PETER BROWN in
WONDER WOMAN - "Hot Wheels"
9-29-78

Written by DENNIS LANDRA Directed by DICK MODER Guest Cast PETER BROWN as Inspector Tim Bolt LANCE LeGAULT as Otis Fiske JOHN DURREN as Alfie DON MITCHELL as Dr. Samson FUDDLE BAGLEY  as Shadow MARC ROSSas Slim JOHN LAWRENCE as Foreman FRANK DOUBLEDAY as Van Driver

Our baby boomer Chick Panel generally likes shows where women get to kick butt.  Amazons and women warriors like Xena, Warrior Princess and Buffy the Vampire Slayer rate high with most of us.  Although Wonder Woman was not one of our favorites, Peter Brown made this episode worth watching.  The series starred Lynda Carter and Lyle Waggoner, two pleasant, physically attractive nonactors whose stiff dialogue heightened the comic book effect which, to be fair, they may have been going for.  [We liked Lyle Waggoner a lot on the Carol Burnett show and we expect he was cast in this show because of his comic book good looks.]  Peter loosened things up a bit as the charming Inspector Bolt.

Inspector Bolt and Diana Prince cross paths when they both try to intercept the same stolen Rolls Royce at the docks.  Bolt is trying to find the head of an auto theft ring which deals in very high end classic cars.  The IADC wants the hood ornament on the Rolls which contains microfilm of a secret enemy weapons system.  When the bad guys manage to get away, we have our obligatory, and in this case very brief, clash between the two soon-to-be-working-together pair.

Bolt is disgusted when
the Rolls gets away

Bolt making a point or just pointing?

Steve trying to get Bolt's attention

which is focussed on Diana

A partnership is formed

In order to infiltrate the gang, Bolt transforms into Arnie Lippincott, car thief extraordinaire.  Diana tempts the ophthalmologist who bought the Rolls with a car he wants even more.  When they demo the car for him, "Arnie" is taken before gang leader Otis Fiske makes a deal to supply more cars.  Now if they can only find the chop shop.

Spy-ready fashion accessories

Diana getting an eye exam

The mastermind uncovered

When Bolt meets Diana to pass on his secret film and recordings, he's followed and thrown off the roof by one of Fiske's henchmen forcing Diana to make her whirling transformation in time to save him in the old "doesn't matter how far you fall, if someone catches you at the bottom you're OK" rescue.
 

Bolt meets Diana fresh from the bad guys' car wash.

Bolt could beat up big thugs but couldn't climb back up on the roof

Wonder Woman to the rescue

Questioning a bad guy
with the golden lasso

Diana lets herself get captured to find the chop shop

Bolt goes in pursuit even after he learns his car may be wired with a bomb

Bolt catches the bad guys with a little help

from Wonder Woman The chop shop is found under the car wash, the hood ornament is retrieved and the Prince/ Bolt partnership is declared a success.  As Bolt says, the best team since Mickey and Minnie.

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