The Bionic Woman (TV Series) Motorcycle Boogie (1977) User Reviews

An absurd romp down nostalgia lane

[prdeller · 9/10 · 4 July 2021]

Well, it was nice to be eleven years old again for an hour. Evel Knievel and the Bionic Woman in the same show ? Could you get any more 1977 than that if you tried ? If you want to be po-faced about it, the wafer-thin plot borders on non-existent most of the time and the show is little more than Jaime doing bionics and Evel doing motorcycle stunts and if you want to be REALLY po-faced about it, it is clearly both a totally shameless plug for Evel Knievel and a totally shameless attempt to boost ratings for The Bionic Woman. But I LOVED this. Lots of spectacular action shots and several absolute laugh out like lines in the banter between Jaime and Evel. If you aren't at least smiling after this utterly preposterous and absurd episode than your soul is dead.

Not the greatest ever episode but one that people of a certain age probably remember most of all about The Bionic Woman. Great fun.

Does this review contain spoilers ? C'mon what plot was there to spoil ?

Bionic Boogie

[sambase-38773 · 9/10 · 4 September 2021]

This episode has two Seventies icons, the Bionic Woman and Evel Knievel. I used to watch this show back in the day, but I have no memory of seeing this episode, so I must have missed it. I don't know if it's the best episode, but it has to be the funniest. Whoever wrote it had a great sense of humor. And their chemistry together is just so good. When they're firing their lines at each other it's almost liked they were an established comedy team. Evel could easily have been a regular on the series and he would have fit right in with Lindsay. That would have been fun and improved the series and maybe even saved the show, who knows.

Evel brings energy to his performance and that's essential given the story. If he'd have delivered a flat performance the episode would have died. So thumbs up to Evel for putting in a great effort. He didn't come up short in this one. He did not crash. He made it.

Overall, it's good crazy Seventies fun, a decade unlike any other. And a decade with more joy in it than any of the decades that followed.

One of the best of the series

[MiketheWhistle · 10/10 · 27 January 2019]

Other than those with the bionic dog, this is definitely one of the top eps of the series. Having Evel Knievel who was a big star at the time for those old enough to remember, having his tongue and cheek dialogue with Jaime "Bond".