6M$M Logo 'The Seven Million Dollar Man'
(Story Code '41224')

by Peter Allan Fields
Steve Austin

Steve Austin is astonished to learn from Oscar Goldman that a second, seven million dollar bionic man is to be created, as back-up in case he ever becomes incapacitated. When former auto-racing champion Barney Miller is badly injured in a car crash, he becomes the new candidate for bionic replacements; the operation is given the go-ahead, and Barney is fitted with new, superior, limbs. However, Barney soon becomes unstable, unable to come to terms with his new abilities; Steve attempts to help him through the difficult adjustment process, but Barney decides that there is only room for one bionic man in the world, and decides to get rid of Steve - permanently…

Lee Majors (Colonel Steve Austin), Richard Anderson (Oscar Goldman), Alan Oppenheimer (Rudy Wells), Monte Markham (Barney Miller), Maggie Sullivan (Carla Peterson), Fred Lerner (O.S.I. Man), Marshall Reed (Gate Guard)


Directed by Dick Moder
Produced by Joe L. Cramer and Lionel E. Siegel
Executive Producer Harve Bennett
Based on the novel by Martin Caldin


TX (US): 1st November 1974

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

*Monte Markham was the actor that Martin Caidin, author of the novel ’Cyborg’ which originated the series, originally had in mind to play Steve Austin