Wonder Woman- The Deadly Toys

One of my favorite episodes from the Lynda Cater Wonder Woman shows is The Deadly Toys.

Not only does it feature Frank Gorshin, the actor who played the Riddler on the Batman show (also produced by Douglas Cramer, FYI), but it is also a "peril" episode, something that became quite the rarity as the show went on.

In this episode, Wonder Woman confront a robotic version of herself. A (brief) fight ensues, the two Wonder Women tangle and at some point one loses track of who is who.

No one gains a clear advantage, and a coincidental mishap ends the tussle. Wonder Woman is tossed into a pile of boxes. Unbeknownst to her, she triggers the mechanism of a boxing glove toy. I would imagine it was some kind of "pop goes the weasel" kind of thing. In any case, Wonder Woman has her back to the box. Suddenly, a boxing glove shoots out and NAILS her on the back of the head knocking her silly. From that point, she is out of the game and is eventually defeated. But who was defeated? Was it the real Wonder Woman or the android?

The show gave us to understand that it was indeed the real Wonder Woman who was defeated, but this was really a sneaky trick. Wonder Woman eventually stops impersonating the android, yada yada yada and it was over.



So it was really nothing to write home about, but it still contained a couple of memorable scenes that did wonders to stir the imagination back in those days. Still, it really joins a medium sized list of episodes or movie where I said "Damn! If they would only let ME direct this!"


While writing this I just realized that I have yet to see a re-creation of this scene in a Wonder Woman fetish type video. I've seen some variations on Fausta, but not this.
Maybe someday soon, huh?