Nazis hiding in South America try to rebuild the Third Reich by cloning Hitler.Nazis hiding in South America try to rebuild the Third Reich by cloning Hitler.Nazis hiding in South America try to rebuild the Third Reich by cloning Hitler.
Norman Burton
- Joe Atkinson
- (as Normann Burton)
Walt Davis
- Captain Hoffman
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaDue to a lack of stunt women at the time, Lynda Carter's stunt double during the first season was a man. In season two she did have a stunt woman, Jeannie Epper, but during the helicopter stunt it was going to obviously not be Carter. So Carter performed the helicopter stunt herself without safety-wrist hookups hanging 50 feet in the air solely by her grip. Carter was excited by doing it, but the studio was furious for the obvious reason that if Carter was hurt or worse, then the show would be done.
- GoofsWhen Wonder Woman apparently stops the tank, in a head on angle you can clearly see the tank treads are not moving, yet the continuously move from the side angles.
- Quotes
Steve Trevor, Jr.: [Wonder Woman saves Steve Trevor from a couple of thugs] Wonder Woman, what are you doing in South America?
Wonder Woman: I think my reasons for being here are pretty much the same as yours. Are you all right?
Steve Trevor, Jr.: Oh yeah, except for my whole body.
[both chuckle]
- ConnectionsFeatured in Pioneers of Television: Superheroes (2013)
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Same Old New Nazis
Having relocated to a new network (CBS) and from a period setting during World War Two to the present day, the second season of "Wonder Woman" still couldn't shake off Nazis plotting to conquer the world in "Anschluss '77," which finds Wonder Woman's alter ego Diana Prince, now an agent with the American intelligence/law enforcement outfit the Inter-Agency Defense Command (IADC), and Steve Trevor, Jr., another IADC agent and the son of season one's Major Steve Trevor, dispatched to the South American "province" of Cordova to investigate what fugitive Nazi intelligence bigwig Fritz Gerlich (Mel Ferrer) is plotting under the code name Anschluss '77.
Falling somewhere between "The Boys from Brazil" and "They Saved Hitler's Brain," Gerlich's nefarious scheme is nothing less than the resurrection of Adolf Hitler (Barry Dennen) to lead a Fourth Reich thanks to a revolutionary cloning technique developed by Doctor Heinrich von Klemper (Leon Charles) that Diana and Steve, with the help of local police Captain Gaitan (Julio Medina), must stop before--well, we've seen this story before, haven't we?
Indeed, Dallas Barnes's colorless script provides the Wonder Woman, er, spin on those reliable villains the Nazis, familiar from numerous movies and TV series of the period as "Wonder Woman" cribs equally from "Batman" (one of whose writers, Stanley Ralph Ross, had co-developed "Wonder Woman" for television), "Mission: Impossible" (one of whose producers, Bruce Lansbury, was the supervising producer during seasons two and three), and 1970s T&A in series such as "Charlie's Angel" with leggy lovely Lynda Carter showing it off in her iconic Wonder Woman costume while her alter ego plays the damsel in distress, tied up in a cave with the dynamite fuse blazing away. Featured guest-star Ferrer doesn't really have (ahem) much of a leg to stand on in "Anschluss '77" as the amazing cloning technique capable of reconstituting Hitler is tossed off as just a plot device in a formula tale whose overwhelming premise--ze return of der Fuehrer, mein Gott!--fizzles amidst sorely underwhelming execution.
Falling somewhere between "The Boys from Brazil" and "They Saved Hitler's Brain," Gerlich's nefarious scheme is nothing less than the resurrection of Adolf Hitler (Barry Dennen) to lead a Fourth Reich thanks to a revolutionary cloning technique developed by Doctor Heinrich von Klemper (Leon Charles) that Diana and Steve, with the help of local police Captain Gaitan (Julio Medina), must stop before--well, we've seen this story before, haven't we?
Indeed, Dallas Barnes's colorless script provides the Wonder Woman, er, spin on those reliable villains the Nazis, familiar from numerous movies and TV series of the period as "Wonder Woman" cribs equally from "Batman" (one of whose writers, Stanley Ralph Ross, had co-developed "Wonder Woman" for television), "Mission: Impossible" (one of whose producers, Bruce Lansbury, was the supervising producer during seasons two and three), and 1970s T&A in series such as "Charlie's Angel" with leggy lovely Lynda Carter showing it off in her iconic Wonder Woman costume while her alter ego plays the damsel in distress, tied up in a cave with the dynamite fuse blazing away. Featured guest-star Ferrer doesn't really have (ahem) much of a leg to stand on in "Anschluss '77" as the amazing cloning technique capable of reconstituting Hitler is tossed off as just a plot device in a formula tale whose overwhelming premise--ze return of der Fuehrer, mein Gott!--fizzles amidst sorely underwhelming execution.
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- darryl-tahirali
- Mar 5, 2022
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