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Executive producers: Douglas S. Cramer; Wilfred Lloyd Baumes Producers: Charles B. Fitzsimons; Mark Rodgers; Bruce Lansbury; John Gaynor; Arnold Turner; Rod Holcomb Principal cast: Lynda Carter; Lyle Waggoner

Air dates

First aired: November 7th, 1975 Last aired: September 11th, 1979

Wonder Woman is an American television series based on the DC Comics comic book character Wonder Woman by William Moulton Marston (Marston's wife, Elizabeth Holloway Marston was also involved in her creation). It starred Lynda Carter as Princess Diana/Diana Prince. Wonder Woman aired on two American networks between 1975 and 1979. During its original run the series was extremely popular. It is also the title of a TV movie starring Cathy Lee Crosby, loosely based upon the character, that aired in 1974.

Contents[show] Production history Edit

Though not successful at the first attempt, ABC still felt a Wonder Woman series had potential, and within a year another pilot was in production. Keen to make a distinction from the last pilot, the pilot was given the rather paradoxical title The New Original Wonder Woman. This pilot is available in its original length on the first season DVD, instead of the re-edited version of it which runs 60 minutes and was featured as the pilot when the series debuted a year later. This version is also the one shown on reruns. On the DVD version, however, the 1975 pilot movie title is changed to simply 'Wonder Woman', and the bullet-deflecting animated sequence is replaced by the lasso toss in the animated introduction and the rest of the television series.

Scripting duties were given to Stanley Ralph Ross, who had worked on Greenway's unbroadcast Wonder Woman pilot reel, but this time he was instructed to be more faithful to the comic book and to create a subtle "high comedy". Ross set the pilot in World War II, the era in which the original comic book began. Thanks to a generous budget and more relaxed shooting schedule, the feature length pilot was able to attain a level of polish and special effects beyond that of regular episodic television at the time. Live-action programs

Action/Adventure

Superhero fantasy

Unrated

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Programs

1970s/Programs

1975/Premieres

1979/Cancellations

ABC

CBS

Warner Bros. Television

Lynda Carter

Lyle Waggoner

Beatrice Colen

Carolyn Jones

Cloris Leachman

Stanley Ralph Ross

Ron Friedman

Roddy McDowall

Kenneth Mars

Rene Auberjonois

Wonder Woman

William Moulton Marston

Elizabeth Holloway Marston

Cathy Lee Crosby

John Randolph

Richard Eastham

Jennifer Hale Wonder Woman Theme

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