Show Business: The $500,000 Timex

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 two people who were part Timex." So...

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