The pilot takes off (after oddly transforming into black and white stock footage) and we caption ourselves over to Washington D.C. The officer, Colonel Von Blosko (that’s what’s on IMDB, folks – that is his name!) has some pretty heavy emphasis on certain words – like “FlawLESS!” Even if he has a name, he won’t need it for long. The underling comes back in to serve tea, and I suspect he may NOT be a Nazi. This was their preferred method of secret communications? The pilot is heading to blow up a secret American bomb site.
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What? Olde Viking wouldn’t be a better choice? Still, it is helpful for an American TV audience.Īn underling goes up to the roof to snag a pigeon with a giant net. A pilot comes in and his Nazi boss tells him to speak English for secrecy’s sake. You know where you stand with a good caption! Today, we’re at a top-secret Nazi base near Berlin, Germany. If I miss one somehow in the background of an image, please point it out in the comments and I’ll delete. I can’t recap the show without talking about Nazis, but I don’t have to post those images. NOTE – For the recaps of the first season set in the 1940s, I am going to avoid any images of the Nazi swastika, SS symbols or any other of that garbage. Watch as she fights to “Stop a war with love/Make a liar tell the truth … change their minds and change the world!” In any event … in case you’ve never experienced the glory that was the 1970s TV version of Wonder Woman, step onto our invisible plane and glide off to Paradise Island.
I personally loved the time jump into the 1970s and I was sad that the show only lasted two more seasons. The show treated the source mythology decently, sometimes expanding it in … well, whimsical ways (the Wonder motorcycle outfit anyone?) The special effects (and audio effects!) made this viewing heaven for me. He played the romantic lead as a subordinate to Wonder Woman, effortlessly and yet never came off as a wimp. I also can’t fault the casting of Lyle Waggoner as Steve Trevor. Her looks, grace, athleticism, acting - whether she was in the 1940s or the 1970s, she nailed the innocent confidence, charm, and self-aware breaking of the fourth wall that I found irresistible. Lynda Carter embodied the perfect casting for a super hero for me. No offense to any other adaptation to the Amazing Amazon there has been or ever will be, but Lynda Carter (to whom I maintain must be distantly related … and therefore may still yet grant me the power to spin into Wonder Middle-Aged Man one day) will forever be my one true Diana Prince. This is how I see people talking to this day. Another hero in the family? I spun around playgrounds, my room and the creek behind my house, desperately trying to trigger my transformation into Wonder Boy. This was as unprecedented as Batgirl had been in the 1960s.
And like many other super hero adaptations, it lacked costumed villains.
I admit, the Nazi stories got old for me quickly. I’d cut my super hero teeth on Shazam and Isis, and reruns of Batman and Superman … but nobody ever got super heroes right for me (as the 11-year-old expert I was) like Wonder Woman. Not that I wasn’t already glued to the TV screen when Wonder Woman debuted in 1975, but the theme song nailed me firmly in place there for the next three years. “In your satin tights/fighting for your rights and the old red white and blue …”
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