‘Bigfoot’ was a major “thing” in the 1970s, explored in numerous documentaries, and imagined on such series as The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman.
Sasquatch even starred in his own Saturday morning series, Bigfoot and Wildboy.
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