A series ran on the American Broadcasting Company from 1976 to 1977 and on NBC from 1977 to 1978.

Plot
Jaime Sommers & Steve Austin, The Six Million Dollar Human, got been engaged before his career as an astronaut, but got drift away.

Jaime foremost appeared within the both-embellishment episode of The Six Million Dollar Human within 1975 entitled "The Bionic Woman." In that episode, Austin travels to his old hometown of Ojai, California to visit with his parents & take a vacation from either his act. In the period of his visit, he rekindles his old relationship sustaining Jaime Sommers, at present one of Usa's top tennis players. Their relationship progresses quickly pertinent in which Austin proposes marriage.

around the period of an outing, Steve & Jaime participate in a select few skydiving. Still, Jaime's parachute malfunctions & she crashes across a tree and hits the ground, stiff. Her injuries come extensive & she is non required to survive. Austin makes an emotional plea to his boss, Oscar Goldman, who agrees to assign Dr. Rudy Wells and the bionics team to rebuild her.

Jaime's immune system is reconstructed by having area similar to Austin's, however little. (A actual numbers of rebuilding her is non revealed however is said to exist as to a lesser degree a $6 million it prices to rebuild Austin.) Jaime lean 2 bionic legs & her correct arm is as well replaced. Additionally, her correct ear is augmented by the bionic device that gives her the ability to hear the whisper a mile away. Jaime recovers swell from either her operation & possibly threatens to upstage Steve inside a select few areas. On top Austin's initial objections, Jaime agrees to last in missions for Oscar Goldman. However in the period of of these mission, her bionics malfunction & she begins getting mental instability & glary headaches.

Dr. Wells determines that Jaime's person is rejecting her bionic implants. Shortly when, she goes demoniacal & crashes her way away from a hospital, Austaround in hot pursuit. He catches higher by owning her & she collapses around his arms. Shortly when, Jaime appears to die on the operating table, her immune system fold. A downbeat episode terminates by using Austin weeping at her memory.

A character was and so popular that a next year it was revealed that Jaime hadn't died fallowing tons, although Steve Austin was non informed of this fact. He discovers it while he is hospitalized at Dr. Wells' bionic clinic fallowing a mission goes bad & he suffers severe damage; he understands Jaime when he is existence rolled into the operating room for repair. At length, Jaime is revived from either a coma & the rejection issue appears to develop been resolved. An unlucky side-symptom, but, was she developed the form of amnesia that caused her to forget her relationship to Austin; any tries to produce her remember her life using Steve induces her headaches & painful sensation. Steve reluctantly let her last in to survive her have life, as an professional for the OSI.

Jaime, okay, out as the lawn tennis streaming video player, took the job as a school teacher inside Ojai, in which she sleep in a born-again farmhouse rented from either Austin's mother & stepfather, world health organization were caring of her & Steve's bionic nature and their double spends when operative. Inside late episodes, Jaime nearly adoptive Maximillion, the german shepherd that had incline bionic legs & more augmentations around an experiment to view in case trained animate being may gain from either bionics. She too worked oft sustaining Austin in missions & them reestablished their friendly relationship, although there are no romance resulted ab initio. (These are never explained how else a issue of Jaime's memory-linked trouble was resolved, however these are never referenced over again.)

Her virtually all noted enemies were a Fembots, a line of mighty androids that Jaime fought twice in the series.

Jaime's bionic abilities were depicted when existence similar to Austin's. She can process within excess of Lx mph, can bend steel blocks by owning her best arm, & may go for it awesome heights by owning her fresh legs. (Of these episode illustrated restricts inside her abilities: when jumping away from the particularly tall building to shake the fembot, Jaime's legs virtually exploded upon impact while her legs' shock absorption work was overwhelmed, although she was presently repaired.) Instead of an unreal eye, one of her ears is an extremely sensitive implant that potty detect virtually all sounds disregarding of volume or even frequency. When these are encased within her immune system, these are besides occasionally nin subject to the blackball results extreme cold has on bionic implants.

Inside afterwards years, a love between Jaime & Steve rekindled, & this was farther explored around trinity manufactured-for-TV reunion film in a late 1980s & early Nineties (view the article for The Six Million Dollar Man for more info). Around one of these films, the fresh "Bionic Woman" was introduced (played by so-newcomer Sandra Bullock) a paraplegic whose entire person in essence becomes bionic fallowing getting an extensive series of next generation bionic implants that did non call for a replacement of all limbs. This bionic man appeared simply another time.

In the final reunion film, Bionic Ever When?, Jaime's bionics come corrupted by the computer virus. She undergoes a major update which non merely increase the power of her equipment, however likewise gives her bionic vision similar thereto of Steve Austin (although no grounds to believe to indicate her eyes were actually replaced).

Future releases
Inside early 2004, there were news reports that Jennifer Aniston would star in the fresh Bionic Woman TV series. Meanwhile, based on data from Universal Home Video, the original series was at one point potential to become freed to DVD sometime in 2005, along using its parent program The Six Million Dollar Man, although as of August 2005, it appears this might not occur in schedule. Likewise, when of summertime 2005 there has been there is no farther word on any approaching, Aniston-helmed Bionic Woman revival.

Spin-off Books
2 novels depending upon series episodes were published in the Seventies: Welcome At home, Jaime & Extracurricular Activities, each by Eileen Lottman. A UK editions one ii books were credited to "Maud Willis" & were retitled Double Identity & The Wonder of Life, severally. Although a closing credits of each episode says a series was depending upon Martin Caidin's 1972 novel, Cyborg, this only refers to a bionics conception, a characters of Rudy Wells & Oscar Goldman, & the occasional appearance by Steve Austin; Jaime Sommers doesn't come out in any of Caidin's novels.

The short-transitory comic book series by Charlton Comics was published in 1976-77.

Episodes
Season 1 (1976)