History Series / TheBionicWoman

''The Bionic Woman'' (Creator/{{ABC}}, 1976-1978) is a SpinOff of ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan''. Creator/LindsayWagner stars as Jaime Sommers, the ''[[DistaffCounterpart other]]'' active bionic agent of the OSI.

* BellyDancer: Jaime performs for an Arab sheik in "Jaime and the King".

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Jaime is an AscendedExtra from a '75 episode of ''Six Mill''. Steve Austin (Creator/LeeMajors) returns to his hometown of Ojai, California, to buy a ranch. Completely unaware that he is a cyborg, Steve's parents do what any parents would do with their confirmed bachelor astronaut son: they try and hook him up with his {{old flame}}, tennis pro Jaime Sommers. But tragedy strikes when, while skydiving with Steve, Jaime's parachute fails and she is fatally injured. An overwrought Steve convinces his boss Oscar (Richard Anderson) to authorize bionic replacement surgery to restore Jaime's destroyed legs, right arm and ear. Steve and Jaime rekindle their relationship, but [[PhlebotinumBreakdown her body starts rejecting the bionics]], and after a ''Bride of Frankenstein'' freak-out, she flat-lines.

* TheBoardGame: Parker Brothers made one in 1976.

* * ReplacedTheThemeTune: partly; Come Season 3 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wd6IuVya4M Jerry Fielding's original theme]] was due to be supplanted by a new theme by creator Kenneth Johnson's AssociatedComposer Joe Harnell. Fielding did ''not'' care for this. So Fielding's theme remained at the beginning of the show, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2YqWF0YzYc with Harnell's theme]] heard over the end credits.

''The Bionic Woman'' (Creator/{{ABC}}, 1976-1978) is a SpinOff of ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan''. Lindsay Wagner stars as Jaime Sommers, the ''[[DistaffCounterpart other]]'' active bionic agent of the OSI.

* GenreSavvy: In "Black Magic" ([[spoiler: Jaime - "The butler did it?"]])

* RememberTheNewGuy: The episode "Out of Body" introduces Jaime's Mative American soulmate, [[MagicalNativeAmerican Tommy Littlehorse]]. Even though we've never seen him before this episode and never so much as hear about him afterward, Jaime's apartment is suddenly littered with pictures of the two of them hanging out and cuddling, and when he hovers near death she wistfully recalls many sweet [[NoodleIncident Noodle Incidents]] with him. Rudy and Oscar also act as though he's been around forever.

Jaime is an AscendedExtra from a '75 episode of ''Six Mill''. Steve Austin (Creator/LeeMajors) returns to his hometown of Ojai, California, to buy a ranch. Completely unaware that he is a cyborg, Steve's parents do what any parents would do with their confirmed bachelor astronaut son: they try and hook him up with his {{old flame}}, tennis pro Jaime Sommers. But tragedy strikes when, while skydiving with Steve, Jaime's parachute fails and she is fatally-injured. An overwrought Steve convinces his boss Oscar (Richard Anderson) to authorize bionic replacement surgery to restore Jaime's destroyed legs, right arm and ear. Steve and Jaime rekindle their relationship, but [[PhlebotinumBreakdown her body starts rejecting the bionics]], and after a ''Bride of Frankenstein'' freak-out, she flat-lines.

** Applies to Steve, too, in relation to Jaime. From the beginning, we see that being around her turns him to mush; he's so in love with her that he begs Oscar to make her bionic rather than lose her, despite Oscar's warnings about [[DealWithTheDevil what it will cost both of them]]. Steve then watches her literally self-destruct, gets told she's dead, finds out she's actually alive--only to discover she doesn't remember him anymore.

* DisneyDeath: Jaime's own, at the beginning of the series.

* EasyAmnesia

* GenreBlindness

* RememberTheNewGuy: The episode "Out of Body" introduces Jaime's native American soulmate, [[MagicalNativeAmerican Tommy Littlehorse]]. Even though we've never seen him before this episode and never so much as hear about him afterward, Jaime's apartment is suddenly littered with pictures of the two of them hanging out and cuddling, and when he hovers near death she wistfully recalls many sweet [[NoodleIncident Noodle Incidents]] with him. Rudy and Oscar also act as though he's been around forever.

* AbsoluteCleavage: The blue shirt that Jaime wears in "Brain Wash."
* AchillesHeel

** Jaime's AbsoluteCleavage blouse in "Brain Wash" is pretty fanservice-y, although it's PlayedForDrama since it's implied that Callaghan thinks Jaime is trying to play up the fanservice to steal her new boyfriend.[[note]]Jaime actually ''isn't'' -- she's merely investigating Callaghan's boyfriend, and just coincidentally happened to be wearing that blouse that day.[[/note]]

Jaime is an AscendedExtra from a '75 episode of ''Six Mill''. Steve Austin (Creator/LeeMajors) returns to his hometown of Ojai, California, to buy a ranch. Completely unaware that he is a cyborg, Steve's parents do what any parents would do with their confirmed bachelor astronaut son: they try and hook him up with his {{old flame}}, tennis pro Jaime Sommers. But tragedy strikes when, while skydiving with Steve, Jaime's parachute fails and she is fatally-injured. An overwrought Steve convinces his boss Oscar (Richard Anderson) to authorize bionic replacement surgery to restore Jaime's destroyed legs, right arm and ear. Steve and Jamie rekindle their relationship, but [[PhlebotinumBreakdown her body starts rejecting the bionics]], and after a ''Bride of Frankenstein'' freak-out, she flat-lines.

...[[FirstLawOfResurrection until the Nielsen ratings come in]]. What Steve didn't know is that over the summer hiatus of re-runs, Jaime ''didn't'' die on the operating table, but was saved at the last second by "[[HumanPopsicle cryogenic therapy]]," but at a price: [[LaserGuidedAmnesia no memory of Steve]]. Viewer response to Jaime was so positive that ABC ordered the producers of ''Six Mill'' to revamp the third season opener to make room for a two-parter {{retcon}}ning Jamie's death. On very short notice, the network commissioned a spin-off for January 1976.

** Jamie's natural arm is vulnerable, as was the rest of her human body, obviously.

* AffablyEvil: ALEX 7000 from "Doomsday is Tomorrow". He tries to kill Jamie so she can't stop him from causing the destruction of humanity. Still, he politely warns her of his intentions, speaks to her in a friendly manner, and even considers her something of a "cousin", due to her bionics.

* AnalogyBackfire: Jamie does this to herself during "Black Magic" when she is [[EnemyMine forced to work with one villain]] to take down another.

'''Jamie''': I trust you about as far as I could throw you. [[VerbalBackpedaling No, no, I don't trust you that far.]]

** As Kenneth Johnson explains on the 2010 DVD release, ''The Bionic Woman'' was conceived as a less-violent companion to ''The Six Million Dollar Man''. The use of "pocket bionics" (a term coined by Johnson to describe a [[MundaneUtility normal everyday use of bionics]], such as opening a can of soup with a bionic fingernail) was emphasized over violent use, and Jamie would rarely be seen being the aggressor in a fight or, certainly, killing.

* MoreThanJustATeacher: Jamie takes on an undercover identity as a teacher at the Venture Air Force Base.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: In "Doomsday is Tomorrow", ALEX 7000 says this of himself (a supercomputer with a near-human personality) and Jamie (a cyborg).