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The Best Episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man

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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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    The Six Million Dollar Man Season 4 Episode 6 - Kill Oscar (II)
    8.4/10(206 votes)

    #1 - Kill Oscar (II)

    S4:E6

    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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  2. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 4 Episode 13 - Death Probe (1)
    8.1/10(216 votes)

    #2 - Death Probe (1)

    S4:E13

    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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  3. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3 Episode 17 - The Secret of Bigfoot (2)
    8.0/10(252 votes)

    #3 - The Secret of Bigfoot (2)

    S3:E17

    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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  4. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 4 Episode 14 - Death Probe (2)
    8.0/10(173 votes)

    #4 - Death Probe (2)

    S4:E14

    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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  5. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 20 - The Bionic Woman (2)
    7.9/10(257 votes)

    #5 - The Bionic Woman (2)

    S2:E20

    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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  6. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 1 Episode 4 - Day of the Robot
    7.8/10(352 votes)

    #6 - Day of the Robot

    S1:E4

    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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  7. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 5 - The Seven Million Dollar Man
    7.8/10(287 votes)

    #7 - The Seven Million Dollar Man

    S2:E5

    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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  8. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3 Episode 16 - The Secret of Bigfoot (1)
    7.8/10(451 votes)

    #8 - The Secret of Bigfoot (1)

    S3:E16

    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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  9. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 15 - Return of the Robot Maker
    7.7/10(213 votes)

    #9 - Return of the Robot Maker

    S2:E15

    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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  10. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 4 Episode 1 - The Return of Bigfoot (I)
    7.7/10(241 votes)

    #10 - The Return of Bigfoot (I)

    S4:E1

    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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  11. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3 Episode 1 - The Return of the Bionic Woman (1)
    7.6/10(249 votes)

    #11 - The Return of the Bionic Woman (1)

    S3:E1

    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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  12. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5 Episode 19 - Date with Danger (1)
    7.6/10(138 votes)

    #12 - Date with Danger (1)

    S5:E19

    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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  13. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 14 - The Last Kamikaze
    7.5/10(216 votes)

    #13 - The Last Kamikaze

    S2:E14

    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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  14. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3 Episode 2 - The Return of the Bionic Woman (2)
    7.5/10(227 votes)

    #14 - The Return of the Bionic Woman (2)

    S3:E2

    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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  15. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5 Episode 20 - Date with Danger (2)
    7.5/10(131 votes)

    #15 - Date with Danger (2)

    S5:E20

    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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  16. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 19 - The Bionic Woman (1)
    7.4/10(560 votes)

    #16 - The Bionic Woman (1)

    S2:E19

    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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  17. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 22 - Steve Austin, Fugitive
    7.4/10(205 votes)

    #17 - Steve Austin, Fugitive

    S2:E22

    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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  18. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3 Episode 9 - The Bionic Criminal
    7.4/10(185 votes)

    #18 - The Bionic Criminal

    S3:E9

    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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  19. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3 Episode 13 - Clark Templeton O'Flaherty
    7.3/10(163 votes)

    #19 - Clark Templeton O'Flaherty

    S3:E13

    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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  20. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3 Episode 15 - Hocus-Pocus
    7.3/10(177 votes)

    #20 - Hocus-Pocus

    S3:E15

    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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  21. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5 Episode 17 - The Madonna Caper
    7.3/10(128 votes)

    #21 - The Madonna Caper

    S5:E17

    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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  22. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 1 Episode 1 - Population: Zero
    7.2/10(398 votes)

    #22 - Population: Zero

    S1:E1

    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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  23. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 1 Episode 12 - The Coward
    7.2/10(242 votes)

    #23 - The Coward

    S1:E12

    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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  24. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 8 - The Deadly Replay
    7.2/10(203 votes)

    #24 - The Deadly Replay

    S2:E8

    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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  25. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 17 - Look Alike
    7.2/10(200 votes)

    #25 - Look Alike

    S2:E17

    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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Best Episodes Summary

"Kill Oscar (II)" is the best rated episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man". It scored 8.4/10 based on 206 votes. Directed by Barry Crane and written by W.T. Zacha, it aired on 10/31/1976. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Death Probe (1)".