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The Best Episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man

Every episode of The Six Million Dollar Man ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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...
Genres:Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDrama
Network:ABC

Best Episodes Summary

"Kill Oscar (II)" is the best rated episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man". It scored 8.3/10 based on 164 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)".

  • Kill Oscar (II)
    8.3/10164 votes
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    #1 - Kill Oscar (II)

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1976

    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

  • Death Probe (1)
    7.9/10190 votes
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    #2 - Death Probe (1)

    Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/9/1977

    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

  • The Bionic Woman (2)
    7.8/10208 votes
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    #3 - The Bionic Woman (2)

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/23/1975

    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

  • The Golden Pharaoh
    7.8/10212 votes
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    #4 - The Golden Pharaoh

    Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/8/1976

    When Oscar assigns Steve Austin to protect the priceless Golden Pharaoh statue, they find it has already been replaced by a fake.

    Director: Cliff Bole

    Writer: Margaret Schneider, Paul Schneider

  • Day of the Robot
    7.7/10282 votes
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    #5 - Day of the Robot

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/8/1974

    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: N/A

  • The Seven Million Dollar Man
    7.7/10234 votes
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    #6 - The Seven Million Dollar Man

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/1974

    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

  • Return of the Robot Maker
    7.7/10167 votes
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    #7 - Return of the Robot Maker

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/26/1975

    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

  • The Secret of Bigfoot (2)
    7.7/10397 votes
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    #8 - The Secret of Bigfoot (2)

    Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/4/1976

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

    Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.

    Writer: Kenneth Johnson

  • The Return of Bigfoot (I)
    7.7/10205 votes
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    #9 - The Return of Bigfoot (I)

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1976

    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

  • Death Probe (2)
    7.7/10143 votes
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    #10 - Death Probe (2)

    Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/16/1977

    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

  • Deadly Countdown (2)
    7.6/10116 votes
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    #11 - Deadly Countdown (2)

    Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/2/1977

    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

  • The Moving Mountain
    7.6/10113 votes
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    #12 - The Moving Mountain

    Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 3/6/1978

    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

  • The Return of the Bionic Woman (1)
    7.5/10206 votes
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    #13 - The Return of the Bionic Woman (1)

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1975

    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

  • Date with Danger (2)
    7.5/10107 votes
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    #14 - Date with Danger (2)

    Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 2/27/1978

    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

  • Steve Austin, Fugitive
    7.4/10164 votes
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    #15 - Steve Austin, Fugitive

    Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 4/27/1975

    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: N/A

  • The Return of the Bionic Woman (2)
    7.4/10190 votes
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    #16 - The Return of the Bionic Woman (2)

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1975

    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

  • Just a Matter of Time
    7.4/10122 votes
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    #17 - Just a Matter of Time

    Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 1/8/1978

    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

  • Date with Danger (1)
    7.4/10108 votes
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    #18 - Date with Danger (1)

    Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 2/20/1978

    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

  • Population: Zero
    7.3/10321 votes
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    #19 - Population: Zero

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/18/1974

    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

  • The Last Kamikaze
    7.3/10172 votes
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    #20 - The Last Kamikaze

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/19/1975

    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

  • The Bionic Woman (1)
    7.3/10506 votes
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    #21 - The Bionic Woman (1)

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/16/1975

    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

  • The Bionic Criminal
    7.3/10158 votes
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    #22 - The Bionic Criminal

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1975

    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

    Writer: Peter Allan Fields, Richard Carr

  • The Secret of Bigfoot (1)
    7.3/10146 votes
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    #23 - The Secret of Bigfoot (1)

    Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/1/1976

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

    Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.

    Writer: Kenneth Johnson

  • Task Force
    7.3/10103 votes
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    #24 - Task Force

    Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/19/1976

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

    Director: Barry Crane

    Writer: Robert C. Dennis

  • Return of Death Probe (1)
    7.3/10116 votes
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    #25 - Return of Death Probe (1)

    Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 1/22/1978

    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