The Bionic Woman - Wikipedia. The Bionic Woman is an American television science fiction action series starring Lindsay Wagner that aired between 1.
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The Bionic Woman series features Jaime Sommers, who takes on special high- risk government missions using her superhuman bionic powers. The Bionic Woman series is a spin- off from the 1. The Six Million Dollar Man television science fiction action series. Wagner stars as professional tennis player Jaime Sommers, who becomes critically injured during a skydiving accident. Jaime's life is saved by Oscar Goldman (Richard Anderson) and Dr. Brooks) with bionicsurgical implants similar to those of The Six Million Dollar Man. Steve Austin (Lee Majors).
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Through the use of cybernetic implants, known as bionics, Jaime is gifted with an amplified bionic ear which allows her to hear at low volumes and at different frequencies from most humans and over uncommonly long distances. She also has extraordinary strength in her bionic right arm and in both legs that enables her to run at speeds exceeding 6. The series ran for three seasons, from 1. ABC network and then the NBC network for its final season. Years after its cancelation, three spin- off TV movies were produced between 1. Reruns of the show aired on Sci- Fi Channel from 1. A remake of the series was produced in 2.
Main; Videos; Photos; Episode Recaps; About; NBC.com; Shows. Will’s father and the man who originated the bionic technology. The The Bionic Woman - 1976 episode guide on SideReel features original episode air dates for each season, plus show reviews, summaries and more. Bionic Woman is an American science fiction television drama created by David Eick, who also serves as executive producer alongside Laeta Kalogridis, Jason Smilovic, and Glen Morgan. Michael Dinner directed the pilot. Before she sold minivans and mattresses, Lindsay Wagner was the dynamic star of the 1970s TV show The Bionic Woman, a spinoff and sister show of The Six-Million Dollar Man. The series has been available on DVD.
Premise. In the first episode, Steve travels to his old hometown of Ojai, California, to buy a ranch that is for sale and to visit his mother and stepfather. During his visit, he rekindles his old relationship with Jaime Sommers, now one of America's top tennis players. Their relationship progresses rapidly to the point where Steve proposes marriage. During an outing, Steve and Jaime take part in some skydiving.
Jaime's parachute malfunctions and she plummets to the ground, falling through tree branches, hitting the ground and suffering traumatic injuries to her head, legs, and right arm. Steve then makes an emotional plea to his boss, Oscar Goldman, to save Jaime's life by implementing bionics, even going so far as to commit Jaime to becoming an operative of the Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI). Goldman agrees to assign Dr. Rudy Wells (played at this point in the series by Alan Oppenheimer) and the bionics team to rebuild her.
Jaime's body is reconstructed with parts similar to Steve's, but the actual cost of rebuilding her is not revealed. It is said humorously in dialogue to be less than the $6 million it cost to rebuild Austin because the replacement parts for her were .
Like Steve before her, Jaime is given two bionic legs, capable of propelling her at speeds exceeding 6. Whereas Austin received a bionic eye, the inner mechanism of Jaime's right ear is replaced by a bionic device that gives her amplified hearing such that she can detect most sounds regardless of volume or frequency. These bionic implants cannot be distinguished from natural body parts, except on occasions where they sustain damage and the mechanisms beneath the skin become exposed, as seen in Part 2 of the episode . Jaime discovers on vacation in the Bahamas her artificial bionic skin cannot suntan with exposure to sunlight.
After Jaime recovers from her operation, Steve tries to break his agreement with Oscar that she will serve as an agent for OSI. Jaime agrees to undertake a mission for Oscar despite Steve's concerns.
During the mission her bionics malfunction, and she experiences severe and crippling headaches. Wells determines that Jaime's body is rejecting her bionic implants and a massive cerebral clot is causing her headaches and malfunctions. Soon after, she goes berserk and forces her way out of the hospital. Steve pursues and catches her, and she collapses in his arms. Soon after, Jaime dies on the operating table when her body shuts down. The character was so popular that ABC asked the writers to find a way to bring her back. In the first episode of the next season, it is revealed that Jaime had not died after all, but Steve was not told.
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He soon discovers the truth when he is hospitalized after suffering severe damage to his bionic legs; he sees Jaime before slipping into a coma. As Steve later learns, Wells' assistant, Dr. Michael Marchetti, had urged Rudy (now played by Martin E.
Brooks) to try his newly developed cryogenic techniques to keep Jaime in suspended animation until the cerebral clot could be safely removed, after which she was successfully revived. A side effect of the procedure causes Jaime to develop retrograde amnesia, preventing her from recalling previous events including her relationship with Steve. Any attempt to remember causes her headaches and pain.
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Steve reluctantly lets her go on to live her own life as an agent for the OSI, although the pair would frequently work together on missions and establish a new friendship. Jaime, now retired as a tennis player, takes a job as a schoolteacher at an Air Force base in Ojai, California. She lives in an apartment over a barn located on the ranch owned by Steve's mother and stepfather, both of whom are aware of their bionic implants and their lives as secret agents. Season three opened with the two- part episode . His bionics pre- date Steve's and Jamie's, as he was a lab animal used to test early bionic prosthetics. When he was introduced, he experienced symptoms suggesting bionic rejection and was due to be put to sleep. Jaime discovered the condition was psychological, stemming from a traumatic lab fire that injured him when he was a puppy.
With Jaime's help, Max was cured and went to live with her, proving himself to be of considerable help in some of her adventures. The original intent was to create a spin- off series featuring The Bionic Dog. However, the network rejected the proposed spin- off series and Max stayed with Jaime instead, making several appearances throughout the third season of The Bionic Woman. Production and broadcast. They can jump down three stories but not four. Season two ran from September 1.
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May 1. 97. 7 with 2. Season two also had its most notable episodes, . Although the show performed well during season two, ABC elected not to renew the series, feeling it was no longer attracting the kind of demographics that ABC wanted (ABC head Fred Silverman was notorious for his focus on demographics). Season three ran from September 1. May 1. 97. 8 with 2.
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Chris Williams (Christopher Stone), as a recurring love- interest for Jaime. This was due in part to the change of networks, which prevented any more crossovers by Jaime's former love- interest, Steve Austin; however, in a situation still considered unique; Anderson and Brooks continued to play their roles in both series, despite the network differential.
The series proved popular worldwide, particularly so in the United Kingdom, where it was shown on the ITV network and achieved unusually high audience figures for a science fiction show. The first episode of the series (. Two weeks later, the show's third episode (Angel of Mercy) also became the No. Its success continued with a further 1.
The Six Million Dollar Man never once entered the top 1. ITV stations in the UK at the same time). The close connection between The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman was highlighted by the fact that Richard Anderson and Martin E. Brooks played their same characters on two different television shows (eventually) running concurrently on two different networks. She also thwarts the plan of an aging nuclear scientist named Elijah Cooper to destroy all life on Earth using a doomsday device in . Jaime's missions frequently involved undercover work in which she takes on a secret identity, such as a nun, a police officer, a college student, an air- steward, a singer, and a professional wrestler.
Her tennis background also came into play occasionally, and she was also from time to time seen having adventures with some of her students in Ojai. As with spy shows at this time, Jaime was frequently kidnapped (more often than not with the use of chloroform or a drugged drink) and placed in dangerous situations from which she would need her bionic abilities to escape. Typically, she would be bound or handcuffed to a bomb from which she could escape with ease once she woke up.
However, on one occasion she was handcuffed to a friend, so she could not use her bionic strength to escape as this would pull off the friend's hand. Jaime dealt with a number of bizarre cases, such as a villain who operates a hair salon using a . In another episode, a convict named Lisa Galloway (also portrayed by Lindsay Wagner) is given plastic surgery and tries to replace Jaime.
In a later episode, Lisa ingests a paste- like substance called Adrenalizine that gives her temporary super- strength, allowing her to fully replace Jaime at OSI while the real Jaime is imprisoned and led to question her own identity. Lisa, however, did not know of Jaime's bionic implants and believed her powers to have come from the Adrenalizine.
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After Jaime's eventual escape, Dr. Wells discovers that the Adrenalizine was breaking down and becoming toxic to Lisa's health. Further complicating the issue was Lisa's increasing belief that she was in fact, the real Jaime. During the series, it is shown that Jaime's enhanced abilities have their limitations. However, due to the height from which she jumped, her legs explode upon landing, nearly killing her.
Extreme cold is shown to inhibit her bionic implants, causing them to freeze up and malfunction (a scenario also common with Steve Austin). However, her right ear, as it is encased in her body, is typically not subject to these negative effects. While Steve Austin occasionally (particularly in early episodes) employed violence in order to complete missions, Jaime's approach tended to be less- violent and as such she was rarely shown directly using her bionic strength against a human opponent (and even when she did, never with deadly force). Final episode. Like Steve Austin in the original book Cyborg, she has to come to terms with the fact that she is not quite human.