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The Bionic Woman: The Complete Season Two
01/05/2007 . Source: Geoff Willmetts 
region 2 DVD. pub: Universal Playback 8243291. 1052 minutes. 22 episodes with no extras. Price: £26.49 (UK) if you shop around for a good price). stars: Lindsay Wagner, Richard Anderson and Martin E. Brooks (contrary to the box label) and many guest-stars. Buy The Bionic Woman: The Complete Season Two in the USA - or Buy The Bionic Woman: The Complete Season Two in the UK  check out website: www.universal-playback.com
Get you level six security clearances out. With its second season, 'The Bionic Woman' got more into the swing of things showing that a female cyborg could go places where her six million dollar male counter-part couldn't. Mind you, her question in the opening episode, 'In This Corner, Jaime Sommers', about Steve Austin could have gone in disguised in a tutu brings some odd imagery, even if as the later episode, 'Kill Oscar' now shows him sporting his moustache.
The most obvious thing to me when watching this season was just how many episodes I missed in its original run back in 1977. One episode, 'Biofeedback', definitely wouldn't have been shown over here as it depicts a man reducing his body's susceptibility to electricity to climb an electric fence, something which is not only impossible but deadly if anyone thinks they could imitate it.
Saying that, there are also some fine episodes here as well. The two-part 'Deadly Ringer' brings back Lisa Hamilton with Wagner in both roles being replaced again with different thoughts than bionics as to what made her so strong. Sommers takes delight in restoring human faith that with proper care and attention that people will go back on the straight and narrow which is also extended to the last episode 'Once A Thief'. Of special interest is 'Black Magic' which guest-stars Vincent Price and Julie Newmar in a hilarious skit with an obnoxious family after an inheritance. Likewise, a very young Rene Auderjonis as a forging artist in 'The Djon Caper'.
A lot of the time, Jaime Sommers goes undercover from being in the female wrestler business (an odd choice for an opening episode) to being a nun to being a street cop. With the latter, it must seem rather quaint now that there were so few female officers on the beat let alone having to use dedicated police street phones to ring the station but this is over thirty years ago now. There is also one purely SF based tale, 'The Vega Influence', where a discovered meteorite contains a crystal life-form, looking suspiciously like the effect from the film, 'The Andromeda Strain', that controls people as it gets ready to be moved to warmer climes.
'The Bionic Woman' makes a pleasant 22 episodes viewing. Not always serious and a definite contrast to its parent show and who couldn't fall in love with Lindsay Wagner?
GF Willmetts
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