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.