Major’s role as Santa Claus’ protector in the classic 1988 Christmas film ‘The Night the Reindeer Died’? (If You Know, You Know!)

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to meet pop culture icon Lee Majors at Retro Con 2024, September 7th & 8th in Oaks, PA! Lee will be signing autographs at his table all weekend (prices to be posted soon), but his photo ops will be *PRO PHOTOS ONLY*. We’ll get those details squared away soon and will post up purchase links as soon as we can.