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The Best Episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2

Every episode of The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2!

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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
    The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 1 - Nuclear Alert
    7.0/10(203 votes)

    #1 - Nuclear Alert

    S2:E1

    Steve must stop a group of government conspirators who have assembled an atomic bomb from stolen parts.

    Director:Jerry London
    Writer:William Driskill

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  2. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 2 - The Pioneers
    6.5/10(195 votes)

    #2 - The Pioneers

    S2:E2

    While scientist David Tate experiments in space with a serum designed to awaken cryogenically frozen patients, he is accidentally injected with too much serum. When the space capsule crashes, he begins terrorizing the countryside and Steve must hunt him down.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 3 - Pilot Error
    6.7/10(192 votes)

    #3 - Pilot Error

    S2:E3

    A plane carrying Steve, a senator, and the senator's aides crashes in the desert. Steve must lead the others to safety despite being blinded in the crash.

    Director:Jerry Jameson
    Writer:Edward J. Lakso

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  4. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 4 - The Pal-Mir Escort
    6.8/10(197 votes)

    #4 - The Pal-Mir Escort

    S2:E4

    When the Prime Minister of a small country has a heart attack while negotiating a peace treaty with neighboring countries, she is selected to receive the first bionic heart. Steve is assigned to protect her while she is transported to the secret hospital where the procedure will take place.

    Director:Lawrence Dobkin
    Writers:Margaret Schneider, Paul Schneider

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  5. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 5 - The Seven Million Dollar Man
    7.8/10(267 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.

    Director:Dick Moder
    Writer:Peter Allan Fields

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  6. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 6 - Straight On 'til Morning
    6.9/10(222 votes)

    #6 - Straight On 'til Morning

    S2:E6

    A UFO carrying four anthropomorphic aliens seeking a new home on earth crashes into the ocean. The aliens manage to escape their lost vessel and swim ashore. Having witnessed the UFO’s flight, Steve Austin investigates a town close to the point of impact. Things quickly turn confrontational when physical contact between an alien and a human causes the alien to slowly die and the human to suffer radiation burns. Steve Austin befriends the aliens and attempts to assist the sole survivor in returning to her people before she dies. Despite astronomical odds, an impending rocket launch appears to be the only possible solution.

    Director:Lawrence Doheny
    Writer:D.C. Fontana

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  7. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 7 - The Midas Touch
    6.7/10(180 votes)

    #7 - The Midas Touch

    S2:E7

    When Oscar disappears, Steve investigates a lead involving a government-operated gold mine.

    Director:Bruce Bilson
    Writers:Donald L. Gold, Lester Wm. Berke

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  8. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 8 - The Deadly Replay
    7.2/10(186 votes)

    #8 - 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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  9. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 9 - Act of Piracy
    7.0/10(177 votes)

    #9 - Act of Piracy

    S2:E9

    While Steve is helping a science team place earthquake sensors on the ocean floor, their boat is notified that the nearby country of Santa Ventura has broken off diplomatic relations with the US. Before their boat can leave the area they are captured by a Venturan patrol boat and Steve must help the team to escape.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 10 - Stranger in Broken Fork
    6.9/10(197 votes)

    #10 - Stranger in Broken Fork

    S2:E10

    An electrical short in Steve Austin’s bionic wiring causes him to crash land a plane in Colorado. Suffering from complete amnesia, he is taken in by a psychologist who is operating a home for the mentally depressed. Some locals in the town of Broken Fork do not want this home for “crazy” people in their community, and use strong-arm tactics to force it to move. Steven Austin gets embroiled in the controversy, amazing both himself and all witnesses with his seemingly inexplicable superhuman strength. As he searches for his true identity, Oscar Goldman leads a team trying to find his forgetful friend before his faulty wiring becomes fatal.

    Director:Christian Nyby
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 11 - The Peeping Blonde
    7.0/10(185 votes)

    #11 - The Peeping Blonde

    S2:E11

    When Steve jumps a 12 foot fence to fix a malfunctioning space capsule, a newswoman happens to get it on film. After her boss sees the footage he attempts to kidnap Steve so he can sell him to a foreign country.

    Director:Herschel Daugherty
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 12 - The Cross-Country Kidnap
    6.6/10(166 votes)

    #12 - The Cross-Country Kidnap

    S2:E12

    Steve is assigned to protect Liza Leitman, an equestrian trying to make the Olympic team; also the creator of the cryptography code that links computers and secret communications world-wide.

    Director:Christian Nyby
    Writer:Ray Brenner

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  13. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 13 - Lost Love
    6.4/10(169 votes)

    #13 - Lost Love

    S2:E13

    Steve consoles a woman, with whom he was once romantically involved, after her husband apparently dies in a plane crash.

    Director:Arnold Laven
    Writer:Unknown

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

    #14 - 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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  15. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 15 - Return of the Robot Maker
    7.7/10(193 votes)

    #15 - 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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  16. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 16 - Taneha
    6.6/10(181 votes)

    #16 - Taneha

    S2:E16

    The last known golden cougar is on the verge of being hunted down by local ranchers trying to stop their livestock from being killed. Steve's friend, and a local rancher, asks Steve to help him save the cougar from extinction.

    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Margaret Armen

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  17. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 17 - Look Alike
    7.2/10(184 votes)

    #17 - 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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  18. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 18 - The E.S.P. Spy
    6.8/10(171 votes)

    #18 - The E.S.P. Spy

    S2:E18

    When Oscar discovers that the construction of a top secret laser is being duplicated, he suspects that Harry Green, the expert overseeing the project, is a traitor. However, Steve disagrees and believes that Green's thoughts are being monitored through ESP. He obtains the help of Audrey Moss, also gifted with ESP, to track down the spy.

    Director:Jerry London
    Writer:Lionel E. Siegel

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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 20 - The Bionic Woman (2)
    7.9/10(234 votes)

    #20 - 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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  21. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 2 Episode 21 - Outrage in Balinderry
    6.0/10(169 votes)

    #21 - Outrage in Balinderry

    S2:E21

    Revolutionaries kidnap the wife of the US Ambassador to the nation of Balinderry. In exchange for her release, the revolutionaries want their imprisoned fellow revolutionaries freed. With the help of Julia Flood, his liaison with the kidnappers, Steve attempts to rescue the ambassador's wife.

    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Paul Schneider

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

    #22 - 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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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Nuclear Alert" is the best rated episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man" season 2. It scored 7/10 based on 203 votes. Directed by Jerry London and written by William Driskill, it aired on 9/13/1974. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "The Pioneers".