Episode
The Six Million Dollar Man: Stranger in Broken Fork
Overview
An electrical short in Steve Austin’s bionic wiring causes him to crash land a plane in Colorado. Suffering from complete amnesia, he is taken in by a psychologist who is operating a home for the mentally depressed. Some locals in the town of Broken Fork do not want this home for “crazy” people in their community, and use strong-arm tactics to force it to move. Steven Austin gets embroiled in the controversy, amazing both himself and all witnesses with his seemingly inexplicable superhuman strength. As he searches for his true identity, Oscar Goldman leads a team trying to find his forgetful friend before his faulty wiring becomes fatal.
Details
- Series
- The Six Million Dollar Man
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 1974-12-13
- Runtime
- 51 min
Episode context
Stranger in Broken Fork is Episode 10 in Season 2 of The Six Million Dollar Man. It aired on 1974-12-13. The runtime is 51 min.
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Episode 9: Act of Piracy
While Steve is helping a science team place earthquake sensors on the ocean floor, their boat is notified that the nearby country of Santa Ventura has broken off diplomatic relations with the US. Before their boat can leave the area they are captured by a Venturan patrol boat and Steve must help the team to escape.
Episode 11: The Peeping Blonde
When Steve jumps a 12 foot fence to fix a malfunctioning space capsule, a newswoman happens to get it on film. After her boss sees the footage he attempts to kidnap Steve so he can sell him to a foreign country.
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Episode 8: The Deadly Replay
Steve attempts to re-test the experimental plane that caused his near fatal accident. When suspicious things begin to happen, Oscar reveals to Steve that his first crash might not have been an accident. Steve chooses to proceed with the experiments hoping to lure the saboteurs into the open.
Episode 12: The Cross-Country Kidnap
Steve is assigned to protect Liza Leitman, an equestrian trying to make the Olympic team; also the creator of the cryptography code that links computers and secret communications world-wide.
Episode 7: The Midas Touch
When Oscar disappears, Steve investigates a lead involving a government-operated gold mine.
Episode 13: Lost Love
Steve consoles a woman, with whom he was once romantically involved, after her husband apparently dies in a plane crash.
Episode 6: Straight On 'til Morning
A UFO carrying four anthropomorphic aliens seeking a new home on earth crashes into the ocean. The aliens manage to escape their lost vessel and swim ashore. Having witnessed the UFO’s flight, Steve Austin investigates a town close to the point of impact. Things quickly turn confrontational when physical contact between an alien and a human causes the alien to slowly die and the human to suffer radiation burns. Steve Austin befriends the aliens and attempts to assist the sole survivor in returning to her people before she dies. Despite astronomical odds, an impending rocket launch appears to be the only possible solution.
Episode 14: The Last Kamikaze
When a plane carrying an atomic warhead crashes on a South Pacific island, Steve is sent to retrieve it, but finds that an ex-Japanese Zero pilot, Kuroda, has taken it to his home. Steve must successfully navigate his way through the booby-traps and get the warhead before a rogue guerrilla group does.
Episode 5: The Seven Million Dollar Man
When Steve discovers that there is another bionic man - Barney Hiller, a race car driver - he is assigned to help him adjust to his bionics.
Episode 15: Return of the Robot Maker
Doctor Dolenz returns and kidnaps Oscar, replacing him with a lookalike robot in an attempt to steal the formula for a new energy source.
Episode 4: The Pal-Mir Escort
When the Prime Minister of a small country has a heart attack while negotiating a peace treaty with neighboring countries, she is selected to receive the first bionic heart. Steve is assigned to protect her while she is transported to the secret hospital where the procedure will take place.
Episode 16: Taneha
The last known golden cougar is on the verge of being hunted down by local ranchers trying to stop their livestock from being killed. Steve's friend, and a local rancher, asks Steve to help him save the cougar from extinction.