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| Production 45125 Original Airdate: January 2, 1977 | |||
 Steve Austin and Joe Patton
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| Produced by Lionel E. Siegel | |||
| Teleplay by Lionel E. Siegel | |||
| Story by William T. Zacha and Lionel E. Siegel | |||
| Directed by Paul Stanley | |||
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| Guest Star(s) Stephen Macht as Joe Patton Pamela Hensley as Jenny | |||
| and David Sheiner as Stenger | |||
| Co-starring Margaret Fairchild as Lily Stenger George Ball as Mal Mark Thomas as Mark Kim Basinger as Lorraine Stenger | |||
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Steve's longtime pal, Joe Patton, is the world's first and only computerized human, having been "fed" masses of information directly into his brain. Capable of speaking any language, adapting to any environment, and of performing virtually any task, from milking a cow to flying a jumbo jet, Joe becomes the OSI's latest super agent.
Trivia
- Nielsen ranking for the week ending January 2, 1977 — 5th.
- This episode features future Oscar winner, Kim Basinger in one of her earliest acting roles
- This episode was intended to serve as a pilot for a spin-off series that never materialized. As part of the spin-off effort, the first act credits are presented in a "computer" typeface that wipe on and offscreen from left to right, accompanied by a "computer" sound.
- In May of 1979, director Paul Stanley and writers Lionel E. Siegel and William T. Zacha would try this story premise again as a CBS TV pilot unrelated to The Six Million Dollar Man. Again titled The Ultimate Impostor (notice the alternate spelling), it told the story of secret agent Frank Monihan who undergoes the procedure to rescue a Russian defector. But in this version of the story, his new skills start to fade after 72 hours. It never became a series.
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