'The Solid Gold Kidnapping' by Larry Alexander Story by Alan Caillou and Larry Alexander

Steve is assigned to rescue Ambassador Scott, a U.S. representative who has been kidnapped and held for ransom by a gang of organised villains. The kidnappers are holding Scott prisoner inside a remote ancient Mexican temple, and are plotting to abduct other important officials from around the world. With the aid of his bionics, Steve infiltrates the temple and rescues the ambassador, and together they return to Washington D.C. However, the kidnappers then capture international statesman Henry Cameron, newly-arrived in China for high level negotiations, and demand a ransom of one billion dollars in gold. Forced to agree to the kidnapper’s demands, the American President instructs Fort Knox to prepare the gold, but while en route, the consignment is stolen. Steve’s only chance to save Cameron lies within the brain of a kidnapper killed during the abduction. Oscar Goldman turns to Doctor Erica Bergner, a scientist who has developed an experimental method of brain transferral; Erica agrees to take on the dead man’s knowledge and sets off with Steve in search of the kidnappers. But then the brain transfer begins to break down…

Lee Majors (Colonel Steve Austin), Richard Anderson (Oscar Goldman), Alan Oppenheimer (Doctor Rudy Welles), Leif Erickson (William Henry Cameron), Elizabeth Ashley (Doctor Erica Bergner), John Vernon (Julian Peck), Luciana Paluzzi (The Contessa), Maurice Evans (The Chairman), Terry Carter (Mel Bristo), Craig Huebing (Roger Ventriss), David White (Ambassador Scott), Polly Middleton (Chairman’s Secretary), Marcel Hillaire (Customs Inspector), Leigh Christian (Lady Skier), James Sikking (Second OSO Agent), Maurice Marsac (Desk Clerk), Vito Scotti (Second Taxi Driver), Rudy Challenger (Executive), Karen Klein (Stewardess), Jan Arvan (Doctor), Danielle Aubry (Nurse), Jack Ragotzy (First Taxi Driver)


Directed by Russ Mayberry
Producer Michael Gleason
Executive Producer Glen A. Larson
Based on the novel by Martin Caldin

TX (US): 17th November 1973

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

*This was originally transmitted as a ninety-minute T.V. movie as part of ABC's 'Suspense Theater'; it has since been shown in syndication as two sixty-minute episodes with thirty extra minutes of footage