The Bionic Woman (1976–1978)

After fully recovering from her near fatal bout of bionic rejection, Jaime Sommers, the first female cyborg, is assigned to spy missions of her own.

Creator:

Kenneth Johnson

Stars:

Lindsay Wagner, Richard Anderson, Martin E. Brooks

Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations.

Cast

Complete series cast summary:
Lindsay Wagner	...	Jaime Sommers (57 episodes, 1976-1978)
Richard Anderson	...	Oscar Goldman (57 episodes, 1976-1978)
Martin E. Brooks	...	Dr. Rudy Wells (44 episodes, 1976-1978)

Storyline

Jaime Sommers, a tennis pro, suffers a parachuting accident. She is saved by a special surgery replacing her ear, an arm and both legs with bionic ones. Now she works as a secret agent hidden as a school teacher.

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Plot Keywords:

bionics | spy | cyborg | super power | superheroine | 

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Genres:

Action | Sci-Fi | Adventure

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

14 January 1976 (USA)

Also Known As:

La mujer biónica

Filming Locations:

RMS Queen Mary - 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Harve Bennett Productions, Universal TV

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min 60 min (58 episodes)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

4:3

Did You Know?

Trivia

Maximillion, the bionic dog that featured in the third season, was so called because he cost a million dollars to make.

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Connections

Referenced in Undergrads: Jerks (2001)

User Reviews

Too Good for TV

_The Bionic Woman_ started out as a two part episode of _The Six Million Dollar Man_. (Which, by the way, is the only Bionic Woman videotape you can buy.) In it, Jaime Sommers, tennis pro and fiancee of Steve Austin, had a skydiving accident, and acquired bionic legs, arm and ear to survive. Later on, after a difficult period of adjustment and even being cryogenically frozen, Jaime awakened with only partial memory, and can only regard Steve as a friend. Oscar Goldman, masterfully played by Richard Anderson, had agreed to make Jaime bionic if she worked for the OSI, a government agency that solved complicated problems. He became Jaime's boss, a hands-on leader who was intelligent as well as sophisticated. This was a wonderful series, with lots of high points: teacher Jaime tearing up a phone book to get tough army brat kids to respect her, Jaime battling it out with ALEX (a HAL-like computer set to destroy the world), Jaime being put in jail while her double tries to steal bionic secrets, and, my personal favorite, the original Fembots! If only Universal would put these episodes on video! I would be the first in line to buy them!