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The Bionic Woman · 1976

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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... Just like her friend, Col. Steve Austin.

Released
14 Jan 1976
Runtime
60 min
Rated
TV-PG
Seasons
3
Episodes
54
Writer
Kenneth Johnson
Language
English
Country
United States

Starring: Lee Majors, Lindsay Wagner, Martin E. Brooks, Richard Anderson

🏆 Won 1 Primetime Emmy. 2 wins & 5 nominations total

Characters

Episodes

54 across 3 seasons
Season 1 13 episodes
  1. E1
    Welcome Home, Jaime: Part 1 14 Jan 1976

    After going through another operation, Jaime Sommer's memories are slowly resurfacing. Now she is ready to move back to Ojai and live near her foster parents, Jim & Helen Elgin. Oscar Goldman arranges a job for her as a teacher at...

    46 min · Director Alan Crosland Jr. · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Martin Caidin

  2. E2
    Welcome Home, Jaime: Part 2 21 Jan 1976

    Jaime finds out her old adversary Carlton Harris has been laying traps for her in order to test her Bionic abilities. So she decides to play into his hands by pretending to have had enough of working for the OSI and infiltrate Car...

    48 min · Director Alan Crosland Jr. · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Martin Caidin

  3. E3
    Angel of Mercy 28 Jan 1976 ★ 6.8

    Jaime goes on a rescue mission to Costa Bravo disguised as an army nurse. She is accompanied by cranky helicopter pilot Jack Starkey. Their mission: to find the American ambassador and his wife.

    48 min · Director Alan J. Levi · Writer Kenneth Johnson, James D. Parriott, Martin Caidin

  4. E4
    A Thing of the Past 18 Feb 1976

    Beloved school bus driver and local mechanic Harry Anderson gets in trouble when he is recognized by a couple of thugs. It turns out he's been hiding out in Ojai for 15 years ever since witnessing a club owner being murdered.

    48 min · Director Alan Crosland Jr. · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Philip DeGuere Jr., Terrence McDonnell

  5. E5
    Claws 25 Feb 1976 ★ 6.5

    Jaime is looking after Susan Victor's wild animal ranch for a few days. Some of the local ranchers have become convinced Susan's pet lion Neil has been attacking their stock.

    48 min · Director Phil Bondelli · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Sue Milburn, Martin Caidin

  6. E6
    The Deadly Missiles 3 Mar 1976

    An unauthorized missile has been launched from the ranch estate of tycoon J.T. Connors. Since J.T. used to sponsor Jaime Sommers during the early days of her tennis career, Oscar Goldman sends Jaime to investigate while Steve Aust...

    47 min · Director Alan J. Levi · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Wilton Denmark, Martin Caidin

  7. E7
    Bionic Beauty 17 Mar 1976 ★ 6.7

    Despite her objections, Oscar enters Jaime as a contestant in the Miss United States pageant which he thinks is being rigged. Posing as Miss California with Helen Elgin as her chaperon, Jaime is actually looking for a micro comput...

    48 min · Director Alan Crosland Jr. · Writer Kenneth Johnson, James D. Parriott, Martin Caidin

  8. E8
    Jaime's Mother 24 Mar 1976 ★ 7.1

    Jaime is contacted by a mysterious woman claiming to be her mother. Oscar Goldman admits to the fact that Ann Sommers used to be a spy and even had a double by the name of Chris Stuart. While Jaime and Ann are getting reacquainted...

    47 min · Director Leo Penn · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Arthur Rowe, Worley Thorne

  9. E9
    Winning Is Everything 7 Apr 1976 ★ 6.3

    Jaime becomes Tim Sander's navigator during the Dash-i-Ravar international race. Her goal is to secure a cassette tape with top secret information when the race passes through Taftan, South West Asia. In this part of the world, Os...

    48 min · Director Phil Bondelli · Writer Kenneth Johnson, James D. Parriott, Martin Caidin

  10. E10
    Canyon of Death 14 Apr 1976 ★ 6.3

    A native American boy joins Jaime's class at Ventura Air Force Base but has trouble fitting in because of his overactive imagination involving his Indian heritage. When he wanders into the desert to be on his own, he stumbles upon...

    47 min · Director Jerry London · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Stephen Kandel, Martin Caidin

  11. E12
    The Jailing of Jaime 12 May 1976

    Jaime acts as a courier, delivering Dr. Hatcher's new Cryptograph analyzer. The next day, it turns out the device has fallen into the wrong hands and Jaime is accused of selling it to a foreign power.

    48 min · Director Alan Crosland Jr. · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Bruce Shelly, Arthur Rowe

  12. E13
    Mirror Image 19 May 1976 ★ 7.4

    While Jaime Sommers is on vacation in Nassau, a surgeon named James Courtney transforms Lisa Galloway into Sommers' double using plastic surgery. Galloway infiltrates the OSI building to photograph top-secret documents and if need...

    47 min

  13. E14
    The Ghosthunter 26 May 1976

    Jamie poses as a governess to Amanda Cory who seems to be haunted by her mother's ghost. The supernatural disruptions are prohibiting Amanda's father to complete his OSI funded experiments.

    48 min · Director Kenneth Johnson · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Justin Edgerton, Martin Caidin

Season 2 22 episodes
  1. E1
    The Return of Bigfoot: Part 2 22 Sep 1976

    Steve Austin, suffering from radiation poisoning has given Jaime Sommers the task to find the alien visitors to get some of their wonder drug Neotraxin. Unfortunately for Jaime, Sasquatch is barring her way.

    47 min · Director Barry Crane · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Martin Caidin

  2. E2
    In This Corner, Jaime Sommers 29 Sep 1976 ★ 6.7

    An OSI agent disappears while working undercover in a ladies wrestling joint, so Oscar persuades Jaime Sommers to take his place and find him. Dressed in a little American Indian outfit, 'Savage Jessie Sommers' gets into trouble e...

    48 min · Director Alan Crosland Jr. · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Robert McCullough, Martin Caidin

  3. E3
    Assault on the Princess 6 Oct 1976

    Using the name surname 'Windsor', Jaime stows away on the luxurious cruise ship the Princess Louise to catch the mysterious Ice Man and find two missing and volatile energy cells. Also aboard is her persistent Italian stalker from...

    48 min · Director Alan Crosland Jr. · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Wilton Denmark, Martin Caidin

  4. E4
    Road to Nashville 20 Oct 1976 ★ 6.7

    A fellow OSI agent goes missing while investigating country legend Big Buck Buckley who seems to be passing out top secret information by way of his music. Muffin Calhoun, a mutual acquaintance of Buck and Oscars takes Jaime to Na...

    48 min · Director Alan J. Levi · Writer Kenneth Johnson, James D. Parriott, Martin Caidin

  5. E5
    Kill Oscar 27 Oct 1976 ★ 8.5

    A renegade scientist is after a weather controlling device and employs his army of Fembots to get it.

    48 min · Director Alan Crosland Jr. · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Arthur Rowe, Oliver Crawford

  6. E6
    Kill Oscar: Part 3 3 Nov 1976

    Steve and Jaime decide to invade Dr. Franklin's lair to rescue Oscar Goldman and Peggy Callahan but the villain's Fembots and weather-controlling machine mean difficult opposition.

    48 min · Director Alan Crosland Jr. · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Arthur Rowe, Oliver Crawford

  7. E7
    Black Magic 10 Nov 1976 ★ 7.5

    Cyrus Carstairs, the inventor of a new top secret formula for high speed alloy to be used in jet fighters dies, leaving his greedy relatives greedy for his inheritance. One of them puts the formula up on the black market, and Jaim...

    60 min · Director Barry Crane · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Arthur Rowe, Martin Caidin

  8. E8
    Sister Jaime 24 Nov 1976 ★ 7.7

    Jaime takes the place of an infamous female courier and goes undercover as a nun in a convent where diamonds are being exchanged for heroin.

    48 min · Director Alan J. Levi · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Martin Caidin

  9. E9
    The Vega Influence 1 Dec 1976

    Jaime Sommers and Michael Marchetti travel to a military base on Grand Tooley to pick up some medical equipment only to find the base completely deserted with everything left running. Then one by one, the men in their party begin ...

    48 min · Director Mel Damski · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Arthur Rowe, Martin Caidin

  10. E10
    Jaime's Shield 15 Dec 1976

    Oscar sends Jaime to the Santa Regina police academy as one of the first female cadets to locate a foreign agent who has reportedly infiltrated the police force.

    47 min · Director Alan Crosland Jr. · Writer Kenneth Johnson, James D. Parriott, Martin Caidin

  11. E11
    Jaime's Shield: Part 2 22 Dec 1976

    Jaime has graduated from police academy and is set to work in Santa Regina's 5th precinct. Foreign premier Rinja Gabrin is about to visit the city, and is the target of the foreign agent and the crooked cops she has bought off.

    47 min · Director Barry Crane · Writer Kenneth Johnson, James D. Parriott, Martin Caidin

  12. E12
    Biofeedback 12 Jan 1977

    Jaime teams up with Darwin Jones, an expert in meditation and biofeedback to stop his brother Payton from selling a code analyzer to foreign powers. If they get their hands on the analyzer, the identities of every OSI agent are at...

    48 min · Director Alan J. Levi · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Dan Kibbie, Martin Caidin

  13. E13
    Doomsday Is Tomorrow 19 Jan 1977 ★ 8.3

    A well-meaning scientist threatens the world with a doomsday device to ensure world peace, but things go terribly wrong.

    47 min · Director Kenneth Johnson · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Martin Caidin

  14. E14
    Doomsday Is Tomorrow: Part 2 26 Jan 1977 ★ 8.5

    Dr. Cooper's Doomsday Device has been triggered and only Jaime Sommers can attempt to break through the defenses held up by super computer ALEX7000 before it's too late.

    48 min · Director Kenneth Johnson · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Martin Caidin

  15. E15
    Deadly Ringer 2 Feb 1977 ★ 8.3

    Jaime Sommers is knocked out while doing some needlework at home and wakes up in a cell at state penitentiary, having switched places with her double, Lisa Galloway. Meanwhile, Galloway has...

    47 min · Director Alan J. Levi · Writer Kenneth Johnson (created by), James D. Parriott, Martin Caidin (based on the novel "Cyborg")

  16. E16
    Deadly Ringer: Part 2 9 Feb 1977 ★ 7.9

    Lisa Galloway is enjoying Jaime Sommers' life so much she doesn't want to give it up. Having been assigned to courier the Adrenalizine, Lisa keeps some for herself to have access to Jaime's super strength. Meanwhile, the real Jaim...

    47 min · Director Alan J. Levi · Writer Kenneth Johnson, James D. Parriott, Martin Caidin

  17. E17
    Jaime and the King 23 Feb 1977 ★ 6.3

    Oscar gives Jaime an undercover job in Monte Carlo posing as the private tutor of Prince Ishmael, son of Sha Ali Ben Gazim of Almain. Her mission is to protect the Shah from assassins targeting him without his knowledge.

    47 min · Director Alan Crosland Jr. · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Robert McCullough, C. Robert Brooks

  18. E18
    Beyond the Call 9 Mar 1977

    Decorated Vietnam veteran John Cross takes a job teaching survival skills at the Ventura Air Force School and Jaime Sommers is his first test subject. Helen and Jim look after Cross's daughter Kim who hasn't spoken since her mothe...

    47 min · Director Alan J. Levi · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Dan Kibbie, Arthur Rowe

  19. E19
    The DeJon Caper 16 Mar 1977

    Jaime Sommers travels to Paris, France with art forger Pierre Lambert to catch an American criminal called Beaumont who pays Pierre to copy stolen art. Although Lambert tries to give her the slip several times, eventually he reali...

    60 min · Director Barry Crane · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Arthur Rowe, Martin Caidin

  20. E20
    The Night Demon 23 Mar 1977

    Thomas Bearclaw and his friend Lyle Cannon find a carving of the Indian protector of the dead Masauu at an excavation site and are haunted by the demon that very night. The next day Jaime Sommers visits unexpectedly as Bearclaw ha...

    47 min · Director Alan J. Levi · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Justin Edgerton, Martin Caidin

  21. E21
    Iron Ships and Dead Men 30 Mar 1977 ★ 7.0

    Oscar reveals the reason he joined US intelligence was to clear the name of his missing brother Samuel, who disappeared during Pearl Harbor when Oscar was 11. Now, 36 years later, the older Goldman's dog-tags have been found on bo...

    47 min · Director Mel Damski · Writer Kenneth Johnson, James D. Parriott, Martin Caidin

  22. E22
    Once a Thief 4 May 1977 ★ 6.5

    After small time burglar Inky is thwarted by Jaime, he decides to prove he did not imagine her bionic powers by filming her doing super human feats. This in turn gives him the idea to blackmail her into helping him pull one big sc...

    47 min · Director Alan J. Levi · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Martin Caidin

Season 3 19 episodes
  1. E1
    The Bionic Dog 23 Nov 1978 ★ 8.1

    Jaime learns that a bionic prototype was applied to a German Sheppard six years earlier. Every defect that Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers have suffered from over the years, Maxamillion (whose bionics cost a million dollars) suffer...

    48 min · Director Barry Crane · Writer Kenneth Johnson, James D. Parriott, Harve Bennett

  2. E2
    The Bionic Dog: Part 2 17 Sep 1977

    Jaime and Max have fled to the Sierra Nevada mountains and take refugee with an old flame of hers, forest ranger Roger Grette. She finally deduces that Max is not suffering from bionic breakdown, but has a fear of fire instead. During one such panic attack, Max breaks loose and runs straight into a forest fire.

    60 min · Director Barry Crane · Writer Kenneth Johnson, James D. Parriott, Harve Bennett

  3. E3
    Fembots in Las Vegas 24 Sep 1977 ★ 7.7

    The son of the renegade scientist, Dr. Franklin, plots his revenge by reactivating Jaime Sommers' greatest enemies, the Fembots.

    46 min · Director Michael Preece · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Arthur Rowe, Martin Caidin

  4. E5
    Rodeo 15 Oct 1977 ★ 6.6

    Oscar asks Jaime to keep an eye on OSI computer expert Billy Cole who spends all his spare time competing in rodeo competitions. Cole has developed a Minerva code but has neglected to write any of hit down, and foreign powers want to make sure the code goes down with Cole during his latest competition.

    47 min · Director Larry Stewart · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Herman Groves, Martin Caidin

  5. E6
    African Connection 29 Oct 1977 ★ 6.6

    Jaime Sommers is on a mission in Africa to stop dictator Azzar from rigging the elections. She hires Harry Walker and his WWII half-track 'The Princess' to transport her through the jungle.

    46 min · Director Alan J. Levi · Writer Kenneth Johnson, William A. Schwartz, Martin Caidin

  6. E7
    Motorcycle Boogie 5 Nov 1977 ★ 7.2

    Jaime is in West Germany on the trail of a stolen computer tape. She crosses the Iron Curtain with the help from motorcycle stunt man Evel Knievel, though she refuses to believe he is who he claims to be.

    46 min · Director Kenneth Gilbert · Writer Kenneth Johnson, James D. Parriott, Martin Caidin

  7. E9
    Escape to Love 26 Nov 1977 ★ 6.1

    Jaime is on a mission to rescue Doctor Arlo Kelso and his son Sandor from behind the Iron Curtain. Things become complicated when Sandor falls in love with her.

    46 min · Director Alan J. Levi · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Ellen Wittman, Joyce Howard

  8. E10
    Max 3 Dec 1977 ★ 5.9

    Bionic canine Max is kidnapped by foreign agents just when Jaime is incapacitated because of a bionic check-up.

    46 min · Director Don McDougall · Writer Kenneth Johnson, William A. Schwartz, Lionel E. Siegel

  9. E12
    All for One 7 Jan 1978 ★ 7.4

    Jaime enrolls in college to find a computer hacker who's been raiding several bank accounts, including the OSI.

    46 min · Director Larry Stewart · Writer Kenneth Johnson, James D. Parriott, Joyce Howard

  10. E13
    The Pyramid 14 Jan 1978 ★ 6.5

    While Oscar is overseeing an attempt to save the ozone layer, OSI agent Chris Williams goes on a dinner date with Jaime Sommers. They both end up caught in a mysterious underground pyramid made by intelligent aliens ages ago. The ...

    46 min · Director Barry Crane · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Margaret Armen, Alf Harris

  11. E14
    The Antidote 21 Jan 1978 ★ 6.7

    During a meeting with Soviet ambassador Zuhkov, both he and Jaime Sommers are poisoned. As Chris Williams and Max race to find Dr. Rudy Wells, Jaime lays dying unless she reveals Oscar Goldman's top secret location.

    46 min · Director Don McDougall · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Arthur Rowe, Alfred Lewis Levitt

  12. E15
    The Martians Are Coming, the Martians Are Coming 28 Jan 1978 ★ 6.7

    Rudy Wells and fellow OSI operative Ray Fisk are abducted by a bright red flying saucer near the underground laboratory specializing in UFO sightings known as 'The Barn'. Jaime Sommers decides to investigate and runs into nosy rep...

    46 min · Director Larry Stewart · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Robert A. Urso, Alfred Lewis Levitt

  13. E16
    Sanctuary Earth 11 Feb 1978 ★ 7.0

    A satellite inexplicably crashes down in a lake near Ojai. Jaime Sommers is first on the scene and discovers a young girl named Aura who claims to be from another planet. Aura explains she is a princess from the planet Zorla and i...

    46 min · Director Ernest Pintoff · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Rudolph Borchert, Alfred Lewis Levitt

  14. E17
    Deadly Music 18 Feb 1978 ★ 6.4

    Dr. Henry Klempt has isolated a frequency that makes sharks attack anything or anyone he wants. When Jaime Sommers joins a diving team that is deploying a submarine detection system, she becomes the first human test subject of thi...

    46 min · Director Tom Connors, Bruce L. Shurley · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Lionel E. Siegel, Conner Everts

  15. E18
    Which One Is Jaime? 25 Feb 1978 ★ 6.6

    When Oscar learns some men are investigating Jaime, he lures her into OSI HQ under the pretense of a mission. Callahan is tasked to take care of Max at Jaime's carriage house, only to fall victim to the kidnappers who mistake her ...

    46 min · Director Jack Arnold · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Jim Carlson, Terrence McDonnell

  16. E19
    Out of Body 4 Mar 1978 ★ 6.3

    Jaime's native American soul mate Tommy Littlehorse is electrocuted and left for dead during a break in at the OSI labs. Since he was one of the few people with access to the top secret Rosebud project, suspicion falls on the coma...

    46 min · Director Ernest Pintoff · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Steven E. de Souza, Deborah Blum

  17. E20
    Long Live the King 25 Mar 1978

    Middle Eastern king Kusari is visiting New York and Jaime Sommers poses as his new social secretary to foil an assassination plot. Unfortunately the foreign agents recognize Jaime and try to get rid of her. Sommers teams up with t...

    46 min · Director Gwen Arner · Writer Kenneth Johnson, David Ketchum, Tony DiMarco

  18. E21
    Rancho Outcast 6 May 1978

    Jaime Sommers assumes the identify of criminal Blondie Malone to find a couple of stolen currency plates. She teams up with Petie 'The Weasel' Regan, who is the only person that can identify the culprit, Frank Boylan. Together the...

    46 min · Director Ivan Dixon · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Arthur Rowe, Alfred Lewis Levitt

  19. E22
    On the Run 13 May 1978 ★ 8.0

    Jaime Sommers has decided to retire from the OSI. The powers that be go over Oscar Goldman's head and want to put her in a special compound for retired agents because they see her bionics as government property. As Oscar breaks th...

    46 min · Director Tom Blank · Writer Kenneth Johnson, Steven E. de Souza, Martin Caidin

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