Robert Shields and Lorene Yarnell Jansson were a married couple who performed together as a famous mime act. At the time of Wonder Woman they had their own TV show Shields and Yarnell (1977) on CBS.
In the comics Wonder Woman usually battled women with supernatural powers (Circe, Morgan Le Fay, Nubia, Giganta, Artemis, the Silver Swan, Cheetah, etc. ). In the TV show there were no women like this, usually the villains were male. The one notable exception to this was Formicida , a woman who could manipulate the ants and insects to attack and destroy whole buildings, in the "Formicida" episode.
This episode showed no on-air transformations of Diana into Wonder Woman.
Title taken from Formicidae, which is the family that is part of the order Hymenoptera, to which ants, bees and wasps belong, as the villain uses carpenter ants to destroy buildings.
For a brief moment during an outdoor scene at the chemical plant, a vehicle from the neighboring Busch Gardens park Sky Ride was seen on the rail coming from behind a building.