Helen Elgin

Helen Elgin is a fictional character featured on the ABC television series The Six Million Dollar Man and its spin-off series The Bionic Woman. She was played by actress Martha Scott. She appeared on three episode of The Six Million Dollar Man beginning with "The Coward", and six episodes of The Bionic Woman.

Helen Elgin was the wife of Jim Elgin, and the mother of Steve Austin. Her first husband was Carl Austin, who is Steve's father, who died during World War II. She lived in Ojai, California. Helen Elgin was also close to the Sommers' family, and watched Jaime Sommers grow up. After Jaime's parents were killed in an automobile accident in 1966, Helen became a surrogate mother to Jaime.

Occasionally, Helen would even get involved in some of Jaime's adventures. On one such instance, Helen accompanied Jaime to the Ambassador Hotel where she Jamie was to go undercover as a beauty pageant contestant. Helen ran interference for Jamie between the event sponsor, Mrs. Belding, and the stage manager, Brady. Bray later threatened to shoot Helen in order to force Jaime's compliance after it was discovered that she was a secret agent.

Shortly thereafter, a woman named Chris Stuart came into Jaime's life, masquerading as her mother, Anne Sommers. Helen was upset by this, as she felt it would come between the relationship she already had with Jaime. She later expressed relief when it was discovered that Chris was not in fact Jaime's mother.