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The Best Episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3

Every episode of The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3!

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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 3 Episode 1 - The Return of the Bionic Woman (1)
    7.6/10(230 votes)

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

    #2 - 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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  3. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3 Episode 3 - The Price of Liberty
    6.9/10(168 votes)

    #3 - The Price of Liberty

    S3:E3

    Bitter explosive expert Robert Meyer arranges for the Liberty Bell to be stolen, rigs it with three bombs and demands five million dollars. Complications mount up and Steve Austin is forced to ask imprisoned bomb expert Linstrom to help defuse Meyer's handiwork.

    Director:Dick Moder
    Writer:Kenneth Johnson

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  4. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3 Episode 4 - The Song and Dance Spy
    6.4/10(147 votes)

    #4 - The Song and Dance Spy

    S3:E4

    Steve is assigned to keep an eye on his college buddy, the entertainer John Perry. Oscar suspects the singer of being a courier for an espionage ring.

    Director:Dick Moder
    Writer:Jerry Devine

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  5. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3 Episode 5 - The Wolf Boy
    6.4/10(165 votes)

    #5 - The Wolf Boy

    S3:E5

    When Kuroda is asked to track down a wolf boy roaming the island forests of Hoyoko, Japan, he asks for only one man to help him: his friend Col. Steve Austin.

    Director:Jerry London
    Writer:Judy Burns

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  6. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3 Episode 6 - The Deadly Test
    6.6/10(147 votes)

    #6 - The Deadly Test

    S3:E6

    Steve Austin is on reserve duty at Edwards Airforce base when an attempt is made on Prince Sakari of Kutan, who is studying to be a jet pilot there.

    Director:Christian I. Nyby II
    Writer:James D. Parriott

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  7. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3 Episode 7 - Target in the Sky
    7.2/10(157 votes)

    #7 - 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.

    Director:Jerry London
    Writer:Larry Alexander

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  8. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3 Episode 8 - One of our Running Backs is Missing
    7.1/10(189 votes)

    #8 - One of our Running Backs is Missing

    S3:E8

    Running back Larry Bronco is kidnapped on the day of an important game, but his good friend Steve Austin uses all his bionic powers to make sure Bronco makes it to the game in time.

    Director:Lee Majors
    Writers:Elroy Schwartz, Kenneth Johnson

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

    #9 - 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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  10. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3 Episode 10 - The Blue Flash
    7.0/10(159 votes)

    #10 - The Blue Flash

    S3:E10

    Steve Austin goes undercover as a longshoreman to investigate the disappearance of another OSI agent.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writers:Sidney Field, Sheridan Gibney

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  11. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3 Episode 11 - The White Lightning War
    7.1/10(164 votes)

    #11 - The White Lightning War

    S3:E11

    Several agents from the U.S. Treasury Department have died from snake bites while investigating an illegal moonshine ring in Morgantown, Georgia. Steve Austin volunteers to go undercover and pose as the leader of a rival gang.

    Director:Phil Bondelli
    Writer:Wilton Denmark

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  12. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3 Episode 12 - Divided Loyalty
    6.6/10(149 votes)

    #12 - Divided Loyalty

    S3:E12

    Scientist Leon Jackson defected to the Soviet Union for the love of a woman but now wants to return to the states with his son Alex.

    Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.
    Writers:Terrence McDonnell, Jim Carlson

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

    #13 - 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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  14. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3 Episode 14 - The Winning Smile
    7.1/10(149 votes)

    #14 - 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.

    Director:Arnold Laven
    Writer:Gustave Field

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  15. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3 Episode 15 - Hocus-Pocus
    7.3/10(168 votes)

    #15 - Hocus-Pocus

    S3:E15

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

    Director:Barry Crane
    Writer:Richard Carr

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  16. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3 Episode 16 - The Secret of Bigfoot (1)
    7.8/10(428 votes)

    #16 - 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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  17. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3 Episode 17 - The Secret of Bigfoot (2)
    8.0/10(239 votes)

    #17 - 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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  18. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3 Episode 18 - The Golden Pharaoh
    6.8/10(152 votes)

    #18 - The Golden Pharaoh

    S3:E18

    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
    Writers:Margaret Schneider, Paul Schneider

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  19. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3 Episode 19 - Love Song for Tanya
    6.6/10(157 votes)

    #19 - Love Song for Tanya

    S3:E19

    Oscar Goldman assigns Steve Austin to escort duty for Russian gymnast Tanya Breski.

    Director:Phil Bondelli
    Writers:David H. Balkan, Alan Lynn Folsom

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  20. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3 Episode 20 - The Bionic Badge
    7.0/10(159 votes)

    #20 - The Bionic Badge

    S3:E20

    Atomic bomb components have been stolen over a series of thefts and Oscar suspects one old cop, Officer Banner of being involved.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Wilton Denmark

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  21. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 3 Episode 21 - Big Brother
    6.6/10(153 votes)

    #21 - Big Brother

    S3:E21

    When Steve Austin agrees to some promotional work for a friends' Big Brothers organization, he soon takes a difficult youth named Carlos Delgado under his wing.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Kenneth Johnson

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"The Return of the Bionic Woman (1)" is the best rated episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man" season 3. It scored 7.6/10 based on 230 votes. Directed by Dick Moder and written by Kenneth Johnson, it aired on 9/14/1975. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Return of the Bionic Woman (2)".