The Six Million Dollar Man
In 1975, a two-part episode entitled "The Bionic Woman", written for television by Kenneth Johnson, introduced the lead character 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 two series were on different networks when their final seasons aired.
Katee Sackhoff
In 2007, Sackhoff was cast as the evil cyborg Sarah Corvus in the short-lived NBC series "Bionic Woman". David Eick, the show's executive producer, said, "[Sackhoff is] a very special find. Those actors who can combine the qualities of strength and vulnerability—they usually call those people movie stars."
Sackhoff plays the female lead in the action/sci-fi movie "The Last Sentinel" and the supernatural thriller "".
Sackhoff appears as the main character in the Lifetime Original Movie "How I Married My High School Crush". She has made guest appearances in "Cold Case", "ER", "Law & Order", and "Robot Chicken".
Sackhoff provided the voice of a female marine in the video game "Halo 3" and is featured in the viral marketing campaign for "Resistance 2". In 2011, she provided the voice for Black Cat 2099 in "". She voiced Sarah Essen in the DC Comics animated film, "".
She appears in four episodes of the fifth season of the series "Nip/Tuck" playing a new doctor, Dr. Theodora Rowe. However, for the sixth season Sackhoff was replaced by Rose McGowan for the role due to scheduling conflicts.
Sackhoff headlined NBC's Dick Wolf-produced cop drama "Lost and Found" as Tessa, "an offbeat female LAPD detective who, after butting heads with the higher-ups, is sent as a punishment to the basement to work on John Doe and Jane Doe cases." The pilot was filmed in January 2009. NBC decided not to pick up the series.
In 2009, she appeared as herself in "The Vengeance Formulation" episode of the CBS situation comedy "The Big Bang Theory". In the episode, she is fantasized as Howard Wolowitz's dream girl. She appears again in season 4, in the same role.
Sackhoff appeared as a series regular in the eighth season of the TV series "24", playing Dana Walsh, a CTU data analyst with a secret.
In February 2010, Sackhoff signed on to play the lead in an ABC crime drama pilot, "Boston's Finest". ABC decided not to pick up the series.