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The Bionic Woman - Series 1 - Complete [1976]


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Synopsis

Jamie Sommers joins Steve Austin (The Six Million Dollar Man) skydiving and she has an almost fatal accident. Steve urges Oscar Goldman to save her using the bionic surgery that saved him. After the operation Jamie continues teaching but also becomes an agent for the Office Of Scientific Investigations (OSI). This box set includes all 13 episodes from the first series.


US Seventies Gold.
Review date: 2008-08-13 Rating: 8 out of 10

I have just purchased this title as part of my growing nostalgia collection. Growing up as a child in the Seventies I remember every boy in my school wanted to be Steve Austin and every girl - Jamie Sommers. The slow motion action sequences making them both easy imitate.

What you have here is a spin-off series that at times surpassed its parent. THE BIONIC WOMAN was written with a lot more heart than T.S.M.D.M. and this, coupled with an extremely well selected leading lady, gives the show a more enduring quality. Okay, by modern standards the episodes look cheap and filmed on a shoestring. But they still make enguaging viewing today. And remember that, at the time, this was state-of-the-art TV.

All in all a tidy little box set with a clean DVD transfer. No extras, but hey, that's not what I bought the set for.

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Ms Wagner is unbeatable
Review date: 2008-04-10 Rating: 10 out of 10

Little did we know that this series, then fronted by a naturally beautiful, young American actress called Lindsay Wagner, would become a real, sci-fi cult classic that has more than stood the test of time. Wagner brings class, beauty, empathy and pathos as welll as tingling excitement as the original and best Jaime Summers. The world of late 1970's California is a dreamy, nostalgic place, and with regular contributors like Martha Scott, Ford Rainey and Jennifer Darling, as well as the reassuring role played by Richard Anderson, we can escape into a really unique time and place and enjoy those wonderful adventures. Many sweet memories are brought back by the beautiful incidental music that adorned The Bionic Woman, particulary in 'Sister Jaime' and 'In this corner, Jaime Summers'. A great buy and sure to please nostalgia lovers and fans of the beautiful Ms Wagner.

Good fun, but what about the start?
Review date: 2008-01-22 Rating: 10 out of 10

You have to buy some of the Bionic Man series if you want the background on there relationship and thus why JS is bionic, and therefore the first few episodes are a bit strange. References are made, but the shows featuring their entire background should be there, and to me this is a big error. There needs to be an episode or two from The BM rather than just Oscar giving a very brief commentary into a cassette recorder for his chief. I don't have the Bionic Man dvd's and don't like them enough to buy an entire series, so that means this gets off to a bad start. The stories and scripts are exactly what they're supposed to be - entertaining, mildly witty and innocent viewing for the family.
There are no extras and not even any subtitles, which is pretty poor in my view. However Lindsay Wagner is as marvellous as I remembered her and she alone gets the 5 stars! The package gets 2 stars because of what's missing, and the stories get 4 stars for their enduring charm.

The Bionic Woman Series 1
Review date: 2007-04-24 Rating: 10 out of 10

"The Bionic Woman" was and still is one of my favourite childhood shows.
Lindsay Wagner brought so much warmth and charm to the part of Jaime Sommers,that when after being introduced in a two part episode of "The Six Millon Dollar Man" as Steve Austin's(Lee Majors) childhood sweetheart and then killed off,public reaction was so strong she was brought back to life and spun off to her own series!
Jaime moves into an apartment on Steve's Mum(the wonderful Martha Scott)and Stepdad's ranch as she tries to rebuild her life as a school teacher and secret agent for the OSI headed by Oscar Goldman(Richard Anderson)
Jaime faces an evil double ganger in "Mirror Image" who comes back in a later season to plague Jaime.
"The Six Million Dollar Man" episode "Survival Of the Fittest",involving a plane crash and an attempt on Oscar's life is reused as "Fly Jaime" with Dr.Rudy Wells(Martin E.Brooks)the target this time.
The theme of facing your demons and moving on is reused time and again,in this first season,in "Winning Is Everything" Jaime helps a young driver faces the horrors of a past crash,in "Jaime's Mother" Jaime helps a lookalike of her dead mother face her past and do the right thing,a great star turn by Barbara Rush.
In the last episode of the season "The Ghost Hunter",Jaime helps a young widowed Doctor deal with his teenage daughter's telekentic powers rather than bury his grief in his work.
A great show with nice remastering on this DVD,don't understand why "The Six Million Dollar Man" wasn't treated the same way.

Fabulous 70s Nostalgia
Review date: 2007-02-06 Rating: 8 out of 10

I have to confess that sober critical judgement rather goes out of the window where The Bionic Woman is concerned. You see my youthful little self, sat in front of the TV in the 70s when this was first aired, was a little sweet on Jamie Sommers. Indeed I couldn't even listen to the theme tune without dribbling and getting a little hot under the collar. Still, wiping away the tears of nostalgia, what do I make of it all thirty years later? Well, it's still fabulously good entertainment. Lindsay Wagner could certainly act and during the course of the thirteen episodes that make up the first season of The Bionic Woman she goes through the entire range of human emotion, carrying the audience with her as she confronts the loss of all memory about her past and comes to terms with her new super powers and the opportunities, and possible dangers, they bring with them, not to mention coming face-to-face with someone claiming to be her mother (long thought to be dead) and battling a whole range of shifty looking blokes with dodgy taches, cheap suits and nasty looking firearms.

Richard Anderson provides excellent support as Oscar Goldman, the boss we'd all like to have: authorative, fair, supportive of the people who work for him and as smooth as a dry martini; while Lee Majors crops up from time to time to go all doe-eyed at Jamie (not that I blame him).

The stories themselves vary in quality but they are never less than entertaining and sometimes, such as in "Mirror Image", "Jamie's Mother" and the two part "Welcome Home Jamie" they reach genuinely dazzling heights of invention. The acting and writing in this series was consistently good, making it obvious that the whole team really cared about the show and regarded it with a great deal of affection.

All in all this is a fabulous little box set and well worth a look for anyone with happy memories of early evening TV in the 70s: funny, dramatic, moving and clever (and yes, thirty years on, I'm still a little sweet on Jamie).

Product Details/Specifications


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Recording label: Universal Pictures UK
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
EAN: 5050582383843
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 4
Format: Box set, PAL,
Release date: 2005-09-26
Audience rating: Parental Guidance
Region code: 2
Running time: 672 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1989-03-26
Language: English (Original Language)

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