The Bionic Woman (1976)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Lindsay Wagner
Jaime Sommers
Richard Anderson
Oscar Goldman
Martin E. Brooks
Dr. Rudy Wells
Kenneth Johnson
Creator / Director / Writer
Martin Caidin
Creator
Kitty O'Neil
Stunt Double
Harve Bennett
Producer
Sam Chew Jr.
Mark Russell
Alan J. Levi
Director
Barry Crane
Director
Larry Stewart
Director
Michael Preece
Director
Ernest Pintoff
Director
Leo Penn
Director
Mel Damski
Director
Gwen Arner
Director
Jerry London
Director
Ivan Dixon
Director
Jack Arnold
Director
James D. Parriott
Writer
Oliver Crawford
Writer
Steven E. de Souza
Writer
Jim Carlson
Writer
Justin Edgerton
Writer
Bruce Shelly
Writer
David Ketchum
Writer
Philip DeGuere Jr.
Writer
Deborah Blum
Story
Terrence McDonnell
Writer
Herman Groves
Writer
Helen Hunt
Princess Aura
Howard K. Smith
Howard K. Smith (uncredited)
Corinne Camacho
Lynda Wilson (as Corinne Michaels)
Susan Fleming
Lisa (uncredited)
Christian Juttner
Teddy
Christopher Stone
Jennifer Darling
Stefanie Powers
Don Pedro Colley
John Houseman
Byron Morrow
Ted Cassidy
Mills Watson
Howard McGillin
Ed Nelson
Robert Ellenstein
Henry Polic II
Dennis Patrick
Donald O'Connor
Richard Bakalyan
Abe Vigoda
Lloyd Bochner
Robert Loggia
Stephen Elliott
Branscombe Richmond
Philip Carey
Katherine Helmond
Michael Burns
Danny Wells
Paul Shenar
Jim Hager
George Cheung
Richard Libertini
Carlene Watkins
David Watson
Granville Van Dusen
Stephen Young
Vincent Price
Dick Haynes
Charlie Hill
Don Gordon
William Schallert
Frank Marth
Peter Mark Richman
Kathleen Nolan
Frank Aletter
Carmen Argenziano
Jerry Douglas
Rebecca Balding
Lew Ayres
Melinda O. Fee
Roger Perry
Vito Scotti
David Opatoshu
Jack Kelly
Janice Whitby
Stanley Brock
George D. Wallace
Alejandro Rey
Jack Stauffer
Herbert Jefferson Jr.
Severn Darden
James B. Sikking
Hari Rhodes
Robert Easton
Hermione Baddeley
Ross Elliott
Philip Abbott
Jack Ging
John Zenda
Kevin Michael Richardson
Earl Billings
Jeannie Wilson
Henry Darrow
Alana Stewart
Raymond St. Jacques
Neile Adams
Ben Wright
William Boyett
John Crawford
Eduard Franz
Gary Lockwood
Mary Jackson
Sydney Chaplin
Catherine Burns
René Auberjonois
Andrew Prine
Peter Haskell
Allan Kolman
John Fink
Richard Erdman
Forrest Tucker
Anne Schedeen
Don 'Red' Barry
Joseph Ruskin
Barbara Rush
Jeff Corey
Franklyn Ajaye
Media.
Details.
Release DateJanuary 14, 1976
StatusEnded
Seasons3
Episodes58
Running Time48m
Content RatingTV-PG
Genres
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This TV Show Is About.
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The Bionic Woman is an American science fiction action-adventure television series created by Kenneth Johnson based on the 1972 novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin and starring Lindsay Wagner, that aired from January 14, 1976, to May 13, 1978. A spin-off from the 1970s Six Million Dollar Man television science fiction action series, The Bionic Woman is centered around the fictional Jaime Sommers, who takes on special high-risk government missions using her superhuman bionic powers.
Wagner starred as professional tennis player Jaime Sommers, who becomes critically injured during a skydiving accident. Jaime's life is saved by Oscar Goldman (Richard Anderson) and Dr. Rudy Wells (Martin E. Brooks) with bionic surgical implants similar to those of The Six Million Dollar Man Steve Austin (Lee Majors). 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. She also has extraordinary strength in her bionic right arm and in both legs that enables her to jump great distances and run at speeds exceeding 60 miles per hour. She is then assigned to secret missions as an occasional agent of the Office of Scientific Intelligence, while teaching middle and high school students in her regular life.
The series proved highly popular worldwide, gaining solid ratings in the US and particularly so in the UK (where it became the only science fiction program to achieve the No.1 position in the ratings during the 20th century). The series ran for three seasons, from 1976 to 1978, first on the ABC network and then the NBC network for its final season. Years after its cancellation, three spin-off TV movies were produced between 1987 and 1994. Reruns of the show aired on Sci-Fi Channel from 1993 to 2001. A failed remake of the series was produced in 2007.