"Little Orphan Airplane" | |
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Series The Six Million Dollar Man Season 1, Episode 5 | |
File:Smdm 1x05 001.jpg | |
Air date | February 22nd, 1974 |
Writers | Del Reisman; Harold Livingston |
Director | Leslie H. Martinson |
Producers | Harve Bennett; Donald R. Boyle; Arthur E. McLaird; Sam Strangis |
Starring | Lee Majors; Richard Anderson |
Episode guide | |
Previous "Day of the Robot" |
Next "Doomsday, and Counting" |
"Little Orphan Airplane" is the fifth episode of season one of the sci-fi/action television series The Six Million Dollar Man and the seventh episode of the series overall (if one includes the three original television movies). It was directed by Leslie H. Martinson with a script written by Del Reisman based on a story treatment by Harold Livingston. It first aired on ABC on Friday, February 8th, 1974. In this episode, Steve Austin has to escort his old Air Force buddy Frederick Sloan to a missile testing site. Along the way, Sloan is secretly replaced with a robot duplicate programmed to steal a top-secret anti-missile defense circuit.