Monday, February 10, 2014

Television and Cinema Verities #108



It's purely fantasy. Everyone wants to be super human. I grew up with Superman and kids don't have him today. Kids are also much more aware today than we were. They know about technology. They know bionics are real. Bionics don't have the power that Jaime Sommers and Steve Austin have. But there really are artificial limbs that operate by muscle signals."

- Lindsay Wagner discusses The Bionic Woman in a 1976 interview with Peggy Herz, in TV Talk 2 (Scholastic), transcribed here.

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