Español: "Vuelo Al Olvido"  ["Flight To Oblivion"]. Italiano: "Il Volo Dell'Oblio" ["The Flight Of Oblivion"]. Français: "Vol Pour L'Oubli" ["Flight To Oblivion"]. Deustch: "Der Magier" ["The Magician"]. Danske: "Fly Til Oblivion" ["Flight To Oblivion"]. Portuguese: "Vôo para Esquecimento" ["Flight To Oblivion"]. Greek : ["Flight Into Oblivion"]. Japanese []: [ Romanji ] "Baikokudo Dante no bourya ku" [ "The Strategy of the Dante Traitor" ].
	Episode Number: 18, according to broadcast order and 19 according to production order. Production Number: 166719. Original Airdate: Friday, March 3, 1978. Second Run: Friday, September 1, 1978. Writer: Patrick Mathews. Director: Alan Crosland. Guest Stars: • Michael Shannon [ Lt. Stonehouse ]. • Corinne Michaels [ Capt. Anne Colby ]. • Alan Fudge [ Major Alan Cornell ]. • Mitch Vogel [ Mitch ].  Special Guest Star: • John Van Dreelen [ Edmund Dante ]. Featuring: • Walt Davis [ Lieutenant ]. • NIGHTWIND [ The Hull City Howlers ].

Captain Anne Colby [CORINNE MICHAELS], U.S.A.F. Officer-In-Charge of the Public Information Section at San Remo Air Force Base and her fiancé Major Alan Cornell [ALAN FUDGE] have just finished playing table-tennis when the Major receives a phone call. As he picks up the phone, he hears a German sounding voice that says "Mary had a little lamb" to which the Major replies "Its fleece as white as snow." The voice asks him if the snow is falling and the major holds up a tiny glass frame that has white powder falling within it. He listens to the voice as it gives him instructions. Within minutes, he hangs up the phone, walks past Anne staring stonily ahead and ignoring her completely, gets into his car and drives away.    Cap. Anne Colby, completely distraught, returns to the base to welcome a new photojournalist, Sergeant Diana Prince [LYNDA CARTER] who has been transferred from the Pentagon to the bases public information office. Upon her arrival, Diana is informed that the base has been put on "Yellow Alert" because of reported incidents of sabotage. Left alone in the dark room, Diana contacts Lieutenant Colonel Steve Trevor Jr.  [LYLE WAGGONER] who is flying into the base. Steve has just received word that the secret test flight of the Z-400 is to take place the next day and the "cover" he has given her, as photojournalist, gives her access to every area on the base. Steve also tells her that the other regional bases Norris, McKinley and Lansdale have all had sabotage attempts and that San Remo is probably next in line for sabotage. Their radio signal has been picked up by Major Alan Cornell, but he is only able to hear the beginning of their conversation before the signal is scrambled. Diana is overheard by Lieutenant Stonehouse [MICHAEL SHANNON] but she tells him she was singing while loading her camera, that she wasn't talking to anybody so he checks the darkroom and sees that there is nobody else in there.    Diana's first assignment is to photograph the arrival and concert of a rock group that has come to perform at the base, the Hull City Howlers. As Captain Colby takes Diana to meet the band, Alan watches them. Befriending the drummer, Mitch [MITCH VOGEL], Diana shoots him from various angles inside their tour bus. Suddenly, through a fish-eye in the rear section of the bus, Diana is being observed by a man who is an expert hypnotist and who put Cornell under the spell by repeating the words "the snow is falling." His name is Edmund Dante [JOHN VAN DREELEN] and as he answers the phone, he hears Cornell's voice telling him the lady with the camera is Diana Prince, an I.A.D.C. agent. He thanks Cornels and tells him that he will wake and not remember any conversation since the morning. Dante then hands two heavies, who have been hypnotized guns and orders them to kill Diana.    As Diana returns to her office, she passes a hanger with the door partially opened. A familiar sounding voice beckons her to come inside to photograph something. Once inside, the two heavies fire at her and she runs behind a plane and whirls into Wonder Woman. She easily deflects the bullets, leaps up onto the roof of a plane, then leaps down and with her Golden Lasso, she captures one of the heavies. Upon questioning, he can only repeat the words "When the snow falls I must obey." Wonder Woman is puzzled. Suddenly an alarm bell rings off in the distance and the heavy comes out of his hypnotic state. As she turns him over to the Air Police, the heavy still has no idea how he got there and what he was doing.    Steve arrives at the base the next day and Diana contacts him to tell him that someone has found out that she is an IADC agent. Steve is deeply concerned for the Z-400 program. If anything goes wrong, it could set the program back five years. • Diana Prince: Steve, I hate the spoil your arrival with this kind of news, but, someone knows I'm an IADC agent and wants me out of the way. • Steve Trevor: You say you have no idea who the guys were who tried to take you out? • Diana Prince: Well it's very strange. The one seemed to be either drugged or hypnotized, he said he had no idea what he was doing on the base, claimed to be from Idaho and according to Washington his story checked out with the police there. Seems that he's an airman who's been AWOL for a week. But the thing that bothers me the most is that he's from one of the bases in Idaho that's been sabotaged. • Steve Trevor: You're thinking it's an attempt to imperil the whole Z400 programme? • Diana Prince: Right. • Steve Trevor: Well it's certainly a possibility, the flight will test its ability to escape surveillance. It's a laser shield system. Now if anything goes wrong it'll set the programme back five years. • Diana Prince: Steve, I can't help thinking, what if the real purpose of the sabotage at those bases was to switch the Z400's landing to San Remo?    Diana again has to break transmission as Captain Colby knocks on the darkroom door.    Diana returns to the Officer's Club where the rock group is performing. She is introduced to Alan by Major Colby and asks if the couple would like their picture taken. As she asks them to pose and holds up her camera Alan looks round and sees an animated picture, which has falling snow in it. He falls into a trance and walks out of the club. Diana asks Colby what is wrong with him and she tells her that she doesn't know but it's the second time he has done it and she needs to try to find him. Colby leaves Diana and follows Alan. Diana sits down at the bar, in Alan's seat and notices the picture, she figures out what is wrong with Alan. She is approached by Dante who hands her a picture of the group and calls Mitch over to talk to Diana. • Dante: Perhaps you might find one of these useful sergeant. • Diana Prince: Thank you. • Dante: Of course the photography might not match up to your standard. • Diana Prince: It's just fine Mr... • Dante: Dante, Edmund Dante. I'm the groups manager. • Diana Prince: Ah, well I'm Sergeant Diana Prince with the public information office. • Dante: Oh I see...Mitch can you come here a minute, thank you. This is Diana Prince. • Diana Prince: We've already met before. • Mitch: Hello, glad you could make it. • Dante: I think the young lady would enjoy hearing more about the Hull City Howlers. Can you fill her in? • Mitch: Be my pleasure. • Dante: And spare no details, she strikes me as someone who possesses a very inquisitive nature. • Diana Prince: Well it was nice meeting you Mr Dante. • Dante: Pleasure meeting you. • Mitch: You know, you have got to be the prettiest sergeant in the Air Force, you know that? • Diana Prince: Well thank you kind sir, but I bet you say that to all the sergeants on all the bases right? • Mitch: No. No I'm serious. Listen, we have played all the bases around, Norris, McKinley, Lansdale, you name it, oh but you, you really lead the field. • Diana Prince: You have played all those bases? • Mitch: Uh huh. We've done more traveling in the last couple of weeks than most bands do in a year. • Diana Prince: Who decides which bases you play and when? • Mitch: Edmund Dante, the guy you just met. He sets up everything for us.    Meanwhile Dante has made his way back to the bus to find Alan there. He realizes that Alan is now out of control but decides to take advantage of this. He tells him that he wants him to create a diversion so that the blame will fall on Alan's shoulders and take the suspicion away from him. He tells Alan that he wants him to admit his guilt.    Alan climbs the communication tower and places some explosives onto it, then climbs down and positions himself nearby with the detonator. Diana, inside the club taking pictures of the band hears sirens and runs outside to see military vehicles speeding past. She spins into Wonder Woman.    Lt Stonehouse finds out that Alan Cornell has gone crazy and has stolen explosives and taken them to the control tower. As Stonehouse orders Alan to step away from the detonator Wonder Woman leaps up to where the explosives are, removes them and throws them high into the air, yanking the detonator out of Alan's hands. They explode a safe distance away from the base. She uses her lasso on Alan but all he says is "When the snow falls I must obey." She taps her bracelets together, making a sound like a bell and Alan comes out of his hypnotic state and is placed under arrest by Stonehouse.    After talking to Colby about Alan she immediately grows suspicious and discusses this with Steve. She then talks to Colby again who tells her that Alan is a threat to security and a danger to have near lapdog missiles. She asks where the missiles are kept and Colby points their location out on a picture on her office wall. She asks why Diana is so interested and how she got top level security clearance. Diana tells her that she will explain later, that right now she must get to work.    After checking him out in Washington, Steve informs Diana that Dante is really Otto Franz, a former officer in the U. S. Army, who turned against the government and will now sell secrets or perform sabotage for the highest bidder of an enemy country. His present mission is to stop the flight of the Z-400 for a group in Eastern Europe who will pay him handsomely if he can accomplish this. He tells her to meet him at the club at 1600 hours.    Through a form of hypnotism, using drumbeats, Dante now has Lt. Stonehouse in his power. He has ordered Stonehouse to report to the Launch Control Facility and as the Z-400 approaches the base, Stonehouse is to release a Lapdog missile and destroy the plane. He tells Stonehouse to bring Major Trevor to him. Stonehouse goes to Steve's office and tells him to come with him, there is a matter concerning the flight of the Z400 that requires his immediate attention. He leads Steve to the bus. When aboard the bus Steve comes face to face with Dante who explains his plan to destroy the Z400 as it approaches San Remo. He tries to put Steve under his power by placing a metronome and a snowglobe onto the table in front of him, Steve is unable to move. Dante drives away leaving the band behind.    Diana sees the bus go by as she walks to her meeting with Steve. When he is not there she realizes that something is wrong and goes outside. She spins into Wonder Woman then jumps onto the hanger roof and sees the bus in the distance. She jumps down and chases after it. Dante speeds up and she can't catch him. She leaps back onto the roof and runs along it, then leaps across onto the next building, then runs along the roof of that one too and jumps down landing in front of the bus. Dante doesn't stop so she leaps out of the way but grabs the back of the bus, preventing Dante from driving away.    Steve releases himself from his trance using the alarm on his watch and captures Dante, then brings him outside to Wonder Woman. She uses her lasso and Dante tells her that Lt Stonehouse has already headed to the control facility to launch the lapdog missile and that she's too late to stop him. She rushes to the Launch Control Facility and reaches it a few seconds after Stonehouse has launched the missile. She knocks the door off it's hinges and deflects the bullets from Stonehouse's gun. The head of the control facility tells her that the missile has been launched but that he will try to divert it. He manages to change it's direction and it lands in the ocean.    Back at the base Steve tells Diana that the Z400 flight was a huge success and that Otto Franz is in jail. Colby joins them and tells them that Alan and Lt Stonehouse will both be fine and that they will not have to face any charges.

			RUNNING TIME:	48:40 (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:	Eighteenth 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:	"NOBODY FOOLS WONDER WOMAN".
				"HYPNOTIC TRANCE".
			TRIVIA:	Diana and Steve use IADC scrambler channel 110 to prevent their radio conversation from being overheard.
				The footage of Wonder Woman running across the hanger roof is re-used in the season three episode "Pot of Gold".
				The Hull City Howlers are played by a band whose real name is Nightwind.
				Steve tells Diana to meet him at 4:00 but when she arrives at the Officers Club for their meeting and looks at her watch it says 4:15...Diana would not turn up late so this is probably a mistake that went un-noticed.
				The set used in the final scenes was previously used before in several episodes, like in "Fausta, The Nazi Wonder Woman", "The Bermuda Triangle Crisis"  and "The QUEEN AND THE THIEF".
			SKILLS STATS:	SPINS: 3 times.
				LASSO: 3 times.
				BRACELETS: 4 times.
				JUMPS: 10 times.
				THROWN BADDIES: 0 times.
				MISCELLANEOUS SKILLS: Stops tour bus, breaks down door.

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