List of The Six Million Dollar Man episodes

Steve Austin is an astronaut who has made three moon landings. In a test flight accident caused by a malfunctioning center stick, his right arm is severed, his left eye is blinded, and both legs must be surgically amputated. Steve Austin’s personal physician, Dr. Rudy Wells, has theorized about the creation of a cyborg through the installation of bionic parts. He is persuaded by an OSO agent to reconstruct his patient/friend with the understanding that Steve Austin will subsequently work for the OSO. Dr. Wells apprises Steve of the plan, but is met with much resistance as Steve Austin mentally struggles to cope with his injuries, the installation of artificial components, and the future obligations that will be involuntarily thrust upon him. Following surgery and lengthy rehabilitation, Steve Austin reluctantly accepts an assignment to rescue a hostage in Saudi Arabia.

Steve Austin is gravely injured by a depth charge while fleeing from a failed mission in Egypt. He refuses further cooperation with OSI which will not disclose to him the target of the operation which nearly cost him his life. OSI conspires with an old Air Force acquaintance to dupe Steve Austin into “escaping” from his involuntary confinement to Paradise Cay in the Bahamas. There he is unwittingly thrust back into the same operation which intends to stop an arms dealer named Findletter from selling stolen American and Russian nuclear missiles. The stakes are increased when Findletter attempts to hijack a newly launched American submarine.

Guest Star: Britt Ekland as a Russian agent.

Bionic Powers Revealed: Steve Austin’s bionic eye has night vision. It is both suggested and partially contradicted that Steve Austin's bionics give him the ability to hold his breath for long periods of time.

When Steve and Oscar investigate the knocking out of the entire population of a small town, they are contacted by a scientist, once employed by the government, who is set on revenge for past grievances. Demanding $10 million or he will strike again, Steve must find and stop him.

Due to secret negotiations with the Russians, Oscar Goldman is targeted for assassination by interests that will be hurt by the prospective pact. Oscar and Steve Austin board a flight in Hawaii bound for Dulles. The plane is forced to make an emergency landing on a deserted Pacific Island when part of a wing is lost during a storm. While awaiting rescue, two military officers that had been on the flight severely wound Oscar in an attempt to kill him. Unaware of the breadth of the conspiracy, Steve Austin must carefully decide whom he can trust in his efforts to save his friend.

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.

Noteworthy Moments: First use of the "dit-dit-dit" sound effect for Steve Austin's bionic eye. This episode features bionic woodcarving. Steve Austin battles an alligator prop whose production budget should have been more generous.

In an attempt to steal a top secret anti-missile device, Steve's associate and friend Major Sloan is kidnapped and replaced with a robot. Steve must discover the impostor, and keep the device from being stolen and sold to the highest bidder.

Noteworthy Moments: First occurrence of the "fft-tt-tt" sound effect, later used for Steve Austin's bionic legs and arm, used here for some (but not all) of the Fred Sloan robot's powered arm swings.

Steve is assigned to find and rescue downed pilot Josh Perkins, as well as recover the evidence of U.N. treaty violations that Perkins had on him when he disappeared.

When an earthquake threatens the stability of an underground Russian nuclear installation, Steve must rescue the fiance of his friend Col. Vasily Zhukov, who is buried beneath debris. Complicating matters further, Steve must also stop the reactor before it explodes.

By sheer chance, Steve Austin witnesses the attempted assassination of Lawrence Sandusky, a prosecutor who is about to file criminal charges against a known racketeer. He is unable to capture the attacker, but does catch a glimpse of his face. OSI is assigned to security detail for the prosecutor pending a 9:00 a.m. court hearing. Steve Austin identifies and apprehends a man named John Hopper, believing him to be the hired hitman. However, Hopper has a seemingly ironclad alibi. Convinced that he is correct, Steve Austin trails the released suspect as the court hearing fast approaches.

Steve is launched into space to rescue two astronauts stranded in a crippled space capsule.

When a terrorist uses a laser to try to kill a group of prime ministers attending an international meeting in Paris, Steve is assigned to infiltrate his compound and stop him.

When an earthquake in the Himalayas uncovers a DC-3 plane containing secret papers that went down during World War II, Steve is sent to recover them. Steve also tries to clear the name of the pilot, his father, who was accused of bailing out and leaving the rest of the crew to die.

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.

Steve must stop a group of government conspirators who have assembled an atomic bomb from stolen parts.

When the Prime Minister of a small country has a heart attack while negotiating a peace treaty with neighboring countries, she is selected to receive the first bionic heart. Steve is assigned to protect her while she is transported to the secret hospital where the procedure will take place.

When Steve discovers that there is another bionic man - Barney Hiller, a race car driver - he is assigned to help him adjust to his bionics. (Hiller is seen again in episode 3-09)

A UFO carrying four anthropomorphic aliens seeking a new home on earth crashes into the ocean. The aliens manage to escape their lost vessel and swim ashore. Having witnessed the UFO’s flight, Steve Austin investigates a town close to the point of impact. Things quickly turn confrontational when physical contact between an alien and a human causes the alien to slowly die and the human to suffer radiation burns. Steve Austin befriends the aliens and attempts to assist the sole survivor in returning to her people before she dies. Despite astronomical odds, an impending rocket launch appears to be the only possible solution.

When Oscar disappears, Steve investigates a lead involving a government-operated gold mine.

Steve attempts to re-test the experimental plane that caused his near fatal accident. When suspicious things begin to happen, Oscar reveals to Steve that his first crash might not have been an accident. Steve chooses to proceed with the experiments hoping to lure the saboteurs into the open.

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.

While Steve Austin is on a one week fishing vacation, a Steve Austin look-alike shows up at Oscar Goldman’s office claiming that he decided to cut his vacation short. He secretly takes photographs of the Omega Project files, which are turned over to a middleman named Breezy. The real Steve Austin returns just in time to catch his double getting a tour of the Omega Project facility. The impostor is hit by a car and killed in the ensuing pursuit. Steve Austin then poses as the impostor, a former boxer named John Dine who had his face surgically altered to resemble the bionic OSI agent. The search for the photographs eventually lands him in the ring of a crooked boxing promoter.

Guest Stars: George Foreman as Marcus Grayson, a boxer now working for OSI and Jack Colvin as Ed Jasper

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.

Steve Austin buys a ranch in his hometown of Ojai, California. He reunites with childhood friend Jaime Sommers who is now a professional tennis player. They rekindle a brief childhood romance. Sommers is injured in a skydiving accident when her parachute collapses toward the end of a jump. Her right arm, right ear, and both legs are severely damaged. With Jaime’s life in peril, Steve Austin persuades a reluctant Oscar Goldman to fit her with bionics. Although skeptical at first, Jaime Sommers quickly acclimates to her mechanized components. The bond deepens between the two bionic humans. Steve Austin proposes marriage to Jaime Sommers, and she accepts.

Guest Star: Lindsay Wagner as Jamie Sommers

While Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers plan their wedding, Oscar Goldman submits his bill for making Jaime Sommers a bionic woman: She is to go on her first assignment with her fiancé to switch a flawed U.S. $20 bill printing plate for a perfect copy in the possession of a foreign counterfeiter named Joseph Ronaugh. Steve Austin vehemently objects, but Jaime Sommers acknowledges her debt and agrees. The two succeed in their mission despite a malfunction in Jaime Sommer’s bionic arm which nearly causes it to fail. It is soon discovered that her body is rejecting the bionics. Dr. Rudy Wells conducts an emergency surgery to no avail. Jaime Sommers dies.

Guest Star: Lindsay Wagner as Jaime Sommers

Steve is arrested when an assassin he helped send to prison seeks revenge by framing him for murder. Steve escapes from the police and must find the assassin before the police find Steve. Lee Majors plays a comic bit part as an elderly electrical store clerk credited as L Majors.

Steve Austin’s bionic legs are crushed in an attempt to sew mayhem between two families of organized crime. While in rehab, he repeatedly sees an unconscious Jaime Sommers, but is assured that he is simply delusional. A direct threat to Oscar Goldman and Dr. Rudy Wells finally yields the truth: Jaime Sommers did die, but the intercession of the young Dr. Michael Marchetti resuscitated her through experimental cryogenics. She has suffered a complete and perhaps permanent loss of memory. It is feared that if they attempt to revive her memories, she may suffer more pain. Steve Austin is reintroduced to her simply as the other bionic human. He is emotionally wrenched in seeing his fiancée fall in love with Dr. Marchetti who admits that he is attracted to his pretty patient.

Guest Star: Lindsay Wagner as Jaime Sommers

Steve Austin takes Jaime Sommers to his ranch in Ojai hoping that it will be beneficial to her recovery. A brief moment of inattentiveness allows Jaime Sommers to escape into town. The local tennis court immediately revives memories of her past life, and causes her to suffer violent headaches. Her caregivers believe that a covert sabotage mission on the Caribbean island of Melinique would be a good diversion. However, it is abruptly aborted when Jaime Sommers is incapacitated by memories of her bionic beau. Steve Austin selflessly decides that the best thing for his frenetic fiancee is a complete divorce from her former life for a while. She is to be relocated to Dr. Wells' facility in Colorado Springs with Dr. Marchetti.

Guest Star: Lindsay Wagner as Jaime Sommers

An ex-government employee feels the government owes him after being laid off due to cutbacks. He therefore rigs the Liberty Bell, which is on tour around the country for the bicentennial celebration, to explode unless he gets $5 million and safe passage out of the country. Steve and Oscar must rely on an explosive expert who is in prison to defuse the bomb.

When Oscar suspects rock star John Perry, Steve's friend and former college roommate, of carrying top-secret information, Steve is assigned to watch him and hopefully prove his innocence.

Steve Austin temporarily assumes command of a test pilot training school at Edwards Air Force Base. Due to political differences, a great deal of tension exists between two of the pilots, Prince Aram Sakari of the Arab state of Kutan, and David Levy of Israel. The Prime Minister of Kutan hires a Dr. Winslow to kill the Prince by using a jamming device to disable his plane’s controls in mid-flight. A last minute change in flight assignments causes Levy to take the Prince’s plane. Levy narrowly escapes death, causing further suspicions between the two pilots. Steve Austin secretly takes the place of the Prince on his next flight, and has to overcome an errant plane and the debilitating effects of the jamming device on his bionic eye.

Guest Star: Erik Estrada as Prince Aram Sakari of Kutan

Football player Larry Bronco is kidnapped as part of a plan to make his team lose and generate a fortune for his abductors, who have wagered heavily on the game. Steve determines to find him before the start of the game.

Barney Hiller, the Seven Million Dollar Man (episode 2-05), is reactivated. Having apparently recovered, he's eager to resume auto racing. However, when the team owner won't let him race, Barney attacks the man and mistakenly believes he's killed him. Barney has a mental break from the stress and goes on a crime spree, and Steve must track him down.

Steve investigates a friend accused of stealing secret documents.

With help again from mind-reader Audrey Moss, Steve poses as a magician to recover a stolen code book.

While helping set up an earthquake warning system Steve encounters a towering monster — and its mysterious masters. Wrestler André the Giant plays the Sasquatch.

Just as he is assigned the task of escorting the Golden Pharaoh back to the country of Levant, Steve Austin detects that the seemingly priceless statue entrusted to him is a fake. Suspicion as to the whereabouts of the real statue immediately turns to the embassy of the Kalny Republic. Trish Hollander, a former love interest of Steve Austin with an insatiable gambling addiction, is engaged to the Kalnian Ambassador, Gustav Tokar. She is recruited to assist Austin in infiltrating the embassy to regain the statue. However, her love of money reigns supreme as she shifts her fickle loyalties among her rich fiancé, her astronaut friend, and her favorite gambling operator, Wheel Jackson.

Guest Star: Farrah Fawcett-Majors as Trish Hollander

Steve is asked to escort a Soviet athlete during her stay in the U.S.

Steve poses as a policeman to find who is pilfering atomic weapon components.

The alien race that Steve previously fought (Season 3, episode 17) need supplies of metal and jewels, and send their Bigfoot android to steal them from U.S. government depots. Seeing the results of the unseen android's efforts, the authorities conclude Steve is responsible and arrest him. To clear his name, Steve must escape and track down the aliens.
This episode was the first part of a two-chapter story, the second part airing as an episode of The Bionic Woman. "The Return of Bigfoot (Part 2)" is usually syndicated as a Six Million Dollar Man episode. Actor Ted Cassidy, better known for playing Lurch in The Addams Family, this time plays the role of Sasquatch.

Steve is present at the test flight of his friend Kelly Wood when she is shot down by a World War II-era Japanese Mitsubishi Zero. Later Kelly is found but her plane has vanished and she's suspected of selling it to a foreign concern. Steve must clear her name and discovers a sinister plot to steal top-secret aircraft.

The prime minister of the African nation of Boizana is ready to announce his country’s break from the Soviet bloc. Seeking to prevent this defection to the West, the Russians retain a Dr. Barto who manages to find a look-alike of the prime minister, comedian Billy Parker. Parker is persuaded to undergo surgery to remove a growth on his neck, but is instead implanted with an electronic device that allows his behavior to be completely controlled by computer commands. The prime minister is to be kidnapped, and the puppet Parker substituted in his place. Their plans are slightly derailed when Parker is hit by a car and suffers a head injury. X-rays reveal the implanted device, and OSI is immediately notified. Steve Austin is assigned to act as Parker’s bodyguard to determine the people and the motive behind the plot.

Guest Star: Flip Wilson as both comedian Billy Parker and the prime minister of Boizana.

Jaime lies near death after being attacked by two Fembots. Meanwhile, Steve locates the compound where Oscar is being held and attempts to rescue him.
This episode was the middle chapter of a trilogy with the other two episodes aired as part of The Bionic Woman series. "Kill Oscar (Part 2)" is usually syndicated as a Bionic Woman episode.

When a young man, Andy Sheffield, is injured in a landslide that also kills his father, the OSI sanctions the use of bionics to restore his crippled legs. But Andy sets out to clear his father's name and find the people responsible with the help of Steve.

Guest Stars: Frank Gifford as Himself, Greg Evigan as Joe Hamilton, Joan Van Ark as Valerie Sheffield, Dick Van Patten as Palmer and Vincent Van Patten as Andy Sheffield

A glider competition is used as a front for placing missile homing devices at strategic U.S. military sites. Once in place, an attempt is made to blackmail the U.S. Government into supplying fighter jets to be used to overthrow the government of the country of San Lorenzo. Steve Austin poses as a glider pilot, but is quickly sidelined with an injury to his bionics. Steve works with another OSI agent who is called in while he undergoes repairs.

To save the life of a young Middle Eastern prince from rival factions, Steve goes undercover as a Thunderbird pilot in order to smuggle him out of the country.

Steve Austin arrives at Budge Corporation on Christmas Eve to investigate suspected sabotage of a Mars landing project the U.S. Government has contracted out to Budge. There he meets Budge Corporation’s owner, the miserly and cantankerous Horton Budge. Mr. Budge is a veritable Scrooge who eschews Christmas celebrations at the work place and subordinates job safety to his bottom line. He also meets Bob Crandall, Budge’s nephew, who had embezzled money from Budge to pay medical expenses for his ailing wife after Budge refused to lend him money. When Mr. Budge falls ill on Christmas Eve, Steve Austin dons a Santa Claus suit and shows the hallucinating Budge the true meaning of Christmas at the Crandall house.

Guest stars: Ray Walston as Horton Budge; Dick Sargent as Bob Crandall; Adam Rich as Bob Crandall’s son.

Steve goes undercover as Steve Ferguson, a hired mercenary, in order to infiltrate a ring of thieves attempting to steal a military missile called the Hornet.

Steve's friend Joe Patton is the subject of a unique experiment to transfer information directly from a computer to a human brain. Patton becomes the OSI's newest super-agent but the process has hidden dangers...

The Soviets have created an experimental Venus probe out of a new alloy, but it crashes in Wyoming. Thinking it's on Venus, the probe prepares to destroy a small town. The Russians send a team of agents in to recover it, while the OSI is desperate to stop it before it kills. Complications arise when it becomes clear the probe is stronger than Steve.

Steve Austin and the Death Probe fight mechanical mano a mano. The Death Probe prevails, crushing Steve Austin’s bionic arm in its pincer. Russian operative Major Popov attempts in vain to destroy the Probe with a missile made of the same indestructible alloy. Stripped of his brawn, Steve Austin puts his wholly human brain to the task and correctly theorizes that the heightened internal pressure of the Death Probe gained in its propulsion around Venus repelled the missile. The solution, he reasons, is to bring the Death Probe to a higher elevation where the low pressure atmosphere will allow it to explode.

An assassination plot is in the works to disrupt Sino-American diplomatic rapprochement. Suspicions center around boxing promoter Boris Ritsky who has brought in several Eastern Bloc boxers to the U.S. who have mysteriously disappeared. Steve Austin goes undercover as a boxer named Steve Miller. He enters Ritsky’s international boxing tournament after he and Dr. Rudy Wells put on a display of bionic strength to convince the current American champion to withdraw due to illness. With no leads and time running out, Steve Austin risks blowing his cover by pointedly questioning Ritsky’s female assistant Lena Bannister. His keen observations in the gym expose the true plot to be the theft of a very heavy NASA chip.

Guest Stars: Yvonne Craig as Lena Bannister, Harold Sylvester as a boxer named Tulomme, Joe Kapp as Cooper, and Jerry Quarry as Wally

Steve Austin investigates an East German scientist who fakes a heart attack while in the U.S. under the guise of attending a science conference. The trail leads him to a traveling carnival staffed with an assortment of dubious characters. Steve Austin uncovers an elaborate missile launching device that is disguised within several carnival rides and is located in close proximity to the test flight of a new B-1 bomber.

Two OSI scientists investigating a find of radioactive ore on Apache lands become entrapped inside a cave due to a blast intentionally set off by an unidentified individual. Unaware of their fate, OSI assigns Steve Austin the task of locating and rescuing the scientists. Steve Austin encounters a great deal of resistance from the tribe's shaman who refuses to grant him access to sacred Apache ground. His only way in is to request permission to "catch the eagle," an Apache ritual test that first requires passing three challenges before being sent into the desert without provisions to capture an eagle.

OSI has acquired a decommissioned nuclear submarine from the U.S. Government. Steve Austin joins the crew to assist in locating a lost tracking device. A team of pirates with an underwater hideout sabotage the submarine causing the entire crew to abandon it on the ocean floor. The pirates commandeer the sub with the aid of several trained sharks under the control of the pirate chieftain’s beautiful daughter. Steve Austin is taken prisoner when he reenters the sub. Dr. Rudy Wells becomes trapped in an underwater vessel on the ocean floor after a shark bites through its steel cable tether. When it is learned that the pirates are loading a nuclear missile on the submarine, the naval commander assisting in the search decides to destroy the sub at the risk of killing both the bionic man and his maker.

Oscar Goldman attempts to dissuade the naval commander from using depth charges to destroy the purloined submarine. Reaching back to his time served in World War II, Goldman devises a clever plan to surround the sub with magnetic mines. A mutiny ensues amid the ranks of the pirates. Steve Austin saves the life of the deposed pirate chieftain who suffered a heart attack in the mutinous melee, winning him the support of both the incapacitated pirate and his doting daughter. The mutineers impress Steve Austin into their service, forcing him to push the sub out of its mine-laden encirclement. When freed, they intend to threaten cities on the Eastern seaboard as part of an extortion scheme.

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.

An anthropologist awakens the bionic sasquatch using a high pitch sonic device. She informs OSI of her discovery, unaware of the creature’s alien origin. Steve Austin intervenes in an attempt to stave off all efforts to capture the sasquatch. A visit to a hidden cave reveals that the sasquatch was left behind by his alien creators at his own request and was in an extended period of hibernation while being transformed into an earth creature. However his premature awakening has left him in an unstable state. Steve Austin must help his hairy friend return to his cave while evading capture by the anthropologist and her scheming guides.

Due to high winds caused by a fast approaching twister, three bank robbers and their getaway van get stuck in the desert sands. Excessive turbulence forces Steve Austin and Dr. Rudy Wells to make an emergency aircraft landing nearby. Dr. Rudy Wells breaks his ankle jumping off the landed plane. To provide a means to transport Wells to a local doctor, Steve Austin assists one of the bank robbers in extricating his van from its sandy morass only to have his kindness repaid in the form of a wrench blow to the head. Meanwhile, a teacher and four children become stranded in a cable car when a bolt of lightning causes a power outage.

Steve Austin goes undercover as Philip Taylor, a roller derby skater with great talent and a mean streak. Through a seemingly successful ruse, Steve is hired to replace a skater he injures on the Thunderbirds team whose owner is seeking to acquire and sell top secret government information. He undergoes highly unusual training with the Thunderbirds, thought to be in preparation for infiltrating and stealing information from the Pentagon. As the heist unfolds, Steve soon finds out that his cover is blown and that OSI is the real target.

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.

OSI is developing a system through its Cheshire Project that makes fighter jets undetectable to radar. Due to the small size of the cockpit, a female test pilot named Jenny Fraser is hired to perform its first manned flight. Jenny is a friend of Steve Austin and the two rekindle a romance that ended several years earlier due to work relocation. While at first the test flight appears to be a success, Jenny’s plane mysteriously disappears in mid-flight without a trace. Steve Austin’s search leads right back to the Cheshire Project itself and a weapons purchaser hoping to buy the new technology.

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.

Steve Austin makes a space test flight which confirms the performance capabilities of a new booster fuel developed by OSI. Upon attempted reentry into Earth’s atmosphere, a malfunction in a tracking device causes the space capsule to be thrown off course and contact to be lost with ground control. Steve Austin is washed ashore on an unknown island. He learns that he has gone through a time warp and has returned to Earth in 1984, six years after his launch. He is soon arrested by Edward Barris, the new Director of OSI, under charges of treason for having defected to the Soviet Union during these lost years. Further shock comes from the news that Oscar Goldman has died and Dr. Rudy Wells has taken a wife.

Noteworthy Moments: Holding a distressed female in his right arm, Steve Austin lands a bionic two-person vertical jump. Steve Austin is romantically involved with a pretty ground control engineer.

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.

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 fear a revolution, yet are unable to leave due to a lack of immunity to Earth illnesses. Steve must get an experimental serum for her before she will help him.

This is a two-hour episode.

A terrorist/extortionist named Santos has stolen a Russian mobile missile launcher (nicknamed the “Moving Mountain”) and American smart missiles. After first working separately to recover their stolen property, Oscar Goldman proposes cooperation with his Russian counterpart. Steve Austin teams up with a beautiful KGB agent named Andreia. Posing as honeymooners at the Chamonix Inn, a romance quickly develops between them. When Oscar finds out that Andreia’s father was killed in an encounter with Steve Austin two years prior, he fears that the Russian operative plans on killing Steve Austin and stealing the American missiles.

Guest Star: John Colicos as General Norbukov