Bionic Woman, The
In 1975 Lindsay Wagner made a guest appearance on 'The $6 Million Dollar Man' as perfect female companion for Steve Austin - Jaime Sommers. After a tragic skydiving accident, Jaime also received Bionic replacements. She and Steve planned to be married, but it came to pass that Jaime's body rejected her new limbs and she died. ABC realized how phenomenally successful Lindsay Wagner's portrayal of Jaime Sommers had become. So, they brought her back to life and spun her off into her own series - 'The Bionic Woman'. It debuted in January 1976 and was an immediate hit. The series ran on ABC for two seasons, and was picked up by NBC for its final season.
Steve Austin, suffering from radiation poisoning has given Jaime Sommers the task to find the alien visitors to get some of their wonder drug Neotraxin. Unfortunately for Jaime, Sasquatch is barring her way.
An OSI agent disappears while working undercover in a ladies wrestling joint, so Oscar persuades Jaime Sommers to take his place and find him. Dressed in a little American Indian outfit, 'Savage Jessie Sommers' gets into trouble even before her first wrestling match as she finds the manager and some of his girls dealing with foreign agents.
Using the name surname 'Windsor', Jaime stows away on the luxurious cruise ship the Princess Louise to catch the mysterious Ice Man and find two missing and volatile energy cells. Also aboard is her persistent Italian stalker from a previous mission, Romero.
A fellow OSI agent goes missing while investigating country legend Big Buck Buckley who seems to be passing out top secret information by way of his music. Muffin Calhoun, a mutual acquaintance of Buck and Oscars takes Jaime to Nashville and introduces her to Buckley as the aspiring singer 'Jodi Lee Sommers'.
A renegade scientist is after a weather controlling device and employs his army of Fembots to get it.
Steve and Jaime decide to invade Dr. Franklin's lair to rescue Oscar Goldman and Peggy Callahan but the villain's Fembots and weather-controlling machine mean difficult opposition.
Cyrus Carstairs, the inventor of a new top secret formula for high speed alloy to be used in jet fighters dies, leaving his greedy relatives greedy for his inheritance. One of them puts the formula up on the black market, and Jaime is send in to get it first, posing as cousin Tracy, whom nobody had seen since she joined the circus as a fortune teller 18 years earlier.
Jaime takes the place of an infamous female courier and goes undercover as a nun in a convent where diamonds are being exchanged for heroin.
Jaime Sommers and Michael Marchetti travel to a military base on Grand Tooley to pick up some medical equipment only to find the base completely deserted with everything left running. Then one by one, the men in their party begin to disappear.
Oscar sends Jaime to the Santa Regina police academy as one of the first female cadets to locate a foreign agent who has reportedly infiltrated the police force.
Jaime has graduated from police academy and is set to work in Santa Regina's 5th precinct. Foreign premier Rinja Gabrin is about to visit the city, and is the target of the foreign agent and the crooked cops she has bought off.
Jaime teams up with Darwin Jones, an expert in meditation and biofeedback to stop his brother Payton from selling a code analyzer to foreign powers. If they get their hands on the analyzer, the identities of every OSI agent are at stake.
A well-meaning scientist threatens the world with a doomsday device to ensure world peace, but things go terribly wrong.
Dr. Cooper's Doomsday Device has been triggered and only Jaime Sommers can attempt to break through the defenses held up by super computer ALEX7000 before it's too late.
Jaime Sommers is knocked out while doing some needlework at home and wakes up in a cell at state penitentiary, having switched places with her double, Lisa Galloway. Meanwhile, Galloway has taken Sommers place teaching at Ventura Air Force base. She and her benefactor Dr. Courtney mistakingly think Jaime's super strength is derived from a substance invented by Rudy Wells called Adrenalizine and Lisa is tasked to steal more of it. Back in prison, Jaime is about to receive plastic surgery against her will to restore Lisa's old face.
Lisa Galloway is enjoying Jaime Sommers' life so much she doesn't want to give it up. Having been assigned to courier the Adrenalizine, Lisa keeps some for herself to have access to Jaime's super strength. Meanwhile, the real Jaime Sommers has escaped from prison but find that nobody, not even Oscar Goldman, believes her when she tells them who she really is.
Oscar gives Jaime an undercover job in Monte Carlo posing as the private tutor of Prince Ishmael, son of Sha Ali Ben Gazim of Almain. Her mission is to protect the Shah from assassins targeting him without his knowledge.
Decorated Vietnam veteran John Cross takes a job teaching survival skills at the Ventura Air Force School and Jaime Sommers is his first test subject. Helen and Jim look after Cross's daughter Kim who hasn't spoken since her mother died in her arms. The young girl soon proves herself to be a handful and Major Cross is planning to steal a top-secret missile guidance system to get back at the army which he feels deserted by.
Jaime Sommers travels to Paris, France with art forger Pierre Lambert to catch an American criminal called Beaumont who pays Pierre to copy stolen art. Although Lambert tries to give her the slip several times, eventually he realizes that Jaime is his only means of breaking free from Beaumont without being killed.
Thomas Bearclaw and his friend Lyle Cannon find a carving of the Indian protector of the dead Masauu at an excavation site and are haunted by the demon that very night. The next day Jaime Sommers visits unexpectedly as Bearclaw had been asking her to do so for some time. Before long, Jaime is having nightmarish visions of Masauu as well.
Oscar reveals the reason he joined US intelligence was to clear the name of his missing brother Samuel, who disappeared during Pearl Harbor when Oscar was 11. Now, 36 years later, the older Goldman's dog-tags have been found on board the destroyer Henderson and Jaime is glad to offer her assistance and goes undercover as a member of the salvage team.
After small time burglar Inky is thwarted by Jaime, he decides to prove he did not imagine her bionic powers by filming her doing super human feats. This in turn gives him the idea to blackmail her into helping him pull one big score: a bank robbery.
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Richard Anderson | Oscar Goldman |
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Lindsay Wagner | Jaime Sommers |
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Martin E. Brooks | Dr. Rudy Wells |
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Warren J. Kemmerling | Warden Cooper |
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Lee Majors | Col. Steve Austin |
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Ford Rainey | Jim Elgin |
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Dee Dee Young | Passenger |
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Billy Rittenbaugh | Arty |
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Jennifer Darling | Peggy Callahan |
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Katherine Helmond | Dr. Harkens |
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Norman Fell | Milt Bigelow |
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William Bryant | Capt. Jetton |
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Ellen Geer | Sister Barbara |
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Gene LeBell | Referee |
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John Houseman | Dr. Franklin |
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Lew Ayres | Dr. Elijah Cooper |
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Martha Scott | Helen Elgin |
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Arch Johnson | Commissioner Sam Hart |
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Rebecca Balding | Parker |
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Jack Ging | Chief Inspector Hanson |
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Walt Davis | Trooper |
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Linden Chiles | Herb Partnow |
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Don Porter | Dr. James Courtney |
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David Opatoshu | Mr. Satari |
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John Zenda | Weber |
| Director | Alan J. Levi |
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| Alan Crosland Jr. |
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| Barry Crane |
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| Kenneth Johnson |
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| Mel Damski |
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| Writer | Kenneth Johnson, Martin Caidin, Arthur Rowe, James D. Parriott, Robert McCullough, Dan Kibbie, Oliver Crawford, Wilton Denmark, C. Robert Brooks, Justin Edgerton | |
| Producer | Harve Bennett, Kenneth Johnson, Craig Schiller | |
| Musician | Joseph Harnell, Luchi De Jesus, Jerry Fielding | |
| Photography | Gene A. Talvin | |
| Edition | Season 02 |
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| Packaging | TV Season Set |
| Nr Discs | 5 |
| Screen Ratios | Fullscreen (4:3) |
| Audio Tracks | Stereo [English] |
| Distributor | Universal Studios Home Entertainment |
| Layers | Single side, Dual layer |
| Edition Release Date | May 17, 2011 |
| Regions | Region 1 |