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WONDER WOMAN VS. GARGANTUA Air Date: December
18, 1976. 'Wonder Woman vs. Gargantua' pits the
Amazon Princess against a Nazi gorilla (!) trained
to retrieve a defecting agent, whose knowledge poses
a threat to Hitler's agenda. THE PLUTO FILE
Air Date: December 25, 1976. Wonder Woman has her
hands full in 'The Pluto File', when an Irish
mercenary named Fallon (the Brady Bunch's Robert
Reed) steals an American-developed device that can
control or eliminate earthquakes. To make matters
worse, Fallon is also a carrier of the Bubonic
Plague and, as such, threatens America on two
levels. The character of Wonder Woman was created in
1941 by psychologist Dr. William Moulton Marston,
who felt that it was unfair to young girls not to
have a heroine in the same way that their male peers
had characters like Superman and Batman to identify
with. In a 1942 interview with Family Circle
magazine, Marston was asked whether or not man would
ever stop waging war. 'Oh, yes,' he responded, 'but
not until women control men.' The interviewer took a
moment to digest this before he added, 'Wonder Woman
- and the trend toward male acceptance of female
love power, which she represents, indicates that the
first psychological -step has actually been taken.
Boys, young and old, satisfy their wish thoughts by
reading comics. If they go crazy over Wonder Woman,
it means they're longing for a beautiful, exciting
girl who's stronger than they are. These simple,
highly imaginative picture stories satisfy longings
that ordinary daily life thwarts and denies.
Superman and the army of male comics characters who
resemble him satisfy the simple desire to be
stronger and more powerful than anybody else. Wonder
Woman satisfies the subconscious, elaborately
disguised desire of males to be mastered by a woman
who loves them.' And all this time we thought it was
because Lynda Carter so perfectly fit the costume. " |