While she may not have gotten to enjoy as long of a run as her bionic counterpart, The Bionic Woman series certainly had the legs… pun intended. Like Lee Major’s Steve Austin, Lindsay Wagner’s Jamie Summers is a bionic superhuman cyborg. After a parachuting accident left her legs, arm, and ear horribly destroyed, she became the Bionic Woman! But briefly had brain damage and memory loss so the love she shared with Steve couldn’t continue. This was a pretty clever plot concession if you think about it. It’s a spinoff series so you need to give Jamie her time to shine as a bionic but you can’t have Steve come along in every episode. So Oscar and Rudy pop in as the series’ connective tissue, but our heroes largely live separate lives - until they need to team up! Show  As a whole, The Bionic Woman may be a tad sillier. You had episodes with a bionic dog and a young Helen Hunt as the alien girl Zora from the Planet Zorla - but these were still fun adventures. The plots could feel like the rejected b-plots cooked up for The Six Million Dollar Man - Jamie infiltrating a corrupt Ladies Wrestling organization - but they were all worth watching. I wasn’t alive yet for this series during its original run and would frequently catch reruns with my sister as a kid. Later in college as a night owl, I got to catch up on the full run and it was a hoot. Comparing the two series I feel like The Bionic Woman had a better tongue-in-cheek sense of humor than The Six Million Dollar Man. It’s a shame the series only made it through three seasons, but this is also a case of having too much of a good thing. In the way back when where you only had a few television stations and no cable, it was quite something that you could turn on one channel one night and get The Six Million Dollar Man and then on another night turn to a different channel and have The Bionic Woman. That’s a lot of slow-motion bionic-enhanced action and adventure in any given week. Imagine if The X-Files had Mulder and Scully on Fox one night but then had Doggett and Reyes on The CW another night? It’d be cool to get so much fun content but at the same time it can tire out, and I feel like that’s what happened with The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman. Once the novelty of two similar connected series wore off those later episodes started feeling a little desperate. Still fun, of course, but maybe not up to par with their peak content. At least everyone was willing to come back after a suitable break for the reunion films and give our bionic duo a proper send-off! Watching the series today has been a great time. It’s been nearly twenty years since those late nights in college when I actually took the time to sit down and purposefully watch this show. I was really happy to see how well it all holds up. Sure, there are those goofy episodes, but even when the show is at its silliest it’s a great time! That two-parter with The Six Million Dollar Man - The Return of Big Foot has to be one of the goofiest things on television, but I love it to death. Aliens and Big Foot? That concept alone has kept The History Channel alive for over a decade! We may have gotten too much of a good thing with Lindsay Wagner getting her own show, but I’m glad we got it all the same. Vital Disc Stats: The Blu-ray What features did The Bionic Woman have?Through the use of cybernetic implants, known as bionics, Jaime is fitted with an amplified bionic right ear which allows her to hear at low volumes and at various frequencies and over uncommonly long distances.
What was special about The Bionic Woman?Superhuman Powers: The replacement of her body parts with bionics gave the Bionic Woman special powers. Both of her legs were replaced, allowing her to run more than 60 miles per hour or jump off a building. Her arm was replaced, giving her the ability to bend steel with her bare hands.
Did The Bionic Woman have a bionic ear?Through the use of cybernetic implants known as bionics, Jaime is given an amplified bionic ear which allows her to detect sounds, at frequencies outside of the human ability to hear, over uncommonly long distances.
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Jaime Sommers (The Bionic Woman). Why was the original Bionic Woman Cancelled?Series production was shut down because of the ongoing writers strike and only eight episodes have been produced and aired. Based on the ratings and the high expense of the show, it would seem that Bionic Woman would be a natural for cancellation.
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