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.
Laeta Kalogridis
In January 2007, she began writing "", director James Cameron's planned film based on the classic cyberpunk manga "Battle Angel Alita". In October 2007, she did a rewrite of the vampire film "Darksiders" for New Line Cinema. She was screenwriter for the 2007 film "Pathfinder". She was also the executive producer for the 2007 TV series "Bionic Woman", also writing the pilot. For "Bionic Woman", she recalls being fired in part because she was told that she "didn't know how to write women," and was replaced by a male writer.