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Stanley Ralph Ross, responsible for the TV adaptation of the comic, and for the story of the Lynda Carter pilot, was formerly convoked during the 60s by executive producer William Dozier to re-write a script that was penned by Stan Hart and Larry Siegel for a pilot that never materialized except for a four-minute screen-test. |
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Alan Crosland was the director with more episodes under his command totalizing 16 episodes; he was followed up by Richard Moder and Leslie H. Martinson with six and five episodes each respectively. |
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Anne Collins was the one who penned more episodes in the series with a total of 14, some of which were written by herself and some other co-written. She is followed by Stephen Kandel with 5 episodes and Brian McKay and Bruce Shelby with 4 episodes each. |
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Kaz Garaz who played Steve Trevor in the Cathy Lee Crosby pilot, guest-starred in an episode of “The New Adventures of Wonder Woman”. It was “Going, Going, Gone” during the third season of the series, orthe second CBS season. |
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Lynda Carter was chosen out of a casting of 2,000 aspirants for the series’ leading role. |
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During the first series Lynda Carter herself used to make her own stunts. After the series moved to CBS, her stunts were oftenly made by sisters Jeannie and Stephanie Epper, Kiffy O’Neal and Debbie Evans. |
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During the series first season and when the action was set in the forties, Wonder Woman had the ability to impost her voice and imitate someone else’s voice no matter if male or female, but it seems she lost that ability when she moved to CBS. |
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After the series moved to CBS, Wonder Woman’s invisible plane was no further seen, nor she traveled back to Paradise Island. Instead it seems she had the ability to communicate with her mother rubbing the ruby star in her tiara and using an ancient Greek mirror. But this was only seen in one episode and there was no further mention to it. |
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There was no flash of light in the
original pilot nor in the following two specials when Diana whirled into Wonder Woman. Instead images of Diana and Wonder Woman where superposed and Wonder Woman appeared with her Diana Prince suit in her hands. |
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During season one, Wonder Woman had an alternate “De-Luxe” costume which consisted of a mini skirt and a cape; the skirt was no longer seen during her CBS years. The other costume’s change during the first season was that one she wore in the “The Bushwackers” episode which was some kind of horse-riding pants and a red blouse. The truth was that Roy Rogers put as a condition to appear as a guest star on that episode that Lynda Carter should use some more clothes
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During her CBS years Wonder Woman had the ability to whirl into different costumes according to her needs. So we found her with an diving costume, and a motor-rider costume or a skate-board rider costume, which where the same diving costume adding a helmet
according to the circumstances. |
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During the first season, to submit Wonder Woman it was necessary to take off her golden belt leaving her powerless. This was obviated during the CBS years, or at least no one took off her golden belt. |
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During the “Mind Stealers From Outer Space” episodes we learnt that Wonder Woman could travel through space transporting herself mentally and leaving her physical body. |
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According to the “Anschluss ‘77” episode Wonder Woman was 2227 years old. |
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Though everybody knows that Hyppolite is the name of the Amazon’s Queen Mother, it was never mentioned in the series, and everybody refers to her as "Queen" or simply "Mother" in case of Diana. |
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In the “Amazon Hot Wax” episodes Lynda appears posing like a singer. The two songs she performs during the episode are “Want To Get Beside You” and “Toto (Don’t It Feel Like Paradise)”, both released on her 1978 Epic album “Portrait”. |
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Debra Winger who made an impressive career in Holywood, made her debut in the series, but she never mentions it in her resumé. |
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Three different actresses incarnated the Queen Mother of the Amazons. The first one was Cloris Leachman who only appeared in the pilot movie, then she was replaced by lovely Carolyn Jones (ex-Morticia Addams from “The Addams Family”) and then later by Beatrice Straight during “The New Adventures of Wonder Woman”. |
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During the "The New Adventures Of Wonder Woman" stock footage of several movies was used to "enhance" the series. In the beginning of "Mindstealers from Outer Space", the footage is from "This Island Earth." The footage of the submarine used in "The Bermuda Triangle Crisis", as well, as on "Going, Going, Gone" and "The Girl From Islandia" is in fact from the Seaview of "Voyage From The Bottom Of The Sea." Footage of Moonbase Alpha from "Space:1999" was used in the beginning of "Time Bomb." The film footage of the US Navy destroyer escort and it's deck scenes, (and the German U-boat,) which was often used in the WWII episodes of WW, as well as on "The Bermuda Triangle Crisis," is from the film "The Enemy Below." The U-boat was only used in the first season of WW. |
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Christa Helm, the actress who played Rita in the "Beauty On Parade" episode, was found murdered in a party in July 1977. |
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The "Wonder Woman" series is referenced in several movies and TV shows: "Three on a Date" (1978); "George and Mildred" (1980); "Purojukut A-ko" (1986); "Tales of the City" (1993); "To Wong Foo, Thanks For everything, Julie Newmar" (1995); "Desperately Seeking Helen" (1999) and in "The Story of Us," in one of the scenes, it can clearly be seen a huge Wonder Woman poster as portrayed by Lynda Carter. |
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The "Wonder Woman" series is spoofed in a couple of movies: "They Call Me Bruce?" (1982); "Spice World" (1997). |
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