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BOY WHO KNEW HER SECRET, PART 1" • Air Date: May
28,1979. With a tip of the hat to the science
fiction classic, "Invasion of the Body Snatchers",
the two-part "Boy Who Knew Her Secret" begins with
an alien object landing in the suburb of Crystal
Lake. One of the local residents touches a strange
device and after a light show" his entire demeanor
seems different. This begins to spread throughout
the town as resident after resident comes into
contact with an alien tetrahedron. The result is
that their personalities are replaced by those of
alien beings, who have come to earth in search of
one of the deadliest criminals who must be captured
and brought to a pyramid-like structure that they
are slowly piecing together. "THE BOY WHO KNEW HER
SECRET, PART 2" Air Date: May 29,1979. When word of
strange happenings in Crystal Lake reaches her
office, Diana Prince begins an investigation that
ultimately brings Wonder Woman on to the scene.
Initially she fights the aliens but – after they
explain the seriousness of their mission and what it
means to the cosmos at large – comes to understand
the noble purpose behind their actions. In the
course of events, though, she unwittingly exposes to
young Skip Keller the fact that she and Diana Prince
are one and the same. In the end, this turns out to
be a valuable information when the aliens cause
Diana to forget her Wonder Woman persona and it is
up to Skip to bring back her memory. *** While many
episodes of Wonder Woman were pretty light in tone,
"The Boy Who Knew Her Secret" was different in that
on some levels it managed to go a little darker.
There is a certain edginess and sense of paranoia in
the two-parter that caused it to stand out from many
of the other episodes.". |