Wonder Woman - Complete Season 1 Reviews

[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.

A trip down memory lane for all 30 somethings!

There is a lot can be talked about here relating to how this tv series was something of a milestone in tv history. One of the first women lead action shows, the first and only Wonder Woman adaptation, the gender juxtaposition of the dominant/submissive roles, the groundbreaking technology used at the time and the obvious campness of the series. All of this is good stuff and is true of the series, but you know non of that seemed to matter to me when I was watching this aged 10. It was simply a belting series that I made sure I did not miss. Lynda Carter was probably my first crush before I knew properly what a crush was. Watch this, take yourself back to your childhood and enjoy. If you have never seen this before you will probably wonder what the hell I am on about!

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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...

[Highly rated reviewer]

Surprisingly Good

I originally wasn't sure at first as it took so long to get into the pilot, but I really enjoyed it. I had never seen it on TV, so I was watching it with fresh/ new eyes.

I find it clever that Wonder Woman/ Diana Price is able to mimic any voice and the villians are well thought out. Steve seems a bit thick at times... but hey this is a female Super Woman who has an invisible plane- surely pilots could see her if we can? But I could be mistaken. Where's the door? How does she get changed back? Maybe these questions will be answered in the next disc.

I am looking forward to watching the rest of Wonder Woman

Miss America rides again

Oh my! This brings back memories of being fifteen and Saturday nights meant an overdose of testerone watching this georgeous amazon doing naughty things with her lassoo. I wonder if it'll look differently now? :-)

Cue the music, cue the twirl and cue Lynda....

The 1970's gave us lots of cult classics like the Bionic Woman and her TV rival was Wonder Woman. Year 1 is based in 1940's World War 2 setting and is seldom screened in the UK. Its passable and reminds you of the Batman 1960's series with its word balloons and captions. Then Years 2 & 3 are set in the 1970's and are more like the Bionic Woman in pace and action. The highlight is Lynda Carter and her ability to deal with all scripts, storylines & situations!! Just watch out for those 70's fashions in the later series!!! A good series for fun, & light hearted superheroics....roll on the big screen adventure from Joss Whedon & the return of Wonder Woman! Cue the catchy/jazzy music...

Hilarious - perhaps even intentionally so

Pretty dated but even so this is fun and funny. First viewing was just to laugh at the hammy acting; second viewing was laughing with. It's pretty subtle but the humour's there. Watch for WW's mum.

Still, can't help wondering what the Major was *for*, and how Steve could be so stupid not to recognise Wonder Woman just because she put glasses on.

Linda Carter is a delight - she's got a lovely smile. The WW costume looks rather tight around the middle, though.

Strange echoes of 9/11, with the threat of an attack on the US homeland.

Retro tastic wonder woman

Great DVD collection of the seventies and early eightes series wonderwoman. Transfer is pretty good and dvd release has been spring cleaned. Few extras but well worth a rental. As my brother would say, pure cheese on toast!

Corny but...

still watchable and strangely compelling in a baywatch type way.

Only wish my wife could get changed that quickly!

Can't believe I didn't remember the cheese

Funny as I never realised how simple this programme was. No major special effects either. It had a nostalig value to it.