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Lindsay Wagner returns as Jamie Sommers, an agent for the Office Of Scientific Investigations - home of the Six Million Dollar Man. Contains all the episodes from the second series.
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2.4 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Dutch ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Box Set, Interactive Menu, Multi-DVD Set, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Second series of adventures featuring the 70's super-heroine and her fantastic powers. When tennis professional Jaime Sommers (Lindsay Wagner) meets up with her childhood sweetheart Steve Austin (Lee Majors) on holiday, she has a near-fatal sky-diving accident. Steve, the 'Six-Million Dollar Man', begs his government bosses to perform bionic surgery on Jaime to save her life. When the operation is over, Jaime has super-speed, strength and a bionic ear that hears over any distance. Jaime agrees to help the Office of Scientific Investigations fight evil fembots, spies, criminals, and even space aliens, for the good of mankind. Season two episodes are; 'In This Corner, Jaime Sommers', 'Assault on the Princess', 'Road to Nashville', 'Kill Oscar, Part 1', 'Kill Oscar, Part 2', 'Kill Oscar, Part 3', 'Black Magic', 'Sister Jaime', 'The Vega Influence', 'Jaime's Shield, Part 1', 'Jaime's Shield, Part 2', 'Biofeedback', 'Doomsday is Tomorrow, Part 1', 'Doomsday is Tomorrow, Part 2', 'Deadly Ringer, Part 1', 'Deadly Ringer, Part 2', 'Jaime and the King', 'Beyond the Call,' 'The DeJon Caper', 'The Night Demon', 'Iron Ships and Dead Men' and 'Once a Thief'. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Emmy Awards, Golden Globes, ...The Bionic Woman - Season Two - 6-DVD Box Set ( The Bionic Woman - Entire Season 2 )
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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Season 2 of the Bionic Woman had pretty much all you could ever wish for in a television show. The scripts were sharp and witty, the plots were either suitably dark and twisted (Kill Oscar, Doomsday is Tomorrow) or light and funny (In This Corner Jaime Sommers, Sister Jaime) and in Lindsay Wagner the show had a beautiful, charismatic lead who could genuinely act. Lindsay Wagner - make no mistake - was very easy on the eye but, leaving my churning hormones to one side for a second, she was first and foremost an extremely talented actress. If you watch her in Deadly Ringer where she portrays a woman suffering a complete psychological breakdown you can see just how good she was. Lindsay Wagner, as you would expect from the lead in what was primarily supposed to be an entertaining sci-fi show suitable for children and adults alike, could do funny and dynamic and stylish and sympathetic. After all she dominates every episode in the series so she effectively had to provide the likeable focal-point all the time, but she could also do dark and tortured. In Deadly Ringer she plays a dual role, being both Jaime Sommers and a woman who looks just like her but who has a very different character, and given the opportunity to go through the entire range of emotions from euphoria to the darkest of dark despairs she really shines as a very talented actress.
The best stories here are the two and three parters such as Jaime's Shield, Doomsday is Tomorrow, Deadly Ringer and Kill Oscar - the last of which introduced the rather sinister fembots. My personal favourite is Doomsday is Tomorrow in which Jaime battles against a beautifully-mannered computer in an attempt to prevent the world being destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. It is, quite honestly, as good and dramatic a piece of televison as I have ever seen.
The stand alone episodes tend, in general, to be a little more light-hearted and give the lead characters greater scope to show their comic talents. Some of the little scenes between Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson (who played the charming and reassuring Oscar Goldman) make for great televison. You can sense the genuine affection between the actors and the scenes really shine as a result. Indeed watching the series as a whole you do get the feeling that the entire team of actors, directors, story-writers etc., all had a great deal of affection for the programme and gave it their very best in order to make it a success.
Season two shows the programme at the height of its powers. More settled, and with less to prove, than in the first series but still fresh and innovative. I, for one, am very glad to see this fabulous little box set on the market. Seventies TV at its beautiful, charming, daring, likeable, charasmatic best.
The best stories here are the two and three parters such as Jaime's Shield, Doomsday is Tomorrow, Deadly Ringer and Kill Oscar - the last of which introduced the rather sinister fembots. My personal favourite is Doomsday is Tomorrow in which Jaime battles against a beautifully-mannered computer in an attempt to prevent the world being destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. It is, quite honestly, as good and dramatic a piece of televison as I have ever seen.
The stand alone episodes tend, in general, to be a little more light-hearted and give the lead characters greater scope to show their comic talents. Some of the little scenes between Lindsay Wagner and Richard Anderson (who played the charming and reassuring Oscar Goldman) make for great televison. You can sense the genuine affection between the actors and the scenes really shine as a result. Indeed watching the series as a whole you do get the feeling that the entire team of actors, directors, story-writers etc., all had a great deal of affection for the programme and gave it their very best in order to make it a success.
Season two shows the programme at the height of its powers. More settled, and with less to prove, than in the first series but still fresh and innovative. I, for one, am very glad to see this fabulous little box set on the market. Seventies TV at its beautiful, charming, daring, likeable, charasmatic best.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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My first impression whilst watching these episodes is realising that they have been heavily butchered in syndication. It was quite the revelation that Alex 7000 had actually preyed upon Jaime's fear of snakes in "Doomsday is Tomorrow." That part had been edited from every single episode I have seen in syndication! Also, the part where Jaime leaps up onto the gantry in that same episode to escape the rocket fire had been cut. This is actually a very good piece of film and stunt work, because it does actually look like Jaime has leapt 20 feet into the air. Brilliant editing.
I do have to remark upon the mislabling of this set, however. This is NOT THE COMPLETE 2ND SEASON! The Return of Bigfoot is missing, part 2 of which aired as a Bionic Woman episode. My guess is that Universal have decided to package the "Bionic Bigfoot" episodes with the Six Million Dollar Man sets, as they have been syndicated that way. However, Jaime Sommers does appear in both parts, and Universal might just as well have included both parts of this classic episode for us Bionic Woman fans along with the notation that these were crossover episodes. After all, to be entirely correct, they're going ot have to do this with the SMDM sets that contain these episodes. Okay, enough ranting and pouting about that.
Thank you, Universal-Playback, for offering the Bionic Woman in unedited form. The only complaint I have is with the sound quality. There is some background static on the soundtrack during several episodes. I tried different players with the same results. I don't know if Universal Playback's source material contained this technical flaw or whether this is indeed a defect in the discs themselves.
The picture quality, on the other hand, is very good. I had forgotten how cute Lindsay Wagner was back then. She's still not hard on the eyes these days.
By far, this is the best of the Bionic Woman seasons...but, that doesn't mean Universal should stop there. We fans still want the 3rd season, complete with the handful of rubbish episodes that went along with it.
Enjoy...this is a great classic show from the 70's. Why Universal have not released this stateside is beyond me.
I do have to remark upon the mislabling of this set, however. This is NOT THE COMPLETE 2ND SEASON! The Return of Bigfoot is missing, part 2 of which aired as a Bionic Woman episode. My guess is that Universal have decided to package the "Bionic Bigfoot" episodes with the Six Million Dollar Man sets, as they have been syndicated that way. However, Jaime Sommers does appear in both parts, and Universal might just as well have included both parts of this classic episode for us Bionic Woman fans along with the notation that these were crossover episodes. After all, to be entirely correct, they're going ot have to do this with the SMDM sets that contain these episodes. Okay, enough ranting and pouting about that.
Thank you, Universal-Playback, for offering the Bionic Woman in unedited form. The only complaint I have is with the sound quality. There is some background static on the soundtrack during several episodes. I tried different players with the same results. I don't know if Universal Playback's source material contained this technical flaw or whether this is indeed a defect in the discs themselves.
The picture quality, on the other hand, is very good. I had forgotten how cute Lindsay Wagner was back then. She's still not hard on the eyes these days.
By far, this is the best of the Bionic Woman seasons...but, that doesn't mean Universal should stop there. We fans still want the 3rd season, complete with the handful of rubbish episodes that went along with it.
Enjoy...this is a great classic show from the 70's. Why Universal have not released this stateside is beyond me.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I agree with other reviewers that Season 2 is the best. However, Season 3 includes some very good episodes too. So for those of you tired of waiting for it to be released in the U.K., go to the German Amazon site([]) and do a search for Lindsay Wagner. Koch Media has released the third season of the Bionic Woman (Die sieben Millionen Dollar Frau), with re-mastered pristine picture and sound quality AND.....best of all, in addition to the German language soundtrack, the original English soundtrack! And although all the info on the packaging is in German, English episode titles are in brackets in the booklet. Thanks to Koch Media for doing such a great job in releasing this third and final season of the Bionic Woman. It's great to see my kids enjoying this show I loved so much at their age.
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I have had this DVD release a few years and thoroughly enjoyed it.
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The best season ...
It has the extremely relevant and exciting "Doomsday Is Tomorrow 1-2" and the introduction to the awesome Fembots in "Kill Oscar 1-3" on DVD at last, and it is well worth owning... Read more
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Hit and miss
After the excellent Season 1 and before the so-so Season 3, Season 2 is exactly that - in between. It has some of the best episodes ever but also contains some real horrors. Read more
Published on 25 Aug 2008 by Mr. M. Leacy
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Got season 1+2 and they are both brilliant. I remembered Lindsey wagner as being gorgeous and my god she still is. Read more
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