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The
Warner Brothers Television series Wonder Woman is based on the DC Comics
Superhero character co-created by Dr.William Moulton Marston and his wife
Elizabeth (Sadie) Holloway-Marston. The Wonder Woman character first appeared
in All Star Comics number 8, in December 1941. The Marston's creation is
a distinctly feminist character and this trait has in the main been adhered to
by other writers subsequently. Wonder Woman was one of the first female
Superheroes, and is based on the Greek mythological character Princes
Diana of the Amazon Warrior Tribe of Scythia. Former
Miss USA Lynda Carter stars as Wonder Woman in the series which
originally aired in the United States from 1976 until 1979. The first season
on ABC Television is set in the World War Two era (1942). For the second and third
seasons broadcast on CBS, Wonder Woman is now a crimefighter in the present day
(1970s). Although not the first television adaptation of the character, Lynda
Carter's portrayal is widely accepted as being the definitive one. Although
the main series ran from 1976 until 1979, the pilot episode for the show was first
broadcast in 1975, under the title of The New Original Wonder Woman. Following
this pilot episode, three further episodes were aired under the same name in 1975
/ 1976. These first four episodes also formed part of the 1976 / 1977 series of
the re-titled Wonder Woman series.
In
the pilot episode of Wonder Woman shown in 1975, an American Army officer,
Steve Trevor (Lyle Waggoner) crash-lands on Paradise Island (somewhere
in the Bermuda Triangle) and is badly injured. Princes Diana (Lynda
Carter) nurses him back to health, but also falls in love with him! With
Steve Trevor now fully recovered, Paradise Island's female
population decide that
he must return to the fight against the Third Reich.
It is decided that one of the women from the island is to go with Trevor
and this is decided by an olympic games-style contest. Princess Diana emerges
as the winner and duly accompanies Steve Trevor back to Washington D.C.
to help with the war effort.
Princess Diana assumes the identity of Diana Prince, Steve Trevor's
secretary. When Diana Prince is confronted by a dangerous situation, she
quickly finds a discreet location and transforms herself, using a pirouette motion
into the fully costumed Wonder Woman, thus enabling her to take advantage
of the special superhuman powers with which she is endowed.
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