Deadly Ringer
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| Production 45426 Original Airdate: 2 February 1977 | |||
 Jaime Sommers, falsely imprisoned. | |||
| Produced by Kenneth Johnson | |||
| Written by James D. Parriott | |||
| Directed by Alan J. Levi | |||
| Guest Cast | |||
| Guest Star(s) Don Porter as James Courtney Warren Kemmerling as Warden Cooper Katherine Helmond as Dr. Harkens Ford Rainey as Jim Elgin | |||
| Co-starring Ruth Kobart as Guard John Zenda as Weber | |||
| With Lou Fant as Convict Jack Kutcher as Guard Angela Hoffman as Jody Billy Rittenbaugh as Arty Jeffrey Whipple as Bill Stacy O'Brien as Terry Pat St. James as Woman Convict | |||
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| Season 2 | |||
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| "Doomsday Is Tomorrow (Part II)" | "Deadly Ringer (Part II)" | ||
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| Mirror Image Deadly Ringer (Part II) | |||
Jaime is drugged and switched with Lisa Galloway. While Jaime attempts to convince prison officials of her identity, Lisa enjoys her new family and freedom.
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[edit] Summary
A nightmare begins for Jaime Sommers when two hit-men introduce a sleeping gas into her Ojai apartment and render her unconscious. She awakens to find herself confined in a prison cell against her will after exchanging places with a surgically altered look-alike, Lisa Galloway, who has secretly eluded capture. Heavily sedated and placed in a padded cell, a conspiracy is mounted by Dr. Harkens and her assistant, Weber, to murder Jaime -- first they will give her the operation intended to restore Lisa's original appearance and then bury her wearing Lisa Galloway's face.
Meanwhile, Lisa acquires a small supply of Adrenalizine, an experimental drug discovered by Dr. Rudy Wells, which produces bionic-like strength, but with severe adverse events. Incognito as Jaime Sommers, Galloway infiltrates the OSI offices in Washington, and even fools Rudy and Oscar into believing she is the genuine bionic woman. Agreeing to act as courier, Lisa steals the last remaining batch of Adrenalizine, an experimental drug discovered accidentally by Dr. Rudy Wells whose therapeutic indication appears promising for paralytic patients.
With the Adrenalizine in hand, Galloway is able to emulate bionic feats of strength. Her ultimate goal is to return the drug to Dr. Courtney and sell it for millions to foreign agents.
[edit] Quotes
Rudy: Plato here is the product of an accidental drug discovery I made four months ago. I call it Adrenalyzine.
Lisa: Adrenalizine?
Rudy: It's a plastic compound, it works about the same as our own adrenaline.
[edit] Trivia
- Lindsay Wagner won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1977 for her work on The Bionic Woman, and her victory has been directly attributed to her performance in the Deadly Ringer episodes.
- While Jaime is trying to convince Warden Cooper of her identity, she urges him to take her fingerprints -- implying that her bionic hand has fingerprints.
[edit] Gaffes
[edit] Continuity
- Two different shots of the chair next to the sink are used during the scene where Weber injects Jaime with the drug.
- The prison infirmary in Courtney's flashback to the Adrenalizine experiment and the prison infirmary Jaime is taken to look exactly the same.
[edit] Visual
- In the scene where the guards and dogs are dispatched to hunt Jaime, the edges of the frame are obstructed as if shot through a tube.
[edit] Nitpicks
- Two small canisters are able to release enough gas to flood Jaime's coach house and knock her out. But when the villains enter to kidnap her they don't wear gas masks.
- Courtney and Lisa have been been planning the escape for at least four months (when Lisa's faked mental deterioration began) but Courtney did not know about adrenalizine being the apparent secret of Jaime's strength until a fortnight (the time Oscar stated for Courtney's escape) prior to the kidnapping. So prior to his knowledge about adrenalize, how did Courtney intend to address the problem of Lisa not being able to emulate Jaime's powers?
- Dr. Courtney is a convicted felon yet is allowed to work in his prison's drug testing facility -- on a top secret formula!
- Jaime trips out in the padded cell, yet she is coherent enough not to eat the sandwich, instead hiding it inside her shirt.
- In the padded cell, Jaime lands on a drainage grate as she attempts a bionic jump. It breaks in two perfect halves but is shown intact in her hand a moment later. Furthermore, no drainage hole is seen underneath.
- In the shots where Jaime flees through the prison courtyard and the guards come after her, it is clearly a construction yard, not a prison courtyard: lumber stacks, trucks and forklifts can be seen in the backgrounds.
- Actions performed under the influence of Adrenalizine are accompanied by a sound effect that resembles the Bionic sound effect.
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