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Wonder Woman - The Return of Wonder Woman
episode 2.1
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 Alan Crosland jr
starring Lynda Carter, Lyle Waggoner, Norman Burton, Fritz Weaver, Bettye Ackerman, Jessica Walter, Beatrice Straight, David Knapp, Carlos Romero, Dorrie Thomson, Argentina Brunetti, Edward Cross, Jo de Winter, George Ives, Frank Killmond, Russ Marin, William Tregoe, Raye Sheffield
screenplay by Stephen Kandel, 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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After World War II. Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter) has apparently
disappeared from the face of the earth - or from American soil at least as
she has gone back to her native Paradise Island, it's never really
explained why. Now (as in 1977) a plane carrying her erstwhile boyfriend
Steve Trevor's son Steve Trevor (Lyle Waggoner) emergency lands on
Paradise Island due to a terrorist attack, and Wonder Woman figures she
ought to go to the outside world again to help Tevor. But not before being
challenged by Evadne (Dorrie Thomson) to a friendly duel for the mantle of
Wonder Woman, Anyways, the new Steve Trevor is on a mission to fly a
nuclear power station to South America, a power station a power-hungry
diplomat, Dr. Solano (Fritz Weaver), wants to get his hands on. So he and
his charming assistant Gloria (Jessica Walter) lure Trevor to a function
at their embassy, replace him with a body double, and the body double
re-directs the power plant-carrying plane to some obscure quarry under
Solano's control. But Wonder Woman, who has cheated herself into working
As Trevor's assistant Diana Prince, sees through the charade, unmasks
Trevor's double, then she and Trevor fly to the quarry in question in her
invisible plane, arriving ahead of the power station, and once there,
Solano challenges her to a fencing duel, but replaces himself with a
nuclear-powered robot that almost fights Diana to a standstill, but then
she realizes the robot's actually an atom bomb and throws it after Solano
and Gloria who try to escape through a mine shaft - and when the bomb
blows up, the world#s saved ... unil the next episode.
For the second season, Wonder Woman hasn't only
moved from the 1940s to 1977, but also to another network (from ABC
to CBS) - and
for some reason, this prompted those in power to set up the character's
backstory yet again, even if there were a mere seven month since the
previous episode first played, while not giving any explanation for
the 30+ year jump at all. And frankly, the changes in direction of the
series don't do it much good, while the first season was hokey and campy
fun for sure, the new iteration is more soulless espionage cloak and
dagger that's not even properly though through and has far to many filler
scenes that are at best remotely tense and quite slimply too routine to
spakr much enthusiasm. That said, this one's still mildly amusing from a
nostalgic point of view at least, but hardly anything beyond just that.
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