CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR
September 21, 1976
Linda Evans interview
PG: Hello, everyone. Phyllis George again, now joined by Linda Evans, who will be fighting Loni Anderson, only on CBS, tomorrow. Linda, Loni was quite .... nonchalant .... about the presence of two weapons, a pair of 5-foot long leather straps, when you Loni fight tomorrow. I'd like to know, are you similarly blase about it.
LE: Hello, Phyllis. Well, not so much blase .... a rawhide strap can do a helluva lot of damage, after all, in the hands of a trained catfighter .... as, let's say, matter-of-fact about it. Phyllis, I think I'd refer you to Lindsay Wagner's interview, as an example of someone who cut her girlfighting teeth in her twenties, as opposed to during middle school. I'll add myself to that category .... and this is where I think Lynda Carter goes wrong, constantly reliving her school days ..... Phyllis, I was in my early 20s, I had just moved to Hollywood from the San Fernando Valley, and my boyfriend at the time, who was very much in love with, was flirting with our .... his, really .... was flirting with his insurance agent. I caught them from a series of hang up calls, reading phone bills, et cetera. Well, Phyllis, I confronted her after hours at her office one day, and of course we were in each others' hair in a matter of seconds ..... high school catfight tactics for, say, 45 seconds, let's call it ..... she was a very young, fit woman, by the way ..... I could tell right away this was going to be a war .....
PG: Go on, Linda. I never would have guessed! You, in a real office catfight!
LE: ....Oh, he'll, yes, this was real.... well, anyways, we're locked up in a catball on these hard, aluminum desks ... mail sorting tables, really .... and there were these 3-hole punch, metal office equipment pieces, .... I mean, industrial strength ones .... and we started using them right away as weapons .... trying to gash each others' foreheads with them.
PG: And succeeding?
LE: As the fight went on, yes. Both of us had horrible cuts on our faces, our noses, our arms. Bleeding all over the tables. It was just a vicious catfight. Just, total anger .... rage, really, .... from both of us. So, the point is, real weapon fight with the weapons at hand.
PG: So, Linda, you skipped the best part. Who won the fight between you and the insurance agent??
LE: Well, given that no one knew we were even in the office, thank goodness I did. She would have been able to do anything she wanted to me if she had submitted me. Not to get melodramatic, but I might not be here today. It ended their affair, so .... Lynda Carter would call me the alpha between us, cuz I was the one who got to sleep with who I wanted.
PG: That's quite a story. So Loni expressed a .... need, almost ..... to fight you, ever since your McCloud catfight victory over Stephanie Powers. Is the feeling mutual?
LE: Very much so, Phyllis, ever since I saw her catfight on 'Incredible Hulk'. That put she and I on a collision course, and tomorrow will be the culmination of that.
PG: Any predictions?
LE: Well, let's ask the insurance agent.
PG: Touche.
