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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!

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)".

  • The Return of the Bionic Woman (1)
    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

  • The Return of the Bionic Woman (2)
    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

  • The Price of Liberty
    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

  • The Song and Dance Spy
    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

  • The Wolf Boy
    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

  • The Deadly Test
    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

  • Target in the Sky
    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

  • One of our Running Backs is Missing
    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

  • The Bionic Criminal
    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

  • The Blue Flash
    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

  • The White Lightning War
    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

  • Divided Loyalty
    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

  • Clark Templeton O'Flaherty
    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

  • The Winning Smile
    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

  • Hocus-Pocus
    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

  • The Secret of Bigfoot (1)
    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

  • The Secret of Bigfoot (2)
    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

  • The Golden Pharaoh
    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

  • Love Song for Tanya
    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

  • The Bionic Badge
    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

  • Big Brother
    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