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Three “B” movies for your enjoyment!

The titles all start with the letter “B”.

The first one is actually below the quality of a B-movie, because the “monster” is a hoax . . . and the “beach girls” couldn’t act their way out a shallow tide pool.

The second one is a 1975 TV-movie which is about as impressive a commercial for Cheerios from 1959.

The third one is the spin-off of the hit series The Bionic Man, the show that tried to convince us that man running really fast will appear to be running in slow motion.
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The Beach Girls and the Monster (1965)



[Also released as "Surf Terror" and "Monster from the Surf"]

It isn't really a science fiction story, but it does have an aquatic creature. However, the creature turns out to be a hoax, a monster suit worn by a maniacal oceanographer who stalks and kills a group of teenagers. It was filmed in black & white with color sequences.

The oceanographer is played by Jon Hall ("Invisible Agent", "The Invisible Man's Revenge"), who also directed. Hall was a popular star in the 1940s, playing opposite Maria Montez in several Arabian Nights fantasies, including "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" (1944).
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Beyond the Bermuda Triangle (1975 TV movie)

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Businessman Fred MacMurray loses his wife in that infamous and mysterious region off the Florida coast, but that's about the only thing the Bermuda Triangle gets to do in this made-for-tv movie from Playboy Productions.

Co-starring Sam Groom, Donna Mills, and comedian Woody Woodbury. Directed by William A. Graham.
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The Bionic Woman (1976 TV pilot)

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Lindsay Wagner stars in this pilot of the spin-off series inspired by "The Six-Million Dollar Man".

Wagoner, the girl friend of "Six-Mill" star Lee Majors, is seriously injured in a skiing accident, and Majors arranges to have her irreparably damaged body parts (one arm, one ear, both legs) replaced with bionic versions.

She goes to work for Richard Anderson ("Forbidden Planet"), head of the Office of Scientific Information.

The special effects mostly consisted of slow-motion shots that were supposed to depict Wagoner moving super-fast (?). But the concept was appealing, the star was attractive, and the action was plentiful enough to gain the show a solid following. Directed by Henry Mankiewicz.

The short-lived reboot of the series in 2007 was extremely well done, and if the writers strike hadn't cut it off at it's bionic knees, it would have run for several years -- or that's what I think, anyway.

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)