Airdate: 2/16/79
Diana goes undercover as an aspiring singer to a recording
studio being extorted for a huge sun of money, in exchange for master tapes of an
artist recently disappeared – valuable now because of their projected sales as
a tribute album. Wonder Woman, along with three other, somewhat looney, singers
from the studio, thwart the money transfer, and when the formerly missing
singer turns up alive, the tapes are now ostensibly worthless. Now, kidnapping
the reappeared star is an option, but such plans are foiled also, and the
extorters are nabbed and arrested, with plenty more music emanating from the
halls of Phoenix Records.
WW’s intro is delayed a full twenty minutes here – the
reasons is that the star of this episode is Ms. Carter’s singing voice, which
is actually pretty good, as well as the two songs they give her to do (they
come from her own, simultaneously released debut, “Portrait”). The rest of the
show is pretty hit or miss – the action scenes are clunkily staged and slo-moed
a lot, and the acting by the rather large cast is a bit haphazard, and
potentially tongue in check (subtle music references, perhaps?). Sarah Purcell
and Judge Reinhold, way before they became popular, stand out as recording
“twins” who turn out to be accomplices to the bad guys, and Curtis Credel is
engaging as Eric, the studio head, who takes Diana’s departure and revelation
that she’s really a fed quite hard. |
| Rick Springfield (in the middle) only a couple years before "Jessie's Girl." |
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