Bionic Woman: Jaime and the King

"Now, you wanna tell me what I am doing in Monte Carlo, dressed like Mary Poppins, when everyone else is wearing postage stamps?"

- Jaime Sommers

"Jaime and the King" is the seventeenth episode of season two of the 1970s sci-fi/action series The Bionic Woman. It is the 31st episode of the series overall. It was directed by Alan Crosland and written by Robert L. McCullough, C. Robert Brooks and Arthur Rowe. It first aired on the ABC network on Wednesday, February 23rd, 1977. In this episode, Jaime Sommers reluctantly accepts an undercover job working as a tutor for a young Middle-Eastern boy named Ishmael, who also happens to be the Crown Prince of a Persian Gulf nation. Her true mission however is to safeguard the Shah, Ali Ben Gazim against a potential assassination attempt by the Prime Minister and industrial rival, Hassan. When her cover is nearly blown, Jaime must entertain the Prime Minister by disguising herself as one of the Shah's dancing girls. Through the course of her mission, Jaime teaches young Ishmael the value of personal strength and independence and that women should not be regarded as subservient to men.

Notes & Trivia

 * This episode is included in the Bionic Woman: Season Two DVD boxset collection.


 * Production code number: 45421


 * Actor Martin E. Brooks is credited in this episode, but does not make an actual appearance.


 * A body double was used for the scenes where Jaime does the veil dance for the Shah.


 * Final episode of the series directed by Alan Crosland.


 * Actor Robert Loggia has also appeared in two episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man. He played Mahmud Majd in "The Thunderbird Connection" and made an uncredited appearance in the season five episode, "Rollback".


 * Lance Kerwin, who plays Prince Ishmael will later go on to play Joey Wooster in the 1985 film Enemy Mine.