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Seventies Super-Heroine Fun!
By sticking closely to DC Comics' World War II era Wonder Woman concept and casting Lynda Carter (whom the gods made to wear Wonder Woman's costume), ABC created a colorful, campy, fun-filled adventure in 1975. From the patriotic-disco of the theme song, to the comic book style captions that set each scene, the tone of this telefilm is right on target. While the stunts and effects may look underwhelming in 2001, it is of little matter. Carter projects the perfect blend of naievete and optimism. The rest of the cast is equally game and were hardly has-beens in 1975. Waggoner, Leachman, Stevens, etc, were the "name" talent and likely enlisted to draw adult viewers. Certainly no one knew who Lynda Carter was at the time. You're a wonder, "New Original Wonder Woman".

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Inspired casting
Let's face it, one look at Lynda Carter in the Wonder Woman suit is worth at least three stars. Tall, statuesque, and athletic looking --- especially for the 1970's --- putting her in this role was truly inspired casting.

The 1940's portion of the series was markedly better than the "modern" ones, and wears a bit better. Fighting Nazi supervillains was a better use of the character than the standard crime clichés of the later series. The Seventies cars and architecture date the later series more than these.

Except for the business about the belt being her weakness, as opposed to being handcuffed by a man, the TV show was markedly consistent with the comic book series. They didn't do enough with such things as the invisible plane, but it appears in these. They also didn't seem to find that much time onscreen for Wonder Woman as opposed to Diana Prince.

Still, this was probably the best adaptation of one of the classic superheroes, at least until the first -Superman- movie appeared a few years later. It deserves credit for that much.

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WONDER WOMAN ON DVD?
It's really astonishing how an AMERICAN HERO has been ignored by the american movie makers. In England they have already issued Wonder Woman on DVD (I believe 3 episodes, so far).
I wish all of the episodes from the entire series would be available on DVD as soon as possible.
And perhaps a movie would be nice, possibly starring Linda Carter as Wonder Woman (she's still very pretty and young-looking); if not, she could, at least, succeed to her queen-mother's throne in the movie.
WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WONDER WOMAN ON DVD, just like we've had Spider Man, Charlie's Angels, The Hulk come-backs.