Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Wonder Woman Wednesday: It's the 43rd Anniversary of the Wonder Woman TV Series Pilot

I can't think of a better way to launch my Wonder Woman Wednesday column than on the 43rd anniversary of the pilot episode of the Wonder Woman TV series which premiered November 7, 1975 on the ABC network.

The pilot which starred Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman/Diana Prince was an origin story that followed as Diana won the Amazonian challenge to take an injured Steve Trevor back to America after his plane crashed near Themyscira (or Paradise Island as it was called in this series). Once she arrived in America, it didn't take her long before she joined the fight to stop the Nazis which included stopping Trevor's secretary Marcia who was an undercover Nazi spy. At the end of the pilot, Diana took on the alter ego Diana Prince and got a job in the military as a way to find out more information about the ongoing fight.

The Wonder Woman TV series is iconic and should be celebrated for the ground breaking series that it was. So, Happy Anniversary, Wonder Woman! You're an inspiration and as the theme song goes "You're a Wonder, Wonder Woman".

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