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Wonder Woman - Knockout
episode 2.5
USA 1977
produced by Mark Rodgers, Wilfred Ralph Baumes (executive), Douglas S. Cramer (executive) for the Douglas S. Cramer Company, Warner Brothers/CBS
directed by Seymour Robbie
starring Lynda Carter, Lyle Waggoner, Norman Burton, Jayne Kennedy, Burr DeBenning, Arch Johnson, Frank Marth, Ted Shackelford, Abraham Alvarez, Alex Colon, Frank Parker, K.C. Martel
screenplay by Mark Rodgers, based on the comic created by William Moulton Marston, published by DC Comics, music by Artie Kane
TV-series Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter)
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Gouvernment agent Steve Trevor (Lyle Waggoner) has disappeared on his
flight to LA, and his assistant Diana Prince (Lynda Carter) is attacked in
her apartment, but turns into Wonder Woman on time to chase her attackers
away. Then, as Diana again she travels to LA in search for Steve, and
bumps into helpful cabbie Pete (Ted Schackelford), but also into more
goons of the other side as well as a hitman (Frank Marth) who tries to
take her out time and again. Meanwhile her boss Atkinson (Norman Burton)
and LA bramch boss Kelly (Arch Johnson) have figured out Steve must have
been kidnapped by Carolyn (Jayne Kennedy), a former policewoman whose life
Steve has once saved - and imdeed. he's in Carolyn's hands, only now she's
with an anarchist movement - but she keeps Steve alive out of gratitude.
Diana and company try to track her down but without any success. Then they
figure she and her gang must plan an attack of a security conference, and
they're right of course. Thing is, her associate Baker (Burr DeBenning) is
a double agent who takes advantage of his job with the gouvernment to take
the whole conference hostage. But Diana manages to get away, turn into
Wonder Woman, get to Carolyn who's Baker's sharp shooter and thus life
ensurance, appeal to her conscience, and ultimately convince her to give
herself up - upon which Baker's plan quickly collapses like a house of
cards.
Sure, this one has some fun scenes, and one can't deny Lynda
Carter's genuine charm in the title role, but at the same time this
episode features a few too many plotholes to keep the story running to
still make it work, and what's left is a rather silly cloak-and-dagger
story. that might score high on the nostalgia scale, some points on the
camp scale, but just isn't good TV.
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