18th Century
1726
The alien colonists
* A group of alien scientists sets up a colony within the San Andreas mountain region.
* The legend of Sasquatch begins.
19th Century
* None.
20th Century
1912
* Helen , the future Mrs. Carl Austin then later Mrs. Jim Elgin is born. (Speculation based on actress Martha Scott's year of birth)
The future Mrs. Elgin during her early years.
1925
* Rudy Wells is born. (Although there's an 11-year range difference to the different years of birth of the three actors who played him - 1919 Martin Balsam, 1925 Martin E. Brooks, 1930 Alan Oppenheimer, this timeline is will go by Martin E. Brooks' age)
1927
* May 3 - James Sommers, Jaime's biological father, future agent is born. (Source - BW "Jaime's Mother")
1930
* August 8 - Oscar Goldman is born. (Source - BW "Iron Ships and Dead Men")
The future Head of the OSI, Oscar Goldman during his early years.
* Oct 26 - Ann Sommers, Jaime's biological mother, future agent is born. (Source - BW "Jaime's Mother")
James and Ann Sommers
1941
* Feb 5 - Steve Austin is born.
The attack on Pearl Harbor
* Dec 7 - Sam Goldman, the older brother of Oscar Goldman, is killed while stationed in Hawaii during the attack on Pearl Harbor. (Source - BW "Iron Ships and Dead Men")
1942
* Carl Austin, the father of Steve Austin, is killed when his plane was attacked by Japanese fighters during on a top-secret courier mission over the Himalayas. (Source - SMDM "The Coward")
1944
* During World War II, Kuroda, a young Japanese Kamikaze pilot crash lands on a remote island in the South Pacific island and is stranded without any comunication to civilization. For the years to follow, Kurodo will never recieve his orders to surrender from the Imperial Japaneese Empire nor will he know that the war is over during the decades that follow. ( Source- SMDM "The Last Kamikaze")
1945
* Jun 22 - Jaime Sommers is born
1948
* Carl Franklin, son of Dr. Franklin is born.
1949
* Kelly Woods is born.
Steve Austin circa early 1950s
1952
* Jim Elgin starts dating the widow, Helen Austin. Steve's mother. Steve eventually takes a liking to him and asks Jim to marry to propose to his mother because he was tired of always being stuck home with the babysitter while he and his mother were out on a date. (Source - SMDM "The Bionic Woman")
1954
* Jaime Sommers meets and befriends J.T. Connors, a brilliant and powerful industrialist
* Steve Austin graduates from middle school.
1955
* Steve befriends his football team mate, Larry Bronco. (Source - SMDM "One of Our Running Backs is Missing")
1957
* In Chicago, a nightclub comedian, Walter Krueger witnesses a mob related murder. Fearful for his life because of what he had seen, Walter leaves Chicago and takes on a new alias as Harry Anderson.
1958
* With a new identity as Harry Anderson, Walter Krueger relocates to Ojai and takes on a job as a school bus driver. Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers were among the many students he use to drive to school on his routes.
Jaimie Sommers Austin circa mid 1950s
* Dec 31 - Steve and Jaime kiss for the first time at Steve's senior class New Year's party. (Source - SMDM "The Bionic Woman")
1959
* Steve Austin graduates high school.
* Steve Austin goes to college.
John Perry
* In college, Steve Austin rooms with John Perry for at least two years, writes a song. (Source - SMDM "The Song and Dance Spy")
* Oscar Goldman joins the OSI.
Doctor Franklin circa 1961
1960
* Dr. Franklin begins his employment at the OSI. (Source - BW "Kill Oscar")
1961
* April 16 - Undercover agents James and Ann
Sommers, Jaime's parents, were killed (presumably murdered) in a car accident.
(''Author's note: The production designer on the episode "Jaime's Mother" made an error on the dates on James' and Ann's headstones, giving their dates of death as 1966.'' )
* Jim Elgin and Helen Elgin become the legal guardians of Jaime Sommers.
Captain Ritcher circa late 1950s
1962
* Oscar Goldman serves as Executive First Officer under the command of Captain Richter during The Cuban Missile Crisis. They spend four days and nights on duty during the Cuban Missile Crisis. (Source - BW "Kill Oscar" part3 )
Jaime Sommers circa 1963
1963
* April 14 - Jaime's Senior Prom (Aladdin's Lamp) at Ojai High School; as seen in Jaime's scrapbook in. (Source - BW "Deadly Ringer" )
* Steve Austin joins the Army out of college; spends several months flying choppers during the Vietnam War until his chopper was shot down.
* Jaime Sommers graduates high school; enrolls at Carnegie Tech majoring in education while playing tennis.
* Larry Bronco is drafted by the NFL.
Larry Bronco
1964
* Steve Austin meets and starts dating Karen. Their romance leads quickly to marriage within months.
* Steve Austin transfers to the U.S. Air Force and becomes a test pilot for the SR-71 and other aircraft at Lackland for OTS.
* During his career in the Air Force, Steve befriends Fred Sloan.
* Karen Austin divorces Steve Austin (doesn't tell Steve she's pregnant).
Fred Sloan circa 1960
1965
* Steve Austin joins NASA.
* Steve Austin meets and becomes fast friends with Dr. Rudy Wells. Rudy eventually becomes Steve's personal Physician responsible for both Steve's physical and mental well being during all space missions.
Author's note: This chance meeting and eventual close friendship between Rudy and Steve is perhaps the most pivotal event in the fictional SMDM and BW universe.
* At NASA, Steve Austin catches Julian Richmond stealing components. Richmond's arrest lands him in the Florida State Penitentiary for 12 years.
* Michael Austin, son of Steve Austin, is born.
July 26
* Kate Mason is born. (Speculation based on actress Sandra Bullock year of birth)
1967
* Jaime Sommers graduates from Carnegie Tech. However instead of pursuing a teaching career she's quickly rising in becoming a top-ranked tennis pro and later competes at Wimbledon and Forest Hills against the likes of Chris Everett and Billie Jean King. Her lifelong friend, J.T. Connors is one of her main sponsors during her tennis career.
* Kelly Woods joins the U.S. Air Force. There she befriends Judy Grant. (Source - SMDM "The Thunderbird Connection")
1968
January
* While training for NASA, Steve Austin engages in another series relationship with a woman named Barbera which once again leads to a quick engagement to marriege.
* Barbera breaks off her engagement with Steve Austin. Like Karen Austin before her, she felt that she was being neglected due to Steve's studies and training consuming most of his time. She later decided to leave him for another man, Orin Thatcher, who will eventually becomes a scientist for the OSI. (Source- SMDM "Lost Love")
1970
* Dr. Franklin's employment at the OSI is terminated after too many continuing conflicts with his superior, Oscar Goldman. (Source - BW "Kill Oscar")
Oliver Spencer and Oscar Goldman circa 1970
1971
* Steve and Jaime meet up for last time until they are reunited four years later. (Source- SMDM "The Bionic Woman")
* Max, a German Sheppard pup, nearly burns to death in a lab fire losing all four of his limbs. Rudy Wells uses the dog as a test subject for bionics. (Source- BW "The Bionic Dog")
* After being inflicted with a rare muscle deteriorating disease, Kate Mason is confined to live the rest of her life in a wheel chair. (Source- " Bionic Showdown")
* Karen Austin, Steve's ex-wife, Michael's mother, dies from pneumonia in a little town called Placidville. It was during a snow storm when Steve rushed out to see her one last time. The entire town approached Steve to express their sympathy. (Source - The Return of The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman" )
1972
January
* Upon Karen Austin's death, Steve makes arrangements with Karen's sister to become Michael's legal guardian.
* In Kanub, Utah, a Twelve year old, Andy Sheffield and his father is caught in a rock slide killing the father and leaving Andy paralyzed from the waist down. (Source - SMDM "The Bionic Boy")
December 7
* 12:53 AM - Steve Austin blasts off for the moon aboard Apollo 17; walks on it four days later.
December 11
* Apollo 17 lands on the moon.
December 17
* 2:24PM - Apollo 17 returns to Earth.
* At some point after the Apollo 17 mission -- Austin and his crew mates visit Moscow, where Austin meets and befriends Alexi Kaslov and Vasily Zhukov.
* Bob Crandall embezzles money from his uncle, Horton Budge, to pay for wife Nora's medical bills. Budge finds out and makes Crandall be his chauffeur and sacrifice Christmas bonuses to pay him back. (Source - SMDM "A Bionic Christmas Carol" )
Oliver Spencer
* Oliver Spencer proposes the Project Cyborg to the OSI Board of Directors. (Speculation; the "The Six Million Dollar Man (Pilot)|pilot film" depicts this meeting as occurring simultaneously with Austin's crash)
1973
* ''The Six Million Dollar Man (Pilot)''- While Steve Austin is test piloting an experimental aircraft, a malfunction causes a crash. Austin's injuries are so severe, he loses both legs, his right arm and is also blinded in one eye.
Steve Austin, a man barely alive.
One of Austin's closest friends, Rudy Wells, a doctor and scientist, is a specialist in the newly emerging field of bionics. Oliver Spencer, who had recently proposed the Cyborg Project to the OSI's board of directors as a means of reducing agent casualties, is able to authorize the funding to take a severely injured Austin and rebuild him with bionics. Rudy Wells is ordered to perform the procedure on Austin. This process takes several months, though the exact length of time is not specified.
("The Return of the Bionic Woman" includes a line of dialog that Austin has been bionic for "about three years" as of that episode; the episode aired in September 1975, so if it was set around the time of broadcast (as suggested below) then Austin's bionic surgery may have actually occurred in the latter part of 1972.)
* Steve Austin goes on his first mission for the OSI.
* Oscar Goldman is appointed director of the OSI, succeeding Oliver Spencer.
May'
* Barney Hiller crashes race car, loses both arms and legs.
(''18 months prior to "Seven Million Dollar Man" episode'')
August - September 12
* "Wine, Women and War" - Steve travels to the Caribbean for a relaxing holiday, but instead gets
unwittingly entangled in a nuclear black market ring.
* Alexi Kaslov is killed and Austin triggers a small nuclear detonation.
October
* The OSI abandons a base code name "The Still". Dr. Rudy Wells once commented on being station there for 7 months. In the following years, Dr. Franklin will eventually use the abandoned complex to serve as a base of operation. (Source-SMDM "Kill Oscar" part 2)
November 17
* "The Solid Gold Kidnapping"
1974
January 18
* "Population: Zero" - Steve Austin investigates the cause of a mysterious illness that supposedly decimated a small town of Norris, California.
January 25 -27
* "Survival of the Fittest" - After their plane crashes into the ocean, Steve, Oscar and other passengers are stranded on a deserted island.
February 2 - 5
* "Operation Firefly" - Steve teams up with a parapsychologist to search for her missing
scientist father allegedly kidnapped by enemy agents.
February 8
* "Day of the Robot" - A scientist, Dr. Dolenz creates a robot in the image of Steve Austin's friend, Fred Sloan to infiltrate the OSI in a scheme to steal an anti-missile guiding system.
February 22
* "Little Orphan Airplane" - Steve is sent to Africa to find a pilot whose plane crashed with evidences of UN treaty violations
March 1
* "Doomsday, and Counting" - Steve travels to Russia to help his a friend, Vasily Zhukov rescue his fiancée, Irena Leonova who is trapped in a
underground nuclear faility by an earthquake
* Kelly Woods becomes the first American woman in space
* Date of the telegram Jaime sends to Rona confirming her appearance at his tournament.
* John Hopper, a professional sniper is hired by the mob to assasinate state prosecuter, Lorin Sandusky
March 8
* "Eyewitness to Murder" - Steve Austin must insure the safety of a renowned state prosecutor, Lorin Sandusky after a failed assination attempt by hitman John Hopper.
* Although Steve apprehends John Hopper's twin brother and false alibi, the twin Hopper brother somehow manged to avoid arrest and slips away.
March 15
* "The Rescue of Athena One" - When a NASA space capsule co piloted by Kelly Woods gets stranded in orbit, Steve is sent to space bring it safely back to earth.
March 26
* During a space mission, astronaut Josh Lang begins to hallucinate once he's plunged into a cosmic field.
March 28
* Dr. Rudy Wells travels to the Austrian Alps where he is to be honoured by his alma mater.
March 29 - April 5
* "Dr. Wells is Missing" - Dr. Rudy Wells is kidnapped and Steve travels to Austria to rescue Rudy from the clutches of an infamous criminal organization.
April 12 - 15
* "Burning Bright" - Steve is asked to vouch for the sanity of an astronaut friend, Josh Lang who is being threatened out of the space program.
April 19 -24
* "The Coward" - After a meteorological satellite locates the debris of a World War II DC-3 fighter plane that was piloted by his father, Carl Austin, Steve pays a visit to his mother, Helen Elgin to learn more about the events and the presumed intelligence reports that suggests that the senior Austin bailed out on his crew during the attack.Determined to discover the truth, Steve accepts a salvage mission to recover secret documents and travels to the Himalayas to unravel the mystery behind his father's death.
April 26
* "Run, Steve, Run" - Convinced by Oscar Goldman that he needs to rest, Steve Austin travels to Utah to visit an old friend, only to discover that his bionics are being put to the test by the infamous robot maker, Dr. Dolenz.
June 28 - July 4
* "The Last of the Fourth of Julys" - Steve is assigned to thwart the plans of a covert organization set on
testing a powerful laser on as Summit conference.
August
* Aboard an airborne private jet, a small congregation of delegates are gathered to bid on the purchase of a nuclear bomb for their respective country.
September
September 13
* "Nuclear Alert" - After a nuclear missile has been sold on the black market, Steve setd out to find the identity of a criminal spy ring with intentions on reselling the nuclear bomb to an enemy foreign country.
'September 20
* "The Pioneers" - Steve Austin and Dr. Rudy Wells come to the rescue of two scientists, whose experiment in outer space shuttle failed and crash lannded in Minnesota.
September 27 - 30
* "Pilot Error" - Senator Edward Hill, who was responsible for securing the funds that paid for Steve's bionics, is under suspicion of pilot error in a recent aircraft accident. Steve Austin is called to testify before the board of inquiry, Unbeknownst to Steve, Hill is suffering from a brain tumor
October 1974
* Convicted assasin/hitman John Hopper dies in prison.
October 4
* "The Pal-Mir Escort" - The life of the lady Prime Minister Pal-Mir is in the hands of Steve Austin, who is her bodyguard as she travels to Tennessee to receive a bionic heart implant.
October 17
* OSI scientist, Orin Thatcher is reported killed in a plane crash overseas. (Source - SMDM "Lost Love")
November 1974
November 1
* "The Seven Million Dollar Man" - Steve Austin meets Barney Hiller, the world's second bionic man.
November 8
* "Straight On 'Til Morning" - While Oscar Goldman and Steve Austin supervises the launching of a lunar probe at NASA headquarters, Steve spots a bright object hovering in the night sky. Upon further investigation, Steve soon discovers a family of aliens stranded and dying after their spaceship crashes into the ocean.
November 14
* Oscar sets out to Las Vegas.
November 15
* "The Midas Touch" - Oscar Goldman's disappearance, after being last heard from in Las Vegas, compels Steve Austin (with the assistence of Goldman's secretary, Julie Farrel ) to search for him in the desert where the government operates a gold mine.
November 22
* "The Deadly Replay" - Steve is asked to pilot the newly rebuilt experimental HL-10, the same aircraft that nearly killed him two years earlier which resulted in his Bionic surgery.
December 1974
December 6
* "Act of Piracy"
Dececember 11
* Upon returning from the recent crises at Santa Ventura, Steve Austin undergoes another bionic examination conducted by Dr. Wayne Carlton before accepting another test pilot assignment for NASA.
December 13
* Dr. Wayne Carlton reviews the results of Steve's recent diagnosis and finds a pending malfunction in his bionic arm due to a short-circuit. This malfunction can cause involuntary spasms and which will later affect the nerves of the shoulder and neck during it's early stage. Other predicted symptoms are possible amnesia shortly followed by death. Carlton promply contacts Oscar Goldman to inform him of this alarming diagnosis.
* "Stranger in Broken Fork" - As predicted by Dr. Carlton, Steve's bionic arm begins to malfunction while testing a latest aircraft for NASA. After a crash landing in Utah, Steve wanders about with amnesia and is harbored by a psychologist, Angie Walker, who runs a halfway way house for patients with mental disorders.
While struggling to regain his memory, Steve help Angie fight against the bigotry and harrasment from the town's people of Broken Fork. Meanwhile Oscar Goldman and Dr. Carlton races against time to search and find the amnesiac Steve before his bionic malfunction progesses.
December 20
* "The Peeping Blonde" - A television Journalist, Victoria Webster blackmails Steve and Oscar with a film of Steve using his he bionic abilities.
December 24
* Steve Austin and Oscar Goldman has their Annual "Day Before Christmas lunch". (Source - SMDM "A Bionic Christmas Carol")
1975
January 1975
January 10
* "The Cross-Country Kidnap"
January 17
* "Lost Love"
January 19
* "The Last Kamikaze"
January 26
* "Return of the Robot Maker" - Dr. Dolenz resurfaces one last time with a new robot duplicate of Oscar Goldman in tow. Goldman is kidnapped and replaced with the robot impostor. The robot successfully steals several OSI top secret files until Steve solves the case and defeats the robot. Dolenz is finally taken into custody by the authorities.
February 1975
February 2
* "Taneha" - Steve joins forces with a young country girl to catch a cougar terrorizing a small town.
February 5
* "The Bionic Woman" Prologue - Steve is sent to Europe to retrieve a stolen $20 bill printing plate that was stolen from the Denver mint. His mission eventually leads him to the Hungarian border where he observes a wealthy crimeboss, Joseph Wrona and his right-hand man Timberlake as they purchase the money plate.
Upon the transaction, Steve pursues the Wrona's armored truck and eventually hops on back and breaks the strap lock around the case. The break in triggers a security alarm that only the driver and his passenger can hear. Wrona gets a good look at Steve through his night vision telescope and orders Timberlake to double back while Steve runs off with the case containing the plate.
They search for Steve but was unable to catch him due to his bionic speed. Wrona believes he's seen Steve's face before and swears he will not rest until he finds him and kills him.
(Source and Author's Note- The events of this incident is seen during the opening prologue of SMDM "The Bionic Woman". Durring the latter half of "The Bionic Woman part 2" when Joseph Wrona finally catches up to Steve, he specified that it's been 7 months since he stole his printing plate.)
February 23
* "Look Alike" - Steve encounters a duplicate impostor and meets Agent Marcus Grayson.
March 1975
March 2
* "The E.S.P. Spy" - Steve meets Audrey Moss and teams up with the young telepath to find the people responsible for stealing confidential information
March 9 -17
* "Outrage in Balinderry"
* Peggy Callahan is hired by the OSI as Oscar Goldman's secretary.
* "Steve Austin, Fugitive" - Steve meets Oscar Goldman's new secretary, Peggy Callahan.
* John Hopper's twin brother frames Steve Austin for murder.
Note: The episodes "Outrage in Balinderry" and "Steve Austin, Fugitive" were both produced and set before before the events on "The Bionic Woman" but for reasons unknown, they were broadcast after TBW, which falsely gave the appearance that Steve got over Jaime's death too quickly"
* "The Bionic Woman"
* Steve Austin relocates back to Ojai and buys a ranch.
* Steve and Jaime are reunited after four years of no contact.
* After a near fatal skydiving accident, Jaime Sommers receives bionic enhancements as authorized by Oscar Goldman and administered by Dr. Rudy Wells.
July
* "The Bionic Woman" ( Part 2)
* Jaime Sommers clinically dies after her body rejects her bionics, forming a fatal blood clot. Unknown to Steve Austin, however, new cryogenic technology, pioneered by Dr. Michael Marchetti, is used to keep her body functions active until the blood clot is repaired. Jaime remains unconscious for months, during which time Wells and his team nearly lose her on five separate occasions. Wells and Goldman choose not to inform Austin of any of this.
August
* Steve Austin and his parents mourn the loss of Jaime.
* Rudy Wells undergoes a complete image makeover including a hair transplant. (''Author's Note: How else do we explain Rudy's drastic change in appearance ?)''
September
* "The Return of the Bionic Woman" (Part 1) - Still grieving the loss of Jaime, Austin undertakes a routine mission but a freak accident causes massive damage to his bionic legs, forcing him to be airlifted to Wells' bionics facility in Washington where reconstruction takes place. Before falling unconscious for several days, Austin sees Jaime Sommers lying in a hospital room. Based on dialog in "The Return of the Bionic Woman Part 1" an undisclosed amount of time passes during which Austin recuperates; he is wheelchair-bound for at least a week. During his time in the wheelchair, he spots Jaime again but is unable to get Wells or Goldman to believe him. Some time later, Austin regains the ability to use his legs and during a practice run once again spots Jaime and is finally able to convince his friends to tell him the truth. At this point (early September), Jaime has been conscious for only a few days and it is discovered that she has total amnesia. Jaime and Steve kindle a new friendship as he mentors her in the use of her bionics. Jaime, meanwhile, begins a relationship with Dr. Michael Marchetti.
Note: At some point during the preceding events, both Steve and Jaime are evidently relocated to another bionics facility in California, based upon its proximity within driving distance to Ojai and visible geographical features inconsistent with a DC locale; it isn't the Colorado Springs facility, as this is defined as a different location in Part 2.
September 21
* "The Return of the Bionic Woman" (Part 2) - Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers travel to Ojai in hopes of sparking memories, without apparent success as attempts by Jaime to remember her past life result in pain-memories of her blood clot. This forces Jaime to be briefly hospitalized at the local air force hospital where Wells and Marchetti have set up shop. Jaime requests to be sent on an OSI mission and is sent into the field with Austin (the mission requires her to parachute jump for the first time since her accident). Her memory problems, however, cause her to fail the mission, but not before attracting the attention of industrialist, Carlton Harris. Austin decides to step back from his relationship with Jaime, and she is sent to Wells' Colorado Springs facility (with Marchetti) for further recuperation.
* Barney Hiller's bionics are temporarily reactivated.
* Circa late 1975-early 76. For reasons unknown, Rudy Wells records a recollection of the events surrounding Austin's crash, including detail of his prior moon mission (referred to by Wells as "Moonshot XYZ") and his first OSO/OSI mission. (This refers to the narration heard in the "Moon and the Desert" version of the pilot film, which ends with Wells stating that three years had passed since Austin became bionic.)
December 1975
* The Elgins buys another ranch and soon moves into it.
December 24
* Steve Austin and Oscar Goldman has their Annual "Day Before Christmas lunch". (Source - SMDM "A Bionic Christmas Carol")
1976
January
* Steve Austin goes to Rome. During his time there he sends his parents a post card which will eventually arrive at the Elgin's homestead while Jaimie is moving in. Steve comments on how much he loves his mother's "pa'sgettie" better than what is served in Italy.
Jan 11
* "Welcome Home, Jaime" - Jaime Sommers, having completed her rehabilitation, returns to Ojai where she teaches at Ventura AFB in between OSI jobs. She also moves into a loft on Jim and Helen Elgin's ranch.
* Oscar and Steve leaves Ojai to organize Steve's next mission.
January 18
"Hocuc-Pocus" - Steve Austin and Audrey Moss teams up posing as a magicians to impress a mobster and gain his confidence in the hopes of getting a lead on the purloined book.
* Oscar returns to Ojai
January 21
* "Welcome Home, Jaime" (Part 2} - Jaime Sommers officially becomes a part-time OSI agent and one of her first missions pits her once again against Carlton Harris.
January 23 -26
* Oscar flies out to Ventura AFB
* "Angel of Mercy" - Jaime is sent to Costa Brava with an overbearing sexist pilot helicopter pilot Jack Starkey to rescue the American ambassador. However during the mission Jaime soon proves herself to the pilot. The rescue becomes complicated when the ambassador's wife is trapped in a collapsed building, and they are joined by a local war orphan whose parents were recently killed.
February 1976
* Oscar Goldman rendezvous with Steve Austin in northern California to take part of a geological survey near the San Andreas fault to test for any potential seismic activity
February 1 - 3
* "The Secret of Bigfoot" - While searching for two missing geologists, Ivan and Marlene Bekey, Steve Austin encounters the legendary cyborg beast, Sasquatch. After a brutal fight with the Sasquatch, Steve tracks the creature to it's lair and discovers a colony of alien scientists.
* After conducting several tests and a memory scan, they learn about Steve Austin's bionic enhancements (as well as Jaime Sommers') similar to that of their protector, Sasquatch.
* The scientist Shalon among the alien colonies takes a huge liking to Steve Austin and the two eventually forms a tight bond
* While Steve Austin now listed among the missing, Jaime Sommers phones Oscar Goldman to offer assistance in the search party. Oscar however declines her offer.
* "The Secret of Bigfoot" - Both Marlene and Ivan Beckey are found found safe and well in the mountains but with their memories of Bigfoot and the alien colonies erased. Steve Austin remains in the aliens' mountain colony as the countdown to the man made earthquake continues.
* When the colonist finds out about the OSI's man made earthquake that can destroy their complex, they dispatch Shalon to go out to sabotage their efforts. However Steve pursues Shalon and eventually puts a stop to her attempts.
* When the man made earth quake severely damages the alien complex, Steve and Shalon races against time to the aid of the alien colony and restore their base.
* After their hidden complex has been restored, the colonist erases Steve's memory and returns him back to the woods. They place a wonder drug called Neotraxin in his hand in hopes that his people will analyze it.
* Steve Austin is eventually found by a search party lead by Oscar Goldman. His memories of the alien colony is erased but faint residue of memory of his encounter with Sasquatch remains.
* Dr. Franklin makes plans to build fembots, infiltrate the OSI and then steal the OSI Weather Device. He meets and strikes a deal with Russian finance minister Baron Constantine. With the money Constantine's board of directors funded Franklin, he was able to build his first fembot, which he named Katy.
June 1976
June 1
* "The Price of Liberty" - The Liberty Bell kidnapped by Robert Meyer - Steve saves it with help of Neils Lindstrom, a federal prisoner.
Author's Note: Although "The Price of Liberty" , which first aired way back in September 28,1975 during the 3rd season of SMDM, given that the dialog specifically stated that it was a month before the Bicentennial Independence Day, this episode was placed here in this chronology..
* Steve Austin grows a mustache.
July - August 1976
* "The Bionic Boy"
Author's Note: Although "The Bionic Boy" was the 7th episode to air during the 4th season of SMDM, given the late Spring through late Summer time setting of the story, this episode was obviously set before the events on the SMDM and BW season premiere of"The Return of Bigfoot".
September 1976
September 1
* Philadelphia bomb squad captain Doug Witherspoon retires 3 months after helping save the Liberty Bell.
September 15
* By orders of Dr. Franklin, Peggy Callahan and Lynda Wilson are put under surveillance by Katy and Rawlins.
September 19
* "The Return of Bigfoot" - Gillian, an alien colonist from San Andreas mountain, makes contact with Steve Austin. She revives his memories of his previous encounter and enlists his help against their struggle against a group of renegade colonists and Bigfoot.
September 22
* "The Return of Bigfoot" Part 2: - Steve is beaten lies close to death in Rudy's facility. Jaime continues the investigation and then confronts Bigfoot on her way to retrieve an antidote to save Steve Austin's life.
September 26
* "Nightmare in the Sky" - Steve Austin is reunited with Kelly Wood.
September 29
* "In This Corner, Jaime Sommers" - Jaime Sommers goes undercover as Jessie "Savage Sommers", a professional lady wrestler, in order to locate a missing OSI agent.
October 3
* "Double Trouble" Steve goes undercover to protect a comedian, Flip Wilson
October 6
* "Assault on the Princess" - Jaime Sommers poses as a blackjack dealer aboard a luxurious sea-going casino in order to locate two missing energy cells that can be used as bombs.
October 17
* "The Most Dangerous Enemy" - Steve and Rudy fly to a remote island where Cheryl Osborne, a young scientist, has been working in total solitude for two years.
October 20
* "Road to Nashville" - Jaime poses as a country singer to find a missing OSI agent, and to stop the passing of top-secret information.
October 24
* "H＋2＋O = Death" - Steve pretends to be a defecting scientist in order to break up the Omega spy ring.
* Steve returns to Washington DC to assist in the experimental weather device.
* Jaime returns to Washington DC for her bionic checkup.
October 27 - 29
* "Kill Oscar" - Baron Constantine is sent to Dr. Franklin's hidden complex to check on the progress of the investments from his board of directors. Franklin reveals his Fembot creations.
* Franklin begins phase 1 of his scheme to obtain the weather control device. Lynda Wilson and Peggy Callahan are abducted and replaced by fembot duplicates.
* Oscar sends Steve to White Sands to assist in the damage control caused by the experimental Weather Control device. Steve is forced to break his planned dinner date with Jaime to do so.
* With the fembot spies in place, they set up Oscar Goldman to be an easy open target for abduction. Goldman is kidnapped and held hostage along with Wilson and Callahan in Franklin's complex.
* Franklin and Oscar stood face to face for the first time in seven years as Franklin taunts him and reveals his fembots and his plan to steal the weather control device.
* Chief Inspector Jack Hanson takes over the OSI and interrogates the top employees of the OSI regarding events leading to Oscar’s abduction. The Callahan fembot is evasive and contradictory in her answers - arousing Jaime's suspicions.
* Jaime telephones Steve's (who's still assisting damage control at White Sands) about Oscar's abduction. Steve wraps up his affairs and heads back to Washington DC.
Night
* Jaime goes to Callahan’s apartment, giving the appearance that she was apologizing. She then probes deeper about their past conversation hoping to get impostor to commit a significant error, which she does. Franklin commands the fembot to capture Jaime and bring her in. A fight breaks out between Jaime and the fembot. When Jaime attempted to escape through the front door, Katy was there waiting to intercept her. During their struggle, Jaime knocked the face mask off of Katy. Jaime attempts to escape through the back bedroom window. The extreme height caused severe damage to her bionic legs upon landing as she falls unconscious.
* The beaten Jaime is rushed to the hospital and begins to suffer another bionic rejection. Delirious, she tried to warn Rudy about the robots while he was in the process of starting a bionic shutdown and puts her to sleep.
October 30
* "Kill Oscar" Part 2 - Steve arrives in Washington and is devastated upon seeing Jaime in critical condition. Despite the warning from the NSB, Steve and Rudy conduct their own investigation on Oscar's abduction and Jaime's robot story and eventually locates Franklin's base via satellite.
* The Linda Wilson fembot spies on Rudy and Steve and sends information directly to Dr. Franklin's base. Franklin then prepares to set up a trap in anticipation of Steve's arrival.
'November
* "Kill Oscar" part 3 - Jaime makes a full recovery and teams up with Steve and mounts a rescue mission to save Oscar and Callahan from Doctor Franklin's complex on Saint Emile Island.
* Doctor Franklin and Rawlins are taken into Federal custody.
November 10 -12
* "Black Magic" - Jaime is sent to a remote island to impersonate the niece of the Carstairs family. When the family is sent on a scavenger hunt to find their dead brother's fortune, it's up to Jaime to locate it first and obtain the formula for a top-secret alloy.
* During the aftermath of the recent Fembot Crisis, the damaged fembot duplicate of Callahan was somehow recovered by the OSI from Saint Emil Island and is restored eventually stored into an OSI evidence vault in Washington DC.
November 21
* "Vulture of the Andes"
November 24 - 27
* "Sister Jaime" - For three days, Jaime goes undercover to a convent disguised as a nun to uncover an international smuggling ring.
* Jaime and Michael Marchettie are reunited. However at this point, their doesn't seem to be anymore romantic interest between the two but their friendship remains.
November 28 to December 5
* "The Thunderbird Connection" - (2-hour SMDM telemovie)
December 1 - 2
* "The Vega Influence" - Jaime and Michael Marchetti takes part in an expedition team on a remote government base on an isolated island. They soon discover the base is abandoned and the population is under control by a "living" meteorite which has a strange ability to overpower the human will.
December 5
* "Jaime's Shield" - Jaime accepts a mission from Oscar to enroll for 5 weeks at the Santa Regina Police Academy posing as a cadet to locate a foreign agent. However, during her weeks of training, she is unaware that the foreign agent has spotted her first and has ordered her execution.
December 24
* "A Bionic Christmas Carol" - Steve is furious after Oscar cancels their annual "Day Before Christmas lunch" lunch and asks him to give up his holiday to look into a serious problem with Horton Budge, a major supplier of systems for space projects. Upon meeting the industrialist Budge and conducting surveys at his plant, Steve soon discovers that the problem with the project is that Budge is a cynical old penny-pincher who is the cause of low morale at his plant. When he learns that Budge's nephew, Bob Crandall, is unable to properly support his wife and kids on the salary Budge pays him, Steve uses bionic methods to turn Budge around and bring some cheer to the Crandall family.
December 25
* Steve flies home to Ojai (courtesy of Horton Budge's private jet) to have Christmas dinner with his parents.
* Jaime Sommers was most likely not at the Elgin's homestead for the holiday due to her current undercover assignment at the police academy
1977
January 1977
January 2 - 6
* "The Ultimate Impostor" - Joe Patton is the world's first and only computerized human, having been "fed" masses of information directly into the brain. Capable of speaking any language, adapting to any environment, and of performing virtually any task, Joe becomes the OSI's latest super agent.
* "Jaime's Shield" part 2 - After graduating from the police academy, Jaime discovers that foreign agents are plotting to kidnap a visiting diplomat by impersonating the police force.
* Steve Austin is sent to Brussell to investigate the activities of Ivan Karp. During his investigation, Steve manages to send back intelligence reports to keep the OSI informed.
* At some point after completing his first mission, Joe Patton gets adopts a new identy, Frank Monihan.. (Source - The Ultimate Imposter pilot movie)
January 12 - 19
* "Biofeedback" - After the OSI cancels funding of his brother's biofeedback research, an OSI cryptographer, Peyton Jones, tries to sell his new top secret decoder on the black market.
* Steve Austin returns from Brussell but barely gets a few hours of sleep before a wake up call from Oscar Goldman to request his assistance in a latest UFO investigation. (as seen during the prologue of "Death Probe".)
* "Death Probe" - During Steve Austin and Oscar Goldman's UFO investigation , they soon discover a cover up plot from Soviet scientists and agents that are anxious to recover their Venus space probe, which has landed in a remote section of Wyoming. The life-like probe, programmed to "think" it has landed on Venus, is on a destructive course leading to a small town as Russian and American forces try desperately to stop it.
During the mission, Steve is reunited with Soviet scientist, Irena Leonova and discovers that it was she that designed the probe and had it constructed with a new indestructible alloy,
* "Death Probe" part 2 - Steve Austin's bionic arm is seriously damaged after his confrontation with the probe. However, as the death probe moves in on it's path of destruction toward a populated city, he must divert the probe from its course and, hopefully, lead it to extinction without killing himself in the process.
January 23 -24
* Dr. James Courtney escapes from federal prison. (Source - BW "Deadly Ringer")
* "Danny's Inferno" - When teenager Danny Lasswell accidentally invents a new form of thermo chemical energy that could eliminate the need for oil, Steve is called in to protect the boy from would-be kidnappers.
* Sometime just prior to the events of "Doomsday Is Tomorrow", Steve Austin returns to space as a crew member aboard ''Skylab'' for unrevealed reasons and for an undisclosed length of time.
January 28 - 31
* "Doomsday Is Tomorrow" - Dr. Elijah Cooper, an aging scientist, threatens the release of a doomsday device unless world peace is maintained.
* "Doomsday Is Tomorrow" part 2 - Jaime Sommers literally saves the world by preventing the activation of a doomsday device. Steve Austin is aboard ''Skylab'' and was unavailable to assist.
February
February 2 -3
* "Deadly Ringer" - While relaxing at home one night after the recent Doomsday crisis, Jaime is drugged and switched with Lisa Galloway and wakes up to find herself in prison. While Jaime attempts to convince prison officials of her identity, Lisa enjoys her new identity as Jaime Sommers with a loving family and freedom.
* Steve Austin returns from his mission on Skylab.
February 4 - 9
* "Deadly Ringer" Part 2 - Following her prison escape, Jaime Sommers is unable to convince anyone, including Oscar Goldman of her true identity. Back in Ojai, Lisa Galloway successfully integrated herself into Jaime's life. However, the adrenalizine drug she is consuming to emulate super-strength is slowly poisoning her.
* "Fires of Hell"
February 10 - 14
* "The Infiltrators" - Steve goes undercover as an American amateur boxing champ to infiltrate a suspected assassination team made up of the foreign enemy expatriates.
February 15 -16
* "Carnival of Spies"
February 20
* "U-509"
February 23 - 27
* "Jaime and the King" - Jaime travels to Monte Carlo and tutors a difficult young prince in order to protect his father from assassins.
* "The Privacy of the Mind" -
March
* Steve Austin shaves off his mustache
March 6 - 10
* "To Catch the Eagle" - Two OSI scientists disappear while looking for radioactive ore in sacred Apache territory.
* "Beyond the Call" - Jaime Sommers tries to reach out and help a withdrawn American-Vietnamese girl, who hasn't spoken a word since her mother's death in Vietnam. Meanwhile, the girl's father, Major John Cross plans to steal the top-secret Mark IX missile guidance system.
March 16 -
* "The DeJon Caper" - Jaime Sommers travels to Paris with art forger, Pierre Lambert to catch a master criminal in the act of switching a forged painting with a real one.
March 23 -
* "The Night Demon" - While Jaime visits an old friend and to enjoy the much needed R&R, a sacred Indian burial ground is disturbed, an ancient curse releases a demon creature to exact revenge.
March 30 - April 5
* "Iron Ships and Dead Men" - On a personal request from Oscar Goldman, Jaime goes undercover on an old World War II destroyer posing as a member of the salvage crew to investigate the discovery of dog-tags bearing the name of Oscar's long-lost brother, Sam.
* After Jaime Sommers clears Sam Goldman's good name, Oscar arranges a proper memorial service out to sea
April
* A new terrorist organization called Fortress emerges.
* Steve Austin accepts a mission to infiltrate a terrorist this new threat called "Fortress".
* For reasons unknown, Jaime Sommers was never called upon to assist in this nationwide threat.
* During a mission in France, both Steve Austin and Oscar Goldman were under siege in a French château while Lyle Stennings bombarded them with grenades.
* Steve's final mission against "Fortress" leads to the capture of Lyle Stenning, the "Fortress" leader.
Author's Note: Although these events were never televised, the ongoing dialog from "The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman" , which first aired in May of 1987 specified that defeat of Fortress and the capture of Stenning took place 10 years prior. Considering that both SMDM and BW went through a 6 week hiatus with no new episodes during the latter half of their Spring season. The events of Fortress most likely occurred during this lost month.
May
May 4
* "Once a Thief" - When a bumbling crook films Jaime using her bionics, he blackmails her into helping him rob a bank.
May 15
* "The Ghostly Teletype" - While Steve is doing research on extending the human life span, a formula he is reading mysteriously disappears from the page. He is accused of stealing the formula, and threated with arrest for espionage.
August
* While in prison awaiting trial, Dr.Franklin becomes ill. Before he has the chance to stand trial for his crimes, Franklin succumbs to his illnesses and dies in prison.
* "Sharks"
* "Sharks" (part2)
September 1977
September 1 - 10
* Julian Richmond is released from prison.
* Tammy Cross is abducted and replaced by a fembot.
* "Deadly Countdown" - Julian Richmond hires a contract to kill Steve Austin and stop a rocket launch.
* "Deadly Countdown" (Part 1) -Steve helps a friend clear his name after a crooked organization impels him to sabotage a rocket launch.
September 10
* "The Bionic Dog" - While undergoing a bionic checkup, Jaime discover Maxamillion, a German Shepard bionic dog, that shows signs of bionic rejection.
* "The Bionic Dog" (part 2)
September 24
* "Rodeo" - When OSI scientist Billy Cole insists on riding in a rodeo competition, Jaime is sent to secretly look after him.
Author's Note: Although "Rodeo" was the 5th episode to air during the 3rd season of BW, early dialog in this episode during Max's test suggests that this episode was set shortly after the events in " The Bionic Dog" part 2.
October 1977
October 7-10
* "Bigfoot V" - Steve Austin and Rudy Wells travels back to San Andreas mountain region in northern California to investigate the latest Bigfoot sighting.
* "Killer Wind" - While Steve Austin and Rudy Wells are flying back to Washington from California they get caught in an oncoming tornado.
October 11 - 22
* "Dark Side of the Moon" - Steve Austin returns to the moon.
* "Fembots in Las Vegas" - A new line of fembots emerge under the control of Carl Franklin, the son of the deranged Dr. Franklin, in a scheme to steal America's first Directed Energy Ray Weapon.
* "Fembots in Las Vegas" (Part 2)
* "Dark Side of the Moon" (Part 2) - While still o the moon, Steve Austin must defeat the plans of Dr. Leith.
October 23
* Upon returning from the moon, Steve Austin goes undercover on the Roller derby circuit.
October 25-31
* "Rollback"
* "African Connection"
November 1977
* Jaime Sommers leaves from Africa to East Germany to rendezvous with Rudy Wells to recover stolen Top Secret tapes
November 5
* "Motorcycle Boogie" - Jaime enlists the help of motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel in an attempt to retrieve a computer tape stolen by the KGB in East Germany.
November 27
* "Target: Steve Austin" - Steve teams up with a female agent to ensure the safe transport of a nuclear charge to a remote testing facility
December 1977
* By orders of Dr. Rudy Wells, Jamie is admited to an inpatient facility for intensive bionic examination
* "Max" - During Max, the bionic dog's stay at the Dr Valerie Bruer's residence, foreign agents are out to abduct him to uncover the secrets of bionics.
December 18
* "The Chesire Project" - Steve discovers that his former love is involved in the disappearance of a top secret aircraft
1978
* At some point after the events of BW' "The Bionic Dog" and prior to the events of SMDM "Dead Ringer" and "Date With Danger (Part 2)", Jim Elgin and Helen Elgin apparently both die for reasons never revealed. Their deaths are never addressed directly on either series, but later dialog suggests they are deceased.
RIP Helen and Jim
January 2
* "Walk a Deadly Wing" - Steve poses as a stunt man to get his hands on a deadly device designed by a Russian who’s defected to the US
January 7
* "All For One"
January 8
* "Just a Matter of Time"
January 14
* "The Pyramid"
January 21 - 29
* "The Antidote"
* "Return of Death Probe"
* "Return of Death Probe" Part 2
* After the recent second Death Probe Crisis, Rudy Wells heads out to Paradise Coast, California for some R&R and fishing with his friend and colleague, Ray Fisk.
* "The Martians Are Coming, the Martians Are Coming" - While fishing off a pier on Paradise Coast, Dr. Rudy Wells and Ray Fisk are abducted by a flying saucer.
February 1978
February 6 -8
* "Just a Matter of Time" - Steve Austin is captured and brainwashed into believing that it's 1984
February 10 - 19
* "The Lost Island''
* "The Madonna Caper"
* "Sanctuary Earth"
February 12 - 20
* "Dead Ringer"
* "Deadly Music"
February 20 - 24
* "Date With Danger"
* "Date With Danger" (Part II)
February 25 -27
* "Which One Is Jaime?"
March 1978
March 4 -5
* "Out of Body"
March 6 - 9
* "The Moving Mountain" - (''final episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man" series )'
March 25
* "Long Live the King"
May 1978
May 6
* "Rancho Outcast"
May 13
* "On the Run" (''final episode of The Bionic Woman'' series).
* Jaime Sommers goes into semi-retirement from the OSI.
1979
* Michael Austin, age 14, starts taking an interest in his famous father. Both he and Steve begins keeping in touch through writing letters to one another.
* Steve Austin retires from the OSI.
1980
* Jaime Sommers leaves her teaching career behind to studie for for a PHD degree in hopes to becoming a therapist. (Speculation based upon the amount of time of additional schooling,internship and the the time to establish a practice)
1981
* Steve Austin buys a charter fishing boat and starts a charter business. He christens the boat "Summer's Maiden" presumably after Jamie Sommers. (Source - Bionic Showdown - Steve stated that he had that boat for 8 years.)
1883
* Micheal Austin graduates high school and immediately joins the US Air Force.
1985
* Max, the bionic dog, dies (Speculation based on the average life span of German Sheppard's)
1986
* Chris Williams is killed in the line of duty, on a mission with Jaime Sommers.
1987
March 20
* Fortress stages the ninth raid for weapons. Oscar Goldman decides to call on Steve Austin who reestablishes his association with the OSI.
The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman
* Mike Austin crashes during his graduation solo flight. Rudy Wells rebuilds him with advanced bionics.
* Jaime Sommers experiences a restoration of her lost memories, resulting in a rekindling of her feelings for Austin.
1989
* Barney Hiller, the world's second bionic man, is possibly deceased prior to this year. (Source - "Bionic Showdown" Oscar clearly states during these events that there are only four bionic people alive at that point, with no mention of Barney Hiller.)
Bionic Showdown
* Kate Mason becomes bionic.
* Steve and Jaime at World Unity Games.
1994
November
''Bionic Ever After?'' - Jaime Sommers and Steve Austin are both affected by a computer virus that threatens to incapacitate their bionics. As a result, Jaime receives an upgrade to her bionics that also gives her bionic vision, and it is suggested in dialog that Austin is also to receive an upgrade to his systems.
* Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers are finally married.
21st Century
2000
* It is assumed that Oscar Goldman is retired by this point of time.
2077
* Estimated time of completion for Sasquatch/Bigfoot's hibernation and reprogramming process. (Source - SMDM "Bigfoot V")
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