Wonder Woman (TV Series) The Girl with a Gift for Disaster (1979) User Reviews

a pretty good episode in this series

[Brucey_D · 6/10 · 3 May 2016]

OK, I admit it; Lynda Carter as 'Wonder Woman' played absolute havoc with my hormone-ridden teenage self. It was meant to be 'family viewing' (on a Saturday evening in the UK IIRC) but I am pretty sure that not all the family watched it for the same reasons. I don't think the 'lasso of truth' would be required to work that one out...

Our heroine gets a clumsy/telekinetic sidekick in this episode, and of course wrongs are righted in the usual way. All pretty much what you might expect really; this was one of the last episodes broadcast and perhaps they knew the show wasn't going to carry on into a fourth series; there is just a hint of them going through the motions in a slightly more than usually knowing fashion. I saw this episode again recently and I might have dozed off halfway through... -which in fairness is more of a reflection of me than the show itself.

Now, I might still have been half asleep, but I thought I saw a very young looking (and uncredited) Kevin Spacey as one of the burglars who are (of course) stymied near the end of the episode. He misses out on having his barrel tweaked by Wonder Woman... can't be lucky all the time, I guess. Then again, maybe it wasn't him... but if it wasn't, it must have been his doppelganger...

Mark? Mark, where are you? Mark?? Mark?? Where are you?

[GroovyDoom · 6/10 · 8 May 2014]

Notes while watching "The Girl With A Gift For Disaster":

Diana and Steve seem to know everybody. Mention any given criminal of note and Diana will say something that suggests she knows their crimes intimately. But the show rarely backs this up and shows us a character more than once!

The 1st Transformation is a HUGE deal on any "Wonder Woman" episode. In this one, it happens suddenly, when we barely even knew Diana was part of the action yet. Weird!

Dick Butkus??! ALRIGHT!

OK this plot involves a girl who's bad luck who is so dumb she's being manipulated by every person she comes into contact with. In one scene, she wanders around stupidly repeating "Mark? Mark? Where are you? Mark?" Did this woman escape an institution? Because it seems she doesn't get out on her own very often.

I love when the characters refer to Wonder Woman in the third person. She's not only a legend, she's a real person to them. Steve says "Wonder Woman must have been joking!" HA!

What kind of coffee does the IADC serve? Because it's a focal point of any of the office scenes.

The "IADC Zoom" is conspicuously subdued in this episode. Booooo.

Ira's voice changes too often. Sometime's it's all super robot distorted, and other times it's just someone reading dialogue and sounding bored. Rover, on the other hand, is so tweaked out I can't understand a damn thing he says. It's in some inhuman register. THAT is the voice that needs to change.

Wait, Steve calls Diana "Di"?? When did that happen?

The conclusion goes for comedy, then leaves Diana alone in the office to give the freeze-frame smile in a short monologue! Interesting twist, writers.

Lynda Carter sure is pretty.

Couldn't they have at least written one shower scene for Dick Butkus? Boooo.

One for the bicentennial

[Joxerlives · 6/10 · 21 February 2012]

The Girl with a Gift for Disaster Exactly where does Bonnies gift for disaster come from? It's never really explained. More espionage and more reclusive art collecting criminals. The ambush of the army truck is pretty lame although it is nice to see gun-toting Steve Trevor actually getting into the action for once rather than being stuck behind his desk. Mass power cuts which occasional back then and the Declaration of Independence which was on everyone's mind with the bi-centennial celebrations. The storyline is somewhat similar to a very bad film staring Richard Burton called 'The Medusa Touch' which also features a person who can create disaster.

6/10