In the UK, the book was printed under the title of the episode, The Secret of Bigfoot. The ending of the novelization is substantially different from the televised episode. Jahn's various episode novelizations attemped to fit the stories within Martin Caidin's continuity from the original Cyborg novels. As such, Jahn frequently made reference to bionic replacements not mentioned in the TV series. In the epilogue of this novel, the aliens attempt to erase Austin's memory of his encounter with them, but while this is successful in the televised episode (requiring Austin's memories to be restored in the later sequel episode), the novelization ends with Austin telling the aliens that the steel plate used to replace his skull (per Caidin's version of the character) renders such memory-erasing e