MAGS AND BOOKS
Serial and Year: ISBN 0-498-01961-6 / 1977.
Pages: 2 pages.
Pictures: 3 b&w pictures.
Article: A brief mention about the first "Wonder Woman" series whithin one of the chapters of the book.
Author: Jeff Rovin.
Publisher: A.S. Barnes and Company.
Country: USA.
GREAT TELEVISION SERIES "I'm playing Wonder Woman as someone who is sensitive, has feelings, and cares about people." Cathy Lee Crosby, star of the first unsold "Wonder Woman" pilot.
     ...Everyone else this season was a hard-working, well-disciplined, and generally virtuous hero of the old school. ACtually, hero and heroine is a more appropiate designation, since there were seven ladies featured in the 1974 ranks. This, of course, was a radical departure from the male domination of previous years and must be attributed to the growing influence of the various women's movements. Besides a "Wonder Woman" pilot, with its abyssmal update of the classic comic-book heroine, there was a Chied of Detectives Amy Prentiss (Jessica Walter), a new member of the "NBC Sunday Mystery Movie" family... 
     ...However, 1975 was not all roses for the ladies. The six-million-dollar woman struck ratings gold, as did the four-episode "Wonder Woman" effort, starring Lynda Carter as the original Wonder Woman, complete with a colorful costume, Amazonian heritage, and Lyle Waggoner as love interest Col. Steve Trevor...
NOTE: These are only the excerpts of the chapter 8 called "Into the Eighties" which mentions Wonder Woman but covers all series from the mid-seventies thru the eighties.
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