The Bionic Woman: Season 3

First, three things had occured with The Boionic Woman; Season 3.One was that sadly, ABC had dropped the show from it's 1977 fall line-up. The second one was that happily, NBC decided to carry the show's final season.But unlike in the first two seasons of the show, Lee Majors and Lindsay Wagner used to do crossover episodes between The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman. Sadly, when the Bionic Woman was picked up by NBC for it's third and last season, Majors and Wagner had stopped doing crosover episodes between the two shows. Mainly because both stars' shows were on different networks. Today, it might have been different if both shows wre still in production.But nevertheless, The Bionic Woman still proved to be extraordinary and explosive in its third season!! And the offering of the third season on DVD also marks the completion of the three box-set collections of the show, comprising of all 14 discs covering all 55 episodes of the show!!But in THIS set, Jamie gets a great deal of assignments from Oscar Goldman and the OSI (Operations of Scientific Investigations). Almost like the FBI!Probably the 2 most action-packed episodes are the first two;She learns in a 2-part episode about a German Shepherd named Max, who is suffering from the same life-threatening problems that she and Col. Steve Austin went through when they both had their near-tragic accidents, and in her effort to try to help save the dog from certain death, she has him rebuilt with bionic limbs, which gives him the same bionic powers as herself and Steve! He has a slight advantage over Jamie and Steve though, because he can run up to 90mph!! So naturally, he gets paired with Jamie and they BOTH as a team overpower and squelch the bad guys!!In another two-part episode, Jamie is in Las Vegas and she faces what might be the worst of her fears in life coming true! While in a vault with Oscar and looking at some old outdated equipment there, they discover one of the old fembots there that were put out of comission and is no longer a threat to them. Or so they thought! Jamie has a quick flashback. In it, she visions what she went through before when the robots invaded her apartment and the shocking accident she has while trying to escape her apartment and the robots! She imediately wants to get out of there!But one of the fembots whom she and Steve had fought with before, has come back to life, setting off another ferocious battle between man and beast, err, cyborg and robot. She finds out that her fromer advisary, Dr. Franklin who was sentensed to life in prison and had died there for extortion and unlawfully producing look-alike robots, has a son who wants to try to continue his work by launching and powering a space satilite that has a powerful laser beam that can destroy cities and buildings!! Oscar and Rudy Wells are again kidnapped and held for ransom money.But still, the other episodes also prove to be more action-packed as well!! The episodes go in order on each disc as follows;Disc 1;1. The Bionic Dog (pt. 1). The Bionic Dog (pt. 2).2. Fembots in Las Vegas (pt. 1). Fembots in Las Vegas (pt. 2).Disc 2;3. Rodeo.4. African Connection.5. Motorcycle Boogie.6. Brain Wash.Disc 3;7. Escape to Love.8. Max.9. Over the Hill Spy.10. All for One.Disc 4;11. The Pyramid'12. The Antidote.13. The martians are Coming, The Martians are Coming.14. Sanctuary Earth.15. Deadly Music.Disc 5;16. Which One Is Jamie?.17. Out of Body.18. Long Live the King.19. Rancho Outcast.20. On the Run.The last episode is Jamie's being terrified, wanting to retire from the OSI so that she can lead a life of her own. But Oscar fears that she might become a risk of being kidnapped because her bionics are government property and also that she knows too much confidential info.All in all, the show stood the test of time, even having lasted for three seasons. The Six Million Dollar Man went to five seasons. I began buying THAT show on DVD as well, but Seasons 3 and 4 are the hardest ones to get anywhere on the Web!! I'm not about to buy the 40-disc 100-episode box set!!! Even if those 2 seasons are used, I'd like to get them, still!!If anyone knows where I can get these two seasons of the Six Million Dolar Man, could you please let me know? For now, I'll continue watching The Bionic Woman on DVD. Hopefully Amazon will restock these two items for sale again.As for The Bionic Woman, anyone wishing to buy all three seasons should do so because you never know when they might run out of them!!~Daquan13.

Ok no tv show is perfect and remember The Bionic Woman was not supposed to be a tv series. The fact that it lasted as long as it did and got one more year on another network The Bionic Woman was Luckier than most series.It's a fact that the ABC years had the strongest episodes written for the series.The Crossover episodes were definitely missed and the reason for such drastic Bionic Woman story changes. What does not make sense even though the Bionic Woman shifted to NBC why was it ok for Rudy and Oscar to appear on both networks and not Lee.However they decided to split the bionic duo Lindsay finds another Boyfriend in the guise of Christopher Stone as agent and now boyfriend Chris Williams for the last few episodes. Meanwhile Steve has a lot of slutty relations ships with guest actress's like Jenny Agutter and Suzanne Sommers.The first four episodes of season three are full of action and bionics's like we expect to see. But as the season drug on without series creator Kenneth Johnson and Harve Bennett as executioner producer the shows action went way down.First thing too much emphasis on Maximillion the two most boring episodes of this season is MAX and the Antidote. Both star the Bionic dog with very bad bionic sequences while Jamie is Missing throughout the entire episode. I want to see Jaime not Max. Obviously James D Parriot was expecting Maximillion to carry his own spin off series.God I just saw The Deadly Music about the shark control Jaime did nothing bionic until 25 minutes into the episode really slow episode.Next flaw did anyone notice Jaime is never shown as a schoolteacher anymore. My favorite thing about the first two ABC seasons were the classroom sequences and how we wished we had a teacher like Jaime Sommers. Plus Jaime's jumping sequences got to be almost non existent in the later episodes there are at least six episodes with no jumps.And they were getting sloppy with Jaime's hair flying backward instead of hair netted or sprayed so it would not flip up when the stunt woman jumped backwards.However a victim of its time UFO's movies and stories were popular making Jaime meets a new extraterrestrial every week.I really like the Pyramid and Sanctuary Earth both are entertaining and have a little more time spent on these story's, the Martians are Coming, etc was a hoax so that doesn't count.Nice to see Jennifer Darlings character as Oscar Goldman's secretary on the Six Million Dollar man defects totally to the Bionic Woman series becoming Jaime Sommers best friend , this definitely helped add some continuity to the series.The last change other than the Bionic Dog is we never see Jim or Helen Elgin ever. I kind a missed their nosiness into Jaime's life.There is one mention of Steve in the Bionic Woman's third season episode the Bionic Dog Rudy tells Jaime except for Jaime's ear and Steve's eye everything was tested on Max first.Last thing that bugs me is why they did not let the Bionic Dog appear or be mentioned on the Six Million Dollar Man.Even with such major changes we are still glad to have 22 more episodes of the series thanks to NBC otherwise the Bionic Woman would only have 36 episodes instead of 58. Lindsay Wagner's wonderful acting helps even some of the slow episodes.I am so glad all three season are out now if only Universal would fix Part 2 of the Return of Bigfoot sound track all would be perfect.The Six Million Dollar Man set has part two of that episode really muffled (I was so disappointed) and the Bionic Woman's second season release of the same episode is a little better but still sounds muffled.Joe Harnell who composed that soundtrack specially for that episode must be turning over in his grave.This release had no problems great color and sound they did a wonderful job remastering these episodes and they kept all the opening tags before the credits too.

I was was very young back in the 70's, but I do remember those great T.V. shows that came with them. The Bionic Woman was one of those I watched faithfully. It only lasted 3 seasons, but it had some great episodes. There was a variety of topics the show covered, Jamie's accident, her involvement with Steve, Robots, etc.. There were several 70's shows from back in the day that were must watches, and who could forget those reruns. If you like classic T.V. this is for U.

Series 3 of Bionic Woman really isn't a patch on the first 2. In fact 'Brain Wash' is the only episode here that really lives up to the general standard of the earlier episodes, with it's entertainingly camp hairdressing salon setting, and evil Javier Bardem-lookalike bad guy.But mostly series 3 feels cheaper (check out 'The Martians Are Coming' for the worst special FX of a ufo ever), more rushed, tries to incorperate Jaime's boring new 'bionic dog' companion at every opportunity (I'm a dog lover, but it just doesn't work), and certain episodes are beyond silly in premise. The new 2-part Femmebots episode pales in comparison to the previous ones, and what Evel Kneivel is doing here I don't know.Elsewhere, the typical banter between Jaime and Oscar Goldman in the OSI offices that would begin most episodes in S1+2 is gone, now replaced usually with Oscar's voice recording on a telephone describing her mission over an establishing shot. - Goldman now also constantly and un-ironically refers to Jaime as 'babe' throughout the entire series. Girl power, eh.The box set is well put together with 3 episode commentaries, all 3 reunion movies plus more, but Brain Wash aside if you're looking for episodes as good as series 1+2 you'll probably be disappointed.

This takes me back to my youth. I always enjoyed The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman. I already have series 1 and 2 and when I found that series 3 was available, I had to have it. I admit the stories are not quite as good as the 1st and 2nd series but this is well worth having for the extras. The 3 reunion films are included and an interview with Lindsay Wagner. It's great to watch all the old series as I find them far better than series produced today. You won't find any computer graphics on this series which I think is a good thing. Well worth purchasing if you liked the first two series.

This DVD was worth every single penny.It is TOP QUALITY and have loads of wonderful extras including an interview with the beautiful Lindsay Wagner and all bionic woman/Six million dollar man reunion films,so it very good value for money.If you are a child of the seventies its like for me being twelve again.Even my young children thought it was very cool and especially loved Max the bionic dog. This is the complete final season of one of the best series of seventies tv.Buy it and enjoy it and fall in love with Lindsay all over again.

Excellent. Although, with it being an import it would not initially play on my dvd player (invalid region code) but with a few simple adjustments to the player it`s ok.If you like the Bionic woman series you will enjoy this season 3, the story lines are a little far fetched at times but it did not detract from my enjoyment, took me way back to the 70`s :)If you need help with adjusting your dvd region codes help can be found on www.videohelp.comWould recommend!

Excellent DVD really well packaged, the story-lines are on the whole very good and I'm torn between series 1 and this one as to which is the best of the series. The episodes I enjoyed the most are The Pyramid, Sanctuary Earth and Out Of Body. LIndsay Wagner really is a brilliant actress and she makes the character of Jaimie Summers a compassionate, brave, human being.