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Date and Issue: Volume XV / Number 769 /April 26, 1978.
We went to the beautiful surroundings of Encino, California, to the home of Lyle Waggoner. The handsome leading man of "Wonder Woman" has left paradise Island to his own paradise:
In my house and this surrounding garden I spend the best hours with my wif e and kids... My wife Sharon Kennedy is a beauty queen who won several contests but for me the most important is her mood, kindness and compasion. Fortunately he doesn't pay any attention to the many rumours relating me with Lynda Carter...
¿Do you refer to a sentimental relationship?
Those publications go to the extremes. One day they say I'm in love with Lynda and that I'm going thru divorce, and some other that I hate her or envy her. The truth is that neither I love her nor I hate her. Simply because she's a co-worker, and very nice indeed.
¿Which way did you came into acting?
The road had many turns... I was born in Kansas but I grew up in Missouri, in a suburb in St. Louis. In school I stood out in literature, drawing and athletics. I was the university's champion in high jump. Then I studied industrial design at the General Motors Institute and I got my title of automobiles designers. However I didn't liked to be stuck in a drawing table and I began to work as a door-to-door salesman. Previously, from 1954 to 1956, I enrolled in the military service as and operator of the Army Signal Corps. Who woudl tell that 20 years later I would be again in uniform for a TV series?
¿How and when did you became an actor?
In 1964 an executive from a advertising agency offer me a job as a model. I accepted and was so succesful that they suggested me to try it as an actor... I studied and went on tour with such plays as "Boeing, Boeing", "Born Yesterday", "The Cat And The Owl", "The House Of tea Of The August Moon"... and when I got enough experience I went to Hollywood in 1964, and I got small roles until I got a recurrent role in "The Carol Burnett Show" from 1967 to 1974. That was my launching platform for popularity. Then Warner Bros. called and told me they needed a "square jaw, baritone's voice and heroic handsome leading man"... And I was hired to play heroic Major Steve Trevor in "Wonder Woman". The rest is known history.
This way the interview comes to an end because the hero should leave us to pick up Jason (9) and Beau Justin (7) from a birthday party. Shaking hans he says: "I'm a father like any other in the world."
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