6M$M Logo 'Carnival of Spies'
(Story Code '45101')

by Robert C. Dennis
Story by Richard Carr
and Robert C. Dennis
Steve Austin

While attending a scientific conference, Professor Ulrich Rau, an East German scientist who has developed a new ground-to-air weapon system, suffers from a heart attack. However, Steve Austin becomes suspicious, believing that the professor faked the attack; when Rau then sneaks away from the conference and heads for a travelling carnival, Steve follows behind him. The carnival is situated just a few miles away from a government test site, where a new B-1 bomber plane is to be flown. Investigating the carnival, Steve discovers that it is really a ground-to-air missile site in disguise; but before he can act, he finds himself facing several very hostile carnival folk…

Lee Majors (Colonel Steve Austin), Richard Anderson (Oscar Goldman), Martin B. Brooks (Doctor Rudy Wells), Lloyd Bochner (Rau), Gloria Manon (Shira), Cheryl Miller (Kim), Bob Minor (Hercules), Wes Parker (Walden), Michael Strong (Herman Lower), Peter Weiss (Schmidt), H.M. Wynant (General), Ed Faulkner (Wessler), Dave Shelley (Barker)

Directed by Richard Moder
Produced by Allan Balter
Executive Producer Harve Bennett
Based on the novel by Martin Caldin


TX (US): 13th February 1977

Notes:
*Featuring Colonel Steve Austin, Oscar Goldman and Doctor Rudy Wells

*This episode is famous for its involvment with a real-life corpse: while filming in the Pike Amusement Park, one of the workers moved a wax mannequin hanging in the ‘Laff in the Park’ funhouse and broke off an arm, revealing a human bone within; investigation revealed the ‘dummy’ to be the preserved corpse of Elmer McCurdy, who had robbed a train of $46 and two jugs of whiskey in Oklahoma in 1911. Killed in a shoot-out by the pursuing posse, McCurdy’s body was then embalmed so well that the undertaker put him on display and charged for viewings; the corpse then went to to appear at haunted houses, wax museums and amusement parks up until his re-discovery by the ‘Six Million Dollar Man’ crew. McCurdy was finally laid to rest in Guthrie, Oklahoma, 22nd on April 1977, the day before Lee Majors’ 38th birthday.