SERIES WONDER WOMAN
"The Deadly Sting""The Deadly Sting"

Episode Number: 3, according to third season broadcast order and 1 according to third season production order. Episode number 25 according to “The New Adventures of Wonder Woman” run and 23 according to the series production order.

Production Number: 166831.
Air date: Friday, October 6, 1978.
Writer: Dick Nelson.
Director: Alan Crosland.

Guest Stars: Ron Ely (Bill Michaels) / Scott Marlowe (Angie) / Danny Dayton (Louis The Lithuanian) / Marvin Miller (Beamer). Special Guest Stars: Harvey Jason (Professor Brubaker) Special Appearances by: Roman Gabriel / Deacon Jones / Laurence McClutcheon / Eddie Allen Bell. Co-Starring: Gil Stratton (Broadcaster) / Bob Minor (Nick) / Craig T. Nelson (Sam). Featuring: Frank Downing (Bartender) / Bobbie Bartosh (Gilda) / Luise Heath (Phyllis).

Other Titles: In Spanish: “El Agijón Mortal” ("The Deadly Sting") / In German: "So Macht Man Geld" ("One Makes Money Just Like This") / In Japanese (Romanji): "Tobakusosiki wo 

sasu!" ("Gambling Sting") / In italian: "La Puntura Mortale" ("The Deadly Sting") / In French: "L'Inventeur" ("The Inventor").

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Diana Prince (LYNDA CARTER) receives a phone call from Steve Trevor (LYLE WAGGONER) telling her to turn on television and watch the football game. It seems as though strange things have been happening to the underdog football teams. They have been winning over teams that have been as much as sixteen-point favorites. Steve and his friend Bill Michaels (RON ELY) are at the game for the first-hand observation. The leading pass receiver, "Gluefinger," from the favored team, is kneeling beside his coach getting last minute instructions. While this is going on, a weird little man named Brubaker (HARVEY JASON) is jumping up and down, yelling through a megaphone, for the home team. There is a rear peep-sight on the megaphone and a small mouthpiece protruding out of the larger one on the speaking side of the megaphone. As he brings the megaphone close to his mouth, he closes his mouth around the smaller one, sights and blows something.

     Gluefinger slaps at his neck as though stung by a mosquito. Gluefinger runs out on the field, the play is called and Gluefinger runs to the end zone, standing there alone, waiting for the ball to come to him. He puts his hand a up to catch the ball and it hits him right on the mark -chest high and into his waiting hands -but he bobbles it. He juggles the ball clumsily and lets it squirt out of his hands. He stands staring at the ball. Two plays later the place kicker seems to trip over an invisible obstacle and misses the ball completely. Brubaker is smugly satisfied and Steve and Bill are baffled. Bill later explains to Diana that this hat been going on for five or six weeks -the team what has been most heavily favored to win has been upset because their best athletes fall apart in the clutch. After the game, Brubaker heads for a bar where he placed his bet and picks up $5,000.

     In the meantime, Angie Cappucci (SCOTT MARLOWE) and the entire organization want to find out who is betting such long shots. Through a few contacts, they find out it is Professor Brubaker and decide to pay him a visit. Frightened and in need of money to continue his experiments, Brubaker agrees to demonstrate how he can temporarily control the motor movements of athletes.

     Diana and Bill decide to talk to some of the ballplayers who have been losing the games. They attend an awards dinner where many former top college players are to be the guests.

     While Romain Gabriel (Himself), Eddie Bell (Himself), Deacon Jones (Himself) and Laurence McCutcheon (Himself) are vying for Diana's attention, Angie and Brubaker are in the crawl space above the ceiling drilling a hole. Tubes with fisheye lenses which take in the entire room beneath them are inserted into the peepholes. Through a walkie-talkie, Angie contacts a walter, Sam (CRAIG T. NELS0N), who has a small earphone tucked in his ear and tells him to begin. The waiter takes out a small tube, similar to the little blowgun Brubaker had concealed in his megaphone, and as he passes Gabriel, he puts his hands to his mouth as if stifling a cough, and blows through the tube. Gabriel slaps at his neck as though stung by a mosquito. Sam does the same to Bell, Jones and McCutcheon. Brubaker then tells Angie that within twenty minutes he will be able to control mood changes as well as foul up muscle control. He then signals confusion and a fight follows among all the athletes. Diana slips out of the room, whirls into Wonder Woman, returns facing the likes of McCutcheou and Jones. She vaults over them, yanks all the athletes apart, stops the fight and shoves them all back into their chairs. Whirling back to Diana, she is confused as to what has just taken place and why.

     Angie and Sam realize that because of Bill, Diana is involved. Posing as a delivery man, Sam pays Bill a visit, fakes a cough and blows a dart into his neck. Diana arrives a few minutes later, and during a calm conversation, Bill suddenly turns violent. He lunges out for Diana, but trips and falls, knocking himself cold. In close examination of his neck, Diana plucks a small dart out of Bill's neck with a pair of tweezers. Through the computer back at IADC headquarters, IRAC informs Diana that the man she is looking for is Brubaker.

     Diana pays a visit to his lab, whirls into Wonder Woman and as she crashes through the window knocking iron bars aside, Brubaker makes a run for it. She unleashes her lasso, whirls it, throws it and Brubaker is lassoed. He confesses to Wonder Woman that Angie Cappucci promised him money for his experiments and also that he heard Angie tell someone that if the organization puts up $1 million on the next game, he can guarantee them ten million in return.

     During the game, Diana, Bill and a number of IADC agents are supplied pictures and comb the football stadium looking for Angie.

An hour passes; Angie is not located but the underdog team is getting all the breaks. Diana is convinced Angie is around. She leaves the stadium, walks underground toward the tower and whirls into Wonder Woman. At the entrance to the tower, two heavies try to stop her, but she easily takes care or them. She leaps upwards to the tower parapet and sees Angie punching out combinations on his transmitter, thus telling Brubaker what to do. He sees Wonder Woman, runs toward the inside of the tower and climbs to the top. She leans up after him, scaring him so that he loses his grip and falls. She jumps down and neatly catches him in her arms. Brubaker is set free and Steve and Diana Just know that Angie will be taken care of by the mob.

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