SERIES WONDER WOMAN

014 SCREAMING JAVELINS JANUARY 20, 1978

"Screaming Javelins" - LYNDA CARTER "Screaming Javelins" "Screaming Javelins" - LYLE WAGGONER

Espaρa [Spain]

Espaρol: "El Grito de Las Javalinas"  ["The Scream of the Javelins"].

Italia [Italy]

Italiano: "Il Givaelotto Urlante" ["The Screaming Javelin"].

France [France]

Franηais: "Rκves Olympiques" ["Olympic Dreams"].

Deustchland [Germany]

Deustch: "Olympiamannschaft wider Willen" ["Olympics Against Will"].

Danmark [Denmark]

Danske: "Skrigende Javelin" ["Screaming Javelins"].

Brasil [Brazil]

Portuguese: "O Zumbir Dos Dardos" ["Buzz Of The Darts"].

Greece

Greek Greek: Japanese ["Fervent Javelins"].

Japan

Japanese [Japanese]: Japanese [ Romanji ] "Orinpikku senshu dan dai yuukai" [ "Kidnapping of the Olympic Team" ].

"Screaming Javelins" - HENRY GIBSON as Marion Mariposa.
"Screaming Javelins" - ROBERT SAMPSON as Bo Taggart.
"Screaming Javelins" - MELANIE CHARTOFF as Nadia Samara.

Episode Number: 14, according to broadcast and production order.

Production Number: 166714.

Original Airdate: Friday, January 20, 1978. Second Run: Friday, May 12, 1978.

Writer: Brian McKay.

Director: Michael Caffey.
Guest Stars:
• Henry Gibson [ Marion Mariposa ].
• Robert Sampson [ Bo Taggart ].
• Melanie Chartoff [ Nadia Samara ].
• Rick Springfield [ Tom ].
• E. J. Peaker [ Lois ].
Co-Starring:
• Vaughn Armstrong [ Eric ].
• Roger Callard [ Bill ].
• The Rearney Twins [ The Twins ].
Featuring:
• SAM FREED [ Runner ].
• DENNIS M. MADALONE [ Pole Vaulter ].

SYNOPSIS

"Screaming Javelins" - RICK SPRINGFILED as Tom. "Screaming Javelins" "Screaming Javelins"

A man bails out of a jet and falls a great distance before opening his parachute... as he falls he talks to himself, it is clear that he is insane and also that he has met Diana Prince [LYNDA CARTER] before. He does not want her to prevent him from carrying out his latest plan, so he decides to send her a box of candy.

   The doorbell rings at Diana's apartment but when she opens the door nobody is there. Diana sees what looks like a box of chocolates on the floor in front of her apartment door . She picks it up and suddenly hears the sound of a time bomb. She hurries into her apartment, whirls into Wonder Woman, rushes outside onto the balcony and hurls the package upward. A tremendous explosion is heard in the distance. She knows immediately that Marion Mariposa [HENRY GIBSON] is back.

   Meanwhile a javelin thrower cycles to a phone booth which he has been told to use to call his mother. While he is talking to her, a hook smashes through the glass and a helicopter lifts the booth from the ground and carries it, and the athlete inside, to Mariposa's estate. Mariposa informs the athlete that he is now going to compete for Mariposalia, if he refuses his mother will be killed.

   In a gym in Los Angeles a talented gymnast Nadia Samara [MELANIE CHARTOFF] is practicing her bars routine, she is being watched by her boyfriend Tom [RICH SPRINGFIELD]...but she is also aware that she is being watched by someone else. Tom thinks that she is imagining it, neither realize that someone is in there with them taking photographs of Nadia.

   Summoned to Steve Trevor's [LYLE WAGGONER] office, she is given a new assignment -to find six missing athletes. The Olympic Committee has reported their disappearance.

• Steve Trevor: Two things. First...

• Diana Prince: Marion Mariposa is back.
• Steve Trevor: How did you know that?

• Diana Prince: He sent me a little present...the hello goodbye type.

• Steve Trevor: What?

• Diana Prince: It was nothing I couldn't handle. What's second?

• Steve Trevor: Second, do you recognize any of these athletes?

• Diana Prince: By reputation.

• Steve Trevor: You know what they have in common...apart from the obvious?

• Diana Prince: Breakfast cereal?

• Steve Trevor: Seriously, they're all missing. The Olympic Committee came up with an 'address unknown' on all of these people. None of them have signed their letter of intent.

• Diana Prince: Someone's undermining the Olympics?
• Steve Trevor: It looks that way.
• Diana Prince: Okay, where do I start?

• Steve Trevor: Well all the missing athlete's were in or around the Los Angeles area when they disappeared. Here are your tickets. The flight leaves at 6am.

• Diana Prince: And all this time I thought you were going to invite me to the ball.

• Steve Trevor: Well, it'd be nice but I got hooked into escorting a Lithuanian countess to the senate dance tonight.

• Diana Prince: Oh, poor you...I've seen that Lithuanian countess...she's gorgeous.

   Consulting the computer, "IRAC" Diana learns the next one to disappear will be Nadia Samara, a gymnast whom Diana knows personally. She immediately leaves for Los Angeles.

   In the meantime, Marion Mariposa learns that his attempt to kill Diana has failed. He looks at the photographs of Nadia and wants her on his team. He hires the Taggarts, a criminal couple to help him to kidnap Nadia. When questioned by one of them, Bo Taggart [ROBERT SAMPSON] on why he wants all the athletes, Mariposa strides over to a globe and points to a spot where his island country should exist, but is not apparent. Also prominent is an unfamiliar flag, maps of an unfamiliar country, photos and paintings of maripose flower, a coat of arms, etc. The two men exchange a glace and realize that the little man is not quite all there. He wants his "country" recognized by the world and the only way for people to sit up and take notice is by winning the Olympics -he wants to field the fastest, strongest, most agile team the world has ever known. It will bring his country not only medals, but recognition and respect.

   Nadia is living in constant fear. She knows someone has been watching her. When Diana arrives at her apartment she is relieved to see her and tells her how scared she is, that she now knows she must be in danger or the IADC would not have sent Diana. She tells Diana that she doesn't understand what is happening and gets very upset. Diana tells her to go and try to get some rest, that she will stay and make sure that she is safe.

   As Diana works through her IADC paperwork and Nadia sleeps a man scales down the apartment building. He reaches Nadia's window and is about to enter when Nadia wakes up and screams for Diana. Diana spins into Wonder Woman and kicks open Nadia's bedroom door, she deflects the kidnappers bullets and he flees. She follows him out of the window but he gets away. When she returns to Nadia's bedroom she discovers that Nadia has gone. Nadia runs to the gym, where Tom meets her, but she is so afraid that when a basketball bounces out of nowhere she runs out of the gym. Tom tries to follow her but somebody locks the gym door. While running away, a van blocks her path and tricks her into getting in. She is taken by Mariposa and his men to the mansion where the kidnapped athletes are in training.

   Mariposa keeps them there by threatening to harm their families. The Taggart's are paid for kidnapping Nadia, then Lois suggests that they could get Wonder Woman to come to the estate if they kidnap Diana Prince. Mariposa agrees and Lois reveals that her plan will involve flowers.

   Diana learns from a phone call to Steve that none of the loved ones of the kidnapped athletes will talk, so they must be being threatened by somebody, possibly Mariposa. Diana goes to the university to question Tom Hamilton about Nadia but he runs away when he sees her. She runs after him but he has locked the gym door so she spins into Wonder Woman and breaks open the door, then bounces on a trampoline, spins around the bars and lands in front of Tom. She tells him she's looking for Nadia, he doesn't know where she is.

   Flowers are delivered to Nadia's apartment, Diana believes that they are from Steve and opens the box to look at them, she smells them then sees the card, when she removes it the roses spray out a white mist into her face. She staggers backwards and falls to the floor unconscious.

   Diana regains consciousness to see Mariposa standing above her. Diana thought Mariposa had drowned in the North Sea during their last encounter.

• Mariposa: I thought you'd be pleased to see a familiar face.

• Diana Prince: Not yours Mariposa.
• Mariposa: Did you enjoy the candy I sent you?

• Diana Prince: Not in the least. I enjoyed the flowers even less.

• Mariposa: Oh what's the matter? Lost your sense of humor?

• Diana Prince: I was hoping that I was rid of yours. Weren't you supposed to have drowned in the North Sea at the end of our last little encounter?

• Mariposa: You should know that I always have my entrances and my exits carefully choreographed. Why Diana, I had one of my submarines pick me up.

• Diana Prince: Since when was kidnapping part of your choreography?

• Mariposa: With your case since I became interested in capturing Wonder Woman.

• Diana Prince: What do I have to do with Wonder Woman?

• Mariposa: It's Wonder Woman's interest in you that interests me.

   It seems as though he wants Diana around because Wonder Woman shows up wherever Diana is. He wants Wonder Woman on his Olympic team. He takes Diana down to where the athletes are being held Diana and he have a confrontation and he orders her to be locked up in one of the cells.

   In the mansion prison area, Diana learns from the athlete who has brought her some food that Mariposa has ordered Nadia's boyfriend, Tom to be killed. She whirls into Wonder Woman and pulls the bars from the window of her cell. She races through the wooded area and reaches Tom's room just as he hears a noise at his door. She bursts through the window of Tom's room and races to a spot between Bo and Tom just in time to deflect the bullets with her bracelets. As Bo and his accomplice Lois [E.G. PEAKER] try to run Wonder Woman catches up with them and throws them across the hallway. She then removes the cord from a toaster and ties them up, she instructs Tom to call the police.

   Wonder Woman runs back to the mansion and during her conversation with Marion Mariposa she tells him to give himself up and to forget his crazy dream; all his people have been captured by the police. He makes a dash for the door and starts to run across the field. Wonder Woman takes two javelins, one in each hand, and tosses them simultaneously. She also uses her tiara to knock him off his feet. Aimed and timed perfectly, they "slip" through each sleeve of his suit, from shoulder to cuff to ground, pinning him face town on the grass. She turns to the athletes and smiles then goes to get Mariposa, but when she reaches the spot where he was all that is left is his purple suit and a blue flower. In the distance she can hear his horrible menacing laugh....

   All the athletes gather around Wonder Woman and she tells them that they are now free to compete for whichever country they want.

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STATS MEDIA TRIVIA

RUNNING TIME:
48:39 (48 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 4-DVD box-set "WONDER WOMAN: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON".
INFO:
Fourteenth regular episode of "THE NEW ADVENTURES OF WONDER WOMAN".
AUDIO:
"WONDER WOMAN THEME" from the opening credits.
"WONDER WOMAN THEME" from the end credits.
VIDEO:
"WONDER WOMAN SAVES NADIA".
"WONDER WOMAN IN ACTION".
TRIVIA:
IRAC once again reveals that he knows of Diana's secret identity "Please give my regards to Wonder Woman Diana Prince."
Mariposa is using the old Richardson estate as his US base of operation.
The card on the flowers reads "Rarer than roses, or mimosa, a little gift from Mariposa."
SKILLS STATS:
SPINS: 4 times.
LASSO: 0 times.
BRACELETS: 2 times.
JUMPS: 3 times.
THROWN BADDIES: 2 times.
MISCELLANEOUS SKILLS: Kicks open door, gymnastics, pulls bars from cell door, uses tiara, throws 2 javelins.
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