SERIES WONDER WOMAN
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Episode Number: 2, according to third season broadcast order and 4 according to third season production order. Episode number 24 according to “The New Adventures of Wonder Woman” run and 26 according to the series production order.

Production Number: 166834.
Air date: Friday, September 29, 1978.
Writer: Dennis Landa.
Director: Dick Moder.

Guest Stars: Peter Brown (Tim Bolt) / Lance LeGault (Otis Fiskle) / John Durren (Alfie) / Don Mitchell (Dr. Samson). Co-Starring: Fuddle Bagley (Shadow) / Marc Ross (Slim) / John Lawrence (Foreman) / Frank Doubleday (Van Driver).

Other Titles: In Spanish: “Autos Robados” ("Stolen Cars") / In German: "Oldtimer" / In Japanese (Romanji): "Kurasikku ca daisettoudan" ("Classic Car Huge Success") / In Italian: "Ruote Calde" ("Hot Wheels") / In French: "A Bout Du Tunnel" ("At The End Of The Tunnel").

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Diana Prince (LYNDA CARTER), on assignment from the IADC, is waiting at the docks for a custom 1932 Rolls Royce Lanundalet, with a platinum hood ornament, to be unloaded from the hold of a cargo vessel. As she watches a giant suspicious looking man in the distance. Suddenly, the container seal breaks and the end lid falls open striking the dock with a sound like a shot. She eagerly looks into the container and there sits a mechanical toy car, a Rolls Royce replica. Diana is astonished and as she tries to gain her composure, she hears the sound of a real engine revving and roaring and out of another container, the 1932 Rolls Royce with the winged nymph adorning the hood, surges out of its container and speeds away. She sees the suspicious looking man hop into his car and take after the Rolls. Diana ducks behind a shed and spins into Wonder Woman, shifts into high gear and takes off herself. She spots the Rolls rolling up the ramp into a commercial van, turns her head to see the suspicious looking man's car heading for the van also. She asks the crane operator for a lift and swinging like Tarzan, she flies through the sky, landing directly in front of the van. But, alas, there were two identical vans and she chose the wrong one. There is no Rolls Royce in the van. At that moment, the suspicious man drives up to the van and he and Wonder Woman meet.

     Seated in Steve Trevor's (LYLE WAGGONER) office is the suspicious man and Diana Prince. The man is Inspector Tim Bolt (PETER BROWN) who received a tip about the Rolls Royce and he was at the dock hoping to break up a car theft ring. Steve explains to Bolt that Diana was at the dock to get the hood ornament which contained secret missile plans and tells Steve and Diana that he knows the buyer of the Rolls and he also knows that the buyer would prefer a Dusenberg.

     Through contacts, Diana and Bolt obtain a Dusenberg, show it to the Rolls Royce buyer, Dr. Samson (DON MITCHELL) and agree there will be a trade as soon as he gets the Rolls. As Diana and Bolt are congratulating each other with "the look that we pulled it off," a noise is heard and they turn around and see two heavies walking toward them with guns. They are representing the boss of the car theft ring. Diana jumps into the Dusenberg and takes off. No one can catch her and Bolt is left to be taken prisoner, just as he had planned. Now perhaps he can meet the leader.

     Bolt, blindfolded, is driven to a farmhouse. Once inside, his phoney credentials are checked and pass inspection. He meets the leader of the car theft ring, Otis Fiskle (LANCE LeGUALT) and they reach an agreement. If Fiskle lets Bolt go free, he can guarantee him a 1929 Mercedes Benz Phaeton. During the conversation Bolt places his hands on his belt, pushes in the belt buckle and a hidden camera takes pictures. He also accidentally drops something which Fiskle picks up and hands back to him. Bolt accepts it very carefully. Bolt and Fiskle reach an agreement on the car and Bolt, blindfolded again, is led from the hideout.

     In the IRAC room, the computer has analyzed the fingerprints taken from the object Bolt gave them. However, IRAC can not tell Steve where to locate Fiskle. Diana is disappointed but has the news that she has located a 1929 Mercedes and is on her way to the garage. Instead of finding Bolt with the car, she is surprised by Alfie (JOHN DURREN) Fiskle's henchman. She nervously touches a brooch pinned to her dress, and a faint blip is heard in Steve's office. Steve flips a switch and he can hear Diana's conversation with Alfie. Diana's hands are tied, she is tossed into the back seat of the Mercedes.

     Steve notifies Bolt that Diana has been taken and she in the Mercedes. Bolt, immediately remembers the heavies walking about a garage, jumps into his Porche and skimming around corners, accelerating up straightaways, he reaches the garage just as the Mercedes pulls away. A wild car chase follows and Diana is driven to the farmhouse. Just as Fiskle is ready to push her down an abandoned well, a pickup truck comes roaring over the hillside to the group. Fiskle and his men scatter and Diana runs behind the barn and whirls into Wonder Woman.

Bolt steps out of the truck and captures Fiskle. Wonder Woman runs in the direction of Alfie and Slim (MARC ROSS). She picks up an old wooden double yoke, twirls the double yoke overhead and hurls it out through the air. The yoke drops on them and collars them like a team of oxen. As Steve drives up in his car, Wonder Woman returns to the barn and whirls back into Diana. He is relieved to see her alive.

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