| | |  | All 8 Episodes and Bionic Bonus Features Available in a 2-Disc Set. |
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Features: DVD, English, Spanish, Dolby, Dolby Digital (5.1)
Join one of TV's most stunning breakout heroines as the action-packed series Bionic Woman leaps into DVD! From executive producer David Eick (Battlestar Galactica) comes this gripping re-imagining of the universally beloved character.Jamie Sommers is a hard-working woman struggling to take care of her younger sister. But after a serious, life-threatening accident, Jamie is saved by a top-secret procedure that makes her much more than just an ordinary woman...it makes her superhumanly bionic. Starring hot newcomer Michelle Ryan, as well as Miguel Ferrer (Crossing Jordan), Molly Price (Third Watch), Will Yun Lee (Witchblade), Lucy Hale (How I Met Your Mother), and guest stars Isaiah Washington (Grey's Anatomy) and Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica), it's a non-stop thrill ride unlike anything you've seen before!
"The most buzzed-about show of the Fall season." Boston Herald
"...a very good cast...Few actors can play menacing the way Miguel Ferrer does." Home Theater Info
"...action-packed...better, faster, stronger...than the original version..." Shawn McKenzie, Entertain Your Brain!
Editor's Note
Just as executive producer David Eick helped reinvent BATTLESTAR GALACTICA for a new generation, he gives the 1970s series THE BIONIC WOMAN a slick update here. Jamie Sommers (Michelle Ryan, EASTENDERS) lives an average life as an average woman, but a horrific car crash upends her quiet existence. Scientists have saved her life, but she is now the less-than-proud owner of high-tech body parts that give her incredible strength and speed. Indebted to the scientists, Jamie now has to use her powers for their projects while she conceals her new abilities from her younger sister (Lucy Kate Hale, HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER). Miguel Ferrer (CROSSING JORDAN), Molly Price (THIRD WATCH), and Will Yun Lee (WITCHBLADE) costar as people employed by the secretive company. But it's the guest appearances from Isaiah Washington (GREY'S ANATOMY) and especially Katee Sackhoff (BATTLESTAR GALACTICA) as the first bionic woman that give the action-driven series an extra shot of energy. Volume one contains the first part of the show's first season.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Featurettes: The Making Of The Car Crash, Real-Life Bionics, & The Stunts | | Interactive Menus | | Pilot Audio Commentary With Executive Producer David Eick | | Profiles | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, Spanish |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Universal |
| Release Date: 8/26/2008 |
| Original Release Date: 2007 | | Catalog ID: 61102667 | | UPC: 00025195021197 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78:1 |
| Cast & Crew
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| | Professional Reviews | Variety 8 of 10
Attempting to do for "The Bionic Woman" what he and partner Ronald Moore did for another kitschy '70s classic with "Battlestar Galactica," producer David Eick re-imagines the Jaime Sommers mythology minus the slow-motion and goofy sound effects. The elaborate pilot thus includes a less-benign government, nifty nanotechnology, a villainous cabal and an attractive young British lead in Michelle Ryan. A little messy in its conception, the series still exhibits considerable potential...As opposed to the original, which was plucked from the ribs of "The Six-Million-Dollar Man," Jaime has to stand on her own -- for awhile, anyway, until a tragic (and way-cool) car accident leaves her body ravaged in all kinds of enhance-able ways...Already, Eick and writer Laeta Kalogridis (whose experience with super-powered women includes the short-lived "Birds of Prey") have won part of the battle -- keeping the name but otherwise transforming a show that was really pretty silly back in the day into something dark, sleek and reasonably sophisticated, at the same time cashing in on the title's built-in recognition.
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