S1.E11

Fly Jaime

Episode aired Sep 16, 1976
TV-PG
48m

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Lindsay Wagner in The Bionic Woman (1976)

Jaime is undercover as stewardess Miss Winters to keep an eye on Rudy Wells who is transporting a top secret Cobalt 247 formula. The plane goes down in an electrical storm and the passengers... Read allJaime is undercover as stewardess Miss Winters to keep an eye on Rudy Wells who is transporting a top secret Cobalt 247 formula. The plane goes down in an electrical storm and the passengers end up on a deserted island where the conspirators will do anything to get the formula fr... Read allJaime is undercover as stewardess Miss Winters to keep an eye on Rudy Wells who is transporting a top secret Cobalt 247 formula. The plane goes down in an electrical storm and the passengers end up on a deserted island where the conspirators will do anything to get the formula from Rudy.

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10/10

I've seen this story before...

This episode shows you just how cheap and lame the studios could be in the 70's. Some examples: almost every TV show of that era had at least one episode that took the characters on location to Las Vegas, which seemed exotic back then and must have been cheap to produce. Or there was a chase on the curvy mountain roadways near LA where someone's brakes went out. Thankfully, quicksand was starting to be phased in the 70's out as it has been popular for a long time. But this episode was a new low, while totally entertaining, it's just a light remake of the Six Million Dollar episode Survival of the Fittest. Not only is the storyline almost identical the producers even used some of the same lines for the characters. For instance, in the BW version Rudy tells Jaime she looks like a bionic Santa Claus. Oscar says the same thing to Steve Austin in the SMDM version. How bad is that?? There's even an action sequence featured in both episodes where Steve/Jaime grab a snake and throw it out of the way.

jaynix
Jun 13, 2021
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Trivia
The title is based on a popular 1970s TV and magazine ad campaign for now defunct National Airlines. The ads featured a flight attendant (stewardess) looking into the camera and stating their name, then saying "Fly me." The print ads used different women, individually. The TV ads showed a series of women ("I'm Donna. Fly me. I'm Pam. Fly me.", etc.). The idea was that you'd get attentive, personalized service.

Goofs
Obvious lightweight "prop" log that hits the bad guy and then just bounces off him.

Quotes
Romero: You know, it is a defect that I have observed worldwide. Obviously you have seen it too, that is to say that men of any country seem to think that men of other countries are the lucky ones. You know what I mean? For example, we take the Italians. The Italians, they like Swiss girls. The German man likes the Spanish woman. And the Greek, ah the Greek, they like the Danes, you know. That's the way it is. It never fails. Never, never, never fails.