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| Wendy Day | |
| Notability: | Supporting character |
| Occupation: | Scientist |
| Gender: | Female |
| Race: | Human |
| Status: | Alive |
| First: | Captain America (1979) |
| Final: | Captain America II: Death Too Soon (1979) |
| Actor: | Heather Menzies [1] Connie Sellecca [2] |
Wendy Day is a fictional scientist and a supporting character featured in the original 1979 live-action television movie Captain America, where she was played by actress Heather Menzies. The character also appeared in the TV sequel, Captain America II: Death Too Soon, only this time she was played by actress Connie Sellecca.
Biography[]
Doctor Wendy Day was a scientist working with Doctor Simon Mills in the city of Greenwood. They were allies of Captain America, knowing his secret identity as Steven Rogers. [2]
When international terrorist General Miguel kidnapped scientist Professor Ian Ilson, Mills assumed Miguel's involvement and recruited Day and Captain America to find Ilson. Mills knew that Ilson had been researching the effects of age, trying to fight them, and Miguel intended to create a weapon that advanced aging. [2]
When the weapon was first released in Portland, Mills and Day advised Presidential liasion Everett Bliss on the biological effects of the weapon. Bliss took the political decision to not deal with terrorists, because Miguel could be bluffing when he said he had an antidote. Miguel provided a sample of the antidote to convince Bliss, but Mills and Day were unable to replicate the sample. Considering that there was no time to make tests in animals, Day risked her own life going to Portland to test the sample on herself and on living people there (specifically one twin baby, so she could see the difference between one baby and the other). Day proved that the sample was really an antidote. Soon after this, Captain America defeated Miguel and provided enough antidote to cure the people in Portland.[2][3]
Notes & Trivia[]
- The character of Wendy Day was created by directors Rod Holcomb and Ivan Nagy and screenwriters Don Ingalls, Chester Krumholz, Wilton Schiller and Patricia Payne based on concepts originally developed by writer Joe Simon and artist Jack Kirby for Marvel Comics.
- Wendy Day is a character who is unique to the continuity of the 1979 Captain America television movies and does not have a canonical Marvel Comics counterpart.
- Despite being played by two different actresses between the two films, there are also notable physical differences between the Wendy Day that appeared in Captain America and the one that appeared in Captain America II: Death Too Soon. The chief among them being that Heather Menzies is a blonde while Connie Sellecca is a brunette.