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The Best Episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5

Every episode of The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5!

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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 5 Episode 1 - Sharks (1)
    6.6/10(194 votes)

    #1 - Sharks (1)

    S5:E1

    Steve is captured while investigating the unusual power failure of a nuclear submarine.

    Director:Alan J. Levi
    Writer:Arthur Weingarten

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  2. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5 Episode 2 - Sharks (2)
    6.9/10(135 votes)

    #2 - Sharks (2)

    S5:E2

    A nuclear submarine is commandeered for the purpose of piracy and extortion. Steve investigates and is captured. To escape he must eluded trained sharks.

    Director:Alan J. Levi
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5 Episode 3 - Deadly Countdown (1)
    7.2/10(144 votes)

    #3 - Deadly Countdown (1)

    S5:E3

    Steve is on a mission involving a test satellite. But Steve becomes a target when the satellite is needed to gain control of a missile to be sold to a foreign power.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Gregory S. Dinallo

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  4. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5 Episode 4 - Deadly Countdown (2)
    7.6/10(130 votes)

    #4 - Deadly Countdown (2)

    S5:E4

    The daughter of Steve's friend, David McGrath, is kidnapped in order to force David to kill Steve. When the attempt on Steve fails, David confesses to Steve who then must rescue her.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:Gregory S. Dinallo

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  5. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5 Episode 5 - Bigfoot V
    7.0/10(159 votes)

    #5 - Bigfoot V

    S5:E5

    Steve thought Bigfoot had returned to space. But when Bigfoot is seen and photographed by an anthropologist, Steve travels to her camp to investigate.

    Director:Rod Holcomb
    Writer:Gregory S. Dinallo

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  6. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5 Episode 6 - Killer Wind
    7.1/10(128 votes)

    #6 - Killer Wind

    S5:E6

    Two locals join Steve when he attempts to rescue a group of students in a stalled cable car halfway up a mountain. They must rescue the students before a tornado gets to them, but one of the men is a criminal and the plan is put in jeopardy.

    Director:Dick Moder
    Writer:Gregory S. Dinallo

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  7. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5 Episode 7 - Rollback
    6.5/10(124 votes)

    #7 - Rollback

    S5:E7

    Steve goes undercover, joining a roller derby team whose owner plans to acquire and sell top-secret information. When the owner discovers the ruse, he plants evidence to lead Steve in the wrong direction, and uses the distraction to go get the information.

    Director:Don McDougall
    Writer:Steven E. de Souza

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  8. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5 Episode 8 - Dark Side of the Moon (1)
    6.9/10(124 votes)

    #8 - Dark Side of the Moon (1)

    S5:E8

    Steve is sent to the moon to investigate an orbital shift which is causing major upheavals in the Earth's climate. It turns out the upheavals are caused by a deranged scientist working at an exploration post on a nearby asteroid.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writers:Richard H. Landau, John Meredyth Lucas

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  9. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5 Episode 9 - Dark Side of the Moon (2)
    6.9/10(123 votes)

    #9 - Dark Side of the Moon (2)

    S5:E9

    Steve is captured on the moon and is forced to help the scientist, who believes he's found a new energy source, and who threatens nuclear devastation on Earth if Steve refuses.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writer:John Meredyth Lucas

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  10. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5 Episode 10 - Target: Steve Austin
    7.1/10(120 votes)

    #10 - Target: Steve Austin

    S5:E10

    Steve poses as a newlywed with another OSI agent to uncover who broke into headquarters in search of an atomic bomb. Travelling via RV, their prey discovers the RV has a nuclear power source of its own and attempts to turn the tables.

    Director:Edward M. Abroms
    Writers:Donald L. Gold, Lester Wm. Berke

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  11. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5 Episode 11 - The Cheshire Project
    7.2/10(121 votes)

    #11 - The Cheshire Project

    S5:E11

    Steve investigates his girlfriend's disappearance while she was piloting a new plane with anti-radar technology. He discovers one of the plane's technicians has been talking to a known trader of military secrets and starts the search for further clues.

    Director:Dick Moder
    Writer:John Meredyth Lucas

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  12. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5 Episode 12 - Walk a Deadly Wing
    7.1/10(117 votes)

    #12 - Walk a Deadly Wing

    S5:E12

    Steve is assigned to gain the confidence of a scientist who has developed a weapon to capture soldiers non-violently, but refuses to hand over the plans to anyone for fear it could cause drastic results if used on a pilot in flight. As Steve begins to become his friend and acquire the weapon, the Russians inform the scientist they are holding his wife hostage and demand the device in trade for her safe return.

    Director:Herb Wallerstein
    Writers:Terrence McDonnell, Jim Carlson

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  13. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5 Episode 13 - Just a Matter of Time
    7.5/10(137 votes)

    #13 - Just a Matter of Time

    S5:E13

    Steve enters a time warp while on an orbital mission, hurling him six years into the future. Upon landing, the authorities arrest him for treason, believing he defected to Russia and was brainwashed into thinking the time warp occurred. Steve has to both prove his innocence and figure out how to get back to his own time.

    Director:Don McDougall
    Writer:Neal J. Sperling

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  14. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5 Episode 14 - Return of Death Probe (1)
    7.4/10(130 votes)

    #14 - Return of Death Probe (1)

    S5:E14

    A new, deadlier Venus probe is tested in a desolate area as a demonstration for Steve and Oscar, but a threat to Oscar to either hand over nuclear weaponry or see the probe set loose on the public forces Steve to find a way to stop the probe, even though it outmatches him in many ways.

    Director:Tom Connors
    Writer:Howard Dimsdale

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  15. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5 Episode 15 - Return of Death Probe (2)
    7.2/10(121 votes)

    #15 - Return of Death Probe (2)

    S5:E15

    When all physical assaults fail against the new Venus probe, Steve succeeds in tricking it into falling into a pit. However, when it starts drilling towards a city, Steve has a bigger problem than before.

    Director:Tom Connors
    Writer:Howard Dimsdale

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  16. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5 Episode 16 - The Lost Island
    7.3/10(133 votes)

    #16 - The Lost Island

    S5:E16

    While searching for a fallen satellite in the Pacific, Steve rescues a drowning victim who turns out to be an alien. She offers to help him acquire the satellite, which has landed on her race's invisible island. However, many of the island's populace in fear of a revolution, yet are unable to leave due to a lack of an immune system to Earth illnesses. Steve must get an experimental serum for her before she will help him.

    Director:Cliff Bole
    Writers:Mel Goldberg, Lou Shaw

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  17. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5 Episode 17 - The Madonna Caper
    7.2/10(114 votes)

    #17 - The Madonna Caper

    S5:E17

    While Steve helps a countess retrieve a microdot with important information hidden on a painting in a museum, she helps herself to a masterpiece and replaces it with a forgery. Oscar sends Steve to retrieve the painting from its buyer before a visiting art expert causes embarrassment by discovering the counterfeit currently on display.

    Director:Herb Wallerstein
    Writer:Gregory S. Dinallo

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  18. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5 Episode 18 - Dead Ringer
    6.5/10(131 votes)

    #18 - Dead Ringer

    S5:E18

    Steve's brush with death is followed by visions that may be the work of a spirit.

    Director:Arnold Laven
    Writer:Robert I. Holt

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  19. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5 Episode 19 - Date with Danger (1)
    7.6/10(122 votes)

    #19 - Date with Danger (1)

    S5:E19

    When OSI's communications chief is accused of spying, Steve attempts to prove his innocence and discovers tampered computer memory. He is led to suspect a computer dating service is behind the ilegal activity, but doesn't realize a computer itself has gained sentience and plans to stop Steve any way it can.

    Director:Rod Holcomb
    Writer:Wilton Schiller

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  20. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5 Episode 20 - Date with Danger (2)
    7.6/10(119 votes)

    #20 - Date with Danger (2)

    S5:E20

    Steve teams with the owner of the computer dating service to put a stop to her now-sentient computer. After escaping a computer-arranged assassination, Steve finds himself in a mental facility after his medical records are altered. While the computer attempts to have everyone who knows about it killed, Steve must find a way to escape and stop the computer before it's too late.

    Director:Rod Holcomb
    Writer:Wilton Schiller

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  21. The Six Million Dollar Man Season 5 Episode 21 - The Moving Mountain
    7.6/10(129 votes)

    #21 - The Moving Mountain

    S5:E21

    A terrorist steals a Russian rocket launcher and American missilse and plans to hold both countries hostage. Steve is sent along with a beautiful Russian agent to stop the terrorist, but his opposite number has orders to dispose of him and bring back the missiles to her superiors.

    Director:Don McDougall
    Writer:Stephen Kandel

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Sharks (1)" is the best rated episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man" season 5. It scored 6.6/10 based on 194 votes. Directed by Alan J. Levi and written by Arthur Weingarten, it aired on 9/11/1977. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Sharks (2)".