The Six Million Dollar Man

The Six Million Dollar Man is a television series about a cyborg working for a US secret service called OSI. The show is based on the book Cyborg from Martin Caidin, and first aired in 1973.

The background story of the show is the plane crash of astronaut Steve Austin, in which he is severly injured. In a title-giving operation that costs six million dollars, his right arm, both legs and the left eye are replaced by bionic (cybernetic) implants that enhance his strength, speed and vision far above human norm. He now uses his abilities to work for the OSI (Office of Scientific Intelligence) as a secret agent (and as a guinea pig).

Main characters

• Steve Austin, the title-giving character (played by Lee Majors)
• Oscar Goldman, the Director of the OSI (played by Richard Anderson)
• Dr. Rudy Wells, Austin's physician (played by Alan Oppenheimer/Martin E. Brooks)
• Jaime Sommers, the bionic woman, played by Lindsay Wagner

Spare parts

• A 20.1:1 zoom lens along with a nightvision function in the left eye.
• Bionic legs allow him to run at more than 67 mph and make great leaps.
• A Bionic right arm with the equivalent strength of a bulldozer

There was a spinoff show later, The Bionic Woman, and a bionic dog Maximillian (Max-a-million).

Episode list

Episode #		Prod #	Original Air Date	Episode Title
TV Movie
M-1			07-Mar-73	The Six Million Dollar Man (a/k/a The Moon and the Desert)
M-2			20-Oct-73	Wine, Women and War
M-3			17-Nov-73	The Solid Gold Kidnapping
Season 1
1.	1-1	40013	18-Jan-74	Population: Zero
2.	1-2	40007	25-Jan-74	Survival of the Fittest
3.	1-3	40016	01-Feb-74	Operation Firefly
4.	1-4	40012	08-Feb-74	Day of the Robot
5.	1-5	40014	22-Feb-74	Little Orphan Airplane
6.	1-6	40005	01-Mar-74	Doomsday, and Counting
7.	1-7	40023	08-Mar-74	Eyewitness to Murder
8.	1-8	40024	15-Mar-74	The Rescue of Athena One
9.	1-9	40021	29-Mar-74	Dr. Wells is Missing
10.	1-10	40022	05-Apr-74	The Last of the Fourth of Julys
11.	1-11	40020	12-Apr-74	Burning Bright
12.	1-12	40015	19-Apr-74	The Coward
13.	1-13	40025	26-Apr-74	Run, Steve, Run
Season 2
14.	2-1	41201	13-Sep-74	Nuclear Alert
15.	2-2	41204	20-Sep-74	The Pioneers
16.	2-3	41206	27-Sep-74	Pilot Error
17.	2-4	41208	04-Oct-74	The Pal-Mir Escort
18.	2-5	41224	01-Nov-74	The Seven Million Dollar Man
19.	2-6	41214	08-Nov-74	Straight on 'til Morning
20.	2-7	41220	15-Nov-74	The Midas Touch
21.	2-8	41223	22-Nov-74	The Deadly Replay
22.	2-9	41213	29-Nov-74	Act of Piracy
23.	2-10	41227	13-Dec-74	Stranger in Broken Fork
24.	2-11	41228	20-Dec-74	The Peeping Blonde
25.	2-12	41210	10-Jan-75	The Cross-Country Kidnap
26.	2-13	41233	17-Jan-75	Lost Love
27.	2-14	41216	19-Jan-75	The Last Kamikaze
28.	2-15	41207	26-Jan-75	Return of the Robot Maker
29.	2-16	41212	02-Feb-75	Taneha
30.	2-17	41230	23-Feb-75	Look Alike
31.	2-18	41226	02-Mar-75	The E.S.P. Spy
32.	2-19	41244	16-Mar-75	The Bionic Woman (1)
33.	2-20	41245	23-Mar-75	The Bionic Woman (2)
34.	2-21	41231	20-Apr-75	Outrage in Balinderry
35.	2-22	41229	27-Apr-75	Steve Austin, Fugitive
Season 3
36.	3-1	43020	14-Sep-75	The Return of the Bionic Woman (1)
37.	3-2	43029	21-Sep-75	The Return of the Bionic Woman (2)
38.	3-3	43018	28-Sep-75	The Price of Liberty
39.	3-4	43024	05-Oct-75	The Song and Dance Spy
40.	3-5	43010	12-Oct-75	The Wolf Boy
41.	3-6	43017	19-Oct-75	The Deadly Test
42.	3-7	43003	26-Oct-75	Target in the Sky
43.	3-8	43001	02-Nov-75	One of Our Running Backs is Missing
44.	3-9	43012	09-Nov-75	The Bionic Criminal
45.	3-10	43006	16-Nov-75	The Blue Flash
46.	3-11	43021	23-Nov-75	The White Lightning War
47.	3-12	43019	30-Nov-75	Divided Loyalty
48.	3-13	43026	14-Dec-75	Clark Templeton O'Flaherty
49.	3-14	43022	21-Dec-75	The Winning Smile
50.	3-15		11-Jan-76	Welcome Home, Jaime (1)
51.	3-16	43033	18-Jan-76	Hocus-Pocus
52.	3-17	43027	01-Feb-76	The Secret of Bigfoot (1)
53.	3-18	43028	04-Feb-76	The Secret of Bigfoot (2)
54.	3-19	43007	08-Feb-76	The Golden Pharaoh
55.	3-20	43008	15-Feb-76	Love Song for Tanya
56.	3-21	43032	22-Feb-76	The Bionic Badge
57.	3-22	43031	07-Mar-76	Big Brother
Season 4
58.	4-1	45124	19-Sep-76	The Return of Bigfoot (1)
59.	4-2	45108	26-Sep-76	Nightmare in the Sky
60.	4-3	45121	03-Oct-76	Double Trouble
61.	4-4	45105	17-Oct-76	The Most Dangerous Enemy
62.	4-5	45102	24-Oct-76	H+2+O = Death
63.	4-6	45120	31-Oct-76	Kill Oscar (2)
64.	4-7	45196	07-Nov-76	The Bionic Boy
65.	4-8	45114	21-Nov-76	Vulture of the Andes
66.	4-9	45194	28-Nov-76	The Thunderbird Conection
67.	4-10	45126	12-Dec-76	A Bionic Christmas Carol
68.	4-11	45115	19-Dec-76	Task Force
69.	4-12	45125	02-Jan-77	The Ultimate Imposter
70.	4-13	45122	09-Jan-77	Death Probe (1)
71.	4-14	45123	16-Jan-77	Death Probe (2)
72.	4-15	45106	23-Jan-77	Danny's Inferno
73.	4-16	45107	30-Jan-77	Fires of Hell
74.	4-17	45113	06-Feb-77	The Infiltrators
75.	4-18	45101	13-Feb-77	Carnival of Spies
76.	4-19	45109	20-Feb-77	U-509
77.	4-20	45110	27-Feb-77	The Privacy of the Mind
78.	4-21	45116	06-Mar-77	To Catch the Eagle
79.	4-22	45128	15-May-77	The Ghostly Teletype
Season 5
80.	5-1	47306	11-Sep-77	Sharks (1)
81.	5-2	47307	18-Sep-77	Sharks (2)
82.	5-3	47322	25-Sep-77	Deadly Countdown (1)
83.	5-4	47323	02-Oct-77	Deadly Countdown (2)
84.	5-5	47311	09-Oct-77	Bigfoot V
85.	5-6	47326	16-Oct-77	Killer Wind
86.	5-7	47315	30-Oct-77	Rollback
87.	5-8	47303	06-Nov-77	Dark Side of the Moon (1)
88.	5-9	47304	13-Nov-77	Dark Side of the Moon (2)
89.	5-10	47309	27-Nov-77	Target: Steve Austin
90.	5-11	47313	18-Dec-77	The Cheshire Project
91.	5-12	47319	01-Jan-78	Walk a Deadly Wing
92.	5-13	47314	08-Jan-78	Just a Matter of Time
93.	5-14	47301	22-Jan-78	Return of the Deathprobe (1)
94.	5-15	47302	29-Jan-78	Return of the Deathprobe (2)
95.	5-16	47397	30-Jan-78	The Lost Island
96.	5-17	47328	06-Feb-78	The Madonna Caper
97.	5-18	47334	13-Feb-78	Dead Ringer
98.	5-19	47317	20-Feb-78	Date With Danger (1)
99.	5-20	47320	27-Feb-78	Date With Danger (2)
100.	5-21	47332	06-Mar-78	The Moving Mountain
TV Movie
M-4			17-May-87	The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman
M-5			30-Apr-89	Bionic Showdown
M-6			29-Nov-94	Bionic Ever After?