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<blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 63349" data-attributes="member: 23"><p><strong><em>THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T TELL / THE GIRL FROM ILANDIA / THE MURDEROUS MISSILE</em></strong></p><p></p><p>Each of the three different in tone to the next. Each enjoyable in their own way.</p><p></p><p><em>The Man Who Wouldn't Tell </em>had a nice stooge in Alan - played by M*A*S*H's Radar - Gary Burghdoff who kept the episode watchable and had some funny moments. Miami Vice's Phillip Michael Thomas also appeared as a suited arch villain. It wasn't hugely memorable, but not an unpleasant way to spend an hour.</p><p></p><p>The <em>Ilandia</em> episode was a twist on that Wonder Woman staple: the kiddie of the week episode. The twist being that the girl was from another dimension. And super powered. It wasn't terrible, but it did drag a bit in places. In one scene we were subjected to about five minutes of the girl finding a lost dog on a beach and calling it over to her. In another, Wonder Woman took it upon herself to train her new protégé, leading to about ten minutes of them taking it in turns to do mid-air somersaults or twist metal rods that were conveniently lying about the place. More than anything else, these scenes served to remind me that Drusilla has now been retconned out of continuity. It was a pleasant surprise that the ending wasn't an entirely happy one. I suspect there may have been a sequel episode mooted. Either way, the loose ends are almost satisfying here.</p><p></p><p><em>The Murderous Missile </em>is an episode I have memories of watching when I was young (it may have been a repeat in the mid-Eighties). For some reason, the scene where Diana is about to drink the drugged tea before she is warned has always stuck in my memory. The actual missile stuff is slightly boring, but mercifully brief. For most of the episode, the weird small town stuff is great. It's all clearly a film set on a lot, but no less enjoyable for it and has a nice tone to it. There are great character actors everywhere you look. The future Ted Dinard from <em>Dynasty</em> is among them. There are a couple of nice twists with friends turning out to be enemies and vice versa. Any episode that starts with Diana getting carjacked and then develops into her building a bond with her carjacker, eventually discovering he's the only person who is on her side is worthwhile. Plus this episode introduces a new twist on the outfit: the Wonder Biker costume.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/7b/0a/40/7b0a403d64ab2001f8673233eabf5390.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The sets have been hilarious this season. Pretty much every other episode has ended with Wonder Woman bursting into the same (redressed) set which is a round, industrial room with a balcony going round it. Then she's shot at before leaping down fro the balcony and throwing the bad guys round. The set in which Diana is offered the drugged tea in <em>The Murderous Missile </em>is identical to the house she visited in the <em>Séance</em> episode. Everything is in the same place. They just threw in a switchboard in the middle of the room to suit the plot. I love how economical Warner shows were at the time. It's quite charming.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spells & Karma, post: 63349, member: 23"] [B][I]THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T TELL / THE GIRL FROM ILANDIA / THE MURDEROUS MISSILE[/I][/B] Each of the three different in tone to the next. Each enjoyable in their own way. [I]The Man Who Wouldn't Tell [/I]had a nice stooge in Alan - played by M*A*S*H's Radar - Gary Burghdoff who kept the episode watchable and had some funny moments. Miami Vice's Phillip Michael Thomas also appeared as a suited arch villain. It wasn't hugely memorable, but not an unpleasant way to spend an hour. The [I]Ilandia[/I] episode was a twist on that Wonder Woman staple: the kiddie of the week episode. The twist being that the girl was from another dimension. And super powered. It wasn't terrible, but it did drag a bit in places. In one scene we were subjected to about five minutes of the girl finding a lost dog on a beach and calling it over to her. In another, Wonder Woman took it upon herself to train her new protégé, leading to about ten minutes of them taking it in turns to do mid-air somersaults or twist metal rods that were conveniently lying about the place. More than anything else, these scenes served to remind me that Drusilla has now been retconned out of continuity. It was a pleasant surprise that the ending wasn't an entirely happy one. I suspect there may have been a sequel episode mooted. Either way, the loose ends are almost satisfying here. [I]The Murderous Missile [/I]is an episode I have memories of watching when I was young (it may have been a repeat in the mid-Eighties). For some reason, the scene where Diana is about to drink the drugged tea before she is warned has always stuck in my memory. The actual missile stuff is slightly boring, but mercifully brief. For most of the episode, the weird small town stuff is great. It's all clearly a film set on a lot, but no less enjoyable for it and has a nice tone to it. There are great character actors everywhere you look. The future Ted Dinard from [I]Dynasty[/I] is among them. There are a couple of nice twists with friends turning out to be enemies and vice versa. Any episode that starts with Diana getting carjacked and then develops into her building a bond with her carjacker, eventually discovering he's the only person who is on her side is worthwhile. Plus this episode introduces a new twist on the outfit: the Wonder Biker costume. [IMG]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/7b/0a/40/7b0a403d64ab2001f8673233eabf5390.jpg[/IMG] The sets have been hilarious this season. Pretty much every other episode has ended with Wonder Woman bursting into the same (redressed) set which is a round, industrial room with a balcony going round it. Then she's shot at before leaping down fro the balcony and throwing the bad guys round. The set in which Diana is offered the drugged tea in [I]The Murderous Missile [/I]is identical to the house she visited in the [I]Séance[/I] episode. Everything is in the same place. They just threw in a switchboard in the middle of the room to suit the plot. I love how economical Warner shows were at the time. It's quite charming. [/QUOTE]
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