Steve Austin, Fugitive

	“Steve Austin, Fugitive” S2 E22
Production 41229; Original Airdate: 27 April 1975
	; Oscar's new secretary is Steve's; only hope of clearing his name
	Produced by; Lionel E. Siegel; Joe L. Cramer
	Teleplay by; Mark Frost; Richard Carr
	Story by; Wilton Denmark; William Gordon; James Doherty
	Directed by; Russ Mayberry
Guest Cast
	Guest Star(s); Gary Lockwood as John Hopper's twin brother; Bernie Hamilton as Lieutenant Dobbs;
	Co-starring; Andy Romano as Charlie Taylor; Jennifer Darling as Peggy Callahan;
	With; Amzie Strickland as Little Old Lady; Marco Lopez as Officer Portez; Reb Brown as Officer Atkins; Jesse Nichoils as OSI Guard; L. Majors as Store Clerk;
Broadcast Order
Season 2
"Outrage in Balinderry"	"The Return of the Bionic Woman"
Related episodes
• sequel to "Eyewitness to Murder"

From The Bionic Wiki

"Steve Austin, Fugitive" was the final episode broadcast in the second season of The Six Million Dollar Man. However, it was shot well before its ultimate broadcast position. From the perspective of the production team, "The Bionic Woman (Part II)", and not this episode, marked the end of the show's sophomore year.

This episode is significant for introducing the character of Peggy Callahan, Oscar's longest-serving secretary, and ostensibly the only one who knew about bionics.

[edit] Summary

Steve Austin is lured by a phone call to an apartment where he finds a dead man. A masked man appears, shoots Steve with a tranquilizer gun and tells him he will be charged with the slaying and that copies of his fingerprints have been placed on the murder weapon. Steve dazedly realizes the man is seeking revenge and associates him with an assassin he had captured and who had been sent to prison. The police arrive and arrest Steve, but en route tot he lockup he escapes. It now becomes a race for Steve to find the man who framed him before he is recaptured by the police.

[edit] Deconstructed

[edit] Quotes

Callahan: Oh dear, you're 'the' colonel Austin?

Steve: I'm the only one I know.

Callahan: Oh golly.

Steve: I was... I was drugged.

Dobbs: Who drugged you?

Steve: A man... a man in a mask.

Dobbs: This masked man, did he ride a white horse?

Oscar: (on phone) Let me speak to Miss Johnson.

Steve: (on other line in Oscar's office) Oh, Miss Johnson is now Miss Callahan.

Oscar: Oh yes, yes, yes Miss Callahan. I change my secretary every three months, I can't remember my own security orders.

Callahan: He wants me to help you in any way I can.

Steve: Good. first off, you can start by giving me your home adress and telephone number.

Callahan: Oh... is that the routine here?

Callahan: How did you get in? My door is very, very locked.

Steve: Window.

Steve: What's your security clearance?

Callahan: I'm a three.

Steve: You're about to be jumped to a six.

Store Clerk: Well by golly, it appears to me you're building nothing short of a robot.

Callahan: That's right, how did you know?

Dobbs: Do you really expect me to swallow that? That there's an exact duplicate of Colonel Austin's hand with his fingerprints on it?

Oscar: That's right.

Dobbs: And that someone stole and used it to put Austin's prints on the murder weapon?

Oscar: Exactly.

Oscar: Alright, Lazarus, rise.

Hopper: I would really have preferred to have seen him spend the rest of his life behind bars, but, I don't know, to be shot by the police as a fugitive, well... I'm not complaining.

Steve:Well, Oscar, Callahan here is a six now. She qualifies to have a long leisurely lunch like the rest of us sixes.

Oscar: Now look Pal, I've got a ton of work around here.

Steve: Well, then do it Oscar. Nobody asked you to lunch.

Steve: By the way Callahan, do you have a first name?

Callahan: Yes. (She then turns and walks out the door.)

[edit] Trivia

[edit] Cast

Look for the scene in which Callahan buys electronic supplies in the parts shop. The actor playing the shopkeeper is credited "L. Majors" -- and appears to be Lee Majors in heavy makeup, a wig and false teeth.
Besides portraying Peggy Callahan in “The Six Million Dollar Man” and “The Bionic Woman”, Jennifer Darling also co-starred in episodes of two other live action shows featuring ‘superhumans’ – “The Incredible Hulk” and “Wonder Woman”. She is also an achieved voice actor and provided vocalization for an episode of the animated series “Bionic Six”, this time playing a villain of bionic heroes named Madame O. She was later reunited with Lee in 1983 for an episode of “The Fall Guy”.

[edit] Gaffes

[edit] Credibility

While in the police car, Steve used his Bionics to break the handcuffs. However, due to the force that this would have exerted, he should have broken his non-Bionic wrist.
It's not clear how the bulldozer/tractor remained balanced on its two real wheels after Steve fought off Hopper's attack.