The Boy Who Knew Her Secret was broadcast on May 28 and 29th, 1979, and provides intriguing clues to the “Wonder Lad spinoff series.” The plot harkened back to the science fiction classic, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, a remake of which had been released a few months earlier and was a huge box office hit. Let’s look at the evidence, even though it is anecdotal. Was this two-parter introducing a recurring set of characters, or perhaps even a direct spinoff, to Wonder Woman ? And was this new show - as IMDb suggests - going to introduce a young male superhero called “Wonder Lad”? It reads: “ The Boy Who Knew Her Secret was going to be developed into a Wonder Lad origin story, but that idea was scrapped.”Īlthough the IMDb trivia has no source or context, it supports something I had long suspected about these two episodes since I first saw them in 1979. IMDb has an intriguing bit of trivia for a third season two-parter called The Boy Who Knew Her Secret. In seasons two and three, at least three other characters were introduced in the hopes of pulling them into spin-offs. There were hopes that Wonder Girl would get her own show, but Winger wasn’t interested. During its first full season, Diana was joined in America by her sister Drusilla/Wonder Girl (played by Debra Winger ). Even Space: 1999, a British science-fiction show, introduced a super-powered female alien in its second season, which they openly billed as “the Wonder Woman of outer space.” Yet strangely, the show never produced any spin-offs in an era where spin-offs were all the rage.Īlthough no Wonder Woman spinoffs ever made it into production, it wasn’t for lack of trying. Kids could thrill on Saturday mornings to The Secrets of Isis or Electra Woman and Dyna Girl. In its cumulative five years on television, Wonder Woman inspired quite a few imitators. The show ran for two seasons on CBS and was canceled in 1979. Lyle Waggoner returned, this time playing the son of World War II-era Steve Trevor, but with the same name. Diana Prince was employed by the Inter-Agency Defense Command (IADC), a kind of CIA-FBI hybrid organization that hunted international terrorists and Soviet spies. Now called The New Adventures of Wonder Woman, the show was set in the modern day. In late 1977, the show jumped networks to CBS and was retooled for the third time. The original pilot movie was a huge success, and thirteen one-hour episodes were ordered for the following year with Diana Prince employed by Army Intelligence under the command of the intrepid Major Steve Trevor ( Lyle Waggoner ). More importantly for fans, Carter looked and acted like the heroine they’d grown up with, bouncing bullets off her bracelets and prying the truth from Nazi spies with the help of her magic lasso. The revised series was set during World War II - the comic book character was created in the same era - and had a more fun-loving, campy approach.
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