The seven million dollar woman
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | The seven million dollar woman |
| Original title | The Bionic Woman |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 1976-1977 |
| length | 48 minutes |
| Episodes | 58 |
| genre | Action series , science fiction |
| idea | Kenneth Johnson |
| music | Jerry Fielding |
| First broadcast | Jan 14, 1976 (USA) on ABC |
| German-language first broadcast |
March 26, 1989 on RTLplus |
| occupation | |
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The Seven Million Dollar Woman ( The Bionic Woman ) is an offshoot of the successful US television series The Six Million Dollar Man with Lindsay Wagner in the lead role. The total of 58 episodes of the series ran from 1976 to 1977 on ABC and from 1977 to 1978 on NBC .
Wagner played the role of Jaime Sommers , a professional tennis player who was seriously injured after a parachute accident and had bionic limbs implanted during an operation . From now on she can run faster than a car, her right arm is strong enough to bend steel, and her ear can perceive frequencies inaudible to the human ear.
In September 2007 started on the US broadcaster NBC with Bionic Woman, a new edition of the series with Michelle Ryan in the lead role. This new edition only had eight episodes. In March 2008, producer David Eick officially announced that the series was discontinued.
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The character Jaime first appears in the six million dollar man episode "The Bionic Woman" .
Jaime Sommers and Steve Austin, the six million dollar man (played by Lee Majors ), were engaged to be engaged once before Steve began his astronaut training, but later broke up and lost sight of each other. During a visit to his parents, he meets Jaime again, who has since become a well-known tennis professional. The relationship between the two is revived and Steve soon proposes marriage to her. An accident occurs during a skydiving excursion: Jaime's parachute opens incompletely, she falls and is seriously injured. The doctors give her little chance of survival, whereupon Steve persuades his superior Oscar Goldman to save her life with bionic body parts. Despite Steve's objections, like him, she carries out post-operation assignments for Goldman. However, on one of these missions, her implants begin to fail. Jaime becomes mentally and physically unstable and falls into a coma . The doctors succeed in stopping the rejection reaction of the implants, but Jaime now suffers from amnesia : She can no longer remember her relationship with Steve, and just trying to remember causes her physical pain. Steve Austin then decides to let her go to spare her further suffering.
Jaime, who has given up her tennis career, now teaches in her hometown of Ojai while continuing to work as an undercover agent for OSI.
In the course of the series, she fights against various opponents, including androids and aliens. She fulfills some missions together with Steve Austin, but the previous relationship is not discussed during these missions. It was only in the three films in which the story of Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers was continued that the love between the two flared up again, so that Jaime and Steve finally got married despite many complications they had to face again. The last two films have not yet been dubbed in German.
In some episodes of the series there is also a German shepherd named Max, who has bionic legs and an artificial jaw and who helps her with his skills on some missions.
Voice actor
| actor | Role name | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Lindsay Wagner | Jaime Sommers |
Gabriele Libbach (episode 1–36 & episode 39–58) Carolin van Bergen (episode 37–38) |
| Richard Anderson | Oscar Goldman | Rüdiger Schulzki |
| Martin E. Brooks | Dr. Rudy Wells | Wolfgang Draeger |
| Lee majors | Steve Austin | Volkert Kraft |
| Martha Scott | Helen Elgin | Marianne Kehlau |
| Ford Rainey | Jim Elgin | Günther Flesch |
| Jennifer Darling | Peggy Callahan | Traudel Sparrowhawk |
Episode list
season 1
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
German title | Original title | First broadcast in the USA | German language first broadcast (D) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Welcome Jaime (1) | Welcome Home, Jaime (1) | Jan. 14, 1976 | 26th Mar 1989 |
| 2 | 2 | Welcome Jaime (2) | Welcome Home, Jaime (2) | Jan. 21, 1976 | 30th Mar 1989 |
| 3 | 3 | Escape assistance | Angel of Mercy | Jan. 28, 1976 | Apr 6, 1989 |
| 4th | 4th | Danger to the witness | A thing of the past | Feb. 18, 1976 | Apr 13, 1989 |
| 5 | 5 | Wrong suspicion | Claws | Feb 25, 1976 | July 20, 1989 |
| 6th | 6th | Defenseless | The Deadly Missiles | 3rd Mar 1976 | July 27, 1989 |
| 7th | 7th | Nice smuggling | Bionic Beauty | 17th Mar 1976 | May 25, 1989 |
| 8th | 8th | The double agent | Jaime's mother | 24 Mar 1976 | Apr. 27, 1989 |
| 9 | 9 | The 500 Mile Hunt | Winning Is Everything | Apr 7, 1976 | Apr 21, 1989 |
| 10 | 10 | Betrayal of secrets | Canyon of Death | Apr. 14, 1976 | May 11, 1989 |
| 11 | 11 | A risky flight | Fly Jaime | May 5th 1976 | June 8, 1989 |
| 12 | 12 | The deception | The Jailing of Jaime | May 12, 1976 | June 22, 1989 |
| 13 | 13 | The double | Mirror image | May 19, 1976 | May 18, 1989 |
| 14th | 14th | The poltergeist | The Ghost Hunter | May 26, 1976 | June 1, 1989 |
season 2
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
German title | Original title | First broadcast in the USA | German language first broadcast (D) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15th | 1 | Clear the ring for Jaime | In This Corner, Jaime Sommers | 22 Sep 1976 | Aug 24, 1989 |
| 16 | 2 | Explosive cargo | Assault on the Princess | 29 Sep 1976 | June 15, 1989 |
| 17th | 3 | The Nashville trail | Road to Nashville | Oct 6, 1976 | July 13, 1989 |
| 18th | 4th | Infiltrated | Kill Oscar (1) | Oct. 20, 1976 | Aug 3, 1989 |
| 19th | 5 | Franklin's trap | Kill Oscar (2) | Oct 27, 1976 | Aug 10, 1989 |
| 20th | 6th | The counterattack | Kill Oscar (3) | Nov 3, 1976 | Aug 17, 1989 |
| 21st | 7th | The inheritance | Black Magic | Nov 10, 1976 | Dec. 1, 1989 |
| 22nd | 8th | In wrong belief | Sister Jaime | Nov 24, 1976 | Aug 19, 1989 |
| 23 | 9 | A threatening enemy | The Vega Influence | Dec. 1, 1976 | Sep 7 1989 |
| 24 | 10 | The police academy | Jaime's Shield (1) | Dec 15, 1976 | Sep 14 1989 |
| 25th | 11 | Wrong cops | Jaime's Shield (2) | Dec 22, 1976 | 21 Sep 1989 |
| 26th | 12 | The defector | Biofeedback | Jan. 12, 1977 | 28 Sep 1989 |
| 27 | 13 | Threat to the world (1) | Doomsday Is Tomorrow (1) | Jan. 19, 1977 | Oct 12, 1989 |
| 28 | 14th | Threat to the world (2) | Doomsday Is Tomorrow (2) | Jan. 26, 1977 | Oct 19, 1989 |
| 29 | 15th | The confusion | Deadly Ringer (1) | Feb. 2, 1977 | Oct 26, 1989 |
| 30th | 16 | Hunted | Deadly Ringer (2) | Feb 9, 1977 | Nov 1, 1989 |
| 31 | 17th | Danger of coup | Jaime and the King | Feb 23, 1977 | Nov 2, 1989 |
| 32 | 18th | Victims of war | Beyond the call | 9 Mar 1977 | Nov 9, 1989 |
| 33 | 19th | The forger | The Dejon Caper | 19 Mar 1977 | Nov 16, 1989 |
| 34 | 20th | The curse of Masau | The Night Demon | 23 Mar 1977 | July 8, 1989 |
| 35 | 21st | Traces of the past | Iron Ships and Dead Men | 30th Mar 1977 | Dec. 7, 1989 |
| 36 | 22nd | Inky's big coup | Once a thief | May 4th 1977 | Dec 14, 1989 |
season 3
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
German title | Original title | First broadcast in the USA | German language first broadcast (D) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 1 | Strong friends | The Bionic Dog (1) | Sep 10 1977 | Apr 3, 1990 |
| 38 | 2 | Escape from the flames | The Bionic Dog (2) | 17 Sep 1977 | Apr 10, 1990 |
| 39 | 3 | The robot girls | Fembots in Las Vegas (1) | Sep 24 1977 | Jan. 4, 1990 |
| 40 | 4th | revenge | Fembots in Las Vegas (2) | Oct 1, 1977 | Jan. 11, 1990 |
| 41 | 5 | rodeo | rodeo | Oct 15, 1977 | Apr 17, 1990 |
| 42 | 6th | Election fraud | African Connection | Oct 29, 1977 | March 8 1990 |
| 43 | 7th | The motorcycle chase | Motorcycle boogie | Nov 5, 1977 | 22 Mar 1990 |
| 44 | 8th | Exploited | Brain wash | Nov 12, 1977 | 1st Mar 1990 |
| 45 | 9 | Fear of liberation | Escape to Love | Nov 26, 1977 | Dec 28, 1989 |
| 46 | 10 | Max | Max | 3rd Dec 1977 | Dec 21, 1989 |
| 47 | 11 | The master detective | The Over the Hill Spy | Dec 17, 1977 | Jan. 18, 1990 |
| 48 | 12 | Computer gangsters | All for one | Jan. 7, 1978 | Jan. 25, 1990 |
| 49 | 13 | The pyramid of the gods | The pyramid | Jan. 14, 1978 | Feb. 1, 1990 |
| 50 | 14th | Race against death | The antidote | Jan. 21, 1978 | Feb 8, 1990 |
| 51 | 15th | Betrayed and sold | The Martians Are Coming | Jan. 28, 1978 | Feb. 15, 1990 |
| 52 | 16 | Vanishing point earth | Sanctuary Earth | Feb. 11, 1978 | Apr 24, 1990 |
| 53 | 17th | Among sharks | Deadly Music | Feb. 18, 1978 | Feb 22, 1990 |
| 54 | 18th | The abduction | Which One Is Jaime? | Feb 25, 1978 | May 8, 1990 |
| 55 | 19th | Help from the afterlife | Out of body | 4th Mar 1978 | May 15, 1990 |
| 56 | 20th | Long live the king | Long Live the King | 25th Mar 1978 | May 22, 1990 |
| 57 | 21st | The city of the outlaws | Rancho Outcast | May 6, 1978 | May 29, 1990 |
| 58 | 22nd | On the run | On the run | May 13, 1978 | June 5th 1990 |
Television films
After the series, three more television films were produced in the 1980s and 1990s, which continued the story of the bionic duo Jaime Sommers and Steve Austin . These films have not yet been broadcast on television in German-speaking countries; only the first film was released on VHS video under the somewhat irritating title Return of the Robots .
- Return of the robot ( The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman )
- Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (not published in German)
- Bionic Ever After? (not published in German)
Availability
In the 1980s, individual episodes of the series were already released on VHS video: With The 6 Million Dollar Girl , CIC Video presented the pilot episode in 1987, which was shown on television as part of the series The Six Million Dollar Man . In the same year followed with 6 Million Dollar Dog the publication of the double episode from the third season, in which the bionic dog Max was introduced.
Then place in the years 2008 and 2009, a complete publication of all three seasons of the seven-million-dollar woman on DVD , this time by the German company Koch Media . With this, all episodes are now available for the first time in an uncut version with German and English soundtracks .
Web links
- The Bionic Woman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- BionicsOnDVD.de German online DVD petition
- The Ultimate German Bionix Website The German Bionix fansite
- Variety.com Link to the 2007 election of the new actress
Remarks
- ↑ a b The episode Franklins Fehler (Kill Oscar, Part 2) originally belongs to the series The Six Million Dollar Man , but was shown in Germany as part of The Seven Million Dollar Woman as the first and third Part of this multi-part ( Infiltrated (Kill Oscar, Part 1) and The Counterattack (Kill Oscar, Part 3) ) ran here. Instead, the episode The Return Of Bigfoot - Part 2 ran not as an episode of The Seven Million Dollar Woman, as in the original, but in The Six Million Dollar Man .
- ↑ The episode first aired as the 53rd episode of The Six Million Dollar Man series and was later shown basically as the first episode of The Seven Million Dollar Woman .