Remember this the next time you’re folding up those cartons to stick in recycling… is there a chance you might be tossed like a rag doll across your garage? Might wanna hang onto some of those assembled Amazon boxes (pun intended).ġ2. Which is lucky for the villains of the 1940s and the 1970s, who had nice, soft cushioning for those times when Wonder Woman threw them through the air (which was pretty much every episode). In the pre-recycling days, apparently everyone just left dozens of giant, empty cardboard boxes stacked up everywhere. Is the show perfect? Of course not - it was a 1970s TV superhero show! But there are many reasons to watch, some snarky, some not. After just over two months of (mostly) nightly viewings, I finished all 60 episodes (counting the TV movie pilot) and have some notes. ![]() I recently finished a re-watch of the 1975-79 Wonder Woman TV series, which I purchased on DVD in 2004 because that was just what we did back then!īut as with so many of my Blu-rays and DVDs, the three season box sets mostly sat on my shelves gathering dust, until COVID quarantine made all this hard media again seem like a great idea. ![]() (The show later moved to CBS, was updated to the ’70s and renamed again: The New Adventures of Wonder Woman.)Īnyway, given the show’s convoluted history, this day is a good as any to mark its anniversary, so here’s Karl. That version, set during World War II, hit the mark and led to a series, simply called Wonder Woman, which debuted Ap45 years ago. The network passed but the idea didn’t die: Instead, another pilot starring Lynda Carter that was more faithful to the comics ran in November 1975 with the unwieldy name The New Original Wonder Woman. Follow me here: The original Cathy Lee Crosby TV movie aired in 1974 on ABC as a pilot. So why today? Well, it happens to be the show’s unofficial anniversary. just completed a bona fide rewatch, so I’ve enlisted him to give us 13 GREAT REASONS TO WATCH THE 1970s WONDER WOMAN SHOW - RANKED. (We all have our gaps, man.)Īnyway, it turns out that cartoonist and 13th Dimension contributor Karl Heitmueller Jr. Notice I didn’t say “rewatch” because, believe it or not, until recently I never bothered to view more than a handful of episodes here and there. Y’know what I’ve been doing lately? Watching the Lynda Carter Wonder Woman show. UPDATED 7/24/23: Lynda Carter - born Jturns 72! This first ran in April 2021 for the Wonder Woman show’s anniversary but it’s the perfect time to present it again! Dig it. Posted By Dan Greenfield on | 16 comments
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