Wonder Woman Now the world is ready for... the Wonder Woman TV series thread

[Mel O'Drama]

I thought it was always going to be WW on screen and advertised as TNOWW.

That's quite possible. Certainly, this is the only combination I've seen whenever TNOWW was shown on TV here.

Whatever the case, there are certainly some curious inconsistencies around the series' marketing.

The Seventies-set episodes had the opposite issue, where the onscreen title was The New Adventures Of Wonder Woman, but seems to have been promoted as just Wonder Woman in TV listings and home media packaging (with the occasional exception such as a couple of British DVDs of the early Noughties).

The bit of animation that got censored was probably before it ever aired, because the Family Hour was instituted in the fall of 1975, and there was to be no guns or violence in that hour.

This is a sound deduction but, at a time when this was a standalone film, it seems a lot of trouble and expense when the body of the film still featured live-action sequences of guns (including machine guns) being fired, which I'd have thought might be more concerning to the FCC.

 

[moviebuff75]

I think back then they were harsher on animated violence. They also took out the explosion and replaced it with exploding stars.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

I think back then they were harsher on animated violence.

This would tie in with the "won't somebody think for the children" mentality. It is strange, though, since cartoon violence is far less imitable than that in live-action.

They also took out the explosion and replaced it with exploding stars.

The original explosion was real footage. I always thought it was in bad taste - or very unfortunate editing - that the way it was cut looked as though we were watching someone (was it Roosevelt or Truman?) exploding.

 

[moviebuff75]

You are right. It does look like President Roosevelt exploding. That's why I think none of this made it to air. They did TNOWW title version for syndication so that people wouldn't mix it up with the Cathy Crosby version, especially when it came to residuals and such.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

They did TNOWW title version for syndication so that people wouldn't mix it up with the Cathy Crosby version, especially when it came to residuals and such.

Yes, this was the reason for the film being given that title in the first place.

It's strange the change to the opening credits would be done later with the intent of preventing confusion, not only because the rest of the first season still bore the simple Wonder Woman title (as did the entire series, informally), but also because the Cathy Lee Crosby version was forgotten pretty quickly once the Lynda Carter series became so definitive. If anything, I'd have thought it needed the on-screen title for clarity for its original airing when the "Blonder" Woman film was still fresh in everyone's minds.

 

[rayray]

I remember the TV movie being advertised in newspaper and TV Guide ads as "The New, Original Wonder Woman." I assume that was for the first run, because I certainly saw it then.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

I remember the TV movie being advertised in newspaper and TV Guide ads as "The New, Original Wonder Woman." I assume that was for the first run, because I certainly saw it then.

Yes, it seems it's always been called The New, Original Wonder Woman in listings. The contention is about the full title being shown on-screen, and whether or not that's how it originally aired. Mostly it's just the plain Wonder Woman title that appeared (the same as the rest of Season One), but the full title has been shown in certain places (as in the video in post #98).

 

[Sarah Danner]

The WWII episodes were miles better than the contemporary ones.

 

[ClassyCo]

We don't have a WONDER WOMAN thread going? I could've sworn we had one floating around here, and I called myself looking for it, but I didn't find anything.

I'm talking specifically about the TV series starring Lynda Carter that aired from 1975 to 1979. It had a few pilots and specials, and ultimately produced three television seasons and 59 episodes for ABC and later CBS.

Are there any fans of this show?

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

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[ClassyCo]

Wonder Woman - Now the world is ready for... the Wonder Woman TV series thread | Forums for television shows past and present

See, I knew there was one out there, but I wasn't patient enough to find it evidently.

 

[KayLloyd]

We don't have a WONDER WOMAN thread going? I could've sworn we had one floating around here, and I called myself looking for it, but I didn't find anything.

I'm talking specifically about the TV series starring Lynda Carter that aired from 1975 to 1979. It had a few pilots and specials, and ultimately produced three television seasons and 59 episodes for ABC and later CBS.

Are there any fans of this show?

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LC was perfect for the role and the show was fun. I named my hamster Wonder Woman .

 

[ClassyCo]

I've probably said this before elsewhere, but my Momma's dad, my "Papa", thought Lynda Carter was beautiful. Moreso than Farrah, the other Angels, Catherine Bach, Loni Anderson, or any of the other TV "it girls" of the era, my Papa fawned over Lynda Carter.

And as a random side note, Carter shows up in the 2005 big-screen adaptation of DUKES OF HAZZARD as Pauline.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

I've probably said this before elsewhere, but my Momma's dad, my "Papa", thought Lynda Carter was beautiful. Moreso than Farrah, the other Angels, Catherine Bach, Loni Anderson, or any of the other TV "it girls" of the era, my Papa fawned over Lynda Carter.

It was a couple of pages back :

My grandfather was a big fan of Lynda Carter back in the 1970s. To him, she was better looking than Farrah Fawcett, Catherine Bach, Bo Derek, you name it.

It was Lynda's beauty that put her on the map, really, having won Miss World USA in 1972 (she came fifteenth in Miss World that year). That doesn't always translate to charisma or screen presence, of course, but she proved to have both. I assume she worked hard at things as well. She seemed to relax into the role and become more natural, particularly once the series time jumped to the Seventies. It was her naturalism in the role that sold the entire series (and I'm sure it helped that she was already quite used to walking round in a bathing costume). If she hadn't been so very right, it wouldn't have been the success it was.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

It was Lynda's beauty that put her on the map, really, having won Miss World USA in 1972 (she came fifteenth in Miss World that year). That doesn't always translate to charisma or screen presence, of course, but she proved to have both.

Yes, Carter had both. She was exemplary casting -- no one could ever come closer.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

Catherine O'Hara plays Lynda Karter [sic]:

 

[bmasters9]

Even Rogers' discomfort with WW wearing her skimpy outfit to hang out with a single man and a group of kids gave us a modest little twist on her outfit, predating some of her daytime wear in the George Perez stint on her comic by a decade.

And at least Rogers' character (J.P. Hadley) was kind to Diana/WW about that situation-- I wouldn't have enjoyed that episode if the main character had made more of a stink about the issue; this is one major reason why that "Bushwhackers" one is, IMO, the best of all the first-season WWII outings.