MAGS AND BOOKS
Date and Issue: Volume XVI / Number 780 /July 12, 1978.
Pages: 2 pages.

Pictures: 2 color photos, 1 b&w photo.

Article: Interview with Lyle Waggoner about the third season.

Author: None.
Country: Argentina.

Summer came to the USA and television as well... Each Friday at 8:00 P.M. and CBS is showing reruns of Wonder Woman, while NBC is showing reruns of CPO Sharkey, and ABC great sports events or musical specials with Donny and Marie Osmond and such guests as Bing Crosby. Nevertheless the competition, Wonder Woman keeps impressive ratings in spite of being reruns. All this garanteeds a third season. In Hollywood we met Lyle Waggoner, Major Steve Trevor on the series, and he says:

     During these days they discussing the continuity of teh series... They're talking about contracts or which is the same dollars... In fact the series is getting accustomed to highs and lows. The first season was made in association with ABC with huge success but by the end of the year some problems arose about the reneweing of Lynda's contract and then we moved to CBS. In fact I thought my job would end and my character would die... The action, as you know switched from the 40s to the 70s, so the Major would be 70 years old. But they arranged it for me to continue on the show and the only thing they came across with  was that I woudl play the Major's son, identically like two peas in a pod. In a word; I saved myself from dying miraculously. Now let's see what happens... If the renew the contract we have to shoot right away, because the new season starts on September 15, which would be the third one.

     Lyle Waggoner seems to be a little tired of playing a handsome leading man... always being saved by a woman. By the figures of his salary make him forget about those deatils. By the other hand, he won't deny his gratitude towards Lynda, who insists to have him as her companion. Obviously this originated some rumours in Hollywood, but Lyle denies them: "Lynda is very happy with her husband, Ron Smauels, and by my side with my lovely wife, Sharon Kennedy. So let's stop all this foolishness. If Lynda insists to have me as her companion is simply because she has steem towards me as a friend and professionally as well." And it seem that what he says is true. Lyle has been happily married with Sharon for ten years and they have two sons, Jason and Beau, of 9 and 7 years old. When it comes to work, all recall that he was the leading man in the Carol Burnett Show, and he did a lot of stage plays and movies. In his private life he needs no "Wonder Woman" to protect him...

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