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The Best Episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man

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The Best Episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man

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...

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  1. Background image for Kill Oscar (II)
    8.3/10(180 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).

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    Director:Barry Crane
    Writer:W.T. Zacha
  2. Background image for Death Probe (1)
    7.9/10(199 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.

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  3. Background image for The Bionic Woman (2)
    7.8/10(219 votes)

    #3 - 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.

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    7.8/10(231 votes)

    #4 - The Secret of Bigfoot (2)

    S3:E17

    Steve Austin has met a colony of space travelers living inside a California mountain.

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  5. Background image for The Seven Million Dollar Man
    7.7/10(254 votes)

    #5 - 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.

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    7.7/10(417 votes)

    #6 - The Secret of Bigfoot (1)

    S3:E16

    Two geologist friends of Steve Austin disappear in Californa while placing earthquake sensors in the woods.

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  8. Background image for Death Probe (2)
    7.7/10(152 votes)

    #7 - 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.

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  9. Background image for Return of the Robot Maker
    7.6/10(181 votes)

    #8 - 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.

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    Director:Phil Bondelli
    Writer:Mark Frost
  10. Background image for The Return of Bigfoot (I)
    7.6/10(219 votes)

    #9 - 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).

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    7.5/10(217 votes)

    #10 - 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.

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    7.4/10(185 votes)

    #11 - 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.

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    Director:Dick Moder
    Writer:Judy Burns
  13. Background image for Steve Austin, Fugitive
    7.4/10(177 votes)

    #12 - 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.

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    Director:Russ Mayberry
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for The Return of the Bionic Woman (2)
    7.4/10(201 votes)

    #13 - 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.

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    7.4/10(111 votes)

    #14 - Task Force

    S4:E11

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

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  16. Background image for The Bionic Woman (1)
    7.3/10(520 votes)

    #15 - 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.

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    7.3/10(170 votes)

    #16 - 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.

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  18. Background image for Hocus-Pocus
    7.3/10(159 votes)

    #17 - Hocus-Pocus

    S3:E15

    O.S.I. needs to get a stolen top-secret codebook back from elusive criminal and club owner Mark Wharton.

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    Director:Barry Crane
  19. Background image for The Deadly Replay
    7.2/10(177 votes)

    #18 - 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.

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  20. Background image for Target in the Sky
    7.2/10(152 votes)

    #19 - Target in the Sky

    S3:E7

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

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    7.2/10(148 votes)

    #20 - 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.

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  22. Background image for The Privacy of the Mind
    7.2/10(120 votes)

    #21 - The Privacy of the Mind

    S4:E20

    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. Reporting for duty Steve is kidnapped and later awakes at a secret location ...

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    Director:Jimmy Lydon
  23. Background image for Look Alike
    7.1/10(173 votes)

    #22 - 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.

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    Director:Jerry London
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for The Winning Smile
    7.1/10(143 votes)

    #23 - The Winning Smile

    S3:E14

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

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  25. Background image for The Thunderbird Connection
    7.1/10(127 votes)

    #24 - The Thunderbird Connection

    S4:E9

    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. **This two-hour episode was broken into two parts for syndication.**

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    7.1/10(125 votes)

    #25 - U-509

    S4:E19

    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. But the Admiral receives information that there is no...

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Best Episodes Summary

"Kill Oscar (II)" is the best rated episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man". It scored 8.3/10 based on 180 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)".