The Bionic Woman

Steve Austin buys a ranch in his hometown Ojai, California. He reunites with childhood friend Jaime Sommers who is now a professional tennis player. They rekindle a brief childhood romance. Sommers is injured in a skydiving accident when her parachute collapses toward the end of a jump. Her right arm, right ear, and both legs are severely damaged. With Jaime's life in peril, Steve Austin persuades a reluctant Oscar Goldman to fit her with bionics. Although skeptical at first, Jaime Sommers quickly acclimates to her mechanized components. The bond deepens between the two bionic humans. Steve Austin proposes marriage to Jaime Sommers, and she accepts.

An exciting start of a two parter finds Austin reacquainting with the past, hod hometown, ranch life with his mother stepfather and he rekindles a romance with Jaimie who is excellently played by Lindsay Wagner. Austin gets a touch of deja vu when she breaks her bones in a skydiving accident and is constructed with Bionics.

The Bionic Woman pilot episode from the Six Million Dollar Man is excellent. Even though I have that on video tape or VHS. I think this Bionic Woman pilot episode should not only be on DVD, but on BLU-RAY as well. The DVD and Blu-Ray versions should be digitally remastered in enhanced version and digital sound with new sound effects, just as they did that in the Star Wars Trilogy. Not only that, but also have The Return of the Bionic Woman also on Blu-Ray and DVD. I would suggest that this should happen soon because they did not have that Bionic Woman pilot episode and the Return Of The Bionic Woman on DVD and Blu-Ray. VHS is already done in 2005, So I would suggest that it should happen on DVD and Blue-Ray.

Exciting first of 2-part episode sees Lindsay Wagner debut as Jamie Sommers, and old hometown flame of Steve Austin's(Lee Majors) that he becomes reacquainted with after visiting his mother(Martha Scott) and stepfather. They rekindle their former romance and fall in love, with plans of getting married, but cruel fate intervenes as Jamie is crippled in a skydiving accident, though a desperate Steve insists that Oscar(Richard Anderson) and Rudy Wells(Alan Oppenheimer) give her bionics as well, the third such operation, and first for a woman. It succeeds. but an old foe(played by Malachi Throne) has plans of revenge against them before their upcoming wedding...

Sorry,terrible series, not patch off the Six Million Dollar Man. I bought the DVD's for my grand children and even they didn't like it. The bionic woman is just a comic book series created by Universal Studies - she was never mentioned in the Martin Caidin novels. By and large I think it is the fault of the actress Lindsay Wagner- she lacks sparkle. A better actress for the role would have been the late Farrah Fawcett of if she had been of age at the time, Sandra Bullock. Both had that sparkle with a touch of mischievousness. My grand children call her "Miss Goody Two Shoes with a touch of bossiness". A bit of a whiner as well. Also amnesia or not, if the gorgeous Steve Austin had told me I was his fiancée, I certainly would not have argued.

There is only one bionic person and that is the athletic Steve Austin played to perfection by Lee Majors.