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Love and laughter -- they were the magic ingredients that went into ending Lynda Carter's vow never td marry again.

"It was love at first sight," she says of her January 29th marriage to Washington, D.C. attorney Robert Altman. "And right after that it was laughter." Lynda was talking from her honeymoon suite, when she declared after three weeks of being Mrs. Altman: "I'm still in love!"

Lynda is also still at work, with her musical and variety special airing on NTV, April 30, at 8:00 p.m She stars along with Eddie Rabbitt and Ben Vereen. The show is called Body and Soul, and it features famous musical numbers from the past, taking one of them and working it over with computers with results Lynda says as "spectacular". "I think this is my best special ever," says Lynda, who does one about every year. "The chemistry between the three of us works especially well when we dance."

But it's nothing like the chemistry that caused her to fall for 35-year-old Robert Altman. Lynda says the breakup three years ago of her marriage caused such bitterness that she "swore off men in general and marriage in particular." She says: "It was a terrible experience. I decided I would never again do anything that would set me up for divorce.

"I didn't even date. I just went around with a few close friends. It was very sad. Nobody goes into marriage with divorce in mind, and Ron and I didn't either I was disappointed it didn't work..."

Ron Samuels was also her manager. They married in 1978 and were considered one of Hollywood's more stable couples, both being religious, neither being seen with anybody else. As Lynda once said: "If Ron and I have an argument, or we've had a bad day, we pray together in the evening. It's beautiful and joyous and all our frustrations just disappear."

But one day the love stopped and the prayers fell silent and as Lynda says: "The marriage ran its course. This plunged Lynda into a gloom that Robert Altman changed completely, when he was introduced through a mutual friend. He is involved with the holding company that works on the Lynda Carter Maybelline Tennis Tourney. "Right away, I knew we would be involved. He is not like other men, especially the men in Hollywood He is very secure He is very bright AND tie is a lot of fun.”

"Now THAT is a rare combination in a man." Before Lynda and Robert can settle down and live happily ever after, however, there is the matter of their schedule to work out. They now live in Washington, D.C., where Robert is a partner in a prestigious law firm with heavy White House connections. But Lynda's ranch is in Malibu, and soon she will be working out of San Francisco.

"We plan to be separated no longer than four days at a time," says Lynda. "Robert knows how important my work is, and he has given me all the freedom I need to do it.”

"With Loni carrying half the show, I'll be able to work a four-day week. "At the end of that time, I'll fly back to Washington, or Robert Lynda is one heck of a cover girl will fly to Los Angeles, and we'll meet at my ranch.”

"Actually, I think it will be very romantic. When you're in love, the obstacles of distance can be overcome.”

"Most men who work a regular job arrive home late at night and then leave early in the morning. Most of the time they spend with their wives, they're asleep.”

"The time Robert and I will spend together will be quality time. There is a difference." Lynda says she also plans to start a family.

BODY & SOUL

With the jagged. red. flat-topped, weather-sculptured mesa and bullet rock formations of her native Arizona as a natural background for much of the hour. Lynda Carter traces the influences that have helped shape her versatile career in Lynda Carter Body and Soul, a new musical-variety special to be broadcast Friday. Match 16, 8:00 p.m on the NTV Television Network. Eddie Rabbitt and Ben Vareen guest star.

The song-and-dance numbers range from the blues and big band music of the 1940's, through the video and musical revolutions of which she herself has been a part. It is in a tribute to the 40's that Miss Carter- as a big-band singer of that era is joined alter a lively solo of Chattanooga Choo Choo, by the multi-talented Ben Vareen, who sings I've Got a Galin Kalamazoo. and is then joined by Miss Carter and the dancers for Tuxedo Junction. Vereen and Miss Carter also dance w Sing. Sing. Sing.

With the wind blowing mourn. fully through an Arizona ghost town. Miss Carters walks its empty. dusty roads, and her descriptions of what it must have been like 100 years ago are backed by the sounds of a cattle drive. gunshots. children playing, saloon music. As Miss Carter pears through a window into an empty saloon, the hollow. haunting winds retreat, and the saloon comes to life again, looking as it might have at the turn of the century. It is in this selling that country-pop superstar Eddie Nabbill sings his latest single. Nothin' Like Falling in Love. and joins his hostess in You and I. As Miss Carter shares the beauty of her Arizona landscape with her audience. she recalls her life, through spoken memories, photographs from her personal album. and home movies which follow her from the age of three to teenage bend singer to beauty contest winner and finally to her role as Wonder Woman, the 1970's television version of the Wonder Woman character, which was created in 1942 as the first woman superhero in the comic book world. It w through that role that Miss Carter became an instant heroine herself.

After reading a selection of letters from young fans, she sings The Hero Song, written for her by the special's musical director, Johnny Harris, and his lyricist wife. Joyce Temple-Hard...