THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN
60 Minute Drama
Action / Adventure
ORIGINAL TRANSMISSION
1973 — 1978
BROADCASTER
ABC
CBS (1994)
SEASONS / EPISODES
3 TV Movies (1973)
5 Seasons / 100 Episodes
3 TV Movies (1987, 1989, 1994)
Based on
Cyborg by Martin Caidin,
The Six Million Dollar Man starred Lee Majors as
Colonel Steve Austin, a
NASA test pilot who is seriously injured when the plane he is flying crashes, and who has both legs, an arm and an eye replaced by cybernetic implants. He subsequently works for
Oscar Goldman at the
Office of Strategic Investigations (OSI) on various dangerous assignments.
The Bionic Woman, a spin-off series starring Lindsay Wagner, was launched in 1976.
Three TV movies featuring both Majors and Wagner were later produced between 1989 and 1994.
Novelisations
The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War
by Mike Jahn
- United States
- Paperback
- Warner Books
- 1975
- Book Number: #1
Other Editions
The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War

UK / Paperback / Star Books / 1975

UK / Hardback / Allan Wingate / 1976
Vin, Femmes et Guerre
Canada / Paperback / Editions Heritage / 1977
Der 6-Millionen Dollar Mann: Der Atombomben-Coup
Germany / Paperback / Bastei Lübbe / 1978
Novelised Episode
Wine, Women and War
Back Cover Blurb — Warner Books
DEATH FOR SALE TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER!
To dictator, demagogue, oil-rich sheik or Third World revolutionary, Arlen Findletter will sell weapons of nuclear destruction. He's even ready to deliver a complete U.S. nuclear submarine if the bidder will wait a few days until he steals it. To combat this international bandit, the United States sends its most sophisticated weapon — The Six-Million Dollar Man. Steve must find the man, locate his arsenal and stop him before he accomplishes his most daring act of piracy.
Back Cover Blurb — Star Books
DEATH FOR SALE TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER
To dictator, oil-rich sheik or Third World revolutionary, Arlen Findletter will sell weapons of nuclear destruction. He's even ready to deliver a complete nuclear submarine if the bidder will wait until he's stolen it. To combat this international bandit, the US sends its most sophisticated weapon THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN. Steve Austin's brief: Find him; locate the arsenal; stop him before it's too late.
The Six Million Dollar Man: Solid Gold Kidnapping
by Evan Richards
- United States
- Paperback
- Warner Books
- 1975
- Book Number: #2
Other Editions
The Six Million Dollar Man: Solid Gold Kidnapping

UK / Paperback / Star Books / 1975

UK / Hardback / Allan Wingate / 1977
Der 6-Millionen Dollar Mann: Der Gestohlene Minister
Germany / Paperback / Bastei Lübbe / 1978
Novelised Episode
Solid Gold Kidnapping
Back Cover Blurb — Warner Books
STEVE AUSTIN, THE HUNTER AND THE HUNTED
When Steve Austin single-handedly rescued a kidnapped ambassador from a jungle stronghold, he made some powerful enemies. The kidnappers were part of an elaborately organized criminal syndicate that specialized in the abduction of political figures.
Now, Steve has been called in to foil the gang's most ambitious project. They have taken the United States' top diplomatic negotiator, and they want a billion dollars in gold for his return. They fully expect the bionics man to intervene — and they are ready for him!
Back Cover Blurb — Star Books
THE HUNTER AND THE HUNTED
When Steve Austin single-handedly rescued a kidnapped ambassador from a jungle stronghold, he made some powerful enemies. The kidnappers were part of an elaborately organized criminal syndicate that specialized in the abduction of political figures. Now Steve has been called in to foil the gang's most ambitious project. They have taken the United States' top diplomatic negotiator, and they want a billion dollars in gold for his return. They fully expect the bionics man to intervene — and they are ready for him!
The Six Million Dollar Man: Pilot Error
by Jay Barbree
- United States
- Paperback
- Warner Books
- 1975
- Book Number: #4
Other Editions
The Six Million Dollar Man: Pilot Error

UK / Paperback / Star Books / 1976

UK / Hardback / Allan Wingate / 1977
Der 6-Millionen Dollar Mann: Blindflug
Germany / Paperback / Bastei Lübbe / 1978
Novelised Episode
Pilot Error
Back Cover Blurb — Warner Books
"LET ME FLY AGAIN!"
Steve Austin owes his life to Senator Ed Hill. Hill pushed through the six-million dollar appropriation that made Steve a new man after his disaster in space. Is Ed Hill to blame for the crash of a plane he was piloting? Steve is investigating the fatal crash.
Steve cannot compromise his safety responsibility, but fate gives him a chance to repay his debt to Hill.
Back Cover Blurb — Star Books
DEATH CRASH
Steve Austin, Six Million Dollar Man, is called in as expert witness in the trial of Senator Ed Hill. As pilot of the plane and sole survivor, is Hill to be held responsible for the disaster? Apart from his pilot's licence, Hill's chances as candidate for the vice-presidency are at stake — any scandal attached to his name will immediately destroy them.
But somehow Hill's story doesn't quite ring true and as investigations continue, Austin finds himself faced with a terrible dilemma — he owes his life to the Senator but will repaying the debt mean he must compromise his own integrity?
The Six Million Dollar Man: The Rescue of Athena One
by Mike Jahn
- United States
- Paperback
- Warner Books
- 1975
- Book Number: #5
Other Editions
The Six Million Dollar Man: The Rescue of Athena One

UK / Paperback / Star Books / 1976

UK / Hardback / Allan Wingate / 1978
Der 6-Millionen Dollar Mann: Unheimliche Begegnung
Germany / Paperback / Bastei Lübbe / 1978
Au Secours d'Athena Un
Canada / Paperback / Editions Heritage / 1979
Novelised Episodes
The Rescue of Athena One / Straight on 'til Morning
Back Cover Blurb — Warner Books
LOST — IN A SEA OF STARS
Steve Austin watches with pride as the Athena One rocket, manned by America's first woman astronaut, lifts off.
He then turns his attention to reports of U.F.O. sightings. Steve must investigate the possibility than an alien spacecraft has landed on Earth.
What he finds is a family of interterrestrial delegates; but only one, Minonee, has managed to survive on Earth. Steve wants to protect her from becoming a public freak show.
Suddenly, there's an explosion on Athena One!
Now Steve has two assignments: to rescue Athena One's crew, stranded in space, and to send Minonee home from earth, undetected.
Back Cover Blurb — Star Books
LOST IN A SEA OF STARS
Watching with pride as the Athena One rocket manned by America's first woman astronaut takes off, Steve Austin's thoughts turn to his current brief...to investigate the apparent landing of an alien spacecraft on earth. What he finds is a family of inter-terrestrial delegates, only one of which has managed to survive on earth. Then as Steve strives to protect her, (for she was a woman) from becoming a public freak show...there's a gigantic explosion reported on Athena One. Now with two taxing assignments at his door (the rescue of Athena One and the return of the alien from earth) Steve's bionic power is stretched to its farthest limits.
The Six Million Dollar Man: International Incidents
by Mike Jahn
- United States
- Paperback
- Berkley
- 1977
Other Editions
Der 6-Millionen Dollar Mann: Verschwörung gegen USA
Germany / Paperback / Bastei Lübbe / 1979
Novelised Episodes
Love Song for Tanya / The Deadly Test
Original Novels
It should be noted that the following four novels are not based on the Six Million Dollar Man television series, but are instead Martin Caidin's series of original novels featuring the character of Steve Austin.
Caidin's original novel, Cyborg, was the basis for the Six Million Dollar Man television series (specifically the feature-length pilot in March 1973), and his first two books, Cyborg and Operation Nuke, were issued in paperback as tie-ins to the television series — Cyborg itself having first been released in paperback in 1972. To further confuse matters, books three and four, High Crystal and Cyborg IV, were first released in paperback as part of Warner Books' Six Million Dollar Man series.
Details of all four are included here for interest only, and only the first US paperback editions are noted.
by Martin Caidin
- United States
- Paperback
- Warner Books
- 1974
Other Editions
Cyborg

United States / Paperback / Warner Paperback Library / 1972
Back Cover Blurb — 1974
STEVE AUSTIN, CYBORG, IS THE WORLD'S DEADLIEST WEAPON
All the resources of N.A.S.A., The Pentagon, and Government Money put the broken pieces of Lt. Col. Steve Austin's shattered body together again. He came out of it more perfect than human. Better than new. A deadly, unstoppable weapon. Now all he needed was to find some human emotion in the tangle of plastic, wire, and atomic metal that was fused to the remains of his flesh...
Notes
- The second paperback edition of Cyborg, published in 1974, was released as a tie-in to the Six Million Dollar Man television series starring Lee Majors, the pilot for which was broadcast on ABC in March 1973, and which was based on Cyborg.
For completeness, details are also included above of the original 1972 paperback release from Warner Paperback Library.
Cyborg #2: Operation Nuke
by Martin Caidin
- United States
- Paperback
- Warner Books
- 1974
Back Cover Blurb
STEVE AUSTIN, CYBORG, IS THE WORLD'S DEADLIEST WEAPON
When Steve Austin, astronaut, crashed from the skies, he woke to find himself a fragment of a man — no legs, one arm, one eye. But Science rebuilt his body, giving him physical powers no other man possessed.
Now, the world is threatened by a syndicate that sells nuclear destruction to the highest bidder. And Steve Austin who, from the moon, saw the Earth as fragile and precious, is the one man who can save that world from the ultimate blackmail of our times.
"TERRIFYING...INTRIGUING"
— Chattanooga Times
"FAST-PACED SPY ADVENTURE"
— Arizona Daily Star
Notes
- The paperback edition of Operation Nuke was published in 1974 as a tie-in to the Six Million Dollar Man television series. The book had originally been published in hardback in 1973.
The Six Million Dollar Man: High Crystal
by Martin Caidin
- United States
- Paperback
- Warner Books
- 1975
- Book Number: #3
Back Cover Blurb
IS THIS A SECRET LINK TO THE CHARIOTS OF THE GODS?
High in the Andes is an impossible highway, more than two miles above sea level, built of rocks smooth as marble. Who built it? How were such huge slabs of rock lifted to such heights? What forces were used to fuse them into an unsegmented strip? No modern man has explored these mountains; what ancient culture flourished here and performed such marvels?
Only Steve Austin can lead an expedition into this hostile land. Only the bionics man can hack his way through the fields of razor-sharp grass, scale the sheer rock cliffs and fly the turbulent skies from mountain ledge to mountain top where the source of the secret energy is hidden.
Notes
- Despite its only connection with the Six Million Dollar Man television series being the character of Steve Austin, the paperback edition of Martin Caidin's High Crystal was released as part of Warner Books' Six Million Dollar Man book series. The book had originally been published in hardback in 1974.
The Six Million Dollar Man: Cyborg IV
by Martin Caidin
- United States
- Paperback
- Warner Books
- 1976
- Book Number: #6
Back Cover Blurb
MAN-SHIP!
Never before has there been a bionics man like Steve Austin — his human capabilities enhanced by electronic reconstruction of his body.
Never before could there be such an aeronautic experiment plugging the perceptions of a man into the controls of a spaceship. When the ship rolls, it is Steve Austin rolling in space. When cosmic rays hit the plane's shell, Steve feels them as though they were pelting his own skin.
Dangerous! Terrifying! But Steve must accept the challenge to outmaneuver an enemy in the race for space supremacy.
Notes
- Like High Crystal, Cyborg IV was not based on the Six Million Dollar Man television series, but its paperback release was published as part of Warner Books' Six Million Dollar Man book series. The book had originally been published in hardback in 1975.
Omnibus Editions
Der Sechs-Millionen-Dollar-Mann
by Mike Jahn, Evan Richards and Jay Barbree
- Germany
- Paperback
- Bastei-Verl
- 1989