Shark Bytes

Six Million Dollar Man/Bionic Woman Tv

Crossover (Doubt Very Much It Will Work

But If There Are Talks Of Saving The Show (god forbid)they need to experiment

everyone missed the point when the show jumped the shark. ABC cancelled the show prematually and NBC picked it up. It changed the night it was on , fridays instead of wednesdays, and the time. The first couple of eps were great - the bionic dog was fantastic but after that it was doomed to fail. very bad writing, the whole scifi unrealistic scenarios went downhill , however , the one ep that sticks in my mind that should have been the final was the one where she quits the osi. other than that the show itself did not jump the shark.

i dont think it ever jumped, its awesome.

This was one of my favorite shows on TV. Lindsay Wagner was amazing. I had such a huge crush on her! She is a great actor too. I knew that they were stretching it thin with the bionic dog though. That was their jump the shark moment.

As time goes on I appreciate more and more Lindsay Wagner's conscientious portrayal of Jaime Sommers, especially when held up next to today's trashy TV offerings (such as the current BW remake -- absolutely terrible!)

No other person on TV has left such a profound impression on my life. Lindsay deserves an incredible amount of praise for portraying a wonderful and memorable character who so many of us have admired and aspired to be like.

Oh no, the JTS ep was the one with the Alex 7000 supercomputer buried deep in the mine. Had the same voice and red camera/eye as HAL 9000. "I hate snakes!"

This show was truly AWESOME! I agree with one of the other posts...those fembots were some scary chicks! Awesome Awesome Awesome

Gotta agree about the Fembots. Those things looked seriously creepy when their faces were exposed. Imagine coming home and seeing one of those things? I'd run like hell..

Gah! Day One, for sure, mostly because it was so lame and 'nice'. Instead of stuff like Bigfoot and aliens, Jaime fearlessly helped out the local orphanage or whatever. Emma Peel booted butt most righteously on the Avengers, and that was back in the '60s. It's not that Lindsay Wagner couldn't act (she ran thespian rings around poor Lee Majors when they appeared together), it's just that the scripts were too decaf. Even the show's theme was nicety-nice. She should have fought an evil version of herself. Can you imagine a 'nasty' Jaime Sommers? Fwoooar...

New Bionic Woman. Jumped day one. Don't care about any of the characters. Too dark. Could they shoot it in the sunlight. Looks like Dark Shadows. Shouldn't have sullied the name of the original. New camera tricks and special effects cannot overcome lack of character development in the boring "writing".

This show jumped when the Bionic Dog Showed up...HAHAHAHAHAHA. However, I have been horrified by two TV scenes.

1. KILLER BOB from "Twin Peaks" will always be the freakiest thing EVER shown on network tv.

2. The Bionic Woman contains the second most terrifying TV moment. THE FEMBOTS....scary as hell.....

One of my three alltime favorite shows.The new one will stink,I'm telling you.They gave it the "Battlestar Treatment",dark,serious,heavy,depressing,violent,dirty and of course icky.We needed a blond,California girl in the role,not some gloomy,raven haired Brit.Does the US not have enough actors to go around???Make that one of my four alltime faves.Oh,it's on NBC.Expect repeats on Sci-Fi(where it belongs)and swift cancellation.NBC owns Sci_Fi and I for the life of me can't tell you why they WILL NOT rerun the old series!

This show NEVER jumped!! There was one disastrous episode, however. Before I get into that, let's remember what made both $6MDM and BW classics: they were about real people who became superheroes, ordinary (if remarkably gifted and good looking) humans who got dealt crappy hands, but were then more than compensated by being made better than they were before. As a visually handicapped boy, I first longed to be Steve, but had already developed bionic-like hearing to compensate. Anyway, when I first caught Lindsay's show, I forgot about Lee Majors, and my ideal GF was set in stone, enduring even today: a strong, smart and sweet, drop-dead gorgeous independent thinker who takes genuine pleasure in using her strengths and talents to make EVERYBODY'S lives better, and is unashamed to show tenderness and compassion even to criminals who don't deserve it, using the absolute minimum of force required to stop them from doing whatever bad thing they're intent on. I was gratified to see a 1999 Lifetime special on Lindsay Wagner recently in which she says she made sure that the scripts would get rewritten to show Jamie winning because she made a positive difference in people's lives, not just because she was stronger than everybody. That part never went to Jamie's head -- except in one horrific installment from Season Three: "Long Live The King."

In this disgrace, Oscar and Jamie fly to New York to keep the king of Darpur (yet ANOTHER Middle Eastern country) from being assassinated, and one of Jamie's lines (I kid you not on this) was: "But who would want to kill HIM? He's one of the most democratic kings this world has ever seen!" Despite some touches meant to be sweet -- and even as Lindsay continued to look radiant throughout -- this episode SUCKED BIG TIME. Jamie unnecessarily hurt the gunmen she took down and toyed with returning the attentions of the slimy protocol officer she had to work with -- both blatant departures from what made the bionic woman a role model for BOTH boys and girls. (A bit of trivia: the man who played Sam Slone would later play a similar low-grade slimeball on Wonder Woman's final season "Skateboard Wiz" episode.) Looking back, it makes perfect sense that this was Jamie's antipenultimate mission. On her FINAL run, BTW, Jamie once more gives two goons trying to kidnap a little girl a much gentler takedown than they deserve (bravo!), but the mere fact that they showed a truly small child being molested this way, along with also having Jamie accidentally hurt Oscar's arm were touches thrown in to make us realize how burnt out she really was. Still, that one episode excepted, THE BIONIC WOMAN ROCKS TO THIS DAY, and never jumped the shark. To those who're afraid to catch a rerun, do yourselves a favor and take the risk. You'll discover (as I did) that it's Wonder Woman and Charlie's Angels who now seem hokey. Lindsay's show actually improves with the age and maturity it takes to realize how fantastic it was that she was a REAL PERSON. Bravo, Lindsay -- ROCK ON!!!!!

According to a story in Washington Post this show was big with teenage homosexuals. WHO KNEW. To me the Bionic dog was the jump the shark or featch the ball point of this show. That and Jammey singing feelings.

I saw the previews for the "new" Bionic Woman at the movies over the weekend? My question is WHY? Why bring this show back & update it? It was an OK show in the 70's. I thought the Six Million Dollar Man was a better show, but that is just my opinion. If the Bionic Woman does well, will we not get a Steve Austin updated show? Will it be the Six Billion Dollar Man because of inflation?Leave the 70's where they are ... in the past. Please