The Bionic Woman - Series 1

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Good fun, but what about the start?.......2008-01-22

You have to buy some of the Bionic Man series if you want the background on there relationship and thus why JS is bionic, and therefore the first few episodes are a bit strange. References are made, but the shows featuring their entire background should be there, and to me this is a big error. There needs to be an episode or two from The BM rather than just Oscar giving a very brief commentary into a cassette recorder for his chief. I don't have the Bionic Man dvd's and don't like them enough to buy an entire series, so that means this gets off to a bad start. The stories and scripts are exactly what they're supposed to be - entertaining, mildly witty and innocent viewing for the family.
There are no extras and not even any subtitles, which is pretty poor in my view. However Lindsay Wagner is as marvellous as I remembered her and she alone gets the 5 stars! The package gets 2 stars because of what's missing, and the stories get 4 stars for their enduring charm.

The Bionic Woman Series 1 .......2007-04-24

"The Bionic Woman" was and still is one of my favourite childhood shows.
Lindsay Wagner brought so much warmth and charm to the part of Jaime Sommers,that when after being introduced in a two part episode of "The Six Millon Dollar Man" as Steve Austin's(Lee Majors) childhood sweetheart and then killed off,public reaction was so strong she was brought back to life and spun off to her own series!
Jaime moves into an apartment on Steve's Mum(the wonderful Martha Scott)and Stepdad's ranch as she tries to rebuild her life as a school teacher and secret agent for the OSI headed by Oscar Goldman(Richard Anderson)
Jaime faces an evil double ganger in "Mirror Image" who comes back in a later season to plague Jaime.
"The Six Million Dollar Man" episode "Survival Of the Fittest",involving a plane crash and an attempt on Oscar's life is reused as "Fly Jaime" with Dr.Rudy Wells(Martin E.Brooks)the target this time.
The theme of facing your demons and moving on is reused time and again,in this first season,in "Winning Is Everything" Jaime helps a young driver faces the horrors of a past crash,in "Jaime's Mother" Jaime helps a lookalike of her dead mother face her past and do the right thing,a great star turn by Barbara Rush.
In the last episode of the season "The Ghost Hunter",Jaime helps a young widowed Doctor deal with his teenage daughter's telekentic powers rather than bury his grief in his work.
A great show with nice remastering on this DVD,don't understand why "The Six Million Dollar Man" wasn't treated the same way.

Fabulous 70s Nostalgia.......2007-02-07

I have to confess that sober critical judgement rather goes out of the window where The Bionic Woman is concerned. You see my youthful little self, sat in front of the TV in the 70s when this was first aired, was a little sweet on Jamie Sommers. Indeed I couldn't even listen to the theme tune without dribbling and getting a little hot under the collar. Still, wiping away the tears of nostalgia, what do I make of it all thirty years later? Well, it's still fabulously good entertainment. Lindsay Wagner could certainly act and during the course of the thirteen episodes that make up the first season of The Bionic Woman she goes through the entire range of human emotion, carrying the audience with her as she confronts the loss of all memory about her past and comes to terms with her new super powers and the opportunities, and possible dangers, they bring with them, not to mention coming face-to-face with someone claiming to be her mother (long thought to be dead) and battling a whole range of shifty looking blokes with dodgy taches, cheap suits and nasty looking firearms.

Richard Anderson provides excellent support as Oscar Goldman, the boss we'd all like to have: authorative, fair, supportive of the people who work for him and as smooth as a dry martini; while Lee Majors crops up from time to time to go all doe-eyed at Jamie (not that I blame him).

The stories themselves vary in quality but they are never less than entertaining and sometimes, such as in "Mirror Image", "Jamie's Mother" and the two part "Welcome Home Jamie" they reach genuinely dazzling heights of invention. The acting and writing in this series was consistently good, making it obvious that the whole team really cared about the show and regarded it with a great deal of affection.

All in all this is a fabulous little box set and well worth a look for anyone with happy memories of early evening TV in the 70s: funny, dramatic, moving and clever (and yes, thirty years on, I'm still a little sweet on Jamie).

Wonderful show! I hope the others come out soon.......2006-07-16

I loved this show as a 10-year old child in the United States. I remember especially loving the science fiction type episodes the best, but I loved all of it. The sound quality and picture are excellent. I have a DVD player that is region-free and has an NTSC-PAL PAL-NTSC converter, so I just purchase DVDs from around the world - wherever they come out first or cheapest - and have no problems viewing. The DVD players like this can be purchased for less than $100, and even though they are definitely not the quality of $50,000 type of converter (i.e., a very slight amount of judder), I don't need anything more. Beautiful show, and I hope they come out with all

"BIONIC BLISS!".......2006-04-29

It's a little over a year since I bought "BIONIC WOMAN-SEASON 1"- you guys like to call them series and here in the U.S. we call 'em seasons. Anyways, I'm still enjoying the pristine quality and remastering of each of the 13 episodes. Playback/Universal has done LINDSAY WAGNER proud! Now, I am awaiting Season 2 which I ordered and can't wait to watch them in their fully restored glory and unedited original form as they were first aired back in the 1976-1977 television season. Lindsay's an excellent actor and was so believable as Jaime Sommers. In the episode entitled "MIRROR IMAGE" where she plays a dual role, the scene in which she meets her doppleganger Lisa Galloway(from plastic surgery to look like Jaimie Sommers,) Lindsay does something to her face to give the Lisa role that menacing look as she turns around from the chair and smiles at the shocked and disturbed Jaimie. Lindsay gives it such a contrast that she is believable as two characters. I've noticed that when Lindsay lifts or tenses her upper lip she can look totally different-at times evil and smug(Lisa)or playful and nice(Jaimie). She put this to greater depth with these two characters in the 2 part episode "DEADLY RINGER," in season 2. And that's what landed her the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a drama series in 1977.
All in all, I never tire of watching these 13 season one gems. At least with season 2, I have 22 choices to watch over and over again.

Bionic Woman - Series 1 - Complete [2007]

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Bionic Woman - Series 1 - Complete [2007]
Starring: Michelle Ryan
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
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Release Date: 2008-05-12

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