Airdate: 1/8/77
Wotan, a
nefarious Nazi agent, makes an amphibious landing on the Virginia coast, and
thwarts Wonder Woman’s plans to stop him, but not before she gets a good look
at the masked man’s baby blue eyes. Later in Washington, she and Etta get
“film-flammed” by a street photographer, and she recognizes him as Wotan. Why
the ruse? His pictures are used by the Nazis to create lookalikes of a head
employee at the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, Frank Wilson, and his wife;
the doppelgangers will steal plates to make millions of counterfeit 2-dollar
bills and destroy the nation’s economy (Wotan himself pretends to be a new hire
at the café where the wife works so he can oversee the entire operation). A
meddling Wonder Woman gets captured by the evildoers and locked up – she
managers, however, to lure Steve closer to the action by impersonating an agent
who sees signs of trouble. A toothache gives away the imposters when a canny
dentist observes Frank’s steel filling as a uniquely German trademark, but
before the group can rendezvous with their U-boat Wonder Woman stops them in
their tracks, courtesy her boomerang tiara which slices through Wotan’s
inflatable raft!
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| Using her voice-imitation powers |
Above-average
episode FINALLY explains the real reason 2-dollar bills stopped being printed.
Actually, they had been out of circulation for 10 years at the time of this
airing, and were just about to be reintroduced as a cost-saving measure and not
celebrate the nation’s bicentennial. They still didn’t improve Jefferson’s
portrait.
Excellent,
textbook-example of how to create exposition by withholding information – not
until about 10 minute in do we figure out what the villainous plot is all
about. Congrats to scribes Paul Dubov and Gwen Bagni. Also enjoy more time
devoted to Diana/WW’s unrequited love for Steve; best scene: Diana moons over a
sleeping Steve, with heartache written all over her face. Poor girl!
We get a good
look at WW’s full outfit when she
meets Steve at the Engraving Bureau, complete with miniskirt and cape.
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