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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 388405" data-attributes="member: 23">Interesting. Out of interest, where are you sourcing the figures? I love stuff like ratings, but find it difficult to find any for this series.Wikipedia says that WW's ratings were:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Season One - #45</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Season Two - #66</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Season Three - #59</li> </ul>That's the only one I've been able to find, but I know it's not always reliable.Yes, that's been a complete surprise to me.Although they're different in tone, I find WW comparable in many ways to The Bionic Woman: both were solo female sci-fi/fantasy shows which ran about the same length of time and which ended up on different networks after ABC dropped them despite their popularity. Even though, objectively, I feel The Bionic Woman is generally a much better-written series which holds up much better all these years later- I always think of Wonder Woman as the more popular choice of the two. Looks like I was wrong about that, too.BW apparently did really much better in viewing figures and finished #1 for the week at times in both the US and the UK. I wonder what slot BW had for its original American transmissions.I still can't get over how late it was shown in its home country. If it ran until 9 or 9:30pm then I'd have thought it would miss out on a huge section of the younger demographic who would enjoy it.Being shown in an early evening weekend slot here in the UK opened up the options a little, I'd have thought. Although not prime-time, it was at a time when the whole family can watch and enjoy.  Out of interest, I just had a look at a site which shows all the BBC's listings from their official TV magazine of the era, the Radio Times. I'd been convinced WW was shown at around 5:05 or 5:15pm. In actual fact episodes I remember watching as a child (Season Three episodes which first aired here in 1980) were generally transmitted at 5:45 or 5:50pm on a Saturday evening.Sadly, so far at least, I can find no information about the series' ratings in the UK. Along the way, though, I have confirmed that the first season wasn't shown here as part of the original transmission. Britain got its first look at Lynda Carter's Wonder Woman in 1978 when, on <a href="https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/service_bbc_one_london/1978-07-01" target="_blank">Saturday 1st July at 6pm</a>, the debut episode was Season Two's The Man Who Could Move The World.</blockquote>

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