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...Basketball Association. Nonetheless, the caliber of performance in the A.B.A. championship play-off series that ended last week between the New York Nets and the Denver Nuggets was as good as anything the N.B.A. has ever produced. Forward Julius ("Dr. J") Erving of the Nets came on like a bionic man; he averaged 38 points a game and led both teams in rebounds, steals, assists and shots blocked. The Nuggets, in the finals for the first time, countered with a harmonious passing attack and aggressive defense to stop the Nets twice before finally losing to the two-time A.B.A. champs...
Wagner plays a latter-day Wonder Woman who became the world's first bionic woman after she was nearly killed in a skydiving accident; doctors rebuilt her, piece by voluptuous piece, with 80-m.p.h. legs, a right arm that can shatter trees and an ear capable of hearing leaves rustle in the next county. Between classes at a military base in Ojai, Calif., where she is a schoolteacher, she moonlights as an intelligence agent...
Television's bionic twosome, Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers, seemed made for each other-literally. Like Steve, she had been rebuilt with superhuman powers by space-age engineers. Sure enough, when she made some try-out appearances on ABC's Six Million Dollar Man last year, Austin's all-seeing artificial eye nearly popped out of his head. Who could blame him? Jaime looked smashing, and as Steve's blood pressure climbed, so did the show's ratings. Explains willowy Lindsay Wagner, who plays Jaime: "Viewers tuned in to see whether passion could flow between...
...Entry. By the numbers, at least, this forced separation has been a success. Since The Bionic Woman first appeared in mid-January it has become, along with ABC's sitcom Laverne and Shirley, the TV season's hottest late entry. Big with the bubble-gum crowd that also dotes on Lee Majors, it has also drawn a sizable adult audience stuck on Lindsay Wagner's sexy looks. Her show has consistently been among the top 15 in the ratings, although Majors' program often edges it out by a point...
...Bionic Woman's most impressive feat may have been the deal she wrung out of Universal, the show's producer. Her contract gives her $500,000 a year for five years, a guarantee of one film role annually and 12½% of the take from sales of Bionic dolls, T shirts and other spinoffs, which her agent insists could total as much as $2 million. Only last fall, Wagner, 26, was having trouble at Universal, which decided not to renew a $50,000-a-year contract she then had with the studio. Although she was considered "promising...