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Summary:
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THE FEMINUM MYSTIQUE PART 1 Air Date: November
6, 1976. THE FEMINUM MYSTIQUE PART 2 Air
Date: November 8, 1976. The two-part 'Feminum
Mystique' begins as an espionage tale involving the
Nazis stealing the prototype for America's first
jet, the XPJ-1. For Wonder Woman it escalates into
something far more horrible when her sister,
Drusilla (a pre-Terms of Endearment Debra Winger),
on a mission for Paradise Island's Queen (Carolyn
Jones), is kidnapped while in America. When a clever
spy gets information from Drusilla concerning her
homeland, the Nazis launch a full assault on
Paradise Island, capturing it and planning to use
its secrets to conquer the world. In the end, Wonder
Woman and Drusilla must come up with a plan to set
everything right. At the time that casting calls
were going out for Wonder Woman, Kansas-born
actor/comedian Lyle Waggoner was appearing weekly on
The Carol Burnett Show, a variety series made up of
comic vignettes that had one goal in mind - to crack
up the audience. While it was a good, steady gig, it
wasn't what Waggoner wanted to do with his career.
'I was a convenience,' he told TV Guide, 'and not an
actor. I wanted to act.' In the same interview,
series producer Stanley Ralph Ross noted, 'I liked
Lyle right away. He was a guy who could make fun of
himself, who never took himself too seriously - and
on television that's rare. He could play the part of
Steve Trevor with a twinkle in his eyes.' Admitted
Wagoner in RetroVision magazine, 'I knew it was a
cartoon, and that it was a put-on, but you had to
play it with a straight face. You had to say silly
lines seriously, and hopefully make the viewer at
home smile.' 'He was ideal,' executive producer Doug
Cramer elaborated in the same article. 'With his
good looks, leading-man ability, and the years of
experience and polishing of his comic flare on the
Burnett show, there was no one better to fit the
role.' " |