Airdate:
12/26/76
A Nazi agent known only as “The Falcon” (Robert Reed) steals
the plans for a top-secret project, the Pluto File, an experiment which induces
earthquakes through controlled detonations. His goal: to cause tremors in the
Washington area significant enough to damage the nuclear reactor at the newly
developed Manhattan Project, causing a full scale meltdown. Even worse, he’s a
carrier of the Bubonic Plague, infecting nearly everyone he comes in contact with!
It takes Wonder Woman’s brawn, and brain, to stop the Falcon AND work with the
head Pluto File seismologist to stop he earthquakes, cool down the reactors,
and keep her skin looking smooth and ever-so-slightly bronzed. I’d say she
succeeds.
Mr. Brady himself takes a turn as sci-fi heavy here, and his
legendary seriousness regardless of what kind of role he’s playing serves him
very well. Plotwise, we sort of have a hybrid of Superman (Luthor’s plan to reactivate the San Andreas Fault) and Outbreak (the plague subplot), with
shades of The China Syndrome thrown
in for good measure. Actually, the scenes in the reactor toward the end do
create some edge-of-your-seat suspense, even if the cheesy set looks a tad like
the TV studio in Willy Wonka’s factory.
Mr. Brady himself takes a turn as sci-fi heavy here, and his
legendary seriousness regardless of what kind of role he’s playing serves him
very well. Plotwise, we sort of have a hybrid of Superman (Luthor’s plan to reactivate the San Andreas Fault) and Outbreak (the plague subplot), with
shades of The China Syndrome thrown
in for good measure. Actually, the scenes in the reactor toward the end do
create some edge-of-your-seat suspense, even if the cheesy set looks a tad like
the TV studio in Willy Wonka’s factory.
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