Wonder Woman – The Complete First Season
- “With the strength of Hercules, the wisdom of Athena, the speed of Mercury and the beauty of Aphrodite, she’s Wonder Woman.Beautiful Amazon princess Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter) travels to 1940s America disguised as Diana Prince, assistant to handsome but trouble-prone Major Steve Trevor (Lyle Waggoner). Using her golden belt, which imbues her with astonishing strength, her bullet-deflecting bracel
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Meet the United States’ secret and most beautiful weapon in the fight against tyranny: Wonder Woman! Season One of Wonder Woman (the Pilot Movie and 13 regular episodes) retains the World War II era of the super heroine’s early comic book adventures. Also captured is the exuberant tone of a comic book come to screen life as the warrior princess, empowered by her sense of a woman’s worth and by the mysterious substance Feminum that’s found only on her remote native isle, battles a succession of Nazi baddies. Former Miss USA Lynda Carter stars as the heroine who hides her identity behind the oversized glasses of a War Department functionary. But when duty and danger call, she transforms. And the wonders never cease.Amazon.com
“In your satin tights / Fighting for your rights / And the old Red, White, and Blue!… / Wonder Woman!” Could anyone who grew up in the ’70s ever forget that super-catchy theme song? Originally packaged as the female version of the Batman TV show (producer Stanley Ralph Ross penned 32 of the caped crusader’s episodes), Wonder Woman ended up redefining the campy, comic book genre. The primetime show immediately became a social and cultural phenomenon, attracting a wide audience that continued to tune in to America’s favorite socially progressive superheroine.
Looking back on it now, it is easy to see the attraction of this unique show that oozed ’70s culture, but was set in the 1940s. While trying to stop a Nazi plane from reaching the U.S., Major Steve Trevor (Lyle Waggoner) is shot down, landing on mythical Paradise Island. The uncharted island is the hidden home to the lost tribe of eternally young Amazon women. The Amazons take in the Major and nurse him back to health. During his recovery he attracts the sympathy and interest of Princess Diana (Lynda Carter, former Miss USA 1973) who is intrigued by the man from the mainland and his tales of the evil Nazis. She decides she must follow the Major back to the U.S. and join the forces of good against the tyranny of evil. So begins the saga of the beautiful Amazon Wonder Woman, armed with super strength, bulletproof bracelets, and the unbreakable, “truth-telling,” golden lasso. What sets season 1 apart from the two subsequent seasons is that the pilot and each of the 13 episodes take place during World War II, corresponding to the original comic stories. In this season we see Wonder Woman battle spies, uncover Fausta the Nazi Wonder Woman, stop thieves trying to steal the secret substance of Amazonian power (Feminum), wrestle a Nazi-trained circus gorilla, and rescue an interplanetary visitor held captive by the Third Reich–all of which are priceless.
Included with the pilot episode is an extremely fun commentary track by Lynda Carter and producer Douglas C. Kramer. Also added on the DVD set is the making-of featurette “Beauty, Brawn and Bulletproof Bracelets.” Yes, it is very campy, cheesy, dated, and filled with double entendres and subtle innuendos. But below the surface, there is something special that makes the show timeless and a pleasure to watch. Calling Wonder Woman: The Complete First Season a time capsule would be an understatement. But a time capsule in the most wonderful sense of the phrase. –Rob Bracco
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The “First season”?-I do not think so !. The episodes are mixed chronologically from 1975-1977. You can tell anyway from the different hair and/or wigs Wonder woman wore every year. She also seemed to get less chubby and leaner towards the later years. Her costume also changed.
They obviously put it out too quickly due to fan response.
The prints are also put out from medium quality film prints-check out the lines and hairs that appear from time to time.
True Wonder Woman fans will be outraged.
If the the second season is like this , I will not buy it!
Caveat Emptor!!(Buyer Beware)
Rating: 1 / 5
Thank Hera !!!! The gods have finally sent us WONDER WOMAN on dvd. I have been waiting years for this. When I was a young buck the family would go out to dinner but gave it up because Wonder Woman was on Sat night. There were no vcr’s at that point. My very constant concern that any yummy part of the show which might be missed ,would throw me in a big freak out mode. Even at 33 years old it still makes me tingle down to my inner core to see the fireball and new outfit. A must have . In fact get 2 copies in case one gets hurt. Lynda Carter would make a gay guy go straight. Ba DA Bing !!!!
Rating: 1 / 5
The audio and the picture on the DVD are so out of synch that it’s like watching a badly dubbed kung fu movie. Furthermore, the series does not stand up to the test of time. The writers tried to blend camp humor with straight action and ended up doing neither very well. The fact that the network cancelled the series after only one season despite the fact it had the most beautiful woman on televison at the time ought to tell you how bad it was.
Rating: 2 / 5
What happened?!? The cover says that on Disc 1 Side A, we are to have the piolt and 1st episode. When you put the disc in it tells you that these two are on the revserse side. I flip it over since the others have that feature and there’s nothing. I want a refund.
Rating: 2 / 5
Others have more than properly covered the Lynda Carter aspect of the first season of Wonder Woman. So this is more of a shout out – basically a tribute – to the young Debra Winger.
You see, I’d never been a fan of “Debbie Wingtip,” and it also seemed that she died sadly in every movie I saw of her (I bet she was also mad that Barb Hershey got her role in Beaches). I also never thought she was very physically attractive, and that scratchy Susan Saint James/Kim Carnes voice was enough to drive anyone nuts!
Her main films – Urban Cowboy, Terms Of Endearment and Shadowlands – were only bearable because of factors other than her. And that recent awful “Searching For Debra Winger” documentary piece of tripe, wherein as the main subject of the thing as a big recluse, she predictably begs for another job in Hollywood at the tail end of it, is just patheticly B-A-D. So to me, her record had always been perfect -perfectly terrible.
I’d also never seen her on any Wonder Woman reruns, though. However, after finally seeing her in the WW 1st season DVD, I now have to admit that Winger looks – and sounds – very sexy! Gone is that ugly old lady raspy voice, and her body thankfully still has some early baby fat on it. The result is magnificent! She is a true sun-tanned young siren here (1976), a gorgeous goddess worthy of rivaling even the great Lynda Carter herself! In fact, since Winger didn’t become a star until the 1980s, and her bod was so hot a half decade before that, one has to seriously ask why she didn’t just go and make a fortune in porn!
She’s only in three episodes, playing the role of Wondy’s younger sister Wonder Girl – first appearing in parts 1 and 2 of The Feminum Mystique and then Wonder Woman In Hollywood – but her impact is nothing short of incredible. She’s a sexy, shapely vision here, even out of her hip-hugging costume while playing her secret identity as a bouncing bobbysoxer.
So, Ms. Winger – my heartfelt apologies for thumbing my nose at you for all these many years. Although it’s from a “chauvanistic pig” point of view, I am now at least acknowledging that you were, at least ONCE in your career, absolutely BEAUTIFUL!
Rating: 5 / 5