LOS ANGELES (AP)-Television's "Bionic Woman," actress Lindsay Wagner, took part in a real-life rescue atop a 21-story hotel as she tried to talk a 27-year-old woman out of jumping to her death, police said today.

A woman identified by police as Pat Lopez of Los Angels was wresled to safety Tuesday night by a police officer and the engineer of the Sheraton Universal Hotel in North Hollywood nearly an hour after Miss Wagner arrived at the hotel. Ms. Lopez had demanded to speak to the actress, who stars in "The Bionic Woman" television series, police said.

Miss Wagner was pickep up by a police helicopter at the Malibu sheriff's station helipad at 6:25 p.m., arriving 20 minutes later at the hotel where she talked to Ms. Lopez.

She (Miss Wagner) was just great, said one officer, adding that the actress was "instrumental in helping us save the Lopez woman's life."

Despite Miss Wagner's arrival and the rescue efforts of Officer Gordon Stanley and hotel engineer Lee Wyatt, Ms. Lopez refused to climb back onto the roof, Sgt. Jerry Rutherford said.

"We were afraid that she would either get up the courage to jump or just fall out of sheer fatigue," said Rutherford. "She had her toes over the ledge and nearly nearly fell several times."

Police said while Miss Wagner distracted the woman from the rooftop, Wyatt jumped out and grabbed the Lopez woman -- almost carrying both of them to the side.

Stanley then grabbed both Wyatt and the woman, holding them there until other uniformed officers arrived to pull the struggling trio back unto the roof about 7:55 p.m., police said.

Ms. Lopez had climbed onto a ledge outside a handrail and threatened to jump from the roof of the North Hollywood hotel at about 4:30 p.m., police said.

She was admitted to Olive View Medical Center in Sylmar on Tuesday night for observation.