In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Wagner reprised the role in several reunion television films.

Jaime Sommers is a former professional tennis star who suffers near-fatal injuries in a skydiving accident.

She is assigned to spy missions as an occasional agent of the Office of Scientific Intelligence, while also teaching middle school students at a local airbase.

She also has extraordinary strength in her bionic right arm and both legs, which enable her to run at speeds exceeding 60 miles per hour.

This lack of specificity has sparked frequent debates among fans as to whether it is appropriate to call Jaime "The Six Million Dollar Woman".

In February 2016, Lindsay Wagner clarified in an interview with Headlines and Global News why the series that made her a star, unlike her "Six Million Dollar" counterpart, never revealed the final cost of The Bionic Woman.

Thus, ultimately the cost of Jaime Sommers' bionic implants was never revealed and deemed classified information in the opening credits.

Helen's son, Steve Austin, and Jaime became high school sweethearts, but he left Ojai to go to college and later to join the U.S. Air Force, and the NASA space program as an astronaut.

By 1975, she had won many major tournaments and was ranked among the top-five female tennis players in the world.

Steve, who is deeply in love with Jaime, contacts his boss Oscar Goldman at the Office of Strategic Intelligence (OSI) and pleads with him until he authorizes a top-secret procedure—bionic replacement.

Dr. Michael Marchetti uses an experimental cryogenic procedure to cool her body and prevent cellular damage.

Whereas Austin is a full-time agent, Oscar is generally more reluctant to put Jaime into high-risk situations.

At least initially, he accepts some of the blame for her death because he sent her out on a mission immediately after her bionic implant operation, using her as an agent before she was really ready.

[10] As Jaime and Oscar grow to form a working relationship, he exhibits paternalistic feelings for her which sometimes prevent a detached analysis of her suitability for missions.

She is frequently in and around Rudy's lab, and generally more enthusiastic about the research obligations of being a virtually unique specimen.

But as an operative she is courageous, resourceful with her abilities and increasingly circumspect about the militarism of her employers, preferring a more humanistic approach.

Late in the series she adopts Maximillion (AKA Max), a German Shepherd dog that had been used as a test case for implanting bionics into animals.

When hackers hack into the government computer system in episode 48 ("All for One"), Jaime's OSI agent profile lists her height at 5'9" and weight as 120 lbs.

Eventually, Jaime becomes romantically involved with fellow OSI agent Chris Williams, and she yearns for a life of her own away from the government and the constant peril of undercover work.

She acts on neither of these revelations, but instead returns to her life working as a therapist at the Los Angeles Rehabilitation Center.

Unlike Steve Austin, Jaime Sommers did not appear in the 1972 novel Cyborg, the original story which started the first series.

She was entirely a television invention of Kenneth Johnson, a writer of The Six Million Dollar Man, under the supervision of executive producer Harve Bennett.

Johnson named Sommers after a water skier he met while producing whale shows at SeaWorld.

The female name Jamie (a variant spelling) also gained enormous popularity at the same time.

The strike, coupled with diminishing ratings, led NBC to cancel the show after production of eight episodes.