1The New Original Wonder Woman
After a dogfight with a Nazi plane, U.S. Air Force Steve Trevor crashlands on an uncharted island in the Bermuda Triangle. Paradise Island is inhabited only by women, and their existence has been kept a secret for thousands of years. Learning of the Nazi threat to humanity, the Amazon princess, Diana, is chosen to accompany Trevor back to the United States to battle the Third Reich. Garbed in a skimpy red, white & blue costume and armed with a magic lasso that forces anyone within its grasp to tell the truth, Diana uses her powers as Wonder Woman to battle the forces of evil.
2Wonder Woman Meets Baroness Von Gunther
Caught in a hornet's nest of spies -- and likely to get stung! Wonder Woman's bid to rescue Steve Trevor from charges of enemy collaboration becomes even more difficult when her magic lasso falls into Nazi hand.
Its 1942 at the U.S. War Department, and word arrives that Major Steve Trevor may be in danger. His assistant, Yeoman Diana Prince, kicks into her Wonder Woman twirl right off the bat to track him and pull him out of danger (quite literally, with her lasso). Steve suspects his Army vehicle was sabotaged, then he gets a mysterious call to meet an informant. Its a trick, to frame him in an ammunitions fire.
Clues point Steve and Diana to the imprisoned Baroness Von Gunther, who works to convince them she has no more interest in Nazi affairs. The prison warden's young son, Tommy, meanwhile, is a Sherlock Holmes aficionado and has discovered not only a secret tunnel at the prison but also lights being flashed from the watchtower. When Wonder Woman rescues him from a precarious position in the prison courtyard, she then must leave in a hurry, entrusting her golden lasso to the boy. The Baroness tricks Tommy to learn where the lasso is.
Steve is scheduled for a hearing on the sabotage incidents, but the night before the hearing, he disappears. The Baroness uses the lasso to threaten him to sign a letter confessing to being a Nazi spy. When Wonder Woman finds him, she's captured with the help of a Third Reich knockout gas.
3Fausta, the Nazi Wonder Woman
Is there enough room for two Wonder Women? Not when one of them is a Nazi spy intent on capturing the real Amazonian hero and discovering her secrets for the benefit of Hitler's Master Race!
The Fuhrer has taken note of this American Wonder Woman, so he tasks some Nazi agents with capturing her for study. The bait? Steve Trevor, of course.
A pretty blond fraulein abducts Steve then calls his office to set the trap for Wonder Woman. Diana responds readily (with a twirl, of course). When she follows the lead to a warehouse, she dukes it out with some Nazi guys, then uses her lasso to find out where Steve is. The observant Nazis take note. They later stage a demonstration at a war bonds fundraiser -- complete with the fraulein Fausta disguised as a second Wonder Woman -- to capture her. Steve sees through Fausta's disguise and gives chase as the Nazis flee the demonstration.
They manage to fly off to Germany, and Steve is unable to marshal official resources to rescue her. He goes on furlough to England to connect with an old buddy and sneak into Nazi territory. Wonder Woman, meanwhile, stripped of her belt and lasso, is interrogated, but the Nazis think this notion of an island of women is quite preposterous (just wait a couple episodes!).
The Amazon gets to prove she's still a formidable force without her belt, even while trying to appeal to Fausta's womanhood and self-esteem. She escapes just in time for Steve to be captured. About as soon as Diana Prince reports back to work, she hops her invisible jet to fly right back to Germany and retrieve Steve. Her divide-and-conquer approach with Fausta eventually works.
4Beauty on Parade
It's May 1942, and a top-secret assembly chain has been taking some hits, the latest being an explosion at Fort Russell, Maryland. The Miss GI Dreamgirl beauty contest has just happened to be at every stop along the chain. An agent is needed to infiltrate the contest, but this has to be a very "gorgeous" girl, as Steve says, turning down Diana's offer to help. So it's the redheaded "Diana Paradise" who enters the competition.
Wearing a slinky white cotton dress, Diana wows 'em in her dance audition. Then she must step in as Wonder Woman to aid Steve when he's targeted by the saboteur operation. Back at the contest, she dodges not only catty contestants but also the flirtatious judge and emcee. She follows a lead from Steve that night and discovers a masked saboteur at the site of the military's top-secret scanner project. But the evil operation goes deeper than that, all the way to an assassination target: General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Etta Candy tries to get word to Diana at the contest but can't get through. Then, during the contest, the saboteurs reveal themselves. (And guess who wins the contest? Well, you're half-right!)
Notes: For the first time in this season, the action shifts away from the Nazis. A pre-"Eight is Enough" Dick Van Patten guests as radio comic Jack Wood, emcee of the beauty contest. Anne Francis is the den mother of the pageant girls.
The episode marks the first use of the starburst effect to cover Diana's twirling transition to Wonder Woman (and when she stops twirling, she's no longer clutching her previous outfit!). Steve Trevor continues his major Lois-Lane ways when all it takes is Diana putting her glasses back on with her red wig to keep him from realizing she's Wonder Woman -- though he does note that in that slinky dress she reminds him of someone.
5The Feminum Mystique: Part 1
"Introducing Debra Winger" in the opening credits is certainly right, because this role marked the future movie star's debut.
In the story, Diana is amazed when Steve shows her the XPJ-1, a top-secret aircraft just developed by the military. But before Steve can take it for a spin, it's plane-napped right in front of their eyes. The U.S. then blows the plane out of the sky and the Nazis buy the ruse, thinking this experimental plane is no good. But they also take note of Wonder Woman's powerful bracelets and want to know more about this amazing Amazon. (This seems to completely ignore the plot of two episodes earlier, though that's not the only continuity issue: The action takes us back to Paradise Island, and amid the Amazons' gymnastic feats we hear the Queen's praise for her young daughter Drusilla -- little sis to that "only child" she'd mentioned in the pilot! But hey, perhaps it's because the Queen is also different -- Carolyn Jones rather than Cloris Leachman!)
It seems the Queen misses her elder daughter; she sends Drusilla to the U.S. to fetch her. When Dru arrives, we get to see Diana's '40s apartment as we hear a better explanation than was offered in the pilot episode as to why Diana stayed in the U.S. after dropping off the recuperating Steve Trevor.
Dru wanders off on her own and evokes the same kind of glances as she heads down a busy sidewalk in her nightie-looking Amazon attire, as her sister once did in her Wonder Woman duds. A stop at the soda shop cures that, and soon she's adorned like the pre-'50s sock hop. General Blankenship plays host to her, but then he's kidnapped.
It takes a couple tries, but soon Dru is doing her own twirl to become Wonder Girl! She tries to rescue the General but gets captured. The Nazis now think they have the famous Wonder Woman.
To be continued ...
6The Feminum Mystique: Part 2
Drusilla accidentally reveals the location of Paradise Island to the Nazis who want to go there to harvest Feminum. Wonder Woman must return home to protect her people.
7Wonder Woman vs Gargantua
In Africa, a special ape is undergoing some top-secret training by the Nazis. Flash-forward five months, to September 1942, when that ape, named Gargantua, is doing a turn at Turner Circus near D.C. His trainer aims to rescue an agent who's fallen into American hands. She determines the agent's location, then sends the superstrong Gargantua into this heavily guarded apartment. The mission is successful. But before hopping the U-boat back to Berlin, the Nazis decide to wait for Wonder Woman to attempt a retrieval of the agent so that they can nab her, too.
Steve and Diana consult an animal behavioral expert, suspecting that the circus-escaped Gargantua is really the ape one of the security guards reported seeing. The scientist inadvertently helps Wonder Woman fall right into the enemy's trap. When the Amazon princess sees the ape, she develops an affinity for him and tries to soothe the savagely trained animal.
Steve and the military police arrive and shoot the gorilla to save Wonder Woman from its grip. As he recuperates, Gargantua begins to see Wonder Woman as a friend. But the Nazis figure out where Gargantua is being held, seize him and attempt to reprogram him. Wonder Woman and her kindness are not far behind.
Notes: Wonder Woman mentions Paradise Island as her home, which is strange, as it was such a tight secret until now, and the Nazis who invaded it even had their memories erased.
8The Pluto File
When the economy of America is jeopardized by a treacherous Nazi scheme, Wonder Woman rushes to the rescue.
A notorious enemy agent, nicknamed the Falcon ("Brady Bunch" dad Robert Reed playing it sinister), slips through customs at LaGuardia Airport. His target in the U.S.: the Pluto File, a scientist's work on a device that can prevent or cause earthquakes. The people the Falcon has encountered, however, have been coming down with the Bubonic Plague. He has no idea he's carrying the disease as he's plotting to create a fault line in Maryland.
Steve and Diana discover that the professor's assistant was aiding the Falcon when he falls ill, as well. They then track the Falcon's movements into Maryland and to Project 741, a powerful part of the Manhattan Project. The sinister agent plans to make Project 741 into a giant bomb to destroy D.C.
Wonder Woman stays by the professor's side after some explosions begin to affect 741's reactor. But the Falcon returns to the scientist to tie up some loose ends, just as he begins to feel ill, himself.
9Last of the $2 Bills
It's September 1942, and the news comes across that notorious agent Wotan is coming to the U.S. Then an enemy submarine is sunk in Chesapeake Bay. Steve and Diana watch as agents come ashore, then Wonder Woman steps in. But one man escapes. Diana later recognizes him as he's taking street photos for sale, suckering people for payment.
A week later, he's nowhere to be found, to the great dismay of Etta Candy, who really wanted to send that photo of Diana and her to her mom! Steve, meanwhile, offers to take Wonder Woman on a tour of the Bureau of Printing and Engraving as he tries to wrap his brain around the clue of a two-dollar bill he recently received. (For the tour, we get a rare glimpse of Wonder Woman in her ceremonial cape and short skirt, the latter of which is surely a nod to the character's very first appearance in Sensation Comics. The skirt also appeared for a second or two in the pilot episode.)
Steve realizes the Nazis plan to counterfeit the popular two-dollar bills and thereby undermine the U.S. economy. The head of the Bureau of Printing and Engraving and his fiancée are abducted and replaced with look-alikes. Steve has sent a Secret Service agent to look after the Bureau head, but he's promptly taken out of commission, as well. Then Wonder Woman is sidelined, at least temporarily, by the evil agents.
Steve gets to throw a few punches before he's abducted. He escapes and must defuse a bomb at the Bureau.
Notes: This episode includes Wonder Woman's first usage of her tiara as a boomerang. We also see the writers' aim to maintain Steve's manhood -- rather than being saved every time by his lovely Amazon friend, he does get to step in and kick some butt!
10Judgment from Outer Space: Part 1
In an uncharted region of space, a council of advanced peoples is pondering what to do with this Earth place they've been observing. They're considering sterilization of the planet! They send one of their kind, Andros, to Earth to do a final assessment. (We're sensing the show's overall anti-war message is getting amped up a notch or two for this one!)
The War Department investigates sightings of a UFO. Andros comes face to face with Steve, Diana and some soldiers and introduces himself. Wonder Woman is very enthralled with this Socrates-quoting alien who is an accomplished student of history. A Nazi spy disguised as a Swedish news reporter is also intrigued. Wonder Woman meets Andros at the Lincoln Memorial to learn more, while the reporter puts the moves on the vulnerable Etta for his own "research."
At a demonstration of his power the next day, Andros issues a stern warning, saying the Council of Planets is concerned that the savage Earthlings are developing atomic power at Oak Ridge. He gets a meeting with President Roosevelt, then allows Wonder Woman to use her lasso on him to affirm his words. He says if anything happens to him, an orbiting craft will destroy Earth. Even as Diana Prince, she pleads his case to the military (sparking her first fight with Steve). As the Nazis apprehend Andros, the Council of Planets punishes him for trusting the humans by removing his powers.
Notes: Wonder Woman is hospitalized for the first time in this episode, though the American doctors learn she didn't really need their care because her body regenerates. We get to see both her cape and her skirt as she speaks with Andros, lending a much more peaceful, diplomatic air to her appearance. This episode marks the first use of a title screen at the beginning.
11Judgment from Outer Space: Part 2
Wonder Woman finds Andros' ship and gets inside. She makes a plea to the Council with his com link.
The Nazis take Andros to a heavily fortified interrogation center. British intelligence lends a hand in reporting this to the U.S. War Department, so Steve flies off to investigate. Wonder Woman is right behind him in the invisible plane.
The Nazis try to probe Andros with a charming female, then the Council contacts him again, changing their minds about leaving him there but not about destroying Earth. When Wonder Woman arrives to rescue him, Andros doesn't want to leave. He has a thing or two to tell her about these Americans she loves so much, too. Steve arrives disguised as a Nazi, but his cover is quickly blown.
"If you do not outgrow your emotional primitivism, you'll destroy yourselves," Andros warns the Nazis, meanwhile. Soon, the Nazis have everybody is custody! They demand to know the secrets of Andros' powerful pendant, as well as Wonder Woman's lasso and belt.
Finally, Andros sees just how evil the Nazis are. As Wonder Woman leads the prisoners to freedom, the Council gives Andros his powers back. Andros tells Wonder Woman he'll grant the Earth 50 years to disprove the Council's view of their savagery (we must've passed the test!), and he even tries to woo her into space with him.
Notes: This two-parter really shows Diana's strong feelings about peace and humankind. It's rather humorous that the Nazis keep using a black-and-white 8-by-10 photo of Wonder Woman in the Miss GI Dreamgirl pageant (from the episode "Beauty on Parade") as a point of reference, as it's been seen in other episodes, too.
12Formula 407
A scientist in Argentina creates a formula that makes rubber indestructible.
13The Bushwhackers
The Diamond H Ranch in Texas has been losing heads of cattle to rustlers, and J.P. Hadley (portrayed by Roy Rogers) hasn't gotten much help from the local law enforcement. But he has a friend in a high place -- General Blankenship. The General sends the head of his intelligence division, Steve, to investigate, and before he leaves Steve gives Diana a three-day pass from work to get some rest. But we know what Diana's going to do with that time, don't we?
The cattle rustlers are hiding out at a ghost town a few miles from the ranch, and the local sheriff's deputies are part of the scam. They set a trap for Steve. With the help of a little mute boy named Charlie, Wonder Woman is able to rescue him. Wonder Woman then heads to the ranch for a new cowgirl outfit and some quality time with J.P.'s "mini League of Nations" -- his multicultural set of war orphans.
J.P.'s son, meanwhile, has been jealous of the attention his dad has been giving the orphans and thus has been leaking information to the rustlers. The rustlers nab Wonder Woman, stealing her belt and lasso. Charlie secretly witnesses this abduction, and it's enough to make him speak as he runs back to the other kids for help.
The orphans work together to bust Wonder Woman out of the ghost town jail, but now Steve has been captured by the rustlers! It takes a collaborative effort to overcome the rustlers.
14Wonder Woman in Hollywood
Morale-sparking war films are being produced in Hollywood, and war hero Steve Trevor is called into "action"!
On Paradise Island, meanwhile, the Queen wants Diana to come home for their bimillennial celebration. She reluctantly agrees to let Drusilla go fetch her older sis. Dru meets up with Diana on the Hollywood movie set, just in time to witness the attempted abduction of one of the film's other war-hero stars. Wonder Woman stops the criminal act.
Diana takes Dru to a Hollywood party that night. The party's host, who happens to be the new movie's director, is really a Nazi who's collecting U.S. war heroes to ship to Germany to stand trial for war crimes.
Dru hangs out with the young Corporal Ames at the soda shop, then must change to Wonder Girl when a couple hooligans hassle her new friend. Ames later leaves out the little detail that someone else saved him as he relates the story to Dru, making Dru suspect this war hero is not all that heroic.
Back at the movie set, another war hero disappears. Steve calls for reinforcements, forcing the Nazis to step up their plan. Both Steve and Ames are kidnapped with the help of Ames, who's been blackmailed with the abduction of his parents.
Wonder Woman tracks down an actress who's been involved in the scheme (guest star Christopher Norris of "Trapper John, M.D.") and compels her with the golden lasso to reveal where the prisoners are being kept. Wonder Woman and Wonder Girl then head to the movie director's estate and attempt to free the prisoners.
Wonder Woman actually appears to have been caught by surprise and taken a bullet, but she's really giving a chance for Ames to redeem himself.
1The Return of Wonder Woman
Diana returned to Paradise Island after a 35 year absence and, slowly aging due to her Amazon nature. Once again, she returns to America as Diana Prince/Wonder Woman in 1977.
2Anschluss '77
Nazis hiding in South America try to rebuild the Third Reich by cloning Hitler.
3The Man Who Could Move the World
A Japanese man, bitter over the grief that he believes Wonder Woman caused him in W.W.II, unleashes his telekinetic powers against her.
4The Bermuda Triangle Crisis
I.A.D.C's Operation Sea Harvest is being compromised by Ray Manta and his I.C.O.P.E. organization. Diana is especially worried since both parties are operating around the Bermuda Triangle, dangerously close to Paradise Island.
5Knockout
Wonder Woman must use all her strength and power to stop a terrorist group from kidnapping Steve and other government officials.
6The Pied Piper
Rock and Roll star, Hamlin Rule hypnotizes his female fans, to rob his concerts for him.
7The Queen and the Thief
Diana and Steve go undercover at the Malakan consulate in Palm Beach to prevent international jewel thief Evan Robley from stealing the Crown jewels of Malakar and catch him.
8I Do, I Do
Wonder Woman masquerades as a new bride honeymooning at a health spa to prevent a group of traitors from obtaining government secrets.
9The Man Who Made Volcanoes
A mad scientist plans to unleash artificially induced volcanic eruptions on the Earth. Emmy-winner Roddy McDowall guest stars.
10Mind Stealers from Outer Space: Part 1
Space traveler Andros returns seeking Wonder Woman's help in defending earth from an invasion of the body and mind snatching Skrill.
11Mind Stealers from Outer Space: Part 2
If Wonder Woman and Andros don't find a way to defeat the alien Skrill in 48 hours, Earth will be decontaminated by higher forces from outer space who use insanity-inducing procedures to force their targets out of hiding.
12The Deadly Toys
Three scientists are replaced by androids one by one after they collectively refuse to create a devastating weapon known as Project XYZ. When Diana Prince investigates a suspicious toy maker she meets face to face with... Wonder Woman.
13Light-fingered Lady
Wonder Woman (LYNDA CARTER) poses as a bank robber to capture the world's most notorious thief.
14Screaming Javelins
Several world class athletes are kidnapped by a deranged genius who wants to use them in the next Olympics to compete for his nonexistent country. Rick Springfield guest stars.
15Diana's Disappearing Act
Wonder Woman saves the world from an oil crisis when she exposes a magician's method of changing lead into gold. Ed Begley Jr. guest stars.
16Death in Disguise
An attempt on Diana Prince's life give her a clue that elusive assassin for hire Woodward Nightingale has a contract out on a target with the initials 'C.R.A.I.' International Industrialist Carlo Amadeo Ricardo Indrezzano appears to be the most likely target, so Diana becomes his bodyguard. And by default, so does Wonder Woman.
17IRAC Is Missing
IRAC believes she will be the next victim of a computer genius who is stealing the memories of the world's greatest computers.
18Flight to Oblivion
Wonder Woman (LYNDA CARTER) is pitted against a former Army Colonel who has become an enemy agent and wants to destroy a new Air Force test plane.
19Seance of Terror
Several attendees of a World Peace Conference are lured away by a psychic boy who takes Polaroids featuring deceased loved ones. As Diana failed to protect one of the dignitaries, she is taken off the case and told to go on vacation.
20The Man Who Wouldn't Tell
A janitor is pursued by his employer and a rival company after discovering the key ingredient for a new explosive formula.
21The Girl from Ilandia
Wonder Woman meets a young girl from another world who has very special powers, and convinces her to stay in this world to keep it safe from enemy agents.
22The Murderous Missile
Wonder Woman saves the world from an angry scientist and a "thinking" missile.
1My Teenage Idol Is Missing
A teenage pop music star is kidnapped on the eve of a huge arena concert and is replaced by his twin brother.
2Hot Wheels
Diana helps the police find a car theft ring and a Rolls Royce with a valuable microfilm hidden in its hood ornament.
3The Deadly Sting
When several sporting events end with less favored team winning, Diana and Steve try to find out if something is going on. At the same time the mob is also worried so tell the man in charge of the sports betting to find out. And they discover a scientist who needs money for his project making people do things that they wouldn't do. When the criminals orders the scientist to tell someone to kill someone he tries to get out.
4The Fine Art of Crime
Wonder Woman foils a ring of art thieves who use realistic-looking statues who are actually people in suspended animation to rob museums.
5Disco Devil
A man lures important government officials into his disco so he can rob their minds. Music legend Wolfman Jack guest stars.
6Formicida
A deadly pesticide threatens the human race and a strange ant woman threatens a billionaire industrialist as the IADC and Wonder Woman find themselves on both sides.
7Time Bomb
A woman from the year 2115 travels back in time to use her knowledge to become an instant billionaire, but is followed by a colleague who wants to prevent her from changing the past.
8Skateboard Wiz
Diana spends her vacation with friends in California. As Wonder Woman, she uncovers an illegal gambling organization with the help of a young skateboarder who also happens to have a photographic memory.
9The Deadly Dolphin
A land developer abducts a trained dolphin and uses it to sink an oil tanker which will lower beachfront property values.
10Stolen Faces
Wonder Woman uncovers a plot to steal millions of dollars in jewels from wealthy party-goers by impersonating her and her colleagues.
11Pot of Gold
A petty crook steals gold in order to buy $100 bill printing plates from a counterfeiter, but Wonder Woman foils the sale.
12Gault's Brain
The living brain of a dead billionaire seeks to have itself transplanted into the perfect physical specimen.
13Going, Going, Gone
Diana tries to prevent a scientist from selling an atomic bomb on the black market.
14Spaced Out
A thief who stole a super secret laser crystal hides out at a science fiction convention.
15The Starships Are Coming
A man vanishes after a UFO sighting and Wonder Woman discovers the aliens may have started their conquest of Earth.
16Amazon Hot Wax
Diana Prince goes undercover as a popular singer to crack a record extortion ring.
17The Richest Man in the World
Wonder Woman stops the black market sale of a super-secret missile guidance systems scrambling device and thus avoids an international incident.
18A Date with Doomsday
Diana uses a computer dating service to investigate a stolen vial containing a deadly virus.
19The Girl with a Gift for Disaster
A young woman with destructive psychokinetic powers unknowingly helps a thief steal priceless historical documents.
20The Boy Who Knew Her Secret: Part 1
Diana Prince investigating a strange alien force in a small suburban community, is seen whirling into Wonder Woman by a young boy.
21The Boy Who Knew Her Secret: Part 2
With a boy knowing that she is really Wonder Woman, Diana Prince continues her battle against a mysterious alien invasion.
22The Man Who Could Not Die
Wonder Woman meets the invulnerable man and they join forces to fight crime.
23Phantom of the Roller Coaster, Part 1
The leader of a spy ring must deal with a phantom-like man and Wonder Woman before he can locate his headquarters in an old amusement park. Part one of a two-part episode.
24Phantom of the Roller Coaster, Part 2
Wonder Woman's strength, ability and quick action saves hundreds of people from a disastrous accident at an amusement park. Part two of a two-part episode.
