The BEST episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man

#1 - The Bionic Boy

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/31/1976

Rudy develops a new form of bionics that can restore mobility to people who has been paralyzed. Andy Sheffield, who was paralyzed from the waist down in a previous accident, is selected as a prime candidate to test Rudy's new work and try to restore his ability to walk again.

#2 - Welcome Home, Jaime (1)

Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/11/1976

After going through another operation, Jaime Sommer's memories are slowly resurfacing. Now she is ready to move back to Ojai and live near her foster parents, Jim & Helen Elgin. Oscar Goldman arranges a job for her as a teacher at the Ventura Air Force base school but Jaime also insists on taking on missions of the OSI.

#3 - Deadly Countdown (1)

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/1977

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.

#4 - 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.

#5 - The Return of the Bionic Woman (1)

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1975

Steve's bionic leg is damaged during a mission and must have it repaired. While semi-conscious and on his way into surgery he sees Jaime. Steve learns that Jaime did not die as he was led to believe, but was kept alive with cryogenic techniques by one of Rudy's assitants, Michael Marchetti. Jaime has just awakened from the cryogenic coma and suffers from memory loss resulting from mild brain damage.

#6 - Deadly Countdown (2)

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/2/1977

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.

#7 - Sharks (1)

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/1977

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

#8 - Sharks (2)

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/1977

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

#9 - The Deadly Replay

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/1974

Steve attempts to re-test the experimental plane that caused his near fatal accident. When suspicious things begin happening, 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.

#10 - The Price of Liberty

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1975

An ex-government employee feels the government owes him something since he was laid off due to cutbacks and has been unemployed since. He rigs the liberty bell, which is on tour around the country due to the bicentennial celebration, to explode unless he gets $5 million dollars and safe passage out of the country. Steve and Oscar must rely on an explosive expert who is in prison to defuse the bomb.

#11 - Target in the Sky

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1975

When Oscar discovers missiles have been installed near a lumber camp, Steve goes undercover as a lumberjack to investigate. He soon finds out that the site foreman is part of a plot to bring down a plane with Presidential staff.

#12 - The Bionic Criminal

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1975

Barney Miller, the seven million dollar man, 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 crime spree, and Steve must track him down.

#13 - Welcome Home, Jaime (2)

Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/11/1976

#14 - Kill Oscar (2)

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1976

This is part of a three part crossover with The Bionic Woman. With Jaime Sommers critically injured, Steve Austin races to Dr. Franklin's secret hideout to find the kidnapped Oscar Goldman. Austin plans to rescue his friend and boss despite Oscar's own orders to kill him lest he spill state secrets. (originally aired as The Six Million Dollar Man, Season 4, Episode 6)

#15 - The Blue Flash

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/1975

Steve searches for a missing OSI agent who was about to close an investigation into the theft of hi-tech detecting devices. Taking a room at the boarding house where the agent had been staying, soon the owner disappears, leaving Steve to discover if the disappearances are related.

#16 - The Bionic Woman (2)

Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/23/1975

With Jaime adjusting to her bionics, Oscar wants to use Jaime to infiltrate a counterfit ring and steal the counterfit plates lock in their vault. Steve is adamantly opposed, but Jaime's bionic hearing is the only way to successfully open it the vault. Jaime's body seems to be rejecting her bionics, but does not tell anyone. After the mission the rejection worsens and leads her to run aimlessly. Steve tracts her down and brings her to Rudy, but there is nothing he can do and Jaime dies.

#17 - Return of Deathprobe (1)

Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/22/1978

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.

#18 - The Return of the Bionic Woman (2)

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1975

In an attempt to restore Jaime's memory, he takes back to their hometown of Ojai. She again begins to have violent headaches. Oscar sends Steve and Jaime on a mission hoping to give Jaime some relief. The mission fails because of Jaime's condition and they return to Washington. Steve ultimately concludes that it is he who is causing Jaime's headaches and suggests Jaime be moved away from him to Rudy's Colorado Springs facility so she can fully recover.

#19 - Bigfoot V

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/9/1977

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

#20 - Return of Deathprobe (2)

Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/29/1978

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.

#21 - 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 local ranger asks him for help to save the cougar from extinction.

#22 - The Pal-Mir Escort

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/1974

When the Prime Minister of a small country has a heart attack while negotiating peace amongst it's surrounding neighbors, she is selected to received the first bionic heart. Steve is assigned to protect her while she is transported to the secret hospital where the procedure will take place.

#23 - The Bionic Woman (1)

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/16/1975

When Steve returns to his hometown, he runs into Jaime Sommers, his former girlfriend. The romance is rekindled and they quickly get enganged. While the two are skydiving, Jaime's parachute gets tangled and has a near fatal accident. To help save her life and another chance at a normal life, Steve pleads with Oscar to let Rudy operate on her and give her bionics.

#24 - 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.

#25 - The Ultimate Imposter

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/2/1977

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...