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The Bionic Woman TV series aired on the American Broadcasting Company from 1976 to 1977 and then on NBC from 1977 to 1978.

For the 2007 series, see Bionic Woman.

The series was a spinoff of The Six Million Dollar Man, loosely based on the novel Cyborg. Lee Majors played Colonel Steve Austin, a NASA test pilot who survived a near-fatal crash and was reconstructed with bionic parts.

In 1975, Lindsay Wagner (Jaime Sommers) made a guest appearance on the show. She played the girlfriend of Steve Austin, the Six Million Dollar Man. Another tragic accident and Jaime was in the same life-or-death situation as Steve had been. The Office of Scientific Intelligence, the government agency that rebuilt Steve with bionic parts, did the same for Jaime. She was given the same strengths. It is said to have cost about $6 million dollars for the operations. Her extraordinary powers let her hear conversations from miles away and gave her the ability to jump great heights and the strength to bend steel with her bare hands. She and Steve planned to marry but soon thereafter Jaime's body began to reject her own limbs and then she died, nullifying the opportunity for future guest appearances on The Six Million Dollar Man.

ABC saw the potential for a spinoff, and gave Jaime a new lease on life and her own bionic series in 1976. In her show, she combined life as a schoolteacher with a secret career as an intelligence agent for the OSI, the agency that had saved her life.

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