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The Six Million Dollar Man · 1974

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When ace test pilot Colonel Steve Austin's test plane crashed, he was nearly dead. Deciding that "we have the technology to rebuild this man", the government decides to do just that, fitting him with cybernetic components which give him superhuman strength and speed. Austin becomes a secret agent/operative, fighting injustice where it is found.

Released
18 Jan 1974
Runtime
1 min
Rated
TV-14
Seasons
5
Episodes
99
Language
English
Country
United States

Starring: Lee Majors, Lindsay Wagner, Martin E. Brooks, Richard Anderson

🏆 Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys. 1 win & 5 nominations total

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Episodes

99 across 5 seasons
Season 1 13 episodes
  1. E1
    Population: Zero 18 Jan 1974 ★ 7.3

    The entire population of the small town of Norris has been knocked out by an unknown sonic device. Against Oscar Goldman's orders, Steve Austin insists on investigating because he knew a lot of the town's 23 inhabitants during his...

    48 min · Director Jeannot Szwarc · Writer Elroy Schwartz

  2. E2
    Survival of the Fittest 25 Jan 1974 ★ 6.9

    Oscar Goldman becomes a target for several conspirators who want to stop him from negotiating with the Russians. As he and Steve Austin fly back to Washington aboard a military aircraft, the plane is caught in a storm and has to c...

    48 min · Director Leslie H. Martinson · Writer Mann Rubin

  3. E3
    Operation Firefly 1 Feb 1974 ★ 6.5

    Word reaches Oscar Goldman that Dr. Samuel Abbott, who has spent years perfecting a portable laser projector, is missing. Steve Austin travels to Spain to meet Abbott's daughter Susan, who just happens to share a strong bond with ...

    48 min · Director Reza Badiyi · Writer Sy Salkowitz, Martin Caidin

  4. E4
    Day of the Robot 8 Feb 1974 ★ 7.8

    To steal a top-secret anti-missile device a Major is kidnapped and replaced with a robot, prompting Steve to discover the impostor and keep the device from being stolen and sold to the highest bidder.

    48 min · Director Leslie H. Martinson · Writer Del Reisman, Harold Livingston, Martin Caidin

  5. E5
    Little Orphan Airplane 22 Feb 1974 ★ 7.0

    Col. Steve Austin is dispatched to Africa to find and rescue U.S. pilot Josh Perkins who recently made a crash landing there and carries a valuable roll of film.

    48 min · Director Reza Badiyi · Writer Elroy Schwartz, Martin Caidin

  6. E6
    Doomsday, and Counting 1 Mar 1974 ★ 6.8

    Steve accompanies his Russian cosmonaut pal Vasily Zhukov to Kamkov Island, USSR territory. There Zhukov's girlfriend is trapped underground because of an unexpected earthquake. When Zhukov discovers his American friend has bionic...

    48 min · Director Jerry Jameson · Writer Larry Brody, Jimmy Sangster, Martin Caidin

  7. E7
    Eyewitness to Murder 8 Mar 1974 ★ 6.9

    Leaving a restaurant around midnight, Steve Austin witnesses a murder and gets a good look at the sniper thanks to his bionic eye. Oscar objects to Austin's involvement in the case until it transpires the actual target that night ...

    48 min · Director Alf Kjellin · Writer William Driskill, Martin Caidin

  8. E8
    Rescue of Athena One 15 Mar 1974 ★ 6.8

    Steve Austin has been assigned to train America's first female astronaut Major Kelly Wood. On her maiden-flight, a sudden explosion damages the Athena 1 and injures Kelly's co-pilot Osterman. Austin heads the rescue-team and follo...

    48 min · Director Lawrence Doheny · Writer D.C. Fontana, Martin Caidin

  9. E9
    Dr. Wells Is Missing 29 Mar 1974 ★ 7.1

    Rudy Wells is kidnapped on a trip to his old study grounds. Luckily Steve Austin has some time off and follows Rudy unannounced to Innsbruck, Austria. The trail soon leads to the wealthy Tucelli family, who want to force Dr. Wells...

    49 min · Director Virgil W. Vogel · Writer Elroy Schwartz, Krishna Shah, William J. Keenan

  10. E10
    The Last of the Fourth of Julys 5 Apr 1974 ★ 7.2

    A mercenary-for-hire plans to assassinate several world leaders at a summit using a high powered laser beam that will bounce off a satellite unless Col. Steve Austin can infiltrate his base and stop the mastermind before he sets h...

    48 min · Director Reza Badiyi · Writer Richard H. Landau, Martin Caidin

  11. E11
    Burning Bright 12 Apr 1974 ★ 6.7

    Astronaut Josh Lang has been acting even more far out than usual after being affected by a mysterious electrical field during his last spacewalk. Lang's friend and colleague Steve Austin is called in to evaluate his sanity. Steve ...

    49 min · Director Jerry London · Writer Del Reisman, Martin Caidin

  12. E12
    The Coward 19 Apr 1974 ★ 7.2

    'My Little Girl', an airplane missing since World War II has been uncovered in the Himalayas thanks to a recent earthquake. Steve Austin is tasked to retrieve the important documents the plane was carrying. However, for him this a...

    48 min · Director Reza Badiyi · Writer Elroy Schwartz, Martin Caidin

  13. E13
    Run, Steve, Run 26 Apr 1974 ★ 6.3

    Dr. Jeffrey Dolenz, the infamous robot maker, has been hired to build a team of robots to rob Fort Knox. He refuses to start working however, until he's discovered the secrets of the bionic man who defeated his first robot. Theref...

    48 min · Director Jerry Jameson · Writer Lionel E. Siegel, Martin Caidin

Season 2 22 episodes
  1. E1
    Nuclear Alert 13 Sep 1974 ★ 7.0

    Oscar learns that a tactical atomic bomb has been sold on the black market for $60 million. Suspecting that the seller has not yet gotten all the required parts together, Steve Austin volunteers to protect the suspected last missi...

    48 min · Director Jerry London · Writer William Driskill, Martin Caidin

  2. E2
    The Pioneers 20 Sep 1974 ★ 6.5

    Two scientists, David Tate and Nicole Simmons are secretly send up in space as an O.S.I experiment to test their new cell regeneration serum while in suspended animation. Unfortunately their space capsule malfunctions and crashes ...

    48 min · Director Christian I. Nyby II · Writer Bill Svanoe, Kathy Barrett, Martin Caidin

  3. E3
    Pilot Error 27 Sep 1974 ★ 6.6

    Senator Ed Hill is facing charges after crashing an airplane he was piloting. Colonel Steve Austin is asked to look into the case. Oscar Goldman reminds him that the Senator was directly responsible for the funding of Austin's bio...

    48 min · Director Jerry Jameson · Writer Edward J. Lakso, Martin Caidin

  4. E4
    The Pal-Mir Escort 4 Oct 1974 ★ 6.8

    Prime-Minister Salka Pal-Mir of the Republic of Eretz desperately needs a heart transplant in order to continue with the peace talks she has been planning for years. Because of her specialized case, Dr. Rudy Wells offers to giver ...

    49 min · Director Lawrence Dobkin · Writer Margaret Schneider, Paul Schneider, Martin Caidin

  5. E5
    The Seven Million Dollar Man 1 Nov 1974 ★ 7.7

    Oscar has had another man fitted with bionic limbs but he becomes power hungry and wants to be even stronger, then heads out to destroy bionic blueprints and Steve must stop him.

    49 min · Director Dick Moder · Writer Peter Allan Fields, Martin Caidin

  6. E6
    Straight on 'til Morning 8 Nov 1974 ★ 6.8

    During preparations for a lunar probe launch, Colonel Steve Austin witnesses strange lights in the sky and becomes convinced it's a UFO. A family of four space explorers, each trained with specific tasks has crash landed on Earth,...

    48 min · Director Lawrence Doheny · Writer D.C. Fontana, Martin Caidin

  7. E7
    The Midas Touch 15 Nov 1974 ★ 6.7

    Oscar Goldman has disappeared while inspecting the Bull Frog gold mine near Elk Horn, Nevada by request of his old friend Bert Carrington. Colonel Steve Austin refuses to believe his friend and superior is involved in a gold-raid ...

    48 min · Director Bruce Bilson · Writer Donald L. Gold, Lester Wm. Berke, Peter Allan Fields

  8. E8
    The Deadly Replay 22 Nov 1974 ★ 7.2

    The HL-10, the vehicle Steve Austin was piloting when he had his crash two years ago, has been rebuilt and Steve is asked to have another go at it by his old friend Jay Rogers. Although Oscar Goldman is reluctant because the plane...

    48 min · Director Christian I. Nyby II · Writer Wilton Denmark, Martin Caidin

  9. E9
    Act of Piracy 29 Nov 1974 ★ 7.1

    Colonel Steve Austin is placing earthquake sensors on the ocean floor with Dr. Louis Craig of the US fishing boat Nesco. When the nearby country of Santa Ventura breaks of diplomatic relations with the U.S., a patrol boat captures...

    48 min · Director Christian I. Nyby II · Writer Peter Allan Fields, David Ketchum, Bruce Shelly

  10. E10
    Stranger in Broken Fork 13 Dec 1974 ★ 6.9

    Steve Austin's bionic arm malfunctions while he is piloting a plane. After crashing, Austin suffers from amnesia as a side effect from the malfunction. He soon meets psychologist Angie Walker who runs an experimental convalescence...

    48 min · Director Christian Nyby · Writer Bill Svanoe, Wilton Denmark, Martin Caidin

  11. E11
    The Peeping Blonde 20 Dec 1974 ★ 7.1

    KNUZ television reporter Victoria Webster captures Steve Austin using his bionic powers on film and confronts both him and Oscar Goldman with this knowledge. As the two of them were just about to leave on a vacation to Baja (Oscar...

    48 min · Director Herschel Daugherty · Writer W.T. Zacha, Wilton Denmark, Martin Caidin

  12. E12
    The Cross-Country Kidnap 10 Jan 1975 ★ 6.6

    OSI computer programmer Liza Leitman who also competes in Olympic horse racing, is under threat of being kidnapped. Though she refuses to have any of Oscar's 'dwarfs' shadowing her, Oscar sends Steve Austin to tail her anyway.

    48 min · Director Christian Nyby · Writer Ray Brenner, Stephen Kandel, Martin Caidin

  13. E13
    Lost Love 17 Jan 1975 ★ 6.3

    Steve runs into an old flame, Barbara Thatcher, and learns she has recently become a widow. However, just as the two of them start to know each other once more, Barbara gets a call from the Bacarian Embassy, where her husband is h...

    48 min · Director Arnold Laven · Writer Richard Carr, Melvin Levy, Thomas P. Levy

  14. E14
    The Last Kamikaze 19 Jan 1975 ★ 7.3

    A plane carrying a new kind of atomic warhead goes down on a remote South Pacific island, and the prototype seems to have fallen into the hands of a Japanese soldier who's has possibly been surviving on the island since WWII, conv...

    48 min · Director Dick Moder · Writer Judy Burns, Martin Caidin

  15. E15
    Return of the Robot Maker 26 Jan 1975 ★ 7.7

    Dr. Chester Dolenz replaces Oscar Goldman with a new and improved robot. The impostor sends Steve Austin on a suicide mission to brave the defenses of the new Brahmin Institute. Austin decides to take along some new gadgets invent...

    48 min · Director Phil Bondelli · Writer Mark Frost, Del Reisman, Martin Caidin

  16. E16
    Taneha 2 Feb 1975 ★ 6.6

    Steve Austin promises the sheriff of Kanab County to find and protect a rare and legendary cougar known as Taneha from a group of townsfolk intend on hunting down and killing the animal. He joins forces with a young girl E.J. Hask...

    48 min · Director Earl Bellamy · Writer Margaret Armen, Martin Caidin

  17. E17
    Look Alike 23 Feb 1975 ★ 7.1

    Down on his luck boxer Johnny Dine has had plastic surgery to make him Steve Austin's double. He then infiltrates the OSI building when the real Austin is on a fishing holiday. After finding out the truth, Steve decides to turn th...

    48 min

  18. E18
    The E.S.P. Spy 2 Mar 1975 ★ 6.6

    US government weapon designer Harry Green is arrested on suspicion of selling his ideas to the opposition. His friend Steve Austin convinces Oscar Goldman that Harry could be the victim of an E.S.P. spy who by reading his mind man...

    48 min · Director Jerry London · Writer Lionel E. Siegel, Martin Caidin

  19. E19
    The Bionic Woman 16 Mar 1975 ★ 7.3

    Steve Austin reunites with his childhood sweetheart only to have her suffer a crippling accident which can only be rectified with bionic implants.

    48 min · Director Dick Moder · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Richard Carr, Martin Caidin

  20. E20
    The Bionic Woman Part II 23 Mar 1975 ★ 7.8

    Steve Austin has proposed to Jaime Sommers and a wedding date is set. When Oscar Goldman plans on sending Jaime on her first assignment, Steve is very reluctant and insists on joining her. Furthermore Jaime keeps having bionic mal...

    48 min · Director Dick Moder · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Richard Carr, Martin Caidin

  21. E21
    Outrage in Balinderry 20 Apr 1975 ★ 6.1

    An Amassador's wife is kidnapped by the Independent Balinderry Army, I.B.A. for short. As Steve Austin heads for the small island republic to save her, he becomes involved with Unit 10 of the I.B.A. and it's mysterious leader, Com...

    48 min · Director Earl Bellamy · Writer Paul Schneider, Margaret Schneider, Martin Caidin

  22. E22
    Steve Austin, Fugitive 27 Apr 1975 ★ 7.4

    Steve Austin is framed for murder by a former adversary. With Oscar and Rudy out of town, the only one he can trust is Oscar's newest secretary, Miss Callahan.

    48 min · Director Russ Mayberry · Writer Mark Frost, Richard Carr, Wilton Denmark

Season 3 21 episodes
  1. E1
    The Return of the Bionic Woman 14 Sep 1975 ★ 7.5

    Steve Austin's bionic legs are heavily damaged during a mission and while recuperating at Dr. Rudy Wells' hospital, he catches a glimpse of his fiancée, Jaime Sommers, still alive but recuperating. It turns out Well's assistant Mi...

    47 min · Director Dick Moder · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Richard Carr, Martin Caidin

  2. E2
    The Return of the Bionic Woman: Part 2 21 Sep 1975 ★ 7.4

    Steve Austin takes the recuperating Jaime Sommers to their hometown of Ojai in an attempt to jog her memory. Unfortunately this only results in her getting violent headaches and confusing flashbacks. When she asks to be send on a ...

    47 min · Director Dick Moder · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Richard Carr, Martin Caidin

  3. E3
    The Price of Liberty 28 Sep 1975 ★ 6.8

    Bitter explosive expert Robert Meyer arranges for the Liberty Bell to be stolen, rigs it with three bombs and demands five million dollars. Complications mount up and Steve Austin is forced to ask imprisoned bomb expert Linstrom t...

    45 min · Director Dick Moder · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Justin Edgerton, Martin Caidin

  4. E4
    The Song and Dance Spy 5 Oct 1975 ★ 6.6

    Steve is assigned to keep an eye on his college buddy, the entertainer John Perry. Oscar suspects the singer of being a courier for an espionage ring.

    45 min · Director Dick Moder · Writer Jerry Devine, Martin Caidin

  5. E5
    The Wolf Boy 12 Oct 1975

    When Kuroda is asked to track down a wolf boy roaming the island forests of Hoyoko, Japan, he asks for only one man to help him: his friend Col. Steve Austin.

    45 min · Director Jerry London · Writer Judy Burns, Martin Caidin

  6. E6
    The Deadly Test 19 Oct 1975

    Steve Austin is on reserve duty at Edwards Airforce base when an attempt is made on Prince Sakari of Kutan, who is studying to be a jet pilot there.

    45 min · Director Christian I. Nyby II · Writer James D. Parriott, Martin Caidin

  7. E7
    Target in the Sky 26 Oct 1975 ★ 7.1

    Steve goes undercover as lumberjack 'Steve Parker' when a government agent goes missing after reporting a missile station near Wixted Lumber Camp.

    45 min · Director Jerry London · Writer Larry Alexander, Martin Caidin

  8. E8
    One of Our Running Backs Is Missing 2 Nov 1975 ★ 7.0

    Running back Larry Bronco is kidnapped on the day of an important game, but his good friend Steve Austin uses all his bionic powers to make sure Bronco makes it to the game in time.

    45 min · Director Lee Majors · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Elroy Schwartz, Martin Caidin

  9. E9
    The Bionic Criminal 9 Nov 1975

    Oscar and Rudy are performing a test on Barney Hiller to see if his bionic power can be turned on and off again when needed. A concerned Steve Austin proposes to keep an eye on Barney for the full 48 hours he has possession of his...

    48 min · Director Leslie H. Martinson · Writer Richard Carr, Peter Allan Fields, Martin Caidin

  10. E10
    The Blue Flash 16 Nov 1975 ★ 6.9

    Steve Austin goes undercover as a longshoreman to investigate the disappearance of another OSI agent. His colleague and friend was on to a smuggling ring dealing in ultra-sensitive detecting devices.

    46 min · Director Cliff Bole · Writer Sheridan Gibney, Sidney Field, Martin Caidin

  11. E11
    The White Lightning War 23 Nov 1975

    Several agents from the U.S. Treasury Department have died from snake bites while investigating an illegal moonshine ring in Morgantown, Georgia. Steve Austin volunteers to go undercover and pose as the leader of a rival gang.

    46 min · Director Phil Bondelli · Writer Wilton Denmark, Martin Caidin

  12. E12
    Divided Loyalty 30 Nov 1975

    Scientist Leon Jackson defected to the Soviet Union for the love of a woman but now wants to return to the states with his son Alex. However, Alex would rather stay with his friends, the Russian soldiers.

    46 min · Director Alan Crosland Jr. · Writer Jim Carlson, Terrence McDonnell, Martin Caidin

  13. E13
    Clark Templeton O'Flaherty 14 Dec 1975 ★ 7.2

    Somebody inside the OSI has been leaking top secret information and the trail leads to janitor Clark O'Flaherty. But when Steve confronts his former friend, O'Flaherty claims to be working for a another top secret organization, th...

    46 min · Director Ernest Pintoff · Writer Frank Dandridge, Dennis Pryor, Martin Caidin

  14. E14
    The Winning Smile 21 Dec 1975

    Steve is investigating another security leak at the OSI and this time it leads to his and Oscar Goldman's favorite secretary, Peggy Callahan.

    46 min · Director Arnold Laven · Writer Gustave Field, Richard Carr, Martin Caidin

  15. E16
    Hocus-Pocus 18 Jan 1976

    O.S.I. needs to get a stolen top-secret codebook back from elusive criminal and club owner Mark Wharton. Oscar gets Will Collins, manager of the Blue Tiger night club to introduce Steve Austin as magician 'Steve Andrews'. To add a...

    48 min · Director Barry Crane · Writer Richard Carr, James Schmerer, Martin Caidin

  16. E17
    The Secret of Bigfoot: Part 1 1 Feb 1976 ★ 7.7

    Two geologist friends of Steve Austin disappear in Californa while placing earthquake sensors in the woods. A giant footprint is found nearby, leading to speculation of the involvement of a Sasquatch.

    47 min · Director Alan Crosland Jr. · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Martin Caidin

  17. E18
    The Secret of Bigfoot: Part 2 4 Feb 1976 ★ 7.8

    Steve Austin has met a colony of space travelers living inside a California mountain. Meanwhile, Oscar Goldman and his team are preparing to trigger a small earthquake in order to prevent a larger one from happening.

    48 min · Director Alan Crosland Jr. · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Martin Caidin

  18. E19
    The Golden Pharaoh 8 Feb 1976

    When Oscar assigns Steve Austin to protect the priceless Golden Pharaoh statue, they find it has already been replaced by a fake. Steve convinces former acquaintance Trish Hollander to help him retrieve the art treasure.

    46 min · Director Cliff Bole · Writer Margaret Schneider, Paul Schneider, Martin Caidin

  19. E20
    Love Song for Tanya 15 Feb 1976

    Oscar Goldman assigns Steve Austin to escort duty for Russian gymnast Tanya Breski. When Steve shows Tanya some of the less cultural aspects of American life, she develops a crush on him.

    46 min · Director Phil Bondelli · Writer David H. Balkan, Alan Lynn Folsom, Martin Caidin

  20. E21
    The Bionic Badge 22 Feb 1976

    Atomic bomb components have been stolen over a series of thefts and Oscar suspects one old cop, Officer Banner of being involved. Steve goes undercover as a rookie cop named Aimry to investigate.

    46 min · Director Cliff Bole · Writer Wilton Denmark, Martin Caidin

  21. E22
    Big Brother 7 Mar 1976 ★ 6.7

    When Steve Austin agrees to some promotional work for a friends' Big Brothers organization, he soon takes a difficult youth named Carlos Delgado under his wing.

    46 min · Director Cliff Bole · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Martin Caidin

Season 4 22 episodes
  1. E1
    The Return of Bigfoot: Part 1 19 Sep 1976

    Steve Austin becomes a suspect after series of burglaries that can only be accomplished with bionic strength are committed. As Austin begins to have vague memories of his encounter with Bigfoot, he is approached by Gillian, one of...

    47 min · Director Barry Crane · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Martin Caidin

  2. E2
    Nightmare in the Sky 26 Sep 1976 ★ 7.0

    When an Aircraft mysteriously disappears in a test flight, Steve's friend Kelly Wood becomes the prime suspect, since she was the one driving the plane at the time. But for some reason, she has no memory, except remembering seeing...

    60 min · Director Alan Crosland Jr. · Writer Martin Caidin, Jim Carlson, Terrence McDonnell

  3. E3
    Double Trouble 3 Oct 1976

    When a nightclub comedian is hit by a car, the x-rays reveal an implant in his head that can control his actions. Oscar sends Steve to find out why and if the Russians are involved.

    60 min · Director Phil Bondelli · Writer Martin Caidin, Jerry Devine

  4. E4
    The Most Dangerous Enemy 17 Oct 1976 ★ 7.1

    Steve and Rudy go to check up on scientist, Cheryl Osborne, who was performing research on chimpanzees but who has ceased communications. When they arrive they find something has destroyed the lab, and Rudy is bitten by a rampagin...

    60 min · Director Dick Moder · Writer Judy Burns, Martin Caidin

  5. E5
    H+2+O = Death 24 Oct 1976

    A remarkable new underwater breathing device with bigger implications and powered by nuclear fusion attracts the attention of a dangerous spy network. With an invented identity as a doctor on the project, Steve attempts to outwit ...

    60 min · Director John Meredyth Lucas · Writer Martin Caidin, John Meredyth Lucas

  6. E6
    Kill Oscar: Part 2 31 Oct 1976 ★ 8.3

    With Jaime Sommers critically injured, Steve Austin races to Dr. Franklin's secret hideout to find the kidnapped Oscar Goldman. Austin plans to rescue his friend and boss despite Oscar's own orders to kill him lest he spill state ...

    48 min · Director Barry Crane · Writer W.T. Zacha, Arthur Rowe, Oliver Crawford

  7. E7
    The Bionic Boy 7 Nov 1976

    In special two-hour show of "The Six Million Dollar Man", Andy Shefield has been injured in a landslide that also killed his controversial father. OSI chooses the youth to receive atomic/bionic implants that will restore his paral...

    60 min · Director Phil Bondelli · Writer Martin Caidin, Tom Greene, Lionel E. Siegel

  8. E8
    Vulture of the Andes 21 Nov 1976

    Steve poses as a member of the US team in a sailplane meet to stop terrorists.

    60 min · Director Cliff Bole · Writer Martin Caidin, Benjamin Masselink

  9. E9
    The Thunderbird Connection 28 Nov 1976 ★ 7.2

    Steve's mission is to rescue an Arab prince who's going to be killed by someone who wants to be King. So Steve joins a fighter jet group called the Thunderbirds that perform aerial maneuvers. But when Steve suffers dizziness when ...

    60 min · Director Christian I. Nyby II · Writer Martin Caidin, Jim Carlson, Terrence McDonnell

  10. E10
    A Bionic Christmas Carol 12 Dec 1976 ★ 6.9

    After an accident at a NASA contractor, Steve uses his bionic abilities to convince the gruff, penny-pinching head of the company to change his callous ways.

    60 min · Director Gerald Mayer · Writer Martin Caidin, Charles Dickens, Wilton Schiller

  11. E11
    Task Force 19 Dec 1976 ★ 7.3

    Steve goes undercover to thwart a plot by disgruntled ex-military men to steal a new missile.

    60 min · Director Barry Crane · Writer Martin Caidin, Robert C. Dennis

  12. E12
    The Ultimate Imposter 2 Jan 1977 ★ 6.6

    Dr. Wells has a new project that involves the direct (and permanent) transfer of information to the brain of Joe Patton from a computer. However, Joe's girlfriend, Jenny, (another operative) expresses concern for Joe's safety.

    60 min · Director Paul Stanley · Writer Martin Caidin, Lionel E. Siegel, W.T. Zacha

  13. E13
    Death Probe: Part 1 9 Jan 1977 ★ 8.1

    When an object tracks across the sky and lands in a remote area in Wyoming, Oscar and Steve arrive on the scene and find that a Russian space probe built to withstand the extreme Venus environment has crash landed on earth and is ...

    60 min · Director Dick Moder · Writer Martin Caidin, Steven E. de Souza

  14. E14
    Death Probe: Part 2 16 Jan 1977 ★ 8.2

    With time running out, Steve must do anything he can to disable the Russian space probe in spite of the fact that it is virtually indestructible and has numerous inventive capabilities that it uses as weapons.

    60 min · Director Dick Moder · Writer Martin Caidin, Steven E. de Souza

  15. E15
    Danny's Inferno 23 Jan 1977 ★ 7.3

    A boy experimenting with chemicals accidentally stumbles onto a thermo-chemical reaction, creating a dangerous and powerful power source. A corrupt fire chief and some unscrupulous investors are out to discover the formula and it'...

    60 min · Director Cliff Bole · Writer Martin Caidin, Tom Greene

  16. E16
    Fires of Hell 30 Jan 1977 ★ 7.1

    An experimental process to bring played out oilfields to life is jeopardized by mysterious fires. Steve Austin must discover who is sabotaging the project and why.

    60 min · Director Edward M. Abroms · Writer Orville H. Hampton

  17. E17
    The Infiltrators 6 Feb 1977 ★ 7.1

    Oscar has Steve pose as a boxer to try and figure out what a ring of expatriate athletes intends to steal in Washington.

    60 min · Director Phil Bondelli · Writer Martin Caidin, Sam Ross

  18. E18
    Carnival of Spies 13 Feb 1977 ★ 7.0

    A scientist covers up his sabotage of a B-1 Bomber experiment.

    60 min · Director Dick Moder · Writer Martin Caidin, Richard Carr, Robert C. Dennis

  19. E19
    U-509 20 Feb 1977

    When a sub is seen off the coast. It appears to be an old German U-Boat from World War II. A message is sent saying that unless their demands are met, they will kill thousands of people. They agree to a meeting and Steve is sent t...

    60 min · Director Phil Bondelli · Writer Martin Caidin, Michael I. Wagner

  20. E20
    The Privacy of the Mind 27 Feb 1977

    A top neuroscientist is asked to do a bit of moonlighting work by one of his assistants. Eyebrows are raised when the unknown client is willing to pay one million dollars up front. The neuroscientist smells a rat and contacts Osca...

    60 min · Director Jimmy Lydon · Writer Vanessa Boos, Martin Caidin

  21. E21
    To Catch the Eagle 6 Mar 1977 ★ 7.2

    A Native American chief who is also a trained scientist discovers an ore on the reservation that can be a great source of power. So Oscar sends two men to check it out but they vanish. So he sends Steve to find them. But the tribe...

    60 min · Director Phil Bondelli · Writer Peter R. Brooke, Judy Burns, Martin Caidin

  22. E22
    The Ghostly Teletype 15 May 1977

    A top secret formula is wiped off it's page and Steve Austin is accused of swiping it. To prove his innocence, Austin seeks out the inventor of the formula and anyone who might benefit from it at such an early stage.

    60 min · Director Tom Connors · Writer Wilton Schiller, Martin Caidin

Season 5 21 episodes
  1. E1
    Sharks: Part 1 11 Sep 1977 ★ 6.6

    Steve Austin is aboard a sabotaged nuclear submarine when a court-martialed admiral and his daughter use sharks - trained and controlled by technology - to attempt to steal the sub.

    60 min · Director Alan J. Levi · Writer Martin Caidin, Arthur Weingarten

  2. E2
    Sharks: Part 2 18 Sep 1977 ★ 6.9

    With Steve Austin and Dr. Rudy Wells held captive on the ocean floor, Oscar Goldman and the Navy seem to be left with only two options - let the thieves escape with the sub... or destroy it before they can - most likely killing St...

    60 min · Director Alan J. Levi · Writer Martin Caidin, Fred Freiberger, Arthur Weingarten

  3. E3
    Deadly Countdown: Part 1 25 Sep 1977 ★ 7.7

    Thieves intending to gain control of an OSI satellite need to delay the mission to repair it until their technology is perfected. They can either sabotage NASA's Saturn rocket or kill the astronaut scheduled to take it up.

    60 min · Director Cliff Bole · Writer Martin Caidin, Gregory S. Dinallo

  4. E4
    Deadly Countdown: Part 2 2 Oct 1977

    In the wake of the rocket's destruction, repairing the defense satellite may no longer be possible but Steve is determined to get the job done.

    60 min · Director Cliff Bole · Writer Martin Caidin, Gregory S. Dinallo

  5. E5
    Bigfoot V 9 Oct 1977

    Bigfoot has been left behind by his alien creators and is being adapted to life on Earth. But he is awoken prematurely by tests conducted by Hope Langston and goes on a rampage.

    60 min · Director Rod Holcomb · Writer Gregory S. Dinallo, Martin Caidin

  6. E6
    Killer Wind 16 Oct 1977 ★ 7.1

    During a plane ride Steve and Rudy make an emergency landing near the desert town of Bridgeton due to a tornado. While looking for medical attention for Rudy, Steve runs afoul of a group of bank robbers. Meanwhile, a group of scho...

    60 min · Director Dick Moder · Writer Martin Caidin, Gregory S. Dinallo

  7. E7
    Rollback 30 Oct 1977

    Steve goes undercover as a roller derby skater in order to stop a syndicate from stealing OSI secrets.

    60 min · Director Don McDougall · Writer Martin Caidin, Steven E. de Souza

  8. E8
    Dark Side of the Moon: Part 1 6 Nov 1977

    Someone has altered the course of the Moon's orbit. Steve Austin is sent to correct it before it destroys the Earth.

    60 min · Director Cliff Bole · Writer Martin Caidin, Richard H. Landau, John Meredyth Lucas

  9. E9
    Dark Side of the Moon: Part 2 13 Nov 1977

    Dr. Charles Leith's continued efforts to find dilanthium on Luna continue to endanger Earth, and Colonel Steve Austin has to use his bionics for climate-damage control by restoring Luna to its proper orbit.

    60 min · Director Cliff Bole · Writer Martin Caidin, John Meredyth Lucas

  10. E10
    Target: Steve Austin 27 Nov 1977

    Steve's latest mission has him trying to lure out some people who have managed to infiltrate OSI and make off with some of their new projects. He and another agent are suppose to pose as a married couple and they are transporting ...

    60 min · Director Edward M. Abroms · Writer Lester Wm. Berke, Martin Caidin, Donald L. Gold

  11. E11
    The Cheshire Project 18 Dec 1977

    During a test flight for a new radar-invisible plane known as Chesire the pilot(Suzanne Somers) and aircraft disappear and Steve Austin must figures out what happened.

    60 min · Director Dick Moder · Writer Martin Caidin, John Meredyth Lucas

  12. E12
    Walk a Deadly Wing 1 Jan 1978

    Steve Austin poses as a wing walker in an air show in order to protect a Russian scientist named Viktor Cheraskin and his wife and retrieve the anti-equilibrium device that Viktor created.

    60 min · Director Herb Wallerstein · Writer Martin Caidin, Jim Carlson, Terrence McDonnell

  13. E13
    Just a Matter of Time 8 Jan 1978

    While testing a new fuel aboard an experimental space craft, Col. Steve Austin experiences difficulties while preparing to land and is pulled off course to splash down near a remote island in the Pacific. There, he attempts to con...

    60 min · Director Don McDougall · Writer Martin Caidin, Gregory S. Dinallo, Neal J. Sperling

  14. E14
    Return of Death Probe: Part 1 22 Jan 1978

    When a new alloy is stolen, Oscar sends Steve to investigate. He eventually learns that the ones who stole the alloy have used it to recreate the Russian space probe, he encountered before. Now they have to find a way to stop it.

    60 min · Director Tom Connors · Writer Martin Caidin, Howard Dimsdale

  15. E15
    Return of Death Probe: Part 2 29 Jan 1978

    Steve and Oscar learn that a foreign diplomat is using the probe for the purpose of blackmail: the government must turn over two nuclear warheads to him or a U.S. city will be devastated by the probe. Steve must try and stop the p...

    60 min · Director Tom Connors · Writer Martin Caidin, Howard Dimsdale

  16. E16
    The Lost Island 30 Jan 1978

    In this two-hour episode (split into two parts for syndication), the OSI agency loses one of its satellites, which crashes on a remote ocean island. Now cracked, and leaking neutron radiation, which is negatively affecting the oth...

    60 min · Director Cliff Bole · Writer Martin Caidin, Mel Goldberg, Lou Shaw

  17. E17
    The Madonna Caper 6 Feb 1978

    Oscar sends Steve to the National Gallery of Art to assist a Countess in stealing The Madonna painting in order to obtain a secret microdot that contains details of the Warsaw Missile Pact. Steve unknowingly is then duped in the t...

    60 min · Director Herb Wallerstein · Writer Martin Caidin, Gregory S. Dinallo

  18. E18
    Dead Ringer 13 Feb 1978

    Steve Austin is lead to believe through accidents and a psychologist (Margaret) that his spirit has left his body at a previous point in time when he died from the crash that lead to his bionics. Furthering this spiritual belief i...

    60 min · Director Arnold Laven · Writer Martin Caidin, Robert I. Holt, Charles Mitchell

  19. E19
    Date with Danger: Part 1 20 Feb 1978

    Cloche sends instructions to take over bank accounts, hiring an assassin to kill Steve Austin, blow up buildings, while trying to seduce his co-tenant. Cloche is also panting false information to frame what he is doing on his look...

    60 min · Director Rod Holcomb · Writer Martin Caidin, John Meredyth Lucas, Wilton Schiller

  20. E20
    Date with Danger: Part 2 27 Feb 1978

    Cloche continues to send his hired assassin to kill Steve Austin. Steve finds and interrogates Cloche's evil sidekick, who reveals Cloche's plan to control satellites and, in turn, the world. Cloche's and Steves romantic interest ...

    60 min · Director Rod Holcomb · Writer Martin Caidin, John Meredyth Lucas, Wilton Schiller

  21. E21
    The Moving Mountain 6 Mar 1978 ★ 7.7

    Steve Austin teams up with a KGB agent, Andrea Mastrova, to track down stolen U.S. smart missiles developed by the OSI and a stolen Russian missile launching tank both taken by a man named Santos. Unbeknownst to Steve, his life ma...

    60 min · Director Don McDougall · Writer Stephen Kandel, Martin Caidin

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