Sid & Marty Krofft‘s Electra Woman and Dyna Girl co-starred Deidre Hall as the titular superheroine, and Judy Strangis was her younger sidekick, a female Boy Wonder, if you will. The show was patterned after the Batman TV series from the late ’60s, and just like that show, it was a whole heck of a lot of fun. By the time this show debuted on Saturday mornings in 1976, Strangis had already been working in the entertainment industry for a very long time.
How far back, one might ask? Well, how about all the way back to Spike Jones? The legendary band leader was actually Strangis’s uncle, and his TV show from the early ’60s allowed his young niece to make a handful of appearances. This wasn’t her first gig, however. She had actually guest-starred in a few other TV shows and even made a movie earlier than that.
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