The Solid Gold Kidnapping was the third TV Movie broadcast in 1973 by the ABC network prior to launching The Six Million Dollar Man as a weekly series. As with the previous Suspense Movie, Wine, Women and War, it was decided to produce an original storyline rather than to directly adapt novelist Martin Caidin's work, (while it has been noted that the story features some superficial similarities to Caidin's third novel, High Crystal, that book wasn't published until the following year).