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"ANSCHLUSS '77" Air Date: September 23, 1977. With a
tip of the hat to the original incarnation of the
series, the Nazis return - in a sense - in
"Anschluss Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor
inadvertently discover a plot by former Nazis to
clone an exact duplicate of Adolph Hitler in the
hopes of restoring him to power so that he will lead
the remnants of their movement back to a position of
world domination. The duo must find the location of
the secret laboratory in which the experiment is
being carried out and stop the procedure before
Hitler lives again. "BERMUDA TRIANGLE CRISIS" Air
Date: October 7, 1977. "Bermuda Triangle Crisis"
presents Wonder Woman with a moral dilemma: a deadly
weapons dealer is operating within the Bermuda
Triangle and must be stopped, but if she's
successful, then America will, in all likelihood,
construct a nuclear facility within a few miles of
Paradise Island, thus threatening her people. ***
The timeshift of Wonder Woman from the 1940s to the
1970s did not happen without a few people
complaining about it, but one of the biggest
supporters of the change was, interestingly enough,
Lynda Carter. "I think I was much better in the part
when it was modernized," she told the press. "The
series matured as we went along. [Besides, CBS]
thought the World War II storylines were too
limiting, with the only major villains being the
Nazis. The thinking was that if we took it into the
1970s, there would be more to explore, from a
creative standpoint." The decision to make the
change was made by Warner Bros. executive Jerry
Lieder. "It was a fresh approach," executive
producer Douglas Cramer told journalist Herbie
Pilato, ''which CBS thought would reach a wider
audience. Because, at the time, the other superhero
shows, like The Incredible Hulk and The Six Million
Dollar Man, seemed, in comparison, more real, if you
can imagine anyone saying such things about science
fiction/adventure shows.". |