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Electro-Shock Treatment Creates Bionic Girl

A crazy doctor whispers to the paralyzed Sandra Bullock about regulating her pleasure and pain... and then electrocutes her brain, all in the name of turning her into Bionic Girl. The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman got a little bionic family in the TV movies from the late 1980s and early 1990s, including Steve Austin's bionic son Michael and Bullock's Bionic Girl. Click through for more details.

NBC aired three TV movies from 1987 to 1994: Return Of The Six Million Dollar Man And The Bionic Woman, Bionic Showdown and Bionic Ever After?. Showdown suffers from the leaden pacing of a TV episode padded out to two hours, but it also lets the characters move forward in a way they never could on a weekly show. In particular, Steve keeps trying to ask Jamie to marry him, but some emergency always interrupts just as the question is being popped. He finally succeeds at the end of the show, and she says yes.

In the third TV movie, as they prepare to get married, Jamie's bionics show signs of breaking down: she has trouble walking, and she can't tune out conversations happening hundreds of yards away. She thinks she's doomed to the scrap heap, but it turns out to be just a computer virus.

11:45 AM on Tue Mar 18 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
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