The Six Million Dollar Man

The Six Million Dollar Man

Premiere	pilot movie March 7, 1973 series January 18, 1974
Finale	March 6, 1978
Based on	the novel "Cyborg" by Martin Caidin
Network/Provider	ABC
Style	60-minute sci-fi action drama
Company	Harve Bennett Productions (series), Silverton Productions, Inc. (series), Universal Television (movies & series)
Distributor	MCA Television (until 1996) Universal Television Enterprises (1996–1998) Studios USA (1998–2002) Universal Domestic Television (2002–2004) NBCUniversal Television Distribution (2004–2021) NBCUniversal Syndication Studios (2021– )
Seasons	5
Episodes	102 + 3 movies
Origin	USA

The Six Million Dollar Man is a sci-fi drama that aired on ABC. It debuted with a pilot movie on the ABC Movie of the Week on March 7, 1973. Two sequel movies, The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War and The Six Million Dollar Man: The Solid Gold Kidnapping aired as The ABC Suspense Movie later that year, and the show was picked up as a midseason replacement due to their success.

The Six Million Dollar Man would produce a popular spin-off, The Bionic Woman starring Lindsay Wagner, beginning with a pilot, which aired as a two-part episode of the series. A second episode intended as a pilot, The Bionic Boy, fared much worse.

Over a decade after their respective series ended, Wagner and Lee Majors reunited in a trilogy of TV movies: The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman in 1987, Bionic Showdown in 1989 and, at last, Bionic Ever After? in 1994, in which the two cyborgs were finally married. Also, a short-lived remake of the original Bionic Woman aired on NBC in 2007.

Cast

Actor	Character	Duration
Billed Cast		1	2	3	4	5
Lee Majors	Col. Steve Austin	*	*	*	*	*
Richard Anderson	Oscar Goldman	*	*	*	*	*
Alan Oppenheimer	Dr. Rudy Wells	o	o	o
Martin E. Brooks				o	*	*
Orange/Red/o indicates a recurring or guest role during that season. Dark Green indicates top billing during that season.

Season	Premiere	Finale	#
ABC
Season One	January 18, 1974	April 26, 1974	13
Season Two	September 13, 1974	April 27, 1975	22
Season Three	September 14, 1975	March 7, 1976	21
Season Four	September 19, 1976	March 13, 1977	24
Season Five	September 11, 1977	March 6, 1978	22