Wonder Woman - Complete Season 1 Details

[Highly rated reviewer]

Wonder Woman vs The Nazis

This is the first season of Wonder Woman, with all the action set during WWII. All the usual fun is included; no-one noticing how much Diana resembles Wonder Woman, no-one questioning how Wonder Woman always manages to come to Steve Trevor's rescue and of course, the bullet-repelling bracelets and the lasso of truth. I'd never seen these episodes before, and I think they're probably better overall than the later adventures set in the 70s. And of course, Lynda Carter looks great in that costume.

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[Highly rated reviewer]

Wonder Woman v the Nazis

This was a lot more fun than the Six Million Dollar Man pilot, they seemed to know what they were doing from the off. With one caveat, it was set in World War II! This sounded odd to me, and indeed it starts off with footage of Nazis and tanks, all out of The World at War, with a FDR mimicking voice, saying, 'We will fight them thanks to our dignity, our honesty and...' then it interjects with WONDER WOMAN! titles jumping out of the screen and the famous theme tune! Hmmm.

But this turns out to be the WW2 not of series like Secret Army but more Hogan's Heroes, so WW's turn is not too incongruous. She has a delayed entrance because it starts off with the Nazis planning to bomb a Brooklyn naval yard with a single plane. The US Military Intelligence, seemingly comprising just two blokes in Washington with a blonde secretary in an office, get wind of this and plan to intercept the plane and shoot it down over the Bermuda triangle.

However the two planes collide after a shootout and the US pilot parachutes injured onto Paradise Island, populated entirely by women. Its a sort of Sharangha-La as none of them have aged in thousands of years. The Princess is Lynda Carter - I hope you're taking notes on this – and she takes a fancy to the pilot and tricks her mum the queen into getting to take him back (in her invisible plane, not sure why they'd need that if they never left the island).

Over in Brooklyn there are the usual fish out of water exploits. It's not too clear how much of a superhero WW is. She's not an alien and originally it seems she's just very well trained. But the island seems to lend her mythical properties, retained away from it by wearing her belt and tiarra. It's not clear how her spinning around gets her fancy get-up on, however.

I guess WW's persona was in contrast to the square, ernest demeanor of Adam West's Batman, who was always personally astonished at the Riddler's dastardly plan, whereas WW is more amused at these strange men's antics, like an owner with a micheevious dog after a cookie. It is rather more sexy...