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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)
    8.5/10(187 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(206 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(239 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(160 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(234 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(325 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(267 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(428 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(193 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(227 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(230 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 4 - Deadly Countdown (2)
    7.6/10(130 votes)

    #12 - Deadly Countdown (2)

    S5:E4

    The daughter of Steve's friend, David McGrath, is kidnapped in order to force David to kill Steve. When the attempt on Steve fails, David confesses to Steve who then must rescue her.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Gregory S. Dinallo

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  13. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5 Episode 19 - Date with Danger (1)
    7.6/10(122 votes)

    #13 - 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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  14. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5 Episode 20 - Date with Danger (2)
    7.6/10(119 votes)

    #14 - 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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  15. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5 Episode 21 - The Moving Mountain
    7.6/10(129 votes)

    #15 - The Moving Mountain

    S5:E21

    A terrorist steals a Russian rocket launcher and American missilse and plans to hold both countries hostage. Steve is sent along with a beautiful Russian agent to stop the terrorist, but his opposite number has orders to dispose of him and bring back the missiles to her superiors.

    Director:Don McDougall
    Writer:Stephen Kandel

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  16. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 14 - The Last Kamikaze
    7.5/10(196 votes)

    #16 - 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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  17. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3 Episode 2 - The Return of the Bionic Woman (2)
    7.5/10(211 votes)

    #17 - 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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  18. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5 Episode 13 - Just a Matter of Time
    7.5/10(137 votes)

    #18 - Just a Matter of Time

    S5:E13

    Steve enters a time warp while on an orbital mission, hurling him six years into the future. Upon landing, the authorities arrest him for treason, believing he defected to Russia and was brainwashed into thinking the time warp occurred. Steve has to both prove his innocence and figure out how to get back to his own time.

    Director:Don McDougall
    Writer:Neal J. Sperling

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  19. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 19 - The Bionic Woman (1)
    7.4/10(535 votes)

    #19 - 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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  20. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 22 - Steve Austin, Fugitive
    7.4/10(190 votes)

    #20 - 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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  21. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3 Episode 9 - The Bionic Criminal
    7.4/10(176 votes)

    #21 - 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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  22. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 4 Episode 11 - Task Force
    7.4/10(122 votes)

    #22 - Task Force

    S4:E11

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

    Director:Barry Crane
    Writer:Robert C. Dennis

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  23. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5 Episode 14 - Return of Death Probe (1)
    7.4/10(130 votes)

    #23 - Return of Death Probe (1)

    S5:E14

    A new, deadlier Venus probe is tested in a desolate area as a demonstration for Steve and Oscar, but a threat to Oscar to either hand over nuclear weaponry or see the probe set loose on the public forces Steve to find a way to stop the probe, even though it outmatches him in many ways.

    Director:Tom Connors
    Writer:Howard Dimsdale

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  24. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 1 Episode 1 - Population: Zero
    7.3/10(363 votes)

    #24 - 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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  25. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3 Episode 13 - Clark Templeton O'Flaherty
    7.3/10(155 votes)

    #25 - 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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Best Episodes Summary

"Kill Oscar (II)" is the best rated episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man". It scored 8.5/10 based on 187 votes. Directed by Barry Crane and written by W.T. Zacha, it aired on 10/31/1976. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "Death Probe (1)".