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Episodes: All (99)

Season: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5
Year: 1974  |  1975  |  1976  |  1977  |  1978


Season 1


Season 1, Episode 1: Population: Zero

Original Air Date—18 January 1974
The entire population of the small town of Norris has been knocked out by an unknown sonic device. Against Oscar Goldman's orders, Steve Austin insists on investigating because he knew a lot of the town's 23 inhabitants during his high school years.

Season 1, Episode 2: Survival of the Fittest

Original Air Date—25 January 1974
Oscar Goldman becomes a target for several conspirators who want to stop him from negotiating with the Russians. As he and Steve Austin fly back to Washington aboard a military aircraft, the plane is caught in a storm and has to crash land on an island in the Pacific. Amongst the survivors are the very men who are planning to kill Oscar.

Season 1, Episode 3: Operation Firefly

Original Air Date—1 February 1974
Word reaches Oscar Goldman that Dr. Samuel Abbott, who has spend years perfecting a portable laser projector, is missing. Steve Austin travels to Spain to meet Abbott's daughter Susan, who just happens to share a strong bond with her father by way of ESP. With this connection guiding them, they journey into the Everglades together on a rescue mission.

Season 1, Episode 4: Day of the Robot

Original Air Date—8 February 1974
Steve Austin's good buddy Major Fred Sloan has invented a microwave circuit card he calls the 'activator' and a separate ignition unit that when combined, power an anti-missile missile device. Steve is assigned to protect his friend during the final testing phase. A criminal organization intend on getting their hands on the device kidnap Sloan and replace him with an identical robot build by professor Jeffrey Dolenz.

Season 1, Episode 5: Little Orphan Airplane

Original Air Date—22 February 1974
Col. Steve Austin is dispatched to Africa to find and rescue U.S. pilot Josh Perkins who recently made a crash landing there and carries a valuable roll of film.

Season 1, Episode 6: Doomsday, and Counting

Original Air Date—1 March 1974
Steve accompanies his Russian cosmonaut pal Vasily Zhukov to Kamkov Island, USSR territory. There Zhukov's girlfriend is trapped underground because of an unexpected earthquake. When Zhukov discovers his American friend has bionic enhancement's he talks Steve into manning a two man rescue mission. Unfortunately, they soon find out the quake has set of a nuclear self-destruct weapon.

Season 1, Episode 7: Eyewitness to Murder

Original Air Date—8 March 1974
Leaving a restaurant around midnight, Steve Austin witnesses a murder and gets a good look at the sniper thanks to his bionic eye. Oscar objects to Austin's involvement in the case until it transpires the actual target that night was attorney Lorin Sandusky.

Season 1, Episode 8: Rescue of Athena One

Original Air Date—15 March 1974
Steve Austin has been assigned to train America's first female astronaut Major Kelly Wood. On her maiden-flight, a sudden explosion damages the Athena 1 and injures Kelly's co-pilot Osterman. Austin heads the rescue-team and follows her up to Skylab, only to find his bionic replacements malfunctioning in outer space.

Season 1, Episode 9: Dr. Wells Is Missing

Original Air Date—29 March 1974
Rudy Wells is kidnapped on a trip to his old study grounds. Luckily Steve Austin has some time off and follows Rudy unannounced to Innsbruck, Austria. The trail soon leads to the wealthy Tucelli family, who want to force Dr. Wells to give up the secret of constructing a bionic man.

Season 1, Episode 10: The Last of the Fourth of Julys

Original Air Date—5 April 1974
A mercenary-for-hire plans to assassinate several world leaders at a summit using a high powered laser beam that will bounce off a satellite unless Col. Steve Austin can infiltrate his base and stop the mastermind before he sets his plan into motion. Of course it involves a bit of a challenge: Steve has to be fired onto the villain's island lair inside a torpedo casing, climb a dangerous precipice, vault a 30-foot high electrified fence and break into a secure compound. And then, of course, there's all the villain's henchmen to defeat...not to mention his deviously beautiful accomplice who may not be all she claims to be.

Season 1, Episode 11: Burning Bright

Original Air Date—12 April 1974
Astronaut Josh Lang has been acting even more far out than usual after being affected by a mysterious electrical field during his last spacewalk. Lang's friend and colleague Steve Austin is called in to evaluate his sanity. Steve soon realizes there is a method to Josh's madness, as he develops strange powers of the mind that can make dolphins and men do his bidding.

Season 1, Episode 12: The Coward

Original Air Date—19 April 1974
'My Little Girl', an airplane missing since World War II has been uncovered in the Himalayas thanks to a recent earthquake. Steve Austin is tasked to retrieve the important documents the plane was carrying. However, for him this assignment is more personal: the pilot was his father, Carl Austin, who some claim bailed out at the last moment, never to be seen again.

Season 1, Episode 13: Run, Steve, Run

Original Air Date—26 April 1974
Dr. Jeffrey Dolenz, the infamous robot maker, has been hired to build a team of robots to rob Fort Knox. He refuses to start working however, until he's discovered the secrets of the bionic man who defeated his first robot. Therefore he spends his sponsor's money and time following Steve Austin, who is taking a well deserved rest on an Utah ranch.

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: Nuclear Alert

Original Air Date—13 September 1974
Oscar learns that a tactical atomic bomb has been sold on the black market for $65 million. Suspecting that the seller has not yet gotten all the required parts together, Steve Austin volunteers to protect the suspected last missing part fresh from the factory, a reflector fuse.

Season 2, Episode 2: The Pioneers

Original Air Date—20 September 1974
Two scientists, David Tate and Nicle Simmons are secretly send up in space as an O.S.I experiment to test their new cell regeneration serum while in suspended animation. Unfortunately their space capsule malfunctions and crashes in Minnesota. David is accidentally injected with too much of the serum, resulting in violent, animalistic behavior and super human strength. Dr. Rudy Wells and Col. Steve Austin are first on the scene.

Season 2, Episode 3: Pilot Error

Original Air Date—22 September 1974
Senator Ed Hill is facing charges after crashing an airplane he was piloting. Colonel Steve Austin is asked to look into the case. Oscar Goldman reminds him that the Senator was directly responsible for the funding of Austin's bionics. On the way back Steve shares a small private plane with the Senator, his son and his chief aide, when they are caught in bad weather and Hill's reflexes once again falter.

Season 2, Episode 4: The Pal-Mir Escort

Original Air Date—4 October 1974
Prime-Minister Salka Pal-Mir of the Republic of Eretz desperately needs a heart transplant in order to continue with the peace talks she has been planning for years. Because of her specialized case, Dr. Rudy Wells offers to giver her the world's first bionic heart transplant. When she refused to travel to the research center in Mountain Springs by airplane, Steve Austin, posing as her bodyguard transports Pal-Mir and her doctor by the OSI's mobile field unit.

Season 2, Episode 5: The Seven Million Dollar Man

Original Air Date—1 November 1974
Steve Austin is surprised to learn that Oscar and Rudy have made a second cyborg out former racing driver Barney Miller, who has had all four of his limbs replaced with bionics. When asked to accompany Barney on his first O.S.I. mission, Austin realizes Miller has a tendency to misuse his new found powers. On top of that, Barney is having considerable trouble adjusting to being part machine.

Season 2, Episode 6: Straight on 'till Morning

Original Air Date—8 November 1974
During preparations for a lunar probe launch, Colonel Steve Austin witnesses strange lights in the sky and becomes convinced it's a UFO. A family of four space explorers, each trained with specific tasks has crash landed on Earth, only to find that touching a human causes both parties great pain and will eventually kill the alien beings.

Season 2, Episode 7: The Midas Touch

Original Air Date—15 November 1974
Oscar Goldman has disappeared while inspecting the Bull Frog gold mine near Elk Horn, Nevada by request of his old friend Bert Carrington. Colonel Steve Austin refuses to believe his friend and superior is involved in a gold-raid and decides to do some investigating.

Season 2, Episode 8: The Deadly Replay

Original Air Date—22 November 1974
The HL-10, the vehicle Steve Austin was piloting when he had his crash two years ago, has been rebuild and Steve is asked to have another go at it by his old friend Jay Rogers. Although Oscar Goldman is reluctant because the plane may have been sabotaged the first time around, Steve becomes obsessed with taking this second chance and seeing it through.

Season 2, Episode 9: Act of Piracy

Original Air Date—29 November 1974
Colonel Steve Austin is placing earthquake sensors on the ocean floor with Dr. Louis Craig of the US fishing boat Unesco. When the nearby country of Santa Ventura breaks of diplomatic relations with the U.S., a patrol boat captures the Unesco and severs the air hose to the diving bell Steve Austin is manning.

Season 2, Episode 10: Stranger in Broken Folk

Original Air Date—12 December 1974
Steve Austin's bionic arm malfunctions while he is piloting a plane. After crashing, Austin suffers from amnesia as a side effect from the malfunction. He soon meets psychologist Angie Walker who runs an experimental convalescence home for mental patients. Unfortunately, the small town folk of Broken Fork are very suspicious of strangers and Angie's patients in particular.

Season 2, Episode 11: The Peeping Blonde

Original Air Date—20 December 1974
KNUZ television reporter Victoria Webster captures Steve Austin using his bionic powers on film and confronts both him and Oscar Goldman with this knowledge. As the two of them were just about to leave on a vacation to Baja (Oscar's first in three years) they decide to invite her along to grant her an interview and try to talk her out of printing her story.

Season 2, Episode 12: The Cross-Country Kidnap

Original Air Date—10 January 1975
OSI computer programmer Liza Leitman who also competes in Olympic horse racing, is under threat of being kidnapped. Though she refuses to have any of Oscar's 'dwarfs' shadowing her, Oscar sends Steve Austin to tail her anyway.

Season 2, Episode 13: Lost Love

Original Air Date—17 January 1975
Steve runs into an old flame, Barbara Thatcher, and learns she has recently become a widow. However, just as the two of them start to know each other once more, Barbara gets a call from the Bacarian Embassy, where his husband is hiding, alive and reasonably well.

Season 2, Episode 14: The Last Kamikaze

Original Air Date—19 January 1975
A plane carrying a new kind of atomic warhead goes down on a remote South Pacific island, and the prototype seems to have fallen into the hands of a Japanese soldier who's has possibly been surviving on the island since WWII, convinced the war is still going on.

Season 2, Episode 15: Return of the Robot Maker

Original Air Date—26 January 1975
Dr. Chester Dolenz replaces Oscar Goldman with a new and improved robot. The impostor sends Steve Austin on a suicide mission to brave the defenses of the new Brahmin Institute. Austin decides to take along some new gadgets invented by fellow OSI agent and part time inventor Barney Barnes.

Season 2, Episode 16: Taneha

Original Air Date—2 February 1975
Steve Austin promises the sheriff of Kanab County to find and protect a rare and legendary cougar known as Taneha from a group of townsfolk intend on hunting down and killing the animal. He joins forces with a young girl E.J. Haskell, who has a personal vendetta against the wild cat.

Season 2, Episode 17: Look Alike

Original Air Date—23 February 1975
Down on his luck boxer Johnny Dine has had plastic surgery to make him Steve Austin's double. He then infiltrates the OSI building when the real Austin is on a fishing holiday. After finding out the truth, Steve decides to turn the tables on Dine's superiors by posing as the boxer in turn.

Season 2, Episode 18: The E.S.P. Spy

Original Air Date—2 March 1975
US government weapon designer Harry Green is arrested on suspicion of selling his ideas to the opposition. His friend Steve Austin convinces Oscar Goldman that Harry could be the victim of an E.S.P. spy who by reading his mind managed to copy his designs. Oscar is then persuaded to take on a similarly gifted counterspy, young student Audrey Moss.

Season 2, Episode 19: The Bionic Woman

Original Air Date—16 March 1975
Steve Austin reunites with his childhood sweetheart only to have her suffer a crippling accident which can only be rectified with bionic implants.

Season 2, Episode 20: The Bionic Woman: Part 2

Original Air Date—23 March 1975
Steve Austin has proposed to Jaime Sommers and a wedding date is set. When Oscar Goldman plans on sending Jaime on her first assignment, Steve is very reluctant and insists on joining her. Furthermore Jaime keeps having bionic malfunctions and increasing headaches.

Season 2, Episode 21: Outrage in Balinderry

Original Air Date—19 April 1975
An Amassador's wife is kidnapped by the Independent Balinderry Army, I.B.A. for short. As Steve Austin heads for the small island republic to save her, he becomes involved with Unit 10 of the I.B.A. and it's mysterious leader, Commander 10.

Season 2, Episode 22: Steve Austin, Fugitive

Original Air Date—27 April 1975
Steve Austin is framed for murder by a former adversary. With Oscar and Rudy out of town, the only one he can trust is Oscar's newest secretary, Miss Callahan.

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: The Return of the Bionic Woman

Original Air Date—14 September 1975
Steve Austin's bionic legs are heavily damaged during a mission and while recuperating at Dr. Rudy Wells' hospital, he catches a glimpse of his fiancée Jaime, Sommers still alive but recuperating. It turns out Well's assistant Michael Marchetti used experimental cryogenics to preserve Sommers and nurse her back to health However, owing to some slight brain damage, Jaime no longer remembers anything about her past life.

Season 3, Episode 2: The Return of the Bionic Woman: Part 2

Original Air Date—21 September 1975
Steve Austin takes the recuperating Jaime Sommers to their hometown of Ojai in an attempt to jog her memory. Unfortunately this only results in her getting violent headaches and confusing flashbacks. When she asks to be send on a mission in order to get her mind on something else, Steve goes along and the flashbacks only increase. Austin comes to the conclusion that it is his presence which is the cause of Jaime's condition.

Season 3, Episode 3: The Price of Liberty

Original Air Date—28 September 1975
Bitter explosive expert Robert Meyer arranges for the Liberty Bell to be stolen, rigs it with three bombs and demands five million dollars. Complications mount up and Steve Austin is forced to ask imprisoned bomb expert Linstrom to help defuse Meyer's handiwork.

Season 3, Episode 4: The Song and Dance Spy

Original Air Date—5 October 1975

Season 3, Episode 5: The Wolf Boy

Original Air Date—12 October 1975

Season 3, Episode 6: The Deadly Test

Original Air Date—19 October 1975

Season 3, Episode 7: Target in the Sky

Original Air Date—26 October 1975

Season 3, Episode 8: One of Our Running Backs Is Missing

Original Air Date—2 November 1975

Season 3, Episode 9: The Bionic Criminal

Original Air Date—9 November 1975
Oscar and Rudy are performing a test on Barney Hiller to see if his bionic power can be turned on and off again when needed. A concerned Steve Austin proposes to keep an eye on Barney for the full 48 hours he has possession of his full strength. After competing in a car race, Barney loses control, panics and turns to a former O.S.I scientist who wants to use him for criminal purposes.

Season 3, Episode 10: The Blue Flash

Original Air Date—16 November 1975

Season 3, Episode 11: The White Lightning War

Original Air Date—23 November 1975

Season 3, Episode 12: Divided Loyalty

Original Air Date—30 November 1975

Season 3, Episode 13: Clark Templeton O'Flaherty

Original Air Date—14 December 1975

Season 3, Episode 14: Winning Smile

Original Air Date—21 December 1975

Season 3, Episode 15: Welcome Home, Jaime

Original Air Date—11 January 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.

Season 3, Episode 16: Hocus-Pocus

Original Air Date—18 January 1976
O.S.I. needs to get a stolen top-secret codebook back from elusive criminal and club owner Mark Wharton. Oscar gets Will Collins, manager of the Blue Tiger night club to introduce Steve Austin as magician 'Steve Andrews'. To add an extra element to the show, Steve proposes to take E.S.P. gifted Audrey Moss with him as his assistant.

Season 3, Episode 17: The Secret of Bigfoot

Original Air Date—1 February 1976
Two geologist friends of Steve Austin disappear in Californa while placing earthquake sensors in the woods. A giant footprint is found nearby, leading to speculation of the involvement of a Sasquatch.

Season 3, Episode 18: The Secret of Bigfoot: Part 2

Original Air Date—4 February 1976
Steve Austin has met a colony of space travelers living inside a California mountain. Meanwhile, Oscar Goldman and his team are preparing to trigger a small earthquake in order to prevent a larger one from happening.

Season 3, Episode 19: The Golden Pharoh

Original Air Date—8 February 1976

Season 3, Episode 20: Love Song for Tanya

Original Air Date—15 February 1976

Season 3, Episode 21: The Bionic Badge

Original Air Date—22 February 1976

Season 3, Episode 22: Big Brother

Original Air Date—7 March 1976

Season 4


Season 4, Episode 1: The Return of Bigfoot

Original Air Date—19 September 1976
Steve Austin becomes a suspect after series of burglaries that can only be accomplished with bionic strength are committed. As Austin begins to have vague memories of his encounter with Bigfoot, he is approached by Gillian, one of the alien travelers. She explains that one of her own, Nedlick, has formed a splinter group intend on world domination and is now using Sasquash to commit robberies in order to gain wealth.

Season 4, Episode 2: Nightmare in the Sky

Original Air Date—26 September 1976

Season 4, Episode 3: Double Trouble

Original Air Date—3 October 1976

Season 4, Episode 4: The Most Dangerous Enemy

Original Air Date—17 October 1976

Season 4, Episode 5: H+2+O = Death

Original Air Date—24 October 1976

Season 4, Episode 6: Kill Oscar: Part 2

Original Air Date—31 October 1976
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 less he spill state secrets.

Season 4, Episode 7: The Bionic Boy

Original Air Date—7 November 1976
In special two-hour show of "The Six Million Dollar Man", Andy Shefield has been injured in a landslide that also killed his controversial father. OSI chooses the youth to receive atomic/bionic implants that will restore his paralyzed legs. The result is superhuman strength in those legs. Andy immediately uses this new power to do what he can to restore the good name of his father. Once he gets in over his head, Colonel Steve Austin comes to his aid.

Season 4, Episode 8: Vulture of the Andes

Original Air Date—21 November 1976

Season 4, Episode 9: The Thunderbird Connection

Original Air Date—28 November 1976

Season 4, Episode 10: A Bionic Christmas Carol

Original Air Date—12 December 1976

Season 4, Episode 11: Task Force

Original Air Date—19 December 1976

Season 4, Episode 12: The Ultimate Imposter

Original Air Date—2 January 1977

Season 4, Episode 13: Death Probe

Original Air Date—9 January 1977

Season 4, Episode 14: Death Probe: Part 2

Original Air Date—16 January 1977

Season 4, Episode 15: Danny's Inferno

Original Air Date—23 January 1977

Season 4, Episode 16: The Infiltrators

Original Air Date—6 February 1977

Season 4, Episode 17: Carnival of Spies

Original Air Date—13 February 1977

Season 4, Episode 18: U-509

Original Air Date—20 February 1977

Season 4, Episode 19: The Privacy of the Mind

Original Air Date—27 February 1977

Season 4, Episode 20: To Catch the Eagle

Original Air Date—6 March 1977

Season 4, Episode 21: Ghostly Teletype

Original Air Date—13 March 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.

Season 5


Season 5, Episode 1: Sharks

Original Air Date—11 September 1977

Season 5, Episode 2: Sharks: Part 2

Original Air Date—18 September 1977

Season 5, Episode 3: Deadly Countdown

Original Air Date—25 September 1977

Season 5, Episode 4: Deadly Countdown: Part 2

Original Air Date—2 October 1977

Season 5, Episode 5: Bigfoot V

Original Air Date—9 October 1977
Bigfoot has been left behind by his alien creators and is being adapted to life on Earth. But he is awoken prematurely by tests conducted by Hope Langston and goes on a rampage.

Season 5, Episode 6: Killer Wind

Original Air Date—16 October 1977

Season 5, Episode 7: Rollback

Original Air Date—30 October 1977

Season 5, Episode 8: The Dark Side of the Moon

Original Air Date—6 November 1977

Season 5, Episode 9: The Dark Side of the Moon: Part 2

Original Air Date—13 November 1977

Season 5, Episode 10: Target: Steve Austin

Original Air Date—27 November 1977

Season 5, Episode 11: The Cheshire Project

Original Air Date—18 December 1977

Season 5, Episode 12: Walk a Deadly Wing

Original Air Date—1 January 1978

Season 5, Episode 13: Just a Matter of Time

Original Air Date—8 January 1978
While testing a new fuel aboard an experimental space craft, Col. Steve Austin experiences difficulties while preparing to land and is pulled off course to splash down near a remote island in the Pacific. There, he attempts to contact Oscar at OSI to inform him of his whereabouts, but when another government agent shows up and identifies himself as Oscar's replacement, the Colonel is shocked to learn that 6 years have supposedly passed, Oscar is dead and he has been declared a traitor after supposedly defecting to the Soviet Union.

Season 5, Episode 14: Return of Death Probe

Original Air Date—22 January 1977

Season 5, Episode 15: Return of Death Probe: Part 2

Original Air Date—29 January 1977

Season 5, Episode 16: The Lost Island

Original Air Date—30 January 1978

Season 5, Episode 17: The Madonna Caper

Original Air Date—6 February 1978

Season 5, Episode 18: Deadly Ringer

Original Air Date—13 February 1978

Season 5, Episode 19: Date with Danger

Original Air Date—20 February 1978

Season 5, Episode 20: Date with Danger: Part 2

Original Air Date—27 February 1978

Season 5, Episode 21: The Moving Mountain

Original Air Date—6 March 1978

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