 The characters of Oscar Goldman (Richard Anderson (I) (qv)) and  Rudy Wells (Martin E. Brooks (qv)) appeared on both this series  and its spinoff, _"Bionic Woman, The" (1976)_ (qv). When the spinoff  moved to another network, this practice continued. This was the  first time the same continuing characters appeared on two different  TV series broadcast on two different networks at the same time.