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If the real world were filled with crime-fighters like Wonder Woman evil
probably wouldn't exist. On television, the immortal Amazon Princess of
Paradise Island is manifested by the 5'8'' beauty queen Lynda Carter.
Having garnered her experience from touring with a pop music group,
winning the 1973 Miss U.S.A. title, and appearing in the movie Bobbi Jo
and the Outlaw, Ms. Carter ably stops cars with her super-strength,
deflects bullets with her golden bracelets, beans fiends with her
boomerang-tiara, and zaps from country to country in her invisible
plane-all while sporting the neatest star-spangled bathing suit ever
seen.
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Wonder Woman's television legacy began in 1975 with an anemic update of
Charles Moulton's 1941 creation which justifiably, failed to light
viewers' fires. This Tuesday Movie of the Week starred Cathy Lee Crosby
as a high fashion predessesor to The Bionic Woman. The ratings and
critical reaction were poor, so Douglas S. Cramer, Charles B.
Fitzsimons, and Stanley Ralph Ross mounted a new work called The
New, Original Wonder Woman. |
| Whether taken as a nostalgic World War 11
thriller, a feminist adventure, or just good clean fun, the second
incarnation was a winner and Lynda Carter began her reign as the
strongest heroine on TV.
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The series was initially on ABC, but when the network refused to give
the revival a clear cut time slot, Warner Brothers (Wonder Woman's home
studio) sold the package to CBS which placed it in their Friday night
line-up, just before The Incredible Hulk. Strangely enough, that switch
brought on another concept change. Nowadays audiences can watch the
super-powered female strutting her stuff in the seventies' as The New
Adventures of Wonder Woman continues through 1979. |
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