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Steve Austin's 3rd outing as the Six Million Dollar Man is a tad disappointing. A brilliant scientist goes missing and Steve has to travel to Spain to locate his daughter who through her powers of ESP may be able to help him track down her father. A couple of attempts on his life - an out of control taxi and a gun attack by the everglade swamps in Florida - later and Steve and the girl locate the kidnapper's hiding place. Then follows what is the most embarrassing and pathetic fight I have seen in a long while - whereby Steve jumps into the swamp to ward off an "alligator". It is the most unrealistic alligator I have ever seen - laughably fake and horribly embarrassing for the actor and the makers of the episode. Poor. A few (well executed) chase scenes later and Steve manages to trap his pursuers in quicksand, get the scientist back safely and set up a dinner date with the girl. After a promising opening two episodes to the series, this one falls someway short.

Oh well, on to the next episode.

Bizarre episode, one of the poorest of the first season, involving a scientist who invents a super laser being arm-twisted by the bad guys to develop his weapon, while his daughter, gifted with ESP and aided by Steve Austin, searches for him.

The alligator made me laugh, but as ever Lee Majors saves the episode. Legend!

Overal plot of this episode is ridiculous. And unfortunately Austin's female companion is TSTL in that crocodile scene. But Austin himself also got very lucky not to have been shot in the back earlier during the weird Logging attack on the invaders in the camp. He's very lucky that rifle shooting dude decided that the guide who, against all hope, was trying to save his burning boat was a much more important target to shoot then the guy swinging around and hitting his comrades with a big log. So the bad guys were also TSTL.

This third episode from Season 1 is one of the worst. It contains a truly zany plot: a scientist working on a laser weapon has gone missing and the government's only way to find him is through his daughter who happens to have ESP abilities (!). Naturally Steve Austin is dispatched to make contact with her.

Their travels lead them from Spain to the Florida Everglades where they survive multiple assassination attempts including an attack on the daughter by the phoniest alligator ever committed to film. Along the way they are assisted by former NFL quarterback Joe Kapp who portrays some kind of Native American swamp guide.

This episode is unintentionally hilarious and pretty embarrassing for fans of the show. There is the usual abundance of stock footage that is poorly edited into the new scenes with the actors. The famous Universal back lot stands in for a Spanish town and the Everglades interlude appears to be shot in the same locale as "Creature From the Black Lagoon." And the scene where the daughter, portrayed by Pamela Franklin, takes a comically bad fall into the water at the sight of the aforementioned rubber alligator approaching makes one wince.

The acting and characterizations are below par. Ms. Franklin spends much of her time in hysterics while Kapp is simply amateurish. At one point he offers to help Steve with his dilemma and volunteers that he is a good fighter. I had high hopes of seeing Nutty Joe roughing up some villains but when the moment comes the teleplay treats him like the Kansas City Chiefs did in Super Bowl IV.

Lee Majors somehow manages to survive with his dignity intact and is annoyingly optimistic throughout the mission. He uses his bionic arm to impressively play guitar and later, with buzz saw sound effects, quickly carves a canoe out of a tree trunk.

Just a bad episode all around and a poor representation of this great show.