Wonder Woman (TV Series) The Man Who Could Not Die (1979) User Reviews

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[pmullan-54285 · 7/10 · 21 June 2016]

"The Man Who Couldn't Die"

So, this is an example of what the 4th Season of Wonder Woman would've been more like, had the show not been allowed to run out of time. Lynda is still on top from and never shows any sign of tiring out in the role. That is what I admire about her in the show, no matter what story she is landed in, she always looks happy and pleasantly ready to tackle it with finesse and earnest. Even here, the whole story involves her having to keep natural when a monkey is running around the episode and she just smiles, keeping a straight face. I would never be able to do that. The rest of the episode is honestly fine. I don't see how this new line up of regular characters couldn't have worked. They're all fine replacements and I'm glad that we don't get smug Steve Trevor smirking the whole time and getting himself locked up or tired up. The idea of an indestructible sidekick is okay, but it feels a little forced. Maybe it was best that he was left as just a side character. Overall, an okay tale of a new Man Of Steel. 7/10

PREPARING A FOURTH SEASON THAT WAS NOT

[asalerno10 · 8/10 · 19 May 2022]

Evidently this episode was the last one to be shot in the third season but incredibly it was broadcast 3 episodes before the end. It is obvious that the production was preparing big changes with a view to a fourth season. The episode begins with Diana moving to her new house in Los Angeles, Steve Trevor's character was going to disappear since he was no longer in the titles, Diana meets her new boss, in 1978 the series Diffrent Strokes had become a success and Wonder Woman was going to have her own Arnold incarnated as James Bond III. But the most powerful change that they planned to present was a male assistant for Wonder Woman who, due to a scientific experiment, had become immortal and did not suffer any type of injury. Something similar to the series The Immortal starring Christopher George, this character would eventually help Wonder Woman in her missions and at the same time both would try to find the scientist who used him as a guinea pig so that he could apply the antidote that would return him to normal. . It would have been interesting to see the development of this new format for the series that ultimately never materialized.

Thank god they didn't go with this

[Joxerlives · 1/10 · 23 February 2012]

The Man who could not Die So bad it's not true. A complete reboot for the series with Steve Trevor obviously being written out and Diana moving to Los Angeles. The idea of the man who couldn't die is stupid although maybe with this formula we could have some more villains who are capable of taking on and possibly even defeating WW. The super-monkey and the annoying hustler kid who just seems to be allowed to walk around the top secret IADC headquarters at will are stupid beyond belief (I remember the actor though, James Bond the Third who would later go on to star in classic kids TV series 'The Red Hand Gang'). Diana only gets involved in the whole scheme at all though the Jessica Fletcher effect, that is the hero/heroine constantly stumbling over clues to dark going-ons without even looking for them. Diana in her fedora hat again which does look good. Reputedly by this stage Lyle Waggoner was pretty fed up with the series, I understand why, he's this classic handsome leading man and yet he's constantly relegated to being nothing more than the damsel in distress, constantly helpless and needing to be rescued. Interesting name for the villain, 'Reichman', very Nazi overtones and he's a true Reanimator style baddie. For once amazingly WW's lasso doesn't work, the serum makes Bryce immune. Interesting how modern technology is beginning to overtake ancient magic.You get the idea that maybe with Bryce they were looking to do a Bionic Woman style spin off in reverse? (reputedly The Girl for Ilandia and Wonder Girl were also attempts at a spin off targeting the youth market). Of course whilst he was making the series Lyle was also the Mayor of a town in Claifornia (as Clint Eastwood/Sonny Bono would also later be) so maybe he just didn't have the time to spend on the set? 1/10

Weak Transitional Semi-Last Episode of the Series

[hypestyle · 4/10 · 1 November 2021]

No Steve Trevor in this Episode. Instead, there is a forgettable, non-attractive, overbearing new boss at the Los Angeles bureau of the Inter-Agency Defense Council.

This apparently was the last episode produced, but it was inserted as the third-to-last episode in the series as aired.

The Bryce character is almost a "wonder man" who is an ex college football player at a Los Angeles area university, who volunteered for a creepy German-sounding scientist's research into anti-aging medicine. Bryce (portrayed by Bob Seagren) becomes invulnerable to damage and his physical strength and endurance is enhanced. (He's also resistant to her magic lasso). Bryce isn't a bad guy. He wants this process to be reversed, but the Reichman scientist wants to create an army of "super men" (that word is not used) to take over the world's governments.

Wonder Woman has to stop all of this of course. By the way, Diana now doesn't even wear her glasses. But she does wear her special cape once.

Future film director James Bond III (the 1988 cult favorite "Def by Temptation") has a supporting role as a middle-school aged kid who somehow has carte blanche to wander around the Los Angeles IADC field office during school hours and sell snacks to personnel. It's super-odd: Like, who are his parents? Are they IADC personnel?

The producers clearly wanted to set up a different status quo for the series leading into a possible fourth season. But the show was canceled by the end of the third season.

Look for a cameo by MGM studios' mascot. No, seriously. Okay, it's just a lion, but anyway.

It is very unfortunate. Wonder Woman deserved another season, but the setup was pretty bad. The plot is quick moving but the Bryce character (Seagren also played "Bob Sorenson", who was a spinoff prospect for an episode of Charlie's Angels) is just okay. I guess he's fine for Hollywood late 70s macho.