SERIES WONDER WOMAN

021 THE GIRL FROM ILANDIA APRIL 7, 1978

"The Girl From Ilandia" - LYNDA CARTER "The Girl From Ilandia" "The Girl From Ilandia" - LYLE WAGGONER

España [Spain]

Español: "La Niña de Ilandia"  ["The Girl From Ilandia"].

Italia [Italy]

Italiano: "La Ragazza Di Ilandia" ["The Girl From Ilandia"].

France [France]

Français: "La Petite Fille D'Ilandia" ["The Little Girl From Ilandia"].

Deustchland [Germany]

Deustch: "Der Kampf um Tina" ["The Fight For Tina"].

Danmark [Denmark]

Danske: "Pigen Fra Ilandia" ["The Girl From Ilandia"].

Brasil [Brazil]

Portuguese: "A Moça de Islândia" ["The Girl From Ilandia"].

Greece

Greek Greek: Japanese ["The Girl From Ilandia"].

Japan

Japanese [Japanese]: Japanese [ Romanji ] "I jigen kara ki ta shoujo" [ "The Girl From A Different Dimension" ].

"The Girl From Ilandia" - HARRY GUARDINO as Simon Penrose.
"The Girl From Ilandia" - JULIE ANN HADDOCK as Tina.
"The Girl From Ilandia" - ALAN ARBUS as Bleaker.

Episode Number: 21, according to broadcast order and 20 according to production order.

Production Number: 166750.

Original Airdate: Friday, April 7, 1978. Second Run: Friday, August 25, 1978.

Writer: Anne Collins.

Director: Dick Moder.
Guest Stars:
Harry Guardino [ Simon Penrose ].
Julie Ann Haddock [ Tina ].
Alan Arbus [ Bleaker ].
Co-Starring:
 Buck Young [ Doctor ].
 Pamela Toll [ Nurse Barbie Brown ].
Featuring:
 Fred Lerner [ Lou Davis ].
Chuck Hicks [ Thompson ].
Mike Kopcha [ First Mate ].
TODD Hoffman [ Bully ].
 

SYNOPSIS

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Simon Penrose [HARRY GUARDINO], a successful, power-ful owner of a newspaper chain, is on the deck of his cruiser when he and his mate notice an object in the water and it appears to be a child, bobbing amid the waves, on several planks of wood. The mate steers the craft toward the child and Penrose dives into the water, grabs the girl and returns to the ship. They immediately head for shore. The one thing outstanding about her outfit is that she is wearing a strange-looking necklace and matching, equally foreign-looking, bracelets on both wrists. In a submarine not far from the cruiser a man, Bleaker [ALAN ARSUS], is observing through a periscope. He realizes that he is the one responsible for kidnapping this little girl from her island and that he and he alone is the only one who can return her.

   The next day, Diana Prince [LYNDA CARTER] receives a call at her office at I.A.D.C. headquarters in Washington from her friend Penrose. He tells her he needs help and asks her to fly to Los Angeles immediately. He explains that he found a little girl in the ocean. She does not match any missing persons report and her fingerprints and footprints have passed through a couple hundred computers without any ruffle. She is in the hospital and is quite ill.

   When Penrose goes to see her in the hospital he is concerned that the little girl hasn't made any improvement and asks the doctor to co-operate when Diana Prince arrives that afternoon. As the doctor leaves two men exit the elevator pushing a laundry cart. While one keeps the nurse on duty busy the other one goes to the girl's room and places her into the laundry cart. They leave with her just as Diana arrives.

   Diana enters her room and finds a dummy in place or the little girl. She remembers seeing two men in the elevator with a cart and she immediately leaves the room and whirls into Wonder Woman. She leaps to the balcony a few stories down and sees two men pushing a gurney ahead of them. She leaps through the air and lands neatly between Davis [FRED LERNER] and Thompson [CHUCK HICKS] and as Davis goes for his gun, Wonder Woman grabs it from him before he can fire. She then grabs Thompson and sends him somersaulting through the air. Thompson and Davis gather themselves together and leave as quickly as possible. Wonder Woman runs to the little girl and stares in disbelief at her bracelets and necklace. Wonder Woman recognizes their significance. She places her hands on the girls forehead and she regains consciousness. Wonder Woman tells her to hurry up and get well as they have a lot to talk about.

   Returning to her hospital room the little girl who has now been named Tina [JULIE ANNE HADDOCK] by Penrose, is with Diana and they are discussing Wonder Woman. Diana tells Tina that Wonder Woman told her about Ilandia and that the jewelry she is wearing makes her different from other boys and girls. The jewelry she has on lets her do things no other boys and girls can do. Diana questions her on who kidnapped her from the island of Ilandia. As Tina describes the man, with his eyes that shine, Diana knows that it is Bleaker and Bleaker's henchmen who tried to take her from the hospital. Tina also knows that Bleaker is the only one who can take her back to her home. Penrose arrives and Diana asks him if she can talk to him outside. Tina overhears them discussing her and how they would like to have her jewelry analyzed and traced. Tina, anxious to return to her home and to avoid the removal of her jewelry, escapes from the hospital. With her special powers, she easily jumps from the hospital window, leaps over a wall and runs to the beach.

   Diana returns to Tina's room and discovers that she's gone. Tina is depressed and stares at the ocean praying that someone will find her and take her back to her land. Suddenly she hears a sound behind her. It is a little lost dog and they immediately become friends. Diana calls Steve Trevor [LYLE WAGGONER] to ask if IRAC has been able to trace Tina's fingerprints, but he has drawn a blank. So Diana asks him to get IRAC to find out all he can about Bleaker.

   Alone, hungry and tired, Tina and the dog walk down an alley behind a restaurant looking for food. A boy appears and grabs for Tina, telling her that he wants her to climb through a window and open the door of a building so he can rob it. She refuses and quickly pushes her sleeves up, revealing the two bracelets. They glow briefly and there is a soft hum. She shoves him, grabs one of his legs and flips him across the alley into a pile of boxes. The police appear and take Tina and the dog into custody. Penrose claims her and takes Tina and the dog to his home. Diana tells Tina that she'll arrange for Wonder Woman to come and see her. She tells Penrose that Steve is working on the case back in Washington. Bleaker's men follow Penrose's car as he drives away.

   Back at the IADC IRAC tells Steve about Bleaker. Steve asks him where Bleaker might be hiding, IRAC tells he that he is rumored to have been responsible for an oil tanker sabotage off the California coast by means of a submarine. This leads Steve to deduce that his hideout must be near the coast and says he'll let Diana know.

   Wonder Woman meets Tina the next day in the Penrose garden. Wonder Woman tells Tina she knows about Ilandia and about Tina and her powers. She promises that she will find the man who kidnapped her and make him take her back.

 Wonder Woman: Now what's your name? Your real name, the one given to you on Ilandia?

Tina: Diana said you knew where I was from.
Wonder Woman: That's right, I do.

Tina: I want to go home. Please, take me home.

Wonder Woman: I can't.

Tina: Yes you can! It's where the sun sets, across the ocean, I know it is.

Wonder Woman: Ilandia is in a world within this world, it's in another dimension. Now there is just one doorway to that world but I don't know where it is.

Tina: I'll never go home?

Wonder Woman: Oh, yes you will. Because I'm going to find the man who kidnapped you and make him take you back. Now as I remember from the books I've read where I come from, only very special young people are given bracelets and a necklace like this right?

Tina: One in every 5000.It's supposed to protect people, like the policemen here. But that man kidnapped me just when I was learning how to use them.

Wonder Woman: Well, how about if we see just how much you have learned okay?

Tina: Okay.

   They then demonstrate their powers to each other with Wonder Woman helping Tina, teaching her how to use her special powers. She tells her how to create a shield around herself that can protect her from anything and Tina suddenly feels that she is indestructible but Wonder Woman warns her that she is not ready to use her powers yet. As Tina leaves to return to the house Wonder Woman calls the dog (Tiger). The dog immediately runs to Wonder Woman and she stares into the dog's face. A silent "conversation" is obviously transpiring, she tells him to take care of Tina and if she is in trouble he must come and find her. Wonder Woman leaves.

   On her way to the house, Tina is kidnapped by Bleaker's two men. They drive to the beach and Davis delivers Tina to Bleaker. In the meantime, Tiger makes his way from Penrose's through the city to Diana's motel. He scratches on the door and Diana knows immediately what happened. She whirls into Wonder Woman and follows Tiger to the hideout.

   Tina tries to get Bleaker to take her home but he won't listen to her, saying that he'll soon get rid of any thoughts she has of going home. Wonder Woman arrives on the coast, hearing the men locked in their stolen van. She releases them and tells them to call the police, to tell them to come as soon as possible. She heads toward the cave. She enters the cave just as Tina is fighting off the two men with Bleaker standing near his control panel. She cuts off the power supply to the device he was about to use on Tina by hitting it with her tiara. She threatens Bleaker to take Tina back to Ilandia but he refuses.

Wonder Woman: Dr Bleaker, I always wondered when I'd have the displeasure of meeting you.

Bleaker: She knows who we are.

Wonder Woman: Oh I've heard of you, but you should've stuck to sabotaging oil tankers. Kidnapping little children isn't good for anyone's image.

Bleaker: She doesn't appreciate that with such a child properly trained we shall be untouchable.

Wonder Woman: However you did find the doorway to her world. Wherever it is you are going to take her back.

Bleaker: She knows of dimension travel. Of course, a mythological creature come true herself she can embrace all possibilities.

Wonder Woman: Now Bleaker! Take her back to Ilandia.
Bleaker: Can it be that we have a worthy advisory?

Wonder Woman: Perhaps you'd like another demonstra-tion of my worthiness Dr Bleaker.

Bleaker: She presents an obstacle that must be destroyed.

   He suddenly flips a switch and an invisible shield surrounds her. With all her strength, she jumps upwards and breaks out of the shield. The two men dive toward her, but Tina grabs one as he tries to get by and she flips him to Wonder Woman, who in turn throws him into his companion and they both are sent sprawling. Bleaker flips another switch and the room begins to fill with vapor. It is poison. They all dash for the exit except Bleaker.

   She is about to re-enter the cave when there is an explosion. She hears the sound of gushing, moving water. Bleaker tricked them all and he is in his small submarine heading out to sea. Tina is devastated. She breaks into sobs with Wonder Woman holding her. Wonder Woman promises her that someday, somehow she will be able to go home.

Tina: He can't leave me here.

Wonder Woman: I can't stop him.

Tina: But I wanna go home, please make him take me home.

Wonder Woman: You'll go home someday, I promise you. But until then you've got to stop being so scared.

Tina: I'm not scared.

Wonder Woman: Yes you are. You're scared that all the things you love and that you miss in Ilandia, your friends, your parents, the people that you love, the people that love you, you're scared that you're going to find all those things right here. You're scared that when someday comes you won't know whether you really want to go back. It might hurt a lot when that day comes. But you have to take the chance and right now you have no choice.

Tina: In Ilandia I had a dolphin, we played tag in the ocean all the time.

Wonder Woman ties Bleaker's men with her golden lasso, making them forget about Tina.

Wonder Woman: Her life is going to be complicated enough without people knowing who she is and where she came from. And so gentlemen your memories are about to become a little faulty.

Tina believes Wonder Woman and happily joins Penrose and Tiger as she starts her new life in this world.

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STATS MEDIA TRIVIA

RUNNING TIME:
48:38 (48 minutes / unedited) / 60 minutes on commercial television.
VHS:
Available on commercial VHS format on a collector's edition series released by Columbia House Video.
DVD:
Available on commercial DVD format in the 4-DVD box-set "WONDER WOMAN: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON".
INFO:
Twenty-first regular episode of "THE NEW ADVENTURES OF WONDER WOMAN".
AUDIO:
"WONDER WOMAN THEME" from the opening credits.
"WONDER WOMAN THEME" from the end credits.
VIDEO:
"THE GIRL FROM ILANDIA".
"WONDER WOMAN AND TINA".
TRIVIA:
Penrose's boat is called the Jolly-O.
Tina is taken to Oceanside Hospital, Long Beach.
Tiger the dog is Tiger in "The Brady Bunch".
Tina's real name is Amadonna.
Tina shares Wonder Woman's sound effects.
SKILLS STATS:
SPINS: 1 times.
LASSO: 1 times.
BRACELETS: 0 times.
JUMPS: 7 times.
THROWN BADDIES: 3 times.
MISCELLANEOUS SKILLS: Brings Tina back to consciousness, bends metal bar, throws tiara, breaks out of glass tube, she can communicate with animals.
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