The Best Episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man

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8.4/10(206 votes)
#1 - Kill Oscar (II)
S4:E610/31/1976
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 secrets. The crossover starts on The Bionic Woman S02E05 Kill Oscar (I). It continues on The Bionic Woman S02E06 Kill Oscar (III).
Director:Barry Crane
Writer:W.T. Zacha
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Director:Barry Crane
Writer:W.T. Zacha
8.1/10(217 votes)
#2 - Death Probe (1)
S4:E131/9/1977
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.
Director:Dick Moder
Writer:Steven E. de Souza
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Director:Dick Moder
Writer:Steven E. de Souza
8.0/10(252 votes)
#3 - The Secret of Bigfoot (2)
S3:E172/4/1976
Steve Austin has met a colony of space travelers living inside a California mountain.
Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.
Writer:Kenneth Johnson
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Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.
Writer:Kenneth Johnson
8.0/10(175 votes)
#4 - Death Probe (2)
S4:E141/16/1977
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.
Director:Dick Moder
Writer:Steven E. de Souza
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Director:Dick Moder
Writer:Steven E. de Souza
7.9/10(259 votes)
#5 - The Bionic Woman (2)
S2:E203/23/1975
While Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers plan their wedding, Oscar Goldman submits his bill for making Jaime Sommers a bionic woman: She is to go on her first assignment with her fiancé to switch a flawed U.S. $20 bill printing plate for a perfect copy in the possession of a foreign counterfeiter named Joseph Ronaugh. Steve Austin vehemently objects, but Jaime Sommers acknowledges her debt and agrees. The two succeed in their mission despite a malfunction in Jaime Sommer’s bionic arm which nearly causes it to fail. It is soon discovered that her body is rejecting the bionics. Dr. Rudy Wells conducts an emergency surgery to no avail. Jaime Sommers dies.
Director:Dick Moder
Writer:Kenneth Johnson
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Director:Dick Moder
Writer:Kenneth Johnson
7.8/10(451 votes)
#6 - The Secret of Bigfoot (1)
S3:E162/1/1976
Two geologist friends of Steve Austin disappear in Californa while placing earthquake sensors in the woods.
Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.
Writer:Kenneth Johnson
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Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.
Writer:Kenneth Johnson

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7.8/10(353 votes)
#7 - Day of the Robot
S1:E42/8/1974
In an attempt to steal a top secret anti-missile device, Steve's associate and friend Major Sloan is kidnapped and replaced with a robot. Steve must discover the impostor, and keep the device from being stolen and sold to the highest bidder.
Director:Leslie H. Martinson
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Leslie H. Martinson
Writer:Unknown
7.8/10(287 votes)
#8 - The Seven Million Dollar Man
S2:E511/1/1974
When Steve discovers that there is another bionic man - Barney Hiller, a race car driver - he is assigned to help him adjust to his bionics.
Director:Dick Moder
Writer:Peter Allan Fields
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Director:Dick Moder
Writer:Peter Allan Fields
7.8/10(213 votes)
#9 - Return of the Robot Maker
S2:E151/26/1975
Doctor Dolenz returns and kidnaps Oscar, replacing him with a lookalike robot in an attempt to steal the formula for a new energy source.
Director:Phil Bondelli
Writer:Mark Frost
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Director:Phil Bondelli
Writer:Mark Frost
7.7/10(241 votes)
#10 - The Return of Bigfoot (I)
S4:E19/19/1976
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 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. The crossover continues on The Bionic Woman S02E01 The Return of Bigfoot (II).
Director:Barry Crane
Writer:Kenneth Johnson
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Director:Barry Crane
Writer:Kenneth Johnson
7.6/10(251 votes)
#11 - The Return of the Bionic Woman (1)
S3:E19/14/1975
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.
Director:Dick Moder
Writer:Kenneth Johnson
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Director:Dick Moder
Writer:Kenneth Johnson
7.6/10(138 votes)
#12 - Date with Danger (1)
S5:E192/20/1978
When OSI's communications chief is accused of spying, Steve attempts to prove his innocence and discovers tampered computer memory. He is led to suspect a computer dating service is behind the ilegal activity, but doesn't realize a computer itself has gained sentience and plans to stop Steve any way it can.
Director:Rod Holcomb
Writer:Wilton Schiller
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Director:Rod Holcomb
Writer:Wilton Schiller
7.5/10(229 votes)
#13 - The Return of the Bionic Woman (2)
S3:E29/21/1975
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.
Director:Dick Moder
Writer:Kenneth Johnson
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Director:Dick Moder
Writer:Kenneth Johnson
7.5/10(216 votes)
#14 - The Last Kamikaze
S2:E141/19/1975
When a plane carrying an atomic warhead crashes on a South Pacific island, Steve is sent to retrieve it, but finds that an ex-Japanese Zero pilot, Kuroda, has taken it to his home. Steve must successfully navigate his way through the booby-traps and get the warhead before a rogue guerrilla group does.
Director:Dick Moder
Writer:Judy Burns
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Director:Dick Moder
Writer:Judy Burns
7.5/10(131 votes)
#15 - Date with Danger (2)
S5:E202/27/1978
Steve teams with the owner of the computer dating service to put a stop to her now-sentient computer. After escaping a computer-arranged assassination, Steve finds himself in a mental facility after his medical records are altered. While the computer attempts to have everyone who knows about it killed, Steve must find a way to escape and stop the computer before it's too late.
Director:Rod Holcomb
Writer:Wilton Schiller
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Director:Rod Holcomb
Writer:Wilton Schiller
7.4/10(563 votes)
#16 - The Bionic Woman (1)
S2:E193/16/1975
Steve Austin buys a ranch in his hometown of Ojai, California. He reunites with childhood friend Jaime Sommers who is now a professional tennis player. They rekindle a brief childhood romance. Jaime Sommers is injured in a skydiving accident when her parachute collapses toward the end of a jump. Her right arm, right ear, and both legs are severely injured. With Jaime’s life in peril, Steve Austin persuades a reluctant Oscar Goldman to fit her with bionics. Although skeptical at first, Jaime Sommers quickly acclimates to her mechanized components. The bond deepens between the two bionic humans. Steve Austin proposes marriage to Jaime Sommers, and she accepts.
Director:Dick Moder
Writer:Kenneth Johnson
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Director:Dick Moder
Writer:Kenneth Johnson
7.4/10(206 votes)
#17 - Steve Austin, Fugitive
S2:E224/27/1975
Steve is arrested when an assassin he helped send to prison seeks revenge by framing him for murder. Steve escapes from the police and must find the assassin before the police find Steve. Lee Majors plays a comic bit part as an elderly Electrical Store Clerk credited as L Majors.
Director:Russ Mayberry
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Russ Mayberry
Writer:Unknown
7.4/10(185 votes)
#18 - The Bionic Criminal
S3:E911/9/1975
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.
Director:Leslie H. Martinson
Writers:Peter Allan Fields, Richard Carr
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Director:Leslie H. Martinson
Writers:Peter Allan Fields, Richard Carr
7.3/10(178 votes)
#19 - Hocus-Pocus
S3:E151/18/1976
O.S.I. needs to get a stolen top-secret codebook back from elusive criminal and club owner Mark Wharton.
Director:Barry Crane
Writer:Richard Carr
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Director:Barry Crane
Writer:Richard Carr
7.3/10(163 votes)
#20 - Clark Templeton O'Flaherty
S3:E1312/14/1975
Somebody inside the OSI has been leaking top secret information and the trail leads to janitor Clark O'Flaherty.
Director:Ernest Pintoff
Writer:Frank Dandridge
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Director:Ernest Pintoff
Writer:Frank Dandridge
7.3/10(128 votes)
#21 - The Madonna Caper
S5:E172/6/1978
While Steve helps a countess retrieve a microdot with important information hidden on a painting in a museum, she helps herself to a masterpiece and replaces it with a forgery. Oscar sends Steve to retrieve the painting from its buyer before a visiting art expert causes embarrassment by discovering the counterfeit currently on display.
Director:Herb Wallerstein
Writer:Gregory S. Dinallo
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Director:Herb Wallerstein
Writer:Gregory S. Dinallo
7.2/10(401 votes)
#22 - Population: Zero
S1:E11/18/1974
When Steve and Oscar investigate the death of the entire population of a small town, they are contacted by a scientist, once employed by the government, who is set on revenge for past grievances. Demanding $10 million or he will strike again, Steve must find and stop him.
Director:Jeannot Szwarc
Writer:Elroy Schwartz
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Director:Jeannot Szwarc
Writer:Elroy Schwartz
7.2/10(243 votes)
#23 - The Coward
S1:E124/19/1974
When an earthquake in the Himalayas uncovers a DC-3 plane containing secret papers that went down during World War II, Steve is sent to recover the papers. Steve also tries to clear the name of the pilot, his father, who was accused of bailing out and leaving the rest of the crew to die.
Director:Reza Badiyi
Writer:Elroy Schwartz
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Director:Reza Badiyi
Writer:Elroy Schwartz
7.2/10(204 votes)
#24 - The Deadly Replay
S2:E811/22/1974
Steve attempts to re-test the experimental plane that caused his near fatal accident. When suspicious things begin to happen, Oscar reveals to Steve that his first crash might not have been an accident. Steve chooses to proceed with the experiments hoping to lure the saboteurs into the open.
Director:Christian I. Nyby II
Writer:Wilton Denmark
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Director:Christian I. Nyby II
Writer:Wilton Denmark
7.2/10(200 votes)
#25 - Look Alike
S2:E172/23/1975
While Steve Austin is on a one week fishing vacation, a Steve Austin look-alike shows up at Oscar Goldman’s office claiming that he decided to cut his vacation short. He secretly takes photographs of the Omega Project files, which are turned over to a middleman named Breezy. The real Steve Austin returns just in time to catch his double getting a tour of the Omega Project facility. The impostor is hit by a car and killed in the ensuing pursuit. Steve Austin then poses as the impostor, a former boxer named John Dine who had his face surgically altered to resemble the bionic OSI agent. The search for the photographs eventually lands him in the ring of a crooked boxing promoter.
Director:Jerry London
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Jerry London
Writer:Unknown