5.3/1094 votesLoading...#1 - Rancho Outcast
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 5/6/1978
Jaime is paired with a double-crossing convict who claims he can identify the criminal that the OSI is seeking.
Director: Ivan Dixon
Writer: N/A
5.9/10108 votesLoading...#2 - Max
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/3/1977
Max, the bionic dog, is kidnapped by foreign agents, while Jaime lies helpless in a hospital bed undergoing a bionic check-up.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.2/10138 votesLoading...#4 - Canyon of Death
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/14/1976
Jaime is captured by men who are plotting to steal an atomic-powered flying suit, and her life depends on a story-telling Indian boy's ability to convince someone that he saw a silver man in the desert.
Director: N/A
Writer: James D. Parriott
6.2/1094 votesLoading...#5 - Out of Body
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 3/4/1978
When a young American Indian is framed and injured in the theft of a deadly new weapon, his spirit leaves his body and aids Jaime in the search for the real criminals.
Director: Ernest Pintoff
Writer: Steven E. de Souza
6.3/1097 votesLoading...#6 - Escape to Love
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/1977
The son of an Iron Curtain scientist threatens to foul-up his own rescue when he falls in love with Jaime.
Director: Alan J. Levi
Writer: N/A
6.4/10126 votesLoading...#7 - Road to Nashville
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/1976
Jaime poses as a country singer to find a missing OSI agent, and to stop the passing of top-secret information.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.4/10105 votesLoading...#8 - Once a Thief
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/4/1977
When a bumbling crook learns of Jaime's bionics, he blackmails her into helping him rob a bank.
Director: Alan J. Levi
Writer: Kenneth Johnson
6.4/10107 votesLoading...#9 - Rodeo
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1977
When OSI scientist Billy Cole insists on riding in a rodeo competition, Jaime is sent to secretly look after him.
Director: Larry Stewart
Writer: Herman Groves
6.4/10101 votesLoading...#10 - African Connection
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/1977
In order to prevent a ruthless African dictator from remaining in power, Jaime must secretly switch a rigged computer element with one that will give fair results in an upcoming election.
Director: Alan J. Levi
Writer: N/A
6.4/10101 votesLoading...#11 - Over the Hill Spy
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/1977
An elderly Soviet spy, long believed dead, threatens U.S. security, so Oscar must convince a retired OSI agent to work with Jaime and identify his Russian counterpart.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.4/1097 votesLoading...#12 - Deadly Music
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/18/1978
An enemy scientist invents a device that attracts sharks underwater, and Jaime becomes the intended victim.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.5/10166 votesLoading...#13 - Claws
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/25/1976
Jaime, left in charge of Susan Victor's wild animal ranch, tries to save the life of a pet lion that is being stalked by irate ranchers.
Director: N/A
Writer: Philip DeGuere Jr.
6.5/10123 votesLoading...#14 - Jaime and the King
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/23/1977
Jaime becomes a tutor to a difficult young prince in order to protect his father from assassins.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.5/10106 votesLoading...#15 - The Pyramid
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/14/1978
Jaime and Chris get trapped in an underground pyramid with an alien sentinel who warns them that Earth faces imminent destruction.
Director: Barry Crane
Writer: N/A
6.5/1092 votesLoading...#16 - Long Live the King
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 3/25/1978
Jaime poses as a Middle Eastern king's social secretary in order to prevent his assassination during his visit to New York City.
Director: Gwen Arner
Writer: David Ketchum
6.6/10143 votesLoading...#17 - The Ghosthunter
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 5/26/1976
Jaime becomes the governess for a girl in a small New England town when the top-secret project the girl's father is working on is disrupted by super-natural forces.
Director: Alan J. Levi, Kenneth Johnson
Writer: Kenneth Johnson, James D. Parriott
6.7/10160 votesLoading...#18 - A Thing of the Past
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/18/1976
Jaime tries to help a school bus driver who has been hiding-out in Ojai for years, and is now being tracked-down by underworld leaders who know that he once witnessed a crime.
Director: Alan J. Levi
Writer: James D. Parriott
6.7/10118 votesLoading...#19 - Biofeedback
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/12/1977
An OSI cryptographer's resentment of the organization's funding of his brother's biofeedback research drives him to sell his new top secret decoder on the black market.
Director: Alan J. Levi
Writer: N/A
6.7/10112 votesLoading...#20 - Beyond the Call
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/9/1977
Jaime tries to befriend a withdrawn girl who hasn't spoken since her mother's death. Meanwhile, the girl's father plans to steal a top-secret missile guidance system.
Director: Alan J. Levi
Writer: N/A
6.7/10102 votesLoading...#21 - The Antidote
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/21/1978
A deadly poison will kill Jaime unless she reveals the location of a secret conference in exchange for the antidote.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.7/10105 votesLoading...#22 - The Martians Are Coming, the Martians Are Coming
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/28/1978
While working on a project to track U.F.O.s, Dr. Rudy Wells and Ray Fisk are abducted by a flying saucer.
Director: Larry Stewart
Writer: N/A
6.7/10107 votesLoading...#23 - Which One Is Jaime?
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/25/1978
Oscar Goldman's secretary, Peggy Callahan, is abducted by a band of dangerous kidnappers when she is mistaken for Jaime.
Director: Jack Arnold
Writer: Jim Carlson, Terrence McDonnell
6.8/10169 votesLoading...#24 - Angel of Mercy
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/28/1976
Oscar sends Jaime to war-torn Costa Brava to try and find the trapped American ambassador. To help her, he also sends pilot Jack Starkey. They make their dangerous journey through the desert, helped by a local boy. Eventually, they find the ambassador and manage to escape in an abandoned airplane.
Director: N/A
Writer: Bruce Shelly
6.8/10156 votesLoading...#25 - Bionic Beauty
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/17/1976
Oscar enters Jaime as a contestant in the Miss United States Pageant in order to uncover an espionage operation that is endangering American security plans.
Director: Alan J. Levi
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of The Bionic Woman
Every episode of The Bionic Woman ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of The Bionic Woman!
After fully recovering from her near fatal bout of bionic rejection, Jaime Sommers, the first female cyborg, is assigned to spy missions of her own.
Genres:Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDrama
Network:ABC
Worst Episodes Summary
"Rancho Outcast" is the worst rated episode of "The Bionic Woman". It scored 5.3/10 based on 94 votes. Directed by Ivan Dixon and written by N/A, it aired on 5/6/1978. This episode scored 0.6 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Max".
