'The Six Million Dollar Man' (a.k.a 'The Moon and the Desert') by Henri Simoun Story by Martin Caidin

While testing a new delta-wing plane for the government, Colonel Steve Austin is almost killed when a mechanical malfunction causes the aircraft to crash. After Steve is rushed to hospital for treatment, Oliver Spencer, the head of the O.S.I. - a top secret U.S. special intelligence organisation - authorises Doctor Rudy Wells to rebuild the injured pilot’s body using state-of-the-art bionic parts. However, although now equipped with a powerful bionic left eye, right arm and both legs, Steve soon falls into depression, unable to come to terms with his situation; but with the assistance of the attractive Nurse Manners he undergoes a course of intense physical and mental therapy designed to help him with his recovery. In an effort to raise Steve’s spirits Spencer offers him an assignment in the Middle East, hoping that the mission will enable him to work out his depression and his feelings for Nurse Manners. Steve accepts, and parachutes into the Saudi Arabian Desert to rescue a captured Arab-Israeli leader from a group of desperate revolutionaries…

Lee Majors (Colonel Steve Austin), Darren McGavin (Oliver Spencer), Barbara Anderson (Nurse Jean Manners), Martin Balsam (Doctor Rudy Wells), Ivor Barry (Geraldton), Robert Cornthwaite (Doctor Ashburn), Olan Soule (Saltillo), Charles Robinson (Prisoner), George Wallace (General), Dorothy Green (Mrs. McKay), Maurice Sherbanee (Nudaylah), Anne Whitfield (Young Woman), Norma Storch (Woman), John Mark Robinson (Aide)


Directed by Richard Irving
Producer Lionel E. Siegel
Executive Producer Harve Bennet
Creator Kenneth Johnson
Based on the novel by Martin Caldin

TX (US): 7th March 1973

Notes:
*Introducing Colonel Steve Austin, Oliver Spencer and Doctor Rudy Wells

*This was originally transmitted as a ninety-minute T.V. movie as part of ABC's 'Suspense Theater'; it has since been shown in syndication as two sixty-minute episodes with thirty extra minutes of footage

Alternate title: 'Cyborg: The Six Million Dollar Man'