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"THE GIRL WITH A GIFT FOR
DISASTER" Air Date: March 17,1979. In "The Girl With
a Gift For Disaster", legendary white-collar
criminal William Mayfield plans on using stolen
cutting-edge technology to plunge Washington DC into
a city-wide blackout. While the police and aimed
forces are taking care of the inevitable riot in the
streets, Mayfield will steal the invaluable
Declaration of Independence. To help bring his plan
to fruition, Mayfield hopes to use Bonnie Murphy
(who seems positively jinxed), unaware that with
Wonder Woman's influence, Bonnie's "gift" could be
used for good rather than evil. In other words, it's
Mayfield who will fall victim to Bonnie's jinx and
not the people fighting on the side of right.
Through Bonnie's direct influence, power is restored
to the city before the crime can be carried out.
"THE MAN WHO COULD NOT DIE" Air Date: August 28,
1979. Diana, just transferred to Los Angeles,
witnesses a traffic accident involving a car and a
monkey in "The Man Who Could Not Die". She is
shocked to learn that the spider monkey is
absolutely fine, and that it's registered to the
agency's Dr. Akers. It's revealed that Akers and a
fellow scientist named Reichman were conducting some
experiments devoted to slowing the aging process.
What they found, instead, was a serum that would
make its user invulnerable to all pain. Akers
immediately stopped the experiments, but Reichman,
he's afraid, is continuing them with the hopes of
building an invincible army that will conquer
America and, in turn, the world itself. Wonder Woman
has got one problem in particular: how on earth do
you stop an unstoppable force? To figure that out,
she teams up with one of Reichman's experiments,
Bryce Kandel. *** A couple of guest stars worth
noting: "The Girl With a Gift For Disaster" featured
football great Dick Butkus, who in the '70s made
quite a number of episodic television appearances;
and James Sloyan, who genre fans will know as Odo's
"father" on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. "The Man Who
Could Not Die" was directed by John Newland, creator
of the anthology series One Step Beyond and The Next
Step Beyond". |