7.0/10177 votes#1 - Nuclear Alert
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1974
Steve must stop a group of government conspirators who have assembled an atomic bomb from stolen parts.
Director: Jerry London
Writer: William Driskill
6.5/10169 votes#2 - The Pioneers
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1974
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: N/A
6.6/10170 votes#3 - Pilot Error
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1974
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
6.8/10171 votes#4 - The Pal-Mir Escort
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/1974
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
Writer: Margaret Schneider, Paul Schneider
7.7/10235 votes#5 - 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
6.8/10196 votes#6 - Straight On 'til Morning
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/1974
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
6.7/10158 votes#7 - The Midas Touch
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/1974
When Oscar disappears, Steve investigates a lead involving a government-operated gold mine.
Director: Bruce Bilson
Writer: Donald L. Gold, Lester Wm. Berke
7.2/10165 votes#8 - The Deadly Replay
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/1974
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
7.0/10159 votes#9 - Act of Piracy
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/29/1974
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: N/A
6.8/10179 votes#10 - Stranger in Broken Fork
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/13/1974
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: N/A
7.0/10162 votes#11 - The Peeping Blonde
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/20/1974
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: N/A
6.6/10147 votes#12 - The Cross-Country Kidnap
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/10/1975
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
6.3/10150 votes#13 - Lost Love
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/17/1975
Steve consoles a woman, with whom he was once romantically involved, after her husband apparently dies in a plane crash.
Director: Arnold Laven
Writer: N/A
7.3/10174 votes#14 - 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
7.7/10169 votes#15 - 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
6.5/10161 votes#16 - Taneha
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/2/1975
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
7.1/10164 votes#17 - Look Alike
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/23/1975
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: N/A
6.7/10148 votes#18 - The E.S.P. Spy
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/2/1975
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
7.3/10507 votes#19 - 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
7.8/10209 votes#20 - 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
6.0/10150 votes#21 - Outrage in Balinderry
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 4/20/1975
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
7.4/10166 votes#22 - 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 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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Network:ABC
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 177 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".