BIONIC WOMAN SEASON 2 (1976-1977) - THAT '70S REVIEW
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Finally (and I mean FINALLY), we take a look at the second season of THE BIONIC WOMAN, in which Jaime takes a power-up in confidence, the show takes a power-up in writing, and the Steve Austin-Jaime Sommers thing…powers down (for now, anyway). Only one more season review to go after this, hopefully sometime before this July…!
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The Fembots were terrifying to me when I was a kid. The reveal was so creepy and Lindsey played it so well. I loved her vulnerability. I remember worrying about her when she jumped from the window and her bionics short-circuited. Doomsday is Tomorrow was another one that scared me as a child, especially the part where she hears the snakes because I'm also petrified of them. I'm really looking forward to you covering season 3.
I love the 1970's; such a promising decade where everyone got along and we felt connected as a nation.
I strongly agree. Miss the 70s & 80s
Lindsey Wagner is so charming, beautiful and warm, and she could jump really high and bend steel bars in this role. I loved it as a kid. Forgot she she won an Emmy!
Season 2 is my favorite! I love the fembot music! I was scared of the night demon as a child. Deadly ringer is my favorite acting of Lindsays throughout the series!!
Isn't she amazing in that one? I love that episode, and she so deserves the Emmy for it!
I always wondered how she could be a world famous tennis pro and also a completely incognito secret agent at the same time.
She can't even stay incognito as an agent, poor thing! It's interesting just how quickly that whole tennis pro angle goes away and never gets mentioned again. Good thing she got her teaching certificate, right?
What about school teacher?
@@jackilynpyzocha662 Gorgeous women tennis players are well recognized publicly. How can she be famous and not famous at the same time?
11:42 What? Sister Jaime was a GREAT episode!
Jaime cleverly becomes popular with all the nuns, confronts Rev. Mother, project manages the plan to catch the crooks; diverting the crooks, the bishop and Oscar to be at the right place at the right time, and saves the winery from being given to the monks.
Plus shows the Rev Mother how a true leader leads with kindness 😉
I think Lindsay Wagner is very likeable as Jaime. Even the weaker episodes are worth watching.
Agreed - though sometimes the story serves her better than other times... :)
i don't believe it was this season, but "Brainwashed" was a good one too!
I am into electronics projects, and the Salon owners "Hypnotic hairdryer" system always fascinated me ,as it would be easy to build something like this. I even drew up a schematic for it one time. Piece of cake!
17:28 you mentioned SPACE 1999.. Wow, i vividly remember got myself ready on the couch waiting for the show to start in 1977... Somehow always thinking to myself, would we have spaceship full of people like that later in 1999? Would we have Maya in 1999? Those were the fun days
Love the lighthearted look at this amazing series. One little tip for when you do season three; it’s Jaime, not Jamie! ☺️ Apart from that I really enjoyed your reviews on season one and two! Great job!
Oh, no, I thought I changed that! Sorry, I'll definitely make sure it's correct next time. Thank you for watching!
@@emperordalek My pleasure! When might we expect your season 3 review? I’m in the U.K.
@@PlanetChris1962 I actually needed to take a break from that show for a bit, so I'm currently working on a video for RETURN TO THE PLANET OF THE APES before going back to finish up with Jaime. But as soon as I get done with this one, which is 3/4s of the way done, I'll turn to working on that one!
@@emperordalek Awesome! If you need any help then give me a shout. Have a good weekend.
"Black Magic" is my fav. It's the comedy and drama combo!
I agree! It seriously stands out from the rest of the season, and I only wish the other "comedy" episodes in the series were half so much fun.
It's in my top 5.
As a massive fan of the show, I thought this was a fair review of the season I consider to be one of TV's greatest seasons of any show. (Kill Oscar is my absolute favorite!) Nice video, I'll be checking out more! (And some ideas for future videos: how about Charlie's Angels?)
Whew, CHARLIE'S ANGELS is going to be an investment of time... I'd be more likely to do that as a single video rather than breaking it down by season, simply because there's so much of it. Would that be satisfactory? Thank you for the suggestion!
What a great video! I was so entertained! I loved Bionic Woman as a kid and like all 70s shows, it's very cheesy. But you gave it such a fair review giving leeway to the different era and what was entertaining in the 70s. I was searching for a review of season 3 but I don't see it. I hope NBC didn't make you remove it! I remember that being my favorite as a kid because of the dog Max. But I wonder how it held up over the decades. Likely not well, lol. Thanks for such a fun video!
great effects in your video! LOL. I loved those classic drums in the background music. And I actually enjoyed the "good to be alive" song. would be cool for someone to cover.
I loved Max the bionic dog! I loved that forest fire episode where Max had PTSD from a fire when he was a puppy...
Hey, everyone - just letting you know that this video may or may not be taken down in the coming weeks. NBC/Universal has been jerking my chain for days now over copyright claims on clips included in this episode. I thought that, given the original claim centered on only one clip, it would be easy enough to dispute, as I normally do, and the claim would be lifted.
That has not been the case this time. Not only did NBC/Universal refuse to lift the claim upon reviewing my dispute, they added a NEW clip to the list when I went in to edit the original one out - and now that the original clip has been edited out, there's now a THIRD clip that is suddenly appearing in their claims.
I don't know who's at fault on this one - whether TH-cam's system is not displaying all of the claimed clips at once as it usually does, or whether NBC/Universal is not playing fair by going back in and claiming new clips each time - but either way, it's making keeping this video up in its current form a big headache.
I'll keep trimming away at the clips for now, but there will eventually come a moment when they claim one that is vital to the review, one which I won't want to clip out, and if I do a new dispute at that point, the video will be taken down, and the channel will get a copyright strike.
If that happens, I'll find some other way to post it, either on Vimeo or what have you. But if that does happen, I will NOT be reviewing any shows that NBC/Universal holds the rights to. There's no excuse for this, and if TH-cam doesn't have my back (because, let's be real, of course they don't), then there's no need to put this much work into a video only to not be able to show it at all.
I'd love to hear your feedback on this, but for now, enjoy the video in its current form. If this gets removed, I'll post any updates via video.
Thank you all, and stay groovy!
EDIT: The appeal was not challenged, so this video is now good to go! Thank you, everyone!
As a huge fan of the show and Lindsay Wagner, I want to thank you for your entertaining review of the first two seasons. I hope a review of season three will soon be posted. Imho...it was a travesty that ABC canceled this show and that it only lasted one season on NBC. I suppose with any show, especially one breaking new ground, it definitely needed more seasons for "good" episodes to be more consistent.
I believe the 3rd reunion movie "Bionic Ever After" should have been made into a series of its own...kind of a Bionic "Heart to Heart".
🤔Now I can even see a comedy-drama being made staring Lee and Lindsay...maybe call it "Still Bionic".
Yes did I mention I am a fan...😉
Looking fwd to the 3rd season review. Thanks again.
P.S. Your reviews of these shows made me a subscriber.
Thank you for that! I'm really glad you became a subscriber, and I really do hope that when I finally put up the review for Season Three you'll stick with us. I'm working on the script right now, in fact, while editing a review of RETURN TO THE PLANET OF THE APES. (I needed a break from the bionics, to be honest.) Still wish Lindsay had gotten the part of Janeway on VOYAGER, though!
OMG Lance Kerwin was so adorable! I forgot that episode.
I gravitated to this season when the blu-ray came out. So many classics and even "Doomsday is Tomorrow" holds up better than it should due to texhnology marching on. The blu-ray quality was very good, but was missing some reunion movie content. If you're not into them, go for it for sure.
If anything, Jaime did bigger jumps and didn't end up with bionic rejection or turning into mush or anything in the fembot story. It didn't take me out of it, but it was a headscratcher. Loved the Lost in Space tube prop reuse too...
I thoroughly enjoyed your review of this season. Your research, knowledge of the series, and insights are excellent. I watched the show when I was in junior high, and have always enjoyed it.
Thank you! I'm hoping you'll see the third season video sometime in the next few months!
😂😂😂😂HAHAHAHA!! Great Post-Production Sound Effects, @emperordalek
For the narrator who mentioned that he was forced to watch the Grand Old Opry as a kid by his parents and thus developed a strong dislike for country music... I feel your pain. I too had to listen to a insufferable degree this genre of music. And the music in this episode of the Bionic Woman and the singing was equivalent to listening to two cats being strung over a clothesline. Yeah it was a tragedy. Not the show, i loved the show. But the singing,, thank God Lindsey Wagner never released an album, and stuck to her day job, acting.
What made the series was Lindsay. Another actress would've tanked it. Her acting is excellent, and she was stunning. She has spoken of making Jaime more relatable than Steve, as she was a woman, and you could see it. We all ate it up. The faults- again, anyone would know her, she was just too striking, and she was always cutting herself open in front of strangers to get hot current, but swearing them to silence. That isn't how the government works, lol The Nashville episode was painful- someone should have said no to that. The best episode was with the computer, bar none. Just the Bionic Woman and the Super-computer- still, she won. She also was never violent toward people or animals unless she had to be. Everyone wanted that life, lol
I watched all the bionic woman and the six million dollar man as a kid back in the 70's and i enjoyed them both. When the six million dollar man season was over then came the bionic woman. Nice review on this show but it's best to remember them in the way we watched them back then as innocent kids back in the days of the 70's.
Maybe, but if I do that, the whole "to see if they hold up" bit doesn't work, so...yeah. :)
A great review! I completely agree on the hits, but not necessarily on the misses. I like In This Corner. It’s light and fun, and I love Marcia Lewis, who was on everything in the 70s. I really wish they hadn’t gone in the ET direction. Big Foot, and those awful season 3 outer space eps just didn’t fit the series. BW was about tech and espionage. ETs are a different genre. I do make an exception for the Vega Influence because it was about a primitive alien life, not one wearing a chartreuse jumpsuit. I’m glad you like Black Magic. Every 70s show did the haunted house episode and this one was great. It should’ve been a two-parter to take advantage of that cast and setting. They also used Bionic Bach in Doomsday, where it also made no sense. These eps frequently had some plot holes. Like how did people not recognize Jaime from her tennis days? She was said to have been nationally ranked and tennis was everything in the 70s. And who called 911 when Jaime leapt from Callahan’s window and who knew to contact Oscar and Rudy?
I completely agree with you about the implausibility of Jamie not being recognized every time she goes out of the house. It doesn't help matters that she almost always uses her own name when she is undercover!
And can you imagine what that 911 call would have sounded like?
Dispatch: 911, what's your emergency?
Caller: I, uh, heard a loud bang outside my window, and I looked out and saw a lady with her legs...exploding?
Dispatch: Very funny, sir.
Sad part is, it's the late 70s. I doubt anyone would have called. Given what we learn about her bionics next season, maybe Rudy got an alert somehow that her systems were danaged?
Anyway, thanks for the comment, and for watching!
Why does it always have to be snakes?? :))
Also, being a Westworld fan, I loved the Fembots, and John Saxon's android too! It's just too bad they didn't get Yul Brynner on the show! ;)
I can find something good in every episode, but I agree with your skip list. Although I do enjoy "In This Corner, Jaime Sommers" for the humor. I vote for a Charlie's Angels review.
I actually liked that one too, but not quite enough to put it into the top three. Wagner is lovely in that clip, isn't she? As for CHARLIE'S ANGELS...that's a whole nother rabbit hole, but I'll give it a look!
I have really enjoyed watching this, and your other reviews, of the shows I know so well. You've got an amusing sense of humour and I got all the 'Dr Who' references! Thanks for taking the time to make them. Happy New year!
Thank you, and the same to you!
re: these videos - just discovered these recently & really appreciate the work you're putting in. Keep it up! BW was a favorite of mine (& my mom) as a kid. Re: the opening theme - the audio mix was never great & the intro section is all over the place, but when it gets to the bionics montage it clicks, that string & piano uptempo waltz (sans the annoying bongos) is really memorable, lovely stuff. In future shows I hope you cover Quark, Man From Atlantis, & of course, the Incredible Hulk. Regards, RW
I never watched QUARK, but i'll definitely check it out. And trust me, those other two are on the list! Thank you!
@@emperordalek oh, cool, looking forward to them! Quark's a lot to process, lol. It's mostly cringey, but the pure irreverence of it is kindof epic.
Would love to listen to your take on the Ellery Queen mysteries and the Hardy Boys.
Ellery Queen was much more my late sister's show than mine, so that one might be harder for me to revisit, but Hardy Boys...oh, yes. :) Thanks for the suggestion!
Also just thought of The Night Stalker with Darren McGavin.
I loved this video.
Love your review on The Bionic Woman. My least favorite episode is the very last one where a man blackmails Jaime after he discovers her Bionic powers. Worst episode along with the Night Demon. All other episodes I like with Kill Oscar and Big Foot 2 parters and the 2 parters with Jaime being mistaken for Lisa Galloway (emmy winning episodes) being my sentimental favorites. I also love your review on the new adventures of Wonder Woman. I like to see one in the near future on Police Woman with Angie Dickinson if possible. You mentioned Police Woman on your review of the episode Jaime and the shield which I have to agree on. Great reviews on both Bionic Woman and Wonder Woman.👍👍
Thank you for the kind words! I may have to take a look at POLICE WOMAN, even though I have literally no memories of it at all. Stay tuned!
@@emperordalek If you are not familiar with Police Woman, I understand. I am grateful for your EXCELLENT reviews on Wonder Woman and Bionic Woman. Never mind the Police Woman reviews. Review the shows you know and love growing up. That's what really matters.
Steve Austin, the Hulk, and Wonder Woman....would not rip the face off the fembot....and then give a terrified repulsed look like a 5 year old girl. Scared to death. That is the difference between Jamie Summers struggle between a fragile young woman coping with her life with super powers.
Great presentation as always! Say ED, is that the same Keneth Johnson who created V: the original miniseries in 1983?
It is indeed! I didn't think that mention that in this video, though it was definitely brought up in the last one. Thanks again!
Oh and btw everyone...our Bionic shows are now (finally) available on blu-ray.
It came out in mid sixties Lou friggin must have been 18 or 19 working out he began working out what 16 i think
I quite liked Jamie and the King. For me there were far worse episodes like the singing one you mentioned and the one with Rene Auberjonois as the french painter
The worst was the last ep which was nothing more than a goofy comedy ep. Some of these 70s and 80s shows finished weakly unlike the later shows of the 90s onwards which spend more money for a barnstorming finale
Season 2 a five stars season.
I wouldn't go that high, obviously, but it definitely is good, and the best of the three, isn't it?
"Wtf, Man?" Lol
Fembots scared the bejesus out of me when I was a kid. I became totally obsessed with them. I kind of still am. I would love tp have a fembot t-shirt.
Buenas! muy hermosa Lindsay! excelente actriz y serie! gracias por compartir!
Y gracias por mirando mi vídeo!
Great video. I have not seen this show, so this was very interesting. Thanks for uploading.
And thank you for watching!
ABC had some of the best shows in the 70's, but it seems like the dopes running the network had no idea what a good thing they had.
Please do CHARLIE'S ANGELS
All this work and you can't spell her name - it's JAIME.
Noted. Apart from that, how did you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
@@emperordalek I thoroughly agree with your top three.
Binge worthy!
Did you know tad Cassidy started on japanese monster movie with bigger bigfoots but didn't have full beard but just bottom one but like Raymond Burr that started on two Godzilla movies there was green gargantua called green gira and brown one sanda one green one loufriggno and other like you said lurch on Adams family looked like lurch too except hair on body loufriggno still looked bullish face and all but green hair as well as muscle film is called war of the gargantuas gira and sanda good movie on TH-cam those two nephilium Edom bigfoot 70 feet tall
Hold on: You're saying Ted Cassidy was in War of the Gargantuas (1970) ?? That is incorrect.
I watched 2001 a space odyssey and I literally was bored senseless from it.... Doomsday 1 - 2 were much better.
Here it is right here 5wo big foot one by tad Cassidy which same one that played bionic nephilium big foot on six million dollar man and one on japanese movie the blonde haired one green one by Loufriggno right here maybe doing shows even about these now and Ultraman series like spectruman ultra seven Ultraman of 60s and again in seventies short time In 90s etc well here's this one
Bruh feels that im surrounding with Some women nextbots... 🤢
Outros tempos, outras ideias, todo mundo ali; hoje nas séries, outro mundo com uma idolatria absurda por beleza, juventude, dinheiro e status... Uma chatisse.
The themes, beginning and ending, are some of the most epic tv themes ever. I think your commentary is robotic and lacking in charisma but I’m not going to speak for everyone’s ears and proclaim it a “no, just no.” Get some taste.
I completely missed out on viewing this as a kid in the 70's, (and forgot about it for decades) never saw any reruns and now recently purchased all 3 seasons to enjoy and go back to the mid 70's and forget the 2020's for a while. A Very informative and entertaining review....🦾