SERIES WONDER WOMAN

005 THE FEMINUM MYSTIQUE - PART II NOVEMBER 8, 1976

"The Feminum Mystique - Part II" "The Feminum Mystique - Part II" - LYNDA CARTER "The Feminum Mystique - Part II" - LYLE WAGGONER

España [Spain]

Español: “El Fabuloso Feminum, 2da. Parte” ["The Fabulous Feminum, Part II"].

Italia [Italy]

Italiano: "La Donna Mistica - Seconda Parte" ["The Mystical Woman - Part II"].

France [France]

Français: "Feminin Singulier - 2è Partie" ["The Singular Feminum - Part II"].

Deustchland [Germany]

Deustch:  "Das geheimnisvolle Metall II" ["The Mysterious Metal II"].

Danmark [Denmark]

Danske: "Feminum-Mysteriet Del 2" ["The Feminum Mystery - Part 2"].

Brasil [Brazil]

Portuguese: "A Mística Feminina - Segunda Parte" ["The Feminine Mystique - Part 2"].

Japan

Japanese [Japanese]: "Japanese" [ Romanji ] "Kyouhu no yuukai sakusen"  ["Horrible Kidnapping Mission"].

"The Feminum Mystique - Part II" - RICHARD EASTHAM
"The Feminum Mystique - Part II" - BEATRICE COLEN
"The Feminum Mystique - Part II" - CHARLES FRANK

Episode Number: #5, according to broadcast order and production order.

Production Number: 166602.

Original Airdate: Monday, November 8, 1976.
Writers: Barbara Avedon and Barbara Corday.
Teleplay: Jimmy Sangster.
Director: Herb Wallerstein.
Guest Stars:
JOHN SAXON [ Captain Radl ].
CAROLYN JONES [ Queen ].
CHARLES FRANK [ Peter Knight ].
PAUL SHENAR [ Lieutenant Karl Wertz ].
Introducing:
DEBRA WINGER [ Drusilla / Wonder Girl ].
Co-Starring:
ERICA HAGEN [ Dalma ].
PAMELA SUSAN SHOOP [ Magda ].
RAYFORD BARNES [ Lt. Weil ].
KURT GRAYSON [ Harris ].
JAY FENICHEL [ Tommy ].
NEWER ALEXANDER [ Destroyer Commander ].

SYNOPSIS

"The Feminum Mystique - Part II" - CAROLYN JONES "The Feminum Mystique - Part II" - DEBRA WINGER "The Feminum Mystique - Part II" - DEBRA WINGER

War Department. June, 1942. Drusilla is still missing and Diana has tried with the police and also in hospital. Steve suggests maybe she got back home and tells Diana to take a few days off, though she prefers to stay for a while.

   Across town, on the deserted warehouse where they keep Drusilla, Peter Knight [CHARLES FRANK] posses as another of Colonel Radl's prisoners to prove that Drusilla is the real Wonder Woman. Radl pretends to shoot Knight but Wonder Girl deflects the bullet with her bracelets. After being chloroformed they take away her bracelets. Meanwhile Diana tries to find out where in the world Drusilla could be.

   Peter Knight tries to figure out what the bracelets are made of, but it seems they're made of an unknown element or an alloy. Taking advantage of his masculine charm, pretends he is hurt and fools Drusilla. She innocently confesses that her bracelets are made of a fabulous metal called "feminum", only found in her Paradise Island home. Peter Knight plays Casanova with Drusilla and tries to find out the location of Paradise Island. At first she denies based on the Amazons first commandment: "Never tell anyone about Paradise Island". Once again Drusilla is fooled by Peter Knight and confesses the location of the so-called "Wonder Island." She explains that Paradise Island is not charted due to a phenomenon related to light's refraction that keeps it safe from man's sight. Knight tries to fool Drusilla innocently asking her some astronomical facts that give the Nazis a lead about the location of the island.

   Back at War Department they receive a report from Berlin that indicates that the Nazis plan a rendezvous somewhere in the Bermuda's triangle. Supposedly there's nothing there, but Diana knows that the coordinates are those of Paradise Island and she realizes that the Nazis are trying to invade the island and control the Amazons! She immediately decides to get back home and ask permission with the excuse of searching for her younger sister.

   Once in Paradise Island Diana informs her mother and her sisters about the Nazi's plans. The Queen tells Diana: "Why don't you reason with your Nazis?" to which Diana responds:  "Mother, would you take my word for it? There is no reasoning with the Nazis."

   Elsewhere in the Caribbean, a Nazi rendezvous is occurring.  Captain Radl gets aboard a Nazi Destroyer and get ready to invade the island. Back at the island Diana and a group of Amazons prepare themselves for an imminent invasion. The Queen decides to join them.

   The following day, under Colonel Radl's command, the Nazis land in the shores of Paradise Island. They submit the Amazons and take away their bracelets, forcing them to work in the feminum mines.

   Back in Aldrich Field, Drusilla appears after she managed to get free from her Nazi jailer. She tells the MPs that she's Major Trevor's niece. She tries to convince Major Steve Trevor that Peter Knight is a Nazi spy. Peter Knight gets uncovered by Steve and tries to escape but he's captured. Nevertheless Steve's unaware that the mechanic is also a Nazi agent.

   Drusilla flies back to Paradise Island were she will help Diana to recover the island that is now under Nazi dominion. The Queen tells Diana "...my safety is unimportant as long as my people are imprisoned..." and that she "must do everything in her power to defeat these evil men".

   Drusilla gathers with Diana and tells that it has all been her fault. Together they try to device a plan to recapture the control of the island. With Drusilla's help, Diana manages to recover the bracelets and return them to the Amazons. While some of them pretend they're fighting, Diana gets the bracelets back.

   With their bracelets back, the Amazons try to re-seize the island from Nazi dominion but Radl obliges them to surrender pointing the Queen with a gun. The Queen fools Radl and as Wonder Woman throws her a bracelet she manages to defeat him. The Queen is proud of her daughters, specially of Drusilla: "I've sent you, a young girl, into a strange land to do a woman's job. Now, it's true, you made mistakes. But you did come back and help us rid our island of these dreadful Nazis". And then she tells to Diana: "And you my daughter, not only did you make our island safe again but you made me very happy with your concern over my personal safety. Truly I am blessed to have two such lovely daughters".

   Later, back to the island's Palace, the Queen orders to use a special drug on the Nazis. It's taken from the Hibernian tree and is a memory-blocking drug that will make the Nazis forget everything that happened in the last 7 days. "They'll remember nothing about Paradise Island and then we'll put them in their rubber boats and set them adrift".

   Drusilla tells Diana that peter Knight is a Nazi agent and that Steve may be in trouble. Diana interrogates Radl before the special drug is applied to him. She gets to know that Peter Knight was arrested but Radl tells her about Wertz still working undercover as Harvey Manning, the mechanic of the XPJ-1.

   Wonder Woman and Wonder Girl return to the States and get back to Aldrich Field. Wertz knocks Steve out and take his place in the XPJ-1. Meanwhile Wonder Woman tells Drusilla not show herself because "Up to now they think it's only one of us. Better we keep it that way."

   Wonder Woman asks Colonel Blankenship about where's

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Harvey Manning. She's not sure if Steve is on the plane or not: "I Can't take the chance. If it's Steve, he'll forgive me. If not, he'll thank me". Pretending to be Steve Trevor, Wertz/Manning manages to board the plane but Wonder Woman uses her extraordinary strength to stop him. Wertz tire to escape but Drusilla stops him. Finally the test is accomplished by Steve and the XPJ-1 it's a success!

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STATS MEDIA TRIVIA

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:
Part two of this two-parter episode and shown two days after the first part, and not in the regular Saturday time slot.
AUDIO:
"WONDER WOMAN THEME" from the opening credits.
"WONDER WOMAN THEME" from the end credits.
VIDEO:
"THE QUEEN SAVES THE DAY" at Paradise Island.
"WONDER WOMAN STOPS PLANE".
ADS:
"TV GUIDE AD".
"NEW YORK TIMES AD".
TRIVIA:
Steve Trevor asks Diana where her home is located to which she responds "far away".
We learn that the Amazon's first commandment is not to reveal the location of Paradise Island.
The exact location of Paradise Island is 30, 22 North and 64, 47 West in the Caribbean Sea and it is not seen because of the light refraction.
We see the invisible plane for the second time on the series but the seat is different. For the long shots they use a scale model with tiny dolls inside.
Diana returns to Paradise Island for the first time since she left home.
Drusilla is seen flying the invisible plane for the first time.
8 soldiers and 3 officers were the number of Nazis that invaded Paradise Island.
In the scene on the lake in Paradise Island when Dalma is filling Wonder Woman's basket with the feminum stones, goes from nearly empty to full between two shots.
It's the first and only time that we see Wonder Woman and Wonder Girl on a plane together.
Wonder Woman stops a plane for the first time.
Wonder Woman fires a rifle for the first and only time.
SKILLS STATS:
SPINS: 0 times. No spins on this episode, neither from Wonder Woman nor from Wonder Girl.
LASSO: 1 times. Wonder Woman uses her lasso to interrogate Radl.
BRACELETS: 1 time by Wonder Girl.
JUMPS: 0 times.
THROWN BADDIES: 3 of which 2 by Wonder Woman and 1 by Wonder Girl.
MISCELLANEOUS SKILLS: No additional skills shown.
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