Wonder Woman (in English, Wonder Woman), was an American television series based on the DC Comics superhero, Wonder Woman. Starring American actress and singer Lynda Carter, as Wonder Woman (and her alter-ego Diana Prince) and Lyle Wagoner as Steve Trevor. The television series was originally broadcast between 1975 to 1979, and with a total of 3 seasons.
Background
The popular television series had its origins in a 1974 television movie, which served as one of the pilot episodes, and which would serve as the basis for the series released in 1975. However, a second film was presented for television, this time with Lynda Carter as the lead actress, and which would carry the title of The New, Original Wonder Woman. Previously, the television movie that was released a year earlier, in 1974, was titled Wonder Woman, at the time it starred blonde actress Cathy Lee Crosby, who did not look like the superhero, nor did she have her superpowers (the American screenwriter John DF Black was the one who wrote and produced the movie for television in 1974). The second film, set in World War II and produced by Douglas S. Cramer and Wilford Lloyd "WL" Baumes, was based on a script by Stanley Ralph Ross, with Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman. This definitive version of the character took its origin following fidelity to the comic, in which that origin dates back to the Second World War. Its success immediately prompted the ABC television network to request two more than one hour episodes to air in April 1976. This success prompted ABC to request an additional 11 episodes to air weekly (for the most part) during the first semester between 1976 and 1977, being his first complete season. The episodes aired on Wednesday nights, between October 1976 and February 1977. This definitive version of the character took its origin following fidelity to the comic, in which that origin dates back to the Second World War. Its success immediately prompted the ABC television network to request two more than one hour episodes to air in April 1976. This success prompted ABC to request an additional 11 episodes to air weekly (for the most part) during the first semester between 1976 and 1977, being his first complete season. The episodes aired on Wednesday nights, between October 1976 and February 1977. This definitive version of the character took its origin following fidelity to the comic, in which that origin dates back to the Second World War. Its success immediately prompted the ABC television network to request two more than one hour episodes to air in April 1976. This success prompted ABC to request an additional 11 episodes to air weekly (for the most part) during the first semester between 1976 and 1977, being his first complete season. The episodes aired on Wednesday nights, between October 1976 and February 1977. This success prompted ABC to order an additional 11 episodes to air weekly (for the most part) during the first half between 1976 and 1977, its first full season. The episodes aired on Wednesday nights, between October 1976 and February 1977. This success prompted ABC to order an additional 11 episodes to air weekly (for the most part) during the first half between 1976 and 1977, its first full season. The episodes aired on Wednesday nights, between October 1976 and February 1977.
The Wonder Woman television series achieved solid ratings on ABC during its first season, but the channel was reluctant to renew the series for another season. The Wonder Woman series was an anthological series and with the potential to be a better film at the time, and as such, it was very expensive to produce at the time it was presented, unlike a series set today. In addition, ABC thought that the 1940s would be a better environment to recreate the stories of the character as it is an ideal although limited setting, and of the few and best possible arguments, taking the first adventures of the character, who in this case would fight against villains Nazis, who fought in his first comics; also, Recreating the classic villains of Wonder Woman in exchange for fighting Nazis would be quite expensive for them to appear in the series, so it was evident the need to constantly show these types of characters, as was the case with Baroness Paula Von Gunther, spies and others minor characters. ABC would not renew the series, so Jerry Lieder, then president of Warner Bros. Television, went to CBS with the intention of reformatting the series and recreating it in a more everyday time; for this reason it was decided that the adventures would be transferred to the 70s, which at the time was the contemporary era of the series. With this, it took the opportunity to reduce costs and allow creating more creative new stories. Unlike the production of the 2nd Century Fox Television series, Batman, This series was produced without having a television movie in the middle of its production. Furthermore, none of his villains had recurring appearances. CBS then accepted and continued the series in 1977, and would continue it for another two seasons.
Argument
The television adaptation began with the pilot episode, which describes the origin of the Wonder Woman character as it is related in the comics, taking its origins1 on Paradise Island, which in this case was located in the middle of the Triangle of Bermuda, and that for more than two thousand years did not appear on any map, and that it has been inhabited only by Amazon women, women who fled the machismo of the Ancient World, and who had found in that isolation the secrets of Immortality and Power . Then, in 1942, a badly wounded major Steve Trevor, an American pilot who had just been killed in combat by a Nazi plane, crashed on that same island. Thanks to him, the Amazons learn that the outside world is at war with Nazism, which plans to enslave all of humanity. The Amazon queen Hippolyta decides to send the most powerful warrior to help the Allies defeat the Third Reich, which they interpret as a modern version of the Roman Empire from which her people once fled. The chosen one will turn out to be the beautiful princess Diana, after an impediment made by her own mother, Queen Hyppolita, since she decides to enter the tournament in disguise in which the Amazon warrior who will go to help humanity as the representative of the Amazons and who will be armed with powerful magic gadgets. Using an invisible plane, Diana takes Major Trevor to be healed from her wounds. The chosen one will turn out to be the beautiful princess Diana, after an impediment carried out by her own mother, Queen Hyppolita, since she decides to enter disguised in the tournament in which the Amazon warrior who will go to help humanity as the representative of the Amazons and who will be armed with powerful magic gadgets. Using an invisible plane, Diana takes Major Trevor to be healed from his wounds. The chosen one will turn out to be the beautiful princess Diana, after an impediment carried out by her own mother, Queen Hyppolita, since she decides to enter disguised in the tournament in which the Amazon warrior who will go to help humanity as the representative of the Amazons and who will be armed with powerful magic gadgets. Using an invisible plane, Diana takes Major Trevor to be healed from his wounds.
Upon arrival in Washington the young Amazon is hired by Major Trevor as the assistant general of the Special Defense Agency, pretending to be a wealthy young woman, with an excellent job called Diana Prince, who lives in a brand new attic, drives a Mercedes Benz Sl convertible, always dress in style and use suitcases and briefcases from the famous Louis Vuitton house.
In his other personality, he will use all his skills to defend the American people against his enemies. Once in the United States, he leaves Steve in a hospital and almost immediately begins his fight against these villains, usually German spies and spoilers, who are planning the bombing of Washington. Now, the forces of Tyranny and Terror have a powerful enemy, who fights for Freedom and Democracy: Wonder Woman!
Production development
For this new version, the then unknown Lynda Carter was rightly chosen, and a new script was written, more faithful to the original comic than its disastrous predecessor. Located at the beginning of 1942, in the middle of the Second World War, it shows the Amazon Diana, immortal super-woman of the Paradise Island, sent to America by her mother, Queen Hippolyta played by Carolyn Jones and by Cloris Leachman, to fight the Nazi Germany. Princess Diana wears the typical comic book uniform (even initially she also wears a famous miniskirt that would later be removed to "feel more comfortable"), in addition to her traditional weapons: the power belt, the telepathic tiara, the famous protective armbands of feminum and the magical golden bow. His mysterious "invisible plane" also makes an appearance (mysterious by never clarifying how and where it lands). Among her weakness demonstrated in the first season, is to remove her magic belt and the Nazis to catch her slept with chloroform, ether or gas pumps. Major Steve Trevor (played by actor Lyle Wagoner) was the American pilot rescued by the Amazons.
For her first adventure, Diana (already in Washington) arrests some bank robbers, falls into the hands of the corrupt theater entrepreneur Ashley Norman (Red Buttons), discovers the Nazi double-agent "Marcia" (Stella Stevens) conspiring against the restored Steve and, finally, must face the German colonel Von Blasco (Kenneth Mars), sent to bomb military targets in the capital of the United States. Interestingly, an additional power appears here in Wonder Woman: the ability to imitate voices; and the famous "spinning top" at the time of its "transformations" was considered "too simpleton." Later, in the following installments, her super ventriloquism would disappear, and her "ballet-style tours" will be accompanied by glimpses of glimpses and thunder,.
The success of this pilot led to a regular series later, also starring Lynda Carter and Lyle Wagoner. After the first season, the series changed hands. ABC transferred the rights to CBS, which showed new adventures of Wonder Woman but with a more modern touch and set this time in the America of the 70s
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