6M$M Logo 'The Madonna Caper'
(Story Code '47328')

by Gregory S. Dinallo
Steve Austin

Countess Lysandra Kosischeva turns to the O.S.I. for help in retrieving a microdot containing vital information, which has been hidden on a painting hanging in a museum. Steve is assigned help the Countess penetrate the museum's high-security system, but while they make their way through the building, Lysandra switches a $5 million masterpiece for a fake. After escaping with the microdot, the Countess then sells the stolen painting to a crime lord named Chilton Kane. When Oscar learns of the theft he immediately sends Steve to retrieve the real painting and return it to its rightful place before the fake is exposed by a visiting Russian art expert…

Lee Majors (Colonel Steve Austin), Richard Anderson (Oscar Goldman), Martin B. Brooks (Doctor Rudy Wells), Bibi Besch (Countess Lysandra Korischeva), Steve Arvin (T.V. Reporter), Len Birman (Chilton Kane), Mike McManus (Guard Sims), Frank Parker (Guard Russell), Diana Webster (Undersecretary), Robert F. Hoy (Talbot), Dominic Barto (Boyle), Bruce Glover (Viktor Bellushyn), Rudy Challenger (Richard Tynan), Jim Nolan (Templeton)

Directed by Herb Wallerstein
Produced by Fred Freiberger and Richard H. Landau
Executive Producers Allan Balter and Lionel E. Siegel
Based on the novel by Martin Caldin


TX (US): 6th February 1978

Notes:
*Featuring Colonel Steve Austin, Oscar Goldman and Doctor Rudy Wells