When I was a child in the 1970's there was a television show that I watched every week... Wonder Woman was that show. I recently taped some episodes off the Sci/Fi channel & showed them to my mother to which she groaned dramatically & said: "Your hero!". I worshiped Wonder Woman as a child, (& they didn't know I was gay?) & I often pretended I was her when I would play with my friends.
Wonder Woman's first 2 seasons (along with the pilot episode) have finally found their way to DVD! Season 3 will arrive on DVD June 7, 2005!!! ;-0)
Wonder Woman's pilot episode ("The New Original Wonder Woman") aired in Noveber of 1975, which puts me at about 1 year old. Then the first season began airing in April of 1976. The first season was set in World War II & featured many characters from the comic books, or so I've read, as I'm not a huge comic book fan. Some fans of the comics look down on the series for messing with the comic book, but as a child I had no knowledge of Wonder Woman's literary origins, or the changes they had made... For instance - on the series, Wonder Woman's sister Drusilla (played by Debra Winger!) became Wonder Girl, which apparently did not happen in the comics - but I LOVED those episodes as a child.
The First Season of Wonder Woman aired on ABC & featured only 14 episodes, including the pilot. The series was bought by CBS for it's 2nd & 3rd Seasons, which brought the storyline into the late 1970's - the present at that time. As a child I have no recollection of the time change - I just thought Wonder Woman was cool & followed wherever she led...
Watching the series now, as an adult, I'm struck by how much the ABC & CBS episodes differ. The ABC episodes featured Wonder Woman as innocent, but there was something about her that shined through as noble & rare... I'm not sure I'm describing it well but it is very much present in my favorite episodes of that year. The CBS years have many more episodes but I like so few of them, now that I'm older & have to deal with plot & such; lol.
Here is an episode list of the Wonder Woman Series, seperated by Season, with all of my favorite episodes underlined:
1st Season (ABC 11/75 - 02/77)
001 The New Original Wonder Woman
002 Wonder Woman Meets The Baroness Paula Von Gunther
003 Fausta, The Nazi Wonder Woman
004 Beauty On Parade
005 The Feminum Mystique, Part I
006 The Feminum Mystique, Part II
007 Wonder Woman Vs. Gargantua
008 The Pluto File
009 The Last Of The $2 Bills
010 Judgment From Outer Space, Part I
011 Judgment From Outer Space, Part II
012 Formula 407
013 The Bushwackers
014 Wonder Woman In Hollywood
2nd Season (CBS 09/77 - 04/78)
015 The Return Of Wonder Woman
016 Anschluss '77
017 The Man Who Could Move The World
018 The Bermuda Triangle Crisis
019 Knockout
020 The Pied Piper
021 The Queen & The Thief
022 I Do, I Do
023 The Man Who Made Volcanoes
024 Mind Stealers From Outer Space, Part I
025 Mind Stealers From Outer Space, Part II
026 The Deadly Toys
027 Light-Fingered Lady
028 Screaming Javelin
029 Diana's Disappearing Act
030 Death In Disguise
031 IRAC Is Missing
032 Flight To Oblivion
033 Seance Of Terror
034 The Man Who Wouldn't Tell
035 The Girl From Ilandia
036 The Murderous Missle
3rd Season (CBS 09/78 - 09/79)
037 One Of Our Teen Idols Is Missing
038 Hot Wheels
039 The Deadly Sting
040 The Fine Art Of Crime
041 Disco Devil
042 Formicida
043 Time Bomb
044 Skateboard Whiz
045 The Deadly Dolphin
046 Stolen Faces
047 Pot O' Gold
048 Gault's Brain
049 Going, Going, Gone
050 Spaced Out
051 The Starships Are Coming
052 Amazons Hot Wax
053 The Richest Man In The World
054 A Date With Doomsday
055 The Girl With A Gift For Disaster
056 The Boy Who Knew Her Secret, Part I
057 The Boy Who Knew Her Secret, Part II
058 The Man Who Could Not Die
059 The Phantom Of The Roller Coaster, Part I
060 The Phantom Of The Roller Coaster, Part II
And that's all she wrote....