Wednesday, 28 October 2015
263 The Bionic Woman
First watched : 1976
The Bionic Woman was a successful spin-off from The Six Million Dollar Man. The character of Jaime Sommers was first introduced as the tennis-playing girlfriend of Steve Austin who needs reconstruction after a parachuting accident. She had the same abilities as Steve save for a bionic ear instead of a bionic eye. She was actually killed off but the character was so popular it was decided to bring her back in her own series with the catch that her memory was damaged so she couldn't rekindle the affair with Steve.
Despite this the pair continued to work together and for a couple of years the two series were intertwined. Then the network decided to drop TBW and another one picked it up which meant Jaime and Steve had to stay apart although some of the supporting players continued to appear in both series.
Lindsay Wagner, a moderately successful film actress played Jaime. What was most surprising about her was that , despite being very pretty, she didn't have bionic boobs and it was unusual to see a flat-chested actress playing a glamorous role in the era of so-called "jiggle TV". During the series some episodes featured Jaime's modified Alsatian but thankfully plans for a third series, The Bionic Dog, fell through.
The series ended in 1978 although three TV movies kept the story going until 1994. Wagner has continued to act mainly on TV and has given some lectures on self-help and meditation. She was not involved in the 2007 revival which was halted by a strike.
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