Episode
The Six Million Dollar Man: Death Probe (2)
Overview
With time running out, Steve must do anything he can to disable the Russian space probe in spite of the fact that it is virtually indestructible and has numerous inventive capabilities that it uses as weapons.
Details
- Series
- The Six Million Dollar Man
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 14
- Air date
- 1977-01-16
- Runtime
- 51 min
Episode context
Death Probe (2) is Episode 14 in Season 4 of The Six Million Dollar Man. It aired on 1977-01-16. The runtime is 51 min.
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Episode 13: Death Probe (1)
When an object tracks across the sky and lands in a remote area in Wyoming, Oscar and Steve arrive on the scene and find that a Russian space probe built to withstand the extreme Venus environment has crash landed on earth and is out of Soviet control. It's up to Steve to try to stop the probe from destroying a nearby town.
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