I was never a big 'Six Million Dollar Man' fan but I loved 'The Bionic Woman', I thought Lindsay Wagner was a very talented actress and one of the most beautiful women on TV.
The Six Million Dollar Man was awesome! They used her bionic abilities to show how quick she could whip a cake mix and other mundane chores. lol I'm not kidding, look it up! 😂
The Bionic Woman caused a powerful change in our schools. Kids were used to playing heroes - Kung Fu, The Hulk, the Six Million Dollar Man - but Jaime Sommers gave the other half of the school the chance to play the heroes too, rather than be the damsel in distress. They never looked back after that.
I still remember the scene where she wakes up after being 'dead', looks at Steve Austin and says 'Who are you?' She had amnesia! lol. It was such a shock since we were all anticipating a romantic reunion! I must've been about 12 years old but I still remember that scene.
@@ebarteldes I would love that! I never saw them. I just re-watched the series and really enjoyed it because of Lindsay Wagner, but some episodes made me cringe. Of course the special effects were inferior to what we're accustomed to now, but some were just laughable, like the Bigfoot costume. Also, Oscar calling Jamie "babe" all the time seems sexist in 2024, even though it's intended to be endearing. The ugly cars and ugly clothes are amusingly bad, but that's not the show's fault (mostly). In hindsight, the show had a lot of unrealized potential. I can only speculate why, but I suspect it had more to do more concern by the producers with ratings than quality storytelling. Still, I absolutely loved it as a kid and I think it had a great influence on kids because it was about a woman who was smart and capable (and of course, beautiful), and she was kicking a$$ without being made a sex object like Wonder Woman (not that I don't love her) and Charlie's Angels, which I adored as a kid. Growing up with these women on TV made equality seem a no-brainer.
In 1971, I was riding the Shaker Rapid to High School. Sitting in back of me was a lovely woman reading a movie script. She said it was for the movie,"Two People,"she would be in with Peter Fonda. She said her name was Lindsay Wagner.(She told me to remember the last two New York Mayors.)I talked with her a little bit and then said as I left the Rapid to get off,"If your name's ever up in lights,I'll remember you."I saw her in almost as much as she was in after that. She really deserved her 1977 Emmy.
As soon as I read the works “Shaker” and “Rapid”, I knew you were from CLE. 🤗 The Green and Blue Lines😄 Hey fellow Clevelander! 🙋🏽♀️ And how awesome you met her before she really got famous. She must have been here doing a play or something back then.
As a kid in the 70s, we didn't pay attention to the plot. We were just. There to see them kick a** When you heard the Du du du du du You knew it was bionic time.😂
When the 1994 reunion was on i was in labour with our second child and refused to have my tv moved so i could see them get married. I had invested my childhood in these 2 characters and was finally getting the ending i wanted for them.
I much prefer the Original The Bionic Woman over the unnecessary remake. Lindsay Wagner was well cast to play Jamie Sommers; she was very pretty and attractive. Its said producer Harve Bennett picked her for the role because she had a sense of vulnerability about her. The Kill Oscar 3 part crossover with The Six Million Dollar Man was the best episode where Jamie faced the Fembots.
I remember this used to be on at the same time as Top of the Pops. With one TV set in the house, I would watch one episode one week, and my sister would watch TOTP the next week. I saw the first part of that Lisa Galloway episode. Took me over 20 years before I got to see the second part (although a school friend told me what had happened the day after they first showed it). Apart from Lisa Galloway, the Fembots were my favourite episodes. Callaghan was one pint-sized badass.
Lindsay Wagner was one of the most beautiful women to ever star in an action TV show. All of my friends and I had a crush on here when we watched the Bionic Woman back in the 70s. 😍
I had the six million dollar man and bionic woman action figures as a kid . Jamie’s face could be removed showing the fembot robotics underneath and Steve Austin’s arm skin rolled up showing the bionics . Very cool toys for the times 😎😎😎
In 1994, Lindsay Wagner was in the lead to play the Captain in the Star Trek series 'Voyager', producer Jeri Taylor even mentioned her by name on the casting sheet. However, after auditioning, she was unsuccessful.
Actually she was a professional tennis player before her skydiving accident. When she moves in with the Austin's she begins teaching at the Air Force base. This is important for a few of the early episodes since Oscar selects her for the mission due to her tennis pro background connection to the person involved or to be investigated.
She was only used for one mission based on her tennis pro status. Jaime botches that mission when her rejection intensifies and by the end of the episode she dies. After being brought back from death she no longer remembers her past life having lost her memories. There is very little mention of her past life in the Return of the Bionic Woman episodes and at the start of The Bionic Woman series Oscar asks her if she is going to return to the tennis circuit to which she answers with a demonstration that no one can return her serves. She moves to the Elgin's property (Steve's dad was killed in action as told in an early episode of the 6M$M and Helen had remarried Jim Elgin) and agrees to renovate the apartment above the coach house at the back of the property as the Elgins are planning on traveling and want Jaime to watch over their ranch.
@@pbworld7858 Many of the first season shows remembered her as a tennis pro but did not use her as a tennis pro to complete the mission as Steve suggested originally that she could be. For instance in The Deadly Missiles JT Conners is noted as one of her first benefactors when she began her tennis career and in A Thing of the Past Harry Anderson is remembered as her bus driver when she and Steve went to school there in Ojai. In Jaime's Mother, Jaime wants to help her mother's doppelgänger and notes that as a tennis pro she put money into a lot of bank accounts and pulls out bank books to withdraw the money for her.
I think "The Bionic Woman" was more popular overseas--Europe, Asia, Australia. As a 12y/o boy, I remember being laughed at for loving Jaimie and NEVER missing "The Bionic Woman". Lindsay Wagner gave a comic book hero so much dimension and polish. The other heroic women on TV then (Lynda Carter, Charlie's Angels)were just jiggly T&A objects, there for strictly ogling, not much more. Lindsay Wagner was (is) a really skilled actor.
Now I'm thinking the plane crash/surviving on a beach plot must have been a seventies trend. I know Hardy Boys also did an episode like that and am blanking on at least one other. Maybe this is an extension of the Bermuda Triangle trend too. Heck that's also the opening of Wonder Woman - Steve Trever crashes his plane in the Bermuda Triangle and he lands on a beach.
I loved watching the bionic woman and the six million dollar man growing up when I was a little kid. However, I do remember that the "fembots" really freaked me out and scared me! You didn't mention that Lindsay starred in the movie, "Paper Chase", in 1973. That was a favorite movie for me, since I am an attorney with thirty years experience. Well, keep up the great work, I always watch your videos. I think I am addicted to them! Btw, I am shocked that you told me that you are not the same guy who puts out all those videos about playing the Bass guitar. I was certain that your voice was the same!
Fred Silverman was the head of ABC at the time. Season 2 had strong ratings, but Silverman was an egomaniac and didn't like shows he personally didn't put on the air and cancelled it while still in the top 20. NBC buys it, and Silverman now moves over to NBC! He cancelled it a second time. Basically, one man threw NBC into the ratings gutter for about a decade.
I know all of this as I sat and watched both shows and even would go to the store to get all of their magazines. Also when they had fans write in saying please bring back Jamie summers my sister and I were two people who wrote letters asking to please bring her back ax we loved her Show.
Wagner brought out her acting chops for a tv movie about a real life airline highjacking. She played a German flight attendant. There's a poignant moment where the highjackers force her to seperate the Jewish passengers and the woman was devastated. There's a bit of nostalga at the end when she places a yellow bow around a tree. I remember those yellow ribbons everyone had tied to the antennas and rearview mirrors of their cars.
Speaking of sexism, does anybody ever notice that all modern female roles are male role with a female playing the part? Even the lead female's mannerism and dress are masculine. I frequently use the Bionic Women as an example of a female lead character that can toss men across the room yet still retain all of her feminine qualities. She never needed to behave like a man to fight. Jamie never shied away from her femininity. Rather, she embraced it. Wonder Women (Diana Prince) is another good example. One more thing, when Jamie's bionic failed, and she started suffering, I remember feeling so sad.
Recycling scripts like that is less than lazy, it shows what the studios thought/think of the audience, through anything on there and people will watch it.
I’m pretty sure the TV studios have nothing but contempt for the audience. They just want to sell advertising. Fortunately they do hire talented and creative people that try their best within the studio constraints.
I remember watching both shows as a kid, and loved both the Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman, but upon a re-watch of both (on a classic TV channel) the latter really doesn't hold up. I thought the 2007 reboot had potential, but it didn't last.
We never got to see the last episode of The Bionic Woman round here, nor those last three TV movies. We stopped receiving HTV signals where we lived, and started receiving ATV / Central, before all the channels got assimilated into one monolithic ITV. When ATV began overriding HTV, they'd already moved on, and it was all Sapphire and Steel and locally-produced product.
My family watched all of the “superhero” shows of the 70s. I LOVED The Bionic Woman, Wonder Woman, and Secrets of Isis. I got my nickname from Wonder Woman and Secrets of Isis. I always felt the Bionic Woman was a more interesting show to watch than the Six Million Dollar Man. It was easier to get into. Jamie was more interesting. Steve was cool. But the SMDM show overall seemed to drag in comparison.
As a kid, I knew Lindsay Wagner was very pretty and married several times. She is 5 9" and I am 5 11" plus I look like her ex husband Henry Kingi so I knew I had a better chance because I look a little like Henry.
It's a shame both shows ended to soon because of poor writing. They were the original super soldiers. Lindsay was a simply gorgeous. I just finished rewatching all 3 seasons.
The Bionic Woman ended because Lindsay was worn out. And because Fred Silverman just did not like the show. He had been at ABC and cancelled it then got fired and moved to NBC where he again cancelled it. Lindsay did not care. Many many interviews at the time detailed how exhausted she was having to carry the entire show by herself. There are episodes in season three like "Max" where she barely appears on camera. Nowadays shows have ensemble casts to keep the main star from having to bear the burden. Look at the Arrowverse shows. Lee himself wanted to move on to other projects. At the time many writers were feeling disgruntled and Hollywood all but shut down a couple years after the shows' end with the actors strike in 1980 because of poorly paid residuals and writers not being compensated for their work. The writing was on the wall.
I just watched the first episode of Bionic Woman on Prime. (How did TH-cam know that and serve me this? Stop stalking me!) But the pilot is so funny from 2024 perspective. The entire conflict of the plot revolves around Jamie forgetting she and Steve were engaged to be married. That is it. The entire conflict is rest of the cast fretting about how to tell her. It’s such a tiny conflict by 2024 standards. Steve’s parents finally tell her and she is upset for five minutes and then it’s resolved.
There's nothing like starting a story in the middle. There were four episodes preceding what you saw. It was a natural progression at the time and because the drama had already been dealt with quite thoroughly there was no need to rehash it. Besides people back then did not need to have their little hands held and be reminded of things over and over like people do today.
Wrong ! Wonder Woman was not the first superwoman on television . The Bionic Woman premiered on ABC network as a mid season replacement on January of 1976. Wonder Woman only had a tv movie in November of 1975. Lindsay had an accident and production on TBW had to be shut down. ABC ordered 10 additional episodes to close the 1976 season. The first two WW specials pre emptied TBW.
Even at 11 or 12 years old it was obviously unrealistic. For example how could a bionic arm lift very heavy weights without enhancements to the rest of the body. But you know what, that didn’t matter. We weren’t watching fit realistic sci-fi. I guess our expectations of sci-fi tv were a lot lower then.
@@afrancis1582 - agreed. I always notice things that don't make sense (e.g. explosions don't make a sound in space), but I don't really care. It doesn't affect my enjoyment of the show/movie. But sometimes (Armageddon was the worst for this) they'll deliberatly draw your attention to it - visually or actually by explaining it - , and then they go ahead and ignore what they just said).
I had a problem with either bionic flipping over cars. They both had 2 bionic legs and a bionic arm but just flesh-and-blood spines; they should have snapped their own torsos in half when they tried accelerating 4,000# upward at 2+ Gs. Had the same problem with Wonder Woman riding a dirt bike up to a Jeep and kicking it off the road. She may be strong and the mass she has is in all the right places, but there just isnt enough of her; if she kicks a Jeep SHE will go flying, not the Jeep.
I heard they were considering a third show where the main is injured in a bizzare gardening accident. He then goes on to a career in adult movies. They wanted to call it the Bionic Wiener.
??? The correct spelling of The Bionic Woman's name is J-A-I-M-E. NOT Jamie. Look at every opening theme page and you will see it typed out. He even shows it in this video.
You should re-edit this to "3 things you never knew". Everybody knows pretty much all the things you listed so nothing is a surprise. The only three things that were fascinating that most wouldn't know or realize were number 6, 13, and 17. The rest are things everyone knows.
I know basically every episode was the exact carbon copy of the 6 million $ man. some story and everything but it was a woman and not a man. that's it. bionic women had no original storylines.
I still love the Bio Wo. I have CP and will always use crutches, so Jaime was my fantasy. She did all the things I never would: walk, run, dance. She was wicked strong and smart, used her power for good, and was compassionate and beautiful inside and out. Great woman's role model. Fave episode was when she was replaced by a double. I have Part 2: would love to have Part 1! Thanks Lindsay. You inspired this young girl.❤
No you are totally wrong. They had different writing teams and while the one episode is mentioned it was not the norm. There are no similarities to the other show because they had a different target audience. Jaime was actually written in to soften the 6M$M and she did missions that required a softer touch -- like being a governess or nun.
I don't think that's entirely true, did Steve Austin have a double that tried to steal his identity? Lindsay won an Emmy for playing a dual role and well deserved.
Only in the first episode was she a tennis player. Throughout the entire series run there was a focus on her being a teacher. She worked at the Air Base School. Not sure why you would say this and then say it was lousy research. You are very much unschooled.
@@rockywatchesmovies LOL they literally put a monetary value on smaller components. And it was years later, so the tech was more refined and would cost less. Reach much?
@@rockywatchesmovies If sexism was the reason for the duplication of shows, then why was the same script also rewritten for the show Gemini MAN? That was a show about a man. Sexism had NOTHING to do with it. Production costs were the only thing driving that duplication.
I was never a big 'Six Million Dollar Man' fan but I loved 'The Bionic Woman', I thought Lindsay Wagner was a very talented actress and one of the most beautiful women on TV.
I totally agree.
Lindsey's acting skills elevated it over TSMDM,as Lee Majors acting level is TV commercial level at best
The Six Million Dollar Man was awesome! They used her bionic abilities to show how quick she could whip a cake mix and other mundane chores. lol I'm not kidding, look it up! 😂
She was always a lady. Even when she was tossing men over cars.
@@karlepaul6632the pilot has a long sequence of her mopping, painting and cleaning her apartment windows at super speed. Oh the 70s!
The Bionic Woman caused a powerful change in our schools. Kids were used to playing heroes - Kung Fu, The Hulk, the Six Million Dollar Man - but Jaime Sommers gave the other half of the school the chance to play the heroes too, rather than be the damsel in distress. They never looked back after that.
There were women before that: Mrs. Emma Peel for example -- and during, Linda Carter's Wonder Women.
I still remember the scene where she wakes up after being 'dead', looks at Steve Austin and says 'Who are you?' She had amnesia! lol. It was such a shock since we were all anticipating a romantic reunion! I must've been about 12 years old but I still remember that scene.
I was heartbroken for Steve. He was crushed. 😢
I just found the series on DVD for 10 bucks at a thrift store. Haven't started watching it yet. Will be good to see it again. I grew up in the 70s. 😎
Bargain, hope you enjoy it as much this time around!
A classic. I wish I found that deal.
@@CALLMESIR... I hear there’s an even bigger box that includes the three TV movies that came out in the 80s and 90s
@@jtg3765 me too
@@ebarteldes I would love that! I never saw them. I just re-watched the series and really enjoyed it because of Lindsay Wagner, but some episodes made me cringe. Of course the special effects were inferior to what we're accustomed to now, but some were just laughable, like the Bigfoot costume. Also, Oscar calling Jamie "babe" all the time seems sexist in 2024, even though it's intended to be endearing. The ugly cars and ugly clothes are amusingly bad, but that's not the show's fault (mostly). In hindsight, the show had a lot of unrealized potential. I can only speculate why, but I suspect it had more to do more concern by the producers with ratings than quality storytelling. Still, I absolutely loved it as a kid and I think it had a great influence on kids because it was about a woman who was smart and capable (and of course, beautiful), and she was kicking a$$ without being made a sex object like Wonder Woman (not that I don't love her) and Charlie's Angels, which I adored as a kid. Growing up with these women on TV made equality seem a no-brainer.
In 1971, I was riding the Shaker Rapid to High School. Sitting in back of me was a lovely woman reading a movie script. She said it was for the movie,"Two People,"she would be in with Peter Fonda. She said her name was Lindsay Wagner.(She told me to remember the last two New York Mayors.)I talked with her a little bit and then said as I left the Rapid to get off,"If your name's ever up in lights,I'll remember you."I saw her in almost as much as she was in after that. She really deserved her 1977 Emmy.
That’s brilliant. She was a lovely as she was talented and beautiful.
@@afrancis1582 she still is as of 2024!
As soon as I read the works “Shaker” and “Rapid”, I knew you were from CLE. 🤗
The Green and Blue Lines😄
Hey fellow Clevelander! 🙋🏽♀️
And how awesome you met her before she really got famous. She must have been here doing a play or something back then.
I had such a crush on Lindsay Wagner when I was a kid.
Didn't we all 😉
Me too!
Lindsay Wagner, Linda Carter, Erin Grey....
Lindsay Wagner, and Jacklyn Smith 👍
We all did.
No, it wasn't Rudy Wells who used the cryogenics on her. It was Dr. Michael Marchetti.
Loved this show as a kid. I wanted to be Jaime. She was so pretty and cool. ❤
Their jumping threshold was actually 3 stories.
The building Jamie jumped out of was a 4 stories which is why her bionics failed upon landing.
I loved this show when I was a kid!
Me too
As a kid in the 70s, we didn't pay attention to the plot. We were just.
There to see them kick a** When you heard the Du du du du du You knew it was bionic time.😂
Need quieter bionics :-)
Seriously most of the show was filler until the “du du du du du…”
When the 1994 reunion was on i was in labour with our second child and refused to have my tv moved so i could see them get married. I had invested my childhood in these 2 characters and was finally getting the ending i wanted for them.
I much prefer the Original The Bionic Woman over the unnecessary remake.
Lindsay Wagner was well cast to play Jamie Sommers; she was very pretty and attractive. Its said producer Harve Bennett picked her for the role because she had a sense of vulnerability about her.
The Kill Oscar 3 part crossover with The Six Million Dollar Man was the best episode where Jamie faced the Fembots.
Great times. Great memories.
I understand from my wife that in Japan it was retitled “Bionic Jamie” - she watched it as a kid
I remember this used to be on at the same time as Top of the Pops. With one TV set in the house, I would watch one episode one week, and my sister would watch TOTP the next week. I saw the first part of that Lisa Galloway episode. Took me over 20 years before I got to see the second part (although a school friend told me what had happened the day after they first showed it). Apart from Lisa Galloway, the Fembots were my favourite episodes. Callaghan was one pint-sized badass.
It was always wild to see Jennifer Darling as Callahan on the Bionic Woman/SMDM, and then as Donna on Eight is Enough.
I was 12 years old and loved this show
Who remembers Lindsay Wagner as the Professor's daughter in the film "The Paper Chase"?
She was always 🔥
Lindsay Wagner was one of the most beautiful women to ever star in an action TV show. All of my friends and I had a crush on here when we watched the Bionic Woman back in the 70s. 😍
I loved Dog Max...
I had the six million dollar man and bionic woman action figures as a kid . Jamie’s face could be removed showing the fembot robotics underneath and Steve Austin’s arm skin rolled up showing the bionics . Very cool toys for the times 😎😎😎
I had a bionic woman board game. I loved it.
In 1994, Lindsay Wagner was in the lead to play the Captain in the Star Trek series 'Voyager', producer Jeri Taylor even mentioned her by name on the casting sheet. However, after auditioning, she was unsuccessful.
@@andrewcoulthard-clark
Too bad as she would've been an attractive Capt. Janeway.
I can't picture her in that role. Only Kate Mulgrew (Remo Williams/Colombo)
Actually she was a professional tennis player before her skydiving accident. When she moves in with the Austin's she begins teaching at the Air Force base. This is important for a few of the early episodes since Oscar selects her for the mission due to her tennis pro background connection to the person involved or to be investigated.
And hardly any of the guest characters in the series knew her, despite her being an international top tennis player who rivalled Billie Jean King.
She was only used for one mission based on her tennis pro status. Jaime botches that mission when her rejection intensifies and by the end of the episode she dies. After being brought back from death she no longer remembers her past life having lost her memories. There is very little mention of her past life in the Return of the Bionic Woman episodes and at the start of The Bionic Woman series Oscar asks her if she is going to return to the tennis circuit to which she answers with a demonstration that no one can return her serves. She moves to the Elgin's property (Steve's dad was killed in action as told in an early episode of the 6M$M and Helen had remarried Jim Elgin) and agrees to renovate the apartment above the coach house at the back of the property as the Elgins are planning on traveling and want Jaime to watch over their ranch.
@@pbworld7858 Many of the first season shows remembered her as a tennis pro but did not use her as a tennis pro to complete the mission as Steve suggested originally that she could be. For instance in The Deadly Missiles JT Conners is noted as one of her first benefactors when she began her tennis career and in A Thing of the Past Harry Anderson is remembered as her bus driver when she and Steve went to school there in Ojai. In Jaime's Mother, Jaime wants to help her mother's doppelgänger and notes that as a tennis pro she put money into a lot of bank accounts and pulls out bank books to withdraw the money for her.
She was a tennis player then became bionic and a teacher
Right
5:07 Jamie was infinitely more valuable than Steve!
The claimed $1M cost of the dog's enhancements is an example of the blatant canine-ism of the era.
I think "The Bionic Woman" was more popular overseas--Europe, Asia, Australia. As a 12y/o boy, I remember being laughed at for loving Jaimie and NEVER missing "The Bionic Woman". Lindsay Wagner gave a comic book hero so much dimension and polish. The other heroic women on TV then (Lynda Carter, Charlie's Angels)were just jiggly T&A objects, there for strictly ogling, not much more. Lindsay Wagner was (is) a really skilled actor.
She was such a beautiful young woman!
She's a beautiful old woman now
Now I'm thinking the plane crash/surviving on a beach plot must have been a seventies trend. I know Hardy Boys also did an episode like that and am blanking on at least one other. Maybe this is an extension of the Bermuda Triangle trend too. Heck that's also the opening of Wonder Woman - Steve Trever crashes his plane in the Bermuda Triangle and he lands on a beach.
The same script was used in multiple Universal shows for cost savings. It has nothing to do with sexism.
I loved watching the bionic woman and the six million dollar man growing up when I was a little kid.
However, I do remember that the "fembots" really freaked me out and scared me!
You didn't mention that Lindsay starred in the movie, "Paper Chase", in 1973.
That was a favorite movie for me, since I am an attorney with thirty years experience.
Well, keep up the great work, I always watch your videos.
I think I am addicted to them!
Btw, I am shocked that you told me that you are not the same guy who puts out all those videos about playing the Bass guitar.
I was certain that your voice was the same!
Fred Silverman was the head of ABC at the time. Season 2 had strong ratings, but Silverman was an egomaniac and didn't like shows he personally didn't put on the air and cancelled it while still in the top 20. NBC buys it, and Silverman now moves over to NBC! He cancelled it a second time. Basically, one man threw NBC into the ratings gutter for about a decade.
I loved both The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman. I was about 4 years old when Lee Majors started Six Million Dollar Man.
A natural beauty!
I know all of this as I sat and watched both shows and even would go to the store to get all of their magazines. Also when they had fans write in saying please bring back Jamie summers my sister and I were two people who wrote letters asking to please bring her back ax we loved her Show.
Wagner brought out her acting chops for a tv movie about a real life airline highjacking. She played a German flight attendant. There's a poignant moment where the highjackers force her to seperate the Jewish passengers and the woman was devastated. There's a bit of nostalga at the end when she places a yellow bow around a tree.
I remember those yellow ribbons everyone had tied to the antennas and rearview mirrors of their cars.
The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story, It's a true story.
As a kid I always found it funny that someone with a bionic ear would need to move her hair out of the way to listen to something 😂
Had a crush on her when I was a kid... Timeless beauty, 100% natural. Women in the 70's were so... women :-)
She was gorgeous
I was always torn between Lindsay Wagner, Erin Gray (Buck Rogers) and Diana Rigg (the Avengers) as the prettiest actress.
During the wedding scene there was a surprise guest. Dave Thomas of Wendys was sitting first row.
Available on the Roku Channel all episodes 😅😅😅
Speaking of sexism, does anybody ever notice that all modern female roles are male role with a female playing the part? Even the lead female's mannerism and dress are masculine.
I frequently use the Bionic Women as an example of a female lead character that can toss men across the room yet still retain all of her feminine qualities. She never needed to behave like a man to fight. Jamie never shied away from her femininity. Rather, she embraced it.
Wonder Women (Diana Prince) is another good example. One more thing, when Jamie's bionic failed, and she started suffering, I remember feeling so sad.
This series was awesome, including the $6 million man if it wasn’t for the two of them in both series there would be nothing
Recycling scripts like that is less than lazy, it shows what the studios thought/think of the audience, through anything on there and people will watch it.
Hollywood is nothing if not cheap and lazy
When you are 6 or 7 years old it doesn't matter if it's recycled scripts or not it's fascinating to you
I’m pretty sure the TV studios have nothing but contempt for the audience. They just want to sell advertising.
Fortunately they do hire talented and creative people that try their best within the studio constraints.
My first crush.
I remember watching both shows as a kid, and loved both the Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman, but upon a re-watch of both (on a classic TV channel) the latter really doesn't hold up. I thought the 2007 reboot had potential, but it didn't last.
We never got to see the last episode of The Bionic Woman round here, nor those last three TV movies. We stopped receiving HTV signals where we lived, and started receiving ATV / Central, before all the channels got assimilated into one monolithic ITV. When ATV began overriding HTV, they'd already moved on, and it was all Sapphire and Steel and locally-produced product.
My family watched all of the “superhero” shows of the 70s. I LOVED The Bionic Woman, Wonder Woman, and Secrets of Isis. I got my nickname from Wonder Woman and Secrets of Isis. I always felt the Bionic Woman was a more interesting show to watch than the Six Million Dollar Man. It was easier to get into. Jamie was more interesting. Steve was cool. But the SMDM show overall seemed to drag in comparison.
I don't know if it was her or Lynda Carter that caused my first woody at 7-8 in 1976.
Thanks for making me chuckle! 🤣🤣🤣
As a kid, I knew Lindsay Wagner was very pretty and married several times. She is 5 9" and I am 5 11" plus I look like her ex husband Henry Kingi so I knew I had a better chance because I look a little like Henry.
She was married twice before Henry and once afterwards.
I like Sally Fields, but I can't imagine her in this role - yuk! It would have been a great loss that we never would have known.
Wagner made this show work - hopefully she was better compensated than Charlie's Angels ($5,000 per episode).
Since I lived through it, I knew all these points
Me too, but it is one of the only TH-cam videos to be so accurate. Most others have lots of incorrect info. Good Job here!
Would you consider doing a video on the movie "1941"?
Yes, it is on the list. It is a long list mind you, but I will get to it
Before even watching this, I'm gonna go ahead and guess that I know ALL 20 of these.
I had the Jamie doll. She came with a large handbag
It's a shame both shows ended to soon because of poor writing. They were the original super soldiers. Lindsay was a simply gorgeous. I just finished rewatching all 3 seasons.
The Bionic Woman ended because Lindsay was worn out. And because Fred Silverman just did not like the show. He had been at ABC and cancelled it then got fired and moved to NBC where he again cancelled it. Lindsay did not care. Many many interviews at the time detailed how exhausted she was having to carry the entire show by herself. There are episodes in season three like "Max" where she barely appears on camera. Nowadays shows have ensemble casts to keep the main star from having to bear the burden. Look at the Arrowverse shows. Lee himself wanted to move on to other projects. At the time many writers were feeling disgruntled and Hollywood all but shut down a couple years after the shows' end with the actors strike in 1980 because of poorly paid residuals and writers not being compensated for their work. The writing was on the wall.
In 2024 USA, a $6,000,000 medical bill is not unheard of.
I just watched the first episode of Bionic Woman on Prime. (How did TH-cam know that and serve me this? Stop stalking me!)
But the pilot is so funny from 2024 perspective. The entire conflict of the plot revolves around Jamie forgetting she and Steve were engaged to be married. That is it. The entire conflict is rest of the cast fretting about how to tell her. It’s such a tiny conflict by 2024 standards. Steve’s parents finally tell her and she is upset for five minutes and then it’s resolved.
There's nothing like starting a story in the middle. There were four episodes preceding what you saw. It was a natural progression at the time and because the drama had already been dealt with quite thoroughly there was no need to rehash it. Besides people back then did not need to have their little hands held and be reminded of things over and over like people do today.
Lindsay Wagner is a babe.
My husband says it's on the Disney Channel too.
No. Disney has no ownership of Universal shows like this.
so we had wonder woman, bionic, woman, cat woman, batgirl, and Charlie Angels, among others.
Wrong ! Wonder Woman was not the first superwoman on television . The Bionic Woman premiered on ABC network as a mid season replacement on January of 1976. Wonder Woman only had a tv movie in November of 1975. Lindsay had an accident and production on TBW had to be shut down. ABC ordered 10 additional episodes to close the 1976 season. The first two WW specials pre emptied TBW.
You missed a more modern version?
Can you do the 6 million peso man next?
Cost-wise -- It's actually more expensive to make any technology smaller, not larger.
it was a joke.
@@RandyGerardot obviously - the whole show was
There was an attempt to remake Bionic Woman few years ago.
The BAAHnic Woman - was she a lamb powered woman?
Blimey, she was pretty
Apparently no bras were allowed on set. Which I have no complaints
Didn't anyone think to pin her hair back when she's running? If she were really running fast it wouldn't flap behind her like that.
She looked too good with her hair flying wildly.
Even at 11 or 12 years old it was obviously unrealistic. For example how could a bionic arm lift very heavy weights without enhancements to the rest of the body.
But you know what, that didn’t matter. We weren’t watching fit realistic sci-fi. I guess our expectations of sci-fi tv were a lot lower then.
@@afrancis1582 - agreed. I always notice things that don't make sense (e.g. explosions don't make a sound in space), but I don't really care. It doesn't affect my enjoyment of the show/movie. But sometimes (Armageddon was the worst for this) they'll deliberatly draw your attention to it - visually or actually by explaining it - , and then they go ahead and ignore what they just said).
I was scared of the fembots when I was a kid.
I had a problem with either bionic flipping over cars. They both had 2 bionic legs and a bionic arm but just flesh-and-blood spines; they should have snapped their own torsos in half when they tried accelerating 4,000# upward at 2+ Gs. Had the same problem with Wonder Woman riding a dirt bike up to a Jeep and kicking it off the road. She may be strong and the mass she has is in all the right places, but there just isnt enough of her; if she kicks a Jeep SHE will go flying, not the Jeep.
She was a pro tennis player
There should’ve been a crossover with bionic woman and Charlie’s angels
Every teenagers dream
There is a comic book with them working together. There is also one with Jaime and Lynda Carter's Wonder Woman.
The Fembots did scare me!!!😂😂😂
Who's 'Jaime'?
Are you the same guy who puts out all the videos about playing the Bass guitar?
It sounds like the same voice.
No I am not, the guy SOUNDS like a trooper though 😂😂
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Sexism because of smaller bionic parts? C'mon....you're pushing it bro. 🙄
That was their excuse, but what they were implying is that women are worth less than men, MAYBE haha.
@@rockywatchesmovies That's a woke analysis of a fifty year old show. We didn't think like that back then and it's an unfair analysis at best.
What is “bonic”????
It's the cyclops version, it's only got one eye 😂😂😂
I thought she was a tennis player not a school teacher?
She was a pro-tennis player and her backup career was school teacher.
@@Tonytrekdax One in the Pilot episode. In her series for the three years she was a teacher.
I heard they were considering a third show where the main is injured in a bizzare gardening accident. He then goes on to a career in adult movies. They wanted to call it the Bionic Wiener.
Good video but it's Jamie.
??? The correct spelling of The Bionic Woman's name is J-A-I-M-E. NOT Jamie. Look at every opening theme page and you will see it typed out. He even shows it in this video.
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How on earth could the FACT that smaller parts cost less be an example of sexism? I think you're really reaching there.
You should re-edit this to "3 things you never knew". Everybody knows pretty much all the things you listed so nothing is a surprise. The only three things that were fascinating that most wouldn't know or realize were number 6, 13, and 17. The rest are things everyone knows.
Thank you. 100% agreed. The 17 you mention can all be seen by watching the show. Nothing is hidden.
Was she really a man ?
I know basically every episode was the exact carbon copy of the 6 million $ man. some story and everything but it was a woman and not a man. that's it. bionic women had no original storylines.
I still love the Bio Wo.
I have CP and will always use crutches, so Jaime was my fantasy. She did all the things I never would: walk, run, dance. She was wicked strong and smart, used her power for good, and was compassionate and beautiful inside and out.
Great woman's role model.
Fave episode was when she was replaced by a double. I have Part 2: would love to have Part 1!
Thanks Lindsay. You inspired this young girl.❤
No you are totally wrong. They had different writing teams and while the one episode is mentioned it was not the norm. There are no similarities to the other show because they had a different target audience. Jaime was actually written in to soften the 6M$M and she did missions that required a softer touch -- like being a governess or nun.
I don't think that's entirely true, did Steve Austin have a double that tried to steal his identity? Lindsay won an Emmy for playing a dual role and well deserved.
She was a professional tennis player not A teacher. Lazy research.
Only in the first episode was she a tennis player. Throughout the entire series run there was a focus on her being a teacher. She worked at the Air Base School. Not sure why you would say this and then say it was lousy research. You are very much unschooled.
@ I have all episodes of the tv show. I am not unschooled. So kma and gfy
What an ignorant comment. Watch the show.
Costing less money is sexism? LOL
Yes, women are worth less than men (according to the show). Did you not get that? They literally but a monetary value on it!
@@rockywatchesmovies LOL they literally put a monetary value on smaller components. And it was years later, so the tech was more refined and would cost less. Reach much?
Yes! The Fembots was terrifying!!!! I was only 11 when that aired!
@@rockywatchesmovies If sexism was the reason for the duplication of shows, then why was the same script also rewritten for the show Gemini MAN? That was a show about a man. Sexism had NOTHING to do with it. Production costs were the only thing driving that duplication.