SuperHeroBooks - Wonder Woman - The Complete First Season
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Lynda Carter, Lyle Waggoner
Directed By: Dick Moder, Stuart Margolin, Jack Arnold, Herb Wallerstein, Ivan Dixon
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790791296
Format: Box set
ISBN: 0790791293
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2004-06-29
Running Time: 725
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1976-03-31
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Summary: Pilot Is A Riot
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Before Farrah Fawcett and Cheryl Ladd, TV audiences during in the mid-70's had WONDER WOMAN to go gaga over!
Comment: 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!
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Summary: Great TV series!
Comment: I love this TV series, i remember when i was a child! I love it!
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Summary: pure genius
Comment: Having just watched the season one pilot for the first time in years, I've come to a much better understanding of many things. Firstly, Lynda Carter's is a genius performance, and I do NOT use the word lightly. Secondly, the film-makers achieved a camp masterpiece. Camp must be carefully distinguished from kitsch. Camp is NOT the enjoyment of badness. Camp is, like the Roxy Music aesthetic, a realm of true art which exists always on the razor's edge between humor and seriousness. Camp is neither truly humorous nor truly serious: it is something other, something more. Somehow, when last I watched this episode a few years ago, I was unable to understand its true intent. That is, I had not yet fully assimilated the camp aesthetic, even though I've unwittingly grooved to that aesthetic in Roxy Music for decades. Yes, decades. Tonight has been a revelation. The Wonder Woman camp aesthetic is dizzyingly high. This film is equal in artistic value to the best films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. And that is saying an awful lot. It also doesn't hurt that Lynda Carter, like Marilyn Monroe, is incapable of not being fetching on film. It is impossible to find a single un-comely frame. Lynda Carter, wherever you are, thank you. Thank you. Your performance will resound through the eons.
By the way, I believe Lynda Carter's interpretation of Wonder Woman as a child-woman is so pitch-perfect that no improvement is possible. Looking at stills of Lynda Carter's Wonder Woman, with her living-doll face and wide child eyes, one hears delicate and inevitable music playing inside of her, as though her sensitive and yet slightly adrift mind could be expressed by a Mozart piano sonata.
Therefore, in any upcoming movie version, Lynda Carter should play Wonder Woman. Also, as a further aside, it is quite interesting to watch Lynda Carter's performance as Diana Prince. If one examines the matter closely, as I have, it becomes clear that Diana Prince is a fictional character that Wonder Woman has created as her disguise. That is, Diana Prince's personality is NOT AT ALL the same as Wonder Woman's personality. Diana Prince's personality is Wonder Woman's approximation of a normal American female. This personality is somewhat shallow, though well-intentioned, and quite subservient to men: Steve Trevor is Diana Prince's boss, though the relationship between Steve Trevor and Wonder Woman usually involves Wonder Woman carrying a limp and unconscious Steve Trevor in her arms. This may seem an obvious point, but it bears repeating, especially as it bears on Lynda Carter's performance: Diana Prince is Wonder Woman in character - pretending to be someone entirely different.
Update, 4.8.08... just having watched the episode Fausta, the Nazi Wonder Woman I can definitively report that after the pilot, the show's writing and acting - with the exception of Lynda Carter, went straight into the toilet and there seemed to remain. The shift in quality was so extreme, so abrupt that it was almost as if some guy in a blue-gray jumpsuit with orange, conical flashlights was GUIDING the writing and acting into the toilet. One can but empathize with Lynda Carter, who tried so valiantly to carry the show on her comely back. HER performance - given the ludicrous writing she had to work with - was continuously very good. Alas, but to little avail, as, after the pilot, the show's writing went from being a camp masterpiece to being geared for five-year-olds. Seemingly some boys in the front office got their hooks into things. One can almost hear them now, gesturing as the writing is lowered on the end of a cable, "Lower!.... Lower!" And then the reply, "Lowering!" How could they do it?! How could they do such a thing to Lynda Carter?! It's ungentlemanly to abuse a woman in this way. Oh and by the way, speaking of abuse, if you can stand to watch the scene of Wonder Woman being chloroformed and then dragged limply away you're made of sterner stuff than me. Can I get a witness?
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Summary: It's Hilarious!
Comment: Way better than some other female-based fantasy , e.g., the Charmed series. This one is more realistic than charmed, because its roles and relationships tend to reflect reality in a meaningful way. Plus, it has great production values, a good script, and a smart--ss theme song.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Meet the United States' secret and most beautiful weapon in the fight against tyranny: Wonder Woman! Season One of Wonder Woman (the Pilot Movie and 13 regular episodes) retains the World War II era of the super heroine's early comic book adventures. Also captured is the exuberant tone of a comic book come to screen life as the warrior princess, empowered by her sense of a woman's worth and by the mysterious substance Feminum that's found only on her remote native isle, battles a succession of Nazi baddies. Former Miss USA Lynda Carter stars as the heroine who hides her identity behind the oversized glasses of a War Department functionary. But when duty and danger call, she transforms. And the wonders never cease.
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