Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5261 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-09-26
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 4
• Running time: 672 minutes

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.

Customer Reviews

Ms Wagner is unbeatable
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?
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
"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.