page_title: The Six Million Dollar Man
section_title: Cast
hierarchical_section_title: The Six Million Dollar Man / Cast
caption_attribution_description: Photo of Lee Majors and Elizabeth Ashley from the televison program The Six Million Dollar Man.
context_page_description: The Six Million Dollar Man is an American science fiction and action television series, running from 1973 to 1978, about a former astronaut, USAF Colonel Steve Austin, portrayed by Lee Majors. Austin has superhuman strength, speed, and vision due to bionic implants and is employed as a secret agent by a fictional U.S. government office titled OSI. The series was based on Martin Caidin's 1972 novel Cyborg, which was the working title of the series during pre-production.
  Following three television pilot movies, which all aired in 1973, The Six Million Dollar Man television series aired on the ABC network as a regular episodic series for five seasons from 1974 to 1978. Steve Austin became a pop culture icon of the 1970s.
  A spin-off television series, The Bionic Woman, featuring the lead female character Jaime Sommers, ran from 1976 to 1978. Three television movies featuring both bionic characters were also produced from 1987 to 1994.
context_section_description: Steve Austin (played by Lee Majors), the lead character
  Oscar Goldman (played by Richard Anderson), Director of the OSI
  Dr. Rudy Wells (played by Martin Balsam, 1st pilot episode; Alan Oppenheimer, 2nd and 3rd pilot episodes, seasons 1 & 2 and 1 episode in season 3; Martin E. Brooks, seasons 3–5, as well as on The Bionic Woman and in three movies), Austin's physician and primary overseer of the medical aspects of bionic technology
  Jaime Sommers (played by Lindsay Wagner—recurring)
  Peggy Callahan (played by Jennifer Darling—recurring), secretary to Oscar Goldman
  Oliver Spencer (played by Darren McGavin), director of the OSO in the pilot
caption: Majors and Elizabeth Ashley
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