Airdate: 3/3/78
An expert on mesmerism, Edmund Dante, has infiltrated a
series of Air Force bases posing as the manager of a touring rock band. His
goal: to divert a top secret military plane to the base at San Remo, where he
can destroy it with a missile, and take in a nice reward from some Eastern
European country for his misdeed. Diana is also undercover at the base, posing
as a photographer, but her efforts to thwart Dante’s plans are obstructed by
his usage of soldiers as sleeper agents, hypnotized to kill by his signal (the
image of snow falling). Even Steve gets incapacitated by Dante’s spell, but he
uses the bell sound of his own wristwatch to snap out of it!
Slow to start, this episode does get more involving as the
plot kicks in. We, of course, have seen this premise already this season (“The
Pied Piper” and “Mind Stealers”) but here it’s treated more in the vein of the
classic film The Manchurian Candidate:
the “reprogramming” good people to performs evil tasks.
Real rock group Nightwind is the fictitious Hull City
Howlers (the touring band), and they’re pretty good! Don’t confuse them with
Night Wing, though.
Good to see Steve get out of his own scrape for a change, in
the best usage of a wristwatch gadget since Bond used his to get out of a
spinning flight-simulator.
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