Lindsay Wagner's Bionic Woman Cache

A cache dedicated to my second female super hero, the Bionic Woman, 1976-78

You've never heard of The Bionic Woman? Read the breakdown after the cache info.

Cache Info - Please Do Not Take the Show Memoribilia in the Cache

This container is about the size of a paperback novel and is covered in camo tape. It is tucked in a spot very much out of sight (to avoid muggle activity nearby) so please put it back exactly as you find it with native camo from the area placed over it.

Part of the Sci Fi Theme Series Along Coal Creek Trail

This cache is one of many along the Coal Creek Trail that celebrate aspects of great films/shows in Science Fiction with caches that feature unique decorations or memoribila from the media they celebrate. The series starts in Erie and ends in/near Louisville.

GC922N0 | Bergman's Moonbase Alpha Space 1999 Cache
GC91VVX | Leeloo Dallas' Bada Boom The Fifth Element Cache
GC93C0C | Tom Hank's Apollo 13 Cache
GC91MD9 | Roy's (Nexus 6) Photos Blade Runner Cache
GC92KYH | HAL's 2001: A Space Odyssey Cache
GC93H2Z | Carrousel (Age 30) Logan's Run Cache
GC91VPZ | Ludvig Van's A Clockwork Orange Cache
GC914RQ | Gom Jabbar Dune Cache
GC91MCJ | Honoring Indigenous Sci-Fi Writers Cache
GC9263K | Booga's Tank Girl Cache
GC90V9J | Satellite of Love MST3K Cache
GC91E3Z | That's No Moon! The Death Star's Star Wars Cache
GC9264E | Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy Cache
GC92VRB | Kara Thrace's Battlestar Galactica Cache
GC90VAK | Smorgasbord Valley Tremors Cache
GC93JY9 | Sid & Marty Krofft's 70's Saturday Morning Cache
GC92XYW | Moya's Farscape Cache
GC912EZ | Dent Arthur Dent's Hitchhiker's Guide Cache
GC92G01 | Tilk's Stargate SG-1, Atlantis, Universe Cache
GC98CFD | LUH 3417's THX 1138 Cache
GC92VTF | Dark Helmet's Schwartz Spaceballs, The Cache
GC8YG88 | Edison Carter's Max Headroom Cache
GC92Z1A | Enoch's Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Cache
GC8VA3H | To Cache Boldly the Final Frontier Star Trek Cache
GC8R87A | TARDIS (Re)Generational Doctor Who Cache
GC8A8ZW | Serenity's Shiny Firefly CacheGC98DR6 |
Lee Major's Six Million Dollar Man Cache
GC97KW1 | Ripley's Alien(s) Cache
>>>> GC98E0V | Lindsay Wagner's Bionic Woman Cache
GC98CG3 | Lynda Carter's Wonder Woman Cache
GC98CDD | Adam West's Batman Cache
GC98CEN | Fox Mulder's X-Files Cache
GC98BQW | Twiki's Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Cache
GC97KY7 | Mrs. Fredrick's Warehouse 13 Cache

The Bionic Woman

This show was a spinoff of another show called The Six Million Dollar Man (there's a cache for it along this route). Like most shows from 60s and 70s, the intro of the show explained the premise pretty succently so you had some idea of the context in which the story was happening. Unlike The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman didn't get a cool voiceover intro, but rather a series of text lines you had to read (kinda like you will have to do now).

The following information is classified. Clearance Authorization: Level 6. Top Secret.
****[Cut to image of Sommers.]

Jaime Sommers. Sex: Female, Age: 28 Past Profession: Tennis Pro, Present Profession: School Teacher Grade Level 7, 8, 9.
****[Footage of Sommers jumping out of a plane and having her parachute malfunction.]

Critical Injury: Parachute Accident. Anatomical Damage: Both Legs, Right Arm, Right Ear.
****[Scenes of Sommers undergoing an operation mixed with images of cybernetic parts with human limb appearence.]

Estimated Cost: Classified.
****[Early computer-like graphics (there were NO COMPUTER GRAPHICS back then) of data on replacement parts. Scene followed by lots of scenes of Sommers performing feets of strength ... and even arms of strength ... thanks to her bionic replacements.]

It seems that somehow The Bonic Woman intro got short changed a bit compared to her Six Million Dollar bionic male counterpart.. And why was the cost of her bionics classified when Austin's cost was built into the show's name? Ah well, the things we wonder as an adult. Every week Sommers, now working for the Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) just as did Austin, would go up against spies, crime bosses, robots, and unspecified villians (or entities mistaken for villians) using her various augmented appendages, deep intelligence, and backup from her 'handler' Rudy Goldman. You coul also expect more than one but less than three storyline crossovers a season with Steve Austin's, The two shows shared the same special effectcs visual and sound packs, so the standard nanananananan, nanananana sounds of the bionics in action could be heard.

Two things worth of note: 1) Helen Hunt got her start on an episode of The Bionic Woman as a barely teenage alien princess who also has bionic type powers.She demonstrates them by deftly slicing a cabbage in half that is thrown at her at some point. Oh, so scary! 2) A subplot involved a romance between Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers ... presumably their parts were still able to interface correctly.

Lindsay Wagner's Bionic Woman Cache

A cache dedicated to my second female super hero, the Bionic Woman, 1976-78

Cache Info - Please Do Not Take the Show Memoribilia in the Cache

Part of the Sci Fi Theme Series Along Coal Creek Trail

The Bionic Woman

See also, my Six Million Dollar Man cache along this trail.