The Bionic Women 24 Disc Set # 139.99 In this TV spinoff of "The Six Million Dollar Man", tennis pro Jamie Sommers was almost killed in a skydiving accident, but was saved by the U.S. Government, which used bionic parts to save her. Both legs, one arm, and one ear are artificial, which give her a number of super powers. She works as an agent for the Office of Scientific Investigations battling spies, fembots, mad scientists and aliens.
Season 1 (1976)
"Welcome Home, Jaime Part 1" (originally aired on January 14, 1976
as an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man but later syndicated as
a Bionic Woman episode.)
1. "Welcome Home, Jaime Part 2" (January 21, 1976)
2. "Angel of Mercy" (January 28, 1976)
3. "A Thing of the Past" (February 18, 1976)
4. "Claws" (February 25, 1976)
5. "The Deadly Missiles" (March 3, 1976)
6. "Bionic Beauty" (March 17, 1976)
7. "Jaime's Mother" (March 24, 1976)
8. "Winning is Everything" (April 7, 1976)
9. "Canyon of Death" (April 14, 1976)
10. "Fly Jaime" (May 5, 1976)
11. "The Jailing of Jaime" (May 12, 1976)
12. "Mirror Image" (May 19, 1976)
13. "The Ghosthunter" (May 26, 1976)
Season 2 (1976-1977)
"In This Corner, Jaime Sommers" (September 29, 1976)
1. "Assault on the Princess" (October 6, 1976)
2. "Road to Nashville" (October 20, 1976)
3. "Kill Oscar, Part 1" (October 27, 1976)
4. "Kill Oscar, Part 2" (originally aired on October 31, 1976 as an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man
5. "Kill Oscar, Part 3" (November 3, 1976)
6. "Black Magic" (November 10, 1976)
7. "Sister Jaime" (November 24, 1976)
8. "The Vega Influence" (December 1, 1976)
9. "Jaime's Shield, Part 1" (December 15, 1976)
10. "Jaime's Shield, Part 2" (December 22, 1976)
11. "Biofeedback" (January 12, 1977)
12. "Doomsday is Tomorrow, Part 1" (January 19, 1977)
13. "Doomsday is Tomorrow, Part 2" (January 26, 1977)
14. "Deadly Ringer, Part 1" (February 2, 1977)
15. "Deadly Ringer, Part 2" (February 9, 1977)
16. "Jaime and the King" (February 23, 1977)
17. "Beyond the Call" (March 9, 1977)
18. "The DeJon Caper" (March 16, 1977)
19. "The Night Demon" (March 23, 1977)
20. "Iron Ships and Dead Men" (March 30, 1977)
21. "Once a Thief" (May 4, 1977)
Season 3 (1977-1978)
1. "The Bionic Dog, Part 1" (September 10, 1977)
2. "The Bionic Dog, Part 2" (September 17, 1977)
3. "Fembots in Las Vegas, Part 1" (September 24, 1977)
4. "Fembots in Las Vegas, Part 2" (October 1, 1977)
5. "Rodeo" (October 15, 1977)
6. "African Connection" (October 29, 1977)
7. "Motorcycle Boogie" (November 5, 1977)
8. "Brain Wash" (November 12, 1977)
9. "Escape to Love" (November 26, 1977)
10. "Max" (December 3, 1977)
11. "Over the Hill Spy" (December 17, 1977)
12. "All for One" (January 7, 1978)
13. "The Pyramid" (January 14, 1978)
14. "The Antidote" (January 21, 1978)
15. "The Martians are Coming, The Martians are Coming" (January 28, 1978)
16. "Sanctuary Earth" (February 11, 1978)
17. "Deadly Music" (February 18, 1978)
18. "Which One is Jaime?" (February 25, 1978)
19. "Out of Body" (March 4, 1978)
20. "Long Live the King" (March 25, 1978)
21. "Rancho Outcast" (May 6, 1978)
22. "On the Run" (May 13, 1978)
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During the year of 1976, the ABC Television Network spawned one of the only female "super humans" ever to demonstrate her "extraordinary" powers on the television screen. This woman could hear footsteps from a mile away, run more than 60 mph, bend steel with her bare hands, jump to the roof of a 12 story building, catch villians who are endangering our National security, and still have enough energy and motivation left over to use her talent and knowledge as a schoolteacher.
Jaime Sommers first appears in a two-part episode of The Six Million Dollar Man in 1975 entitled "The Bionic Woman." In this episode, Steve travels to his old hometown of Ojai, California, to visit his mother and stepfather and take a vacation from his work. During his visit, he rekindles his old relationship with Jaime Sommers, now one of America's top tennis players. Their relationship progresses rapidly to the point where Steve proposes marriage.
During an outing, Steve and Jaime take part in some skydiving. Jaime's parachute malfunctions and she plummets through a clump of trees and hits the ground, suffering traumatic injuries to her legs, right arm, and head. Steve Austin makes an emotional plea to his boss, Oscar Goldman, even going so far as to commit Jaime to become an operative of the Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI), a branch of the CIA. Goldman agrees to assign Dr. Rudy Wells (played at this point in the series by Alan Oppenheimer) and the bionics team to rebuild her.
Jaime's body is reconstructed with parts similar to Steve's but the actual cost of rebuilding her is not revealed. It is said in dialogue to be less than the $6 million it cost to rebuild Austin because the replacement parts were smaller; however, the German dub of the show contradicts this: the show is called The 7 Million Dollar Woman in that country. Like Steve Austin before her, Jaime is given two bionic legs, capable of propelling her at speeds exceeding 60 mph, and her right arm is replaced by a lifelike prosthetic capable of bending steel or throwing objects great distances. Whereas Austin received a bionic eye, the inner mechanism of Jaime's right ear is replaced by a bionic device that gives her the ability to hear a whisper a mile away. These bionic implants cannot be distinguished from natural body parts, except on occasions where they sustain damage and the mechanisms beneath the skin become exposed, as seen in Part 2 of the episode Doomsday Is Tomorrow, when Jaime sustained damage to her right leg. Also, as Jaime discovered on a vacation in the Bahamas, her bionic skin cannot tan with exposure to sunlight.
After Jaime recovers from her operation, Steve tries to break his agreement with Oscar that she will serve as an agent for OSI, but Jaime agrees to go on a mission for Oscar, despite Steve's concerns. During the mission, however, her bionics malfunction, and she experiences severe and crippling headaches.
Dr. Wells determines that Jaime's body is rejecting her bionic implants; a massive cerebral clot is apparently causing her headaches and malfunctions. Soon after, she goes berserk and crashes her way out of the hospital. Steve takes pursuit and eventually catches up with her, where she collapses in his arms. Soon after, Jaime dies on the operating table, her body shutting down. The episode ends with Steve weeping at her memory.
The character was so popular that ABC asked the writers to find a way to bring her back. In the first episode of the next season, it is revealed that Jaime had not died after all, although Steve Austin was not informed of this fact. He discovers it when he is hospitalized at Dr. Wells' bionic clinic after a mission goes bad, and he suffers severe damage to his bionic legs; he sees Jaime as he is being rolled into the operating room for repair, just before slipping into a coma.
As Steve later learns, Wells' assistant, Dr. Michael Marcetti, had urged Rudy (now played by Martin E. Brooks) to try his newly developed cryogenic techniques to keep Jaime in suspended animation until the cerebral clot could be safely removed, after which she was successfully revived.
A side-effect of the procedure causes Jaime to develop amnesia and forget her relationship with Steve; any attempt to make her remember her life with Steve causes her headaches and pain. Steve reluctantly lets her go on to live her own life as an agent for the OSI.
Jaime, now retired as a tennis player, takes a job as a schoolteacher in Ojai. She lives in a converted farmhouse rented from Steve's mother and stepfather, who were aware of her and Steve's bionic nature and their double lives as secret agents. In later episodes, Jaime adopts Maximillion, a German shepherd that had been given a bionic jaw and legs. He was an experiment to see if trained animals could benefit from bionics and was named Maximillion because the cost of his bionics was one million dollars. When he was introduced, he started experiencing symptoms that suggested an age-related variant of bionic rejection and was due to be dissected, but it was discovered the condition was actually psychological owing to resurfaced memories of a traumatic fire that threatened Max in his youth. As such, the dog was allowed to live and become Jaime's companion.
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