SEASON I

THE NEW, ORIGINAL WONDER WOMAN -(90 minute pilot movie)
Air date: November 7, 1975
Produced by: Douglas S. Cramer
Written by: Stanley Ralph Ross
Directed by: Leonard Horn
Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman
Lyle Waggoner as Steve Trevor
John Randolph as General Blankenship
Special Appearances: Red Buttons as Ashley Norman, Stella Stevens as Marcia
Guest Stars: Eric Braeden, Severn Darden, Fannie Flagg, Henry Gibson, Kenneth Mars
Special Guest Star: Cloris Leachman as the Queen

While intercepting a Nazi saboteur, U.S. Air Corp Major Steve Trevor is shot down and washes up on Paradise Island, home of the immortal Amazons. The queen of the Amazons arranges a tournament to decide who will escort him back to America, but forbids her daughter Diana to enter. In disguise, Diana competes anyway and emerges victorious. As Wonder Woman she travels to "Man's World" with Steve Trevor to fight continued Nazi threats. After discovering that she needs money in order to survive, Wonder Woman allows herself to be exploited by talent agent Ashley Norman. Meanwhile, Steve's secretary Marcia has secretly been spying for the Nazis (along with Ashley Norman) as they plot to destroy the top secret U.S. Nordon Bomb Site. Wonder Woman is able to unravel their plot and intercept the Nazi bomber before rescuing the kidnapped Major Trevor. To hide her true identity and stay close to Steve she becomes Diana Prince, Yeoman U.S. Navy.

SPECIAL NOTES: Visually, Lynda Carter explodes off the screen as the perfect Wonder Woman, and although she's never been highly praised for her acting, she very convincingly portrays the wide-eyed innocence of someone inexperienced with the modern world. Lynda also gives Wonder Woman a cocky arrogance that we don't see again until late in the modern day episodes. Stanley Ralph Ross's pilot story stays very true to Wonder Woman's comic book origin -- with the exception of the need for a magic belt for Wonder Woman to retain her powers away from Paradise Island. And although we know from the comics that the Queen's name is Hippolyte, it is never revealed in the series. This and the following two episodes all originally aired as specials.

WONDER WOMAN MEETS BARONESS VON GUNTHER -(60 minute movie special)
Air date: April 21, 1976
Written by: Margaret Armen
Directed by: Barry Crane
Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman
Lyle Waggoner as Steve Trevor
Richard Eastham as General Blankenship
Beatrice Colen as Etta Candy
Guest Stars: Christine Belford as Baroness Paula von Gunther, Edmund Gilbert, Ed Griffith, Christian Juttner
Special Appearance: Bradford Dillman as Arthur Deal, III

Steve Trevor is suspected of espionage after several weapons shipments are sabotaged with clues pointing at him. Wonder Woman, however, suspects the former leader of a Nazi spy ring who has an airtight alibi - she's in prison.

SPECIAL NOTES: Richard Eastham takes over the role of General Blankenship, originated by John Randolph in The New, Original Wonder Woman. This episode also premieres Beatrice Colen as Etta Candy. As directed by Barry Crane, Wonder Woman becomes much softer than in the pilot, but Lynda's acting becomes very stiff. After the next episode, Crane is not used.

FAUSTA, THE NAZI WONDER WOMAN -(60 minute movie special)
Air date: April 28, 1976
Written by: Bruce Shelley and David Ketchum
Directed by: Barry Crane
Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman
Lyle Waggoner as Steve Trevor
Richard Eastham as General Blankenship
Beatrice Colen as Etta Candy
Guest Stars: Bo Brundin, Colby Chester, Jeff Cooper, Keene Curtis, Bill Fletcher
Special Guest Stars: Lynda Day George as Fausta, and Christopher George as Rojak

The Nazis send their top female operative to capture Wonder Woman and bring her back to Germany, with Steve Trevor as the bait. In her second attempt, Fausta poses as Wonder Woman to draw her out, and Steve follows them to Germany to protect her. Wonder Woman is able to escape, but Steve ends up captured, and she must return to rescue him from the Nazi compound.

SPECIAL NOTES: This episode is the last to feature Diana's spinning striptease into her Wonder Woman uniform. The footage of Wonder Woman in her invisible plane is taken directly from The New, Original Wonder Woman.

1976-77 SEASON
Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman
Lyle Waggoner as Steve Trevor
Richard Eastham as General Blankenship
Beatrice Colen as Etta Candy

BEAUTY ON PARADE
Air date: October 13, 1976
Written by: Ron Friedman
Directed by: Richard Kinon
Guest Stars: Anne Francis as Lola Flynn, Dick VanPatten as Jack Wood, William Lanteau
Special Guest Star: Bobby Van as Monty Burns

Diana enters a traveling beauty contest to expose it as a front for enemy saboteurs. But is it the radar scanner they're really after, or General Eisenhower?

SPECIAL NOTES: This is the first episode to air as Wonder Woman the TV series, the previous episodes all airing as movie specials under their respective titles. This episode is also the first to feature the famous sequence where Diana spins into Wonder Woman accompanied by the flash of light. The entire production takes a dramatic turn for the better with this episode -- very notably the special effects, which had been poor and kept to a minimum in the movie specials.

THE FEMINUM MYSTIQUE, Part One
Air date: November 6, 1976
Teleplay by: Jimmy Sangster
Story by: Barbara Avedon and Barbara Corday
Directed by: Herb Wallerstein
Guest Stars: John Saxon, Carolyn Jones as the Queen, Charles Frank, Paul Shenar, Kurt Kreuger
Introducing: Debra Winger as Drusilla

Wonder Woman's younger sister travels to Washington DC to bring her back to Paradise Island, and Diana has her stay long enough to understand and explain to the Queen why her continued presence is important to the war effort. Meanwhile, the Nazis have been observing Wonder Woman's actions, and after falling into a trap meant for her sister her older sister, Drusilla is held hostage by Nazis who want the secret of her bullet-proof bracelets.

SPECIAL NOTES: As of this episode, Carolyn Jones plays the role of the Queen, originated by Cloris Leachman in The New, Original Wonder Woman. Although this episode also introduces the character of Wonder Girl into the Wonder Woman TV mythos, this particular Wonder Girl has no basis in the comic book and was created for television; The true comic book version of Wonder Girl -- Donna Troy, Diana's foster sister raised by the Amazons -- was never used. Also, there are inconsistencies between this 2-part episode and the pilot movie that are never explained; the mere existence of Drusilla contradicts the Queen's reference to Diana as her only begotten child in The New, Original Wonder Woman, and Drusilla's ability to turn into Wonder Girl at all undermines Wonder Woman's TV origin story completely. Despite these inconsistencies, this set of episodes is extremely entertaining -- Wonder Woman at its best.

THE FEMINUM MYSTIQUE, Part Two
Air date: November 8, 1976
Teleplay by: Jimmy Sangster
Story by: Barbara Avedon and Barbara Corday
Directed by: Herb Wallerstein
Guest Stars: John Saxon, Carolyn Jones as the Queen, Charles Frank, Paul Shenar, and Debra Winger as Drusilla

Wonder Woman's younger sister inadvertantly reveals the location of Paradise Island to her Nazi captors, who launch an attack on the island to obtain the bullet-proof feminum. Will Wonder Woman be able to save her Amazon sisters and return to the United States before the Germans can hijack an experimental new military jet?

SPECIAL NOTE: Lynda Carter is amazing as Wonder Woman in this episode, greatly outshining future superstar Debra Winger. This is one of the better and more memorable episodes of the WWII era -- however, the concept that the Nazis would land on Paradise Island exactly where a small and easily overcome expidition of Amazons (of likely thousands) is guarding the Feminum mine is highly ludicrous. Beginning with this 2-part episode, scenes featuring Wonder Woman flying in her invisible plane -- last seen in Fausta, the Nazi Wonder Woman -- are obviously shot using dolls.

WONDER WOMAN VS. GARGANTUA
Air date: December 18, 1976
Written by: David Ketchum and Tony DiMarco
Directed by: Charles R. Rondeau
Guest Stars: Robert Loggia, Gretchen Corbett, John Hillerman, Tom Reese, Mickey Morton

A trained gorilla sent by the Nazis to capture a traitor has been prepared for one true mission: DESTROY WONDER WOMAN!

THE PLUTO FILE
Air date: December 25, 1976
Written by: Herbert Bermann
Directed by: Herb Wallerstein
Guest Stars: Robert Reed as the Falcon, Haydon Rorke, Albert Stratton

A rash of bubonic plague cases happens to coincide with the activities of an international mercenary who just stole a file on creating earthquakes and plans to use it to level Washington D.C.

THE LAST OF THE $2 BILLS
Air date: January 8, 1977
Written by: Paul Dubov and Gwen Bagni
Directed by: Stuart Margolin
Guest Stars: James Olson, Barbara Anderson, David Cryer, John Howard

Wonder Woman and Steve uncover a Nazi scheme to flood the United States with counterfeit $2 bills in an effort to destroy the economy during wartime.

JUDGEMENT FROM OUTER SPACE, Part One
Air date: January 15, 1977
Written by: Steve Kandel
Directed by: Alan Crosland
Guest Stars: Tim O'Connor as Andros, Kurt Kaszner, Janet MacLachlan, Vic Perrin
Special Guest Star: Scott Hylands

Mankind has been judged too violent by an inter-galactic council of planets, whose representative Andros has been sent to Earth to determine its fate. Andros and Wonder Woman become allies, but she is unable to protect him from being abducted by the Nazis and taken to Germany.

JUDGEMENT FROM OUTER SPACE, Part Two
Air date: January 17, 1977
Written by: Steven Kandel
Directed by: Alan Crosland
Guest Stars: Tim O'Connor as Andros, Kurt Kaszner, Janet MacLachlan, Christopher Cary, Vic Perrin, Hank Brandt, Christine Schmidtmer
Special Guest Star: Scott Hylands

Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor are taken prisoner in Nazi Germany while attempting to rescue the alien Andros, who isn't sure he is in any danger. Meanwhile, the inter-galactic council of planets has decided that the Earth must be sterilized.

SPECIAL NOTE: The son of Andros returns to aid Wonder Woman in another 2-part episode called The Mind Stealers from Outer Space after the show moves to modern day.

FORMULA 407
Air date: January 22, 1977
Written by: Elroy Schwartz
Directed by: Herb Wallerstein
Guest Stars: Nehemiah Persoff, Marisa Pavan, John Devlin

Steve and Diana travel to neutral Buenos Aires to bring back a formula for making rubber as strong as steel, but the Nazis have made other plans for both the formula and America's great war hero.

THE BUSHWACKERS
Air date: January 29, 1977
Written by: Skip Webster
Directed by: Stuart Margolin
Guest Stars: Henry Darrow as Walter Lampkin, Lance Kerwin as Jeff Hadley
Special Guest Star: Roy Rogers as J.P. Hadley

Steve is sent to Texas to help an old friend of General Blankenship deal with cattle rustlers who are sabotaging the war effort. Fortunately for him, Wonder Woman isn't far behind.
SPECIAL NOTE: Lynda wears a special western Wonder Woman outfit with long pants, apparently at Roy Roger's request.

WONDER WOMAN IN HOLLYWOOD
Air date: February 16, 1977
Written by: Jimmy Sangster
Directed by: Bruce Bilson
Guest Stars: Harris Yulin, Robert Hays as Jim Ames, Christopher Norris, Charles Cyphers, Alan Bergmann
Special Guest Appearances: Carolyn Jones as the Queen, Debra Winger as Drusilla / Wonder Girl

At the Queen's request, Drusilla follows Diana and Steve to Hollywood, where American war heroes have been asked to recreate their moments of glory in a movie to boost soldier morale. The Nazis use the filming of the movie as a means to kidnap the war heroes--whom they plan to take to Germany for public execution.

SPECIAL NOTES: When Drusilla last appeared in The Feminum Mystique, Wonder Woman made a point of saying to her, "Up to now they think there's only one of us -- better we keep it that way." As of this episode, apparently this is no longer an issue because not only does Drusilla appear publicly in uniform with Wonder Woman, but Jim Ames and Steve Trevor actually refer to her as Wonder Girl. This episode is the last to air on ABC and with the original cast. Although the series was a heavy hitter for ABC, the network failed to give it a solid commitment and consistent time slot, so the decision was made to move it to CBS.

THE NEW ADVENTURES OF WONDER WOMAN
1977-78 SEASON
Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman / Diana Prince
Lyle Waggoner as Steve Trevor II
Normann Burton as Joe Atkinson (first 9 episodes)

SEASON II

THE RETURN OF WONDER WOMAN
Air date: September 16, 1977
Written by: Stephen Kandel
Directed by: Alan Crosland
Guest Stars: Fritz Weaver as Dr. Solano, Bettye Ackerman
Special Guest Stars: Jessica Walter, Beatrice Straight as the Queen

Now 1977, a plane carrying IADC Agent Steve Trevor (son of the original Steve Trevor) and a group of nuclear scientists is downed in the Bermuda Triangle after a failed terrorist hijacking. The Amazons are forced to guide the plane to Paradise Island, necessitating Wonder Woman's return to the outside world. As Diana Prince, Wonder Woman infiltrates the Inter Agency Defense Command and gets herself partnered with Steve. Together they must prevent the terrorists from sabotaging the construction of a government-funded nuclear power plant.

SPECIAL NOTES: There were some dramatic changes that accompanied the move to CBS and "modern day"-- besides the new title; Wonder Woman apparently returned to Paradise Island some time after World War II, and over 30 years has passed since she her last visit to "Man's World." It is mentioned in passing that Major General Steve Trevor is now deceased -- though Steve Jr. grew up with tales of the Amazon Princess at his father's knee. Wonder Woman's uniform -- originally fashioned after the comic book -- is modernized and cut sexier, and it is revealed that her golden lasso can now be used to induce forgetfulness. This episode also premieres Wonder Woman's sleeker invisible plane. The series is given a new opening sequence, altering the lyrics and the corresponding cartooning in order to reflect the move to modern day, but retaining a variation of the original instrumental theme. Beatrice Straight takes over the role of the Queen, last played by Carolyn Jones in Wonder Woman in Hollywood, and Normann Burton begins as Joe Atkinson. Lyle Waggoner continues -- this time as the son of his original Steve Trevor character. Also, Lynda Carter begins wearing a tight curly wig during of her scenes as Wonder Woman. Major problem though; everything about the production seems to lose its charm and punch with the attempt to bring the character to modern times, which forces the powers-that-be to retool the show again mid-season.

ANSCHLUSS '77
Air date: September 23, 1977
Written by: Dallas L. Barnes
Directed by: Alan Crosland
Guest Stars: Mel Ferrer as Fritz Gerlich, Leon Charles, Barry Dennen, Julio Medina

IADC Agents Prince and Trevor travel to South America where a large Nazi movement plans to revive the Third Reich and clone Adolf Hitler.

SPECIAL NOTE: Many of the clips featured in the next new opening sequence, premiering with The Man Who Made Volcanos, are taken from the heavy action scenes in these first two episodes.

THE MAN WHO COULD MOVE THE WORLD
Air date: September 30, 1977
Written by: Judy Burns
Directed by: Bob Kelljan
Guest Star: Yuki Shimoda as Takeo Ishida
Special Guest Star: Lew Ayres as Dr. Theodore Wilson

Wonder Woman must fight for her life against a Japanese man with telekinetic powers who blames her for the death of his brother during World War II.

SPECIAL NOTES: Those who have never seen the Lynda Carter Wonder Woman doll can catch a glimpse of it in this episode, along with some promotional photos of Wonder Woman in her original uniform -- but notice that the show failed to put her in the original uniform for this episode's World War II flashback scenes. This episode marks the last appearance of Wonder Woman's invisible jet.

THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE CRISIS
Air date: October 7, 1977
Written by: Calvin Clements Jr.
Directed by: Seymour Robbie
Guest stars: Charles Coffi as Raymond Manta, Beatrice Straight as the Queen

Steve and Diana are sent to the Bermuda Triangle to stop an international criminal from sabotaging the establishment of a nuclear testing facility, which Diana is secretly worried could endanger Paradise Island if it is completed.

SPECIAL NOTES: This episode is the first to feature Wonder Woman in her full-body diving costume, which doubles as a motorcycling uniform in later episodes. The Queen makes her final appearance in this episode.

KNOCKOUT
Air date: October 14, 1977
Written by: Mark Rodgers
Directed by: Seymour Robbie
Guest Stars: Jayne Kennedy, Burr DeBenning, Arch Johnson, Alex Colon, and Ted Shakelford as Pete

Diana heads for Los Angeles to investigate the disappearance of Steve Trevor and uncovers plans for a terrorist attack on an international trade conference.

SPECIAL NOTES: Ted Shakelford plays a major part in this episode, despite a minor credit. He also reappears as a different character in next season's episode Time Bomb.

THE PIED PIPER
Air date: October 21, 1977
Teleplay by: David Ketchum, Tony DiMarco, and Brian McKay
Story by: David Ketchum and Tony DiMarco
Directed by: Alan Crosland
Guest Stars: Martin Mull as Hamlin Rule, Denny Miller
Special Guest Star: Eve Plumb as Elena Atkinson

A rock musician uses hypnotic music to force his young female fans into robbing his concerts for him.

THE QUEEN AND THE THIEF
Air date: October 28, 1977
Written by: Bruce Shelley
Directed by: Jack Arnold
Guest Stars: Juliet Mills as Queen Kathryn, David Hedison as Evan Robley, John Colicos as Ambassador Orrick

Wonder Woman and Steve team with an international jewel thief to foil a plot to dethrone a foreign dignitary.

I DO, I DO
Air date: November 11, 1977
Written by: Richard Carr
Directed by: Herb Wallerstein
Guest Stars: Celeste Holm as Dolly Tucker, Simon Scott as Sam Tucker, John Getz as Christian Harrison
Special Guest Star: Henry Darrow as David Allen

Confidential information is being extracted from the wives of government officials at an Arizona health spa.
SPECIAL NOTE: This episode premieres Diana's famous pony-tail, which becomes a series mainstay.

THE MAN WHO MADE VOLCANOES
Air date: November 18, 1977
Teleplay by: Brian McKay and Dan Ullman
Story by: Wilton Denmark
Directed by: Alan Crosland
Guest Stars: Roger Davis, Irene Tsu, Richard Narita
Special Guest Star: Roddy McDowall as Professor Chapman

A scientist threatens to devastate the planet with induced volcanic eruptions if the world's powers don't agree to disarm.

SPECIAL NOTES: Many changes here; At the beginning of this episode we learn that Steve Trevor has been promoted to Joe Atkinson's position -- reducing his role to handing out assignments and leaving Diana to handle her cases solo. Also, apparently a great deal of time has gone by since the season opener when Diana joined the IADC -- she and Professor Chapman have not seen each other in two years. Each show now begins with a teaser prior to a new, live-action opening sequence which -- along with the disappearance of the yellow caption panels -- effectively eliminates the original comic book format of the program and any final reference to Wonder Woman's invisible plane. This is the last episode to feature Normann Burton as a regular cast member.

THE MIND STEALERS FROM OUTER SPACE, Part One
Air date: December 2, 1977
Written by: Stephen Kandel
Directed by: Michael Caffey
Guest Stars: Dack Rambo as Andros, Kristin Larkin, Sol Weiner, Earl Boen, Barbara O. Jones, Barry Cahill, Del Hinkley, Allan Migicovsky, Anne Ramsey, Linda Ryan, Gary Bisig, Betty Cole, Lana Marie Hendricks, Lori Ann Hendricks
Special Guest Star: Vincent VanPatten as Johnny

Andros returns to hunt down an outlaw alien race that is taking over human bodies and stealing their minds.

SPECIAL NOTE: It is implied, though never made clear, that this Andros is actually the son of the Andros that appeared in Judgement From Outer Space and that he and his father have both worked with Wonder Woman in the past.

THE MIND STEALERS FROM OUTER SPACE, Part Two
Air date: December 9, 1977
Written by: Stephen Kandel
Directed by: Alan Crosland
Guest Stars: Dack Rambo as Andros, Pamela Mason, Kristin Larkin, Allan Migicovsky, Earl Boen, Barbara O. Jones, Curt Lowens, Rege Cordic, Lana Marie Hendricks, Lori Ann Hendricks, Walt Davis, Phyllis Flax, Eric Mason, Dee Dee Young
Special Guest Star: Vincent VanPatten as Johnny

Wonder Woman and Andros must prepare the world for decontamination and the mass insanity it will cause unless they can find a way to capture the Skrill and retrieve the stolen minds.

SPECIAL NOTES: As of this episode Lynda Carter no longer wears the tight curly wig during her scenes as Wonder Woman, allowing her hair to appear much more relaxed. Plus, the IRAC computer clearly suspects Diana to be Wonder Woman.

THE DEADLY TOYS
Air date: December 30, 1977
Teleplay by: Anne Collins
Story by: Carey Wilber
Directed by: Dick Moder
Guest Stars: Frank Gorshin as Dr. Hoffman, James A. Watson Jr., Donald Bishop, Ross Elliott
Special Guest Star: John Rubinstein as Major Dexter

A toymaker is replacing scientists with androids in order to steal designs for a top-secret government weapon.

LIGHT-FINGERED LADY
Air date: January 6, 1978
Written by: Bruce Shelley
Directed by: Alan Crosland
Guest Stars: Chris Stone, Joseph R. Sicari, Bubba Smith, Gary Crosby, Titos Vandis, Saundra Sharp as Eve
Special Guest Star: Greg Morris as Anton Caribe

Diana goes undercover as an expert thief in order to expose a criminal mastermind in a $50 million heist.

SPECIAL NOTE: This episode marks the first appearance of Saundra Sharp in the recurring role of IADC Agent Eve.

SCREAMING JAVELINS
Air date: January 20, 1978
Written by: Brian McKay
Directed by: Michael Caffey
Guest Stars: Henry Gibson as Mariposa, Robert Sampson, Melanie Chartoff, Rick Springfield, E. J. Peaker

Top athletes are being kidnapped by a mad-man who wants to create his own Olympic team.

SPECIAL NOTES: Mariposa is presented as a major returning nemesis of Diana Prince, but this is his first -- and only -- appearance. Henry Gibson, though, did have a small role in The New, Original Wonder Woman as a traitorous Nazi supplying information to the Allies. Rick Springfield makes another appearance in next season's episode Amazon Hot Wax, but as a different character.

DIANA'S DISAPPEARING ACT
Air date: February 3, 1978
Written by: S.S. Schweitzer
Directed by: Michael Caffey
Guest Stars: Dick Gautier as Count Cagliostro, Ed Begley, Jr. as Harold Farnum, J.A. Preston, Allen Williams,
Ahron Impale, Saundra Sharp as Eve
Special Guest Star: Brenda Bennet as Morgana

Count Cagliostro has found a way to turn lead into gold and plans to sell it to a Middle Eastern oil tycoon, but he has to get Diana out of the way to do it.

SPECIAL NOTE: Ed Begley Jr. reprises his role as Harold Farnum next season in The Fine Art Of Crime.

DEATH IN DISGUISE
Air date: February 10, 1978
Written by: Tom Sawyer
Directed by: Alan Crosland
Guest Stars: Joe Fabiani as Woodward Nightingale, Jennifer Darling, Lee Bergere, Charles Pierce, Art Bantanides, Christopher Cary, Saundra Sharp as Eve
Special Guest Star: George Chakiris as Carlo Indrezzano.

Diana is assigned to protect a millionaire industrialist from a hitman, but the real target is the IRAC computer.

SPECIAL NOTE: Somehow, Wonder Woman is able to outrace a bomb -- running 47 miles in four minutes through Washington D.C. traffic.

IRAC IS MISSING
Air date: February 17, 1978
Written by: Anne Collins
Directed by: Alex Singer
Guest Stars: Ross Martin as Bernard Havitol, Lee Paul, W.T. Zacha

A computer genius plans to take over the world by stealing the programs and memories of top level computers.

SPECIAL NOTES: Like the previous episode, IRAC seems to be the main target. This episode premieres the ROVER, a roving computer designed to respond to certain stimuli and report back to the IRAC computer. Like IRAC, ROVER has its own human-like personality quirks.

FLIGHT TO OBLIVION
Air date: March 3, 1978
Written by: Patrick Mathews
Directed by: Alan Crosland
Guest Stars: Michael Shannon, Corinne Michaels, Alan Fudge, Mitch Vogel
Special Guest Star: John VanDreelen as Edmund Dante

Diana goes undercover to expose a former NATO officer who uses hypnotic powers to sabotage the U.S. Air Force.

SPECIAL NOTES:  Wonder Woman actually chases down a bus in this episode, then pulls it to a stop with her own hands. Michael Shannon appears as a different character in next season's two-part episode The Boy Who Knew Her Secret.

SEANCE OF TERROR
Air date: March 10, 1978
Written by: Bruce Shelly
Directed by: Dick Moder
Guest Stars: Rick Jason, Kres Mersky, Tod Lookinland as Matthew, John Fujioka, Hanna Hertelendy, Adam Ageli, Saundra Sharp as Eve

A young boy's psychic powers are used to manipulate officials and foreign dignitaries, jeopardizing international peace talks.

THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T TELL
Air date: March 31, 1978
Written by: Anne Collins
Directed by: Alan Crosland
Guest Stars: Jane Actman, Phillip M. Thomas, Michael Cole, Millie Slavin, Saundra Sharp as Eve
Special Guest Star: Gary Burghoff as Alan

Everyone is looking for a janitor after he accidently discovers the key ingredient to an experimental explosives formula.

SPECIAL NOTE: Jane Actman, who plays a major role in this episode, is featured prominently as a different character in next season's episode The Girl With A Gift For Disaster.

THE GIRL FROM ILANDIA
Air date: April 7, 1978
Written by Anne Collins
Directed by: Dick Moder
Guest Stars: Harry Guardino as Simon Penrose, Julie Ann Haddock as Tina, Alan Arbus as Bleaker

An underworld legend kidnaps a young girl with special powers from another dimension, hoping to use her powers for his own gain. Wonder Woman must not only protect the girl TIna from her kidnapper, but also search for a way to return her home.

SPECIAL NOTE: The girl Tina comes from a mythical place called Ilandia in another dimension, which apparently Diana learned about in her Amazonian studies.

THE MURDEROUS MISSILE
Air date: April 21, 1978
Written by: Dick Nelson
Directed by: Dick Moder
Guest Stars: James Luisi, Mark Withers, Warren Stevens. Steve Inwood, Lucille Benson
Special Guest Star: Hal England as Hal Shaver

Wonder Woman must thwart a plot to hijack an experimental thought-controlled missile--that is if she can escape the ghost town where she is being mysteriously detained.

SPECIAL NOTES: This episode is the first to feature Wonder Woman using her full-body suit as a cycling uniform as she becomes involved in a lengthy motorcycle chase through the backwoods and mud. Heavy on action; Wonder Woman also stops a speeding car using just her foot, fends off two jeeps as they chase her simultaneously, swings in true Olympic form from the high beams of a barn, and must break free from a cell where she is shackeled spread-eagle to the ground.

SEASON III 1978-79 SEASON

MY TEENAGE IDOL IS MISSING
Air date: September 22, 1978
Written by: Anne Collins
Directed by: Seymour Robbie
Guest Stars: Michael Lerner, Michael Baseleon, Dawn Lyn
Special Appearance: Albert Paulsen
Special Guest Star: Leif Garrett as Lane/Mike

A young fan gets frustrated when the kidnapping of her teen hearthrob goes unnoticed after he is replaced by a twin.

HOT WHEELS
Air date: September 29, 1978
Written by: Dennis Landa
Directed by: Dick Moder
Guest Stars: Peter Brown, Lance LeGault, John Durren, Don Mitchell

Diana must track down a stolen antique Rolls Royce with top secret microfilm hidden in the hood ornament.

THE DEADLY STING
Air date: October 6, 1978
Written by: Dick Nelson
Directed by: Alan Crosland
Guest Stars: Ron Ely as Bill Michaels, Scott Marlowe, Danny Dayton, Marvin Miller
Special Guest Star: Harvey Jason as Professor Brubaker
Special Appearances: Roman Gabriel, Deacon Jones, Laurence McCutcheon, Eddie Allen Bell

A scientist develops a way to control kinetic functions and uses it to alter the outcome of football games.

THE FINE ART OF CRIME
Air date: October 13, 1978
Written by: Anne Collins
Directed by: Dick Moder
Guest Stars: Ed Begley Jr. as Harold Farnum, Joe E. Tata, Michael McGuire, Patti MacLeod, Gavin MacLeod
Special Guest Star: Roddy McDowall as Henry Roberts

Wonder Woman discovers that incredibly human-looking statues may be more life-like than originally thought when valuable artwork starts to disappear with no explanation.

SPECIAL NOTES: This episode features Roddy McDowall, who was featured prominently as a completely different character in The Man Who Made Volcanos. Also, Ed Begley Jr. makes his second appearance as Diana's adoring neighbor Harold Farnum, previously seen last season in Diana's Disappearing Act.

DISCO DEVIL
Air date: October 20, 1978
Written by: Alan Brennert
Directed by: Leslie H. Martinson
Guest Stars: Paul Sand, Ellen Weston, Kerry Sherman, Victor Mohica, Bob Hoy, Michael Delano as Nick Moreno
Special Appearance: Russell Johnson as Colonel
Special Guest Star: Wolfman Jack as Infra Red

Government engineers are being lured to a disco where national secrets are being sucked from their minds.

FORMICIDA
Air date: November 3, 1978
Written by: Katharyn Michaelian Powers
Directed by: Alan Crosland
Guest Star: Robert Alda as Harcourt
Special Guest Stars: Robert Shields, Lorene Yarnell as Formicida

A scientist develops an insect sirum to help her prevent the manufacture and distribution of a deadly pesticide and uses it to torture the pesticide's manufacturer by having ants eat his buildings inside out.

TIME BOMB
Air date: November 10, 1978
Written by: David Wise and Kathleen Barnes
Directed by: Seymour Robbie
Guest Stars: Joan Van Ark, Allan Miller, Ted Shackleford

A historian from the year 2155 travels back in time to become a billionaire using her knowledge of the 20th century. Meanwhile, a scientist from the same era follows her, attempting to hook up with the IADC to stop her from changing history.

SPECIAL NOTES:  We find out in this episode that Wonder Woman is still around in 2155, contradicting the Queen's prediction that Diana would lose her immortality if she left Paradise Island in The New, Original Wonder Woman. The golden-age Wonder Woman of the comics did lose her immortality, so the Queen's statement was true to the character's history in the comic books. Ted Shakelford also appeared in last season's episode Knockout.

SKATEBOARD WHIZ
Air date: November 24, 1978
Written by: Alan Brennert
Directed by: Leslie H. Martinson
Guest Stars: Eric Braeden, Cynthia Eilbacher, Grace Gaynor, Ron Masak, Art Metrano, James Ray, John Reilly, Neil Flanagan, Peter Wise

A mobster tries to take over a town using illegal gambling operations. Diana's whiz kid goddaughter stumbles into the middle of it, putting her life in danger at her skateboarding championship.

SPECIAL NOTES: In this episode, Wonder Woman actually chases a car on skateboard after spinning into star-spangled protective gear. Also, Diana has a goddaughter that is a teenager!?! Eric Braeden previously appeared as Nazi Kapitan Drangel in The New, Original Wonder Woman.

THE DEADLY DOLPHIN
Air date: December 1, 1978
Written by: Jackson Gillis
Directed by: Sigmund Neufeld, Jr.
Guest Stars: Nicolas Coster, Britt Leach, Albert Popwell, Michael Stroka, Brian Tochi
Special Guest Star: Penelope Windust as Dr. Sylvia Stubbs

A highly-trained military dolphin is stolen to be used in the sabotage of an oil tanker.

STOLEN FACES
Air date: December 15, 1978
Written by: Richard Carr and Anne Collins
Directed by: Leslie H. Martinson
Guest Stars: Joseph Maher, Kenneth Tigar, John O'Connell
Special Guest Star: Bob Seagren as Roman

Diana gets a report that Wonder Woman has been struck by a car and hospitalized. But wait, Diana is Wonder Woman, isn't she?

SPECIAL NOTE:  Bob Seagren appears again as a different character in The Man Who Could Not Die.

POT OF GOLD
Air date: December 22, 1978
Written by: Michael McGreevey
Directed by: Gordon Hessler
Guest Stars: Dick O'Neill, Brian Davies, Steve-Allie Collura, Arthur Batanides

Plates used for counterfeiting $100 bills get Wonder Woman involved with a leprechaun trying to recover his gold.

GAULT'S BRAIN
Air date: December 29, 1978
Teleplay by: Arthur Weingarten
Story by: John Gaynor
Directed by: Gordon Hessler
Guest Stars: Floyd Levine, Cathee Shirriff, Erik Stern, Peter Mark Richman
Special Guest Star: John Carradine as Gault

A billionaire wants a new body for his disembodied brain.

GOING, GOING, GONE
Air date: January 12, 1979
Written by: Anne Collins and Patrick Mathews
Directed by: Alan Crosland
Guest Stars: Bo Brundin, Charlie Brill, Kaz Garas, Milton Selzer, Marc Lawrence, Mako
Special Guest Star: Hari Rhodes as Como

A Russian military jet is forced to jettison its cargo, a nuclear warhead, into the ocean. Diana's undercover attempts to recover it lead her to a black market organization dealing in atomic hardware.

SPACED OUT
Air date: January 26, 1979
Written by: Bill Taylor
Directed by: Ivan Dixon
Guest Stars: Rene Auberjonois, Steven Anderson, George Cheung, Candy Ann Brown
Special Guest Star: Paul Lawrence Smith as Simon Rohan

Diana's search for stolen laser crystals places her in the middle of an outrageous science-fiction convention.

THE STARSHIPS ARE COMING
Air date: February 2, 1979
Teleplay by: Glen Olson, Rod Baker, and Anne Collins
Story by: Glen Olson and Rod Baker
Directed by: Alan Crosland
Guest Stars: Tim O'Connor as Colonel Robert Elliot, Jeffrey Byron, James Coleman, Frank Whiteman, David White, Lilibert Stern, Sheryl Lee Ralph
Special Guest Star: Andrew Duggan as Mason Steele

A hoax has everyone believing that the planet is being threatened by hostile aliens.

SPECIAL NOTE: Tim O'Connor previously appeared as Andros in the 2-part episode Judgement From Outer Space.

AMAZON HOT WAX
Air date: February 16, 1979
Written by: Alan Brennert
Directed by: Ray Austin
Guest Stars: Curtis Credel, Bob Hoy, Sarah Purcell, Judge Reinhold, Martin Speer, Rick Springfield, Danil Torppe
Special Guest Stars: Michael Botts as Kim, Kate Woodville as Kobler

Diana goes undercover to stop extortionists in the record industry.

SPECIAL NOTES: Lynda Carter does her own vocals in this episode. Oddly, Diana is able to go this entire show with her hair down and no glasses without being recognized as Wonder Woman. Rick Springfield previously appeared in last season's Screaming Javelins as a different character.

THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD
Air date: February 19, 1979
Written by: Jackson Gillis and Anne Collins
Directed by: Don MacDougall
Guest Stars: Jeremy Slate as Marshall Henshaw, Roger Perry, Del Monroe, Carmen Zapata, Barry Miller
Special Guest Star: Marilyn Mason as Lucy DeWitt

Diana searches for a reclusive millionaire industrialist and his missing device used for scrambling missile-guidance systems. Meanwhile, the millionaire finds that the only people who can identify him are the ones who orchestrated his disappearance.

SPECIAL NOTE: The character of Marshall Henshaw seems to take center stage in this episode -- over even Diana -- as he searches for a way to prove his identity.

A DATE WITH DOOMSDAY
Air date: March 10, 1979
Written by: Roland Starke and Dennis Landa
Directed by: Curtis Harrington
Guest Stars: Donnelly Rhodes, Carol Vogel, Taaffe O'Connell, John O'Leary, Bob Hastings, Arthur Malet
Special Guest Star: Hermione Baddeley as Mrs. Thrip

A computer dating service masks a plot to unleash a deadly virus over Washington D.C..

THE GIRL WITH A GIFT FOR DISASTER
Air date: March 17, 1979
Written by: Alan Brennert
Directed by: Alan Crosland
Guest Stars: Jane Actman, Ina Balin, Dick Butkus, Charles Haid
Special Guest Star: Raymond St. Jacques as Mayfield

A jinx has no clue that she is being used by her lastest boyfriend as the key in a plan to heist priceless historical documents.

SPECIAL NOTE: This episode marks Jane Actman's second major guest role in the series -- her first being in last season's episode The Man Who Wouldn't Tell.

THE BOY WHO KNEW HER SECRET, Part One
Air date: May 28, 1979
Written by: Anne Collins
Directed by: Leslie H. Martinson
Guest Stars: Michael Shannon, John Milford, Tegan West, Lenora May, Clark Brandon as Skip
Special Guest Star: Bert Remsen as Dr. Jaffe

Alien life forms are taking over bodies of the citizens in a small town.

SPECIAL NOTES:  This is the first time that someone from Earth actually discovers that Diana is Wonder Woman. Michael Shannon also appeared in last season's Flight to Oblivion, but as a different character.

THE BOY WHO KNEW HER SECRET, Part Two
Air date: May 29, 1979
Written by: Anne Collins
Directed by: Leslie H. Martinson
Guest Stars: Michael Shannon, John Milford, Tegan West, Lenora May, Clark Brandon as Skip
Special Guest Star: Bert Remsen as Dr. Jaffe

A teenage boy is the only person who can convince amnesiac Diana that she is really Wonder Woman in time to catch an alien outlaw who can duplicate anyone.

SPECIAL NOTES: Wonder Woman tells Skip that Diana will be transferring to Los Angeles soon, setting the stage for her move in The Man Who Could Not Die. In the end, Diana thinks she has erased the memory of her secret identity from Skip's mind, but Skip has recorded everything and rediscovers that she is Wonder Woman after she is gone.

THE MAN WHO COULD NOT DIE
Air date: August 28, 1979
Written by: Anne Collins
Directed by: John Newland
Guest Stars: John Durren, Robert Sampson, Bob Seagren, John Aprea, Hal Frederick, Brian Davies as Reichman
Special Guest Star: James Bond III as T. Burton Phipps III

Diana is tranferred to Los Angeles where she becomes involved with a man who has been made invincible and wants it reversed.

SPECIAL NOTE: Since Diana's base of operations is no longer Washington D.C., Steve Trevor does not appear in this episode, and Lyle Waggonner has been removed from the opening credits and replaced with explosion footage.

PHANTOM OF THE ROLLER COASTER, Part One
Air date: September 4, 1979
Written by: Anne Collins
Directed by: John Newland
Guest Stars: Jared Martin, Marc Alaimo, Ike Eisenmann, Fred Lerner, Craig Littler
Special Guest Star: Joseph Sirola as Harrison Fynch

The leader of a foreign spy ring, hoping to set up a major surveilance operation in Washington D.C., tries to force the owner of an amusement park to sell out by creating "accidents" and taking advantage of the existence of a gruesome "phantom" that haunts the park.

SPECIAL NOTE: Either this episode takes place prior to The Man Who Could Not Die, or Diana has returned to Washington D.C. and once again reports to Steve Trevor.

PHANTOM OF THE ROLLER COASTER, Part Two
Air date: September 11, 1979
Written by: Anne Collins
Directed by: John Newland
Guest Stars: Jared Martin, Marc Alaimo, Ike Eisenmann, Fred Lerner
Special Guest Star: Joseph Sirola as Harrison Fynch

Wonder Woman and the disabled veteran who lives under the amusement park must thwart the leader of a foreign spy ring and his attempts to sabotage the park.
SPECIAL NOTE:  This was the last original episode aired.

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