Episode
The Six Million Dollar Man: The Pal-Mir Escort
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- The Six Million Dollar Man
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 1974-10-04
- Runtime
- 52 min
Episode context
The Pal-Mir Escort is Episode 4 in Season 2 of The Six Million Dollar Man. It aired on 1974-10-04. The runtime is 52 min.
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Episode 3: Pilot Error
A plane carrying Steve, a senator, and the senator's aides crashes in the desert. Steve must lead the others to safety despite being blinded in the crash.
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.
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While scientist David Tate experiments in space with a serum designed to awaken cryogenically frozen patients, he is accidentally injected with too much serum. When the space capsule crashes, he begins terrorizing the countryside and Steve must hunt him down.
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 1: Nuclear Alert
Steve must stop a group of government conspirators who have assembled an atomic bomb from stolen parts.
Episode 7: The Midas Touch
When Oscar disappears, Steve investigates a lead involving a government-operated gold mine.
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 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 10: Stranger in Broken Fork
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.
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.
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 13: Lost Love
Steve consoles a woman, with whom he was once romantically involved, after her husband apparently dies in a plane crash.