Español: “Operación Fraulein” ["Operation: Fraulein"]. Italiano: "Fausta, La Wonder Woman Nazista" ["Fausta, The Nazi Wonder Woman"]. Français: "Fausta, La Superwoman" [Fausta, The Superwoman"]. Deustch: "Die Entführung" ["The Kidnapping"]. Danske: "Fausta: Nazisternes Wonder Woman" ["Fausta, The Wonder Woman"]. Portuguese: "A Mulher Maravilha Nazista" ["Nazi Wonder Woman"]. Japanese []: "" [Romanji: "Kareinaru gyakuten"] ["Gorgeous Turning Around"].
	Episode Number: #2, according to broadcast order, and #1 according to production order. Production Number: 166531. Original Airdate: Wednesday, April 28, 1976. Writers: Bruce Shelby and David Ketchum. Director: Barry Crane. Guest Stars: • BO BRUNDIN [ Colonel Kesselman ]. • COLBY CHESTER [ Major Charlie Scotts ]. • JEFF COOPER [ Horst ]. • KEENE CURTIS [ Müeller ]. • BILL FLETCHER [ Nazi ]. Special Guest Stars: • LYNDA DAY GEORGE [ Fraulein Fausta Grables ]. • CHRISTOPHER GEORGE [ Rojak ]. Featuring: • MARY RINGS [ Peasant Girl ]. • GENE BIEGOULOFF [ Soldier #1 ]. • KENNETH SMEDBERG [ Soldier #2]. • ANGEL NAZZO [ Cabbie ]. • LARRY ELLIS [ M.C. ]. • RON LOMBARD [ Radioman ].

Top-secret Nazi Intelligence Headquarters, somewhere in Germany, 1942. Fausta Grables [LYNDA DAY GEORGE] comes from Bechtesgaden to show Colonel Kesselman [BO BRUNDIN] a movie featuring Wonder Woman's [LYNDA CARTER] skills. Hitler himself ordered Fraulein Fausta Grables to be in charge of an operation called "Fraulein Wonder Woman". The objective of this operation is to capture Wonder Woman and bring her back to Germany in place to study the source of her amazing powers. For that purpose, they plan to capture Major Steve Trevor to get Wonder Woman's attention.    Some hours later at the War Department in Washington D.C., Steve Trevor [LYLE WAGGONER] is working late. Fausta infiltrates the building in disguise and using some kind of gas the Nazis take Steve Trevor.    The following morning Diana is suspicious about Steve's disappearance. Pretending to be an ordinary woman, Fraulein Fausta anonymously calls Yeoman Diana Prince and tells her that Steve has been kidnapped and that Wonder Woman must help him. She quickly spins into Wonder Woman and leads to the warehouse where the Nazis have been keeping Steve in order to prove Wonder Woman's skills. But Wonder Woman easily defeats them and rescues Major Steve Trevor.    The following day, Fausta shows herself disguised as Wonder Woman -wearing a mask- in a war bonds selling festival. Unexpectedly, the real Wonder Woman appears on scene but a trap is waiting for her. After falling down the stage, she's chloroformed by one of the Nazi agents and is compel to reveal the source of her power under her own lasso's influence. Steve notices something strange's going on and follows the Nazis and the fake Wonder Woman, but when he reaches them, Fausta is leaving on a plane to Germany.    Back at the War Department Steve intercepts all communications in order to find out the Nazi's destination. Once he discovers the location, he decides to go in Wonder Woman's rescue in spite of General Blankenship's [RICHARD EASTHAM] opposition. Steve heads for England's O.S.S. (Office of Strategic Services) where he asks his friend Charlie Scotts [COLBY CHESTER] for some help. He'll be delivered over Germany but he doesn't know a trap is waiting for him. His contact there, Rojak [CHRISTOPHER GEORGE] is in fact a Nazi agent.    In Germany, Wonder Woman is interrogated under the influence of her own lasso, but due to differences between Fraulein Grables and Colonel Kesselman, she manages to liberate herself and gets back to the States.    Back in the USA, Wonder Woman realizes that Steve is held prisoner in Germany. She decides to go back to Germany in Major Trevor's rescue, but she doesn't know that once again another trap will be waiting for her.    After entering the Nazi's headquarters, Wonder Woman tries to rescue Steve but they find themselves trapped in a cistern trap where a switch can turns it into a deadly high-voltage trap. Nevertheless, Wonder Woman wisely manages the differences between Kesselman and Fausta, and convinces her that he's only using her.    Finally Fausta Grables understands the point and helps Wonder Woman and Major Steve Trevor to escape from the
trap and defeat Kesselman and the Nazis. Fausta is now reformed and is decided to work as a double agent to fight for freedom and against domination from within the German lines.

			RUNNING TIME:	50:20 (50 minutes / unedited) / 60 minutes on commercial television.
			VHS:	Available on commercial VHS format on a collector's edition series released by Columbia House Video.
			DVD:	Available on commercial DVD format in the 3-DVD box-set "WONDER WOMAN: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON".
			INFO:	The second of the so-called "specials" which were  shown under the title of "THE NEW, ORIGINAL WONDER WOMAN" before getting a regular weekly slot. In fact this episode was the first one to be filmed after the pilot according to the production order.
			AUDIO:	"WONDER WOMAN THEME" from the opening credits.
				"WONDER WOMAN THEME" from the end credits.
			VIDEO:	"WONDER WOMAN AND FAUSTA" in War Bond Festival.
				"WONDER WOMAN CAPTURED IN GERMANY" frees herself.
			ADS:	"NEW YORK TIMES AD".
				"ALTERNATIVE NEWSPAPER AD".
				"ALTERNATIVE NEWSPAPER AD".
			TRIVIA:	On this episode we see Wonder Woman's cape for the first time, though it's Fausta [LYNDA DAY GEORGE] who's wearing it.
				In this episode Wonder Woman spins two times into Wonder Woman. In both of them she doesn't have her bracelets on. The first of these spins was previously used in "Wonder Woman Meets Baroness Von Gunther".
				When Fausta calls to the War Department to set up the trap for Steve, she uses the fake name Eloise Livingston.
				On this episode we see for the first and only time Major Steve Trevor and Etta Candy sharing a car.
				Wonder Woman visits Germany for the first time when she's taken prisoner to the Nazis "Fatherland".
				For the first time the Nazis use Wonder Woman's golden lasso against her twice.
				Under chloroform effects and her own lasso of truth, Wonder Woman reveals that her golden belt is the key for her super-strength.
				The taxi that Major Trevor borrows to go into Wonder Woman's rescue, is from the "Capitol Cab Co." and it reads "Madison 1234" and the number is "212".
				Wonder Woman is chained for the second time.
				Wonder Woman reveals she comes from Paradise Island and that "On Paradise Island, there are only women. Because of this pure environment we are able to develop our minds and our physical skills unhampered by masculine destructiveness."
				When Wonder Woman is interrogated in the questioning chamber, Kesselman tells that a place like Paradise Island "wouldn't last a week" to which Wonder Woman replies: "We have existed in peace and happiness for 26 centuries".
				Apparently Wonder Woman drives for the first and only time another plane rather than hers. It's after she escapes from Germany where she's been captive.
				We see the invisible plane for the second time.
				When Steve travels to Europe, we see a map, but that maps shows the contemporary limits and boundaries, and not those of 1942.
				When Wonder Woman's on the cistern trap, she uses her lasso to climb-out instead of just jumping out.
				When Steve and Wonder Woman get out of the cistern trap, they're completely dry.
				For the last time they use as final credits the still of Steve and Diana Prince.
			SKILLS STATS:	SPINS: 2 times. Diana twirls into Wonder Woman twice, no flash of light.
				LASSO: 3 times. Wonder Woman uses her lasso twice and the Nazis use it once against her.
				BRACELETS: 2 times.
				JUMPS: 3 times.
				THROWN BADDIES: 11.
				MISCELLANEOUS SKILLS: Wonder Woman liberates Steve from a wood container, imitates General Blankenship's voice, breaks two wood gates and a steel door, liberates herself from the trap of the questioning chamber, uses a karate chop to knock Kesselman down, breaks chains to liberate Steve, stops a steel trap door.

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