A Bionic Christmas Carol

Ray Walston plays a scrooge like character while Dick Sargent plays his nephew who is under a lot of pressure from his uncle. Steve Austin helps Dick & his family out during Xmas. The actual plot is quite weak. Adam Rich plays the son (before his Eight is Enough days) & Quinn Cummings (before starring on Family) plays the older sister. The youngest sister doesn't have a cast credit.

After an accident at a NASA contractor, Steve uses his bionic abilities to convince the gruff, penny-pinching head of the company to change his callous ways.

This Christmas episode is a retelling of A Christmas Carol but given the Six million Dollar man treatment with Steve jumping up trees, delivering a tree to the kids, and standing in with the three ghosts by dressing up as Santa and trying to persuade the "Scrooge" like character to mend his ways. It's a decent episode which shows that Dicken's story is quite relevant in a modern setting. There's a lot of meaning in this story, especially where Christmas now is used as a commercial venture than a spiritual one.