"The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman is a made-for-television science fiction action film which originally aired on May 17, 1987 on NBC. The movie reunited the main casts of the television series ""The Six Million Dollar Man"" and its spin-off ""The Bionic Woman"". Set 10 years after the events of those series, Steve Austin (Lee Majors) and Jaime Sommers (Lindsay Wagner) are asked to come out of retirement and confront a paramilitary criminal organization called Fortress, Steve's estranged son Michael Austin (Tom"
"Lindsay Wagner Lindsay Jean Wagner (born June 22, 1949) is an American film and television actress, model, author, singer, acting coach, and adjunct professor. Wagner is best known for her leading role in the American science-fiction television series ""The Bionic Woman"" (1976–1978), in which she portrayed action character Jaime Sommers. She first played this role on the hit series ""The Six Million Dollar Man"". The character became a popular-culture icon of the 1970s. For this role, Wagner won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Dramatic Role in 1977. Wagner began acting professionally in 1971, and has maintained"
"Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (often simply Bionic Showdown) is a made-for-television science fiction action film which originally aired on April 30, 1989 on NBC. The movie reunited the main casts of the television series ""The Six Million Dollar Man"" and its spin-off ""The Bionic Woman"". It is notably the first television appearance of actress Sandra Bullock and the first film which strongly featured her. In the movie, a diplomatic crisis threatens world peace after an unknown bionic individual steals top secret information."
"Bionic Ever After? Bionic Ever After? is a made-for-television science fiction action film which originally aired on November 29, 1994 on CBS. The movie reunited the main casts of the television series ""The Six Million Dollar Man"" and its spin-off ""The Bionic Woman"". Series regular characters Steve Austin (Lee Majors) and Jaime Sommers (Lindsay Wagner), Oscar Goldman (Richard Anderson), and Dr. Rudy Wells (Martin E. Brooks) are featured along new characters Kimberly Harmon / Haviland (Farrah Forke), Carolyn MacNamara (Anne Lockhart), John MacNamara (Alan Sader), and Miles Kendrick (Geordie Johnson). In the movie, the long-overdue wedding of Steve and Jaime"
"stuntman Henry Kingi, whom she met on the set of ""The Bionic Woman."" Wagner had two sons with Kingi, Dorian (b. 1982) and Alex (b. 1986), but the couple divorced in 1984. Wagner then married TV producer Lawrence Mortorff in 1990, but they, too, divorced a few years later. Lindsay Wagner Lindsay Jean Wagner (born June 22, 1949) is an American film and television actress, model, author, singer, acting coach, and adjunct professor. Wagner is best known for her leading role in the American science-fiction television series ""The Bionic Woman"" (1976–1978), in which she portrayed action character Jaime Sommers. She"
"assistant and operative. The fembot role earned Whitby ongoing cult status fame among science fiction fans. Janice Whitby Janice Whitby (born October 31, 1950) is a Canadian-born American film and television actress. Her most notable roles includes her debut as a Golddigger, a singing and dancing troupe of young women on ""The Dean Martin Show"". However, she is probably best known for her portrayal of the fembot Katy in the 1970s television series ""The Bionic Woman"". Whitby was born in London, Ontario and grew up in Long Island and New York City where she studied ballet. Whitby made her television"
"Janice Whitby Janice Whitby (born October 31, 1950) is a Canadian-born American film and television actress. Her most notable roles includes her debut as a Golddigger, a singing and dancing troupe of young women on ""The Dean Martin Show"". However, she is probably best known for her portrayal of the fembot Katy in the 1970s television series ""The Bionic Woman"". Whitby was born in London, Ontario and grew up in Long Island and New York City where she studied ballet. Whitby made her television debut when she joined ""The Golddiggers"", an assembled singing and dance troupe that performed regularly on"
"was made regarding whether ""Bionic Woman"" would return in the fall. The report also indicated that despite the earlier statement by NBC Universal, production of the series' first season was considered to be concluded. The pilot starred Michelle Ryan, Miguel Ferrer, Molly Price, Will Yun Lee, and Mae Whitman. In June 2007, ""TV Guide"" reported that Mae Whitman was being replaced in the role of Jaime's sister. An NBC spokesperson confirmed this, stating, ""The decision was purely creatively driven. It is very common to change storylines, characters, actors after the initial pilot is shot."" The character, who was originally deaf,"
"Sommers was not the first bionic guinea pig. The new series introduced fans to an emotionally unbalanced prototype bionic woman, Sarah Corvus (played by Katee Sackhoff). NBC aggressively promoted the series ""Bionic Woman."". The weekly remake drew large initial audiences. The series went on hiatus when worldwide entertainment was halted due to the 2007–08 writer's strike. The strike, coupled with diminishing ratings, led NBC to cancel the show after production of eight episodes. Jaime Sommers (The Bionic Woman) Jaime Sommers is a fictional character from the science fiction action series ""The Bionic Woman"" (1976–1978). She is portrayed by American actress"
"and nanomachines called ""anthrocytes"" which are capable of healing her body at a highly accelerated rate. The first mention of a revision of the ""Bionic Woman"" series occurred in August 2002 when a story in ""The Hollywood Reporter"" indicated that the series would be produced by ""Team Todd"": sisters Jennifer Todd and Suzanne Todd. The story quoted Suzanne Todd as saying: It was later reported that the USA Network was considering airing the series, with Jennifer Aniston being in consideration for the lead role. In October 2006, NBC Universal announced that it was bringing the project back with new producers,"
"Jaime Sommers (Bionic Woman) Jaime Wells Sommers is a fictional character portrayed by Michelle Ryan in ""Bionic Woman"", a remake of the original 1970s series ""The Bionic Woman"" in which Lindsay Wagner took the lead role. The character was created by Kenneth Johnson based upon concepts from author Martin Caidin's novel, ""Cyborg"" (neither Johnson nor Caidin, however, receive screen credit on the 2007 remake). The new version of the character is a San Francisco bartender. She was born in Van Horne, Iowa, to political activists, Ethan and Madeline Jo Sommers. Both parents traveled a lot for their causes, and could"
"Richard Anderson Richard Norman Anderson (August 8, 1926 – August 31, 2017) was an American film and television actor. Among his best-known roles was his portrayal of Oscar Goldman, the boss of Steve Austin (Lee Majors) and Jaime Sommers (Lindsay Wagner) in both ""The Six Million Dollar Man"" and ""The Bionic Woman"" television series between 1974 and 1978 and their subsequent television movies: ""The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman"" (1987), """" (1989) and ""Bionic Ever After?"" (1994). Anderson was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, the son of Olga (née Lurie) and Harry Anderson."
"two series were on different networks when their final seasons aired. Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers returned in three subsequent made-for-television movies: ""The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman"" (1987), """" (1989) which featured Sandra Bullock in an early role as a new bionic woman; and ""Bionic Ever After?"" (1994) in which Austin and Sommers finally marry. Majors reprised the role of Steve Austin in all three productions, which also featured Richard Anderson and Martin E. Brooks, and Lindsay Wagner reprising the role of Jaime Sommers. The reunion films addressed the partial amnesia Sommers had"
"13th, 2015. Bionic Ever After? Bionic Ever After? is a made-for-television science fiction action film which originally aired on November 29, 1994 on CBS. The movie reunited the main casts of the television series ""The Six Million Dollar Man"" and its spin-off ""The Bionic Woman"". Series regular characters Steve Austin (Lee Majors) and Jaime Sommers (Lindsay Wagner), Oscar Goldman (Richard Anderson), and Dr. Rudy Wells (Martin E. Brooks) are featured along new characters Kimberly Harmon / Haviland (Farrah Forke), Carolyn MacNamara (Anne Lockhart), John MacNamara (Alan Sader), and Miles Kendrick (Geordie Johnson). In the movie, the long-overdue wedding of Steve"
"Bionic Woman (2007 TV series) Bionic Woman is an American science fiction television drama that aired in 2007, which was created by David Eick, under NBC Universal Television Group, GEP Productions, and David Eick Productions. The series was a re-imagining of the original television series, ""The Bionic Woman"", created by Kenneth Johnson, which in turn was based upon the novel ""Cyborg"" by Martin Caidin and its TV adaptation ""The Six Million Dollar Man"", retaining its forebears' premise while taking on a more contemporary setting. David Eick also serves as executive producer alongside Laeta Kalogridis and Jason Smilovic. Production of the"
"forum. The series met with a largely negative reception. Mary McNamara of the ""Los Angeles Times"" wished that the episodes following the pilot were just as good as the pilot itself, and wanted Katee Sackhoff to play the lead role. Alessandra Stanley of ""The New York Times"" felt that ""Bionic Woman"" was more about ""fembot martial arts and slick Matrix-ish special effects"" oriented toward young male viewers ""[rather] than about character development"". Tim Goodman of the ""San Francisco Chronicle"" felt that the remake was ""a lot darker than the campy original"", but said that ""trouble lies in the casting and"
"DVD set from Time Life on November 23, 2010 and a 35-disc DVD set from Universal Home Video on October 13th, 2015. The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman is a made-for-television science fiction action film which originally aired on May 17, 1987 on NBC. The movie reunited the main casts of the television series ""The Six Million Dollar Man"" and its spin-off ""The Bionic Woman"". Set 10 years after the events of those series, Steve Austin (Lee Majors) and Jaime Sommers (Lindsay"
"Jaime Sommers (played by Lindsay Wagner), a professional tennis player who rekindled an old romance with Austin, only to experience a parachuting accident that resulted in her being given bionic parts similar to Austin. Ultimately, her body ""rejected"" her bionic hardware and she died. The character was very popular, however, and the following season it was revealed that she had actually survived, having been saved by an experimental cryogenic procedure, and she was given her own spin-off series, ""The Bionic Woman"". This spin-off ran until 1978 when both it and ""The Six Million Dollar Man"" were simultaneously cancelled, though the"
"Eick, alters the character of the bionic woman, starring Michelle Ryan as a re-imagined and more contemporary Jaime Sommers. Neither Johnson, nor Caidin receive screen credit in this version. The original Jaime Sommers was considered a feminist icon, described by ""Time"" magazine as ""the most appealing argument for feminism"" in 1977, as well as a ""latter day Wonder Woman,"" referring to the DC Comics superheroine. ""The Bionic Woman"" had been of an era where ""The ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) movement was very much alive,"" according to the new series' producer, David Eick. """"Bionic Woman"" was the first television show where"
"on his website that he had no involvement with the new ""Bionic Woman"" series. Lindsay Wagner, the original Bionic Woman, also played no part in the new series. Wagner said, ""On a technical level, it was very good, but I don't think they understood the show. It was steeped in that old-school thinking. It was like a lot of things today, angry and dark."" Due to a strike by the Writers Guild of America, production of the series was halted in mid-November 2007, and the regular actors were suspended on half-pay for a period of five weeks. The series has"
"for her role as the ""Bionic Woman"") as Barbara Graham. In February 1969, Burbank resident and former LAPD officer Paul S. Perveler was found guilty of murdering his wife, Cheryl, who was shot to death in her open convertible as she parked the vehicle in the carport of the Pervelers' Grismer Avenue apartment building. In a case that had similarities to the 1944 film classic ""Double Indemnity"", Perveler had taken out a $25,000 double-indemnity life insurance policy on Cheryl, whom he had married just seven weeks earlier. Perveler and his girlfriend, Kristina Cromwell, were also convicted of the earlier December"
"Cassie Yates Cassie Yates (born March 2, 1951), is an American actress known for her performances on television. Yates was born and raised in Macon, Georgia. Her most high-profile role was probably in ""Dynasty"" as Sarah Curtis. Yates also appeared in the 1981 made-for-television version of John Steinbeck's ""Of Mice and Men"", as Curley's wife – opposite Robert Blake as George, and Randy Quaid as Lennie. She appeared in various television series, including ""McMillan & Wife"", ""Rich Man, Poor Man Book II"", ""The Bionic Woman"", ""The Streets of San Francisco"", ""Barnaby Jones,"" ""Quincy, M.E."", ""Vega$"", ""Simon & Simon"", ""Magnum, P.I."","
"Award for his role in ""Burning Bright"". He was also nominated for a Tony Award. Martin E. Brooks Martin E. Brooks (born Martin Baum; November 30, 1925 – December 7, 2015) was an American character actor known for playing scientist Dr. Rudy Wells in the television series ""The Six Million Dollar Man"" and its spin-off, ""The Bionic Woman"", from 1975 onward (a role originally portrayed by Martin Balsam and then by Alan Oppenheimer). Brooks was born Martin Baum in The Bronx. When he was 10, he moved with his family to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. After high school, he volunteered to serve"
"commentators mention that the relationship between Jaime and the Bionics program director Jonas Bledsoe parallels that of Buffy and her mentor Giles, much as the Berkut Group serves similar functions within the storyline as the Watcher's Council does in ""Buffy"": that of patriarchal oppressors. Jaime Sommers (Bionic Woman) Jaime Wells Sommers is a fictional character portrayed by Michelle Ryan in ""Bionic Woman"", a remake of the original 1970s series ""The Bionic Woman"" in which Lindsay Wagner took the lead role. The character was created by Kenneth Johnson based upon concepts from author Martin Caidin's novel, ""Cyborg"" (neither Johnson nor Caidin,"
"also appeared in a small independent film the same year, ""Cashback"". In early 2007, Ryan was seen as Maria in ""Mansfield Park"" opposite Billie Piper for ITV and also as Lila in the film ""I Want Candy"", co-starring Carmen Electra and Mackenzie Crook. In February 2007, it was announced that she had been cast as the lead in the new drama ""Bionic Woman"". The series began airing in the United States on the broadcast network NBC in September 2007. Ryan affected an American accent for the role of Jaime Sommers, except in the episode ""The Education of Jaime Sommers"" in"
"Diane Cary Diane Cary is an American actress who has guest starred in many TV shows. This includes a recurring role on the short-lived ""Misfits of Science"", where she was credited as Diane Civita. She also starred in ""V"" and ""V: The Final Battle"" in the 1980s as Harmony Moore, a human who fell in love with the visitor, Willie (played by Robert Englund). She guest starred in three episodes alongside Lindsay Wagner on ""The Bionic Woman"": as Arlene Hart on the two parter episode ""Jamie's Shield"" (1976) and as Madeline Boylin ""Rancho Outcast"" (1978), and also, alongside with Bill"
"Helen Craig (actress) Helen Craig (May 13, 1912 – July 20, 1986) was an American actress, perhaps best known for her role as the deaf title character in ""Johnny Belinda"" on Broadway. The daughter of copper executive Edward A. Craig, Helen Craig was born on May 13, 1912 in San Antonio, Texas. She had a sister, Marian, and a brother, Edward Jr. As well as films, Craig appeared in numerous plays, and on television she had frequent appearances in ""The Waltons"", ""Kojak"" and ""The Bionic Woman"". Craig was ""a graduate of the Orson Welles' celebrated Mercury Theatre"". Her Broadway credits"
"Mariel Hemingway Mariel Hadley Hemingway (born November 22, 1961) is an American actress. She began acting at age 14 with a Golden Globe–nominated breakout role in ""Lipstick"" (1976), and received Academy and BAFTA Award nominations for her performance in Woody Allen's ""Manhattan"" (1979). She is also known for her leading roles in ""Personal Best"" (1982) and ""Star 80"" (1983), as well as in the TV series ""Civil Wars"", for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. Amid mental health struggles, Hemingway's career dwindled in the 1990s. She has also starred in and co-produced videos about yoga and holistic living. She"
"television; she did not originate in Caidin's novels and thus was considered the creation of writer Kenneth Johnson). The episode arc received very high ratings which led the producers to create a spin-off series produced by Johnson, with Lindsay Wagner reprising the role of Jaime Sommers as the star of the show. Although Caidin was not involved in the creation of the character, the fact the spin-off series used his concept of bionics as well as featured several characters that Caidin did create, he received a credit on the series. The re-imagined series Bionic Woman, conceived and produced by David"
"injured in a skydiving accident and equipped with bionic implants similar to Austin's, but her body rejects them, ultimately leading to her death. This was intended to be Wagner's last role under her Universal contract, but public response to the character was so overwhelming that the ""death"" was retconned into a cover story for a near-death secret recovery, and Wagner appeared in a two-part episode which returned her character, followed by a spin-off series, ""The Bionic Woman"", which debuted in January 1976. She made several crossover appearances in ""The Six Million Dollar Man"" during the series' run. The role earned"
"Bicentennial Man (film) Bicentennial Man is a 1999 Canadian-American science fiction comedy-drama film starring Robin Williams, Sam Neill, Embeth Davidtz (in a dual role), Wendy Crewson, and Oliver Platt. Based on the novel ""The Positronic Man"" by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg (which is itself based on Asimov's original novella of the same name), the plot explores issues of humanity, slavery, prejudice, maturity, intellectual freedom, conformity, sex, love, and mortality. The film, a co-production between Touchstone Pictures and Columbia Pictures, was directed by Chris Columbus. The title comes from the main character existing to the age of two hundred years,"
"Jane Seymour (actress) Jane Seymour, OBE (born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg; 15 February 1951), is an English-American actress. Best known for her performances in the James Bond film ""Live and Let Die"" (1973); ""Somewhere In Time"" (1980); ""East of Eden"" (1981); ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"" (1982 film); ""Onassis: The Richest Man in the World"" (1988); ""War and Remembrance"" (1988); the French epic ""La Révolution française"" (1989) as the ill-fated queen Marie Antoinette; ""Wedding Crashers"" (2005); and the American television series ""Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman"" (1993–1998), she has earned an Emmy Award, two Golden Globe Awards and a star on the Hollywood"
"law professor Kingsfield. In 1975, arranged under an extended contract with Universal Studios, Wagner played the role of Jaime Sommers, a former tennis professional who was the childhood sweetheart of ""Six Million Dollar Man"" Colonel Steve Austin (played by Lee Majors). According to Kenneth Johnson, interviewed for a featurette included in the 2010 North American DVD release of ""The Bionic Woman"" season one, Wagner was cast in the role based upon her appeal and spontaneity after he saw her appearance in the pilot and a follow-up episode of ""The Rockford Files"". In the second-season, two-part episode, her character is critically"