"The Bionic Woman" was a spinoff of "The Six Million Dollar Man".
Lindsay Wagner portrayed the heroine, Jaimie Sommers. Formerly a tennis professional, her origin story involved a parachuting accident that left her terribly disabled. With the influence of her former teen-era crush Steve Austin and principals from the Office of Scientific Intelligence, Jaimie finds her legs, her right arm and left ear replaced with robotic replacements. High powered "bionic" replacements to be specific. The implants imbue her with superhuman abilities. She can now run at speeds approaching 60 miles per hour. Her robotic arm has the strength to crush steel and hurl thousand-pound weights. Her bionic left ear allows her to eavesdrop at a distance of dozens of yards.
Jaimie reluctantly becomes an agent of the OSI. Her day-to-day "cover" is that of a schoolteacher at an Air Force base near Ojai, California. Periodically, Oscar stops by or calls her to give her new assignments.
During the run of the show, Jaimie has brief flirtations with romance, sometimes with the Steve Austin character but mostly with guest characters who come onto the show for an episode or two. (a "steady" boyfriend eventually came into play during the wind-down of the series).
The plots run the gamut from very serious espionage to pro wrestling and one where Evel Kneivel is a guest. The action is generally pretty decent, but the show is never particularly violent, especially for the time frame when this show was on the air.
The show only lasted three full seasons before it was canceled. In this writer's estimation, the cancellation was premature. The show should have been able to last at least five years before ending. It rode the wave of women-protagonist-centered drama shows of the time (Charlie's Angels, Wonder Woman, Police Woman).
Lindsay Wagner portrayed the heroine, Jaimie Sommers. Formerly a tennis professional, her origin story involved a parachuting accident that left her terribly disabled. With the influence of her former teen-era crush Steve Austin and principals from the Office of Scientific Intelligence, Jaimie finds her legs, her right arm and left ear replaced with robotic replacements. High powered "bionic" replacements to be specific. The implants imbue her with superhuman abilities. She can now run at speeds approaching 60 miles per hour. Her robotic arm has the strength to crush steel and hurl thousand-pound weights. Her bionic left ear allows her to eavesdrop at a distance of dozens of yards.
Jaimie reluctantly becomes an agent of the OSI. Her day-to-day "cover" is that of a schoolteacher at an Air Force base near Ojai, California. Periodically, Oscar stops by or calls her to give her new assignments.
During the run of the show, Jaimie has brief flirtations with romance, sometimes with the Steve Austin character but mostly with guest characters who come onto the show for an episode or two. (a "steady" boyfriend eventually came into play during the wind-down of the series).
The plots run the gamut from very serious espionage to pro wrestling and one where Evel Kneivel is a guest. The action is generally pretty decent, but the show is never particularly violent, especially for the time frame when this show was on the air.
The show only lasted three full seasons before it was canceled. In this writer's estimation, the cancellation was premature. The show should have been able to last at least five years before ending. It rode the wave of women-protagonist-centered drama shows of the time (Charlie's Angels, Wonder Woman, Police Woman).