Wonder Woman (1975)
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Lyle Waggoner as Steve Trevor
Episodes 60
The first attempt to translate Wonder Woman to the small screen occurred in 1967. The success of the Batman television series led Batman producer William Dozier to commission a pilot script by Stan Hart and Larry Siegel. Batman writer Stanley Ralph Ross was then asked to perform a re-write, after Hart and Siegel's script was deemed unsuitable. A portion of the pilot, under five minutes in length, was filmed under the title Who's Afraid of Diana Prince? The piece starred Ellie Wood Walker (Robert Walker Jr.'s wife) as Diana Prince, Linda Harrison as Diana's "Wonder Woman" alter ego and Maudie Prickett as Diana's mother.
This pilot episode was never broadcast and the project was taken no further. The pilot has been circulated on the Internet and is of interest to Planet of the Apes fans for the early appearance of Linda Harrison, who would later go on to play Nova in the first two films of that series.
Read MoreWonder Woman (1974 TV Movie)
Wonder Woman's first appearance in live-action television was a television movie made in 1974 for ABC. Written by John D. F. Black, the TV movie resembles the Wonder Woman of the "I Ching" period. Wonder Woman (Cathy Lee Crosby) did not wear the comic book costume, demonstrated no superhuman abilities, her "secret identity" of Diana Prince was not all that secret, and she was also depicted as blonde (differing from the image established in the comic books). The film follows Wonder Woman, assistant to government agent Steve Trevor (Kaz Garas) as she pursues a villain named Abner Smith (Ricardo Montalban) who has stolen a set of code books containing classified information about U.S. government field agents.
The pilot aired originally on March 12, 1974 and was repeated on August 21 of that year. Ratings were described as "respectable but not exactly wondrous." ABC did not pick up the pilot, although Crosby would later claim she was offered the series that was eventually given to Lynda Carter. An ABC spokesperson would later acknowledge that the decision to update the character was a mistake and the pilot itself has been labeled one of the "hundred dumbest events in television.
Read MoreThe New Original Wonder Woman
American war hero Steve Trevor is downed over the Bermuda Triangle and lands on "Paradise Island", home of the Amazons. The Amazons hold a contest and choose a champion among them - Wonder Woman - who will return with Steve Trevor to America and remain there to fight the Nazi threat. In the pilot episode, there is a Nazi plan to destroy a new bomb site to ruin America's war effort. The Nazis have a mole in Steve's office who is sabotaging him, and only Wonder Woman can stop this catastrophe.
Read MoreWonder Woman Meets Baroness Von Gunther
Steve Trevor battles for his life and his career when he's accused of espionage and treason in relation to a series of military missions that have gone awry due to acts of sabotage. Investigating the situation and determined to clear the man she loves, Wonder Woman learns that Trevor is being framed by a Nazi spy ring.
Read MoreFausta: The Nazi Wonder Woman
Perhaps the most discussed and favorite episode of WW fans during the show's run, Wonder Woman faces her deadliest test when an evil female Nazi operative comes to America to capture Wonder Woman and learn the secret of her amazing powers, then brainwash her into using her powers to help Hitler's quest during World War 2. Fausta disguises herself as Wonder Woman during a Bond selling rally, and with a little help from her fellow Nazi agents (not to mention a trick stage and a cloth soaked with chloroform), bags her prey and takes the real Wonder Woman to Germany. Can Steve Trevor save the day? Stay tuned!
Read MoreBeauty on Parade
When Wonder Woman's alter-ego, Diana Prince, enters a suspicious beauty contest to uncover the truth behind the sabotage of radar scanning equipment, she and Steve discover that there is something much more insidious underway that threatens the security of the United States.
Read MoreThe Feminum Mystique (1)
An espionage tale involving the Nazis stealing the prototype for America's first jet, the XPJ-1. For Wonder Woman it escalates into something far more horrible when her sister, Drusilla on a mission for Paradise Island's Queen, is kidnapped while in America.
Read MoreThe Feminum Mystique (2)
When a clever spy gets information from Drusilla concerning her homeland, the Nazis launch a full assault on Paradise Island, capturing it and planning to use its secrets to conquer the world. In the end, Wonder Woman and Drusilla must come up with a plan to set everything right.
Read MoreWonder Woman vs. Gargantua!
The Amazon Princess must fight a Nazi gorilla named Gargantua, trained to retrieve a defecting agent, whose knowledge poses a threat to Hitler's agenda.
Read MoreThe Pluto File
Wonder Woman has her hands full when an Irish mercenary named Fallon steals an American-developed device that can control or eliminate earthquakes. To make matters worse, Fallon is also a carrier of the Bubonic Plague and, as such, threatens America on two levels.
Read MoreLast of the $2 Bills
The Nazis place an exact double of a counterfeiting scheme that will result in the collapse of the American economy.
Read MoreJudgment from Outer Space (1)
Wonder Woman joins forces with a friendly alien from outer space to prevent the destruction of the world.
Read MoreJudgment from Outer Space (2)
Wonder Woman realizes that the fate of the world rests on her ability to prove the worth of mankind by saving an alien from outer space.
Read MoreFormula 407
Wonder Woman goes south of the border to recover a top secret formula stolen by the Nazis.
Read MoreThe Bushwhackers
Wonder Woman goes to Texas where she is confronted by a dangerous ring of pistol-packing rustlers.
Read MoreWonder Woman in Hollywood
Wonder Woman arrives in Hollywood and discovers some behind the scenes action that's not in the script.
Read MoreThe Return of Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman convinces her mother, the Queen of the Amazons, that she must once again go into the outside world to help protect the free world from its enemies as well as the secret of Paradise Island and its ancient culture.
Read MoreAnschluss '77
Wonder Woman is called upon to battle a new and more terrifying Nazi menace when she and Steve Trevor are assigned to investigate a reunion of expatriate Nazis on a Small tropical island.
Read MoreThe Man Who Could Move the World
Wonder Woman is pitted against the awesome telekenetic powers of a Japanese man who was interned during World War 2 and has been planning revenge for 35 years.
Read MoreThe Bermuda Triangle Crisis
I.A.D.C's Operation Sea Harvest is being compromised by Ray Manta and his I.C.O.P.E. organization. Diana is especially worried since both parties are operating around the Bermuda Triangle, dangerously close to Paradise Island.
Read MoreThe Pied Piper
Wonder Woman must use all her powers to save Joe Atkinson's daughter from the evils of Super Rock Star.
Read MoreThe Queen and the Thief
Wonder Woman saves a tiny country of Malakan by catching the thief who stole the royal jewels, then returning the jewels to the queen.
Read MoreI Do, I Do
Wonder Woman masquerdes as a new bride honeymooning at a health spa to prevent a group of traitors from obtaining government secrets.
Read MoreThe Man Who Made Volcanoes
Wonder Woman must save the world from destruction through man-made volcanos.
Read MoreMind Stealers from Outer Space (1)
Wonder Woman joins forces with a friendly alien from another planet to prevent the destruction of the world.
Read MoreMind Stealers from Outer Space (2)
If Wonder Woman and Andros don't find a way to defeat the alien Skrill in 48 hours, Earth will be decontaminated by higher forces from outer space who use insanity-inducing procedures to force their targets out of hiding.
Read MoreThe Deadly Toys
It's the Christmas season and Wonder Woman finds out that some toys can be very harmful.
Read MoreLight-Fingered Lady
Wonder Woman goes undercover posing as a bank robber to capture the world's most notorious thief.
Read MoreScreaming Javelin
Wonder Woman thwarts a plot to kidnapping all the top Olympic athletes of the world.
Read MoreDiana's Disappearing Act
Wonder Woman saves the world from an oil crisis when she exposes a magician's method of changing lead into gold.
Read MoreDeath in Disguise
Diana is assigned to protect an industrialist from an assasination attempt.
Read MoreI.R.A.C. Is Missing
Wonder Woman fights digital thieves who are stealing memory banks from the world's largest computers.
Read MoreFlight to Oblivion
Wonder Woman poses as a photographer to protect an Air Force test flight from sabotage.
Read MoreSeance of Terror
The guardians of a young psychic use his abilities to disrupt a peace conference.
Read MoreThe Man Who Wouldn't Tell
When a janitor discovers the key ingredient for an experimental explosives formula he is pursued by those who would use it for evil.
Read MoreThe Girl from Ilandia
A young girl flees her own dimension into ours to escape a man who would force her to misuse her special powers.
Read MoreThe Murderous Missile
Wonder Woman must stop the hi-jacking of an experimental thought-controlled missile, but she is continuously delayed by a small-town sheriff.
Read MoreMy Teenage Idol Is Missing
A singing teenage hearthrob is kidnapped and replaced by a look-alike.
Read MoreHot Wheels
Diana helps find a stolen antique Rolls Royce with top secret microfilm hidden somewhere inside.
Read MoreThe Deadly Sting
When a scientist develops a way to control matter, he uses it to manipulate the outcome of a football game.
Read MoreThe Fine Art of Crime
When valuable artwork in a museum mysteriously begins to vanish, Wonder Woman discovers the museum statues may be more life-like than originally thought.
Read MoreDisco Devil
Wonder Woman must stop a disco that lures government engineers, and then taps their minds, stealing national secrets.
Read MoreSkateboard Wiz
Diana's god-daughter, a teenage skateboard whiz, is used by a mobster for extortion and blackmail purposes.
Read MoreThe Deadly Dolphin
Trained dolphins are being used to put explosives on oil tankers.
Read MoreStolen Faces
Wonder Woman uncovers a plot to steal millions of dollars in jewels from wealthy party-goers by impersonating her and her colleagues.
Read MorePot of Gold
Wonder Woman helps a leprechaun recover his stolen gold.
Read MoreGault's Brain
Billionaire Harlow Gault has found a way to keep his disembodied brain alive and now wants a new body for it.
Read MoreGoing, Going, Gone
Diana goes undercover to crack a ring of criminals who deal in atomic hardware.
Read MoreSpaced Out
Diana must find a stolen laser crystal that has been hidden somewhere at a science-fiction convention, before the bad-guys do.
Read MoreThe Starships Are Coming
A hoax has everyone, including Wonder Woman, believing that Earth is being threatened by hostile aliens.
Read MoreAmazon Hot Wax
Going undercover to stop extortionists in the record industry gives Diana (and Lynda Carter) a chance to show off her vocal abilities.
Read MoreThe Richest Man in the World
Diana must find a reclusive millionaire who is the only one who can help her with a secret device that scrambles missile-guidance systems.
Read MoreA Date with Doomsday
A computer-dating service is the unexpected hiding place for a deadly virus that was stolen from a government laboratory.
Read MoreThe Girl with a Gift for Disaster
A plan to steal priceless historical documents centers around a woman who 'attracts disaster'.
Read MoreThe Boy Who Knew Her Secret (1)
Alien life-forms shaped like small pyramids come to earth and imprison the minds of humans who touch them, taking over a small town. Meanwhile, Diana isn't as careful as she should be.
Read MoreThe Boy Who Knew Her Secret (2)
Humans who have been 'possessed' by the pyramid aliens search for an alien criminal who has the power to shape-shift into anyone, even Wonder Woman.
Read MoreThe Man Who Could Not Die
Wonder Woman goes up against a super-man who is as strong as she is, and a criminal genius who has special powers.
Read MorePhantom of the Roller Coaster (1)
Searching for the leader of a foreign spy ring, Wonder Woman goes to a Washington amusement park where she encounters a disfigured veteran who lives under the roller coaster and 'haunts' the park as its 'phantom'.
Read MorePhantom of the Roller Coaster (2)
Diana is captured on her way to a missile test site and kept captive in a ghost town.
Read MoreBeauty, Brawn and Bulletproof Bracelets
Documentary about the making of "Wonder Woman." Includes interviews with Lynda Carter, Douglas S. Cramer, Alex Ross, and Les Daniels. The interviews with Lynda Carter and Les Daniels were filmed at the DC Comics offices in New York City.
Read MoreFrom Comic Book to Television
A look at the second season of Wonder Woman, when the show moved to CBS and into the 70's.
Read MoreThe Ultimate Feminist Icon
Lynda Carter and four female authors discuss the status of Wonder Woman as a feminist icon.
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