THE BIONIC WOMAN arrives on Blu-ray this August from Fabulous Films

Following on from the exciting news on the upcoming release of The Six Million Dollar – Complete Collection on Blu-ray, Fabulous Films are following up that release with another iconic TV series The Bionic Woman – The Complete Collection on Blu-ray on 14th August 2023.

The Bionic Woman: The Complete Collection Blu-Ray boxset includes 18 discs and 699 mins of extra features. All 58 episodes of the groundbreaking series have been digitally re-mastered and restored, including a brand new 2k scan of Bionic Ever After? This Emmy© Award winning and Golden Globe© nominated series was originally broadcast on BBC TV in the late 70’s into the early 80’s. Lindsay Wagner as Jamie Sommers won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1977.

The Bionic Woman was adapted by Harve Bennett from Martin Caidin’s novel Cyborg that inspired The Six Million Dollar Man (1973) 90-minute TV-movie pilot. Wagner’s role as Jamie Sommers in the two-part episode of The Six Million Dollar Man in 1975 titled “The Bionic Woman” was supposed to be her last role honouring a contract with Universal (working as a contract player in various Universal Television LLC productions between 1971 and 1975 including The Rockford Files and Night Gallery). However, public reaction to her character was so strong that she was offered her own spin-off series.

Premiering in January 1976, as a mid-season replacement on ABC The Bionic Woman became the fifth most-watched television show of the whole 1975–76 season (even though it only ran for half the season). The series ranked behind Maude, Laverne & Shirley, Rich Man, Poor Man, and All In The Family, but ahead of The Six Million Dollar Man.

Wagner’s Emmy Award was the first ever Best Actress Emmy awarded for a weekly science-fiction television series. The show was the first weekly TV series to feature a female superhero as the lead character, premiering three months before the Wonder Woman TV series.

Guest appearances include Lee Majors (The Six Million Dollar Man, Fall Guy) Stefanie Powers (Hart to Hart), Julie Newmar (Catwoman in the Batman TV Series) and Evil Knievel.

Synopsis:

When tennis pro Jaime Sommers is critically injured in a skydiving accident, she is “rebuilt” using the government’s top secret cybernetic replacement surgery known as “bionics”. As the world’s first bionic woman, Jaime is equipped with bionic legs capable of running over 60 miles-per-hour, a bionic arm that can lift an automobile, and a bionic ear that can detect the slightest of sounds. With her tennis career necessarily over, Jaime returns to her hometown of Ojai, California, to start life anew as a school teacher at a U.S. Air Force base Between her classroom duties, Jaime moonlights as a secret agent for OSI Director Oscar Goldman (Richard Anderson), taking on highly-classified—and usually dangerous—missions, to satisfy a debt she feels is owed to the government for making her “whole” again.

Cast: Lindsay Wagner, Richard Anderson, Martin E. Brooks.

Extras:

All 4 Six Million Dollar Man episodes explain the origins of The Bionic Woman.
Audio commentary with writer Kenneth Johnson on “Six Million Dollar Man: Bionic Woman” Part 1 and Part 2, “The Ghost Hunter”, “Doomsday Is Tomorrow” Part 1 and Part 2.
Audio Commentary with Director Alan J Levi and Writer James D Parriott on “Mirror Image”.
Gag Reel.
Featurette: Bionic Beginnings.
Audio Commentary with Lindsay Wagner on “Road To Nashville” and “Biofeedback”.
Audio Commentary with Writer James D Parriott on “The Bionic Dog” Part 1.
Audio Commentary with Steven E. De Souza on “On The Run”.
Featurette: Bionic Blast.
Q&A with Series Star Lindsay Wagner.

All three reunion movies: The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman, Bionic Showdown, Bionic Ever After?.
Bionic Reunion Gallery.
Printed Episode Guide Booklets.
Audio Commentary With Author Herbie J. Pilato on “Welcome Home, Jaime: Part 1,” “A Thing Of The Past,” “Claws,” “The Deadly Missiles,” “Bionic Beauty,” “Canyon Of Death”, “The Return Of Bigfoot: Part 1”, “The Return Of Bigfoot: Part 2”.
Audio Commentary With Director Alan J. Levi on “The Deadly Missiles”, “Road To Nashville” and “Once A Thief”.
Audio Commentary With Bionic Woman Fan/Collector/Webmaster James Sherrard on “On The Run” and “Fembots in Las Vegas”.
Bryan Cranston gives it to us straight – The actor talks about his time on The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman.
Bionic Ever After? (1994 Reunion Film) – Featuring a NEW 2K scan of the interpositive.
“Brain Wash” Podcast with Bionic Fan and Collector James Sherrard.
Bionic Woman Scripts (BD-ROM) for “The Jailing of Jaime”, “Assault on the Princess”, “Motorcycle Boogie” and scripts for unfilmed episodes “Clownaround”, “Rollercoaster Ride”, “Starman”, “Starman Part II”,
”The Wind Devil”.
All News Season Galleries.
Bionic Woman Promos.
Bionic Woman Files Declassified.
Toy Still Gallery.
Bionic Testing Center Still Gallery.
Next Time on Bionic Woman.
TV Spots.
Photos from Bionicon.
Kenneth Johnson recording Commentary Tracks Gallery.

Fabulous Films are releasing The Bionic Woman on Blu-ray on 14th August 2023.