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Summary: Best Season Of Them All
Comment: This 1978-79 Season of Wonder Woman is my favorite season throughout it's whole 3-year run along with the fact that Wonder Woman's 3rd Season was more upgraded and more sophisticated than the first 2 seasons as well with a lot more action and Wonder Woman was a very popular TV show back in the late 1970's too, so I don't see how or why the ratings on this show were so low that CBS ended up having to cancel Wonder Woman after it's 1978-79 Season.
Another thing that baffles me about this season is why CBS decided to bring WONDER WOMAN back for 2 more episodes in August and September of 1979 as if WONDER WOMAN was going for a 4th Season and then cancelled all of the sudden in mid September of 1979 after "The Phantom Of The Rollercoaster" episode, which was a tad similar to when CBS cancelled THE INCREDIBLE HULK all of the sudden 2 years later in November of 1981 while the Hulk was in the middle of it's Fifth Season and cancelled after only 5 episodes during it's 1981-82 Season on CBS, because when CBS showed "The Man Who Could Not Die" episode of WONDER WOMAN on it's original air date for the first time, I was under the impression that WONDER WOMAN was going for a Fourth Season and that "The Man Who Could Not Die" was the Season Premiere to WONDER WOMAN'S 4th Season, but it turned out that it wasn't.
Something else about Wonder Woman's Third Season that baffles me is Wonder Woman explains to Skip(Clark Brandon) in "The Boy Who Knew Her Secret" episode that Diana's next assignment is L.A. where Diane Prince ends up moving to in the following episode "The Man Who Could Not Die" along with the fact that Steve Trevor was cut out of the cast and crew, but then Steve returns in the following episode "The Phantom Of The Rollercoaster" and Diana and her agency are so-called back in Washington, D.C. as if she never relocated to Los Angeles and as if Steve Trevor never even departed from the show either, which was quite strange.
Overall; this season also takes me back to memory lane when WONDER WOMAN used to be followed by THE INCREDIBLE HULK when they were both part of CBS's Friday night line-up, starting with WONDER WOMAN at 8PM; THE INCREDIBLE HULK at 9PM; and then DALLAS at 10PM to top that off, which gave me 2 more things to look forward to every Friday as well.
I also remember when Wonder Woman was on Saturdays at one time during it's 1978-79 Season and then was eventually moved to Wednesdays and then eventually moved to Tuesdays after that.
Therefore, Wonder Woman was moved to a different night by CBS at least twice that season.
In addition to what made Wonder Woman's Third Season intriguing; I liked seeing interesting guest stars such as famous veteran actor(Roddy McDowell) in the "Fine Art Of Crime" episode
-Singer Leif Garrett in the "My Teen Idol Is Missing" episode during Leif Garrett's sex symbol days
-Famous DJ celebrity(Wolfman Jack) in the "Disco Devil" episode
-Football celebrity(Dick Butkus) in the "Deadly Sting" episode
-Singer Rick Springfield in the "Amazon Hot Wax" episodebefore his teen idol days
-Eric Braeden in the "Skate Board Whiz" episode before his Victor Newman days on THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS
-Tim O'Connor in "The Starships Are Coming" episode before his Dr. Huer days on BUCK ROGERS
-Ted Schackelford and Joan Van-Ark in the "Time Bomb" episode before their KNOTTS LANDING days
-Jared Martin in the "Phantom Of The Rollercoaster" episode before his DALLAS days
-Charles Haid in "The Girl For The Gift For Disaster" episode before his HILL STREET BLUES days
-Del Monroe in "The Richest Man In The World" episode after his VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA days
-Charlie Brill in the "Going, Going, Gone" episode before his SILK STALKING days
-Craig Nelson in the "Deadly Sting" episode before his COACH days; etc.
Therefore, Wonder Woman's 1978-79 Season had the best guest stars throughout it's 3-year run as well among other things.
As a matter of fact, something else I've noticed about Wonder Woman, especially in it's 3rd Season was a lot of guest stars who've been on WONDER WOMAN had also been on THE INCREDIBLE HULK too.
For instance Jared Martin, John Reilly, Rick Springfield, Del Monroe, Albert Popwell, Jennifer Darling, Peter-Mark Richman, Paul Tuerpe, Charlie Brill, Henry Darrow, Dick O'Neill, Denny Miller, Christine Belford, Frank Doubleday, Taffee O'Connell, John O'Connell, Michael Baseleon, Nicholas Coster, Bradford Dillman, David White, Frank Marth, Brenda Benet, Art Metrano, George Caldwell, etc. all guest starred on THE INCREDIBLE HULK after having a guest starring role on WONDER WOMAN, which was quite interesting, despite the fact that THE INCREDIBLE HULK lasted longer than WONDER WOMAN did, due to the fact that THE INCREDIBLE HULK had better ratings.
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Summary: Perfect
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Summary: Power of the Female
Comment: By the third season I was a little over it really. It wasn't quite as entertaining as the first two. But it held its ground. The show really came out before i was born and grew up watching the re-runs. It was nice female super hero that handled her business like she did without the always annoying egotisic mentality that often comes along. However I found her to still be a little stiff with her jumps althought very acurate but add a couple flips at least or at least fake it somewhat and throw in some punches at least. All the shoving got boring. A lot of the cut and paste jobs were to obvious for me (like in Knight Rider 80s))
But hey, it was the 70's the creators had their way and still getting the point across. Those rediculous glasses oh come on after she takes them off and take her down you have to be a complete idiot to not know who she really was.
I really thought it was cute how close she was to steve trevor in both the 40 and again in the 70s but not once have been just a little curious.
Anyway it was still a good show nonetheless.
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Summary: Surprisingly Awful
Comment: I enjoyed seeing the second season of Wonder Woman on DVD after all these years, but the quality absolutely plummets in the third season.
While Lynda Carter still shines, Wonder Woman's creative team seems to have moved on to other projects, and the people who replaced them don't have a clue. The tone of the episodes changes from one to the next, as if the series can't decide which direction to take (notice bumbling "comic relief" henchmen in a few episodes), and interminable scene after scene after scene of the bad guys sitting in a boring, cheap office set surrounded by filing cabinets talking about their plans -- all dead air, and a huge indicator that the budget for each episode had been severely scaled back.
Lynda Carter's great fashion sense from the second season is nearly gone, and in its place her Diana Prince character sports a lot of hats that don't suit her at all. Also, because of the agreement with Mercedes nearly everyone drives a Mercedes 450 SL convertible just like Diana's (only in a different color). And her apartment set is never seen except in a single episode (and clearly different/smaller than the season before). Worse yet, Griffith Park observatory figures in no less than THREE different episodes in the final season, as if all the remotes had to be shot together.
On and on and on there is one scene dumber than the next, and shot more cheaply than the next. It's really quite amazing how bad the quality plummeted.
Note also that when the series first aired the last episode filmed had Diana/Wonder Woman moving to Los Angeles to work for the IADC there. This final episode was to set up a new direction for the series (again) sans Lyle Wagonner, Rover, and the IRAC computer (and, again, cuts down on production costs by filming in L.A.). For whatever reason, however, CBS aired this episode third to last, and the DVD replicates that (air date order versus production order) so that with no explanation after moving to L.A. Diana is suddenly BACK in Washington for the final two episodes. Dumb.
Worse, every single disk says click here for extras, but when you do you are directed every single time to look to other discs for them. The only extras are on the first episode and the last disc, and are rather sparse, but they make you look at every single one.
It's very easy to see why Wonder Womand didn't get picked up for a fourth season. Anyone who cared about it had clearly checked out by the beginning of the third, leaving the work to untalented underlings (the name Anne Collins appears on almost every single stupid episode).
Overall, a huge disappointment after the second season. (I'll be reselling cheap on eBay.)
Customer Rating:
Summary: More Meddlesome Do-Gooding
Comment: No wonder this was the last season. Bad script, poor characters, and a new and tasteless theme song (the original was far, far better).
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