Español: “El Retorno de la Mujer Maravilla” [ "The Return of Wonder Woman" ]. Italiano: "Wonder Woman - Morte Per Gli Agenti Speciali" ["Wonder Woman - Death For The Special Agent"]. Français: "Wonder Woman" ["Wonder Woman"]. Deustch: "Wonder Woman - Eine Amazone räumt auf" ["Wonder Woman - An Amazon Clears Up"]. Danske: "Den Nye Originale Wonder Woman" ["The New Original Wonder Woman"]. Portuguese: "Mulher Maravilha" ["Wonder Woman"].
Regardless of Cathy Lee Crosby's teleflick results, Warner Bros. TV and ABC-TV decided to try on a new project which reached the screens only 15 months later. They teamed up with The Douglas Cramer Company, responsible for such hits as The Love Boat or Vega$. This time Cramer and co-producer Wilfred Baumes devised the character truer to the comics.    The key question was to find the right actress to fill up Wonder Woman's boots and make everyone forget about any unfortunate past experience. They thought of well-known actresses, including Joanna Cassidy, but finally decided to come up with a newcomer. In spite of being dark-haired, Lyle Waggoner was cast as Steve Trevor. Cramer thought he would play the part perfectly considering his prior experience as a comedian on The Carol Burnett Show. It was then that Alan Shane, head of casting for Warner Bros., insisted to make a screen test with a young unknown actress who had previously auditioned for the Cathy Lee Crosby pilot. Her name: Lynda Carter.    When Cramer saw Carter on Wonder Woman's outfit he thought she was the perfect one. Her beauty and statuesque body fitted the part perfectly and easily surpassed the other 2,000 auditioners.    Nevertheless the ABC-TV network questioned her inexperience and wasn't sure to give her the lead in a weekly series. But Cramer insisted on casting Carter and even threatened ABC to leave the project. They finally agreed and Wonder Woman entered television's history as an unforgettable entry.
Genre: Fantasy / Adventure. Broadcast Network: ABC. Supplier: Warner Bros. Television. Episode Number: #0, pilot telefilm. Running Time: 90 minutes. Original Airdate: Friday, November 7, 1975. Time slot: 8:00 PM in ABC’s Friday Night Movie. Movie Ratings: Average according to Leonard Malting’s The Movie & Video Guide”. According to David Hoftede’s “Hollywood And The Comics”: 3 stars out of a 4-star rate for which 4 is excellent, 3 enjoyable, 2 worth a look, 1 bomb, and 0 worthless. Availability: Available on VHS through a collector's edition series released by Columbia House Video and on DVD on Warner Home Video's 3-disc box-set "Wonder Woman: The Complete First Season". [ Check out the VIDEO RELEASES section for further details ].
Director: Leonard Horn. Writer: Stanley Ralph Ross. Developed for television by: Stanley Ralph Ross. Based on characters created by: Charles Moulton. Director of Photography: Dennis Dalzell. Producer: Douglas S. Cramer. Associate to the Producer: Wilford Lloyd Baumes. Music by: Charles Fox. Costumes designed by: Donfeld. Associate Producer: Peter J. Ellington. Stunt Coordinator: Bill Catching. Art Director: James G. Hulsey. Film Editor: Carroll Sax. Set Decorator: Bill McLaughlin. Executive Producer Manager: Halw Polaire. Assistant Director: Ray de Camp. Sound: Al Overton, Sr. Make-Up: Karl Silvera. Hair Stylist: Pat Miller. Titles and Special Animation: Phil Norman. Song “Wonder Woman”: Music by Charles Fox. Lyrics by Norman Gimbel. Casting: Alan Shayne. Copyright © 1975 by National Periodical Publications Inc - Warner Bros. Television. All Rights Reserved. Filmed at the Burbank Studios, Burbank, California. Produced by Douglas S. Cramer Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.
	• Lynda Carter [ Diana Prince / Wonder Woman ]. • Lyle Waggoner [ Major Steve Leonard Trevor ]. • John Randolph [ General Phillip Blankenship ]. Starring: • RED BUTTONS [ Ashley Norman / Karl ]. Special Appearance: • STELLA STEVENS [ Marcia ]. Guest Stars: • Eric Braeden [ Kaptain Drangel ]. • Severn Darden [ Thug ]. • Fannie Flagg [ Amazon Dr. ]. • Henry Gibson [ Nicholas ]. • Kenneth Mars [ Colonel Von Blasko ]. Special Guest Star: •  Cloris Leachman [ Queen Hippolyte ]. Co-Starring: •  Helen Verbit [ Nurse ]. •  Tom Rosqui [ Cop No. 2 ]. Featuring: •  Fritzi Burr [ Saleslady ]. •  Ian Wolfe [ Bank Manager ]. •  Inga Neilson [ Rena ]. •  Maida Severn [ Teutonic Woman ]. •  Jean Karlson [ 2nd. Amazon ]. •  Anne Ramsey [ Taxi Cab Driver ].

	"In this dark Summer of 1942, the onslaught of the Third Reich continues under the leadership of this indecent and corrupt man [Hitler]. His over-trained and blindly obedient army continues to ravish what is left of free Europe. While Il Duce grasps for his place as this wicked Axis tries to dominate the world, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill gather the Allies in defense of the free world, the third Axis power plunders across the Pacific. Mankind is being threatened by these despicable villains. The only hope for freedom and democracy is... Wonder Woman." In a top-secret Nazi base near Berlin (Germany), Kaptain Drangel [ERIC BRAEDEN] is instructed to bomb a building in the Brooklyn Navy Yard where an electronic eye is being manufactured. At the same time another man will be stealing the plans for the project in Washington.    Meanwhile in Washington, D.C., Major Steve Trevor [LYLE WAGGONER] learns from General Blankenship [JOHN RANDOLPH] that Kaptain Drangel left Germany on the XB-12 bomber on his way to Argentina. After passing over the Bermudas he will be bombing the Navy Yard. Steve’s Secretary Marcia [STELLA STEVENS] suggests that it must be intercepted, and Steve volunteers for the mission. Shortly thereafter, across town, Marcia makes contact with Berlin to inform about Steve’s mission. She’s a double agent!

Across the Atlantic Von Blasko wonders who could be the Nazi informer that is delivering information to the Americans, as his assistant Nicholas [HENRY GIBSON]  gets nervous.    In a top secret air base outside Washington, D.C., Steve prepares for his mission. Over the Bermudas Triangle both pilots fiercely fight against each other being forced to parachute when their planes collide. As they’re falling down, Drangel shoots Steve on his shoulder and, while he falls into waters infected with sharks, Steve safely lands in the shores of an uncharted island within the Devil’s Triangle.    Princess Diana and Rena [INGA NEILSON] find the parachute and the unconscious Steve. Though amazed by the presence of a man in their island, Diana promptly takes Major Trevor to the hospital. The Amazon Doctor [FANNIE FLAGG] tells Queen Hippolyte that the island’s secret is safe since Steve is unconscious and he really doesn’t know where he is. The Queen tells her naïve daughter Diana about the danger that a man could mean in Paradise Island, as she worries about Steve and asks her mother for permission to nurse him, but only as “a scientific study.”    While in Washington everybody’s thinking that Steve is dead, he is being questioned by the Amazons under the influence of a special serum. This way, the Amazon get to know about the Nazis’ plans to rule the world. As suspicions about a double agent continues in Berlin, in Paradise Island Queen Hippolyte forbids Diana to take care of Major Trevor as she decides he must return to his own country for the safe of the island.     The Queen announces that a tournament will be celebrated to determine who will be the Amazon that will take Major Trevor back to the States. Diana shows interest to participate, but once again the Queen frustrates her wishes and forbids her to participate.    The tournament begins and two Amazons easily show to be the leading ones. After several skills, the “Bullets and Bracelets” game will determine who is the best one of them. In the game, one of them emerges victorious as the other one gets hurt. The Queen gives her the golden belt -symbol of the Amazon’s supremacy- and tells her that it will preserve her strength while away from Paradise Island. Then she gives her the golden lasso -made of an indestructible material-, which has the power to compel people to tell the truth. To the Queen’s surprise the Amazon takes her wig and mask off revealing herself as Princess Diana.    Before leaving to the States the Queen gives her daughter a uniform  of her own design made out of an indestructible material. It resembles the U.S. flag which will show her sympathy  for “freedom and democracy.” Before leaving, the Queen tells Diana that in the world of ordinary people she will be truly a “Wonder Woman.”    Hours later the invisible plane flies over Washington, D.C., and soon to everybody’s surprise she appears running and carrying over Steve Trevor into the military hospital. General Blankenship tells the news to Marcia who promptly asks for help to one of her co-conspirator.

	Later a naïve Wonder Woman walks in wonder around the city and enters a store where the saleslady offers her a dress. She takes it, thanks the lady and leaves, but when she’s leaving the saleslady prompts her to pay for it. The first thing that the Amazon Princess learns in America is that she needs money to survive in there.    After foiling a bank’s robbery to the amazement of all the people, theatrical agent Ashley Norman [RED BUTTOMS] offers her to become a star on stage with her “bullets and bracelets” skill.    Back in Berlin Von Blasko prepares for a second attack while in Washington Diana appears disguised as a nurse to take care of Steve.    That same night Wonder Woman is presented in the theatre and Mr. Norman invites anyone from the audience to shoot her. Marcia is in the audience and tells her companion to shoot her with a machine gun, but Wonder Woman emerges triumphant anyway.    Ashley Norman is glad with the response of the public but Wonder Woman is decided to leave show business. He’s also a Nazi spy and tries to fool her, unable to do so, he calls Marcia to inform her.    As Steve recovers in the hospital he’s informed by General Blankenship that Von Blasko is on his way to attack the Navy base. The XB-13 bomber left Argentina an hour ago, and Steve decides that he must intercept it once again in spite of General Blankenship who doesn’t agree.    On his way to the air base Steve is intercepted and captured by Ashley Norman and the other Nazis. He's taken to Marcia’s apartment where under the influence of the truth serum he confesses the combination of the safe where the plans of the Norden bomb are kept.    In the War Department building, Marcia is opening the safe but Wonder Woman intercepts her. She fiercely resist her but Wonder Woman emerges victorious once again and compels her to tell the truth under the golden lasso’s influence. Over the phone Wonder Woman pretends to be Marcia and orders to delay the plans for an hour.    Wonder Woman intercepts the XB-13 with her invisible plane and delivers the plane to crash against the submarine that would take the Nazis back to Germany. Wonder Woman delivers Von Blasko to the police and goes back to Marcia’s apartment to free Steve. Wonder Woman tells him that she frustrated the Nazis’ plans and that the Norden bomb plans and the Navy Base are perfectly safe.    Later at the War Department Steve Trevor is introduced to his new secretary: Diana Prince. - Steve: "You know, we're going to get along just fine." - Diana replies: "I'm sure we will."

	David Hoftede in “Hollywood And The Comics”:    The “New, Original” part of the title was an obvious attempt to distance this version of Wonder Woman in every way possible from the Cathy Lee Crosby version of a year earlier, as if the point needed any clarification. Once the unbelievably dumb theme song is over (“In your satin tights—fighting for your rights”) this pilot for the successful television series outclasses the Crosby vehicle hands down.    One look at Lynda Carter in costume is worth two stars alone; when she emerges from a comic book panel in the opening credits, the effect is seamless. Praise for Carter’s stunning appearance and devastating smile is deserved and well-documented, but her actual performance has never been given enough credit. The wide-eyed innocence she conveys during Wonder Woman’s first day in America is a good example. Carter is successful in communicating the Pollyanna-like superheroine’s unfamiliarity in a strange but fascinating new land. Considering the character’s origins in antiquity, however, some sort of accent might have been appropriate.    Diana Prince isn’t around long in the pilot, but she is not missed. The bespectacled Prince, a female Clark Kent if there ever was one, was never much of a presence in the comics, either. This realization has since been recognized by the D.C. people, as evidenced by her elimination from the new “Wonder Woman” book.    But if Carter alone earns two stars of the film’s three star rating, that does not say much for other aspects of the production. Writer Stanley Ralph Ross, who was responsible for many of the better episodes of the “Batman” TV series, has penned an origin story that is faithful but bland. He wisely kept the camp elements to a minimum though Red Buttons and Stella Stevens (who was so memorable in the 1959 filming of “L’il Abner”) are the silliest spies since Boris and Natasha, and the Nazis are no more threatening than the ones on “Hogan’s Heroes.”    There is a cheapness that pervades the entire production, that director Leonard Horn does a poor job concea-ling. Paradise Island in particular is a disappointment; in the establishing shot the Amazon city looks like a warehouse district, without a trace of Greek or Roman influence. Cloris Leachman is fine as Hippolyte, but trying to play royalty in a throne-room that resembles the lobby of a Holiday Inn is an uphill fight. Other sets and costumes are substandard, and the special effects are unconvincing and kept to a minimum.    The ensuing TV series corrected many of these problems, after settling into a familiar but entertaining formula. Lyle Waggoner, who starts off rather stiff in the pilot, became far more likable as the series progressed, though he never did dye his hair blond. The show remains memorable for Carter’s spins and the occasional odd or interesting guest star, such as when Debra Winger appeared as “Wonder Girl,” a role that one would assume is no longer listed on her resume’.    It is probably inevitable that Wonder Woman will eventually receive the Superman/Batman treatment in a big budget Hollywood production, but imperfect as it is this one will do until that something better comes along. And when it does, even if Julia Roberts is signed for the title role, she will find it next to impossible to supplant the memory of Lynda Carter, whose resemblance to the Amazon Princess is flawless enough to fool the guards at the gates of Olympus. “Hollywood And The Comics” Published by Zanne-3. Copyright © 1991 by David Hoftede. All rights reserved. ISBN: 0-9629176-4-8.

Leonard Maltin Review in “Movie And Video Guide”:    The 1940s comic book heroine performs proverbial incredible exploits anew. Later a TV series. Silly but tolerable. “Movie And Video Guide” Copyright © 1995 Leonard Maltin. Copyright © Jessie Films Ltd. Published by Dutton Signet, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc. Steven H. Scheuer in “Movies on TV and Videocassette”:    Crosby doesn’t make a convincing Amazonian superhero, her stars-and-stripes frock doesn’t compare to the original, and the villain she’d faced