I’ve always called them “tuh-tuh-tuh-tuh” effects, but other terminology is welcome, in honour of Time-Life’s announcement that it will be putting out the entire series on a 40-DVD. T-L has already done important work with the complete Get Smart and Man From U.N.C.L.E. sets, and while this show doesn’t interest me as much — I never watched it a lot when I was younger, and couldn’t get into it beyond the title sequence; it didn’t even offer the gratuitous feminine pulchritude of Lee Majors’ other show — I approve of any attempt to preserve an important show in this form, including not only the full seasons, but the various crossover episodes, pilots and spinoff movies.

Since I’ve already posted the Sesame Street “Six Dollar Man” sketch, here’s a fan tribute video that includes those sound effects several times over.