- 7.5/10207 votes
#1 - 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
- 7.4/10192 votes
#2 - 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
- 6.8/10153 votes
#3 - The Price of Liberty
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1975
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
- 6.4/10131 votes
#4 - The Song and Dance Spy
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1975
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
- 6.4/10147 votes
#5 - The Wolf Boy
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/1975
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
- 6.6/10133 votes
#6 - The Deadly Test
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/1975
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
- 7.2/10142 votes
#7 - Target in the Sky
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1975
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
- 7.0/10169 votes
#8 - One of our Running Backs is Missing
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1975
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
Writer: Elroy Schwartz, Kenneth Johnson
- 7.3/10159 votes
#9 - 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
- 7.0/10140 votes
#10 - The Blue Flash
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/1975
Steve Austin goes undercover as a longshoreman to investigate the disappearance of another OSI agent.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Sheridan Gibney, Sidney Field
- 7.0/10147 votes
#11 - The White Lightning War
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/23/1975
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
- 6.6/10132 votes
#12 - Divided Loyalty
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 11/30/1975
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.
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Writer: Jim Carlson, Terrence McDonnell
- 7.2/10138 votes
#13 - Clark Templeton O'Flaherty
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/14/1975
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
- 7.1/10133 votes
#14 - The Winning Smile
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/21/1975
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
- 7.3/10147 votes
#15 - Hocus-Pocus
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/18/1976
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
- 7.6/10400 votes
#16 - 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
- 7.8/10215 votes
#17 - 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
- 6.8/10133 votes
#18 - 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
- 6.4/10136 votes
#19 - Love Song for Tanya
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/15/1976
Oscar Goldman assigns Steve Austin to escort duty for Russian gymnast Tanya Breski.
Director: Phil Bondelli
Writer: David H. Balkan, Alan Lynn Folsom
- 6.9/10138 votes
#20 - The Bionic Badge
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/22/1976
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
- 6.5/10135 votes
#21 - Big Brother
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 3/7/1976
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
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!
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
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 7.5/10 based on 207 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)".