'Deadly Countdown' (Part 1) (Story Code '47322') by Gregory S. Dinallo

Steve is sent to Kennedy Space Centre on an assignment to perform the link-up of two orbiting satellites. However, the satellites also feature in the plans of Gordon Shanks, head of a criminal organisation that has created its own missile control centre; they plan to take over a rocket that is carrying the new electronic ‘brain’ of the United States’ missile defence systems, which they will then sell to a foreign power. In order to prevent the rocket from being launched, Shanks hires Julian Richman to kill Steve Austin…

Lee Majors (Colonel Steve Austin), Richard Anderson (Oscar Goldman), Martin B. Brooks (Doctor Rudy Wells), Jenny Agutter (Doctor Leah Russell), Philip Abbott (Dave McGrath), Lloyd Bochner (Gordon Shanks), Sherry Hursey (Melissa McGrath), Crofton Hardester (Julian Richman), Bill Scherer (Ed Pierce), Martin Caidin (G.H. Beck), Mills Watson (Edgar Webster), David Morick (Security Guard)

Directed by Cliff Bole
Produced by Fred Freiberger and Richard H. Landau
Executive Producers Allan Balter and Lionel E. Siegel
Based on the novel by Martin Caldin

TX (US): 25th September 1977

Notes:
*Featuring Colonel Steve Austin, Oscar Goldman and Doctor Rudy Wells