The Bionic Woman (original series)

[lester1/2jr]

I rented two disks of this show. It's pretty good and very 70's in every way.





The star Lindsey Wagner is right up there with the hot women of the 70's maybe between Farrah Fawcett and Erin Gray from Buck Rogers. She has a lot of "look how charming and wacky I can be" type dialogue that isn't as endearing as it is with Farah Fawcett but doesn't detract too much. She is alot more fun than the dour 6 million dollar man which this show is a spin off of. She looked particularly fetching in a red bandana thing I can't find a picture of.

As Joseph Schumpeter once said even a picture of the most beautiful woman in the world is not going to be able to sell a bad cigarette for very long, or something to that effect. So how is the show? ehhh. By 70's standards it's fine, by normal standards it's pretty foolish. My issues with it are twofold:

1. As always with 70's shows the plot holes are a mile wide. How did the guys with the guns end up on the island? The plane came down from the lightning storm. Do they control the weather?

and I'm supposed to believe someone got plastic surgery to look exactly like the bionic woman and the people she worked with couldn't tell the difference?

70's plot twists are very primitive and poorly thought out as a rule and this show is no exception.

2. The use of the bionic powers isn't very clever. Medium is a show were the psychic abilities are key to the whole story. Here, she gets shipwrecked on an island and uses her bionicness to chop coconuts in half.  It's like whenever they run into a problem they are like "oh yeah bionic powers whew!" but they never really do anything all that interesting with it.

The show could be so much more awesome but it's still okay. If you like stuff like Wonderwoman and Charlies Angels check it out because it's pretty much a combination of those two shows but not as colorful.  

The first disk is actually episodes of the 6 Million Dollar man where her character is introduced. The later disk was much better. 6 million dollar snore.

[Neville]

I watched this show all the time when I was on my early teens, it was on the Spanish equivalent of syndication. Loved the show and had an enormous crush on Lindsay wagner.

I recently watched a few chapeters, just for nostalgia's sake. I found the show very entertaining, but rather silly. Just the ammount of time Jamioe spends using her bionics for domestic work... something tells me the 70s weren't ready for an action heroine.

[lester1/2jr]

Just the ammount of time Jamie spends using her bionics for domestic work.

I know. not to be pc but its kind of perverse to have her washing dishes super fast while the bionic man is stopping trains or whatever.

[zombie no.one]

ive got all of series 1 and 2 of Bionic woman and I think they're great. not very convincing but good to watch. much prefer this to Charlies Angels and Wonder woman. it's cheesy eye candy. series 3 is terrible though. looks like they stopped caring. the episode with evil kenival is the worst (Motorcycle Boogie)

She looked particularly fetching in a red bandana thing I can't find a picture of.

well here's a screen grab, I agree!



or you might've meant this one

[vanlutz]

When I was growing up, I was in love with Lindsey Wagner. I used to carry her photo in my wallet.

[Jack]

I used to watch that all the time when I was a little kid.  I apparently saw at least one episodes since then, as I remember being blown away by how gorgeous Lindsay Wagner was. 

[lester1/2jr]

DCA- yeah it was the one on the plane thanks. I have a thing for hijabs.

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

I used to watch that all the time when I was a little kid.  I apparently saw at least one episodes since then, as I remember being blown away by how gorgeous Lindsay Wagner was. 

Same here, brother!  I was a 70's era TV kid and have to admit that I was taken by Lindsay Wagner as well.  And being it was also the era of the "jiggle queens" like Linda Carter and Suzanne Somers (and Charlie's Angels), I had a lot of pleasant dreams when it was time for bed, hehe     The 70's what a great time!

[The Burgomaster]

I watched this show (and THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN) regularly during their original TV broadcasts.  My father always made fun of the BIONIC WOMAN because it seemed like she always ended up fighting the bad guys inside a factory or warehouse with big pipes running along the ceiling.  I guess it saved money on building sets if they kept using the same one with minor alterations.

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

I watched this show (and THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN) regularly during their original TV broadcasts.  My father always made fun of the BIONIC WOMAN because it seemed like she always ended up fighting the bad guys inside a factory or warehouse with big pipes running along the ceiling.  I guess it saved money on buidling sets if they kept using the same one with minor alterations.

Reminds me of how Iriwn allen kept costs down:

The spinning light fusion core for the Jupiter 2 on Lost In Space would up as part of the reactor in Batman's Bat-Cave in the 1966 series. 

Several computer banks and switchboard lights from Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea wound up as computer wallpaper in the resident alien cave on Lost In Space.

The list goes on but it would take forever, and those of you familiar with these shows can see what I mean.  These shows were fun anyhow 

[zombie no.one]

behold the most unrealistic special FX of a UFO ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WENfe7bEmkA

this is a clip from series 3 which like I said wasn't up to the standard of the first 2 by a long way

[lester1/2jr]

that is weak. Did you ever see the Dukes of Hazzard with the alien?

[zombie no.one]

I didn't...cant imagine dukes of hazard with aliens tbh. was that their 'jumping the shark' moment? 

[lester1/2jr]

ahhh...yeah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVQ0fvsv1DU

[JPickettIII]

ahhh...yeah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVQ0fvsv1DU

WTF???? 

I loved this show even when they replaced Bo and Luke what Vance and Coy.  I have never seen this episode.  Where the writers drunk???  This is about as bad as adding a cute (or supposed to be cute) new family member by them showing up and the stars adopt them.  (Ie, Different Stroke, Married with Children and the Facts of Life).  WOW.

Later,

John