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The Six Million Dollar Man

Fri, Jan 18, 1974
  • Sci-Fi & Fantasy
  • Action & Adventure
  • Drama
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Synopsis

Follow the adventures of Steve Austin, cybernetically enhanced astronaut turned secret agent, employed by the OSI, under the command of Oscar Goldman and supervised by the scientist who created his cybernetics, Rudy Wells. Steve uses the superior strength and speed provided by his bionic arm and legs, and the enhanced vision provided by his artificial eye, to fight enemy agents, aliens, mad scientists, and a wide variety of other villains.

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Cast

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  • Lee Majors
    Lee Majors
    as Steve Austin
  • Martin E. Brooks
    Martin E. Brooks
    as Dr. Rudy Wells
  • Richard Anderson
    Richard Anderson
    as Oscar Goldman
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Episodes

5 seasons · 101 episodes

Ended · 101 aired
Season 1
13 episodes · 13 aired
▾
  • E1
    Population: Zero
    Aired · Fri, Jan 18, 1974 · 60m

    Steve and Oscar investigate the deaths of the entire population of a small town . Soon they are contacted by a scientist once employed by the Government, and now set on revenge for the way he was treated.USD 10 million is demanded or he will strike again.

  • E2
    Survival of the Fittest
    Aired · Fri, Jan 25, 1974 · 60m

    During important negotiations with Russian officials, Oscars's life is threatened. When the plane Steve and Oscar are flying in crashes, Steve must protect Oscar from being killed by those who want the negotiations to fail.

  • E3
    Operation Firefly
    Aired · Fri, Feb 1, 1974 · 60m

    When Dr. Samuel Abbott, the inventor of a portable laser projector, is kidnapped by a syndicate, Steve attempts to rescue him with the help of Susan -Dr. Abbott's daughter- who is gifted with ESP.

  • E4
    Day of the Robot
    Aired · Fri, Feb 8, 1974 · 60m

    In an attempt to steal a top secret anti-missile device, Steve's associate and friend is kidnapped and replaced with a robot. Steve must discover the imposter and keep the device from being stolen and sold to the highest bidder.

  • E5
    Little Orphan Airplane
    Aired · Fri, Feb 22, 1974 · 60m

    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.

  • E6
    Doomsday, and Counting
    Aired · Fri, Mar 1, 1974 · 60m

    When an earthquake threatens the stability of an underground Russian nuclear installation, Steve must rescue the fiance of his friend, Col. Vasily Zhukov who is buried beneath debris. Steve must also stop a possible nuclear blast.

  • E7
    Eyewitness to Murder
    Aired · Fri, Mar 8, 1974 · 60m

    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 was attorney Lorin Sandusky.

  • E8
    The Rescue of Athena One
    Aired · Fri, Mar 15, 1974 · 60m

    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 follows her up to Skylab, only to find his bionic replacements malfunctioning in outer space.

  • E9
    Dr. Wells is Missing
    Aired · Fri, Mar 29, 1974 · 60m

    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 to give up the secret of constructing a bionic man.

  • E10
    The Last of the Fourth of Julys
    Aired · Fri, Apr 5, 1974 · 60m

    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 his plan into motion. Of course it involves a bit of a challenge: Steve has to be fired onto the villain's island lair inside a torpedo casing, climb a dangerous precipice, vault a 30-foot high electrified fence and break into a secure compound.

  • E11
    Burning Bright
    Aired · Fri, Apr 12, 1974 · 60m

    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 soon realizes there is a method to Josh's madness, as he develops strange powers of the mind that can make dolphins and men do his bidding.

  • E12
    The Coward
    Aired · Fri, Apr 19, 1974 · 60m

    '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 assignment is more personal: the pilot was his father, Carl Austin, who some claim bailed out at the last moment, never to be seen again.

  • E13
    Run, Steve, Run
    Aired · Fri, Apr 26, 1974 · 60m

    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. Therefore he spends his sponsor's money and time following Steve Austin, who is taking a well deserved rest on an Utah ranch.

Season 2
22 episodes · 22 aired
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  • E1
    Nuclear Alert
    Aired · Fri, Sep 13, 1974 · 60m

    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 missing part fresh from the factory, a reflector fuse.

  • E2
    The Pioneers
    Aired · Fri, Sep 20, 1974 · 60m

    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 in Minnesota. David is accidentally injected with too much of the serum, resulting in violent, animalistic behavior and super human strength. Dr. Rudy Wells and Col. Steve Austin are first on the scene.

  • E3
    Pilot Error
    Aired · Fri, Sep 27, 1974 · 60m

    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 bionics. On the way back Steve shares a small private plane with the Senator, his son and his chief aide, when they are caught in bad weather and Hill's reflexes once again falter.

  • E4
    The Pal-Mir Escort
    Aired · Fri, Oct 4, 1974 · 60m

    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 her the world's first bionic heart transplant. When she refused to travel to the research center in Mountain Springs by airplane, Steve Austin, posing as her bodyguard transports Pal-Mir and her doctor by the OSI's mobile field unit.

  • E5
    The Seven Million Dollar Man
    Aired · Fri, Nov 1, 1974 · 60m

    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.

  • E6
    Straight on 'til Morning
    Aired · Fri, Nov 8, 1974 · 60m

    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, only to find that touching a human causes both parties great pain and will eventually kill the alien beings.

  • E7
    The Midas Touch
    Aired · Fri, Nov 15, 1974 · 60m

    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 and decides to do some investigating.

  • E8
    The Deadly Replay
    Aired · Fri, Nov 22, 1974 · 60m

    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 may have been sabotaged the first time around, Steve becomes obsessed with taking this second chance and seeing it through.

  • E9
    Act of Piracy
    Aired · Fri, Nov 29, 1974 · 60m

    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 the Nesco and severs the air hose to the diving bell Steve Austin is manning.

  • E10
    Stranger in Broken Fork
    Aired · Fri, Dec 13, 1974 · 60m

    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 home for mental patients. Unfortunately, the small town folk of Broken Fork are very suspicious of strangers and Angie's patients in particular.

  • E11
    The Peeping Blonde
    Aired · Fri, Dec 20, 1974 · 60m

    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's first in three years) they decide to invite her along to grant her an interview and try to talk her out of printing her story.

  • E12
    The Cross-Country Kidnap
    Aired · Fri, Jan 10, 1975 · 60m

    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.

  • E13
    Lost Love
    Aired · Fri, Jan 17, 1975 · 60m

    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 hiding, alive and reasonably well.

  • E14
    The Last Kamikaze
    Aired · Sun, Jan 19, 1975 · 60m

    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, convinced the war is still going on.

  • E15
    Return of the Robot Maker
    Aired · Sun, Jan 26, 1975 · 60m

    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 invented by fellow OSI agent and part time inventor Barney Barnes.

  • E16
    Taneha
    Aired · Sun, Feb 2, 1975 · 60m

    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. Haskell, who has a personal vendetta against the wild cat.

  • E17
    Look Alike
    Aired · Sun, Feb 23, 1975 · 60m

    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 the tables on Dine's superiors by posing as the boxer in turn.

  • E18
    The E.S.P. Spy
    Aired · Sun, Mar 2, 1975 · 60m

    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 managed to copy his designs. Oscar is then persuaded to take on a similarly gifted counterspy, young student Audrey Moss.

  • E19
    The Bionic Woman (1)
    Aired · Sun, Mar 16, 1975 · 60m

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

  • E20
    The Bionic Woman (2)
    Aired · Sun, Mar 23, 1975 · 60m

    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 malfunctions and increasing headaches.

  • E21
    Outrage in Balinderry
    Aired · Sun, Apr 20, 1975 · 60m

    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, Commander 10.

  • E22
    Steve Austin, Fugitive
    Aired · Sun, Apr 27, 1975 · 60m

    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.

Season 3
22 episodes · 22 aired
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  • E1
    The Return of the Bionic Woman (1)
    Aired · Sun, Sep 14, 1975 · 60m

    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 Michael Marchetti used experimental cryogenics to preserve Sommers and nurse her back to health. However, owing to some slight brain damage, Jaime no longer remembers anything about her past life.

  • E2
    The Return of the Bionic Woman (2)
    Aired · Sun, Sep 21, 1975 · 60m

    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 mission in order to get her mind on something else, Steve goes along and the flashbacks only increase. Austin comes to the conclusion that it is his presence which is the cause of Jaime's condition.

  • E3
    The Price of Liberty
    Aired · Sun, Sep 28, 1975 · 60m

    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 to help defuse Meyer's handiwork.

  • E4
    The Song and Dance Spy
    Aired · Sun, Oct 5, 1975 · 60m

    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

  • E5
    The Wolf Boy
    Aired · Sun, Oct 12, 1975 · 60m

    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.

  • E6
    The Deadly Test
    Aired · Sun, Oct 19, 1975 · 60m

    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.

  • E7
    Target in the Sky
    Aired · Sun, Oct 26, 1975 · 60m

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

  • E8
    One of Our Running Backs Is Missing
    Aired · Sun, Nov 2, 1975 · 60m

    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.

  • E9
    The Bionic Criminal
    Aired · Sun, Nov 9, 1975 · 60m

    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 full strength. After competing in a car race, Barney loses control, panics and turns to a former O.S.I scientist who wants to use him for criminal purposes.

  • E10
    The Blue Flash
    Aired · Mon, Nov 17, 1975 · 60m

    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.

  • E11
    The White Lightning War
    Aired · Sun, Nov 23, 1975 · 60m

    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.

  • E12
    Divided Loyalty
    Aired · Sun, Nov 30, 1975 · 60m

    When a scientist who defected to Russia for love wants to return to the United States, Steve is assigned to bring him back. Knowing only life in Russia, the scientist's son is hesitant to join, and by the time Steve convinces him to come along, the Russians learn of their plan and block their escape route, forcing a more dangerous alternative to be used.

  • E13
    Clark Templeton O'Flaherty
    Aired · Sun, Dec 14, 1975 · 60m

    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, the OGA.

  • E14
    The Winning Smile
    Aired · Sun, Dec 21, 1975 · 60m

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

  • E16
    Welcome Home, Jaime (2)
    Aired · Sun, Jan 11, 1976 · 60m

    After going through another operation, Jaime Sommer's memories are slowly resurfacing. Now she is ready to move back to Ojai and live near her foster parents, Jim & Helen Elgin. Oscar Goldman arranges a job for her as a teacher at the Ventura Air Force base school but Jaime also insists on taking on missions of the OSI.

  • E17
    Hocus-Pocus
    Aired · Sun, Jan 18, 1976 · 60m

    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 an extra element to the show, Steve proposes to take E.S.P. gifted Audrey Moss with him as his assistant.

  • E18
    The Secret of Bigfoot (1)
    Aired · Sun, Feb 1, 1976 · 60m

    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.

  • E19
    The Secret of Bigfoot (2)
    Aired · Wed, Feb 4, 1976 · 60m

    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.

  • E20
    The Golden Pharaoh
    Aired · Sun, Feb 8, 1976 · 60m

    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.

  • E21
    Love Song for Tanya
    Aired · Sun, Feb 15, 1976 · 60m

    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.

  • E22
    The Bionic Badge
    Aired · Sun, Feb 22, 1976 · 60m

    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.

  • E23
    Big Brother
    Aired · Sun, Mar 7, 1976 · 60m

    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.

Season 4
23 episodes · 23 aired
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  • E1
    The Return of Bigfoot - Part 1
    Aired · Sun, Sep 19, 1976 · 60m

    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 the alien travelers. She explains that one of her own, Nedlick, has formed a splinter group intend on world domination and is now using Sasquash to commit robberies in order to gain wealth.

  • E2
    The Return of Bigfoot - Part 2
    Aired · Wed, Sep 22, 1976 · 60m

    When Steve suffers from radiation poisoning, Jaime must save his life, fend off Bigfoot and stop the rebel aliens from succeeding at world domination.

  • E3
    Nightmare in the Sky
    Aired · Sun, Sep 26, 1976 · 60m

    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 a Japanese Zero plane from World War 2. Since no one believes her, Steve knows he must clear his friend's name, before it's too late.

  • E4
    Double Trouble
    Aired · Sun, Oct 3, 1976 · 60m

    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.

  • E5
    The Most Dangerous Enemy
    Aired · Sun, Oct 17, 1976 · 60m

    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 rampaging chimpanzee. Rudy begins to turn psychotic and Steve must both stop him and find Osborne before it's too late.

  • E6
    H+2+O = Death
    Aired · Sun, Oct 24, 1976 · 60m

    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 the spies by faking the device's capabilities with a little help from his bionic arm.

  • E7
    Kill Oscar: Part 2
    Aired · Sun, Oct 31, 1976 · 60m

    With Jaime Sommers critically injured after being attacked by two Fembots, 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 spills state secrets.This episode is the middle chapter of a trilogy, with the other two episodes aired as part of The Bionic Woman series. "Kill Oscar: Part 2" is usually syndicated as a Bionic Woman episode.

  • E8
    The Bionic Boy
    Aired · Sun, Nov 7, 1976 · 60m

    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 paralyzed legs. The result is superhuman strength in those legs. Andy immediately uses this new power to do what he can to restore the good name of his father. Once he gets in over his head, Colonel Steve Austin comes to his aid.

  • E9
    Vulture of the Andes
    Aired · Sun, Nov 21, 1976 · 60m

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

  • E10
    The Thunderbird Conection
    Aired · Sun, Nov 28, 1976 · 60m

    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 he reaches certain altitudes, Rudy says they can treat it but it'll take time. And they need to rescue the prince so Steve tries to stay at low altitudes.

  • E11
    A Bionic Christmas Carol
    Aired · Sun, Dec 12, 1976 · 60m

    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.

  • E12
    Task Force
    Aired · Sun, Dec 19, 1976 · 60m

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

  • E13
    The Ultimate Imposter
    Aired · Sun, Jan 2, 1977 · 60m

    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.

  • E14
    Death Probe (1)
    Aired · Sun, Jan 9, 1977 · 60m

    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 out of Soviet control. It's up to Steve to try to stop the probe from destroying a nearby town.

  • E15
    Death Probe (2)
    Aired · Sun, Jan 16, 1977 · 60m

    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.

  • E16
    Danny's Inferno
    Aired · Sun, Jan 23, 1977 · 60m

    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's up to Steve Austin and the boy to stop them.

  • E17
    Fires of Hell
    Aired · Sun, Jan 30, 1977 · 60m

    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.

  • E18
    The Infiltrators
    Aired · Sun, Feb 6, 1977 · 60m

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

  • E19
    Carnival of Spies
    Aired · Sun, Feb 13, 1977 · 60m

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

  • E20
    U-509
    Aired · Sun, Feb 20, 1977 · 60m

    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 to meet with the person. The person claims that the sub has a cache of nerve gas which when released and depending on the wind will reach a populated area. Oscar decides to send Steve to get into the sub and to try and neutralize the threat. But Steve is captured and is shown the nerve gas.

  • E21
    The Privacy of the Mind
    Aired · Sun, Feb 27, 1977 · 60m

    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 Oscar Goldman. Oscar devises a plan to send Steve Austin in his place and to ensure the assistant doesn't sound the alarm bells he is drugged and a fake car crash is set up. Steve trains as a neuroscientist - using his bionic powers he learns everything within a day.

  • E22
    To Catch the Eagle
    Aired · Sun, Mar 6, 1977 · 60m

    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's medicine man who is very traditional refuses to grant Steve permission to go there because it's sacred ground. But there's a test which is very grueling, if he passes he can enter. But the medicine man has other plans.

  • E23
    The Ghostly Teletype
    Aired · Sun, May 15, 1977 · 60m

    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.

Season 5
21 episodes · 21 aired
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  • E1
    Sharks (1)
    Aired · Sun, Sep 11, 1977 · 60m

    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.

  • E2
    Sharks (2)
    Aired · Sun, Sep 18, 1977 · 60m

    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 Steve and Rudy in the process.

  • E3
    Deadly Countdown (1)
    Aired · Sun, Sep 25, 1977 · 60m

    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.

  • E4
    Deadly Countdown (2)
    Aired · Sun, Oct 2, 1977 · 60m

    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.

  • E5
    Bigfoot V
    Aired · Sun, Oct 9, 1977 · 60m

    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.

  • E6
    Killer Wind
    Aired · Sun, Oct 16, 1977 · 60m

    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 school children and their teacher get stuck atop a mountain.

  • E7
    Rollback
    Aired · Sun, Oct 30, 1977 · 60m

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

  • E8
    Dark Side of the Moon (1)
    Aired · Sun, Nov 6, 1977 · 60m

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

  • E9
    Dark Side of the Moon (2)
    Aired · Sun, Nov 13, 1977 · 60m

    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.

  • E10
    Target: Steve Austin
    Aired · Sun, Nov 27, 1977 · 60m

    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 a power unit. What they don't know is that they made one of their own look like the agent Steve is working with. And while in transit they grab her and send their ringer in.

  • E11
    The Cheshire Project
    Aired · Sun, Dec 18, 1977 · 60m

    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.

  • E12
    Walk a Deadly Wing
    Aired · Sun, Jan 1, 1978 · 60m

    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

  • E13
    Just a Matter of Time
    Aired · Sun, Jan 8, 1978 · 60m

    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 contact Oscar at OSI to inform him of his whereabouts, but when another government agent shows up and identifies himself as Oscar's replacement, the Colonel is shocked to learn that 6 years have supposedly passed, Oscar is dead and he has been declared a traitor after supposedly defecting to the Soviet Union

  • E14
    Return of the Deathprobe (1)
    Aired · Sun, Jan 22, 1978 · 60m

    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.

  • E15
    Return of the Deathprobe (2)
    Aired · Sun, Jan 29, 1978 · 60m

    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 probe.

  • E16
    The Lost Island
    Aired · Mon, Jan 30, 1978 · 60m

    Season 5 episode 16 The Lost Island is actually two episodes, part 1 and part 2. In part 1: the OSI agency loses one of its satellites, which crashes on a remote ocean island, and is now cracked and leaking neutron radiation which is negatively affecting the other-worldly humanoids that inhabit the island and electromagnetically cloak it in invisibility. A decision is made by the aliens to send Da Nay, a young alien woman, to the U.S. to find and bring back a serum that will boost the aliens' immunity and thus allow all the aliens to leave the island and survive with the human population. In part 2: Da Nay (Robin Mattson, who plays Heather Webber from the "General Hospital" soap opera) obtains the serum and returns to the island, where Steve Austin has found a way in past the protective barriers. Spoiler: Torg (Jared Martin, who plays Dusty Farlow on "Dallas:), one of the radiation-influenced young male aliens who feels a somewhat barbaric attraction to Da Nay, turns monstrously evil from the radiation, as do other exposed aliens. Steve Austin learns how to use the same radiation to reverse the process and restore the unity of the aliens. Steve and the satellite are recovered, and the alien race are once again kept secret and cloaked in invisibility.

  • E17
    The Madonna Caper
    Aired · Mon, Feb 6, 1978 · 60m

    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 theft by the Countess as she switches the painting for a fake one. As Oscar and Steve are tipped off of the fake in the Gallery by the Museum Director, the Countess sells the original for 5 million dollars to an art collector. Then Steve poses as a rich Texas oilman and art collector in order to purchase the original Madonna for 8 million "counterfeit" dollars. As the microdot is now in the OSI, Steve, with the help of the Countess, returns to the Gallery to remove the fake Madonna and replace it with the real one. All is revealed as Steve further assists the Countess on a plane headed to Geneva, Switzerland so she can pay a 5 million dollar ransom to free political prisoners from her country.

  • E18
    Dead Ringer
    Aired · Mon, Feb 13, 1978 · 60m

    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 involves an office explosion, a seance, a spiritually possessed woman who tries to kill Steve with a fireplace poker, a car that drives itself and multiple ghost like appearances resembling Steve Austin. The plot thickens as Oscar informs Steve that two Russians are in town bent on capturing him, dead or alive, wanting the technology of his bionics. Soon Margaret vanishes in the woods when the ghost reappears and Steve runs to her rescue. All is revealed at a convergence at a cabin in the woods.

  • E19
    Date With Danger (1)
    Aired · Mon, Feb 20, 1978 · 60m

    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 lookalike in the OS.

  • E20
    Date With Danger (2)
    Aired · Mon, Feb 27, 1978 · 60m

    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 is kidnapped by Cloche to try to trap Steve.

  • E21
    The Moving Mountain
    Aired · Mon, Mar 6, 1978 · 60m

    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 may be in additional danger if Mastova finds out that he is responsible for her father's death.