The Six Million Dollar Man: Season 5

1977 · 21 episodes · ★ 9.0

What Season 5 of The Six Million Dollar Man

Season 5 of The Six Million Dollar Man Has 21 episodes and premiered on September 11, 1977. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

21episodes

Sep 11, 1977premiered

Mar 6, 1978Latest episode

15.6 hrtotal runtime

Season 5 Episodes

5x01 Sharks (1)
Sep 11, 1977 · 46 min
Steve is captured while investigating the unusual power failure of a nuclear submarine.
Directing: Alan J. Levi · Writing: Arthur Weingarten · Starring: William Sylvester, Pamela Hensley, Gregory Walcott, Stephen Elliott
5x02 Sharks (2)
Sep 18, 1977 · 42 min
A nuclear submarine is commandeered for the purpose of piracy and extortion. Steve investigates and is captured. To escape he must eluded trained sharks.
Directed by Alan J. Levi · Written by Fred Freiberger · Starring: William Sylvester, Pamela Hensley, Gregory Walcott, Stephen Elliott
5x03 Deadly Countdown (1)
Sep 25, 1977 · 45 min
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.
Directed by Cliff Bole · Written by Gregory S. Dinallo · Starring: Jenny Agutter, Philip Abbott, Mills Watson, Lloyd Bochner
5x04 Deadly Countdown (2)
Oct 2, 1977 · 40 min
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.
Directed by Cliff Bole · Written by Gregory S. Dinallo · Starring: Jenny Agutter, Philip Abbott, Mills Watson, Lloyd Bochner
5x05 Bigfoot V
Oct 9, 1977 · 45 min
Steve thought Bigfoot had returned to space. But when Bigfoot is seen and photographed by an anthropologist, Steve travels to her camp to investigate.
Directing: Rod Holcomb · Writing: Gregory S. Dinallo · Starring: Ted Cassidy, Geoffrey Lewis, Tony Young, Katherine De Hetre
5x06 Killer Wind
Oct 16, 1977 · 45 min
Two locals join Steve when he attempts to rescue a group of students in a stalled cable car halfway up a mountain. They must rescue the students before a tornado gets to them, but one of the men is a criminal and the plan is put in jeopardy.
Directing: Dick Moder · Writing: Gregory S. Dinallo · Starring: Sheila Wills, Adam Roarke, James McEachin, Madelyn Cain
5x07 Rollback
Oct 30, 1977 · 45 min
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.
Directing: Don McDougall · Writing: Steven E. de Souza · Starring: Robert Loggia, Suzanne Charny, Rick Springfield, Paul D'Amato
5x08 Dark Side of the Moon (1)
Nov 6, 1977 · 45 min
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.
Directed by Cliff Bole · Written by Richard H. Landau, John Meredyth Lucas · Starring: Jack Colvin, Simone Griffeth, Skip Homeier, Bob Neill
5x09 Dark Side of the Moon (2)
Nov 13, 1977 · 42 min
Steve is captured on the moon and is forced to help the scientist, who believes he's found a new energy source, and who threatens nuclear devastation on Earth if Steve refuses.
Directing: Cliff Bole · Writing: John Meredyth Lucas · Starring: Jack Colvin, Simone Griffeth, Bob Neill, Quinn K. Redeker
5x10 Target: Steve Austin
Nov 27, 1977 · 45 min
Steve poses as a newlywed with another OSI agent to uncover who broke into headquarters in search of an atomic bomb. Travelling via RV, their prey discovers the RV has a nuclear power source of its own and attempts to turn the tables.
Directed by Edward M. Abroms · Written by Donald L. Gold, Lester Wm. Berke · Starring: Quinn K. Redeker, Lynnette Mettey, Curt Lowens, Ian Abercrombie
5x11 The Cheshire Project
Dec 18, 1977 · 45 min
Steve investigates his girlfriend's disappearance while she was piloting a new plane with anti-radar technology. He discovers one of the plane's technicians has been talking to a known trader of military secrets and starts the search for further clues.
Directing: Dick Moder · Writing: John Meredyth Lucas · Starring: Suzanne Somers, John Larch, Robert Hogan, Stanley Waxman
5x12 Walk a Deadly Wing
Jan 1, 1978 · 45 min
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.
Directing: Herb Wallerstein · Writing: Terrence McDonnell, Jim Carlson · Starring: Eric Braeden, Lanna Saunders, John Devlin, Eddie Fontaine
5x13 Just a Matter of Time
Jan 8, 1978 · 45 min
Steve enters a time warp while on an orbital mission, hurling him six years into the future. Upon landing, the authorities arrest him for treason, believing he defected to Russia and was brainwashed into thinking the time warp occurred. Steve has to both prove his innocence and figure out how to get back to his own time.
Directing: Don McDougall · Writing: Neal J. Sperling, Gregory S. Dinallo · Starring: Charles Cioffi, Leigh Christian, Paul Carr, John Milford
5x14 Return of Death Probe (1)
Jan 22, 1978 · 45 min
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.
Directing: Tom Connors · Writing: Howard Dimsdale · Starring: Ken Swofford, David Sheiner, Than Wyenn, Robert Lussier
5x15 Return of Death Probe (2)
Jan 29, 1978 · 41 min
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.
Directing: Tom Connors · Writing: Howard Dimsdale · Starring: Ken Swofford, David Sheiner, Than Wyenn, Robert Lussier
5x16 The Lost Island
Jan 30, 1978 · 50 min
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 in fear of a revolution, yet are unable to leave due to a lack of an immune system to Earth illnesses. Steve must get an experimental serum for her before she will help him.
Directing: Cliff Bole · Writing: Mel Goldberg, Lou Shaw · Starring: Terry Burke, Jared Martin, Robin Mattson, Alf Kjellin
5x17 The Madonna Caper
Feb 6, 1978 · 45 min
While Steve helps a countess retrieve a microdot with important information hidden on a painting in a museum, she helps herself to a masterpiece and replaces it with a forgery. Oscar sends Steve to retrieve the painting from its buyer before a visiting art expert causes embarrassment by discovering the counterfeit currently on display.
Directing: Herb Wallerstein · Writing: Gregory S. Dinallo · Starring: Bibi Besch, Len Birman, Bruce Glover, Robert F. Hoy
5x18 Dead Ringer
Feb 13, 1978 · 45 min
Steve's brush with death is followed by visions that may be the work of a spirit.
Directing: Arnold Laven · Writing: Robert I. Holt · Starring: Linda Dano, Robert Karnes, Melvin F. Allen, Leonard Stone
5x19 Date with Danger (1)
Feb 20, 1978 · 44 min
When OSI's communications chief is accused of spying, Steve attempts to prove his innocence and discovers tampered computer memory. He is led to suspect a computer dating service is behind the ilegal activity, but doesn't realize a computer itself has gained sentience and plans to stop Steve any way it can.
Directing: Rod Holcomb · Writing: Wilton Schiller, John Meredyth Lucas · Starring: Robert Walker Jr., Luke Askew, Elaine Giftos, Noah Keen
5x20 Date with Danger (2)
Feb 27, 1978 · 46 min
Steve teams with the owner of the computer dating service to put a stop to her now-sentient computer. After escaping a computer-arranged assassination, Steve finds himself in a mental facility after his medical records are altered. While the computer attempts to have everyone who knows about it killed, Steve must find a way to escape and stop the computer before it's too late.
Directing: Rod Holcomb · Writing: Wilton Schiller, John Meredyth Lucas · Starring: Robert Walker Jr., Luke Askew, Elaine Giftos, Noah Keen
5x21 The Moving Mountain Season Finale
Mar 6, 1978 · 45 min
A terrorist steals a Russian rocket launcher and American missilse and plans to hold both countries hostage. Steve is sent along with a beautiful Russian agent to stop the terrorist, but his opposite number has orders to dispose of him and bring back the missiles to her superiors.
Directing: Don McDougall · Writing: Stephen Kandel · Starring: John Colicos, Lisa Farringer, George Clifton, Paul Coufos