History Series / TheBionicWoman

A couple of reunion movies were made in the 1990's. In the 1990s and 2000s there were occasional rumors of new film or TV versions of the series, including a made-for-cable series that would have starred Jennifer Anison as Jaime and an InNameOnly reimagining in which the title was going to be simply a ''metaphor'' and the lead character would have no powers at all! Eventually, a [[Series/BionicWoman short-lived remake]] appeared on NBC in 2007. And in 2012 a DarkerAndEdgier comic book version (featuring a Jaime who is not averse to breaking necks when threatened) was launched.

* ComicBookAdaptation: Charlton Comics put out a short-lived adaptation concurrent with the series; in the 2010s a reimagined version also appeared. In 2014, Dynamic Comics launched ''The Six Million Dollar Man Season 6'', a direct continuation of the TV series. Jaime debuted in the 3rd issue though it remains to be seen if Dynamite gives the original Jaime her own series. In the UK, the magazine ''Look-In'' published a weekly comic strip titled ''Bionic Action'' in the 1970s that featured both Steve and Jaime. In the mid-1990s a new US comic book series titled ''Bionix'' was announced, again to feature both Steve and Jaime, but it was cancelled despite being promoted in various magazines, though a few pages of sample art were published.

** Jaime's repeated use of different Snow White-Dwarf code names (Sleepy, Bashful, Grumpy, etc).

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Oscar to the sheep-herding nuns in "Sister Jaime" who are blocking his way: [[IncrediblyLamePun "You've got to get the flock out of here!"]]

* KilledOffForReal: Fellow agent and love interest Chris Williams, though this occurs ''after'' the end of the series, and is revealed during the first reunion movie.

* RoboticReveal: The first time Jaime tangles with the Fembots, she doesn't realize what they are until she rips off one of their faces and reacts [[OhCrap with (understandable) horror]] at what she sees. The reveal is enough to drive her to leap out a window several stories high just to get away from them--well, that and the fact that the Fembots are tearing through doors and furniture to get to her.
* RunningGag: Nearly every episode featured at least one moment (dubbed "pocket bionics" by WordOfGod) where Jaime is shown using her bionics in some every-day circumstance (such as doing the dishes at high speed).

* ComicBookAdaptation: Charlton Comics put out a short-lived adaptation concurrent with the series; in the 2010s a reimagined version also appeared. In 2014, Dynamic Comics launched ''The Six Million Dollar Man Season 6'', a direct continuation of the TV series. Jaime has been mentioned by name several times, but has yet to appear. In the UK, the magazine ''Look-In'' published a weekly comic strip titled ''Bionic Action'' in the 1970s that featured both Steve and Jaime. In the mid-1990s a new US comic book series titled ''Bionix'' was announced, again to feature both Steve and Jaime, but it was cancelled despite being promoted in various magazines, though a few pages of sample art were published.

* ComicBookAdaptation: Charlton Comics put out a short-lived adaptation; in the 2010s a reimagined version also appeared. In 2014, Dynamic Comics launched ''The Six Million Dollar Man Season 6'', a direct continuation of the TV series. Jaime has been mentioned by name several times, but has yet to appear.

** Jamie's natural arm is vulnerable.

** Early on, attempting to remember her relationship with Steve still had the potential to cause her pain.

** Jaime crushes a tennis ball by accident in her first SMDM episode, and the scene was replayed during the spin-off's opening credits. Similar incidents pepper the series as a form of comic relief.

* ComicBookAdaptation: Charlton Comics put out a short-lived adaptation; in the 2010s a reimagined version also appeared.

* RecycledScript: Due to the very short notice given to mount a the spin-off, the producers were forced to remake several ''Six Million Dollar Man'' storylines for the first season.

Because her bionics gave her an unfair advantage on the court, Jaime left the professional tennis circuit and returned to her home town of Ojai, California, to work as a teacher -- and as an occasional, not to mention reluctant, special agent for the OSI. Her adventures tended to be lower-key than Steve's, and less violent, often following the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' formula of emphasizing character over style. That didn't stop the show from occasionally dipping into the overt sci-fi well the parent show did, such as a series of episode featuring lifelike androids called "Fembots", and the inevitable crossovers with ''Six Mil'' that included a run-in with the infamous Bigfoot. During the show's final season, even more attempts were made to humanize things by saddling Jaime with a "Bionic Dog" named Max, a German shepherd who was one of the early successes in Rudy Wells' bionic development program, and who had been scheduled for destruction before Jaime stepped in.

One of the keys to the program's top-ratings success (it often beat its parent program in that area) was Lindsay Wagner's very wry and down-to-earth performance as Jaime. One got the feeling that (unlike Austin) she could lose all her bionic augmentations and not care much, although she certainly was more than able to make good use of them in the appropriate crisis situations. Wagner became the first actress in a science fiction-based TV series to win a Best Actress Emmy Award due to her work on ''The Bionic Woman'' (a fact often ignored by those keen on dismissing the series as another example of "1970s cheese"). Her support cast include always-dependable Richard Anderson as Oscar Goldman, and Martin E. Brooks as Dr. Rudy Wells. Both actors made history when ABC cancelled the series and NBC picked it up for a final season, and the two were allowed to continue to appear in both shows, even though they were now on competing networks. (Further crossovers with Lee Majors, however, were forbidden.)

** Averted in the 2012 comic book version, in which Jaime has a well-established "kill count".

In the 1990s and 2000s there were occasional rumors of new film or TV versions of the series, including a made-for-cable series that would have starred Jennifer Anison as Jaime and an InNameOnly reimagining in which the title was going to be simply a ''metaphor'' and the lead character would have no powers at all! Eventually, a [[Series/BionicWoman short-lived remake]] appeared on NBC in 2007. And in 2012 a DarkerAndEdgier comic book version (featuring a Jaime who is not averse to breaking necks when threatened) was launched.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Oscar to the sheep-herding nuns in "Sister Jaime" who are blocking his way: "You've got to get the flock out of here!"

'''''The Bionic Woman''''' (ABC, 1976-1978) is a SpinOff from ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'', featuring Lindsay Wagner as Jaime Sommers, the second active bionic agent of the OSI. Jaime made her initial appearance in a 1975 episode of ''The Six Million Dollar Man'' -- she was a tennis pro and Steve Austin's old sweetheart. During a vacation from the OSI, Austin returns to his home town of Ojai and runs into Jaime again, and pretty soon their romance resumes. During one of their outings, they decide to go parachuting; Jaime's chute fails and she suffers catastrophic injuries. An overwrought Steve convinces his boss, Oscar Goldman, to authorize bionic replacement surgery to restore Jaime's destroyed legs, right arm and right ear. Goldman agrees.

In the 1990s and 2000s there were occasional rumors of new film or TV versions of the series, including a made-for-cable series that would have starred Jennifer Anison as Jaime and an InNameOnly reimagining in which the title was going to be simply a ''metaphor'' and the lead character would have no powers at all! Eventually, a [[Series/BionicWoan short-lived remake]] appeared on NBC in 2007. And in 2012 a DarkerAndEdgier comic book version (featuring a Jaime who is not averse to breaking necks when threatened) was launched.