Line #72 Series/TheBionicWoman


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3	''The Bionic Woman'' ([[Creator/AmericanBroadcastingCompany ABC]], 1976-1978) is a SpinOff of ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan''. Creator/LindsayWagner stars as Jaime Sommers, the ''[[DistaffCounterpart other]]'' active bionic agent of the OSI.
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5	Jaime is an AscendedExtra from a '75 episode of ''Six Mill''. Steve Austin (Creator/LeeMajors) returns to his hometown of Ojai, California, to buy a ranch. Completely unaware that he is a cyborg, Steve's parents do what any parents would do with their confirmed bachelor astronaut son: they try and hook him up with his {{old flame}}, tennis pro Jaime Sommers. But tragedy strikes when, while skydiving with Steve, Jaime's parachute fails and she is fatally injured. An overwrought Steve convinces his boss Oscar (Creator/RichardAnderson) to authorize bionic replacement surgery to restore Jaime's destroyed legs, right arm and ear. Steve and Jaime rekindle their relationship, but [[PhlebotinumBreakdown her body starts rejecting the bionics]], and after a ''Bride of Frankenstein'' freak-out, she flat-lines.
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7	...[[FirstLawOfResurrection until the Nielsen ratings come in]]. What Steve didn't know is that over the summer hiatus of re-runs, Jaime ''didn't'' die on the operating table, but was saved at the last second by "[[HumanPopsicle cryogenic therapy]]," but at a price: [[LaserGuidedAmnesia no memory of Steve]]. Viewer response to Jaime was so positive that ABC ordered the producers of ''Six Mill'' to revamp the third season opener to make room for a two-parter {{retcon}}ning Jaime death. On very short notice, the network commissioned a spin-off for January 1976.
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9	Since her bionics gave her an unfair advantage on the court, Jaime left the tennis circuit to teach problem children at Ventura Air Force Base, near her hometown of Ojai. In-between clapping erasers together, she is occasionally -- and [[ResignedToTheCall reluctantly]] -- deployed on various OSI missions. Jaime ''boooiiiiiiings'' from one assignment to the next: [[MrExposition a briefing from Oscar]], a bit of espionage, some humorous "pocket bionics" ({{showrunner}} Kenneth Johnson's term for the bionics being used in a [[MundaneUtility domestic]] context), and the big action conclusion. One of the keys to the show's success (it often beat its parent program) was Wagner's wry, 'girl next-door' performance as Jaime. One got the feeling that (unlike Austin) she could lose all her augmentations [[CursedWithAwesome and not care much]]. Her adventures are [[LighterAndSofter down-to-earth and less violent]] than Steve's. Consequently, the show is lampooned less-frequently than ''Six Mill''. That didn't stop it from occasionally tilting into fantasy: the "Fembots" in ''Film/AustinPowers'' are a spoof of the [[RoboticReveal lifelike androids]] on this show. One of the {{crossover}}s with ''Six Mill'' featured a run-in with {{Bigfoot\|SasquatchAndYeti}}.
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11	During the final season, an attempt was made to shake things up things by saddling Jaime with a [[CanineCompanion "Bionic Dog"]] named Max, a German shepherd who was one of the early successes of bionic program. He is scheduled to be put down, on suspicion of having an age-related variant of bionic rejection, before Jaime intervenes; she discovers that his erratic behavior is actually pyrophobia, a result of nearly dying in a lab fire when he was younger.
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15	Like ''Six Mill'', the special effects are a product of their time, mainly because the stunts looked silly at full-speed; so sayeth Lee Majors on the 2010 DVD release of his series. The slo-mo effect was inspired, according to producer Harve Bennett, by the iconic instant replays of [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague NFL]] Films. The second season would see a slight drop in the ratings...and a cancellation order. The drowning series was picked up by {{Creator/NBC}} in '77. Lower ratings equaled a smaller budget. NBC didn't exactly push back when Wagner, who appears in nearly every scene, decided she wanted out. NBC was in such dire straits that it must have seemed like a godsend when Wagner gave them excuse to yank it. ''Bionic Woman'' ended its third and final season as the 14th-most watched show in the country.
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17	!!Revivals and remakes
18	A trio of reunion movies with ''Six Mill'' were aired between 1987-94. The second introduced a next-gen bionic woman played by a [[RetroactiveRecognition pre-fame]] Creator/SandraBullock as a {{backdoor pilot}} for a {{revival}} which never got made. There were rumors of new movie or TV series based on ''Bionic Woman'', including a cable series which would have starred Creator/JenniferAniston, and a re-imagining in which [[InNameOnly the title was simply a metaphor]] and the lead character had no powers at all.
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20	A [[Series/BionicWoman short-lived remake]] aired on NBC in 2007, which was closer in spirit to Martin Caidin's novel series (''Cyborg'') upon which ''Six Mill'' was based. In 2012, a comic book version (featuring a Jaime who is [[DarkerAndEdgier not averse to breaking necks when threatened]]) was launched, but it was replaced in the summer of '14 with ''Bionic Woman Season 4'', which more resembles the old TV show. In 2017, another comic book teamed Jaime up with the Creator/LyndaCarter version of [[Series/WonderWoman1975 Wonder Woman]].
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22	!!''The Bionic Woman'' provides examples of the following tropes:
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24	* AIIsACrapshoot: "Doomsday Is Tomorrow", a two-parter by showrunner Kenneth Johnson (''{{Series/V}}'', ''Series/AlienNation'') which pits Jaime against a computer programmed to destroy the world.
25	* AbortedArc: Jaime's schoolteaching job, which drove a number of early plotlines, is all but forgotten about by season 2.
26	* AchillesHeel:
27	** Extreme cold can make her parts stop working until they warm up.
28	** Jaime natural arm is vulnerable, as was the rest of her human body, obviously.
29	** Following on from something established in the parent series, after Jaime [[spoiler:jumps from too high a building in "Kill Oscar" and makes her legs explode]], taking out her legs has the potential to leave her at death's door.
30	** She is also vulnerable to some forms of electrocution, again through her legs.
31	** Early on, attempting to remember her relationship with Steve still had the potential to cause her pain, though this was downplayed more as time went on.
32	* ActionGirl: Jaime, obviously, though she actually makes an effort to avoid being one.
33	* AffablyEvil: ALEX 7000 from "Doomsday is Tomorrow". He tries to kill Jaime so she can't stop him from causing the destruction of humanity. Still, he politely warns her of his intentions, speaks to her in a friendly manner, and even considers her something of a "cousin", due to her bionics.
34	* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: The soldiers or airmen Jaime encounters tend to have shaggy 70s haircuts.
35	* AnalogyBackfire: Jaime does this to herself during "Black Magic" when she is [[EnemyMine forced to work with one villain]] to take down another.
36	-->'''Manfred''': Don't you trust me?\
37	'''Jaime''': I trust you about as far as I could throw you. [[VerbalBackpedaling No, no, I don't trust you that far.]]
38	* AsHimself, SpecialGuest: Evel Knievel in Season 3 episode "Motorcycle Boogie", where he becomes an unwitting accomplice to Jaime when she tries to retrieve a stolen data tape from behind the Iron Curtain. Needless to say his trademark motorcycle stunts prove conveniently useful.
39	* BackdoorPilot
40	** The episode "Biofeedback" was clearly intended to launch a spin-off, but it never happened.
41	** Several sources have suggested that Max the bionic dog was going to get a spin-off, often to illustrate the "one spin-off too many" concept, but there's little sign that this was ever planned.
42	** ''Bionic Showdown'', the second of the ''Six Million Dollar Man''/''Bionic Woman'' reunion movies, was a backdoor pilot for a potential spin-off featuring a pre-stardom Creator/SandraBullock as a next-generation bionic woman.
43	* BattleInTheRain: Technically Steve's encounter with her in the pilot 2-parter counts.
44	* BellyDancing: Jaime performs for an Arab sheik in "Jaime and the King".
45	%%* TheBoardGame: Parker Brothers made one in 1976.
46	* BoundAndGagged: Jaime does get captured quite a bit in the series and is tied up by some villains, but due to her bionics she's able to break her ropes quite quickly.
47	** In the episode, "The Over the Hill Spy" she ends up this way twice. First, she's drugged with chloroform by a spy in disguise and wakes up tied up. After getting over her grogginess, she's able to snap her ropes off. Late in the episode, Jaime is captured while snooping around the bad guys' hotel room and they intend to have her shipped to their command base. They have her tied and gagged and placed in a shipping crate. Once again, Jaime snaps her bonds off with ease.
48	* BreakTheCutie: Literally, both before and after she becomes bionic.
49	** Jaime came ''damn'' close to cracking in "Doomsday is Tomorrow Part II," then again an episode later in "Deadly Ringer Part I."
50	** The final episode, "On the Run" as well.
51	** Applies to Steve, too, in relation to Jaime. From the beginning, we see that being around her turns him to mush; he's so in love with her that he begs Oscar to make her bionic rather than lose her, despite Oscar's warnings about [[DealWithTheDevil what it will cost both of them]]. Steve then watches her literally self-destruct, gets told she's dead, finds out she's actually alive—only to discover she doesn't remember him anymore.
52	* ComicBookAdaptation:
53	** Charlton Comics put out a short-lived adaptation concurrent with the series; in the 2010s a reimagined version also appeared.
54	** 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, and Dynamite eventually launched ''The Bionic Woman Season 4'' in the summer of 2014.
55	** In the UK, the magazine ''Look-In'' published a weekly comic strip titled ''Bionic Action'' in the 1970s that featured both Steve and Jaime.
56	** 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.
57	* ConcealingCanvas: In the episode "Black Magic", a dying man hides his will in a wall safe concealed behind a painting.
58	* CursedWithAwesome: Much as she wouldn't dare say it, those bionics have gotten Jaime out of more scrapes than she cared to admit.
59	* {{Cyborg}}: Jaime and Steve, naturally, but also Max the bionic German Shepherd.
60	* DidNotGetTheGirl: Numerous episodes imply that Oscar is in love with Jaime (a fact confirmed by WordOfSaintPaul years later), yet in the series her heart remains with Steve Austin (even though most of her memories remain blocked), then Chris Williams, then with Steve again in the reunion movies, culminating in their long-delayed marriage.
61	* DisabilityImmunity: In an episode, extraterrestrial aliens use mind control on the residents of a small town. One young girl is immune, and Jaime is partially immune. The mind control is based on hearing, and the girl is deaf and one of Jaime's ears is artificial.
62	* DisneyDeath: Jaime's own, at the beginning of the series when her parachute fails.
63	* DistaffCounterpart: To Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan, of course.
64	* DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength
65	** In the 1994 reunion movie, Steve was trying to help Jaime with her malfunctioning arm... and promptly got whacked into the drink for his troubles. He responded by instinctively tossing a stream at her. (Their friendly little racquetball game was also hit on all sides with this trope.)
66	** 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. However, the original tennis ball crush was in fact an indication of serious side-effects with Jaime's bionics (which ultimately lead to her "death"), lending an air of MoodWhiplash.
67	* DramaticHourLong
68	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness
69	** Due to the short timeframe given to the producers to mount the first season of the series, they were forced to recycle several ''Six Million Dollar Man'' scripts.
70	** One of the first episodes shows Jaime outrunning a race car going 100 miles per hour. Later, her top speed is said to be more comparable to Steve's.
71	* EasyAmnesia: Jamie loses her memories of Steve after barely surviving surgery.
72	* EveryoneIsGoneEpisode: The episode "The Vega Influence". When a plane lands at an old Air Force base to refuel, the crew finds the place completely deserted. As the crew searches, some of them start to disappear as well. It turns out that almost all of the inhabitants are under alien control and are in hiding.
73	* EverythingsSexierInFrench: As demonstrated by Jaime in "Doomsday is Tomorrow".
74	* EvilIsHammy: Manfred in "Black Magic" was played by Creator/VincentPrice, insuring that this trope was in full force.
75	* FaceHeelTurn: The OSI in the final episode of the series, "On the Run".
76	* FeministFantasy: At their best, both ''Bionic Woman'' and ''Six Mill'' transcended the usual limitations of TV action/adventure. For example, in "Kill Oscar", an evil scientist decides to replace the female personnel of the OSI with life-like female "fembots". The 3-part crossover took this and actually made it both disturbing (at how easily people could be replaced, and how much harm could come of it if a high-ranking person was one of them) and oddly non-sexist, in that the women the robots replaced were the secretaries and assistants of high-ranking male OSI personnel. These secretaries are clearly shown as having high security clearances, access to important knowledge and making a very important contribution to the work, and yet underappreciated and too often ignored. This nearly enables the scientist to bring about the defeat of the OSI.
77	** Wagner became the first actress in a sci-fi TV series to win a Best Actress Emmy Award for her work on ''The Bionic Woman'', a fact which often goes overlooked.
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79	* GenreSavvy: In "Black Magic" ([[spoiler: Jaime - "The butler did it?"]]).
80	* GlassesPull: Oscar was given to these in moments of alarm.
81	* ImpededCommunication: "Doomsday Is Tomorrow" has an Air Force bomber ''en route'' to drop a cobalt bomb on the ElaborateUndergroundBase. A spotter for [=OSI=] sees Jaime Sommers emerge alive and well, and the recall code is issued to the bomber. The AIIsACrapshoot computer, however, wants the bomb dropped to create massive radioactive cloud. It beams the "404 = continue mission" code to the bomber, which is stronger than the "808 = abort and recall" code.
82	* InstantSedation: One of the few weaknesses Jaime has throughout the series is that she can be susceptible to certain tranquilizers and drugs. Examples include a tranquilizer injection in "Rodeo", being drugged by a laced drink in "Mirror Image", gassed unconscious in "Deadly Ringer" or drugged with chloroform in "Bionic Beauty" and "The Over the Hill Spy".
83	* JumpScare: InUniverse in "Tomorrow is Doomsday", as Jaime is descending stairs, Alex blasts a loud sound out of a speaker beside her, startling her and causing her to fall down the steps. Works well on the viewer too, despite the mild foreshadowing of the speaker being clearly in frame the entire shot.
84	* IdiotBall: In "The Return of the Bionic Woman," Rudy and Oscar fret over the dangers of treating Steve in the same hospital where they're hiding the secretly-alive Jaime. Perhaps parking Steve's gurney just outside Jaime's open door while they have this conversation isn't the smartest way to prevent Steve from noticing her.
85	* KidAppealCharacter: Jaime's class of preteens. Since they figured into the story from the beginning, they don't count as CousinOliver...though you might think they did, considering the class actually included [[Series/TheBradyBunch Cousin Oliver]].
86	* KilledOffForReal: Fellow agent and love interest Chris Williams from Season 3, though this occurs ''after'' the end of the series, and is revealed during the first reunion movie.
87	* LighterAndSofter
88	** As Kenneth Johnson explains on the 2010 DVD release, ''The Bionic Woman'' was conceived as a less-violent companion to ''The Six Million Dollar Man''. The use of "pocket bionics" (a term coined by Johnson to describe a [[MundaneUtility normal everyday use of bionics]], such as opening a can of soup with a bionic fingernail) was emphasized over violent use, and Jaime would rarely be seen being the aggressor in a fight or, certainly, killing.
89	** Averted in the 2012 comic book version, in which Jaime has a well-established "kill count" (referred to as such), and in the 2007 remake the character also became less averse to deadly force as she became more experienced as an agent.
90	* MagicalNativeAmerican: "Out of Body," in which Jaime's comatose native American friend contacts her (and his deceased parents) through visions. Subverted in "The Night Demon," which appears to be a native vision but turns out to be fake.
91	* MagicAntidote: The eponymous drug in "The Antidote." Most of the episode is a RaceAgainstTheClock before a poisoned Jaime dies, but when the doctors find the vial of poison (with all its ingredients listed on the label), they are easily able to concoct a fast-acting antidote.
92	* MarketBasedTitle: "The Return Of Bigfoot, Part 2" was shown in the UK as part of ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan''.
93	* MasterOfYourDomain: The episode "Biofeedback".
94	* MoreThanJustATeacher: Jaime takes on an undercover identity as a teacher at the Venture Air Force Base.
95	* MrFanservice: In "Kill Oscar Part III", Lee Majors spends the last 15 minutes of the episode wearing nothing but a pair of swim trunks.
96	* MsFanservice: Rarely invoked, except for a few cases.
97	** For instance, the episode in which Jaime impersonates a female wrestler and dons a skimpy costume to do so.
98	** "Kill Oscar Part 1" features glimpses of Katy the Fembot wearing hot pants for no particular story-related reason.
99	** The beginning of "Mirror Image" has Jaime tanning in a bikini in Nassau and bemoaning the fact that her bionic limbs don't tan. Ultimately subverted when she decides to cover herself up with a beach smock instead.
100	** "Jaime and the King" has Jaime reluctantly steal and don a belly dancer's costume to go undercover, and later does a "veil dance" [[DistractedByTheSexy as a distraction]] while looking for a bomb.
101	** Jaime's NavelDeepNeckline blouse in "Brain Wash" is pretty fanservice-y, although it's PlayedForDrama since it's implied that Callaghan thinks Jaime is trying to play up the fanservice to steal her new boyfriend.[[note]]Jaime actually ''isn't'' -- she's merely investigating Callaghan's boyfriend, and just coincidentally happened to be wearing that blouse that day.[[/note]]
102	* MundaneUtility: Most episodes featured Jaime using her bionics to make some mundane household chore or activity easier. The term "pocket bionics" was coined by creator Kenneth Johnson to describe these humanizing moments (although to be fair Steve Austin had been shown engaging in "pocket bionics" since the start of his series, too). This is used as both a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome and SugarWiki/{{Funny\|Moments}} in Jaime's first meeting with her unruly class... when she rips a phone book in half in front of them. The kids behave from that point on.
103	* MyGodYouAreSerious: Meeting a young girl who fell in a lake (played by a young Creator/HelenHunt), Jamie brushes off the girl's claims of being from an alien world as just an over-imaginative child. That is, until the girl shrinks herself to about three inches tall before a stunned Jamie's eyes, leaving her stammering before blurting, "everything you just told me is true?"
104	* NavelDeepNeckline: The blue shirt that Jaime wears in "Brain Wash" plunges down to her stomach.
105	* NoCanOpener: {{Averted}}. Maxmillion, the bionic dog, doesn't need an opener to feed himself. All he has to do is bite the can open with his bionic jaw and Jaime Sommers can open cans with her bionic fingernails.
106	* NonHumanSidekick: Max, the Bionic Dog.
107	* NotSoDifferentRemark: In "Doomsday is Tomorrow", ALEX 7000 says this of himself (a supercomputer with a near-human personality) and Jaime (a cyborg).
108	* NotWearingTights: Since she's a secret agent who frequently goes undercover, Jaime has no need for a costume. Averted with the action figure, which initially depicted her in the tracksuit she wears in the opening credits (and later versions showed her in a blue pantsuit).
109	* {{Novelization}}: Two volumes of novelizations were published (credited to different authors in the US and UK, with different titles). One was based on the "Welcome Home, Jaime" two-parter, the other combined two other episodes as one narrative. An unusual aspect of these books is they included a detailed description of Jaime's bionic rebuild, however the text was taken mostly from ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'' novelizations. As a result, in one book Jaime is described as having a bionic eye!
110	* ObviousStuntDouble: Oh dear, yes, in HD on a big screen TV. It's a side effect of the slow motion effect for bionics. Jaime's double is frequently visible in glorious detail.
111	* OffScreenMomentOfAwesome: At some point between this series and the reunion TV movies, Jaime fully regains her memories of being in love with Steve Austin.
112	* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: It's long been rumoured that one two-parter was considered a backdoor pilot for a potential ''Max the Bionic Dog'' spinoff, however there's no indication this was ever seriously planned.
113	* PutOnABus: Kind of an ironic way to put it, but Jaime's junior-high-school students and the classroom setting figured heavily into early episodes and then were written out altogether.
114	* RailingKill: Carl Franklin, the son of the Fembots' creator (and himself a robot), hurtles to his destruction when he lunges for Jaime and instead goes over a railing (one of the only times Jaime - albeit unintentionally - is actually involved in someone's death).
115	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: When ''Bionic Woman'' changed networks, the producers were - in an unprecedented move - allowed to feature Oscar Goldman and Rudy Wells in both it and ''The Six Million Dollar Man''. No crossovers were allowed with Steve Austin, however, resulting in the series introducing a ReplacementGoldfish. By the time the reunion movies were made, the prohibition no longer existed, so that character was KilledOffForReal at some point between the TV series and first movie.
116	* ReplacedTheThemeTune: partly; Come Season 3 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wd6IuVya4M Jerry Fielding's original theme]] was due to be supplanted by a new theme by creator Kenneth Johnson's AssociatedComposer Joe Harnell. Fielding did ''not'' care for this. So Fielding's theme remained at the beginning of the show, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2YqWF0YzYc with Harnell's theme]] heard over the end credits.
117	* RememberTheNewGuy: The episode "Out of Body" introduces Jaime's Native American soulmate, [[MagicalNativeAmerican Tommy Littlehorse]]. Even though we've never seen him before this episode and never so much as hear about him afterward, Jaime's apartment is suddenly littered with pictures of the two of them hanging out and cuddling, and when he hovers near death she wistfully recalls many sweet [[NoodleIncident Noodle Incidents]] with him. Rudy and Oscar also act as though he's been around forever.
118	* RescueEquipmentAttack: In "The Vega Influence" episode, Jaime defeats a microscopic alien by taking advantage of its vulnerability to cold in which she sprays it with extremely cold carbon dioxide gas from a truck-mounted fire extinguishing system to make it go dormant.
119	* RequiredSecondaryPowers: See the entry for ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'' for more details.
120	* 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 too high up for her bionic legs to withstand just to get away from them--well, that and the fact that the Fembots are tearing through doors and furniture to get to her.
121	* RunningGag
122	** 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). According to WordOfGod these sequences were to acknowledge the fact that in real life people would choose to use bionics for mundane tasks if given the opportunity.
123	** Jaime's repeated use of different Snow White-Dwarf code names (Sleepy, Bashful, Grumpy, etc), which often change depending on her mood in a particular episode.
124	%%* ScienceFiction
125	%%* SpinOff
126	%%* SpotTheImposter
127	* ASpyAtTheSpa: In "Brain Wash", a salon owner uses shampoo laced with TruthSerum to manipulate his clients into divulging sensitive information, which he then records.
128	* StockFootage
129	** The World War II-era submarines shown in Part 3 of "Kill Oscar" are especially memorable.
130	** In a Fembot episode, stock footage of a lunar module set upside down was used as an "orbiting weapons platform."
131	** A shot of a port and beach area is used as an establishing shot as the Bahamas and Monte Carlo.
132	* SuperHero: In fact, she was one of the first female superheroes ever depicted in live action on TV, predated only by Batgirl on ''Series/{{Batman\|1966}}'' in the 1960s, and Cathy Lee Crosby's unsuccessful version of Franchise/WonderWoman in 1974.
133	* SuperVillainLair: Several over the course of the series. Lampshaded in Wagner's commentary, as she wonders aloud why '70s bad guys got to live in palatial European mansions while today's villains tend to be depicted lurking in low places. Epitomized in "Doomsday is Tomorrow", which featured an ElaborateUndergroundBase.
134	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Chris Williams, fellow agent and potential boyfriend for Jaime, is introduced in season 3 as a counterpart to Steve (as the change of network meant no further crossovers with ''Six Million Dollar Man'' were possible), sans bionic powers, of course. But with a similar acting style.
135	* ThouShaltNotKill: Jaime was conceived from the start as a non-violent character and as such never intentionally used deadly force against mooks or villains.
136	** Fembots don't count.
137	** Averted in the 2012 comic book series.
138	* ThrowABarrelAtIt: Episode "A Thing of the Past". While Jaime is battling a couple of thugs in a repair garage, she uses her bionic strength to throw a barrel full of oil at one of them. The barrel breaks open and spills oil on the floor, causing the thug to fall down.
139	* TitleSequenceReplacement: The second season TitleSequence replaced the first one in syndicated reruns, while an early version of the first-season sequence was used for all first-year episodes on the 2010 DVD release.
140	* TroubleMagnetGambit: In "Deadly Music".
141	* WaifFu: With Wagner, the slow-motion takes on a graceful elegance generally missing from the parent series.
142	* WeCanRebuildHim: Or in this case, '''her'''. After Jaime Summers suffers catastrophic injuries to her legs, right arm and right ear, she receives replacement cybernetic parts to replace them.
143	* WellIntentionedExtremist: Dr. Elijah Cooper in "Doomsday is Tomorrow". A peace-loving scientist, he wants to prevent a nuclear holocaust by building a humanity-destroying weapon that would be triggered by the detonation of a nuclear warhead. [[spoiler: It turns out to be a hoax, intended to force people to appreciate life when they believe they're closest to death. Unfortunately, ALEX 7000 wants to make the hoax a reality.]]
144	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Played literally in several episodes in which we learn Jaime is, indeed, fearful of snakes.
145	* YouCanNeverLeave: The final episode of the original series has Jaime resigning from the OSI, but in a storyline inspired by ''Series/{{The Prisoner\|1967}}'', the OSI tries to capture her and send her to a retirement facility instead. Although [[spoiler: Oscar ultimately decides not to]], it creates a rift between Jaime and Oscar that is not healed until the TV movies.

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