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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 259901" data-attributes="member: 23">In This Corner, Jaime Sommers <img src="http://www.televisionofyore.com/uploads/9/3/0/3/9303799/season2-episode3-7_orig.jpeg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />A title that’s accurate only technically, since Jaime goes by the undercover name of Jessie “Savage” Sommers. With a name so close to her own, one does wonder why bother? Especially when she then appears on a TV spot promoting her wrestling match. Which then raises further questions about what the many viewers who would presumably recognise Jaime as a tennis pro would think. Best not to dwell on it I’d say. No answers will be forthcoming. Episodes with a sporting theme - be it football, ice skating, baseball or boxing - don’t excite me. Or, at least, I’m not able to appreciate them on two levels, since I have an aversion to sports with their neanderthal players and bellowing crowds in ugly grey hollow arenas. Still, it’s a definite improvement on Bigfoot and aliens. At least we’re back in the real world, near enough. Helping things along is a decent espionage plot, with another OSI agent in danger, a genuine sense of threat and a few nice twists with the people revealed to be involved. I’m not clear whether or not the Delta Circuit module everyone was after is meant to be the same micro computer thingy that was hidden in the sceptre in Bionic Beauty. The one that Oscar described back then as looking like a camera flash. This looked very similar, and I like to think it’s a nice bit of continuity. I enjoyed Jaime’s resistance to the assignment. She initially asked if he couldn’t put Steve in a dress for it, and when entering the ring for the first time muttered to herself that she was going to break Oscar’s glasses for this. Oscar himself has certainly overcome his doubts about sending her on missions, since he was very insistent this time. Perhaps he felt more powerful sitting behind his new hi-tech desk, his office having been given a makeover. Once again, the dynamic between Oscar and Rudy was enjoyable. As things got more frantic towards episode’s end and Oscar went into throbbing veined urgency, it was Rudy who was the voice of calm and reason. As the slightly ditzy Amazon April Armitage, Marcia Lewis was an enjoyable bit of lighter entertainment. She put me very much in mind of an American Patsy Rowlands. And in further British comedy parallels, one of the episode’s baddies was played by the American Brian Murphy. I seem to become more acrophobic with age, so the sequence with Jaime in the suspended cage was headily dizzying. </blockquote>

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