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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 262457" data-attributes="member: 23">Fembots In Las Vegas (Parts I and II) <img src="https://d1hg6wdwbisxfa.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/06135449/stunts.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 529px" /> The Fembots’ return was great fun. It helped that I hadn’t expected to see them this early in the season. It lacked the impact of their original story, mostly because much of it had already been done, so it was a case of necessarily hitting some of the same notes - and even changing continuity. How did the Callahan-bot end up at O.S.I., for example? Shouldn’t it be Lynda-bot? Lynda herself was missed this time round, but it was great to see Callahan back. Rod Kyler’s mysterious ailment felt decidedly timely. He was trapped in isolation. Then he got fed up and left the safety of his confinement, only to get panicky when he met someone who was sneezing. And sure enough he ended up becoming seriously ill and needing to be hospitalised while experimental cures were tried. In these Covid-stricken times, I couldn’t help relating to the situation. It’s fun to look for parallels with Jaime’s superheroine peer, Wonder Woman. Both had their series unceremoniously dropped by ABC by the end of the 76/77 season. Both were picked up by new networks (BW by NBC; WW by CBS). And both debuted in their new homes within a week of one another in September 1977. It’s also worth noting that both series aired a very similar scene one day apart: the heroine in question dangling from a helicopter high in the air. Wonder Woman’s take on the scene became legendary for Lynda Carter gamely doing some of her own stunt work for close-up shots under the chopper and apparently sending execs into panic when they heard about it afterwards (not that it stopped them incorporating those very scenes into the opening titles  very soon after). I don’t know if there was any such behind-the-scenes drama over the helicopter scenes in The Bionic Woman, though there are indeed some close-up shots where Lindsay can be seen beneath a helicopter, just as Lynda was. Whatever the case, it has to be said that the long shots of the BW version look far more impressive than the WW long shots. Not only is the helicopter flying over the breathtaking Las Vegas cityscape, but the stunt double can be seen way above the tower blocks wriggling around and at times clearly holding on with just one hand. </blockquote>

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