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Wonder Woman - Season 1 - ABC (1975-1977)
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The New Original Wonder Woman
ABC Pilot
Aired: November 7, 1975
Writer: Stanley
Ralph Ross
Director: Leonard
Horn
Producer: Douglas
S. Cramer
American war hero Steve Trevor is downed over the Bermuda Triangle
and lands on "Paradise Island", home of the Amazons. The Amazons hold
a contest and choose a champion among them - Wonder Woman - who will
return with Steve Trevor to America and remain there to fight the
Nazi threat. In the pilot episode, there is a Nazi plan to destroy
a new bomb site to ruin America's war effort. The Nazis have a mole
in Steve's office who is sabotaging him, and only Wonder Woman can
stop this catastrophe. |
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the pilot. |
With an uncredited appearance by Anne
Ramsey(Throw Momma From The Train) as a cab driver. Ramsey later appeared in the second season two part episode Mind Stealers from Outer Space as a bus driver.
Henry Gibson who played the double agent Nickolas would return in the CBS episode Screaming Javelins as Marion Mariposa.
Eric Braeden would return as Donalsen in the CBS episode Skateboard Wiz. Braeden,
under his original name Hans Gudegast, co-starred with Christopher George in the 1966-1968 TV series Rat Patrol. George would co-star with his wife Lynda Day George in the episode Fausta, the Nazi Wonder Woman as Rojack.
Wonder Woman Meets the Baroness Von Gunther
Aired: April 21, 1976
Writer: Margaret Armen
Director: Barry Crane
Major Trevor is framed as a Nazi spy and
Wonder Woman must contend with the cunning female leader
of the Abwehr, a Nazi spy ring. |
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Fausta, the Nazi Wonder Woman
Aired: April 28, 1976
Writers: Bruce Shelby & David
Ketchum
Director: Barry
Crane
Nazi agent, Fausta Grabels, goes to America to capture Wonder Woman for "the Fatherland." Sexism is rampant between the Axis and the Allies, but Colonel Kesselman shows us all how stupid it is to underestimate a woman. |
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Only in this episode and Wonder Woman Meets The Baroness
Von Gunther are actual villains used from the comic books.
Bo Brundin appears again in season 3, episode 13: Going, Going, Gone.
Beauty
on Parade
Aired: October 23, 1976
Writer: Ron Friedman
Director: Richard Kinon
A traveling beauty contest is the front for a group of enemy saboteurs
out to assasinate General Dwight D. Eisenhower. |
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This was the first episode with the explosive
ball of light transformation sequence and the sound effects for jumping
and super-strength.
Christa Helm, the actress that played Rita, was murdered four months after this episode aired.
In 1953, Bobby Van appeared in the MGM musical Kiss Me Kate as Gremio one of Bianca's three suitors. As Gremio, he competed for Bianca's hand against Hortensio played by Bob Fosse, the choreographer/director who would win a Best Director Oscar for Cabaret and Tony Awards for musicals such as Chicago. Also in the cast was Kurt Kazanar who played Baptista and later appeared in the episodes Judgement from Outer Space Parts 1 and 2
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The Feminum Mystique, Part 1
Aired: November 6, 1976
Teleplay: Jimmy Sangster
Story: Barb Avedon
& Barb Corday
Director: Herb Wallerstein
Wonder Woman's younger sister, Drusilla, is kidnapped by Germans
who want the secret of the Amazons' bullet-proof bracelets(Feminum).
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Barb Corday and Barb Avedon would go on to create Cagney
and Lacey.
The Feminum Mystique, Part 2
Aired: November 8, 1976
Cast: See Part 1, above
With Paradise Island taken over by the Nazis, Wonder Woman
and Wonder Girl must save their Amazon sisters and keep the Nazis from acquiring the bullet-proof
"feminum" metal. |
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Wonder Woman vs. Gargantua
Aired: December 18, 1976
Writers: Tony DiMarco & David
Ketchum
Director: Herb
Wallerstein
Erica Belgard, an unscrupulous animal behavior scientist, brings her trained gorilla to defeat Wonder
Woman using a captured Nazi spy as bait.
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The Pluto File
Aired: December 25, 1976
Writer: Herb Berman
Director: Herb
Wallerstein
A document that details the creation of earthquakes is
stolen by a Nazi employed mercenary who also happens to be carrying
the bubonic plague. |
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Last of the $2 Bills
Aired: January 8, 1977
Writers: Paul Dubov & Gwen Bagni
Director: Stuart
Margolin
Nazis scheme to flood the U.S. economy with counterfeit two dollar bills.
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Stuart Margolin, who directed this episode as well as two more in the first season,
is better known as Angel on The Rockford Files
Gwen Bagni and Paul Dubov were married and had long careers writing for radio shows as well as television.
Judgement from Outer Space, Part 1
Aired: January 15, 1977
Writer: Stephen Kandel
Director: Alan Crosland
An intergalactic council, deeming mankind too violent, sends a representative to investigate Earth. Life on the planet hangs in the balance as Andros must report to the council who will decide if Earth should be allowed to continue or be destroyed. Andros is kidnapped by Nazis, believing him not to be an alien but part of American atomic research. Wonder Woman and Major Trevor are captured while attempting a rescue. Will the world be destroyed because of Nazi greed? |
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Tim O'Connor(later to play Dr. Huer on Buck Rogers)
would appear in the CBS episode The Starships Are Coming. Why
they couldn't have had him reprise his role as the original Andros in
Mind Stealers From Outer Space is beyond me.
Kurt Kasznar had previously appeared as Baptista in the MGM musical Kiss Me Kate(1953) which also starred Bobby Van who was in the episode
Beauty on Parade.
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Judgement from Outer Space, Part 2
Aired: January 17, 1977
Cast: see part 1, above
Held captive by Nazis, Wonder Woman must get back her magic belt and lasso, retrieve Andros' power device, and get the alien to understand that Nazis are evil. Then she, Andros, Major Trevor, and his fellow officer have to escape. |
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Formula 407
Aired: January 22, 1977
Writer: Elroy Schwartz
Director: Herb Wallerstein
Yeoman Prince and Major Trevor go to Buenos Aires in search
of a secret formula that can turn rubber as strong as steel.
Of course, the Nazis want it too... |
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The Bushwackers
Aired: January 29, 1977
Writer: Skip Webster
Director: Stuart
Margolin
Wonder Woman helps Major Trevor capture enemy cattle rustlers who are
trying to sabotage the war effort.
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Lynda only appears in the Wonder Woman costume briefly
in this episode because Roy Rogers thought it was too revealing, and would
only appear if she wouldn't wear it. This is the first appearance for
Henry Darrow who would later appear in the CBS episode I Do, I Do.
Wonder Woman In Hollywood
Aired: February 16, 1977
Writer: Jimmy Sangster
Director: Stuart
Margolin
As Drusilla comes to America to tell Diana to return home for a celebration, Nazis are using the filming of a Hollywood movie as a means to kidnap American war heroes. Meanwhile, the war hero Drusilla is infatuated with isn't all he seems to be... |
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