Who created the television series The Bionic Woman?
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.
Bionic Woman (2007 TV series)
David Eick, Laeta Kalogridis, Jason Smilovic and Michael Dinner originally served as executive producers and writers. Dinner also directed the pilot but exited his post as executive producer in June 2007. Glen Morgan, writer and producer on "The X-Files", "", and "Millennium", joined the production team of "Bionic Woman" as an executive producer in May, only to leave four months later, citing creative differences. In September, "Friday Night Lights" executive producer Jason Katims joined the show as a consultant. Katims ran the writer's room until late October, when "Sopranos" veteran Jason Cahill was hired as the new showrunner.
Oscar Goldman
Oscar Goldman is a fictional character created by Martin Caidin and introduced in his 1972 novel "Cyborg". In the 1970s, he was portrayed by Richard Anderson in both "The Six Million Dollar Man" and "The Bionic Woman" television series which were based upon "Cyborg". He served as the bionic heroes', Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers, immediate superior.
Beth Behrs
Elizabeth Ann Behrs (born December 26, 1985) is an American actress and writer best known for her starring role as Caroline Channing in the CBS comedy series "2 Broke Girls". The show ran successfully for six seasons and earned Behrs praise and nominations for the Teen and the People's Choice Awards. Having made her screen debut in the 2009 comedy film "", she later ventured into television roles. Post "2 Broke Girls", Behrs returned to feature films with the 2015 productions "Chasing Eagle Rock" and "Hello, My Name Is Doris". She voiced Carrie Williams in the animated film "Monsters University" (2013) and Moochie in the television series "". In 2018, she was cast as Gemma Johnson in the CBS sitcom "The Neighborhood". In addition to her acting career, Behrs has authored a self-help book and continues to write the young-adult webcomic "Dents". She is also a philanthropist and the founder of the SheHerdPower Foundation, which helps victims of sexual assaults.
Kojak
The show was created by Abby Mann, an Academy Award–winning film writer best known for his work on drama anthologies such as "Robert Montgomery Presents" and "Playhouse 90". Universal Television approached him to do a story based on the 1963 Wylie-Hoffert Career Girls Murders, the brutal rape and murder of two young professional women in Manhattan.
Bridget Carpenter
"Bionic Woman" (2007) TV series (1 episode, 2007) ... aka "The Bionic Woman" - USA (complete title)
The Bionic Woman
Jaime, now retired as a tennis player, takes a job as a schoolteacher at an Air Force base in Ojai, California. She lives in an apartment over a barn located on the ranch owned by Steve's mother and stepfather, both of whom are aware of their bionic implants and their lives as secret agents. Season three opened with the two-part episode "The Bionic Dog", in which Jaime discovers Max (short for Maximillion), a German Shepherd dog that has been given a bionic jaw and legs who could run at speeds of up to 90 mph. His bionics pre-date Steve's and Jamie's, as he was a lab animal used to test early bionic prosthetics. He was named "Maximillion" because his bionics cost "a million" dollars. When he was introduced, he experienced symptoms suggesting bionic rejection and was due to be put to sleep. Jaime discovered the condition was psychological, stemming from a traumatic lab fire that injured him when he was a puppy. With Jaime's help, Max was cured and went to live with her, proving himself to be of considerable help in some of her adventures. The original intent was to create a spin-off series featuring The Bionic Dog, and at the end of the two-part episode that introduced him, it was implied Max would stay with Jaime's forest ranger friend Roger Grette in the Sierra Mountains and Jaime would visit occasionally. However, the network rejected the proposed spin-off series and Max stayed with Jaime instead, making several appearances throughout the third season of "The Bionic Woman".
The Bionic Woman
In the first reunion, "The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman" (1987), Jaime and Steve are reunited after nearly ten years of living separate lives. Jaime's memory is fully restored (according to Oscar, Jaime was involved in an explosion at the American Embassy in Budapest and "she remembered everything" after she recovered from her concussion) and she tries to reconcile her feelings for Steve while at the same time helping train Steve's son Michael in the use of his own recently acquired updated bionics. Jaime challenges Michael to a friendly race. He overtakes her and she makes the comment that she feels like an "obsolete model". Michael is kidnapped by Fortress. Steve and Jaime along with the Air Force infiltrate the abandoned glass factory to "rescue" Michael.
Bionics
The word "bionic" was coined by Jack E. Steele in 1958, possibly originating from the technical term "bion" (pronounced "BEE-on"; from "bíos"), meaning 'unit of life' and the suffix "-ic", meaning 'like' or 'in the manner of', hence 'like life'. Some dictionaries, however, explain the word as being formed as a portmanteau from biology" and "electronics. It was popularized by the 1970s U.S. television series "The Six Million Dollar Man" and "The Bionic Woman", both based upon the novel "Cyborg" by Martin Caidin, which was itself influenced by Steele's work. All feature humans given superhuman powers by electromechanical implants.
George Maharis
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Maharis guest-starred in many television series, including "", "Fantasy Island", "Kojak", "McMillan & Wife", "Barnaby Jones", "Police Story", "Switch", "Cannon", "Night Gallery", and "The Bionic Woman", as well as "Murder, She Wrote" in 1990.
The Honourable Woman
The Honourable Woman is a 2014 British political spy thriller television miniseries in eight parts, directed and written by Hugo Blick for the BBC and SundanceTV. Featuring Maggie Gyllenhaal in the title role, it aired on BBC Two in the United Kingdom on 3 July 2014 and premiered on SundanceTV in the United States on 31 July 2014. An advance screening of the series was held on 7 April 2014 at the MIPTV Media Market.
Bionic Woman (2007 TV series)
The series met with a largely negative reception. Mary McNamara of the "Los Angeles Times" wished that the episodes following the pilot were just as good as the pilot itself, and wanted Katee Sackhoff to play the lead role.
Alessandra Stanley of "The New York Times" felt that "Bionic Woman" was more about "fembot martial arts and slick Matrix-ish special effects" oriented toward young male viewers "[rather] than about character development".
Bernie Su
"ArtificialNext", also referred to as "Artificial," is the first ever scripted and interactive show distributed on twitch.tv. Created by Bernie Su and Evan Mandery, Artificial follows Dr. Matt Lin (Tohoru Masamune) and his artificial intelligence creation/daughter Sophie (Tiffany Chu). Dr. Lin socializes Sophie with the live and interactive Twitch audience in order to help her become human. Episodes are broken into recorded and live scenes. In the live scenes, the audience directly influences the story, and, through in-stream polls and comments, helps the characters make decisions. The first season ran weekly from August 12, 2018 through October 25, 2018 for a total of sixteen episodes and accrued more than two million views. The story ended with Dr. Lin promising to return, but plans for a second season are currently unknown.
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.
Wonder Woman (1974 film)
Wonder Woman is a 1974 American made-for-television superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name, directed by Vincent McEveety and starring Cathy Lee Crosby. The film was a pilot for an intended television series being considered by ABC. Ratings were described as "respectable but not exactly wondrous," and ABC did not pick up the pilot. 
Instead, Warner Brothers and ABC developed a different Wonder Woman television concept that fit the more traditional presentation of the character as created by William Moulton Marston, turning away from the 1968–72 era that had influenced the pilot. "", which premiered in 1975, starred Lynda Carter and eventually led to the "Wonder Woman" TV series. Crosby would later claim that she was offered the chance to reprise the role in that series.
Lew Ayres
Ayres guest-starred in an episode of "The Bionic Woman" ("Doomsday is Tomorrow", 1977) as Dr. Elijah Cooper, an elderly nuclear scientist who attempts to blackmail the world into peace.
Prosthetics in fiction
The television series "The Six Million Dollar Man" and its spinoff "The Bionic Woman" both featured main characters whose replacement parts gave them abilities above those of normal people.
Bionic Woman (2007 TV series)
Due to a strike by the Writers Guild of America, production of the series was halted in mid-November 2007, and the regular actors were suspended on half-pay for a period of five weeks. The series has since aired all of the episodes that were completed before production halted. Several websites ran with rumors that NBC had canceled the series, but an NBC Universal Media Studios spokesperson told the press that the show had not been canceled and that production of the first season would continue when the WGA strike ended. Upon the resolution of the strike, an Associated Press story classified "Bionic Woman" as being "on the bubble", and predicted that the remaining episodes would not air until the fall of 2008, "if ever". NBC later published a report regarding initial series renewals, and no announcement was made regarding whether "Bionic Woman" would return in the fall. The report also indicated that despite the earlier statement by NBC Universal, production of the series' first season was considered to be concluded.
The pilot starred Michelle Ryan, Miguel Ferrer, Molly Price, Will Yun Lee, and Mae Whitman. In June 2007, "TV Guide" reported that Mae Whitman was being replaced in the role of Jaime's sister. An NBC spokesperson confirmed this, stating, "The decision was purely creatively driven. It is very common to change storylines, characters, actors after the initial pilot is shot." The character, who was originally deaf, had her hearing restored when requested by an NBC executive. Lucy Hale was later cast as Whitman's replacement in July 2007.
In announcing the recasting, it was confirmed that the deaf trait of the character had been dropped.
Instead, Hale's version of the character is depicted as a rebellious teen and budding computer hacker.
Jaime Sommers (Bionic Woman)
The re-imagined series Bionic Woman, conceived and produced by David Eick, alters the character of the bionic woman, starring Michelle Ryan as a re-imagined and more contemporary Jaime Sommers. Neither Johnson, nor Caidin receive screen credit in this version.
Gender in speculative fiction
SF series of the 1970s followed in a similar vein, with speculative elements used to physically empower women, while society required that they pretend to be typical and non-threatening. Examples include "The Bionic Woman" and the television adaption of "Wonder Woman".
The Bionic Woman
In July 2016, prior to Comic-Con International, the New York Times ran a story about Dynamite Entertainment. In it, best-selling author Andy Mangels was revealed to be writing a prestigious new intercompany crossover mini-series for the company, in conjunction with DC Comics: "Wonder Woman '77 Meets The Bionic Woman", bringing together the Lynda Carter television character with Lindsay Wagner's fellow 1970s television super-heroine. The series was released in December 2016.
Terrence McDonnell
Shows McDonnell has worked on, as a writer, include: "The Six Million Dollar Man", "Gemini Man", "The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams", "CHiPs", "The Bionic Woman", "Battlestar Galactica", "Magnum, P.I.", "The Rousters", "Kidd Video", "The Love Boat", "Riptide", "ABC Weekend Specials", "Danger Bay", "Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz", "Good Morning, Miss Bliss", "Let's Make a Deal", "The New Adventures of He-Man", "Beetlejuice", "X-Men", "Jeopardy!", "Candid Camera", "Exosquad", "Quicksilver", "You Don't Know Jack", "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" and "1 vs. 100".
The Bionic Woman
In August 2002 it was announced that the show was to be remade by producers Jennifer and Suzanne Todd ("Team Todd") for the USA Network; media reports suggested that Jennifer Aniston was being considered for the title role. After the initial press release was issued, the show never made it out of pre-production and no other announcements were made as to the show's fate.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
Amy Sherman-Palladino (born January 17, 1966) is an American television writer, director, and producer. She is best known as the creator of the comedy-drama television series "Gilmore Girls" (2000–07, 2016), "Bunheads" (2012–13), and "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" (2017–present).
Andrew Chambliss
Chambliss began his career working as an assistant to the executive producers on "Crossing Jordan" and "Heroes", after which he worked as a story editor on the short-lived 2007 remake of "The Bionic Woman".
Joe Francis
Joseph R. Francis (born April 1, 1973) is an American entrepreneur and film producer. He is best known as being the founder and creator of the Girls Gone Wild entertainment brand. Francis worked as a production assistant on the syndicated program "Real TV" before releasing the direct-to-video film "Banned from Television" in 1998.
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
Series regular characters Steve Austin (Lee Majors) and Jaime Sommers (Lindsay Wagner), Oscar Goldman (Richard Anderson), and Dr. Rudy Wells (Martin E. Brooks) are featured along with returning television movie character Jim Castillian (Lee Majors II, the real-life son of Lee Majors) and new characters Kate Mason (Sandra Bullock) and Jim Goldman (Jeff Yagher).
Future Man (TV series)
A janitor, Josh Futturman, successfully completes his favorite game, "Biotic Wars", when suddenly the game's two main characters, Tiger and Wolf, appear and recruit Josh to save the world from the real Biotic Wars.On September 9, 2016, it was announced that Hulu had ordered the production to series after reviewing the recently produced pilot. The series order was reported to be for a first season consisting of thirteen episodes. The pilot was written by Ariel Shaffir and Kyle Hunter from a story by the duo and Howard Overman and was directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. The series' executive producers include Shaffir, Hunter, Rogen, Goldberg and James Weaver. On January 8, 2018, it was announced that Hulu had renewed the series for a second season consisting of thirteen episodes. On October 1, 2018, it was announced that the second season would premiere on January 11, 2019.
Bionic Woman (2007 TV series)
Tim Goodman of the "San Francisco Chronicle" felt that the remake was "a lot darker than the campy original",
but said that "trouble lies in the casting and the concept". Goodman thought that "Ryan seems too inert, not nearly aggressive enough for the role", and that even Sackhoff was "infinitely more likable as an antiheroine". He said that they either "got the wrong bionic woman", or "they need to let the bad bionic woman get a whole lot more screen time".
Bionic Woman (2007 TV series)
The first mention of a revision of the "Bionic Woman" series occurred in August 2002 when a story in "The Hollywood Reporter" indicated that the series would be produced by "Team Todd": sisters Jennifer Todd and Suzanne Todd. The story quoted Suzanne Todd as saying:
Martin Caidin
Caidin was credited in episodes of the original "The Bionic Woman" series, a "Six Million Dollar Man" spinoff, but not in the 2007 remake of "The Bionic Woman".
Evel Knievel
Knievel made several television appearances, including frequently as a guest on talk shows such as "Dinah!" and Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show". In 1977, Evel made a guest spot on "The Bionic Woman", where he played himself, getting inadvertently caught up in East German espionage while appearing in West Germany. Actual footage from Evel's L.A. Coliseum jump over crushed cars was used in the beginning of the episode, and an indoor jump over 11 cars and 1 van was used at the end of the show. Also in 1977, Warner Bros. released "Viva Knievel!" This movie starred Knievel as himself and co-starred Lauren Hutton, Gene Kelly and Red Buttons. Similar to "The Bionic Woman," actual footage from the Wembley jump was used in the movie. In addition, the 1999 children's TV series "Hilltop Hospital" featured a character based on Knievel called Weasel Kneasel, who was the focus of an episode of the same name.
Gynoid
"The Bionic Woman" television series coined the word "fembot". These fembots were a line of powerful, lifelike gynoids with the faces of protagonist Jaime Sommers's best friends. They fought in two multi-part episodes of the series: "Kill Oscar" and "Fembots in Las Vegas", and despite the feminine prefix, there were also male versions, including some designed to impersonate particular individuals for the purpose of infiltration. While not truly artificially intelligent, the fembots still had extremely sophisticated programming that allowed them to pass for human in most situations. The term "fembot" was also used in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (referring to a robot duplicate of the title character, a.k.a. the Buffybot) and "Futurama".
The Six Million Dollar Man
A spin-off television series, "The Bionic Woman", featuring the lead female character Jaime Sommers, ran from 1976 to 1978. Three television movies featuring both bionic characters were also produced from 1987 to 1994.
When Things Were Rotten
The rapid-fire, Mel Brooks style of comedy was out of place on network television of the era, so despite critical acclaim, the series failed to find an audience and was canceled after 13 episodes, with "The Bionic Woman" being its mid-season replacement, which was a great success. Eighteen years later, Brooks produced another Robin Hood parody, the feature film "". Van Patten also appeared in the later film as an abbot.
The Burning Zone
The Burning Zone is an American science fiction drama television series created by Coleman Luck that originally aired for one season on United Paramount Network (UPN) from September 3, 1996 to May 20, 1997. The series follows a government task force assigned to investigate chemical and biological threats. Initially, the program focused on the virologist Edward Marcase (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Dr. Kimberly Shiroma (Tamlyn Tomita). In response to the show's low ratings, Marcase and Shiroma were removed in the middle of the season. Dr. Daniel Cassian (Michael Harris) became the lead character, and a new character, Dr. Brian Taft (Bradford Tatum), joined the task force. "The Burning Zone" initially incorporated supernatural and religious elements, but shifted towards more action-oriented storylines.
Noel Fitzpatrick
The 2010 BBC documentary television series "The Bionic Vet" followed the work of vet Fitzpatrick and his team at Fitzpatrick Referrals. The series saw Fitzpatrick develop new methods and techniques to help pets with unique problems.
The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
Former lovers, both bionically enhanced, Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers have been retired from the OSI for ten years. They have remained out of contact with each other due to the complex history of their relationship. In exposition, its explained that after the two fell in love, Sommers was in a skydiving accident which caused extensive injuries. She was rebuilt with bionics, but her body rejected them ("The Bionic Woman: Part 1 & Part 2"). The experience caused partial amnesia which made her forget her romantic feelings for Steve ("The Return of the Bionic Woman: Part 1 & Part 2"). She later fell in love with fellow OSI agent Chris Williams (as shown in season 3 of "The Bionic Woman"). Steve, not wanting to interfere, refused to go on a mission to aid Chris and Jaime. On that mission, the two became separated and an explosion hit Jaime, which caused a major concussion. She had to be evacuated, which left Chris alone and he was later killed by a sniper. When she recovered from the concussion, all of her memories were restored and her feelings for Steve came into conflict with her love and grief for Chris.
The Bionic Woman
Despite being on different networks, both "The Bionic Woman" and "The Six Million Dollar Man" were simultaneously cancelled in the spring of 1978. Unlike "The Six Million Dollar Man", which ended with a standard episode, "On the Run" was written and filmed as a resolution to the series.
Oscar Goldman
The character of Oscar Goldman is absent from "Bionic Woman", a remake of the 1976 series which aired on NBC starting in September 2007. Goldman has been replaced by a new character, Jonas Bledsoe, played by Miguel Ferrer.
Glen Morgan
In May 2007, "The Hollywood Reporter" reported that Morgan had joined the production team of NBC's "Bionic Woman" as an executive producer, however "Variety" reported in September 2007 that Morgan left the show due to "creative differences".
The Bionic Woman
Wagner stars as professional tennis player Jaime Sommers, who becomes critically injured during a skydiving accident. Jaime's life is saved by Oscar Goldman (Richard Anderson) and Dr. Rudy Wells (Alan Oppenheimer) with bionic surgical implants similar to those of "The Six Million Dollar Man" Steve Austin (Lee Majors). Through the use of cybernetic implants, known as bionics, Jaime is gifted with an amplified bionic ear which allows her to hear at low volumes and at different frequencies from most humans and over uncommonly long distances. She also has extraordinary strength in her bionic right arm and in both legs that enables her to run at speeds exceeding 60 miles per hour. She is then assigned to spy missions of her own as an occasional agent of the Office of Scientific Information, while under the employment cover as a school teacher of middle school students.
Every Woman
Every Woman is a syndicated television series produced by Entertainment Studios and created by Byron Allen. The series has aired since 2000. Heidi Klum made a guest appearance on the show in 2011.
Laeta Kalogridis
Laeta Elizabeth Kalogridis (born August 30, 1965) is a Greek-American screenwriter and television and film producer. She has written scripts for "Alexander" (2004), "Night Watch" (2004), "Pathfinder" (2007) and "Shutter Island" (2010). She also served as an executive producer for the television series "Birds of Prey" and "Bionic Woman", and she co-wrote the screenplay for "Terminator Genisys" (2015). She recently was creator and executive producer of "Altered Carbon" (2018).
Andy Mangels
In July 2016, "The New York Times" ran a story about Dynamite Entertainment, which revealed that Mangels was writing a new intercompany crossover mini-series for the company, in conjunction with DC Comics: "Wonder Woman '77 Meets The Bionic Woman", bringing together the Lynda Carter television character with Lindsay Wagner's fellow 1970s television super-heroine. The series was set to start in Fall 2016.
The Bionic Woman
The series proved popular worldwide, particularly so in the United Kingdom, where it was shown on the ITV network and achieved unusually high audience figures for a science fiction show. The first episode of the series ("Welcome Home Jaime") was shown on 1 July 1976 and was the most watched programme of the week. It was watched in 7 million homes, giving it an average of 14 million viewers. Two weeks later, the show's third episode ("Angel of Mercy") also became the most watched programme of the week. Its success continued with a further 10 episodes scoring in the top 20 during 1976. (By contrast, "The Six Million Dollar Man" never once entered the top 10 rating during its five seasons, though this was most likely due to the fact that the show was never broadcast across all ITV stations at the same time). The second season also proved popular, with seven episodes finishing in the weekly top 20, the highest of these being the episode "The Vega Influence" on 12 May 1977, which reached No.8 with 14.8 million viewers. The third season was not broadcast simultaneously across all ITV stations in the UK, however, and therefore no episodes reached the weekly Top 20.
Jaime Sommers (Bionic Woman)
Early episodes have revealed assorted information: Will Anthros, whose father invented bionics, is apparently shot to death by Sarah Corvus, a renegade and the first Bionic Woman. After his funeral in the second episode, Jaime Sommers discovers he had kept a secret dossier on her dating back two years which contained her IQ test results, photos and personal history. In the series' fourth episode, Sommers discovers that her bionic systems have a maximum five-year life span. She is also for the first time shown experiencing bionic-hand tremors similar to that exhibited by Corvus, whose first-generation bionics are shown to be slowly failing, affecting her physical and mental health. The fourth episode also reveals that Jaime is afraid of flying.
Eric Kripke
Eric Kripke (born April 24, 1974) is an American television writer, director, and producer. He is the creator of The WB (now The CW) series "Supernatural", the NBC series "Revolution" and more recent NBC series "Timeless".
The Bionic Woman
The most notable of the frequent crossovers between the two shows included a two-part episode in which Steve and Jaime square off against Austin's sometimes-friend/sometimes-enemy Bigfoot and a three-part story arc entitled "Kill Oscar" that aired the first and third parts as "Bionic Woman" episodes and the second part as an episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man". The close connection between "The Six Million Dollar Man" and "The Bionic Woman" was highlighted by the fact that Richard Anderson and Martin E. Brooks played their same characters on two different television shows (eventually) running concurrently on two different networks.
On her own, Jaime's enemies include the Fembots, a line of powerful robots that she fights twice in the series over several episodes. She also thwarts the plan of an aging nuclear scientist named Elijah Cooper to destroy all life on Earth using a doomsday device in "Doomsday Is Tomorrow". Jaime's missions frequently involved undercover work in which she takes on a secret identity, such as a nun, a police officer, a college student, an air-steward, a singer, and a professional wrestler. Her tennis background also came into play occasionally, and she was also from time to time seen having adventures with some of her students in Ojai.
American Woman (TV series)
"American Woman" follows "Bonnie, an unconventional mother struggling to raise her two daughters after leaving her husband amid the rise of second-wave feminism in the 1970s. With the help of her two best friends, Kathleen and Diana, these three women each discover their own brand of independence in a glamorous and ever-changing world reluctant to give it."
On June 2, 2015, it was announced that TV Land was developing a television pilot based on the life of "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Kyle Richards. The pilot was set to be produced by John Wells Productions in association with Warner Horizon Television. Executive producers included John Wells and John Riggi, who wrote the pilot script.
Martin E. Brooks
Brooks reprised the role of Wells in three television movies: "The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman" (1987), "Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman" (1989) and "Bionic Ever After?" (1994). His other television roles include in Mike Snow in "Hunter", Dr. Arthur Bradshaw in "General Hospital", "Car 54, Where Are You?", "Gunsmoke", "", "Night Gallery", "Love, American Style", "The Mod Squad", and Edgar Randolph in the soap opera "Dallas", in a story arc involving J.R. Ewing. Brooks also guest-starred in an episode of "The Silent Force" in 1970. He appeared in "Knots Landing" as Ted Burton in the 1990s.
The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman
The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman is a made-for-television science fiction action film which originally aired on May 17, 1987 on NBC. The movie reunited the main casts of the television series "The Six Million Dollar Man" and its spin-off "The Bionic Woman". Set 10 years after the events of those series, Steve Austin (Lee Majors) and Jaime Sommers (Lindsay Wagner) are asked to come out of retirement and confront a paramilitary criminal organization called Fortress, Steve's estranged son Michael Austin (Tom Schanley), and their own past relationship. Series regular characters Oscar Goldman (Richard Anderson), head of the OSI, and Dr. Rudy Wells (Martin E. Brooks) also star, along with a new characters OSI agent Jim Castillian (Lee Majors II, the real-life son of Lee Majors) and Lyle Stenning (Martin Landau), leader of Fortress.
Second Wind (1976 film)
Michael Walsh remarks that the film was made when Canadian producers found it easier to obtain financing if they cast American actors in starring roles, a regular strategy used by producer James Margellos. This was the first feature film for James Naughton, who had featured in television roles since 1972, and was best known at the time from the single-season 1974 television series "Planet of the Apes". Lindsay Wagner was known for her lead role on the American science fiction television series "The Bionic Woman".
The Bionic Woman
The series proved highly popular worldwide, gaining high ratings in the US and particularly so in the UK (where it became the only science fiction programme to achieve the No.1 position in the ratings during the 20th century). The series ran for three seasons, from 1976 to 1978, first on the ABC network and then the NBC network for its final season. Years after its cancelation, three spin-off TV movies were produced between 1987 and 1994. Reruns of the show aired on Sci-Fi Channel from 1997 to 2001. A remake of the series was produced in 2007.
Whitney Cummings
Whitney Cummings (born September 4, 1982) is an American comedian, actress and producer. She is best known as the creator of the CBS sitcom "2 Broke Girls" (2011–2017) and the NBC sitcom "Whitney" (2011–2013), appearing in the lead role of the latter. Cummings was a producer and writer for the ABC revival of "Roseanne".
Bionic Woman (2007 TV series)
Bartender Jaime Sommers struggles to make ends meet in San Francisco while serving as a surrogate mom to her teenage sister. Nearly killed in a car accident, Jaime is saved by a cutting-edge operationperformed by her boyfriend, Will Anthrosthat repairs her body with cybernetic replacements. With extraordinary new strength, speed, and other artificially enhanced abilities, Jaime begins working for the Berkut Group, the organization responsible for her operation. In her new life Jaime must learn how to use her new abilities while working to understand the role that she has been thrust into.
The Bionic Woman
Two novels adapting various episodes were published to coincide with the series: "Welcome Home, Jaime" and "Extracurricular Activities", both by Eileen Lottman. The UK editions of these two books were credited to "Maud Willis" and were retitled "Double Identity" and "A Question of Life", respectively. Although the closing credits of every episode says the series was based upon Martin Caidin's 1972 novel, "Cyborg", this only refers to the bionics concept, the characters of Rudy Wells and Oscar Goldman, and the occasional appearance by Steve Austin; Jaime Sommers does not appear in any of Caidin's novels.
Michelle Ryan
In February 2007, it was announced that she had been cast as the lead in the new drama "Bionic Woman". The series began airing in the United States on the broadcast network NBC in September 2007. Ryan affected an American accent for the role of Jaime Sommers, except in the episode "The Education of Jaime Sommers" in which her character goes undercover as an English transfer student at a university; for this episode, she spoke in an Oxfordshire accent instead of her natural London accent. She has had professional dance training and attributed it to helping her with the physically demanding stunts required for the show. She also learned Krav Maga and sign language for the part (the latter because, as originally conceived, Ryan's character was to have had a hearing impaired sister, but this story element was abandoned). Ryan stated the show's cancellation came about because it kept changing direction, and stated it led to her being less ambitious about her career. "I'm more go-with-the-flow now", she said.
Jaime Sommers (Bionic Woman)
The reimagined version of Sommers is recruited by a covert anti-terrorist organization and early episodes of the series have shown her training to be an agent, while trying to uncover who within the agency is actually trustworthy. Meanwhile, Sommers has to balance her life as a secret agent with being a surrogate mother to her rebellious 15-year-old sister, whom she has taken care of since the death of their mother and abandonment by their father.
The Bionic Woman
In the UK, Universal released three single-disc volumes of selected episodes of "The Bionic Woman" in 2001/02. Each volume contained three episodes. Universal then released the first two full seasons of "The Bionic Woman" on DVD in the UK and Australia in 2005/06. There were no special features on any of the sets. Season three was eventually released in the UK by Fabulous Films in December 2012, along with repackaged versions of the first two seasons and a complete 18-disc boxed set of all three seasons. These versions contained various special features as found on the Region 1 sets (see below), though the season three release also contains all three of the Bionic reunion movies from the 1980s and 1990s.
List of Supergirl characters
"Supergirl" is an American television series developed by Greg Berlanti, Ali Adler, and Andrew Kreisberg based on the characters created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in the "Superman" franchise and Al Plastino and Otto Binder's character Supergirl. The series stars Melissa Benoist in the titular role of Kara Zor-El / Kara Danvers / Supergirl, as well as Mehcad Brooks, Chyler Leigh, Jeremy Jordan, David Harewood, and Calista Flockhart, with Chris Wood, Floriana Lima, Katie McGrath, Odette Annable, Jesse Rath, Sam Witwer, Nicole Maines and April Parker Jones joining in later seasons. In addition to original characters, several other characters from DC Comics universe also appear throughout the series. For its first season, "Supergirl" aired on CBS, before moving to The CW for its second season.
William Dozier
He is best remembered as the executive producer and narrator of the "Batman" television series (1966–1968), although he was uncredited for the role as narrator. He also performed those functions on "The Green Hornet" television show, which starred Van Williams and Bruce Lee, although here the narration was limited to the opening, the next-episode trailers, and the story-so-far recaps in its three two-part episodes. Dozier also made a screen test of an aborted version of "Wonder Woman" in 1967. During his time as executive producer of "Batman" he co-created the character Barbara Gordon, who would become a prominent character in the Batman comic books as well as the television series.
Hager Twins
Their TV appearances also include the original "The Bionic Woman", in which Jim and Jon played cloned detectives Verm and Dier in the February 11, 1978 episode "Sanctuary Earth."
She-Hulk
She-Hulk was created by Stan Lee, who wrote only the first issue, and was the last character he created for Marvel Comics until his return to comics with "Ravage 2099" in 1992. The reason behind the character's creation had to do with the success of "The Incredible Hulk" (1977–82) and "The Bionic Woman" TV series. Marvel was afraid that the show's executives might suddenly introduce a female version of the Hulk, as had been done with "The Six Million Dollar Man", so Marvel decided to publish their own version of such a character to make sure that if a similar one showed up in the TV series, Marvel would own the rights.
Janice Whitby
After "Laugh-In" Whitby landed guest roles on several hit TV series including "Baretta", "Emergency!" and "Cannon". However, her biggest and possibly most memorable TV role was guest starring on "The Six Million Dollar Man" and "The Bionic Woman" three part epic crossover entitled "Kill Oscar". She played the android assailant, Katy, Doctor Franklin's (John Houseman) fembot assistant and operative. The fembot role earned Whitby ongoing cult status fame among science fiction fans.
Michelle Ryan
Prior to "Bionic Woman", she appeared in "Jekyll" for the BBC, a modern-day version of "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" starring James Nesbitt. It began its six-episode run on 16 June 2007, and was released on DVD in the United States on 18 September 2007, one week prior to her debut in "Bionic Woman".
Deborah Joy LeVine
Deborah Joy LeVine is an American television writer and producer who is most notable for her title "The Woman who Revived Superman", as she wrote the TV series, "", which ran from 1993 to 1997.
Kitty O'Neil
By 1970, O'Neil had taken up racing on water and land, participating in the Baja 500 and Mint 400. She met stuntmen Hal Needham and Ron Hambleton while racing motorcycles, and lived with Hambleton, giving up racing for a time. In the mid-1970s, she entered stunt work, training with Needham, Hambleton and Dar Robinson. In 1976, she became the first woman to perform with Stunts Unlimited, the leading stunt agency. As a stuntwoman, she appeared in "The Bionic Woman", "Airport '77", "The Blues Brothers", "Smokey and the Bandit II" and other television and movie productions. In 1978, her stunt career inspired a Kitty O'Neil action figure, made by Mattel.
Jaime Sommers (The Bionic Woman)
NBC aggressively promoted the series "Bionic Woman.". The weekly remake drew large initial audiences. The series went on hiatus when worldwide entertainment was halted due to the 2007–08 writer's strike. The strike, coupled with diminishing ratings, led NBC to cancel the show after production of eight episodes.
Lucy Hale
In 2007, Hale appeared in NBC's short-lived series "Bionic Woman", a re-imagining from the 1976 series of the same name. Hale plays Becca Sommers, the younger sister of the title character Jaime Sommers (played by Michelle Ryan). The character was originally portrayed by Mae Whitman in the unaired pilot episode, after which Whitman departed the series.
The Bionic Woman
The Bionic Woman is an American television science fiction action series starring Lindsay Wagner that aired between 1976 and 1978. "The Bionic Woman" series features Jaime Sommers, who takes on special high-risk government missions using her superhuman bionic powers. "The Bionic Woman" series is a spin-off from the 1970s "The Six Million Dollar Man" television science fiction action series.
Bionic Woman (2007 TV series)
The SyFy Portal, citing a "TV Guide" column, suggested that the series cast and crew have been told that production has ended, although NBC has made no official announcement as to the series' fate as of that date and the blog author stressed that the news was only a rumor.
David Eick, the series' co-executive producer, confirmed on March 19, 2008 that the series had been canceled, although the network has still not officially announced it.
The series was subsequently not included in the Fall 2008 schedule announced by NBC in early April 2008. As of September 2009 NBC still had a "Bionic Woman" website running, though elements were disabled. The NBC Message Boards have discontinued the "Bionic Woman" forum.
Jeff Yagher
He starred in the TV movie "Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman" along with Sandra Bullock in 1989.
Jaime Sommers (The Bionic Woman)
In 2007, NBC launched a reimagined "Bionic Woman". This remake presented fans a unique 21st vision for the Bionic Woman. Very few elements of the original series were kept, except for the first and last names of the main character. The 21st-century writers placed "Easter Eggs" throughout the series that referenced the original TV series, many of which were subtle. In the remake, Jamie's full name was Jaime Wells Sommers, a homage to the earlier series' character Dr. Rudy Wells.
Jaime Sommers (The Bionic Woman)
Nevertheless, the 21st century viewer learns quite early that this version of the "Bionic Woman" had the same basic bionic parts as the 1970s model. However, Jaime version 2.0 also received a bionic right eye (a bionic component previously associated with the original Steve Austin).
Jaime Sommers (The Bionic Woman)
Jaime is portrayed as the third cyborg and first female. She followed the astronaut/test pilot Steve Austin and the race car driver Barney Hiller (seen in the November 1, 1974, and November 9, 1975, episodes of "The Six Million Dollar Man"). Jaime's bionics were thus Rudy Wells' third generation. She has been shown to be able to run slightly faster than he could. Also, her prebionic life as a professional athlete gave her greater natural agility than Steve. Her difficult transition to postbionic life, along with later degrees in psychology, made her the ideal candidate to be Rudy's assistant in training new implantees in the use of their bionics. She trained Steve's son, Michael, to control his bionics after his operation, as well as Kate Mason.
The Bionic Woman
The second film, "", (1989) introduced Sandra Bullock as paraplegic Kate Mason who becomes a next-generation bionic woman and Sommers again helps train the neophyte cyborg.
Jaime Sommers (The Bionic Woman)
In February 2016, Lindsay Wagner clarified in an interview with "Headlines and Global News" why the series that made her a star, unlike her "Six Million Dollar" counterpart, never revealed the final cost of "The Bionic Woman". "That was a whole political thing wasn't it?" Wagner says. "She [Jaime] couldn't cost more than the man! They were going to make it more, but there was this whole political thing with the network because it was the beginning of the feminine revolution". Thus, ultimately the cost of Jaime Sommers' bionic implants was never revealed and deemed classified information in the opening credits.
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.
Bionic Woman (2007 TV series)
Michael Idato of "The Age" said that since the series had gone "through a series of writers and producers", it was "no surprise that what finally lands is a little messy". However he said that "despite some early uncertainty, Ryan becomes a likable Sommers, leaving only the show's dark tone and relentless pace as potential problems." He said that they were great for setting up the story, "but could become too much as the season progresses". Not all reviews were as optimistic; Michael Hinman of SyFy Portal referred to the show as "a disaster".
Oscar Goldman
Anderson reprised the role of Oscar Goldman in three highly rated two-hour TV movie sequels to the series that aired in the late 1980s and early 1990s: "The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman", "", and "Bionic Ever After?", indicating that, in the Six Million Dollar Man universe, Goldman remained in a high-ranking position with the OSI well into the 1990s.
Wonder Woman (TV series)
In July 2016, prior to Comic-Con International, the New York Times ran a story about Dynamite Entertainment. In it, best-selling author Andy Mangels was revealed to be writing a prestigious new intercompany crossover mini-series for the company, in conjunction with DC Comics: "Wonder Woman '77 Meets The Bionic Woman", bringing together the Lynda Carter television character with Lindsay Wagner's fellow 1970s television super-heroine. The series was released in December 2016.
Jaime Sommers (The Bionic Woman)
In the series' fictional history, Jaime Sommers is a former professional tennis star, who after recovering from her near-fatal first operation, is the first female cyborg. She is assigned to spy missions of her own as an occasional agent of the Office of Scientific Information, while under the employment cover as a school teacher of middle school students. Through the use of cybernetic implants, known as bionics, Jaime is given an amplified bionic ear which allowed her to hear at low volumes, at different frequencies than most humans, and over uncommonly long distances. She also has extraordinary strength in her bionic right arm, and both legs, which enable her to run at speeds exceeding 60 miles per hour.
Christian Juttner
Juttner was born on May 20, 1964 in Los Angeles, California. While known for his roles in a few Disney films, Juttner also appeared in many television shows throughout the 1970s including "Bewitched", "Ironside", "Emergency!", "The Bionic Woman", "Wonder Woman", "ABC Afterschool Specials", "Lou Grant", "Trapper John, M.D." and "Alice".
Lindsay Wagner
Wagner earned an Emmy Award in 1977 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Dramatic Role for her role in "The Bionic Woman" television series.
Doctor Cyber
Gloria Marquez (Jessica Walter), an enemy from the Wonder Woman TV series, is revealed to be Doctor Cyber in the comic book series "Wonder Woman '77 Meets The Bionic Woman.
Bionic Woman (2007 TV series)
It was later reported that the USA Network was considering airing the series, with Jennifer Aniston being in consideration for the lead role. In October 2006, NBC Universal announced that it was bringing the project back with new producers, and reportedly a radical reworking of the original concept. The series would be written by Laeta Kalogridis (creator of the WB series "Birds of Prey") and produced by David Eick. Eick commented on the new series saying, "It's a complete re-conceptualization of the title. We're using the title as a starting point, and that's all. It's going to be a meaningful departure [from the original]." In January 2007, "The Hollywood Reporter" reported that the series one-hour pilot was given an official greenlight by NBC. On May 10, 2007, NBC announced that they had given an early pick-up to "Bionic Woman" for their fall 2007 schedule.
Kenneth Johnson (filmmaker)
Kenneth Culver Johnson (born October 26, 1942) is an American screenwriter, producer and director. He is known as the creator of the "V" science fiction franchise as well as "The Bionic Woman" (1976–78), "The Incredible Hulk" series (1977–82), and the TV adaptation (1989) of "Alien Nation". His creative efforts are almost entirely concentrated in the area of television science fiction.
Bionic Six
In the near future (some unspecified decades after 1999), Professor Dr. Amadeus Sharp Ph.D., head of the Special Projects Labs (SPL), creates a new form of technology to augment humans through bionics. His first subject was Jack Bennett, a test pilot who secretly acted as Sharp's field agent, Bionic-1. On a family ski vacation in the Himalayas, an alien spacecraft triggers an avalanche that buries the entire family, exposing them to the unusual radiation of a mysterious buried object. Jack frees himself but discovers his family in a comatose state. Theorizing that Jack's bionics protected him from the radiation, Professor Sharp implants bionic technology in the others, awakening them. Afterward, the family operates incognito as a publicly lauded team of adventuring superheroes, the Bionic Six.
The Bionic Woman
The character was so popular that ABC asked the writers to find a way to bring her back. In the first episode of the next season, it is revealed that Jaime had not died after all, but Steve was not told. He soon discovers the truth when he is hospitalized after suffering severe damage to his bionic legs; he sees Jaime before slipping into a coma.
The Bionic Woman
Like its parent program "The Bionic Woman" spawned its own line of toys. Kenner produced a 12-inch doll of the character, with similar features to the Steve Austin version (bionic modules and removable bionic limbs), except instead of a bionic eye the doll's head would click when turned, simulating the sound of Jaime's bionic ear. Accessories for the doll released by Kenner included additional fashions, and a Bionic Beauty Salon playset.
Wonder Woman '77
Wonder Woman '77 is a comic book series published by DC Comics featuring Wonder Woman as a continuation of the 1975–1979 television series starring Lynda Carter. The series was initially written by Marc Andreyko, though other writers later substituted in, with cover art by Nicola Scott.
List of The Knick episodes
"The Knick" is an American television drama series on Cinemax created by Jack Amiel and Michael Begler, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Clive Owen. It looks at the professional and personal lives of Dr. John W. Thackery (played by Owen) and the staff at a fictionalized version of the Knickerbocker Hospital ("the Knick") in New York during the early part of the twentieth century. The series premiered on Cinemax on August 8, 2014. In March 2017, Cinemax announced the series was officially cancelled.
Feminist science fiction
Feminism has driven the creation of a considerable body of action-oriented science fiction with female protagonists: Wonder Woman (originally created in 1941) and "The Bionic Woman" during the time of the organized women's movement in the 1970s; "" and the "Alien tetralogy" in the 1980s; and "Xena, Warrior Princess", comic book character "Red Sonja", and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". 2001 science fiction TV series "Dark Angel" featured a powerful female protagonist, with gender roles between her and the main male character generally reversed.
The Bionic Woman
Jaime dealt with a number of bizarre cases, such as a villain who operates a hair salon using a "truth serum" shampoo to extract information from OSI agents. In another episode, a convict named Lisa Galloway (also portrayed by Lindsay Wagner) is given plastic surgery and tries to replace Jaime. In a later episode, Lisa ingests a paste-like substance called Adrenalizine that gives her temporary super-strength, allowing her to fully replace Jaime at OSI while the real Jaime is imprisoned and led to question her own identity. Lisa, however, did not know of Jaime's bionic implants and believed her powers to have come from the Adrenalizine. After Jaime's eventual escape, Dr. Wells discovers that the Adrenalizine was breaking down and becoming toxic to Lisa's health. Further complicating the issue was Lisa's increasing belief that she was in fact, the real Jaime.
Up the Women
Up the Women is a BBC television sitcom created, written by and starring Jessica Hynes. It was first broadcast on BBC Four on 30 May 2013. The sitcom is about a group of women in 1910 who form a Women's Suffrage movement. Hynes originally planned to write a comedy film about a suffragette plot to assassinate H. H. Asquith, but after realising the plot had turned quite dark, she decided to write a sitcom instead. Christine Gernon directed the three-part series, which became the last sitcom to be filmed before a live audience at BBC Television Centre and the first to be commissioned for BBC Four. A second series was commissioned in June 2013 and aired on BBC Two from 21 January 2015. "Up the Women" was not renewed for a third series.
Jaime Sommers (The Bionic Woman)
Johnson named Sommers after a water skier he met while producing whale shows at SeaWorld. The name "Jaime" was predominantly a male name (a derivative of "James") before the television series began. It is probably not a coincidence that in 1976 the name Jaime became one of the 100 most popular names of the year in every one of the 50 US states. The female name Jamie (a variant spelling) also gained enormous popularity at the same time.
The Secrets of Isis
The program was the first weekly, American, live-action television series with a female superhero lead character (debuting September 6, 1975, predating the "weekly" debuts of both "The Bionic Woman" (January 14, 1976), and, "Wonder Woman" (April 21, 1976)). In the series, Isis (Joanna Cameron) is the alter ego of Andrea Thomas, a seemingly normal schoolteacher, who transforms into the Egyptian goddess when presented with crises a mere mortal cannot resolve.
Bob Wilkins
Bob Wilkins (April 11, 1932 – January 7, 2009) was a television personality born as Robert Gene Wilkins in the town of Hammond, Indiana. Wilkins was best known as the creator and host of a popular television show named "Creature Features" that ran on KTVU in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1971 to 1984, and which premiered with Del Tenney's infamous "The Horror of Party Beach". The programming on "Creature Features" featured science fiction and horror film; everything from the classics, such as "Bride of Frankenstein" to turgid turkeys like "The Vulture". More often than not, the films were good, and sometimes the show hit benchmarks: George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" had its world television premiere on the show, just a couple of years after its original theatrical release. Wilkins' style of wit was very dry, and fit very well with some of the "schlockers" he was forced to air, which was a big part of his appeal to his fans (somewhat in the style of "Mystery Science Theater 3000"). As host of the show, his droll humor and omnipresent cigar became his trademarks.
Jaime Sommers (The Bionic Woman)
Jaime Sommers is a fictional character from the science fiction action series "The Bionic Woman" (1976–1978). She is portrayed by American actress Lindsay Wagner. Sommers takes on special high-risk government missions using her superhuman powers. Wagner first played the role in the 1970s American television series "The Six Million Dollar Man". In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she reprised the role in several reunion television films.
Harve Bennett
Following "The Mod Squad", Bennett joined Universal Studios where he produced a variety of television series and miniseries. The best known of these series are probably "The Six Million Dollar Man" (1973–78) and "The Bionic Woman" (1976-78). Other series and miniseries he produced at Universal include "Rich Man, Poor Man" (1976), "The Invisible Man" (1975) and "Gemini Man" (1976).