January 14, 1976 - May 13, 1978
ABC & NBC Adventure - 58 Episodes
Cast:
| Jaime Sommers: | Lindsay Wagner |
| Oscar Goldman: | Richard Anderson |
| Dr. Rudy Wells: | Martin E. Brooks |
| Mark Russell: | Sam Chew Jr. |
| Col. Steve Austin: | Lee Majors |
| Peggy Callahan: | Jennifer Darling |
| Jim Elgin: | Ford Rainey |
| Helen Elgin: | Martha Scott |
| Chris Williams: | Christopher Stone |
The Bionic Woman was a spin-off from, and closely linked to The Six Million Man.
Jaime Sommers was originally introduced as Steve Austin's fiancee. The
couple had drifted apart when Steve became an astronaut, while Jamie went
to college and became a successful tennis pro. Then Jamie was nearly
killed in a skydiving accident, and the doctors who had reconstructed
Steve bionically after his accident decided to try again with Jamie.
Steve and Jamie renewed their romance, but too late it seemed,
for when the four-part story ended in early 1975 Jamie was
in a coma and apparently near death.
Unbeknownst to Steve, Jamie recovered and began a new life as a school
teacher on an army base near her home town of Ojai, California. Her
bionic operation had given her superhuman abilities. Grateful for
having been saved, she, like Steve, undertook dangerous underground
missions for the government's Office of Scientific Information (OSI),
fighting international spies, smugglers, kidnappers, and an occasional
extraterrestrial being. Among her disguises were those of a nun,
a roller derby queen, and a lady wrestler.
When Steve Austin learned of all this he rushed to her, but Jamie's
problems had left her with a partial memory loss, and she had forgotten
her love for Steve. So for the time being there was no bionic marriage.
They sometimes were seen jointly on missions, however, and Jamie for
a time lived in an apartment over the coach house on the farm of
Steve's mother and step father, the Elgins, in Ojai.
Other regulars in the cast were Oscar Goldman, Jamie's supervisor at
OSI, and Dr. Rudy Wells, who had devised the bionic operations, both
of whom also appeared on The Six Million Man. Peggy Callahan
was seen occasionally as Oscar's secretary on both series.
When the Bionic Woman was moved to NBC another regular character was
added to the cast in the person of Max, the bionic dog, a German Shepard
that became Jamie's loyal pet. Toward the end of the NBC season more
and more episodes found Jamie encountering visitors from other planets.
The series was based on the novel Cyborg, by Martin Caidin.
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