The Bionic Woman

• Lindsay Wagner: Jaime Sommers
• Richard Anderson: Oscar Goldman
• Martin E. Brooks Dr. Rudy Wells

The Seven Million Dollar Woman ( The Bionic Woman ) was an offshoot of the successful U.S. TV series The Six Million Dollar Man starring Lindsay Wagner in the title role. The total of 58 episodes of the series ran from 1976 to 1977 on ABC and from 1977 to 1978 on NBC.

Wagner played the role of Jaime Sommers, a professional tennis player who is seriously injured after a parachute accident and during an operation bionic limbs gets planted. From now on, they can run faster than driving a car, her right arm is strong enough to bend steel, and her ear can perceive frequencies inaudible to the human ear.

In September 2007, launched on the U.S. television network NBC with Bionic Woman, a remake of the series starring Michelle Ryan in the lead role. This new edition brought it to only eight episodes. In March 2008, producer David Eick officially announced that the series was set.

Action

The character of Jaime in the Six Million Dollar Man meets for the first time - episode " The Bionic Woman " on ( The Bionic Woman ).

Jaime Sommers and Steve Austin, the Six Million Dollar Man (played by Lee Majors ), were already engaged once before Steve began his training as an astronaut, but had later separated and lost sight of. During a visit with his parents, however, he meets Jaime again, which has become a well-known professional tennis player. The relationship between the two is revived, and soon Steve makes her a marriage proposal. During a Sky Diving excursion there is an accident: Jaime's parachute opens only incomplete and she falls heavily to the ground. The doctors give her little chance of survival, so persuaded Steve to his superiors Oscar Goldman, they just like him fitted with bionic organs to save their lives. The operation is successful, Jaime's legs and her right arm, and one of her ears are now artificial. Despite Steve's objections she executes orders from Goldman like him, but on one of these missions begin their implants to fail. Jaime is mentally and physically unstable and falls into a coma.

The doctors succeed though, to stop the rejection of the implants, but Jaime suffers from now under a kind of amnesia: You can not remember the relationship with Steve, and if they tried it, it causes physical pain. So Steve Austin decides to let her go to save her from further pain.

Jaime, who has now given up her career in tennis, now teaches in her hometown of Ojai, while she continues to work as an undercover agent of OSI.

In the course of the series, she fights against many different opponents, including androids and aliens. Some missions they met together with Steve Austin, but there the previous relationship between the two is usually not treated. In the three films in which the story of Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers was continued, the love between the two but eventually flares up again, so that Jaime and Steve end up eventually marry despite many complications against which they fight again, even. The last two movies have not yet been dubbed into German.

In the series comes in several episodes before a German Shepherd named Max who has analogous to Jaime bionic legs and an artificial jaw and you stand to the side with his skills in some applications.

Voice Actors

Episode List

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

TV Movies

Following the series, three TV movies were produced in the 1980s and 1990s, which further led to the story of the bionic duo Jaime Sommers and Steve Austin. In the German speaking these movies have not been aired on TV, only the first movie was released return the robot to VHS video under the somewhat irritating title.

Availability

In the 1980s, individual episodes of the series have already been released on VHS - Video: The 6 $ one million Girl presented CIC Video 1987, the pilot episode, which was seen in the television broadcast as part of the series The Six Million Dollar Man. In the same year followed by 6 one million U.S. dollars Dog the publication of the two-part episode of the third season, in which the bionic dog Max was introduced.

In the years 2008 and 2009 there followed a complete publication of all three seasons of the seven- million-dollar woman on DVD, this time by the German company Koch Media. With this now for the first time are all the episodes in the unabridged version with German and English soundtrack before.