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In a spring 1975 episode, Jaime Sommers (Lindsay Wagner), a tennis pro and Austin's love interest, was injured in a skydiving accident. Austin pleaded with Goldman to save her life, and she too was fitted with bionic parts (legs, one arm, and an ear). Eventually her body rejected her implants, and she died, at least as far as Austin was concerned. Fan outcry was so great, ABC demanded the series reorganize the start of the third season and run a two-parter bringing her back to life. So after Jaime was rescued by a radical medical procedure, she went to work for the OSI in her own spinoff series, ''[[The Bionic Woman]]'' (1976-1978), living undercover as a schoolteacher on an Air Force base when not on missions for the OSI. And Jaime herself became a recurring character on ''Six Mil'' during its third and fourth seasons, taking part in a number of crossover stories until ''Bionic Woman'' was cancelled by ABC in 1977 and moved to NBC, ending these crossovers for good.
''The Six Million Dollar Man'' was based upon the science fiction novel ''Cyborg'' by Martin Caidin, and the original pilot TV movie, aired in 1973, was written by Henri Simoun and an uncredited Steven Bochco ([[NYPD Blue]]). It was followed by two more TV movies produced by Glen Larson (''[[
The series was followed by made-for-TV movies in the late [[The Eighties|1980s]] and early [[The Nineties|1990s]]. In the last of these, Steve and Jaime finally got married. As for bionic kids -- Austin's estranged son by a pre-series marriage, Michael, appears in ''The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman'' (1987), where he is fitted with bionics far, far exceeding those possessed by his father. In the second film, ''Bionic Showdown'' (1989), a new bionic woman named Kate Mason is introduced, played by [[Sandra Bullock]] in one of her first roles.
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* [[Government Agency of Fiction]]: The O.S.I. (Office of Scientific Intelligence).
* [[The Great Repair]] - "Little Orphan Airplane"
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Wrestling fans likely did that when they realized it was Andre the Giant under the Bigfoot costume.
* [[Lensman Arms Race]]: While Steve and Jamie's bionic legs could propel them at 60 miles per hour, the bionic legs given to Steve's long-lost son in the later TV movie could make him run at '''300''' miles per hour.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Oscar falls into this category in the early episodes. His predecessor, Oliver Spencer (featured in the pilot TV movie) is the epitome of this trope as {{spoiler|he orchestrates a dangerous mission for Steve simply to see if he would survive; if he hadn't, Spencer was prepared to simply build another bionic man and try again.}}
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