Product Description

The adventures of the World War II era super heroine Diana, princess of the Amazons, also known as Wonder Woman.
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: NR
Release Date: 29-JUN-2004
Media Type: DVD

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2611 in DVD
• Brand: CARTER,LYNDA
• Released on: 2004-06-29
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Number of discs: 3
• Running time: 725 minutes

Amazon.com
"In your satin tights / Fighting for your rights / And the old Red, White, and Blue!... / Wonder Woman!" Could anyone who grew up in the '70s ever forget that super-catchy theme song? Originally packaged as the female version of the Batman TV show (producer Stanley Ralph Ross penned 32 of the caped crusader's episodes), Wonder Woman ended up redefining the campy, comic book genre. The primetime show immediately became a social and cultural phenomenon, attracting a wide audience that continued to tune in to America's favorite socially progressive superheroine.

Looking back on it now, it is easy to see the attraction of this unique show that oozed '70s culture, but was set in the 1940s. While trying to stop a Nazi plane from reaching the U.S., Major Steve Trevor (Lyle Waggoner) is shot down, landing on mythical Paradise Island. The uncharted island is the hidden home to the lost tribe of eternally young Amazon women. The Amazons take in the Major and nurse him back to health. During his recovery he attracts the sympathy and interest of Princess Diana (Lynda Carter, former Miss USA 1973) who is intrigued by the man from the mainland and his tales of the evil Nazis. She decides she must follow the Major back to the U.S. and join the forces of good against the tyranny of evil. So begins the saga of the beautiful Amazon Wonder Woman, armed with super strength, bulletproof bracelets, and the unbreakable, "truth-telling," golden lasso. What sets season 1 apart from the two subsequent seasons is that the pilot and each of the 13 episodes take place during World War II, corresponding to the original comic stories. In this season we see Wonder Woman battle spies, uncover Fausta the Nazi Wonder Woman, stop thieves trying to steal the secret substance of Amazonian power (Feminum), wrestle a Nazi-trained circus gorilla, and rescue an interplanetary visitor held captive by the Third Reich--all of which are priceless.

Included with the pilot episode is an extremely fun commentary track by Lynda Carter and producer Douglas C. Kramer. Also added on the DVD set is the making-of featurette "Beauty, Brawn and Bulletproof Bracelets." Yes, it is very campy, cheesy, dated, and filled with double entendres and subtle innuendos. But below the surface, there is something special that makes the show timeless and a pleasure to watch. Calling Wonder Woman: The Complete First Season a time capsule would be an understatement. But a time capsule in the most wonderful sense of the phrase. --Rob Bracco

Customer Reviews

Pilot Is A Riot
The pilot is worth the price of the ticket alone. Saw this with some friends who'd actually never seen Wonder Woman before, and to tell the truth, I'd never seen the pilot. Glorious really. Since then I've seen episode 1 and yes it did fall quite a few notches below what we'd seen. Though I never mind seeing Wonder Woman running around in the background whatever else may be happening. I should watch more episodes before reviewing this product I suppose, although after getting this first season for around 13 dollars including shipping, and having as much fun with the pilot as I did, I'd say I got my money's worth already - the rest is bonus, be it good or bad.. and I can also say that although the first episode did fall noticably short of the pilot, it did get better toward the end of the show, and I'll be watching episode 2 tomorrow.

Before Farrah Fawcett and Cheryl Ladd, TV audiences during in the mid-70's had WONDER WOMAN to go gaga over!
Wonder Woman is known in the comics world as one of the big three of DC Comics along with Superman and Batman.

With the current popularity of the Amazon princess in DC Comics as the hero who will cross the line by killing, it's a perfect time for a DVD release of the 70's television series.

Wonder Woman was originated by William Moulton Marston, a lawyer and psychologists whose work was instrumental in the creation of the polygraphi (lie-detector) machine and originally debuting in comic books in 1941.

Where Superman and Batman have gone through many actors, Wonder Woman will be remembered for the woman who played the character which was former Miss USA Lynda Carter.
With the search for the right woman, Lynda Carter was the perfect person for the job. Tall, beautiful, buxumous and literally the girl next door, no matter how campy the storylines were at the time, male audiences loved watching Lynda Carter and female audiences were inspired by the positive, strong female role that Lynda Carter portrayed in the Wonder Woman series

In the first season pilot which aired Nov. 1975 on ABC, the show centered around the WWII era as pilot Steve Trevor (played by Lyle Wagonner) who narrowly escaped death from gun shots from a nazi pilot.

Landing in Paradise Island, inhabited by only women, Diana Prince rescues the pilot, nurses him and is chosen to bring the injured pilot back to the US and later help America defeat the evil nazi regime.

Upon watching the episodes, I was amazed at how campy the series was. From the storyline, fighting sequences to the special effects. It's amazing to see how far special effects on television has evolved in the last 30 years.

The video (4:3), surprisingly for a 70's television show, looks good. Audio is presented in mono.


As for special features, the pilot episode commentary with series executive producer Douglas S. Cramer and Lynda Carter features a lot of behind-the-scenes information on the series.

But what made it much more enjoyable was to listen to the two in awe for not having seen the pilot for nearly 30 years.

Also, very fun to watch was the documentary Beauty, Brawn and Bulletproof Bracelets: A Wonder Woman Retrospective featuring Lynda Carter, Douglas S. Cramer Alex Ross and many more.


You really got to learn how many celebrities wanted to have a guest appearance on the series. How the spinning transformation and the sparking bracelets came about. How Wonder Woman was supported by women and feminists to Debra Winger's role as Wonder Girl. And much more.

Watching Wonder Woman sure has brought a lot of memories and watching it decades later was still fun and enjoyable.

Definitely recommended for fans of the series and fans of Wonder Woman. It's a fun, yet campy series from the 70's, made even more enjoyable on DVD with the commentary and documentary. Check it out!

Great TV series!
I love this TV series, i remember when i was a child! I love it!