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Number of Episodes: 13 episodes.
Broadcast Network: ABC.
Supplier: Warner Bros. Television. Running Time: 60 minutes. First Season Premiere: Wednesday, April 21, 1976. First Season Last Episode: Wednesday, February 16, 1977. Regular Time slot/s: Wednesdays 8:00-9:00 P.M. by the beginning of 1976; Saturdays 8:00-9:00 P.M. from December 1976 to July 1977.
Ranking: Not ranked in the year’s top 20 series.
Awards: None, but the pilot episode was nominated for the Emmy Award for Phil Norman's outstanding achievement in graphic design and titles sequences.
• Lynda Carter [ Diana Prince / Wonder Woman ].
• Lyle Waggoner [ Major Steve Leonard Trevor ].
• RICHARD EASTHAM [ General Phillip Blankenship ].
• BEATRICE COLEN [ Corporal Etta Candy ].
CHECK BELOW for cast credits on each individual episode.
Executive Producer: Douglas S. Cramer.
Producer: Wilford Lloyd Baumes.
Associate Producers: Rod Holcomb / Arnold Turner. Based on characters created by: Charles Moulton. Developed for Television by: Stanley Ralph Ross. Music by: Charles Fox / Artie Kane.
Costumes designed by: Donfeld.
Directors of Photography: Dennis Dalzell [ Episodes 1, 2, 3, 6 ] / Joe Jackman [ Episodes 3, 4, 5 ] / Ted Landon [ Episodes 7, 8, 9,10 ] / Ric Wait [ Episodes 11, 12, 13 ].
Executive Story Consultant: Ray de Camp, Robert Hammer.
Unit Production Managers: Mitch Gamson / Norman Cook. Assistant Directors: Rowe Wallerstein [ Episodes 1, 2, 3 ] / Buck Hall [ Episode 6 ] / C. G. “Rusty” Meek [ Episodes 4, 5, 7, 11, 12 ] / Bud Grace [ Episode 3, 8 ] / Robert Scrivner [ Episodes 9, 10, 13 ].
Stunt Coordinators: Dick Ziker / Paul Baxley. Art Director: Fred Hope.
Set Decorator: Solomon Brewep / William J. MacLaughlin. Film Editors: Carroll Sax / William Neel. Sound: Don Rush / Richard Raguse / Bob Post. Music Editor: Nicholas C. Washington.
Sound Effects: Jack C. May [ Episode 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 ] / W. M. Rivol [ Episode 11 ] / Edward Scheid and Al Cavigga [ Episode 13 ] / John DeLong [ Episode 9 ] / Evelyn Rutledge [ Episode 10 ] / Billie Owens [ Episode 12 ]. No Individual credits for episodes 1 and 2.
Assistant to the Producer: Hudson Hickman. Make-Up: Karl Silvera. Hair Stylist: Shirley Padgett / Cheri Ruff.
Titles and Special Animation: Phil Norman. Song “Wonder Woman”: Music by Charles Fox. Lyrics by Norman Gimbel. Casting: Barbara Miller / Millie Gusse / Mary Goldberg. Copyright © 1976-77 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.
The action is set in the USA during the World War II years. After leaving Paradise Island, the Amazon Princess poses as Yeoman Diana Prince at the War Department. As Major Steve Trevor’s secretary, she's ready to spin into Wonder Woman when danger calls. With her super-strength, her golden lasso, her bullet-deflecting bracelets, she fights the Nazi threat, and enforces law and justice.
After two longform "WONDER WOMAN" pilots for ABC-TV, the web ordered two hour-long episodes for this season - which have come in very handy since Lindsay Wagner's facial injury shut down "The Bionic Woman" production for a number of weeks.
The first episode, "Wonder Woman Meets Baroness Von Gunther", aired Wednesday [21], preempting "The Bionic Woman" and continued the comic-strip style of its predecessors. Star Lynda Carter was pitted against villainess Christine Belford in a hokey script that continued Lyle Waggoner as the sappy Air Force major and foil and Richard Eastham as his (and Carter's) gung-ho boss. Simple-minded storyline also included Bradford Dillman as powerful industrialist and Nazi sympathizer in hokum only the young could endure.
The entire "WONDER WOMAN" project could be easily dismissed as the trivial driven it is if it weren't for the fact that "WONDER WOMAN" has pulled as strong ratings as "The Bionic Woman" whenever it's played - and thus represents an interesting example of what "family hour" restrictions have inadvertently spawned. -Bok.
"Variety" - Television Reviews by Bok- Copyright (c) May 28, 1975 by Variety, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
The episodes are listed according to the original air date order.
CLICK ON EPISODE TITLE for individual credits and details.