6.0/10150 votesLoading...#1 - 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
6.2/10126 votesLoading...#2 - The Ultimate Imposter
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/2/1977
Dr. Wells has a new project that involves the direct (and permanent) transfer of information to the brain of Joe Patton from a computer. However, Joe's girlfriend, Jenny, (another operative) expresses concern for Joe's safety.
Director: Paul Stanley
Writer: Lionel E. Siegel
6.3/10185 votesLoading...#3 - Run, Steve, Run
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 4/26/1974
When a crime syndicate and a robot creator conspire to build a team of bionic robot criminals, they kidnap Steve in order to learn how his bionic limbs work.
Director: Jerry Jameson
Writer: Lionel E. Siegel
6.3/10150 votesLoading...#4 - 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
6.3/10117 votesLoading...#5 - Double Trouble
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1976
When a nightclub comedian is hit by a car, the x-rays reveal an implant in his head that can control his actions. Oscar sends Steve to find out why and if the Russians are involved.
Director: Phil Bondelli
Writer: Jerry Devine
6.4/10220 votesLoading...#6 - Operation Firefly
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/1/1974
Dr. Samuel Abbott has been kidnapped while developing a wireless laser that utilizes scientific principles observed in light generation by the common firefly. Steve Austin goes to Spain to find Abbott’s daughter Susan whose known powers of ESP will hopefully assist in locating the scientist. She leads them to the Everglades only to discover that Dr. Abbott mistakenly believes his kidnappers are government agents that are protecting him. He continues to complete the laser unaware that it is being used to extort money from the U.S. Government.
Director: Reza Badiyi
Writer: Sy Salkowitz
6.4/10131 votesLoading...#7 - 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 votesLoading...#8 - 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
6.4/10136 votesLoading...#9 - 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
6.4/10119 votesLoading...#10 - The Ghostly Teletype
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 3/13/1977
A top secret formula is wiped off it's page and Steve Austin is accused of swiping it. To prove his innocence, Austin seeks out the inventor of the formula and anyone who might benefit from it at such an early stage.
Director: Tom Connors
Writer: Wilton Schiller
6.4/10109 votesLoading...#11 - Rollback
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1977
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
6.4/10118 votesLoading...#12 - Dead Ringer
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 2/13/1978
Steve's brush with death is followed by visions that may be the work of a spirit.
Director: Arnold Laven
Writer: Robert I. Holt
6.5/10169 votesLoading...#13 - 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
6.5/10161 votesLoading...#14 - 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
6.5/10135 votesLoading...#15 - 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
6.5/10137 votesLoading...#16 - A Bionic Christmas Carol
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/12/1976
After an accident at a NASA contractor, Steve uses his bionic abilities to convince the gruff, penny-pinching head of the company to change his callous ways.
Director: Gerald Mayer
Writer: Wilton Schiller
6.5/10175 votesLoading...#17 - Sharks (1)
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/1977
Steve is captured while investigating the unusual power failure of a nuclear submarine.
Director: Alan J. Levi
Writer: Arthur Weingarten
6.6/10170 votesLoading...#18 - 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
6.6/10147 votesLoading...#19 - 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
6.6/10133 votesLoading...#20 - 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
6.6/10132 votesLoading...#21 - 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
6.7/10234 votesLoading...#22 - Burning Bright
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/12/1974
Steve's astronaut friend Josh Lang (William Shatner) is impaired after being exposed to an electrical field while in space. However, Lang finds himself with strange abilities from the exposure, including the ability to communicate with dolphins, but when his condition deteriorates, Steve must find him and take him to a facility before he harms himself.
Director: Jerry London
Writer: Del Reisman
6.7/10158 votesLoading...#23 - 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
6.7/10148 votesLoading...#24 - 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
6.7/10112 votesLoading...#25 - Vulture of the Andes
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/1976
Steve poses as a member of the US team in a sailplane meet to stop terrorists.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Benjamin Masselink
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Outrage in Balinderry" is the worst rated episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man". It scored 6/10 based on 150 votes. Directed by Earl Bellamy and written by Paul Schneider, it aired on 4/20/1975. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Ultimate Imposter".