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A Bionic Comeback!
by Joal Ryan
Aug 16, 2002, 2:05 PM PT
She is Bionic Woman. Hear her roar--again.
Yes, Max the Bionic Dog is happily wagging his tail today with word that his master, Jaime Sommers, could return to TV with new adventures as soon as next summer.
In the original 1976-78 Bionic Woman series, Sommers, played by Lindsay Wagner , was rebuilt by docs at the top-secret government agency Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI). This time, she has cable's USA Networks and the producers of the Austin Powers franchise to thank for her new chance at life.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, USA sees the Bionic Woman as "an old title ripe for reinvention," in the words of one network exec. If all goes well, a souped-up, modern-day Bionic Woman will be one of two new series launched by the cable network in summer 2003.
But there are no guarantees in the bionic universe. After all, it seems like only yesterday (actually, a 1975 two-parter of TV's bionic forefather, The Six Million Dollar Man) that Jaime Sommers was a high-flying tennis pro in love with Col. Steve Austin (aka, the Six Million Dollar Man). Then a skydiving accident left her with nasty injuries.
In what one fan review on Amazon.com calls "one of television's best original love stories," quick-thinking Steve sought to rescue his bride-to-be by having OSI's finest retrofit her with bionic parts (including one very powerful ear). Sadly, Jamie's body rejected her gadgetry. She died on the operating table on March 23, 1975.
Uh, but then she came back to life in time for the January 14, 1976 premiere of her own series. (Turned out she never really died. She was given the Ted Williams special, and thawed at a more opportune time.)
The solo show saw Jaime move back to her hometown of Ojai, California, teach school, adopt a bionic German shepherd (our friend Max) and work as government agent in her spare time.
Scoff if you will at The Bionic Woman. The series earned star Wagner an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1977.
No word on Wagner's (or Max's) involvement in the revival. But we're guessing that since it's not going to be called The Bionic Woman of a Certain Age, the 53-year-old won't be up for the lead.
Producers, though, will be looking to cast the new Jaime in the mold of the old Jaime--"tall, athletic, blonde and blue-eyed," the Reporter says.
New Jaime can only hope she's as hard to kill as old Jaime. Bionic rejection. Network cancellation. Nothing could do her in. (When ABC canned the show in 1977, NBC picked it up. The Peacock eventually canceled it, too.)
Wagner and her old bionic friend Lee Majors reunited as Jaime and Steve for three TV-movies, including 1989's Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman, which costarred a little actress named Sandra Bullock as a bionic girl.
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